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As India begins thinking about a roadmap for the next five years, i.e. the XIIth Five-Year Plan (2012-2017), UNDP is supporting a unique initiative underway to ensure an inclusive planning process. For the first time ever, led by Wada Na Todo Abhiyan (WNTA), civil society groups are engaging with the Planning Commission to provide key inputs to the planning process of the 12th Five-Year Plan. A series of national consultations across India that hears concerns and suggestions from the poor and marginalized—including dalits, tribal communities, women, children, elderly, disabled and the displaced – will contribute to an approach paper for the XII Five Year Plan aimed to ensure that the planning process is people-driven and includes suggestions from India’s marginalised. From a human development perspective the process seeks to build on local capacities and grassroots knowledge to build a truly participatory and responsive road map for India in the years ahead.
Facilitated by Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, civil society inputs to the 12th plan approach paper of the Planning Commission focused on the following areas:
