Model procedury budowy strategii rozwoju jednostki samorządu terytorialnego

The article is devoted to strategic planning issues in communes, districts and regions. The author presents his own model procedure standard for the construction of territorial self-government unit development strategy. It was constructed based on Polish self-government experiences, professional literature, as well as research and implementation studies conducted by the author in a few dozen of Polish self-government units during the last fifteen years. The initial part of the article presents conditions to be met by such a plan. The main body describes nineteen stages of territorial self-government unit development strategy construction. The crucial covered issues are: the decision about strategy construction, the choice of its executor, diagnoses, social consultancy, strategic analysis, mission, vision, objectives, strategic tasks, horizontal and vertical compliance, financing, approval and implementation.