Bridging the Gap between Planning & Implementation in Strategic Delta Planning: Structuring Implementation Programming

The natural river deltas around the world are expeeriencing changes due to the relative sea level rise and the large number of people settled around these fertile areas are experiencing threat to the livelihoods. Various research intiatives stem from the warning signals in these regions and governments attempt to re-align their strategic vision to support the long-term development of these regions. However, once the strategic plans are formalized, the implmentation does not always go as intended, due to the lack of local context, institutional arrangements, and availability of resources. In this research, an attempt is made to structure the process of implementation by proposing a frmaework to keep track of the implementation process, as the project moves forward. The framework is then operationalized for a province in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, where the developments are studied and compared with the strategic objectives of the region.Engineering and Policy Analysi