Planning Community Toolbox: Processes

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Categories

	Agreements
	Civil Works Budget
	Delegations
	Risk-Informed Decision Making and Planning Support Tools
	Model Documentation
	Planning Models
	Collaboration and Virtual Information Sharing
	Report Writing and Communication
	Templates and Checklists
	Apps, Tools, and Software
	Social Sciences Portal

Policy and Guidance
- Director of Civil Works Memorandum - Comprehensive Documentation of Benefits in Decision Documents
  This memorandum from the Director of Civil Works reiterates that the memorandum issued by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works (ASA(CW)) dated 5 January 2021, Subject: Policy Directive - Comprehensive Documentation of Benefits in Decision Document is effective immediately, and that all feasibility studies and post-authorization studies will comply with the ASA(CW) memorandum.
- Policy Directive - Comprehensive Documentation of Benefits in Decision Document
  This memorandum issues policy direction on the comprehensive assessment and documentation of benefits in the conduct of USACE water resources development project planning. This policy updates current procedures, and emphasizes and expands upon policies and guidance to ensure the USACE decision framework considers, in a comprehensive manner, the total benefits of project alternatives, including equal consideration of economic, environmental and social categories.
Tools and Techniques
- ERDC / TN EMRRP-RQ-03: Other Social Effects and Social Vulnerability Analysis: Existing Resources
  This ERDC Technical Note summarizes existing resources available to USACE districts, addressing benefits in the OSE account for evaluating the effects of water resource projects. The note focuses on assisting districts during the project-planning phase, although the contents can be used to assess benefits or impacts during other project phases as well.
- Theoretical Underpinnings of the Other Social Effects Account
  This report, published by the USACE Engineer Research and Development Center, was prepared to support the application of collaborative planning, particularly the use of the Other Social Effects account in project development and analysis in the Civil Works program.
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works Doctrine Smart Book
  This report provides an overview of current Engineer Regulations and how they fit into the "doctrinal map" of capstone regulations, keystone publications, technical publications, and organizational publications.

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