ABSTRACT
The focus of Chapter 3 is on the identification of various problems of endogenous regional development and planning with latent indication of the goals and objectives of the procedural planning process in context, fulfilling stages two and three, respectively and which also reflect data and information collection in stage four of the model. General problems identified cover environmentally unsustainable development practices, funding and investment, skills, infrastructure, level of industrialisation and the non-value-adding regional economy. Specific problems relate to the economic, environmental-spatial and socio-cultural aspects of Kakum National Park as well as regeneration of historic housing, two castles and a fort. Other problems are those of the Central Region Development Commission as the special endogenous regional development organisation as well as wider stakeholder institutional networks and relations. It is argued that these problems also latently cover the goals and objectives of endogenous regional development and planning and that overcoming the former would facilitate achievement of the latter. Another argument is that the endogenous regional development process lacks an established and effective planning context of its own.
