Working with local boards, and their partners to jointly develop their Regional and Local Plans. Taking the Kingdom plan policy vision and goals. Development objectives are developed in collaboration with partners and Local Boards, work toward the shared vision of creating a comprehensive system that addresses poverty, promotes income mobility, and embeds equity and environmental sustainability.
A. On Regional Level
Regional planning adopts a holistic, systems-oriented perspective across natural, socioeconomic and governance systems operating at a large scale. It aims to coordinate development across multiple local jurisdictions toward shared sustainable and equitable prosperity.
Localizing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Translating global sustainable development goals into targets, indicators and strategies suited to the local context. Localized SDGs aim to achieve shared high-level aims in a way that accounts for place-specific challenges, priorities, resources and opportunities. Localizing SDG also enables monitoring progress across scales and facilitate learning across locations with context-tailored solutions.
Sustainable development strategies
Producing strategies specifically focused on progressing environmental, economic, social and governance sustainability. Strategies aim to decouple human well-being from resource use, build resilience in the face of global risks, and ensure that today's actions do not compromise future generations' ability to meet their own needs. Our team utilizes sustainable principles to transform systems and plan to enable thriving communities for the long run.
Regional strategies
Plans and policies developed by governments or other stakeholders that aim to promote economic, social, and environmental development across a specific geographic region. Our team supports the development of regional strategies at different levels of government, from local to national and even international, and may address a range of issues, including economic development, infrastructure, transportation, land use, and environmental sustainability.
Regional development governance
Establishing or refining institutions, roles, responsibilities, coordination mechanisms, funding sources, regulations, data systems and other framework conditions needed for governance of regional development. Omraniyat team supports the use of effective regional governance system. This system enables collective action across administrative boundaries toward shared priorities in an accountable, transparent, equitable and impactful manner.
B. On Local level
Local planning has a narrower focus on issues most directly influencing a local community such as development and implementation of land use plans and policies guided by local governments, such as cities, towns and villages.
Master and local plans
Developing statutory land use, transportation, infrastructure, housing, environment, economic or comprehensive growth management plans to guide development at local or neighborhood scales. Our team implements the broader vision and strategies through policies, designations, incentives, requirements and phasing aimed at shaping the community in a sustainable, affordable and livable way.
City strategies
Omraniyat team supports the development of long-term strategic frameworks to guide sustainable and equitable development at a city, metro area or regional scale. Strategies align policies, investments, partnerships, data, technology, regulatory frameworks and other tools needed to advance the collective vision in an integrated manner while remaining responsive to diverse local needs and priorities. Applying these strategies promote for balanced growth, livability and innovation.
Urban regeneration
Omraniyat is expertized in producing strategies for renewing and revitalizing built environments, communities or districts that suffer from decline, underinvestment or other challenges. Strategies aim to enhance quality of life, economic opportunity, cultural vitality, environmental quality, social cohesion and resilience through targeted interventions, partnerships, policy changes, design improvements, adaptive reuse, cultural preservation, infrastructure upgrades, affordable housing, poverty alleviation, job creation or other means aligned with an equitable and sustainable placemaking vision.
Localizing sustainable development goals and objectives
Omraniyat team works on localizing the SDGs involves identifying the specific development challenges and opportunities in a particular community or region and developing strategies to achieve the SDGs in that context. This may involve setting targets and indicators that reflect the local context, engaging with local stakeholders to identify priorities and develop solutions, and aligning local policies and plans with the SDGs.
Landscape and Urban design
We at Omraniyat Apply design expertise to improve the functionality, attractiveness, sustainability, livability and experience of public and private spaces. Designs that supports placemaking, quality of life, economic opportunity, health, safety and community cohesion through elements like streetscaping, signage, lighting, wayfinding, public art, historic preservation, access management, mixed use, walkability, open space and environmental integration.
Community design and design for equity
Our team intentionally incorporates equitable principles and practices into the planning process and resulting strategies, policies, investments, programs and design interventions. This aims to remedy systemic inequities, distribute resources and opportunities fairly, prevent displacement of marginalized groups and promote just outcomes, especially for those who have long suffered discrimination or lacked access/support. Equity frameworks evaluate how proposals might differently and disproportionately impact groups to make needed adjustments.