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This International Standard gives recommendations and requirements to project developers, decisionmakers and managers responsible for authorising, promoting, financing, planning, designing, procuring, managing, reviewing, and implementing a project or programme. The recommendations and requirements relates to ensuring that a project or programme adds value by aligning its development and implementation with a community's own or externally directed sustainability strategies and objectives and the requirements of the ISO 37101. This International Standard: - supports a top-down approach where a specific project or programme is required to meet a community's ISO 37101 management system and both a community and a developer need to be guided in the way in which the project or programme would be expected to meet the requirements; - supports a bottom-up approach where a community does or does not have a formal ISO 37101:2016 framework in place and developers may face several types of situations, for example o where a community has adopted the ISO 37101:2016 management system framework with accompanying procedures which place requirements on urban project stakeholders; o where a community has not adopted ISO 37101:2016 but intends to align projects with the standard's holistic approach for ensuring that action in different areas contributes to the purposes of sustainable development; o where a community does not have an authority charged with implementing an ISO 37101 but nonetheless projects initiated and planned by private, public or mixed entities aim for alignment with ISO 37101:2016 principles and procedures without formal reference to an ISO 37101:2016 management system. - recognises that there are several types of communities and stakeholder organisations that would be charged with implementing ISO 37101:2016 or aligning projects and programmes to ISO principles and procedures and, possibly, to the standard's requirements. - offers practical guidelines to all types of developers on initiating, planning, implementing, monitoring, managing and continually improving sustainable development activities for a specific project or programme at all its stages in a way that is both inclusive and holistic and in accordance with ISO 37101:2016 requirements.