The phrase "upstream planning" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to the planning of an event or activity prior to it taking place. For example: "We need to do some upstream planning in order to ensure our project is a success."
This work has identified the need for effective upstream planning, engaged governance, and downstream project management.
It instead is "upstream planning," which essentially means it helps teams to manage their campaigns by focuses on areas like planning, budgeting, organization, analysis and more.
In this context, the UN needs to re-prioritise and rationalise these intermediate outcome areas to enhance the overall focus of the Programme, directing its assistance more "upstream" to planning, policy making, and advocacy, with complimentary "downstream" activities such as pilot demonstrations, community awareness raising, etc.
Elective WE-MDCT represents a useful complementary technique in patients with impossible, incomplete, or inconclusive endoscopy, can allow study of a stricture's features and the upstream bowel, and helps planning medical, endoscopic, or surgical treatments.
These themes have included upstream R&D pipeline management, planning and scheduling in batch and continuous manufacturing systems and more recently supply chain optimization under uncertainty.
It is hardly surprising, then, that NGOs and downstream governments are fretting about the impact of yet another planned upstream dam.
At least five dams are planned upstream of Belo Monte.
This is just the first of a series of upstream clean ups planned by Pribram, so follow his efforts on Facebook.
But the government of Tanzania, with a loan from the World Bank, was already planning a dam upstream.
"I'm not planning on drowning, but I am going to work upstream harder than ever".
Understanding the upstream-downstream linkages in hydrological processes is essential for water resources planning in river basins.
