find example of horizontal integration in this chapter5 . Chapter 5: Rebuilding New Orleans: A Case in Integrated Program and Project Management As we have stressed earlier, the concept of integrated project management can be applied to a wide variety of policy, program, and project management decision levels, from top level policy/political strategic and portfolio decisions to low level, individual, and technical tasks to integrate project components. Integration becomes more and more important as the complexity of the program and projects increases, simply because there are more points of contact, more risks associated with lack of coordination, and more stakeholders and customers to satisfy. When integration is applied to a public program of projects, e.g., a community development initiative, the key role of integration is clear. In view of the general interest in the effort to recover from the hurricane Katrina's impacts in the Gulf Coast, especially in the New Orleans community, we will address the issue of integration in a proposal for coordinated action there, involving all the many stakeholders, customers, and participants in the process. Let's say that Development Associates, Inc., DAI, a new town