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London Housing Inquiry: Housing Pipeline AnalysisAlec Doran
Grant Thornton conducted a housing inquiry in London to address affordability issues. They analyzed the housing development pipeline from 2010-2016, finding that:
1) While applications and permissions increased over time, completions lagged behind with a 39% attrition rate overall.
2) The average time to build increased with development size, taking over 2 years to complete projects over 500 units.
3) Zones 2 and 3, outside central London, saw the most completions but Zone 1 saw the smallest increase over time.
This document summarizes information presented at a city council workshop regarding the 60% design estimate for a new clean water facility project. It includes:
1) An overview of the project team, cost estimates ranging from $98-113 million from two engineering firms, and what elements are included in the estimates.
2) Breakdowns of estimated costs for various facility components from 30% to 60% design and areas where costs increased or decreased.
3) Details on headworks costs including direct costs, allowances, and contingencies.
4) Potential cost savings moving forward by exploring options to reduce costs for mechanical systems, concrete, and construction indirects.
5) Background information and alternatives being considered
The document summarizes an updated sewer rate study for the City of Oak Harbor. It reviews prior rate analyses and financing scenarios for the city's wastewater treatment facility project. Three capital cost scenarios are presented - low ($90M), mid ($98M), and high ($110M) - along with the resulting proposed sewer rate adjustments and impacts on residential customer bills and debt coverage ratios through 2021. Annual rate increases range from 8-15% depending on the scenario to fund operations, maintenance, capital projects, debt service, and maintain required reserve fund balances.
The city council meeting on April 26th will consider an ordinance to annex 65 acres of land into the city limits. The annexation process included two public hearings and a recommendation from the planning and zoning commission. The immediate fiscal impact projects annual revenues of $8,535 from property taxes with one-time costs of $5,750. At full build-out, annual revenues are estimated at $1.6 million but costs are projected to exceed that by $137,815, resulting in a net loss.
Oak Harbor Wastewater Treatment Facility: Resolution 15-34, Community Roompublicinvolvement
The document discusses a city council meeting to consider adopting Resolution 15-34 to include a 250-seat community room in the Clean Water Facility. It provides background on the project, including increasing the size of the proposed community room from 146 to 250 seats. Floor plans and cost estimates are presented, with the total estimated cost being $4.6 million. Options for funding, required rental rates to breakeven, and potential council actions are discussed.
Total Quality Management in Banking SectorAKSHAY KHATRI
The document discusses quality management in private banking sector. It first provides context on the expanding Indian banking sector and increasing competition. It then covers key dimensions of service quality like reliability, responsiveness etc. It presents models like Kano model and tools for quality management. The case study focuses on HDFC bank, outlining its history, quality policies, objectives and processes. It demonstrates quality tools like cause-and-effect diagram, scatter plot, Pareto chart and FMEA applied to HDFC bank. It concludes with recommendations to establish continuous improvement culture and link between quality and customer satisfaction in banks.
London Housing Inquiry: Housing Pipeline AnalysisAlec Doran
Grant Thornton conducted a housing inquiry in London to address affordability issues. They analyzed the housing development pipeline from 2010-2016, finding that:
1) While applications and permissions increased over time, completions lagged behind with a 39% attrition rate overall.
2) The average time to build increased with development size, taking over 2 years to complete projects over 500 units.
3) Zones 2 and 3, outside central London, saw the most completions but Zone 1 saw the smallest increase over time.
This document summarizes information presented at a city council workshop regarding the 60% design estimate for a new clean water facility project. It includes:
1) An overview of the project team, cost estimates ranging from $98-113 million from two engineering firms, and what elements are included in the estimates.
2) Breakdowns of estimated costs for various facility components from 30% to 60% design and areas where costs increased or decreased.
3) Details on headworks costs including direct costs, allowances, and contingencies.
4) Potential cost savings moving forward by exploring options to reduce costs for mechanical systems, concrete, and construction indirects.
5) Background information and alternatives being considered
The document summarizes an updated sewer rate study for the City of Oak Harbor. It reviews prior rate analyses and financing scenarios for the city's wastewater treatment facility project. Three capital cost scenarios are presented - low ($90M), mid ($98M), and high ($110M) - along with the resulting proposed sewer rate adjustments and impacts on residential customer bills and debt coverage ratios through 2021. Annual rate increases range from 8-15% depending on the scenario to fund operations, maintenance, capital projects, debt service, and maintain required reserve fund balances.
The city council meeting on April 26th will consider an ordinance to annex 65 acres of land into the city limits. The annexation process included two public hearings and a recommendation from the planning and zoning commission. The immediate fiscal impact projects annual revenues of $8,535 from property taxes with one-time costs of $5,750. At full build-out, annual revenues are estimated at $1.6 million but costs are projected to exceed that by $137,815, resulting in a net loss.
Oak Harbor Wastewater Treatment Facility: Resolution 15-34, Community Roompublicinvolvement
The document discusses a city council meeting to consider adopting Resolution 15-34 to include a 250-seat community room in the Clean Water Facility. It provides background on the project, including increasing the size of the proposed community room from 146 to 250 seats. Floor plans and cost estimates are presented, with the total estimated cost being $4.6 million. Options for funding, required rental rates to breakeven, and potential council actions are discussed.
Total Quality Management in Banking SectorAKSHAY KHATRI
The document discusses quality management in private banking sector. It first provides context on the expanding Indian banking sector and increasing competition. It then covers key dimensions of service quality like reliability, responsiveness etc. It presents models like Kano model and tools for quality management. The case study focuses on HDFC bank, outlining its history, quality policies, objectives and processes. It demonstrates quality tools like cause-and-effect diagram, scatter plot, Pareto chart and FMEA applied to HDFC bank. It concludes with recommendations to establish continuous improvement culture and link between quality and customer satisfaction in banks.
The SWITCH Africa Green Project aims to help 6 African countries transition to more sustainable consumption and production patterns. It is led by UNEP in partnership with UN agencies and coordinates with the African Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production. The project works with MSMEs in South Africa, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Uganda, and Mauritius to improve resource efficiency and environmental performance through industrial symbiosis and cleaner production training and implementation. The National Cleaner Production Centre of South Africa leads implementation of a pilot project to enhance the resource productivity and environmental performance of MSMEs through these methods.
Promoting Responsible Land Governance for Sustainable Agriculture in MalawiExternalEvents
The document provides an update on land governance projects in Malawi funded by the EU. Ten new land laws were passed in 2016 to strengthen land rights. The project aims to pilot implementing the new laws through establishing customary estates in three regions. Progress includes finalizing a gender strategy, reviewing manuals, and training communities on satellite imagery for adjudication. Challenges include delays in legal reforms and starting field work. Lessons highlight the importance of capacity building and stakeholder engagement. Next steps include establishing oversight committees and piloting customary land adjudication.
This presentation was held during the 5th GIB Summit, May 27-28 2015.
The presentation and more information on the Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation are available on www.gib-foundation.org
The document outlines an expected ODA project to introduce an asphalt recycling system to Indonesia. It discusses:
1) Indonesia's need to improve road connectivity and maintenance due to budget shortages.
2) Japan's established asphalt recycling technologies and regulations that could help address these issues.
3) A proposed verification survey to test pavement recycling technologies in Indonesia and transfer skills to local partners like Bina Marga from 2018-2020.
The document discusses project systems and the opportunity for ICT development in Africa. It provides statistics on internet penetration in top countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. It also discusses the World Bank's mission to reduce poverty through development projects and describes the key phases and documents involved in World Bank-financed projects, including identification, preparation, appraisal, implementation and evaluation. Partnering with the World Bank could help a company like Olleh extend its ICT expertise to Africa to help address issues like poverty, illiteracy, disease and unemployment through technology.
This document summarizes the process of developing waste management strategies in Myanmar and Cambodia with support from IGES-UNEP Collaborating Centre on Environmental Technologies (CCET). It outlines the strategy formulation process including preliminary consultations, studies to identify gaps, and national workshops to draft and finalize the strategies. For Myanmar, it provides an example structure of the strategy including goals, targets, and objectives. For Cambodia, it shows the linkage of strategy objectives to UN Sustainable Development Goals and examples of quantitative targets being set for objectives related to waste collection, recycling, and data monitoring.
This document summarizes the process of developing waste management strategies in Myanmar and Cambodia with support from the IGES-UNEP Collaborating Centre on Environmental Technologies (CCET). It describes how CCET worked with stakeholders in each country to conduct studies, identify gaps, and hold workshops to draft national strategies and action plans. The strategies establish goals for improving waste collection, recycling, disposal, and developing the capacity for long-term management of waste as a resource.
As part of the ongoing UNFCCC negotiations, ICLEI held a side event on 4 June. Representing national government, Farhan Helmy, Indonesia’s Secretary of Mitigation Working Group at National Council on Climate, presented progress made and challenges which remain in climate action.
“Getting consensus and engagement with the national government is our greatest challenge. Diverse actors have different policy targets. It’s very important to have a transparent process that we can report to. We hope the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and the registry could be a strategic entry point for engaging more actors,” said Helmy, adding that ICLEI, by acting as the focal point for LGMA in international negotiations and networking with national governments, has given them more confidence and opportunities to engage environmental stakeholders at the local and subnational levels (source: http://www.iclei.org/details/article/iclei-updates-climate-negotiators-on-global-progress-in-local-climate-action.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=2&cHash=c72cc5a0404cff8baca27d1e7e64a517)
Cases of NAMAs and Registry: IndonesiaFarhan Helmy
Indonesia is developing a unified registry system to track its climate mitigation actions and targets across sectors and levels of governance. The registry would build on existing programs and initiatives, including the National Action Plan (RAN-GRK) and REDD+. It is proposed to have a committee for approval, a secretariat for administration, and experts to analyze submissions. Challenges include the diverse actors and actions, and various existing MRV systems. Indonesia has submitted its first NAMAs in 2010 and one on sustainable urban transport in 2012. Other proposals in development include green aviation initiatives. The timeline outlines capacity building and developing the registry system from 2013-2014.
- The document summarizes an IFAD-Laos Project Retreat/Workshop held in December 2015 to review the Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Productivity Enhancement Project.
- The project aimed to improve capacity for land use planning, support producer groups, develop policies, and fund 71 subprojects across 9 sectors including livestock, agriculture, and natural resource management.
- Key challenges included staff turnover, decentralization issues, UXO presence limiting land expansion, and policy barriers around taxes and private sector involvement. Solutions focused on more incentives, training, capacity building, UXO clearance, and policy reforms.
Myanmar Legal Requirements for Disclosure of Information about Investment: Wo...Ethical Sector
The third Myanmar Digital Rights Forum concluded on 19 January in Yangon with a call for new policy and regulation that would safeguard digital rights in Myanmar, and a fully consultative process to achieve this.
Read more: https://www.myanmar-responsiblebusiness.org/news/digital-rights-forum-2019-report.html
This document summarizes an IFAD-Laos Project Retreat/Workshop held in December 2015. It provides details on the project timeline, funding amounts, physical and financial progress, achievements and challenges. The project aimed to improve agricultural productivity and natural resource management through capacity building, subproject investments, and management. It faced impediments such as staff turnover, decentralization issues, UXO presence, and policy barriers. Solutions proposed to address problems included increasing incentives, capacity building, UXO clearance, and promoting private sector involvement.
SOLID WASTE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL MANAGEMENT IN NARAYANGANJ CITY CORPORATIONMd. Jisan Ahmed
The document presents a master plan for solid waste collection and disposal management in Narayanganj City Corporation. It discusses the current challenges with waste management in the city. It then proposes a modernized collection system involving secondary transfer stations. Specifically, it recommends 8 secondary transfer stations located across various wards. The stations would aid in more efficient transportation of waste to the final disposal site. Additionally, the document outlines the methodology used in developing the master plan, including waste data collection and analysis to inform the plan.
Solid Waste Management master plan for NCCMdJisanAhmed
The document presents a master plan for solid waste collection and disposal management in Narayanganj City Corporation. It discusses the current challenges with waste management in the city. It then proposes a modernized collection system involving secondary transfer stations. Specifically, it recommends 8 secondary transfer stations located across various wards. The stations would aid in more efficient transportation of waste to the final disposal site. Additionally, the document outlines the methodology used in developing the master plan, including waste data collection and analysis to inform the plan.
The document discusses the role of innovation hubs in fostering local government innovation and replication in Indonesia. It examines three provincial innovation hubs and their features, which include establishing online platforms, hosting bootcamps and competitions, and providing guidance and knowledge sharing forums. Initial findings show the hubs have boosted both innovation and replication. The hubs support innovators and interested districts through their online and offline activities. While innovation is emphasized, the hubs also focus on replication by facilitating exchange between innovators and districts. The document concludes innovation hubs can increase innovation and replication, and make recommendations such as continuing hub support and encouraging replication.
Second Meeting of the Regional Assembly - AzerbaijanOECD Environment
This document summarizes progress and plans under the EU4Environment initiative in Azerbaijan. It discusses three main results: 1) Greener decision making, 2) Circular economy and new growth opportunities, and 3) Environmental level playing field. Under each result, it outlines key activities completed in 2019-2020 and planned for 2020-2021, which include developing green economy training programs, strengthening environmental impact assessment procedures, promoting recycling and cleaner production among SMEs, and improving regulations and compliance. It also mentions recent green policy developments in Azerbaijan and highlights achievements of the initiative to date.
26 1115 regional 2_recoftc gender and customary tenuremrlgregion
This document summarizes a presentation on indigenous women's access and political rights to forest spaces and territories in Asia. It notes that indigenous communities, about half of whom are women, are highly dependent on forests but face challenges to their customary practices and lack of recognition of their knowledge. The presentation highlights indigenous women's roles as knowledge holders and protectors of forests. It identifies gaps in research, indigenous women's empowerment and representation. It outlines interventions by the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact such as documenting best practices, strengthening indigenous women's organizations, and advocating for indigenous women's rights in decision-making platforms.
This document discusses pathways for recognizing customary tenure in the Mekong region. It describes customary tenure as the rules and norms that govern a community's relationship to and use of forest and land resources. There are three main pathways for recognizing customary tenure: self-recognition by communities, co-recognition between communities and external actors, and legal/statutory recognition by the state. Both informal pathways like community mapping and formal agreements, and formal pathways like community forestry programs and land titling, have challenges and opportunities to secure communities' tenure rights and livelihoods. Formal recognition of customary tenure is still limited in providing full rights and can be complex, but opportunities exist to better support self- and co-recognition and increase statutory recognition
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This document summarizes the process of developing waste management strategies in Myanmar and Cambodia with support from IGES-UNEP Collaborating Centre on Environmental Technologies (CCET). It outlines the strategy formulation process including preliminary consultations, studies to identify gaps, and national workshops to draft and finalize the strategies. For Myanmar, it provides an example structure of the strategy including goals, targets, and objectives. For Cambodia, it shows the linkage of strategy objectives to UN Sustainable Development Goals and examples of quantitative targets being set for objectives related to waste collection, recycling, and data monitoring.
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As part of the ongoing UNFCCC negotiations, ICLEI held a side event on 4 June. Representing national government, Farhan Helmy, Indonesia’s Secretary of Mitigation Working Group at National Council on Climate, presented progress made and challenges which remain in climate action.
“Getting consensus and engagement with the national government is our greatest challenge. Diverse actors have different policy targets. It’s very important to have a transparent process that we can report to. We hope the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and the registry could be a strategic entry point for engaging more actors,” said Helmy, adding that ICLEI, by acting as the focal point for LGMA in international negotiations and networking with national governments, has given them more confidence and opportunities to engage environmental stakeholders at the local and subnational levels (source: http://www.iclei.org/details/article/iclei-updates-climate-negotiators-on-global-progress-in-local-climate-action.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=2&cHash=c72cc5a0404cff8baca27d1e7e64a517)
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3. Implemented by
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Investment Monitoring 2015
29.02.2016
» Conducted investment monitoring in 8 districts + 3 non target
districts, 85 + 24 projects (109 projects): concession & general
projects. Took 100 projects as baseline of 2015.
» MoU signing with 81 investors in 4 provinces.
» Conducted exchange day between investors and communities &
Investment Forum.
» Synergy with NREIC & DoP on using GPS in investment monitoring
& planning.
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Implemented by:
i.Team
formation
ii. Team
preparation
iii. Interview
iv. Presentation
of findings
vi. Dialogue
Investors,
Communities
DPI, Agri, Land, Energy, commerce,
labor, etc
-Training on monitoring procedures, QIP criteria, rating,
interview techniques;
- Utilization of forms, equipment,
- Investors, Employees
- Field site
- Community
- Discusssions finding with districts ,
provinces.
- Discussion of findings with Investors
- Signing of MoU
- Exchange day, Investment
Forum: - Findings, QIP
criteria, rules & regulations,
best practices, improvementSTEPS
v. Follow-up
MoU
- Implementation of MoU
- Sanctions
5. Implemented by
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• 8. Suggestions/complains from
community on other issues:
• 9. Implementation of labour
safety
• 10.Community consultation &
participation
• 6.Economic & poverty: job
creation, income
• 7.Gender: job satisfaction &
income, gender policy
• 4.Interfering territory, water,
environment protection and
certificate
• 5.Land use: land allocation,
conflict, consultation with
community, respect culture,
tradition.
• 1. Assesment of the
implementation of contract and
feassibility study
• 2. Implementation of labor law
• 3. Implement Lao account
system, contribution to the
government, reporting, labour
contract with employees
Law
Compliance
Environment/
Land
PeopleEconomic
Quality Investment Criteria
Based on Law, contract, regulation, moratorium No13
International Guidelines VGGT, RAI
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Implemented by:
Monitored Projects in 2015
100 projects monitored in 2015 (Baseline)
36
4
18
4
62
2
11
11
14
38
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
Luangnamtha Khammouane Houaphanh Sayaboury Total
Type of Investment
Concession General
Joint venture
8%
FDI
47%
Domestic
45%
100 projects
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In one or two months after investment monitoring
Organize at district level – DPO.
Participants: DPI, DPO, DoIC, Investors
Activity 2: MoU Signing
9. Implemented by
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Preparation of
document at
DPI
Investor
preparation
Community
preparation
Exchange
day between
investors &
communities
Activity 3: Exchange Day Between Investors &
Communities
10. Implemented by
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Carried out in 11 projects of SAY, LNT, KM & HP
Suggestions/agreement : ask companies:
» To hire local labor,
» To do road maintenance,
» To do water treatment, to reduce noise, dust, rubbish, waste,
burning waste, smell, pesticides, stones blocked irrigation
canal,
» To buy products from villagers,
» To solve land issues,
» To support water supply, village office & loud speaker
equipment.
Exchange Day Between Investors & Communities
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Activity 4: Investment Forum
Main Issues:
» Lao transport companies proposed to use Lao truck to
China.
» Chinese investors would like to use Chinese labor because
local labor is not enough for rubber plantation.
» Ask the government to manage rubber price to be one
price.
» Export tax should follow the investment contract.
» The government to introduce the setting up of lao account
system.
» To have more consulting companies to conduct
environment study, so far there is only one consulting
company (LNT).
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Activity 5: Use of GPS in
Investment Monitoring &
Planning
Preparation:
Satellite images, GPS.
Make list of projects,
check data
Prepare team from MPI,
MONRE,DPI,PAFO,PONRE.
DPO,DONRE.
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Preparation
Cross check data of
MONRE,MPI,PAFO,DPI,
DPO, contracts & relevant
document
Train the team at
provincial level
(PONRE,PAFO,DPI,MPI)
Km : 15+1 because BMT construction stops for 2 years, government has debt.
Why LNT has only 2.
+ could not contact them, no office. Data not update.
+ no much cooperation. No language, document with DoIC. More on extension work.
SAY: no concession projects.
Score and number of projects. Average of each province
Look at the findings related to complains from villagers.