Program Rationale. 1.1 The BYOD 1 to 1 Digital Learning Program will provide opportunities for students to engage in relevant and inspiring learning experiences, as well as enabling our school vision because:
Program Rationale. 1.1 The intention of the program is provide students with personal portable computers to enhance opportunities for learning. The devices help schools engage the digital generation by nurturing individual (or 1-to-1) learning experiences.
Program Rationale. Cambodia’s re-emergence from armed conflict and political insecurity in the 1990s coincided with growing international awareness of the global scale of environmental degradation and its implications for human well-being and economic stability. Income inequality, high unemployment, and conflicts over land and other natural resources all pose challenges to Cambodia’s economic development. Approximately 80% of the population lives in rural areas, and an estimated 70% of these people rely almost entirely on farming, fisheries, and forestry for their livelihoods. During the 1990s, Cambodia included provisions to protect the environment in its new Constitution and ratified a number of international treaties that protect biodiversity, forests, fisheries and wildlife, and reduce climate change effects. Direct threats to biodiversity in Cambodia include forest loss and degradation; opportunistic development (unsustainable logging, mining, and agro-industry practices); overexploitation of key species; overfishing and illegal fishing techniques; illegal harvesting of forest products; and the illegal wildlife trade. These direct threats to biodiversity are exacerbated by underlying conditions including: a lack of transparency in natural resource use and in the granting of Economic Land Concessions (ELCs); insecure land tenure rights; a lack of participation of stakeholders in NRM; conflicting jurisdictions for natural resources; poverty; and undervaluing ecological services such as water quantity and quality regulation and carbon sequestration. Healthy wildlife populations – including endangered species such as elephant, gaur, banteng, tiger and Asiatic black bears – are at risk due to habitat loss, hunting and wildlife trafficking. With national forest cover estimated at 55% according to the 2010 Forest Resources Assessment from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Cambodia has one of the highest percentages of forest cover in the region. The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has adopted a Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to maintain 60% forest cover, and has a target of placing two million hectares under Community Forest (CF) management. This would constitute approximately 20% of Cambodia’s forested area. As of 2011, 400,000 hectares are under CF management through almost 450 community forests, only 100 of which have CF legal agreements in place giving them official legal status. The RGC’s 2010 National Forest Program – providing a framework...
Program Rationale. 2.2 The program is competitive and students are evaluated on a combination of factors including their academic records, application rationale, skills appropriate to the projects, CV and reference letters.
Program Rationale. Local Government Energy Action Resources program (LGEAR) will optimize the opportunities for jurisdictions and their communities to work toward the common goal of achieving short and long-term energy savings, reduced utility bills, and an enhanced level of comfort in municipal and commercial buildings as well as homes. LGEAR will help promote an energy efficiency ‘ethic’ by increasing awareness and participation in energy efficiency, demand response, self generation and energy management assistance (low income energy efficiency and CARE) programs. Energy code training will feature strongly in LGEAR. As recommended by the PAG, LGEAR will deliver energy code training to all cities in SCE’s service territory. This new program involves the creation of energy partnerships with cities and local governments to set energy efficiency goals and generate measurable, verifiable energy savings through identification of specific energy efficiency projects and community outreach activities. Municipal building retrofits will further jurisdictions’ objective to comply with the Governor’s ‘Green Building Action Plan.’ LGEAR supports the policy set forth in Decision (D.) 00-00-000 which notes that “current or future partnerships between IOUs and local governments can take advantage of the unique strengths that both parties bring to the table to deliver cost-effective energy efficiency services.” Local government economic redevelopment and similar designated area are specifically designed to increase community prosperity and represent a vital source of energy savings across a diverse residential and business market sector that has had lower participation in traditional energy efficiency programs. These customers represent significant energy savings and demand reduction potential, as well as potential lost opportunities if not given targeted consideration.
