Project Rationale a summary of how your project was designed to respond to this context, and the rationale for public sector intervention (i.e. the need for Good Growth Funding).
Project Rationale. CHAPTER 6 PROJECT CONCEPT AND STRATEGY FRAMEWORK
Project Rationale. Housing and accommodation shortages have been identified as obstacles to Indigenous employment. In particular, there are short term measures which will increase flexibility and affordability and therefore have an immediate and positive effect on employment outcomes. Reporting and Monitoring Arrangements: Policy change: • Two year grace period: Provide an opportunity for individuals to commence regular savings; home ownership programs to facilitate entry into the mainstream real estate market. • Robust asset replacement program: With implementation of ‘grace period’, explore further investment in maintenance and re-supply of housing stock. • Provision for Home Purchase: Allow tenants currently using public housing to build equity through an occupier to owner purchasing scheme. DHW / DoIR / Landcorp (DPI) / IBA / ILC / FaCSIA Indigenous engagement in private rental market or home ownership schemes. December 2007 Implementation of policy change with appropriate resources. Percentage of tenants using the ‘grace period’ or home ownership schemes. Implementation Team Explore options to provide additional public housing stock or affordable alternate accommodation types. DHW / Marnda Mia CNC / ILC / IBA / FaCSIA Properties identified. Ongoing Availability of housing. Implementation Team REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
Project Rationale. Indigenous people are failing Industry standard drug and alcohol tests which either prevent them from gaining employment in the mining industry or cause them to lose their jobs. There are not enough resources allocated to ensure suitable services are provided to address this problem. It has also been identified that those services that are currently provided are not being fully utilised. An integrated regional drug and alcohol service is to be developed across the Pilbara under an MOU between the Office of Aboriginal and Xxxxxx Strait Islander Health (OATSIH) and the Drug and Alcohol Office (DAO). This will include the resources of the Community Drug Services Team, an existing OAH funded worker in Onslow and additional workers located in three sites across the Pilbara. Reporting and Monitoring Arrangements:
Project Rationale. Indigenous people in the Ashburton/Roebourne region encounter a range of education and training barriers. Through collaboration, strategies will be developed to better address these barriers so as to enable local Indigenous people to take advantage of the many employment opportunities available in the region, especially in the resource sector. Reporting and Monitoring Arrangements: Develop pathway programs (similar to those currently operating in Xxx Xxxxx and Roebourne) to ensure there is a high degree of articulation between school, TAFE and Pilbara Australian Technical College programs. DET / Schools / Pilbara TAFE / PTC / DEST / Industry /employers Program pathways developed with Industry and other partners. Term 1 2008 Number of programs developed. Implementation Team REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT Service providers have access to residential facilities that can cater for students from remote communities, youth at risk, apprentices and trainees who are not able to access other forms of accommodation during training. (Transition to work accommodation facilities) FACSIA / Industry/ Pilbara TAFE Training and accommodation facilities built in three Pilbara. locations. 31 December 2009 Number of facilities built. Implementation Team Establish a base for research, development and dissemination of best practice education, training and employment programs for Indigenous people in regional and remote areas. DET / Schools / PTC / Pilbara TAFE// YMMBBA Best practice programs for Indigenous people readily available and accessible. Ongoing Implementation of best practice programs. Implementation Team Improve retention, attendance and achievement of Indigenous school students (including primary school students) through development and implementation of local projects in partnership with schools, parents and Industry. DEST / DET Schools / Pilbara TAFE / Industry/ employers Decreased gap in retention and achievement levels between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. Ongoing Percentage increase in retention. Percentage reduction in truancy. Implementation Team Facilitate an increase in the availability of and support for structured workplace learning opportunities, career and transition support, individual learning pathway plans and Industry-school engagement, including Australia School-Based Apprenticeships. DEST / DET Schools / DEWR Industry /employers Apprenticeships WA Local Indigenous students take up and complete workplace learning opportunities. Ongoing Num...
Project Rationale. Lack of child care places and suitably trained child care workers impacts on the ability of many Indigenous women to enter the workforce. Reporting and Monitoring Arrangements: Establish status of child care facilities and ascertain child care needs in the Xxxxxx of Ashburton and Roebourne (types of care, number of licensed places and number of places utilised). Xxxxxx / FaCSIA / PDC Complete report. Completed Report completed. Implementation Team In line with Xxxxxx and Hedland models, increase promotion and understanding of Family Day Care. PDC / DCD / Xxxxxx Increased uptake of FDC places. Ongoing Number of FDC places utilised. Implementation Team Explore options for increased training of child care workers, including introduction of Certificate 2 “feeder program” in Child Care for Year 11/12 students and development of an appropriate course for mature age students. Pilbara TAFE / DET / Schools Curriculum implemented. Term 1 2008 Number of enrolments. Implementation Team Within scope of increasing accessibility and affordability of child care, investigate licensing requirements, including potential for streamlining processes / approval timeframes. PDC / DCD / FaCSIA Licensing requirements investigated. December 2007 Licensing requirements investigated. Implementation Team Communities for Children — explore opportunities for developing projects relevant to RPA. FaCSIA / PACC Opportunities identified. Ongoing Number of activities contributing to RPA objectives. C4C Steering Committee REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
Project Rationale. Obtaining and retaining a drivers licence has been identified as a significant barrier to gaining employment. Obtaining the requisite on-site experience for a HR licence is also a particular barrier to securing employment in the resources sector. This project will focus on three identified areas and groups of people: 1. Individuals who don’t have/have never held a drivers licence; 2. Individuals who have been disqualified/don’t have a current licence as a result of traffic infringements/fines; and 3. Individuals with appropriate licences but who lack suitable on-site operations experience. Reporting and Monitoring Arrangements: Identify existing capacity in the Ashburton/Roebourne area to provide driver training to Indigenous people. AED / Pilbara TAFE / Job Futures / Industry/ employers /CDEPs Study undertaken, report received. Completed by December 2007 Report completed and received. Implementation Team If required, build on outcomes/recommendations of scoping study undertaken in Port Hedland — explore options for the establishment of drivers licence program, including sourcing of and funding for vehicles and staff. AED / Pilbara TAFE / Job Futures/ CDEPs / Industry Study undertaken, report received. Completed by December 2007 Report completed and received. Implementation Team Provide up to 10 places per year in training programs for Indigenous people to become Driving Instructors. Pilbara TAFE / DEWR / CDEPs / Job Futures 10 Indigenous driver instructors. Initial placements by June 2008; Annually Number of Driver Instructors qualified. Implementation Team REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT
Project Rationale. The City of Jacksonville (‘the City’, or CoJ) is a thriving and growing municipality in northeast Florida with a current population of almost 1 million residents. In 1968, the Jacksonville, consolidated with Duval County, with the exception of the Cities of Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, Jacksonville Beach, and Baldwin, in an effort to increase tax revenue and to improve delivery of infrastructure services both within and outside of the city limits such as sewer, electric, and other services. To this day, delivering on the ‘Promises Made’ during the Consolidation has been a challenge for many reasons but is still a promise that Jacksonville seeks to fulfill. As part of fulfilling these promises, the City seeks to find ways to prioritize and complete septic to sewer conversion projects to improve public services and environmental conditions for all residents. In addition to the City of Jacksonville, Duval County is also home to the cities of Baldwin, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, and Jacksonville Beach. While Jacksonville encompasses close to 98% of the whole of Duval County, these four cities are closely linked to Jacksonville for their operations, economy and culture. Because of this, Jacksonville has asked to include them in this project. In an effort to assist Jacksonville and the other municipalities in Duval County with this initiative, the University of Florida’s Center for Coastal Solutions (UF CCS or CCS) (xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) has prepared the following Statement of Work for consideration by the Jacksonville Environmental Protection Board (the Board) to provide the Board and regional stakeholders with a multi-criteria vulnerability assessment of all single family residential septic systems and a prioritization of single family residential septic to sewer conversion projects. These two tasks will empower Jacksonville, Xxxxxxx, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, and Jacksonville Beach to identify in a data-driven and geographically standardized way the level of risk septic systems may be facing in their jurisdictions, and to create septic-to-sewer conversion project groupings that are financially and spatially efficient and are most likely to reduce septic system risk failure. According to the Florida Department of Health (DOH), Florida Water Management Inventory Data (FLWMI), there are 75,394 ‘Known Septic’ or ‘Likely Septic’ systems within Duval County at this time. Intersecting Duval County are waterbody impairments in the following categories: 2 ...
Project Rationale. The territorial and administration reform to date represents changes in the structural dimension of the local public administration. The advent of the territorial and administrative reform and the subsequent policy developments in several relevant sectors mean that support for local governance is at present not “business as usual.” The reforms set in 2014 and 2015 create the momentum and rationale for continued support to local governance through the coordinated mechanisms of STAR. The new municipalities need to reorganize themselves internally to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness in the administration of the territory. A recognized key ingredient for empowerment is the amount and sustainability of local finances. Local finances are still at a low level. Despite the genuine and legitimate local governments’ need for increased financial resources, such an increase by itself would not necessarily turn them into more effective, citizen-oriented service providers. The new administrations will also need to develop the vision, skills, consistency, sustainability and commitment to serve its citizenry in new, transparent and accountable ways. Local authorities are also the best placed to develop local policies that reflect specific socio-economic situations, address the persistence of inequality and promote models of responsive governance for the diverse expectations and needs of the citizens. In that view, Albania’s legal and policy frameworks on gender equality have significant implications for local government in relation to the practical implementation of respective laws and policies in its daily work. Decentralization (as a part of good governance) should respect principles of gender equality and involve not only the vertical transfer of power, responsibility and resources but also ensure a more inclusive horizontal process that ensures that power, responsibility and resources are equally shared by both women and men and that differentiated gender needs are taken into account. On the part of local governments, this requires the embracing of the concept of gender inclusion and sensitivity and the building of capacities and skills required for taking action. Going forward, the new 61 municipalities have in common many opportunities and challenges. In terms of opportunities, the following are, among others, important to build upon: There is a strong political commitment to deepen decentralization reform and empower local governments. This commitmen...
