Australian Water Association
Development of Australian
Curriculum Project – Water Education in Schools
Draft Business Plan July 2011/12 to June
2013/14. This Business Plan is currently being implemented
by AWA in collaboration with Water Authorities and other
agencies around Australia.
Project Managers: Corinne Cheeseman and
Fleur Johnson AWA
Randwick City Council
– 3 Council
Eco Footprint Project
Barrett House Workshops – Refocus,
Reinvent, Expand. Two workshops were planned, delivered and
evaluated about future use of Barrett House.
Project Manager: Richard
Wilson. Randwick City Council
Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management
Authority
Design and delivery of an on-line survey of
boaters and fishers along the NSW coast. The survey was then
analysed by Grahame Collier and Lee Meredith from T Issues
Consultancy and its results informed the development of an
education strategy for boaters and fishers. This project was
delivered in conjunction with officers from the Sydney Metro
Catchment Management Authority, the lead agency for a project
team comprising all coastal CMAs.
Project Managers: Lesley
Diver, John Naughton and Lynda Dedovic Sydney Metro CMA.
LANDCOM
Education Strategy for LANDCOM –
Workshop. Fifteen LANDCOM staff attended the workshop which
was designed to provide input into the strategic directions for
LANDCOM’s education approach. Participants:
- gained an improved understanding of education
as a driver of sustainable behaviour
- considered and clarified the strategic
directions for the Education Strategy
- provided a range of input into the proposed
Education Strategy
- become more aware about the range of education
activities that LANDCOM currently delivers
In summary, the workshop was well received
by staff and that their feedback was positive.
Project Manager: Felicity Calvert
Sustainability Manager LANDCOM
Randwick City Council
Sustainability Outreach Strategy. This project
utilised a significant consultation process to develop a
community volunteer program for the Randwick Sustainability Hub.
It established a way of harnessing and building the communities’
capacity to grow sustainable behaviour among their families,
friends, neighbours and peers. It was based on some important
perspectives:
Randwick City
Council is committed to creating a more sustainable Randwick. It
recognises that this can be best achieved by a partnership with
the community.
There is a
range of community organisations and individuals within Randwick
that are committed to making more sustainable choices in their
own lives and helping others to do this too.
The Randwick
Community Centre is an important resource and facility for
demonstrating sustainable design and practice, and provides an
ideal venue for enhancing communication about sustainability. It
is the Hub for the Council’s Sustainability Outreach Project.
Project Manager: Fiona
Campbell
Parramatta City Council
Development of Parramatta First: Leadership in Sustainability
through Education 2010 to 2014 Draft Plan. This major
project involved a significant level of consultation with the
community, through the Resident Panel and the Council staff.
Apart from the draft plan itself two other documents were
provided - The Research and Structure Report and the
Focus Groups Report. The processes used ensure a high degree
of ownership of the Plan among Council staff and the community.
Anthony Collins
Parramatta City Council
Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority
Needs Analysis Workshop: Life
Cycle Costing Data and Tools For Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD)
Assets. Worked on this project coordinated by Dr Andre
Taylor [Andre Taylor Consulting] to design the workshop series
and to deliver the first workshop in the series.
Andre Taylor
Andre Taylor Consulting
Sydney Water
The
development of a new Youth Water Education Strategy
for Sydney Water. This strategy has been developed through a
significant team consultation process and review of current
education activity undertaken by Sydney Water.
Project Manager: Jennifer
Fisher
Sydney Water
Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management
Authority
Environmental Educational Strategy for Boaters and Fishers.
This project involves the
development and analyse of an on-line
survey of the knowledge, attitudes and current behaviours of
boaters and fishers. It is live in late 2010 and will close in
February 2011 and results will be analysed and presented to the
SMCMA and used for framing of the Education Strategy.
Lesley Diver
SMCMA
A three part project for Forests NSW. Part 1 involved the
planning and delivery of a one day workshop for senior staff
that reviewed the current recreation policy and made decisions
about the future policy. Part 2 involved drafting of the new
policy in the light of decisions made at the workshop. Part 3
developed, delivered and evaluated a series of workshops around
NSW for Forests NSW staff about the new policy.
Project Manager - Parts 1 and 2. Louise Faulkner
Part 3 Joanna Bodley
Forests NSW
Department of Environment Climate Change and Water:
Strategic Development of the Ethnic Communities’ Sustainable Living
Project Report.
A three report project that
identifies strategic directions for the
Ethnic Communities’
Sustainable Living Project. The reports contain overall
findings and recommendations, results of the consultation and tools
for progressing the implementation of the review.
Project Managers: Kylie Walker and Geoff Young
Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water
AIDS Council of NSW: Organisational Review of the NSW Sex Workers
Outreach Project
Consultation process and reporting to inform the strategic review of
the Sex Worker Outreach Program [SWOP]. The products of this project
were the development of a
Discussion Paper
and three supplementary
reports to detail the results of the consultation and to identify a
way forward for SWOP.
Project Manager: Jo Holden
Sex
Worker Outreach Project
ACON.
City of Armadale Council [WA]
:
North Forrestdale Development
Preparation of scope for Tender Document and Developers Brief, North
Forrestdale Development. The City of Armadale required the
development of a specific schedule in the tender brief to develop an
education program for residents on a new development. This project
was to be funded by developers and so that apart from the draft
tender brief, material was developed to convince developers to
financially support the project.
Project Manager: Ron Van Delft
Senior Environmental Planner
City of Armadale
Hassall & Associates for
Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA): Visitor Sites Strategic Plan
In this project T Issues was sub-contracted by Hassall and
Associates to undertake the education related aspects of the Visitor
Sites Strategic Plan project. This was a relatively small component
of a larger project.
Project Manager: Mike Butler
Hassall & Associates
NSW Department of Environment
and Conservation and Sydney Catchment Management Trust.
Peer Education Approaches
for Sustainability: A review of the usefulness of peer education in
the environmental education/education for sustainability sectors.
The development of a simple 'how to guide' for use by educators.
Project conducted
with Caroline Ford.
Project Manager: Lynn Webber
Manager Conservation Partnerships
NSW Department of Environment and Conservation
Sydney Catchment
Management Authority:
Education Strategy 2003 to 2006
Development of the first
education strategy for the Sydney Catchment Management Authority.
Project Manager: Alison White
Sydney Catchment Management
Authority
Municipal Association
of Victoria [current project]: Smart Septics
A Community Education Project and
Strategic Approach to
delivery of a septics program by local government across Victoria.
Development of education program, print and other materials and
council guidance materials.
Project Manager: Nathaniel Muller
Municipal Association of Victoria
Area Health Services:
Planning
Development of strategic plans
for delivery of HIV/AIDS/Hep C and Sexual Health and Needle and
Syringe Programs. A number of separate projects for NSW Area Health
Services:
Central Coast AHS [1997 to 2001],
Mid North Coast AHS [2003 to 2006] and
Wentworth AHS [HIV AIDS Plan 2004 to 2007]
Sydney West Area Health Service
Sexual Health Plan [2007 to 2010]
Sydney West Area Health Service
Needle and Syringe Program Plan [2008 to 2012]
Project Managers:
Mid North Coast AHS: Jenny Heslop
Wentworth AHS: Elizabeth O’Neil
Sydney West AHS: Elizabeth
O’Neil/Felicity Sheaves
Sydney Catchment Authority
on behalf of a range of agencies.
Facilitation of the development
of draft NSW Water Education Plan.
Project Manager: Alison White
Sydney Catchment Management
Authority
NSW Council on Environmental
Education:
Effective Sustainability Education Conference
Convenor of the Effective
Sustainability Education Conference 2004
Project Manager; Geoff Young
Secretariat NSW Council on
Environmental Education
