Dr Penny Burns has told her story of guiding the management of entity and state-wide infrastructure. If you have ever been in a position to guide public policy, you’ll know that the options are not clearly set out by parliaments. Rather, they appear out of a complex web of interactions among people and between people …
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EAROPH Australia is hosting a workshop at which people from the Torres Strait Islander and Salt Water and Rainforest Aboriginal communities and Pacific Islanders, who are finding ways to combat climate change and fighting for their rights, will draft a Climate JustUs Charter for First Nations Peoples. This Charter will be a key input and …
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In 2022, I\Jane focused a lot on climate change, and presented on the Loss and Damages issue to the World Urban Forum in June. She finalised strategies for UN Habitat’s Participatory Slum Upgrading Program in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Kiribati, and progressed her thinking on the informal economy and how it links …
In May 2022 Dr Penny Burns presented to the IAM Global Forum on “The Fourth Wave -are you ready?” looking at current developments and issues in Asset Management. 2022 also saw the completion of volume 1 of “The Asset Management Story” covering historical developments over the period 1984 to 1993. Publication is scheduled for May …
Nepal became a federation with the gazetting of the Constitution of Nepal on 20 September 2015. Kerry McGovern from K McGovern & Associates was happy to share Australia’s experiences of inter-governmental fiscal relations across the three tiers of government with a visiting group of senior public servants, elected officials, civil society representatives from federal, provincial …
We’ve migrated to a new server and the gremlins have deleted posts since early 2021. We are down in the engine room fixing this.
“It is crucial that local governments ensure markets are safe spaces for women. Many marketplace vendors are women. Marketplaces offer women the opportunity to advance their socioeconomic status, protect their livelihoods and improve overall well-being. But the gender bias built into markets’ organizational structure and management culture impedes women from taking these opportunities. In fact, …
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Dr Jane Stanley attended WUF10 before the lock down, and this resulted in firm commitments to form a new Pacific Partnership involving EAROPH, UN Habitat, UN ESCAP, CLGF, ICLEI, Compass Housing and some universities. Jane is now on the Steering Committee for this PP-NUA Partnership. We have secured the support of various interns and volunteers …
Kerry McGovern has contributed to the United Nations Asset Management Manual. It is yet to be published but, once completed, will be available on the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs website. In 2020, she was named as the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Champion for Prosperity by the United Nations Association of Australia – …
2020 has been a big year. In this series of posts, we share some of our achievements in 2020. Dr Jane Stanley provided training in how to conduct questionnaire based surveys in PNG, and then converted this to a training manual when back in Australia. She oversaw and analysed several baseline surveys (for the Settlement …
