Sustainability Victoria as a relatively young organisation is increasingly focusing on the impact and outcomes of the programs it delivers. It is currently developing a performance monitoring framework that will be implemented in the financial year beginning July 2010.
Sustainability Victoria
Sustainability Victoria is a Victorian Government agency that shows the way to using our resources more efficiently and reducing our everyday environmental impacts. The work Sustainability Victoria does is highly variable and includes:
- training tradies to be energy smart
- fostering growth of the recycled organics industry
- helping householders reduce their energy consumption and live more comfortably
- working with the manufacturing industry to reduce carbon footprints
- facilitating innovative research into new ways to use recycled glass (and other materials)
- assisting schools to reduce their resource use and educate students about sustainability
- influencing sustainability policy at all tiers of government
- providing rebates on energy efficient appliances.
The performance monitoring framework will consist of indicators that capture the outcomes of programs – changes in people’s behaviour that reflect more sustainable living, subsequent reduction in environmental impacts and related social and economic benefits.
The manager of this project is Julie Richmond, a geoscientist with experience in environmental consulting and performance monitoring and reporting. Julie has worked in both the public and private sectors and has extensive experience in project management.
Join the journey
As the author of this blog, Julie will describe the journey to establish how Sustainability Victoria will measure its impact.
You will see aspects of what Sustainability Victoria currently does well, known gaps, options to address those gaps, challenging questions about monitoring and evaluation and hopefully, with your help, answers to those questions.
There are lots of people out there grappling with similar issues. You may run your own company, work for the government, volunteer in a not-for-profit group or conduct research in the field of performance or program monitoring and evaluation. Maybe you are passionate about sustainability or an avid blogger who can’t resist having a say. Whatever the case you’re invited to join us, contribute to the conversation and hopefully learn something along the way.
