Reflection and rethinking so far

Dear All,

Although we are working on the project of building environmental action groups, we are rethinking and reconsidering our risk management strategy. We think that making some small changes while carrying out the project (putting the project plan into action/practice) is acceptable because that can help project implementers make the project suites to the practice. This is also because there is always a gap between theory and practice!

Basically, we are establishing environmental action groups in order to deal with environmental problems in Hue city such as rubbish, sewage and disordering advertisement boards on the streets of Hue city. There are three main risks which may occur during implementing the project. They are excessive time necessary for building the groups, Lose of collaboration and cooperation between HRED, HTD, and HEUWC, and barrier of previous regulations of local authority.

When developing the project plan, we have decided these kinds of risks and developed a strategy on order to manage them, but we really do not know about corrective responses which is very important to reach long-term development as well as achieving sustainable development . We have developed the risk management framework as following:

Risks	Preventive responses	Developmental responses	Corrective responses
Excessive time necessary for building the groups	Using seasoned community development workers(CDWs)	Training CDWs	????????
Lose of collaboration and cooperation between HRED, HTD, and HEUWC	Working with these institution employers and get an agreement before doing the project	Partnering with youth unions and women unions at these institutions	??????????
Barrier of previous regulations of local authority	Gaining an agreement from local authorities before doing the project	Workshops on environmental issues	????????

Notes:
- HRED is Hue Resources and Environment Department
- HTD is Hue Transportation Department
- Hue Environment and Urban Work Company

If anyone has experiences in this field, please give us some advice (directive advice or refer to some readings is valuable). If you need more specific information before giving advice, please let me know.

Thanks so much in advance,
Hung

Working on the project

Hi All,
I guess that some of you are putting the project plan into practice at the moment. I have read some posts and saw that you seem carrying our your project (just early stage of the project).

Like some of you, I and my colleagues are running our project now. Our project is about setting up environmental action groups at my home town, Hue city. We are on the first stage of the project.

Hung