scholarly journals The Costs, Benefits and Stakeholder Analysis of an Irish Social Housing Deep Energy Retrofit Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 2069 (1) ◽  
pp. 012110
Author(s):  
Shane Colclough
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Stakeholder Analysis ◽  
Financial Economic ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Strategic Investment ◽  
Energy Retrofit ◽  
The Government ◽  
Direct And Indirect Benefits

Abstract This paper analyses the results of a pilot deep energy retrofit (DER) implementation including the financial perspectives of the stakeholders with the aim of assisting DER policy development. The Multiple Beneficiary Analysis (MBA) provides technical and energetic details for a recent 12-unit DER social housing project and quantifies the multiple direct and indirect benefits – e.g. financial, economic and societal to enable a stakeholder (beneficiary) analysis. The analysis is apposite given the urgent need for effective policy development in order to enable the achievement of the low-energy retrofit mandated by the EU. The MBA finds that the stakeholder who benefits most (the tenant) makes no financial contribution to the higher standards and while the Central Exchequer also benefits significantly, the stakeholder who makes the upgrade decision (landlord) is financially dis-incentivised. Given the significant benefits which accrue to the Central Exchequer, there is an opportunity for strategic investment by the government to unlock the benefits of low energy dwellings. This would simultaneously realise ongoing financial benefits, “seed” the capability within industry and crucially increase the knowledge and understanding of low energy dwellings which is necessary to enable widespread adoption. The key finding is that despite potential returns of approximately twice the investment, and the urgent need to retrofit existing buildings, the required DER uptake is unlikely as the decision-makers require financial support to unleash the multiple benefits of energy efficient dwellings. A self-financing support is suggested for the case study for consideration.

Exploring the complexities of energy retrofit in mixed tenure social housing: a case study from England, UK

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Bright ◽  
David Weatherall ◽  
Roxana Willis
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Energy Retrofit

scholarly journals An exploratory case study on child sex tourism in a Pacific country: Samoa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lurlene Virginia Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Policy Advocacy ◽  
Sex Tourism ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Government ◽  
Embedded Case Study

<p>In 2006, The Committee of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, expressed concern about rising tourism in Samoa, and the possibility of associated sexual exploitation of local children. The Committee had recommended that the Government of Samoa devote further research to the sexual exploitation of children, including identifying its scope, and root causes. This thesis became a response to The Committee’s recommendation to Samoa. I carried this study out in Apia, Samoa (2009). It presented three research objectives as follows, 1) To report the scope of child sex tourism in Samoa, 2) To identify, and report on the root causes that contributed to child sex tourism in Samoa, and 3) To present a set of recommendations as a baseline foundation for policy, advocacy, and research. Methodology was a qualitative, single embedded case study. Data sources were mixed-method and multi-perspective, aimed at triangulation to enhance trustworthy results. Data analysis was inductive. Anecdotal evidence revealed child sex tourism is a serious problem in Samoa. Victims were girls and boys (including straight and transgendered ones), perpetrators were all male; preferential and opportunistic. The data revealed 10 root causes facilitating CST in Samoa, as follows: 1) Poverty, 2) Hospitality, 3) Philanthropic exploitation, 4) Marginalisation of boys, 5) Family under pressure, and family dysfunction, 6) Unsafe schools, 7) Ifoga, or the culture of shame, 8) Sex tourism, 9) Tourism was excused of any action, and 10) Lack of awareness about child sex tourism. Additionally, four substantial root causes were identified, as follows: 1) Complacency, 2) Attitudes toward data collection, 3) Child sex tourism had to be ‘proven’ by statistics, and 4) Perpetrators beaten and deported leading to under reporting. This was a first study in Samoa. The baseline results this study presents, are important for policy development, advocacy, and for the academic research community, offer a platform to build on, both quantitative and qualitative.</p>

scholarly journals Child protection and interagency collaboration

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Walker
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Interagency Collaboration ◽  
State Sector ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
The Government ◽  
Strengthening Families

Improving interagency collaboration can be regarded as one of the most important public management challenges for governments in the 21st century, in New Zealand and in other countries. Since the election of a Labour-led government in New Zealand in 1999, a second wave of state sector reforms has been introduced. At the heart of these reforms is the desire by the government to adopt new ways of working – in partnerships with communities, and in a joined-up way across government sectors. Such approaches have been heralded as a panacea for the endemic fragmentation and ‘siloisation’ that is attributed to the first wave of state sector reforms started in the mid-1980s. The underlying philosophy of these ‘new’ approaches to policy development and implementation seems commonsensical. This article looks at the Strengthening Families Strategy as a case study of interagency collaboration in the field of child welfare and protection.

scholarly journals An exploratory case study on child sex tourism in a Pacific country: Samoa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lurlene Virginia Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Policy Advocacy ◽  
Sex Tourism ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Government ◽  
Embedded Case Study

<p>In 2006, The Committee of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, expressed concern about rising tourism in Samoa, and the possibility of associated sexual exploitation of local children. The Committee had recommended that the Government of Samoa devote further research to the sexual exploitation of children, including identifying its scope, and root causes. This thesis became a response to The Committee’s recommendation to Samoa. I carried this study out in Apia, Samoa (2009). It presented three research objectives as follows, 1) To report the scope of child sex tourism in Samoa, 2) To identify, and report on the root causes that contributed to child sex tourism in Samoa, and 3) To present a set of recommendations as a baseline foundation for policy, advocacy, and research. Methodology was a qualitative, single embedded case study. Data sources were mixed-method and multi-perspective, aimed at triangulation to enhance trustworthy results. Data analysis was inductive. Anecdotal evidence revealed child sex tourism is a serious problem in Samoa. Victims were girls and boys (including straight and transgendered ones), perpetrators were all male; preferential and opportunistic. The data revealed 10 root causes facilitating CST in Samoa, as follows: 1) Poverty, 2) Hospitality, 3) Philanthropic exploitation, 4) Marginalisation of boys, 5) Family under pressure, and family dysfunction, 6) Unsafe schools, 7) Ifoga, or the culture of shame, 8) Sex tourism, 9) Tourism was excused of any action, and 10) Lack of awareness about child sex tourism. Additionally, four substantial root causes were identified, as follows: 1) Complacency, 2) Attitudes toward data collection, 3) Child sex tourism had to be ‘proven’ by statistics, and 4) Perpetrators beaten and deported leading to under reporting. This was a first study in Samoa. The baseline results this study presents, are important for policy development, advocacy, and for the academic research community, offer a platform to build on, both quantitative and qualitative.</p>

Welfare Pluralism or Shadow State? The Provision of Social Housing in the 1990s

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 1341-1360 ◽  
Author(s):  
M J Warrington
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Housing Associations ◽  
Shadow State ◽  
Welfare Pluralism ◽  
The Government ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Welfare State

Within a context of the restructuring of the welfare state, housing associations have become the main providers of social housing. Welfare pluralists, as well as the government, would see this as a positive change, since housing associations are perceived as voluntary, independent, and small scale, responding to a diversity of local needs. Using data obtained during interviews in four case-study areas, I argue, however, that the rhetoric is not underpinned by the reality. The very process of change has, in fact, led to increasing control by central, and to some extent local, governments, so that a more appropriate conceptualisation is that of housing associations as a ‘shadow state’. The results of this are changes in the type of housing being built, in the sort of tenants being housed, and in the compromises over the aims and ethos of housing associations themselves.

scholarly journals Evaluating Ancillary Business Scale for PPP-BOT Projects: A Social Housing BOT Case in Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1415
Author(s):  
Chih-Yao Huang ◽  
Ren-Jye Dzeng
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Flow Model ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Discounted Cash Flow ◽  
Scale Ratio ◽  
The Government ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
The Right ◽  
Year 2000

Due to budgetary constraints, the government releases the right to ancillary business development for private investors to increase profits in PPP projects. However, the ancillary business scale is not specified in the regulations, and there is little relevant research on modeling the scale. Thus, our research aims to create a model with mathematical analysis to evaluate the ancillary business scale. The model is constructed based on the discounted cash flow model to calculate the ancillary business scale attracting private investors with a case study of a social housing project. For this case, the calculated ancillary business minimum scale (ratio of ancillary business to project in total floor area) based on the 7-year (2009–2016) and 17-year (2000–2016) data are 30.81% and 52.79%, respectively; neither is able to meet the scale listed in the tender condition regulated by the government, i.e., 25%. Moreover, this study performs a sensitivity analysis on the expected rate of return and rent discount of the case. The government needs to raise the proportion of ancillary businesses or to increase the rent of social housing to successfully attract private investors.

scholarly journals Implementation of a National Identity Number-Based Identity Card Policy In Pasangkayu Regency

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-91
Author(s):  
Irfan Rusli Sadek ◽  
Juraid Abdul Latief ◽  
Nawawi Natsir ◽  
Daswati Daswati
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Economic Burden ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
District Office ◽  
Identification Card ◽  
Identity Card ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
Source Of Information

The policy development mechanism for the national identity number -based electronic ID card software is described in this report. In this analysis, a qualitative procedure was used in conjunction with a case study technique. The total number of informants was 19. Employees from the government who work on the national identity number -based electronic identification card software make up this group. The culture is often used as a source of information in this report. The findings of the study indicate that; Every organ and implementor personnel at every level in every Pasangkayu sub-district office understands and implements national Identity Number -based electronic identification card policy requirements and goals, namely: first, citizens with a identification card condition have the right to get a electronic identification card, which the government is required to promote. Second, get closer to the position where the community resides, in this case the office respective districts, such that the community is not inconvenienced and burdened, must go to the Disdukcapil office in the district capital. Third, since these programs are provided free of charge or at no expense to government, this approach would not impose an economic burden. Fourth, this proposal has little effect on the district's spending schedule. As a result, success policy is essentially an evaluation of how well expectations and policy priorities have been met. As a result, the policy's standards and objectives must be practical and specifically targeted, and any implementation entity (implementor) must be aware of the policy's standards and objectives.

scholarly journals Analysis of Income and Factors Affecting Farmers' Decisions to Join Corporate Farming (Case Study: Tawangsari District, Sukoharjo Regency)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (01) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Duwi - Apriyani ◽  
A Faroby Falatehan ◽  
Memen Surahman
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Stakeholder Analysis ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Corporate Farming ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Level Of Importance

The Government of Sukoharjo District established a corporate farming program in Dalangan, Tawangsari District, Sukoharjo Regency since 2017 as an example of early development of agriculture modern in the countryside. However, the program has not run continuously due to constraints capital and has a high dependence on the decisions of decision makers. The objectives of this study are: (1) to identify farmers’ perceptions of corporate farming programs; (2) identifying and analyzing the importance and influence of corporate farming in Dalangan, Tawangsari District, Sukoharjo Regency; (3) analyze the impact of the application of corporate farming on the income of member farmers and not members of the corporate farming; and (4) analyze the level of influence of farmer characteristic factors on the decision to follow corporate farming. Data analysis methods used were descriptive analysis, stakeholder analysis, R / C ratio income analysis, and binomial logistic regression analysis. The results showed that the majority of farmer respondents agreed that the implementation of farmer corporations in Dalangan could improve farm performance, but the corporate farming had not made it easier for farmers to access Gapoktan capital. Based on stakeholder analysis, the Agriculture Service of Sukoharjo Regency and Gapoktan Tani Mandiri have the highest level of importance and influence in implementing the corporate farming. Based on income analysis, the value of R / C ratio and B / C ratio for cash costs to member farmers and not members of corporate farming is more than 1, so farming in groups is profitable and feasible. Factors that influence farmers' decisions to follow the corporate farming, namely the number of family dependents and farm income.

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