Page 1874 - Week 05 - Thursday, 10 May 2018
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Mr Rattenbury: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) The application form for Round One of the Community Zero Emissions Grants Program required applicants to set objectives for their projects, set targets for outcomes indicating the success of their projects and outline their methods of evaluating the effectiveness of their projects.
Applications for the Community Zero Emission Grants were assessed by a four person panel made up of Penny Sackett from the Climate Change Council, Stephen Bygrave, Executive Director Climate Change and Sustainability, Anna McGuire, Policy Officer, Climate Change and Sustainability and Emma Humphreys, Manager Actsmart Low Income and Community Programs.
The panel assessed applications against several selection criteria including community engagement, generation of new knowledge and information and whether a project directly reduced emissions. In addition, the panel assessed how well projects demonstrated innovative solutions to assist the community to transition to net zero emissions in key sectors identified in the guidelines, clear project management and value for money. The information provided below is based on the application submitted for each project.
(a) The success of the Neighbourhood Effect (NE) project will be evaluated by using the following methods:
• User benchmarking survey,
• Energy usage and billing data;
• Users’ self-reporting/logging of actions taken while using the app;
• Users’ purchase of recommended products and services through digital tagging;
• Extent of users’ engagement with app content, with each other, and the frequency and type of app content they share; and
• Qualitative interviews with selected users and user feedback forms.
(b) Unions ACT has withdrawn their application for funding for the Community Zero Emissions Grants Program, however the application for the Climate Champions project submitted by Unions ACT included a planned audit process at the beginning, middle and end of the project, and included participant surveys.
(c) The Canberra Environment Centre (CEC) will measure success of the Canberra Community Compost project against education objectives by the number of people attending workshops and information sessions and the number of people engaged with their online campaign.
(d) The Woden Community Service project, ReBike, will be evaluated twice during the project. Once at the mid-point of the project and then towards the end of the funded portion of the project in late 2018. Qualitative evaluation will be conducted via a number of methods including Survey Monkey, one to one interviews, evaluation forms completed at workshops and small focus groups. Quantitative evaluation will be via ongoing collection of data including numbers of bikes ‘adopted’, workshops held, donations received and volunteers recruited (including turnover).
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