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The Sustainability Challenge

The Sustainability Challenge. TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE REPORTING TO ENHANCE SUSTAINABILITY. The challenge. The project vision is for… “…an irrigation industry that applies triple-bottom-line reporting for continuous improvement and enhanced sustainability”. SI’s, their selection and use.

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The Sustainability Challenge

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  1. The Sustainability Challenge TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE REPORTING TO ENHANCE SUSTAINABILITY

  2. The challenge • The project vision is for… “…an irrigation industry that applies triple-bottom-line reporting for continuous improvement and enhanced sustainability”.

  3. SI’s, their selection and use Case study Organisation Analysis TBL Framework Knowledge about sustianability and irrigation Participatory Method Case Study Evaluation Case Study Learning Evaluation Method TBL reporting review TBL Reporting and evaluation Workshops & Planning Sustainability Challenge Project • Concurrent and converging components Irrigation Sustainability Assessment Guidelines

  4. Irrigation Sustainability Assessment

  5. Irrigation Sustainability Principles • Ensuring the health of the supply river and groundwater/drainage systems, and maintaining extractions at sustainable levels • Using, conserving and enhancing the land/water/ biota resources in irrigation areas and associated areas, now and into the future • Maintaining the economic and social services and benefits to rural and associated urban communities that enhances the quality of life, now and into the future

  6. ISAF AND MI BUSINESS PLANNING MI - Management plans/activities of irrigation company such as: Business plan, LWMP, etc Business objectives Activities - KPI’s Lower two tiers of generic component tree modifiable by users to suit local conditions/concerns provide flexibility, and direct links to MI business management plans/activities

  7. Strategic Plan Strategic Directions Document Corporate Plan Business Unit Plan Executive performance Plan Individual and team performance plans ‘Business Scorecard’ A business management approach links discussion of overall strategic directions with each business unit’s goals; allows input from staff on business objectives as well as performance indicators

  8. Overview of sustainability issues Environmental issues / objectives

  9. Overview of sustainability issues Economic issues / objectives

  10. Overview of sustainability issues Social-political issues / objectives

  11. ISAF and the Urban case study • Successful application with • Lower Nepean Hawksbury Water Users Assoc, primary producer and cut flower irrigators • Councils • Water provider • 4 tier framework adapted to 5 step worksheet

  12. 5 Step Process

  13. Urban response to framework • Responses to evaluation of the process • 100% of participants thought it relevant • 100% of participants thought it a useful process • 94% of participants thought the process easy to use • Readily usable and logical process, good for planning specific action from general ideas about sustainability. • Plain language version needed • Electronic format would be good

  14. Final products – Report Series • TBL Approach and Irrigation Sustainability Assessment (Mid May) • The triple bottom line approach and performance reporting in the Australian irrigation industry, • Irrigation Sustainability Assessment Framework • Indicators of performance and their criteria for selection. • Case Study Experience (Mid May) • Murrumbidgee Irrigation Case Study, • Lower Burdekin Case Study, • Urban Case Study, • Murray Irrigation Limited and their move to sustainability reporting • Integrated reporting processes (Early June) • Participatory approach to performance reporting • Evaluating performance reporting across each case study • Sustainability Reporting For Irrigation - TBL recipe / glossy (June 30) • background, ISAF and indicators, how to …, • appendix case study summaries

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