PIOJ Annual Report 2005 - Planning Institute of Jamaica
PIOJ Annual Report 2005 - Planning Institute of Jamaica
PIOJ Annual Report 2005 - Planning Institute of Jamaica
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P I O J A N N U A L<br />
• Hazard Mitigation Steering Committee;<br />
• Land Information Council <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jamaica</strong>;<br />
• GIS Education in Schools Committee;<br />
• JSIF Project Committee;<br />
• CVSS Executive and <strong>Planning</strong> & Research<br />
Committees;<br />
• National Integrated Watershed Management<br />
Council;<br />
• Protected Areas Steering Committee;<br />
• National Ozone Commission Committee;<br />
• National Housing Policy Committee;<br />
• ICENS; and<br />
• National Disaster Committee.<br />
Other highlights included: i) preliminary actions<br />
towards the establishment <strong>of</strong> a WebGIS to provide viewing<br />
access to <strong>PIOJ</strong> socio-economic GIS database; ii) the<br />
development <strong>of</strong> GIS databases for post <strong>of</strong>fices/agencies,<br />
markets and public cemeteries islandwide; iii) assisting<br />
in the building <strong>of</strong> GIS capacity in various Ministries and<br />
agencies, among 87 public servants and teachers; and<br />
iv) providing GIS data to local and international students,<br />
and technical support to four agencies and three<br />
projects.<br />
Publications<br />
The SDU prepared or contributed to the following:<br />
a. three issues <strong>of</strong> the Sustainable Development e-newsletter<br />
designed, prepared and posted on <strong>PIOJ</strong>’s website;<br />
b. manual on the Public Policy Development Process;<br />
c. two chapters for the Economic and Social Survey<br />
<strong>Jamaica</strong> 2004;<br />
d. the Housing chapter in the <strong>Jamaica</strong> Survey <strong>of</strong> Living<br />
Conditions 2004;<br />
e. Draft <strong>Report</strong> on the Administrative Boundaries <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Jamaica</strong>; and<br />
f. GIS Map Catalogue containing descriptions <strong>of</strong> spatial<br />
datasets in <strong>PIOJ</strong>’s GIS socio-economic GIS database.<br />
The Catalogue is made available on <strong>PIOJ</strong>’s website.<br />
Presentations<br />
SDRPD participated in a number <strong>of</strong> fora involving the<br />
following:<br />
• Social Vulnerability and Disasters presented to<br />
ODPEM Disaster Mitigation Conference;<br />
• Two presentations on sustainable development made<br />
to secondary school students as part <strong>of</strong> the <strong>PIOJ</strong> 50th<br />
Anniversary Speakers’ Bureau;<br />
• The Socio-Economic Imperatives <strong>of</strong> a Cross the<br />
Harbour Bridge, Kingston made at <strong>Jamaica</strong> <strong>Institute</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Engineers’ Seminar on the proposed Cross the<br />
Harbour Bridge; and<br />
• Regional Capacity for Effective Monitoring <strong>of</strong> MDGs,<br />
presented to 30th Meeting <strong>of</strong> CARICOM Standing<br />
Committee <strong>of</strong> Caribbean Statisticians.<br />
Conferences, Workshops and<br />
Training<br />
Members <strong>of</strong> SDRPD participated in the following:<br />
• field analysis to test gender evaluation mechanism on<br />
the Eastern <strong>Jamaica</strong> Agricultural Project as part <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>PIOJ</strong>’s Gender Mainstreaming Project;<br />
• the Meso-American and the Caribbean Geo-Spatial<br />
Alliance (MACGA) National Spatial Data Infrastructure<br />
Workshop;<br />
• stakeholder consultations on land degradation under<br />
the UN Desertification Convention;<br />
• United Nations/ECLAC High level Meeting Re Small<br />
Island Developing States (SIDS) and the Millennium<br />
Development Goals (MDGs), Trinidad;<br />
• OAS Project Review Meeting, Washington, DC; and<br />
• initiated discussion with environment Sustainable<br />
Development Agencies with a view to influencing<br />
priority targets for financial year 2006/2007 and<br />
focus on Millennium Development Goals (MDG)<br />
targets.<br />
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