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Mastering the art of planning for government #funding is a game-changer! 🚀 Whether it’s timing, prioritizing funding options, or stacking funds, having a solid plan is key. Don’t miss out—grab this valuable resource and take your funding strategy to the next level! 📊 #GovernmentFunding #FundingStrategy #Growth

Want to learn more about how UNOPS supports partners with practical solutions for some of the worlds most pressing challenges? Check out our 2023 annual report!

Are you worried about harm to your natural environment based on a proposed development in your area? In our new digital resource, we outline what kind of considerations may be grounds for making a planning submission, specify how best to go about it, and provide answers to any frequently asked questions. To read our free guide, visit: https://lnkd.in/ebehupkq

As we move forward in 2024, I'm filled with cautious optimism for the construction sector. Despite the challenges we’ve faced, there are several positive indicators for the year ahead. 1️⃣ Government-Funded Projects: Publicly funded ICI and infrastructure projects continue to support the industry, providing a strong backbone for our activities. 2️⃣Stabilizing Costs: Construction costs have stabilized, offering more predictable project expenses and fostering confidence in project planning. 3️⃣Labour and Resource Management: While we still face a labour crunch, initiatives to attract and retain skilled workers are crucial to our ongoing success. "With the current economic conditions, we cautiously expect the feds to slowly lower the interest rates this year, which will help projects get closer to becoming viable." – Mike Wieninger, COO of Canadian operations with PCL Construction Looking forward to collaborating with industry leaders and continuing to drive progress. #ConstructionIndustry #Infrastructure #ProjectManagement #ConstructionGrowth ❓What are your thoughts on the positive indicators for the year ahead? Join the conversation and share your insights.❓ Read the full article here: https://ow.ly/hyHi50Skuhf Tagging: PCL Construction On-Site Magazine

The board overseeing the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power gave the publicly owned utility the go-ahead to join CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market (EDAM). See Full Story: https://ow.ly/Tk0I50UtlqF Writer: Henrik Nilsson

Webinar: Avoiding methodological nightmares in evaluations MDF is celebrating its 40th anniversary. What has been front and centre, from our first evaluations until today, is how we deal every day with managing client expectations. In this webinar, we discuss handling methodological nightmares. How do we cope with methodological requests that seem not to fit their purpose? What should we do if resources do not meet the ambition of the scope? On 13 November, two experienced evaluators, Mike Zuijderduijn from MDF Netherlands and James Ngugi, PMP® from MDF Eastern and Southern Africa, will share a case study that illustrates these challenges and offer practical insights to help you manage unfeasible methodological requests and align client expectations. 📅 Date: 13 November 2024 ⏰ Time: 11–11:45 AM CET 🌐Language: English More information and registration: https://lnkd.in/epzXHxs4 #freewebinar #evaluations #M&E #impactevaluation

⭐ Next in our series of Friday Midday Webinars - 21st June: Driving Commercial Performance with Mark Lyddon and Richard Wood. ⭐A bold and fresh approach is needed to transform commercial performance. We need to move away from the fragmented, transactional contracting and commercial arrangements which are holding our industry back. With increased programme scale and complexity, the short-term monetary objectives of traditional strategies will fail to deliver the levels of commercial performance required. We can be more ambitious challenging our strategies to take into account a broader set of outcomes. Communities around the world benefit hugely from the power of infrastructure investment. Infrastructure spending is being looked to as a central solution to many policy challenges. In response, the sector needs to transform how we plan and deliver major programmes so we can fulfil infrastructure’s potential to play its part in benefitting global communities and in helping to address the climate emergency head-on. Around the world, we see great examples of excellence and ambition. The goal for our industry needs to be to make these examples the norm – driving high performance consistently on complex major programmes. This session will explore the challenges and pose solutions how we can collaborate to achieve better outcomes. Register now for free: https://lnkd.in/eA9Yek9J

The draft Water Services Strategic Plan 2050 (WSSP 2050) sets out Uisce Éireann Irish Water objectives for the delivery of water services and the means by which they can be achieved over the next 25 years. With the global challenges to water supply which we are and will continue to face in the coming years, feedback and engagement on reports such as this is critically important #waterservices #ireland #wssp2050

Do you work in places affected by conflict? We can help you ensure that your projects or investments put the people they impact the most at the centre through participatory approaches to design, monitoring and learning. Find out how we can help: https://bit.ly/3XZy04k

Are you dealing with communication, publicity and transparency in your Interreg programme? Are you concerned about the implications of failing to meet the requirements of Article 36 of the Interreg Regulation, which outlines the responsibilities of managing authorities and partners in terms of transparency and communication? Then join our interactive workshop on Wednesday, 5 June 2024, at 09:30 CET. The workshop will specifically address the implications of not meeting the requirements of Article 36 of Interreg Regulation, in particular, how managing authorities can consider the potential cases and decide on proportionality when cancelling up to 2% of the funding. Register using the link: https://lnkd.in/ek6esiGz. #communication #irregularities #corrections