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NOVEMBER 12, 2016 SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DESIGN PROJECT PROPOSAL SUBMITTED BY: SU MYAT SANDI OO (MYANMAR) IENG SOVATH (CAMBODIA) SUPARINDAPORN WONGYARA (THAILAND) VANGVICHIT KITTIKHOUN (LAOS) BAITULHUSNA (MALAYSIA) KOJI KOBAYASHI (JAPAN) ERIC B. CASILA (PHILIPPINES) SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DESIGN TABLE OF CONTENT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 PART I. INTRODUCTION 1.1 What is Sustainable Community? 5 1.2 How to mobilize resources to achieve Sustainable Community Design? 5 PART II. PROJECT BACKGROUND 2.1 Project Introduction 7 2.2 Common Issues in Myanmar 7 2.3 The reasons for doing this pilot project 7 2.3.1 Why vulnerable people? 7 2.3.2 Why Social Business? 7 2.3.3 Why Fabric? 7 2.3.4 Why Mandalay? 8 2.4 Area background of Mandalay 8 2.4.1 Geography and Population of Mandalay 8 2.4.2 Main Industry 9 2.4.3 Tourism on Mandalay 9 2.5 Textile Industry and Type of Products 11 2.5.1 The textile used for our project 11 2.5.2 Type of Products 14 2.6 Vulnerable people (Physically disable people, boarding school children, poor 14 single mothers & house wives) 2.7 Objectives 17 2.7.1 General Objectives: 17 2.7.2 Specific Objectives: 17 11/12/2016 Sustainable community design 1 3.1 Resource Mobilizing 18 18 3.1.1 Vulnerable People 3.1.2 Stakeholders 20 3.1.3 Natural Resource 21 3.1.4 Financial resource 22 3.1.5 Technical resource 23 3.2 Challenges among Resources 24 3.3 Possible Solution 24 4. 1 Strategy 25 4.1.1Business Flow 25 4.1.2 Project Timeline 28 4.1.3 Budgeting 29 5.1 SWOT Analysis 30 5.2 How to overcome our weakness and threats? 33 PART III. POSTSCRIPT 6.1 What we learned from IATSS forum project 35 11/12/2016 Sustainable community design 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report focuses mainly on the project proposal of 7O2 or 7 Oxygen group with regards to the sustainable community design (SCD). The 7O2 geared itself towards sustainable development that will further improve the quality of life of those vulnerable people and give the much needed edge for them to be a greater participant in the local community. The first part of this report is all about the concept and principles of SCD and its importance to the ever changing world due to many reasons like globalization, modernization and even climate change. The word sustainability, sustainable development and sustainable society have different meanings but serves only one purpose which is to meet the needs of our future generation. The three (3) pillars of sustainability are a powerful tool for defining the complete sustainability problem or issues in a certain community. This consists of at least the economic, social, and environmental pillars. If one of the pillar is weak then the system as a whole is unsustainable. Moreover, the United Nations (UN) involving its 193 member states has agreed with the establishment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is officially known as Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which contains set of seventeen (17) aspirational "Global Goals". This clearly shows that all nations from all over the world believes that sustainable development is one of the keys in order to solve the problem of poverty, hunger, health, education, peace, environment, climate change among others. The second part of report deals with the specific project proposal that aims to support vulnerable people and promote textile industry by maximizing all resources and creating SCD in Mandalay, Myanmar. The general and specific objectives of the project are aligned according to the social, economic and environmental situation of Mandalay. The information used are based on facts and data gathered along the study and meeting sessions. All interconnected resources such as stakeholders, natural resources, financial, technology and people are explained in details under the mobilizing resources section while the business model and process flow was included on the recommendation section. On the other hand, we strongly believed that the success of the project involves the financial matter. That is why the group has planned the budget requirement and proposed a three (3) years workplan for implementation of activities. Although the group decided that Myanmar is the target location for the pilot project, the established business plan could be applicable to other ASEAN countries like, Cambodia, Laos, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. 11/12/2016 Sustainable community design 3 As a final point, the project proposal in Mandalay is inspired by the learnings and knowledge acquired from the seminar/lectures and study tour program of the IATSS Forum. The 7O2 of the 56th batch proposal included the idea of Regulus Company that employs person with disability (PWD). We learned in Toba City and Moku-Moku farm how to involve local people on hands-on job and revitalize their community. Likewise, the group was motivated by the product innovations of both Machiyas and GO-ON project in Kyoto. The group is also privileged to be part of the numerous workshops that enhance the capability and essential skill set needed for this final report. 11/12/2016 Sustainable community design 4 INTRODUCTION 1.1 What is Sustainable Community Design? The sustainable community design is not a new idea. It had emphasized in developed countries in the last two decades. The sustainable community design refers to communities planned, built, or guidance modified to sustainable living. The sustainable communities focus on environmental and economic sustainability, urban infrastructure, social equity, and municipal government. Hart (2012) contends that “a sustainable community seeks to maintain and improve the economic, environmental and social characteristics of an area for its members can continue to lead healthy, productive, enjoyable lives”. The term is sometimes called “green cities,” “eco-communities,” “livable cities” and “sustainable cities.” Environment Economic Social Figure 1: Three (3) interconnected spheres of sustainability 1.2 How to mobilize resources to achieve Sustainable Community Design? Mobilizing resources means identifying and prioritizing the available resources for use in continuing education activities and using these resources in the best ways that we can. Resources are usually scarce so we need to do the best with what we have. Not all available resources can be used. Resources need to be identified and prioritized according to the needs of the community and the continuing education activities. We can determine priorities for their use by considering their advantages/disadvantages, their feasibility and their 11/12/2016 Sustainable community design 5 practicality. Community involvement and education are very important to be good at mobilizing and managing resources. We can improve their education through training, either face-to-face or self-study. Training will help making resource management more efficient in terms of saving time and cost. While utilization is another important thing we should consider. Utilization means using the resources well. There are resources that cannot be used again and therefore they should be managed with care. Resources should be mobilized and managed at the right time and the right place. The process of mobilization and management can be done in a system that is called a delivery system. An effective delivery system requires good networking between individuals and organizations. To be effective, the process must include the following steps: Identification and/or collection What resources are needed? What resources are available or already existing in the community? What resources are not found in the community and need to be obtained from outside? Selection and prioritization What resources will sustain programme implementation? What resources will be used? What are the advantages/disadvantages of using these resources? Utilization How could we use the resources to the fullest? To what extent can the resources be used for continuing education? How can the use of the resources be sustained? 11/12/2016 Sustainable community design 6 PART II. PROJECT BACKGROUND 2.1 Project Introduction This pilot project is a social business model where it creates sustainable community and sufficient economy by selling the high quality value added textile products made by the vulnerable people. In this project, we have touched the social aspect (vulnerable people), environmental aspect (smokeless industry) and economy aspect (social business) and they are all interlinked in this project which is coherent with our own definition of sustainable community design. 2.2 Common issues in Myanmar There is no job opportunity for vulnerable people and there is job discrimination on PWDs. Housewives and poor single moms are unable to do full time job. There is not enough money to sustain the monastic schools in Myanmar. There is no initiative on value added products from the textile industry. There is low living standard in Myanmar (Poverty – average $ 46.7 to 50/ 5200 yen per month per pax). There is no proper government support for vulnerable people. 2.3 The reasons for doing this pilot project 2.3.1 Why vulnerable people? Because these are group of people that always been neglected, therefore, this project aims to make them self-reliable to survive by giving them chances to be involved in creating social business and gaining their own income. 2.3.2 Why Social Business? We believe in social business. The more people we help, the more profit to share and we can attract more vulnerable people involvement which lead to happiness within the society, and thus, creating a sustainable community. 2.3.3 Why Fabric? Because the knowledge & resources are available, but have not been maximized yet. We aim to promote it by creating innovating products from the natural resources. Because we think fabric products can make easily at home by the vulnerable people. 11/12/2016 Sustainable community design 7 2.3.4 Why Mandalay? Because Mandalay has the most vulnerable people in Myanmar (8000 PWDs, 500+ boarding students, lots of housewives).
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