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February, 2010:

Module 2:Evidence Informed Planning

Feb 11th, 2010
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Preliminary Schedule

Tuesday 9th February: 4pm–7pm, Clarye O’Hares Room, Canal Court Hotel, Newry (dinner available from 7pm)

INTRODUCTION
4:00-4:10
Introduction to Module 2; Prologue on indicators and the policy cycle
TRAINING SESSION 1 – Understanding the spatial planning policy agenda
4:10-4:25
Demographic realities and environmental directives: Locating the environment in current policy: Niall Cussen, Senior Planning Adviser, Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government
4:25-4:35
Q&A with Niall Cussen
4:35-4:50
Promoting local economic development strategies in the context of a severe economic recession Locating the regional economy in current policy: Conor Patterson, Chief Executive of Newry & Mourne Co-operative & Enterprise Agency and President of the Newry Chamber of Commerce
4:50-5:00
Q&A with Conor Patterson
COFFEE BREAK
5:00-5:20
TRAINING SESSION 2 – Making it happen: spatial planning policy into practice
5:20-5:40
Mapping evidence in spatial planning: Justin Gleeson, Project Manager of the All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO) based in the National University of Ireland Maynooth
5:50-6:25
Identifying indicators for prioritising action in spatial planning: working groups
6:25-6:45
Evidence-informed planning in the Newry-Dundalk region: key indicators and action agenda for sharing information and addressing gaps: plenary discussion
6:45-6:55
Observations on making cross-border spatial planning happen in the Newry-Dundalk region: Tom Hanney, Southern Joint Secretary, North-South Ministerial Council
6:55-7:00
Closing remarks; confirmation of arrangements for Module Three.

Presentations – Module 2 Evidenced Informed Planning

Feb 10th, 2010
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  1. Neale Blair,  Indicators and the Policy Cycle
  2. Niall Cussen, Demographic Realities and Environmental Directives: Indicators and Planning Policy
  3. Conor Patterson, Making a Cross-Border Economic Development Strategy in a Recession
  4. Justing Gleeson, Mapping Evidence in Spatial Planning

Welcome to the Library

Feb 3rd, 2010
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The ICLRD Training site library is an online resource for participants. Course reading materials, related materials, and presentations will be posted or linked. Please contact the staff with suggestions for useful material.

2010 Conference

Feb 2nd, 2010
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The Fifth Annual ICLRD Conference on Preparing for Economic Recovery: Planning Ireland, North and South, out of Recession, provided a rich mix of presentations discussing the current economic situation across the island, shared services and the value of using data to inform and drive a shared civic agenda, thus ensuring that future policies are evidence-informed and ‘fit for purpose’. A clear message emerging from the conference was that the economic environment of the future across the island of Ireland will be different to that of the ‘noughties’; with recovery being driven by the concentration of employment growth in major urban areas. The conference presentations together with abstracts of each of speakers’ presentations are available on the ICLRD website. We hope to post the audio files by the end of this week, please visit www.iclrd.org and follow the links from the home page.