Name: NUR BAHIRAH BINTI IDRIS MATRIX NO.

: A128566 Task 5: Local Agenda 21 You are given a task by the mayor of your hometown to evaluate and give suggestion on how to plan the town in accordance with Local Agenda 21. Write a brief report on your evaluation and suggestion. A brief regarding the parties involved:

The Local Agenda 21 needs cooperation of many parties. It includes society, private sector and local authorities. So each party has their basic own role. These are some of them: 1. Individual or Society Give cooperation to any program or event that private sector or local authorities invented. Mass media need to announce the activity relate to this sector. 2. Associations and Companies

An association of Local Agenda 21 needs to be established to focus on the vision of this principle for the hometown. Any companies surround my hometown need to be alert to the necessity of the residential of the hometown by providing the requirement for residents 3. Government representatives or local authorities Doing campaign and kind of same activity or event relate to Local Agenda 21 Making collaboration within the authorities to execute any activities There are six key elements of Local agenda 21. Based on these, the evaluation and suggestion are committed. 1) Managing and improving the local authority's own environmental performance Evaluation For my hometown evaluation, this element is still lack of implementation. Suggestion It needs corporate commitment by cooperating with related local authorities to do any campaign for staff training and awareness rising among the residents. They should plan a good environmental management systems and environmental budgeting based on the capability and aim for our hometown. Policy integration also needs to be applied across the sectors. 2) Integrating sustainable development aims into the local authority's policies and activities Evaluation The term of sustainable development still not being implement in my hometown. Suggestion The need of implementation of sustainable development is very good way in order to appreciating our nature and preserves it. It still needs a very good collaboration of the local authorities and the resident. But still the private sector need to help in commercialized it and hold the events. The local authorities should plan policies that the vision is based on sustainable development. Some of the activities that can be a part of the programme are green housekeeping and housing services. They should be plan the policy like transport policies and programmes that encourage the use of electric or hybrid car that more environmental friendly. If tourism and visitor strategies want to be applied, they need to encourage the residents to more

conserve our surrounding area towards sustainability and implement the services that also sustain. After all these it still the cooperation of all parties. 3) Awareness raising and education Evaluation My hometown needs an improvisation regarding on this element. Suggestion An initiative to encourage behaviour change and practical action need to be applied. For examples is awareness campaign and so on. It still need support by private sector and authorities by doing publication of local information and do some press releases. Supports for voluntary group also need to be given by local authorities. 4) Consulting and involving the general public Evaluation In my opinion this element is cultivated in my hometown even not thoroughly. The forum is being held once in a month in order to do some discussion regarding what happen in our residential area. And to get the feedback some of questionnaire being distribute to get the feedback from residents in some problem and solution. Suggestion Some of suggestions that can be implementing for this element are the public consultation processes, doing some forums and planning our hometown in Parish maps to divide the area according to the economic base maybe. 5) Partnerships Evaluation Still lack of implementation in my hometown. Suggestion Partnerships can be done by doing meetings, workshops and conferences. And all these must be based on sustainability development. It will be more efficient if the residents working in groups or advisory groups. Round tables should be done to go through any issue arising from any members. A plan on how environment city model should be improvised can be a good idea as Local Agenda 21 is promoting sustainable development.

6) Measuring monitoring and reporting on progress towards sustainability Evaluation There is no implementation in my hometown. Suggestion There are so many activities can be done for this element. Aim a target for developing the hometown for every month and try to do some environmental monitoring to make sure the planning is implementing properly and continuously. Put the sustainability indicator as a target. To make the planning more based on the requirement, make sure the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is done thoroughly and strategic environmental assessment should be carried out.