AJF 2012-13 Major Funding RoundApplication AJF12133 from John Andrew Black (j.black@unsw.edu.au)
Received on 31 March 2012, 17:19 PM EST

Contact Details:
Name*Prof John Black

Organisation

University of New South Wales

Address*

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sydney NSW 2052
Postal Address

1/140 Falcon Street

Crows Nest NSW 2065
Work Number*

02 9385 5018

Home Number*

0418203905

Mobile Number

0418203905

Fax Number

02 9385 6139

Email*

j.black@unsw.edu.au

Websitewww.civeng.unsw.edu.au/staff

ABN Details
ABN / ACN

95 275 639 871
Information from the Australian Business Register
Organisation NameJohn BlackType of Organisation

Individual/Sole Trader

Registered for GST?

NoIs a Charity?

NoTypeIs a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR)?

Not a charity
NoTax Concessions

No tax concessions

Registered Address

2065 NSW

Information current as at 31 March 2012

Trading Name

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Application Details
Project name*“PILOT STUDY OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN WASTE DISPOSALAND PLANNING FOR THE REBUILDING FISHING PORT COMMUNITIESALONG THE SANRIKU COAST”

Is there scope for yourproject to commence earlier
than 1 July 2012?*

Yes

Amount of money
requested?*(AUD)$ (excluding GST) 81 565

Start date of project?*

July 2012

End date of project?*end of March 2013

If successful, what datewould you need the fundsby?*July 2012

Brief description of project,including key activities*

Multi-disciplinary Australian and Japan professional team supported by interns
to undertake a pilot study of community engagement programs in the coastal
Iwate prefecture of Japan, focusing specifically on debris removal andmanagement options and urban planning/design/funding options for therebuilding of devastated towns and villages. The findings will be criticallyassessed, documented and reported as recommendations and guidelines forengaging communities across the Tohoku region, and suggestions on funding
and future partnerships between Australian and Japanese industry.
The project proponents (Black and Arioka) were in Japan during theearthquake and tsunami, and through a Japanese NPO (SLIM,(www.slim.co.jp), have visited government and community organizations inIwate Prefecture. SLIM are project administrators and grant expenditure will
be audited by a qualified accountant. Academics and professionals listed inthis application have volunteered their time and contributed to a projectworking paper (available to AJF on request). This will be further workshopped
using the trans-disciplinary approach (see Black and Black, 2009) in Tokyo at
the early commencement of the project.
The key activities are as follows:- Tokyo workshop: trans-disciplinary approach to problem definition andmethodology.
- A steering group, chaired by former President of Iwate University, will beformed (with AJF representation) and invited to the trans-disciplinaryworkshop.
- Once detailed logistics have been agreed advertising for interns fromAustralia and Japan will take place and candidates selected.
- Different techniques of community engagement will be tested in a case study
community: (a) concise storytelling technique to map activities of the past andpresent that are valued (using Insite Mapping ® n 4 structured workshops) toreveal ways community members want their future communal and businesslife to be conducted; (b) direct

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qualitative surveys: four focus groups (up to 35 residents in total) to identify
key opinions regarding the rebuilding of coastal communities, and semistructured qualitative survey will be conducted in another 35 individuals. This
provides opportunities for community residents to raise issues, concerns andstrategies that will assist the researchers to structure the following workshops.
- Workshops: “Design by enquiry” techniques to identify preferences for debris
disposal and management (such as the 3.11 Green Hill concept, developedby SLIM), led by Dr Arioka) and urban planning/design options (led byProfessors Ando and Ono)
- Project reporting and recommendations to Steering Committee and AJF,
including guidelines for community engagement and potential for Australianand Japanese business in reconstruction.
Where will this project takeplace?*Project design and logistics workshop with researchers in Tokyo, Japan
Advertising and interviews in Australia for interns (Sydney)
Advertising and interviews in Japan for interns (Tohoku University, IwateUniversity)
Community engagement in a selected coastal community on Sanriku coast,
Iwate prefecture (to be selected on a visit 16-18 April, 2012 by Dr Arioka andProfessor Black)Report writing in Sydney, Australia.

Have you or yourorganisation previously
requested or received grantfunding from theCommonwealth
Government?*Yes

If yes, please give details,including the amount andyear.

Australia-Indonesia Governance Reform Program (AIGRP) administeredthrough the Crawford School, ANU (2007 - 2009) on Transport Reform andPPP (with A/Prof John Lea, Sydney University and Professor Danang
Parakesit, University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia) - $120 000 plus inkind.

If you have previously
received grant funding fromthe Commonwealth
Government, did you haveany difficulties in managingand acquitting this funding
appropriately?

No - all grant money was administered through Universitas Gadah Mada andaudited accounts provided to AIGRP. Ausaid review of AIGRP commented onsuccess of this way of administrating Australian government funds

Please describe any issues
you are aware of which
could adversely affect yourability to manage and acquit
appropriately the funding
you are applying for in thisapplication?
Do you have a Japanese
partner? Provide additional
details at the bottom of page
4.*

Yes, Society for Life Cycle Infrastructure Management (SLIM)

Project Details
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Which of the AJF goals does
your project support?*

Increase understanding in Japan of shared interests with Australia
Increase recognition in Japan of Australian excellence and expertise

What AJF theme does yourproject relate to?*Reconstruction assistance to the Tohoku region

What are the qualifications
and/or experience of theprincipal participants of theproject?*

AJF CV.doc 5.5 MB

What are the principal aims
and/or objectives of theproject?*

Although this is a modest pilot project on community engagement senioracademics and experienced practitioners in Australia and Japan havedonated their time to the project and to mentor the Australian and Japaneseinterns that will be engaged on AJF funds (for travel and living expenses
whilst conducting the community engagement programs in Iwate Prefecture).
This will help build a network of younger researchers and practitioners who
helpfully will contribute in the long term on reconstruction projects in theTohoku region that are estimated to take up to 10 years for implementation.
Australian and Japanese experience and expertise will combine in the design
and implementation of community engagement with a view for cross-culturallearning on this action-based research and development project. Japaneseparticipants through SLIM has already made progress with feasible solutions
to debris clearance and management, and Australian expertise in this area willcontribute options from Australian and international best practice. The AJBCCInfrastructure Planning Committee (Chair: Bob Seidler, AO) has been working
with its Japanese counterpart committee promoting the Australian approach to
PPP and infrastructure in Japan and this expertise will inform the workshop on
funding and PPP.

How do you propose toachieve these aims and/orobjectives?*

The initial workshop for researchers will be designed using trans-disciplinary
framework (Black, D.A. and Black, J.A. “A Review of the Urban Developmentand Transport Impacts on Public Health with Particular Reference to Australia:
Trans-Disciplinary Research Teams and Some Research Gaps”, Int. J.
Environ. Res. Public Health, 2009, 6(5), 1557-1596)
SLIM have already designed a community collaboration system that will beimplemented for the three workshops.
Options for debris removal and management have been identified by SLIM,
but other options will be generated, Visualisation for communities part of themethodology, as illustrated by the use of waste on Mount Morenuma, Sapporo(with 2.7 Million Cubic Metres of Waste forming the Embankment) the 3.11
Green Hill engineering design below.
(note figures do not reproduce)
Focus groups and attitudinal surveys are standard social science practice but
another form of community engagement will be trialled in Japan for the firsttime. Dr Patricia Gillard established Coppice Communication in 1997 todevelop engagement within organisations and communities throughknowledge sharing and communication. A knowledge sharing process, Insite
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applied during the last fifteen years. In regional Australia workshops havebeen conducted for the Commonwealth Department of Transport andRegional Services and for the Queensland Government Department of Tradeand Investment.
Community options for urban planning and design will be assessed within anurban sustainability framework using economic, social and environmental
criteria. In addition to Japanese statutory planning requirements we will draw
heavily on the NSW Government Guidelines (NSW Government, CoastalDesign Guidelines For NSW, Sydney, Coastal Council 2003. Design byEnquiry workshops involving key stakeholders is often used in Australia andCI has participated in such workshops as an expert resource person.
Visualisation will be used too in the urban design aspects of the study that will
demonstrate the process in the development of a master plan for the area withthe following main attributes:- To meet the needs and expectation of the residents/community of the area
- To reflect the characteristics and cultural features of the area
- To boost and then maintain the vitality and economy of the area (fishing andtourism)- To employ the best practice for design and formation of coastal
communities/towns based on Japanese and international experience.
Once local communities have identified a preferred scheme after the twoworkshops have been completed, the logistics and costing of such a scheme(resources to implement any option are beyond the scope of this AJF project)
will be undertaken in a workshop for key stakeholders Total costs for debris
clean up, remediation and urban development and infrastructure costs will be
estimated and funding models (including PPP modalities) investigated. The
purpose of this component of the methodology is to start a dialogue (not partof this AJF project) on procurement of services to help reconstructcommunities. Reporting from the AJF project will help determine the next
steps towards implementation, and identify the degree to which Australianindustry could contribute.

Criteria A:*

Effectiveness of Multi-Disciplinary Australian and Japanese Team
Collaborating
Senior Academics and Practitioners are donating their time to the project andhave all contributed to a resource paper that underpins this application.
Nevertheless the details and logistics must be further developed at a transdisciplinary workshop in Tokyo which will be attended by a Steering
Committee (including AJF representative or representative of Australian
Embassy in Tokyo). Attendance and quality of project design (inceptionreport) to the satisfaction of the steering committee is one indicator. Another is
how successfully the project team plan and engage the communities in thequalitative surveys and three workshops

Criteria B:*

Degree of Community Involvement in Project
CI(Black), among others on the team, is experienced instakeholder/community programs for a range of government, industry andcommunity organisations and has published on effectiveness of communityconsultation. We will survey local government and community participants
with a survey design to quantify community satisfaction and involvement.

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Criteria C:

Role of the Interns
The project proposes the engagement of Japanese and Australian interns(recent graduates in the various disciplines required on the project). The idea
behind this is to build up a cohert of interested professionals who cancollaborate in the future with the real reconstruction projects in the Tohoku
region - with some estimates that it will take 10 years. Exit surveys of interns
will provide qualitative information on issues of cross-cultural communicationand collaboration, and their intentions about future plans in this area

Criteria D:
How will you assess themedium-term contribution of
the project to the goals of
the AJF?*

Whether guidelines on community engagement developed at the end of thisproject are used in Japan.
Whether national, prefectural and local government in Japan take up any of
the options proposed for debris removal and management, urban planningand design and funding models
Whether (through the Australia Japan Business Cordinating Committee
Infrastructure Planning and other organisations) Australian industry incollaboration with Japanese industry partners becomes involved ininfrastructure and funding (PPP) in the Tohoku region.

What publicity is intended inpromoting the proposed
project and the AJF’s
support for it?*CI (Black) is a member of AJBCC Infrastructure Planning and has
approached, and will approach members to publish in their various newletters
information about the progress of this project (acknowledgements to AJFfunding).
In Japan, SLIM with its network of some 80 corporate and individual members
will give prominence to project publicity
The intended guidelines on community engagement will be published inEnglish and Japanese (we will seek corporate sponsorship for the costs ofthis).

A:

Professor John Black (UNSW, Advisor to Ministry of Finance Indonesia;
member of AJBCC Infrastructure Committee; Member of Japan Society for
Civil Engineers, PFI Committee; Member of SLIM) Ms Michiko Arioka, Sydney
based Japanese trained accountant Dr Noel Child, Director, N.G. Childs andAssociates Dr Patricia Gillard, Director, Coppice Consultants AssociateProfessor John Lea, University of Sydney Dr Kam Tara, Director, Urban
Research and Planning (URaP) Dr Leigh Wilson, University of Sydney

B:
C:
D:
A:

Dr Masaki Arioka, Executive Director of SLIM and Professor Reitsumeikan
University Associate Professor Tetsuya Ando, University of Ryukyus Dr
Masaru Kaido, President, Kaido and Associates Professor Keiko Ono,
University of Okinawa

B:
C:
D:

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Additional Comments
relevant to the project (ifapplicable):

All individual listed above have agreed to donate their time for free on thisproject and all have contributed to this proposal including providing CVs

Attach Files

Referees
Referee 1:Name*

Mr Leith Doody

Phone Number

0418 589 266 (c/o Stan Roche Austrade)

Fax Number
Email Addressleith.doody@gmail.com

Position Title

until March Australian Trade Commissioner to Indonesia

Organisation

AUSTRADE, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Relationship to Applicant

Aware of CI (Black) current activities in Indonesia in infrastructuredevelopment and financing

How long have you known
this referee?

one year

Attach Files

Referee 2:
Name*Mr Bob Seidler, AO

Phone Number

02 9258 6385 (c/o Adrian Wong)

Fax Number
Email Address

bob.seidler@blakedawson.com

Position Title

Consultant to Blake Dawson and CEO Leightons Asia and Chair AJBCCInfrastructure Planning Committee

Organisation
Relationship to Applicant

Chairs AJBCC and also knows Dr Masaki Arioka since mid 1980s

How long have you known
this referee?

2 years

Attach Files

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Project Budget
Completed Budget
Template*

BudgetTemplate-1.doc 99.0 kBCertification
Certification*

Yes, I have read and agree to the above conditions.

Statistical Information
Where did you hear about
the Australia-JapanFoundation Grant Program?

DFAT website

Do you agree to be added to
the AJF database andreceive information
updates?

Yes

Estimate time taken tocomplete this applicationform:

one hour 50 minutes

Did you have any difficulties
completing this online
application form?

No

Do you have any comments
regarding the online
application process which
may be used for future grantrounds?

NoSurvey
Details about individuals

I am maleNo specific group
Aboriginal people orcommunities
Torres Strait Islander people
or communities
Ethnic groups/communities
People with disabilities
Other (please specify)

Japanese and Australian interns

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