The Centre for Professional Development (CPD) at CEPT provides a variety of professional development and continuing education opportunities for professionals and in-service persons across multiple disciplines that involve the built habitat.
Workshop on Urban Development and Service Improvement
Date: 15th November and 16th November 2016
Venue: AMA, Ahmedabad
Click on the link for Program Schedule November 2016
Workshop on 15th November 2016
Title of talk: Role of training and the challenges forward.
Speaker: Meghal Arya
This talk will put forward the various aspects of training programs and their significance to develop human resource capable of managing the complexities of smart cities.
Title of talk: Tackling mobility challenges for growing cities
Speaker: Shalini Sinha
The presentation outlines the transport challenges faced by Indian cities and limitations of existing transport planning approaches. It further highlights the need for alternative and integrated strategies to promote sustainable urban mobility.
Title of talk:
- GETTING OTHERS TO CREATE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO HAPPEN
- PRIORITIZING CHANGE INTIATIVES
- TRAINING NEEDS FOR RESPONSIVE CITIES
Speaker: Ron Bergman
GETTING OTHERS TO CREATE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO HAPPEN
A brief introduction to the concepts of Change Management theory and practice. A review of what works and what doesn’t work in creating change and the necessary management steps needed to be successful in creating change within any organization.
PRIORITIZING CHANGE INTIATIVES
Many times local government must provide a recommended action in a contentions environment. Analyzing alternatives in a way that documents the recommendation is difficult to demonstrate and create a framework for understanding. Many times recommendations are based on judgment alone and are difficult to justify. This session will demonstrate a methodology that is simple to use, easily understandable by lay people and that helps people to understand the rationale for a particular decision. This will not mean that everyone will agree with the decision, but it will focus any discussion on rational factor analysis and move away from generalizations and personal recriminations.
TRAINING NEEDS FOR RESPONSIVE CITIES
A brainstorming and group decision process to identify needed training to help cities become for effective change agents and responsive to citizen needs.
Workshop on 16th November 2016
Title of talk: Solid Waste Management in a changing Urban Setting (Multi-dimensional approach to changing public habits)
Speaker: Mona Iyer
Session will cover SWM service delivery requirements under prevailing GoI regulations and programs. Session will focus on how effective communication can engage the citizens and help improve waste management at city level.
Title of talk: Innovations in local area planning (lessons from the Indian context)
Speaker: Sejal Patel
The lecture will focus on innovative practices across Indian states, within and outside legislative frameworks, in local area planning to develop or redevelop neighborhoods. Within legislative framework instruments such as town planning scheme, accommodation reservation, land pooling instruments such as Amrawathi, NAINA, 12.5 % schemes and township development as public private partnership would be discussed. Community led initiatives such as private land pooling would be discussed. The discussion will focus on the experience under these instruments and the preferred alternatives under the current political economic paradigm in India.
