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A-Z Directory of Projects

See below for a variety of 'key' events and projects that aim to assist in increasing the overall economic value of Regional Sydney. 

  

RDA Sydney:

  • Identify needs
  • Facilitate planning processes
  • Support implementation & promotion

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Aerospace & Defence

Sydney Aerospace and Defence Interest Group(SADIG)

Metropolitan Sydney is home to a large range of innovative, specialist and high tech companies servicing domestic and global aerospace and defence supply chains.

Goal: the purpose of the discussions is to bring together the key industry companies and stakeholders to gain an update as to the key issues affecting the Industry in Sydney. RDA Sydney are working in partnership with multiple organisations to coordinate the gatherings and working groups. 

Update: after three successful round tables (with the second and third gatherings doubled in numbers); the group has decided that a Sydney Aerospace & Interest Group (SADIG) is needed. An Executive Committee will be announced shortly along with the launch of the SADIG website coinciding with the announcement. Click here to find out more.

Partners: Trade & Investment NSW, Australian Aerospace Industry Forum, Australian Government Department of Defence,  Australian Industry and Defence Network, Bankstown City Council, Defence Industry Unit, Enterprise Connect, Hawkesbury City Council, Sydney Metro Airports

 

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Financial and Professional Business Services  

 Finance and Business Attraction Initiative

As a major hub of the global financial & professional services markets, Sydney is home to many of the world’s leading companies and supporting service providers in the banking, finance and business consulting sectors. RDA Sydney identifies that as the city grows, focus must be given to ensure more equitable access to financial and professional business services. A greater contribution of these industries is needed in areas such as Sydney’s growth areas as well as the further development of the finance and business services hubs located in Parramatta, Norwest, Penrith and Liverpool in keeping with the NSW Governments City of Cities metropolitan plan 2005.  

Goal: the goal of this project is to identify impediments to the future development of this industry sectors and develop place- based solutions to address these barriers. This can be achieved through the engagement of local stakeholders in order to develop capability within defined clusters, to promote best practice, increase local representation and to retain, grow and attract businesses to the target areas. The planned result will be growth of financial and professional business services enterprises and new employment across Sydney.

Update: a series of 7 workshops have been facilitated by RDA Sydney, in partnering with key local Councils, business organisations and agency stakeholders to document and develop solutions specific to regional hubs across the greater Sydney region. Workshops have taken place in Norwest, LIverpool, Parramatta, Penrith, Campbelltown and Sutherland (see below for notes), with the most recent workshop taking place at Ingleside, Northern Sydney.

Partners:Local Councils across strategic locations within Sydney, commercial partners from target industries, Australian and State Government agencies, education & training providers and industry associations and chambers.

Additional Information:

Norwest Workshop

Campbelltown Workshop

Parramatta Workshop 

Penrith Workshop

Northern Beaches

 

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Health, Aged and Community Care

New interest Group

RDA Sydney has conducted consultations with a wide range of stakeholders in the health, aged and community care sectors regarding workforce development issues across Sydney. The ageing population, increasing demand for health, aged and community care, and technological innovations are all challenges affecting the sector in general, and workforce development in particular. Innovative approaches to health and health care are important in an effort to develop a sustainable system.  

 

Goal: RDA Sydney to join with other key stakeholders to form an interest group to consider workforce development issues in the health, aged and community care sector with a view to identifying new skill requirements as the sector develops, as well as areas of shortage, both current and future. Based on findings, to work with relevant organisations to develop solutions.

Update: RDA Sydney and key partners have formed a Western Sydney Health, Aged and Community Care Employment and Skills Interest Group with the aim of bringing together key stakeholders in the health, aged and community care sectors, as well as industry, e-health and government to anticipate and plan the workforce requirements for innovative models of healthcare and community care that will reduce the financial and social burden of chronic disease on the whole community. In particular, to consider new skills that will be required for models that focus on self-managed care and support, including the skills needed to develop and implement e-health strategies in the community.   A forum focusing on key issues has already taken place and presentation notes along with an update on current status will be posted below shortly. For more information or to find out how you can get involved please contact us.

Partners: Clinical Education and Training Institute, Centre for Health Innovation and Partnership, NSW Department of Education and Training, TAFE Western Sydney Institute, University of Western Sydney.

Additional Information:

 

Homelessness

New Initiative

RDA Sydney has consulted with the Coastal and Western Sydney Divisions of Housing NSW regarding the implementation of the two Regional Homelessness Action Plans. These two plans are the primary means of identifying reform projects for funding under the National Partnership on Homelessness.

Two Regional Homelessness Committees were established to support the implementation of the Regional Homelessness Action Plans. They will identify actions for implementation at the regional level that reflect the principles and reform directions of the NSW Homelessness Action Plan and will identify projects for funding.

Goal: RDA Sydney will partner with the Regional Homelessness Committees, and other key stakeholders such as the Local Employment Co-ordinators and the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), to implement the employment/economic development strategies which are part of most of the reform projects of the Regional Homelessness Action Plans, which will assist homeless people integrate into society.

Update: a meeting of key stakeholders took place earlier this year, which explored ways to develop a consistent methodology of how employment and economic development strategies could be integrated into the existing homelessness strategies across Sydney. Discussions and collabortions continue.

Potential Partners: Housing NSW, Shelter NSW, Social Enterprise Sydney, NCOSS, Local Employment Coordinators, DEEWR, Community Housing Associations, TAFE NSW, Jobs Services Australia Providers and Registered Training Organisations.

Additional information:

 

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Manufacturing and Engineering

Greater Western Sydney Manufacturing & Engineering Skills Development Taskforce

The Manufacturing and Engineering Skills Development Taskforce was formed in 2007 with a mixture of stakeholders from the private sector, educational institutes, industry associations and government.

 

Goal:  the goal of the taskforce is similar to that for the Transport and Logistics Skills Development Taskforce –

  • Provide an ongoing forum for honest and frank discussion on issues, and maintain a holistic but strategic interchange between all of the major stakeholders in industry, education, vocational education, government agencies and employer groups
  • Identify and pursue suitable pilot projects with which the group can work together on to demonstrate new and better ways of working

Update: the taskforce has just launched a website to provide links to relevant training and skills development sites.

Partners: TAFE NSW, Western Sydney Institute, South West Sydney Institute, Industry Associations, Local Industry Community Partnerships, RTO's (Registered Training Organisations), Leading Manufacturers and NSW Manufacturing Industry Skills Council.


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Sustainability

OECD/LEEDS Green Skills Study Project

RDA - Sydney are partnering together with OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development), City of Sydney and the four Sydney TAFE NSW Institutes (TAFE NSW, Sydney Institute, Northern Sydney, Western Sydney and South Western Sydney Institutes), to develop sustainable Industries and Technologies within Sydney.

Update: The project began in 2009, when the OECD asked the above partners to take part in surveying businesses within Metropolitan Sydney to identify the need for and take up of green skills and existing jobs, along with the scale of emerging green jobs in various Industries. The results from Sydney were combined with other local studies and experiences in other study areas resulting in the Global Report ('Enabling Local Green Growth') and the Sydney Reports, which were officially launched on Tuesday 6th December 2011 at Customs House Sydney, hosted by The City Of Sydney.

Where to from here: The plan moving forward is to embrace the information which the report suggests and move forward in a whole of Sydney collaboration process.


For more information on how you can become involved with this project, please contact kris.karhunen@rdasydney.org.au

Partners: OECD, City of Sydney, Tafe NSW, Sydney Institute, Northern Sydney Institute, Western Sydney Institute, South Western Sydney Institute. 

 

Additional Information:

Global Report - 'Enabling Local Green Growth'

Sydney Report

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Transport & Logistics

The Greater Western Sydney Transport and Logistics Skills Development Taskforce

The Transport and Logistics Skills Development Taskforce was formed in 2006 with a mixture of participants from the private sector, government, industry bodies and educational institutes. 

Goal: the Taskforce provide an ongoing forum for honest and frank discussion on issues, and maintain a holistic but strategic interchange between all of the major stakeholders in industry, education, vocational education, government agencies and employer groups. They also identify and pursue suitable pilot projects with which the group can work together on to demonstrate new and better ways of working 

Update: the Taskforce is working on various initiatives including a survey of transport and logistics companies in the Sydney Region to find out their skills demands both now and into the future. This survey will also attempt to illuminate the context and key role of large warehousing operations in Western Sydney.

 

Please view the Event Calendar for more projects and events; we welcome you to partner with us.

 

 

 


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Last Updated: 16 May 2012