What is the Project Portfolio?
The Project Portfolio reports on the site regeneration phase of greenspace establishment. Based primarily on outputs, it evaluates project delivery, including lessons learnt. It:
- Appraises all relevant documentation such as site management plans, environment statements and reports from public consultations
- Evaluates project delivery against project aims and objectives
- Describes the lessons learnt in project delivery
- Forms an on-going record of the success of a greenspace against the specific or national objectives
- Should be an integrated assessment encompassing social, economic and environmental evaluation criteria.
The opportunities for monitoring and evaluation of greenspace and how these interlink.
Shows the inter-relationship between the distinct monitoring opportunities within existing greenspace establishment and management practices including: project management, site management, appraisal of impacts, and research and development.
Why is it important?
All too often monitoring programmes have been last minute add-ons in project delivery and site management resulting in poor quality evaluation, or none whatsoever. The Project Portfolio presents the evidence base for evaluating the impacts of greenspace with respect to the delivery and management of the greenspace establishment project.
What makes up a Project Portfolio?
An example of the contents of a Project Portfolio is presented in the demonstration ‘Contents Page’ below:
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 1.1 Purpose of report
- 1.2 Role of FC
- 1.3 Policy content
- 1.4 Site (or project) aims and objectives
- 2. BACKGROUND
- 2.1 Project details, including delivery timetable
- 2.2 Site details and location
- 2.3 Site background and historical setting
- 2.4 Geo-environmental surveys
- 2.5 Traffic and Highways surveys
- 2.6 Ecological surveys
- 2.7 Soil, Air, Water surveys
- 2.8 Material assets (inc. archaeology) surveys
- 2.9 Landscape and Visual Environment surveys
- 2.10 Technical Feasibility of Establishing Woodland/ Greenspace
- 3. ACHEIVEMENTS
- 3.1 Key deliverables
- 3.2 Financial
- 3.3 Added value
- 4. LESSONS LEARNT
- 4.1 General
- 4.2 Corporate planning
- 4.3 Project Management
- 4.4 Risk Management
- 4.5 Stakeholder Engagement
- 4.6 Statutory Requirements
- 4.7 Surveys
- 4.8 Constraints
- 4.9 Landscape Design
- 4.10 Engineering Contract Preparation and Delivery
- 4.11 Planting Works
- 4.12 Financial
- 4.13 Other
- 5. Next Steps
- 6. Update
- 7. Acknowledgements
- 8. References
What happens to the Project Portfolio?
The Project Portfolio should be considered as an organic document, growing annually as the site management review is appended to provide an on-going lasting record of the site’s impact and purpose (see the Site Management section of Methuselah).
How might it be widely disseminated?
It should be web served (e.g. as web pages) to enable wide dissemination and may have sections reproduced in alternative formats such as:
- Newspaper and magazine articles
- Brochures, pamphlets and leaflets
- Posters
- E-news letters
- Internal reports (e.g. for the site management company)
- Academic and trade journals
- Professional magazines.
