Organisations
The LivCom Awards
The
LivCom Awards were launched in 1997 and are
endorsed by the United Nations Environment
Programme. LivCom is the world’s only Awards
Competition focussing on Best Practice regarding the
management of the local environment. The objective
of LivCom is to improve the quality of life of
individual citizens through the creation of
‘liveable communities’
The New Zealand Recreation Association
Vision "Recreation is vital to the wellbeing of
all New Zealanders"
Mission: "Promoting recreation and providing
professional services to the recreation sector"
The NZRA is a progressive non-profit organisation and
incorporated society committed to meeting the professional
needs of people and organisations associated with all
aspects of recreation, leisure, parks, open space
management, aquatic, conservation and sport delivery. The
NZRA has established strong regional structures fostering
professional growth and development through training
programmes and networking.
Our Aims:
- Professional Development - Growing our people and
our profession
- Promotion and Advocacy - Promoting and protecting
people's recreation
- Operational Excellence - Recognised as the leading
recreation organisation.
 Yardstick Parks Benchmarking Project
Yardstick Parks Benchmarking project is now available for
international membership following the project's initial
establishment in New Zealand and Australia. The Ifpra World
Commission in Dublin in September 2007, concluded that
Yardstick would provide a means for Parks organisations to
benchmark across country boundaries. Currently 48 NZ
Councils (70% of all NZ Councils with Parks assets) and 39
Australian Councils/Trusts are members of the project.
Yardstick Parks is the benchmarking project and Yardstick
ParkCheck is the user intercept (qualitative) project.
The Ifpra World Commission is pleased to support and
recommend Yardstick to all Park Managers.
If you would like further information about this project
visit
www.yardstickglobal.com or contact Alan Smith at Ifpra
Headquarters.
Membership for 2008 is now open and will close in April 2008
for the benchmarking project and November 2007 for the
ParkCheck project.
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