The document outlines an evidence-based decision making process for regional planning that involves defining problems, identifying options, implementing initiatives, and assessing impacts based on collected data and metrics. It discusses establishing criteria and standards for performance measurement as well as verifying data through consultation with experts to support decision making. The process is demonstrated through a case study examining water supply and economic development opportunities in a particular region.

1. Decision Support System
for Local and Regional
Planning
Location Information Strategy

2. Regional decision-making
 Think of a key regional decision that was
recently made
 Investment
 Planning
 Strategic
 Broadly map the decision making process
 Who made the decision?
 How was the need established?
 What inputs were used to make the decision?
 What criteria was used to make the decision?

3. Introduction
Evidence based decision-making is being
advocated
 Regional investment
 Town planning
 Strategy development
Challenges
 What criteria?
 What measures?
 What data?

4. Evidence-Based Decision
Making
Problem/Opp
Present Options
ortunities Initiatives Impacts
Performance Identification
Definition
Strategie
Broad targets, Standards for Criteria for Business case Broad targets,
s&
policies goals performance investment guidelines goals
Options Revised
Performance Performance
LIS Report card assessment performance
scorecard scorecard
and impacts scorecard
On-the- Deal-making
ground Scanning and
expertis
Data collection Verification and Data collection
consulting
e partnerships

5. What to measure
 Availability
 Quality
 Suitability
 Timeliness
 Spatiality

6. Metrics

7. Scene Setting
 Major release of new information (Census
2011)
 Relevant to a number of strategic benchmarks
 Triggers assessment of progress against
strategic performance targets
 Regional Blueprints
 State Planning Strategy
 Other Strategic documents

8. Metrics

9. Resilience

10. Resilience

11. Resilience

12. Problem Identification
 Significant population growth
 Employment creation is lagging
 Residents are having to go further and further
for work
 Employment creation in the Region is in the
east, with settlement in the west

13. Metrics

14. Prosperity

15. Prosperity - Concentration
Employment Employment
Top Ten Industries by ECF Change
2006 2011
Basic Non-Ferrous Metal Manufacturing 3.51 11.15 7.64
Other Livestock Farming 5.98 6.70 0.72
Horse and Dog Racing Activities 4.43 6.07 1.64
Poultry Farming 3.64 3.97 0.33
Nursery and Floriculture Production 3.87 3.14 -0.74
Rail Passenger Transport - 2.88 2.88
Dairy Cattle Farming 3.16 2.59 -0.57
Retail Commission-Based Buying and/or
- 2.53 2.53
Selling
Waste Collection Services 2.55 2.51 -0.04
Land Development and Site Preparation
2.77 2.43 -0.34
Services

16. Prosperity – Shift Share
Local firms outperforming in a high Local firms outperforming in a low growth
growth industry industry
Commercial Fishing
Coal Mining
Food, Beverage and Tobacco Manufacturing
Metal Ore Mining
Textile, Clothing, Footwear and Leather
Other Mining Manufacturing
Construction Trade Services Wood and Paper Product Manufacturing
Education Printing, Publishing and Recorded Media
Petroleum, Coal, Chemical and Associated
Product Manufacturing
Metal Product Manufacturing
Other Manufacturing
Rail Transport
Services to Transport

17. On-the-ground verification
 Mining, ore processing and food production
 Opportunities for growth
 Fertile soils
 Findings
 Water supply constraint to utilistion of highly
arable soil
 Certainty of water supply constraint to existing
operations of Alcoa refineries
 Certainty of water supply a potential future
constraint to Boddington mine operations

18. Metrics

19. Verification – Water Supply

20. Verification

21. Intervention Opportunities
 Consult with field experts
 Public
 Private
 Alignment with Priority Projects?
 Facilitateindustry development
 Drive investment
 Create employment
 Define success
 _GL/year allocated water available to priority
industries

22. Intervention Opportunities -
Pipeline

23. Investment Criteria
 Project selection – regional priority
 Funder’s criteria
 Against defined performance outcomes
 Stage 1 - _ GL per year
 Stage 2 - _ GL per year

24. Project Impacts
 Performance against intervention (change in
GL of available water)
 Resilience
 Employment self sufficiency
 Totaljobs
 Diversity of jobs
 Prosperity
 Target industries

25. Review of impacts - Prosperity
Census 2016
Employment Employment Employment
Top Ten Industries by ECF Change
2006 2011 2016
Nursery and Floriculture
3.87 3.14 15.47 11.60
Production
Basic Non-Ferrous Metal
3.51 11.15 11.15 7.64
Manufacturing
Other Livestock Farming 5.98 6.70 6.70 0.72
Horse and Dog Racing Activities 4.43 6.07 6.07 1.64
Mushroom and Vegetable Growing 1.23 1.55 5.49 4.26
Poultry Farming 3.64 3.97 3.97 0.33
Rail Passenger Transport - 2.88 2.88 2.88
Dairy Cattle Farming 3.16 2.59 2.59 -0.57
Retail Commission-Based Buying
- 2.53 2.53 2.53
and/or Selling
Waste Collection Services 2.55 2.51 2.51 -0.04

26. Review of impacts - Prosperity

27. Evidence-Based Decision
Making
Problem/Opp
Present Options
ortunities Initiatives Impacts
Performance Identification
Definition
Strategie
Broad targets, Standards for Criteria for Business case Broad targets,
s&
policies goals performance investment guidelines goals
Options Revised
Performance Performance
LIS Report card assessment performance
scorecard scorecard
and impacts scorecard
On-the- Deal-making
ground Scanning and
expertis
Data collection Verification and Data collection
consulting
e partnerships

28. So………
 Demonstration of the process
 Definition needed of:
 Data
 Metrics
 Standards
 Key is to:
 Provide useful, accurate performance data
 Be specific in its purposes
 Utilise current information and data sources