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Webinar

Training course on financing small town sustainability projects

Event organised by ICE

Date
21 December - 22 December 2024
Time
10:00 - 11:45 GMT
Location
Engineering Project Development Consultants
1-A, Aibak Block Garden Town
Lahore
Punjab, 54700
Pakistan

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Overview

Many of us have roots in small towns. We might have arisen from there, have left them, but still have wishes and interests in their development and well-being. The small town administration and landowners around are struggling against diminishing resources, deteriorating environmental conditions, insufficient public amenities, and the loss of intelligent youth seeking better prospects in larger cities.

It appears that small towns are no longer sustainable. However, this trend can now be turned around with new techniques from the digital world, stakeholder team building, a systems thinking approach, and the input of planners and engineers using software.

Recently, guidelines on the Sustainable Development Goals have been developed by UNESCO to serve this purpose. The Commonwealth Association of Planners, Architects, and Local Government, along with UN-Habitat, has developed a toolkit, consolidating a simple and streamlined methodology that shapes sustainable growth despite the scale and pace of the trend. Vensim is a systems thinking software, available now, which can model the well-being of impoverished communities.

There is now a systematic knowledge of the subject, which young professionals can acquire to not only come to the rescue of small towns but also find employment opportunities for themselves. Town administration, influencers, and landowners of the area can acquire this know-how to better organise these programmes.

Participants will receive the course materials upon registration, allowing sufficient time to review the content before the course begins.

Course content:

  • Today’s digital world bringing connectivity to remote small towns
  • Diverting resources back to small towns and building stakeholders together
  • UNESCO Sustainable Development Goals in assistance of underprivileged habitats
  • Commonwealth Planners and Architects’ toolkit for sustainable urban growth
  • Vensim Systems Thinking software on financing projects in impoverished communities

Programme:

  • Day 1: Course discourse and instruction
  • Day 2: Presentations from volunteering participants based on assignments given on Day 1, followed by discussions

Speakers

Javed Yunas Uppal

Javed Yunas Uppal

Engineering Project Development Consultants

civil structural engineer

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Javed Yunas Uppal

Dr. Engr. Javed Yunas Uppal is a BSc Engr., PhD (London), CEng, MICE (UK), and MASCE (USA). His name appears in Who’s Who in the World, Chicago, USA. He is a practicing civil structural engineer, chairing Engineering Project Development Consultants. He has served as the President of the Institution of Engineers, Pakistan, a Member of the Governing Body of the Pakistan Engineering Council, and a Consultant for Planning and Development for the Government of the Punjab. He is the author of over 40 publications and conference presentations at both national and international levels. He is also a trainer and motivator, delivering workshops at the grassroots, middle, and top management levels.

Dr. Uppal has been promoting the image of ICE in Pakistan by collaborating with and inviting ICE visiting teams. A couple of instances include being a speaker at the UNEP-ICE Sustainable Infrastructure Event on 31 May 2023, where he discussed case studies on the application of SDGs in the Pakistan Spatial Strategic Program, and conducting a three-week workshop in May 2021 on the Application of the Prince’s Foundation Commonwealth Association London Toolkit for Rapid Urban Development, in collaboration with the ASCE Planning Committee on Global Sustainability and the Asian Civil Engineering Coordination Council (ACECC) Committee on Sustainable Infrastructure, Washington, DC.

Jamshed Yunas Uppal

Jamshed Yunas Uppal

Catholic University of America

distinguished research professor

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Jamshed Yunas Uppal

Dr Jamshed Yunas Uppal, PhD from Michigan State University, is a distinguished research professor of finance at the Busch School of Business, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. His areas of expertise include international corporate financial management, derivatives, financial institutions and markets, emerging capital markets, valuation and risk models, and stock price behaviour.

His recent publications in 2023 include "Usury, Slavery, and Limited Liability," published in the Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion (forthcoming), and "Identifying Winning Strategies for MFIs by Constructing Structured Mashup Indices," published in Global Business Review.

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