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Our Speakers are both members of RICE.

Chris is a Chartered Civil Engineer, specialising in Traffic and Highway Safety engineering.  At the start of the partnership Chris was Chief Traffic Engineer for the Council, operating as both part of the intelligent client for the CCT contract and also as a member of the Roadwise Management Team.  Chris had specialised in traffic engineering from early in his career, undertaking traffic management and safety schemes across West Yorkshire before joining Kirklees Council where he had a key role in re-shaping Huddersfield Town Centre, pedestrianisation schemes, introducing traffic calming across Kirklees (occasionally causing significant controversy!) and markedly reducing the numbers of road traffic casualties in the Council area.

By the end of the partnership, Chris was the Highways Service Highways Safety Manager, adding Urban Traffic Control, Town Centre CCTV, Road Safety, Driver Training for West and South Yorkshire and School Crossings to his portfolio.

Terry is a Chartered Civil Engineer who, at the start of the cooperation partnership, was Manager of the in-house consultancy (Roadwise) providing professional and engineering services to the Council’s Highways Service, won under the prevailing CCT regime.  Prior to this, Terry had had wide ranging civil and structural design, contract and implementation experience of highway related projects across Yorkshire with WRCC and WYMCC including the M621 Leeds South-west Urban Motorway, Armley Gyratory, Leeds Bradford Airport, parts of the M1 and numerous bridges, structures and infrastructure projects.

During the partnership, Terry became the Assistant Director Highways and Transportation for Kirklees Council covering operational, development and strategic responsibilities.  As a key part of its organisational philosophy, KMC gave Terry the opportunity and culture to work across its wider corporate structure, which allowed him to bring this key experience to the mid-term review.


Date 21 FEBRUARY 2013
Time 11:00 - 13:00
Event Type Meeting

The Presentation will be given by Chris Platts and Terry Brown who will offer both personal, professional and cultural insights gained during a four year technical cooperation partnership between Kirklees Metropolitan Council (KMC) and Kampala City Council (KCC) in Uganda.  The partnership had been initiated as a trial by the World Bank as means of getting better and longer-lasting outcomes from its investments.

For KCC the partnership came at a crucial time as the World Bank had insisted on significant structural changes within the City Council as one of the conditions of this particular project loan to the Ugandan Government.

The World Bank sought, through investing some $22 million (US), to enhance the KCC’s management capacity, help establish infrastructure investment policies, and ultimately, support KCC's reform program, develop their staff’s capacity and capability, outsource delivery of basic functions and also enhance KCC’s revenue collection.

For KMC the offer of the partnership recognised its position as a leading English Authority, having undergone recent radical change to a more devolved service based structure.  It gave the Highways staff involved, and the Service as a whole, an opportunity to experience and benefit from a significantly different working and operating culture which encouraged a re-evaluation of some of the basic working norms in Kirklees Council.

In particular Chris will focus on traffic management work undertaken with KCC engineers as part of the World Bank funded project to rehabilitate Kampala infrastructure, develop the capability of staff within KCC City Engineers and support the Council in enhancing its abilities in managing other service areas.

Terry’s focus will be the mid-term review of the wider World Bank project undertaken by Terry and Chris, examining some of the various projects and initiatives undertaken, the anticipated and likely outcomes at full term, and the impact of the wider project on the City Council and residents of Kampala.

Please note that this meeting will be preceded by the RICE AGM at 11.00 - See Agenda

The Hotel requires to know how many for lunch two days before we meet.  Your money will be collected on arrival. If you intend to stay for lunch, please e-mail ammclusky@talktalk.net by 19th February

In case of emergency on the day, Andrew’s mobile telephone number is 0771 535 2701

 

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