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Evaluation Criteria

Showcase relevance

The extent to which the showcase will:

  • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from urban transportation
  • Apply an integrated strategy to achieve greenhouse gas emissions reductions
  • Have the potential for replication elsewhere in Canada

Showcase content

The extent to which the showcase will:

  • Integrate a range of measures into an overall strategy
  • Have a sound technical basis
  • Measure synergies and cross-effects of measures
  • Assess impacts of measures on other urban challenges
  • Generate new information on strategy effectiveness and success factors
  • Deliver incremental value for those measures that build on existing initiatives
  • Be conducted within a clear transportation and land use planning framework
  • Integrate public outreach and community education
  • Demonstrate innovation and use of emerging technologies
  • Apply a clear and credible methodology to the measurement and analysis of results

Showcase administration

The extent to which the showcase will:

  • Follow a detailed and realistic work program
  • Ensure timely and meaningful monitoring, evaluation and reporting
  • Be supported with adequate resources and financial planning
  • Enjoy political and administrative commitment to a sustained effort toward program objectives
  • Benefit from partnerships between different levels of government and/or sectors
  • Adhere to a clear governance and accountability structure

The extent to which the proponent and partners demonstrate:

  • Sufficient experience, qualifications and skills to plan and implement the showcase
  • The integration of public input into the application

Other

The goals of the program require that a portfolio of showcases be drawn from among the best proposals, in order to achieve the following:

  • A balance among Canadian regions
  • A range of sizes among participating communities
  • A range of measures to be tested
  • A balance between the enhancement of current initiatives and the creation of new initiatives
Date modified:
2010-02-03