25/07 Weekly Action Plan A table comprising the scheduled events and activities that have been planned across the working week. Continuous evaluation shall be given to determine challenges met and overcome Mon 21st
Scheduled events
Scheduled Actions
Scheduled Actives
Morning: Visit Afri Banana Midday: Meet Vianney at Makerere University Afternoon/Evening: Work in the Sheraton
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Print all the notes made the previous week. Ensure there are sufficient copies Pick up the Laptop from Makerere Arrange final meeting with Vianney Produce a Bio Write up a blog
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Work on the Goal Orientated plan Plan out major and minor objectives Contact Jerry Undertake interview with counterpart
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Wed 23rd
Thurs 24th
Fri 25th
Morning: Work from home then Visit Afri Banana then Nob View Hotel Midday: Nob View Hotel Afternoon/Evening: Meeting with Ted and Rachael at Afri Banana
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Morning: : Work from Home Midday: : Work from Home Afternoon/Evening: Work from Home
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Morning: Work from Home Midday: : Work from Home Afternoon/Evening: : Work from Home
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Morning: Work from home Midday: Work from home Afternoon/Evening: Work from home
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Buy Dongle Work on the Goal Orientated plan Finish the write up on the site visit Write up interview notes Complete the form given by ICS
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Plan out the report on Kilns Work on the implementation of the Organizational structure for the company Send a reminder for st immediate actions (1 aid ect) Complete any of the carry over activities from Wednesday Finalize the prep on work completed this week Present findings and end of week meeting Conduct video interview with Gabriel and Vianney
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Communication
Bio: Include personal and career description Talk about movement in my blog piece Use the internet at the Sheraton for some personal use (bank/flat/ recreational)
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Elaborate on the plan and stream line to include the views of the boss Build contact list Lay out time lines and durations for all objectives SEND Plans to Gab/V Prepare questions for interview
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Write up all the hand notes taken from visits Rework and remodel the questions from the ICS form
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Strategize the most important elements for kiln installation Find how competitors have used the kiln system Define deadlines for the Kiln report and the organizational structure
Arrange meeting with Gabriel/Vianney
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Make sure Rachael is getting sufficient use of the laptop Ensure Ted is up to date with movements and Objectives Notify Amy that we shall only be able to do the interview with Gab/Vianney on friday Get feedback from action plan This should include: Rachael, Gabriel, Vianney Send Amy/Kristy relevant documentation
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Keep Gabriel and Vianney up to date with research Meet with Rachael to collaborate the end weekly meetings
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Finalise time and location for meeting Ensure camera equipment is brought along for the interview
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All Actions and Activities have been completed A slow start to the day but quickened up with access to the internet
Behind on the Goal Orientated plan Still no contact from Jerry Problems with camera
Have not finished write ups due to CWW work Will finalise the write up on the site visit next week after visit No feedback given on the Action plan. Will bring it to the Friday meeting No meeting with Rachael due to leg injury Behind on kiln research
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Ensure supporting documents are completed and printed prior to meeting Make sure concise questions are prepared for the meeting Bring Green Heat product for the background
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Vianney may not be able to make it to the meeting The meeting has been cancelled and rescheduled for the following week. The interviews have been postponed for the following week
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22/07/2013
01/08 Weekly Action Plan A table comprising the scheduled events and activities that have been planned across the working week. Continuous evaluation shall be given to determine challenges met and overcome Mon 28th
Scheduled events
Scheduled Actions
Scheduled Actives
Communication
Evaluation
Public Holiday
Public Holiday
Public Holiday
Public Holiday
Public Holiday
Tues 29th
Work from Home all day due to illness
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Wed 30th
Thurs 31st
Fri 1st
Morning: Work from Home Midday: Visit Afribanana Afternoon/Evening: Meeting at home with Gabriel and Rachael
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Morning: Production site Midday: Production site Afternoon/Evening: Work from home
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Morning: Work from home Midday: Work from home Afternoon/Evening: Work from internet cafe
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b. c.
Missed Challenges meeting due to illness
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Meeting with Rachael Meeting with Herbert
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Work on the Goal Orientated Plan Prepare for meeting Print documents
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Liaise with counterpart for updates on current projects Ensure Herbert is satisfied with current activities
Build the mind maps in the goal orientated plan Elaborate on the activities to be completed in the GOP
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Visit Biogas project Write up the site notes Work on Kilns Work on Organizational structure
Prepare for meeting if undertaken Work on kilns Work on Organizational structure Blog Finish the GOP
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Further investigate the general procedure of kilns Expand on market training proposal Investigate the current overall kg costs of the raw materials
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Identify potential farmers for the kilns Investigate who is able to supply kilns to Uganda
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Ensure Rachael is satisfied with computer use Ring Gabriel Ring Herbert Ring Saimon
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Not the most productive day due to illness but managed successful meetings Did not fully manage to brief Herbert as it was too late in the day for him, meeting rescheduled for Tuesday
Keep in contact • with Gabriel and Rachael Send the interview notes and pictures to Ted and Amy Contact Herbert Ensure Rachael is satisfied with computer use Send Ted the GOP • Send email to Vianney for updates
Busy Day! Interview and presentation to Gabriel a great success.
Send to Gabriel and Ted the completed Weekly action plan Send the goal action plan
No end of week meeting as I have been working alongside Gabriel Wednesday and Thursday Power cuts at home limited work early in the morning.
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Green Heat have been very helpful in providing information about costing and staff job descriptions
08/08 Weekly Action Plan A table comprising the scheduled events and activities that have been planned across the working week. Continuous evaluation shall be given to determine challenges met and overcome The focus of this week has been to improve the production process of the company. This work has been carried on from the research undertaken to implement a kiln based system in farms. This process involves installing an agro-waste kiln to convert waste into bio char. Mon 4th
Tues 5th
Wed 6th
Thurs 7th
Fri 8th
Scheduled events
Scheduled Actions
Scheduled Actives
Morning: Work from home Midday: Work from home Afternoon/Evening: Work from home
a. b. c.
Build Weekly action plan Work on Kilns Work on Organizational structure
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Morning: Work from home a. Midday: Work from home b. Afternoon/Evening: Work from home
Work on the CWW doc evaluating the skills of staff members Work on Kilns
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Morning: Work from home Midday: Visit the production site Afternoon/Evening: Visit the production site
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Visit the briquette site with Herbert Further branch out into known contacts in the briquette industry Research into funding bodies that offer grants for
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Morning: Work from the girls house Midday: Work from the girls place Afternoon/Evening: Work from the Sheraton Morning: Work from the metroplex shopping mall Midday: Work from the metroplex shopping mall Afternoon/Evening: Work from
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Work on investigating the kiln location and safety aspects
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Weekly meeting with Gabriel and the new intern Rooney. His is joining us from Malaysia and shall be working on the calculations side of his 3 week project.
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Communication
Evaluation
Review the documentation about job descriptions Research into kiln location
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Send to ted the weekly action plan
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The Job roles are well defined but more goals and milestones could be introduced to increase productivity.
Meet with Rachael about evaluating the skills of the staff Obtain reports on bio char in Uganda and around the world
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Organize meeting with Sanga Black about visiting his briquette production site.
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Investigate into the current value of stored charcoal. How many kgs of briquettes can this produce Look into the Carbon Bureau
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Contact students who have thesis work on kilns. These students are based in the UK and AUS and hopefully have research in related areas.
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Read through biofuel articles and report extracts
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Contact Gabriel regarding the weekly meeting
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CWW document complete but perhaps not to the best standard. This is largely due to time constraints and lack of opportunities to individually meet and with each staff member. No contact from Herbert and he did not visit! Therefore no visit to the production site. The Carbon Bureau is offering a grant scheme based on a new carbon footprint scheme. Unfortunately Sanga Black has to reschedule his meeting as he is off to the USA at short notice.
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Discuss research into alternative production methods and potential grant schemes
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Ensure Ted is kept up to date with future plans
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Very positive meeting with Gabriel and there is great potential to initiate a biogas and briquette production process from a substantial grant.
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15/08 Weekly Action Plan A table comprising the scheduled events and activities that have been planned across the working week. Continuous evaluation shall be given to determine challenges met and overcome Mon 11th
Tues 12th
Wed 13th
Thurs 14th
Fri 15th
Scheduled events
Scheduled Actions
Scheduled Actives
Morning: Meet at Afribanana Cancelled rearranged for thurs Midday: Work from home Afternoon/Evening: Work from home
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Morning: Meet at the girls house for transport to Curad Midday: Meeting with Curad Afternoon/Evening: Work from home Morning: Work from home Midday: Work from metroplex Afternoon/Evening: Work from metroplex
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Morning: Work from home Midday: Work from home Afternoon/Evening: Work from home Morning: Work from home Midday: Work from home Afternoon/Evening: Work from home
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Work on Carbon Bureau research Develop an outline for a potential tender by Green Heat Ltd.
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Meet with Ted to discuss • tender outline Meet the incubator and I. work on building a company base for the II. next cohort of mentors. Build brief tender plan III. document
Prepare presentation for meeting with Gabriel Meet with Gabriel for Carbon Bureau footprint grant. Meet with Rachael to prepare the presentation about work achieved so far.
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Follow up on the meeting with Gabriel Finalize presentation for group meeting Rearrange for Friday Morning Write up carbon Bureau notes Meet with Rodney in the morning, Give quick brief and ensure he is up-todate with work in the company Print and prepare important documentation for meeting
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Catch up on the log of activities undertaken by the Carbon Foot print Exercise Investigate into activities of the carbon trading schemes in Uganda Liaise with known Australian business consultant about perspective model. After completing work with Curad: Review notes taken on Carbon Bureau research Type up notes and compile doc for Gabriel
Compile the Carbon Bureau research into a word doc Compile the outline for the grant business model Arrange with Gabriel times to meet the flower farmers
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Send to ted the weekly action plan Keep Gabriel up to date with activities and ideas
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Contact Gabriel to arrange a meeting tomorrow about kiln and biogas business model Review the business model with Ted
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Contact Troy Jones from the University of Sydney about the use of solar kilns
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Unable to contact Gabriel for meeting but shall try for tomorrow Reviewed tender plan with a business consultant on Skype in Australia. Found a new avenue of a research in solar kilns Meeting has been organized for tomorrow Curad visit was time consuming and not largely relevant as with Afri-Banana
Rachael choose not to attend meeting as she has already completed her presentation part. Very successful meeting with Gabriel and Rodney. Pleased with
Complete PowerPoint Request for Rachael’s part Complete word document
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Contact Rachael to prepare meeting
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Notes on the carbon Bureau could be expanded to included tender assessment aims
Present to the group and find ask questions about how other teams have dealt with challenges and how they have overcome them.
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Organize a Skype with Jerry about advice on tender pitch and future consultancy work Contact sly via about kilns Contact Vianney about arranging a summary meeting in Aberdeen.
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22/08 Weekly Action Plan A short summary of the scheduled events and activities that have been planned across the working week. Due to a busy and rather hectic last two weeks I have been unable to complete the usual log of scheduled activities.
Work completed this week: The primary focus of this week has been to prepare a tender proposal for using the services of Green Heat (U) Ltd. in utilising the waste products from Ugandan flower farms. Included in this tender is a summary of the kiln research undertaken with conceptual business models for an energy partnership between Green Heat, the Carbon Bureau and members of the Ugandan Flower Exporters Association. The work completed for this document has been based on previous research individually undertaken and communication with Vianney (CEO) regarding the application of biogas digester systems. Please refer to the draft report for further details.
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29/08 Weekly Action Plan A short summary of the scheduled events and activities that have been planned across the working week. Due to a busy and rather hectic last two weeks I have been unable to complete the usual log of scheduled activities.
Work completed this week: This working week has been based around the application process for Access to Capital for Rural Enterprises. This application process has been given to us by Neil Fleming and contains a word document for the Company Profile and an excel document for the Enterprise Assessment Tool. The Company Profile has been expressed in such a way that any future investor/donor will be able to gain an overview of the enterprises undertaken and can clearly see the expansion capacity in the market. The Enterprise Assessment tools answers more company specific questions regarding the viability of returns for enterprise investment. The documents have been completed with online interviews to Vianney (who is currently in Poland for his wedding), and Gabriel. Green Heat has been very forthcoming with company documentation and this has been included in the application. Please refer to the file labeled ACIE Application for all supporting documentation.
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05/09 Weekly Action Plan A table comprising the scheduled events and activities that have been planned across the working week. Continuous evaluation shall be given to determine challenges met and overcome Mon 1st
Tues 2nd
Wed 3rd
Scheduled events
Scheduled Actions
Scheduled Actives
Morning: Meeting at JP Flower Cutting, Entebbe road Midday: Meeting at JP Flower Cutting, Entebbe road Afternoon/Evening: Meeting with Carbon Bureau Morning: Meet with Ted at my house Midday: Work form town with Ted Afternoon/Evening: Work from the Sheraton with Ted and meet with Herbert. Morning: Work from home Midday: Work from home Afternoon/Evening: Work from home
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Introductions to Bill who started up the Carbon Bureau Meeting with Pete De Jong who runs JP Flower cuttings Discuss waste management plans for the EEP grant (Energy and Environmental Partnerships)
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Prepare a short report on the flower farm visit. Research into the sterling generator
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Meet with Gabriel to discuss work completed from yesterday. Work on the application for the EEP grant Prepare the final documentation file to be handed to Green Heat Meet with Neil to strengthen partnerships between CWW and GHU
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Communication Pass on feedback between Rachael and Gabriel.
Evaluation
Find out the quantity and management of waste at the flower farm Discuss with Bill the selection criteria for EEP grants. Brain storm with Green Heat and the Carbon Bureau potential innovative project ideas.
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Right up notes taken from the meeting at the flower farms with an emphasis on the techniques used by the Carbon Bureau Research into the operational capacity of biogas/gasifier for use in the flower farms
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Email Neil to arrange a meeting
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I have discovered that the pyrolysis reactor combined with a sterling engine is likely to be neither economically or mechanically viable for the use at the flower farms
Print and organize the hard and soft copy of A.Gordon CWW Ensure Ted is kept up to date with all work
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Arrange to meet with Gabriel on Friday
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Successful introduction. I hope a strong working partnership can continue with CWW and GHU
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JP has been largely deemed unsuitable for Carbon Credit EEP projects Potential partnerships between the Carbon Bureau and Green Heat seem to be strengthening.
Thurs 4th
Finish of the remaining loose ends of planned work
Fri 5th
Day off
Finish of the remaining loose ends of planned work
Day off
Finish of the remaining loose ends of planned work
Day off
Finish of the remaining loose ends of planned work
Day off
Finish of the remaining loose ends of planned work
Day off
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