1) The document discusses implementing Local Agenda 21 in Johor Bahru, Malaysia to promote sustainable development, environmental protection, and community well-being. 2) Key elements of Local Agenda 21 include cooperation among society, private sector, and local authorities, as well as managing environmental performance, integrating sustainability, raising awareness, public consultation, partnerships, and monitoring progress. 3) The author evaluates Johor Bahru's implementation of these elements and provides suggestions such as improving environmental management systems, encouraging sustainable development policies and activities, supporting voluntary groups and public forums, and establishing targets and indicators to measure sustainability.

1. JABATAN KEJURUTERAAN AWAM DAN STRUKTUR
FAKULTI KEJURUTERAAN DAN ALAM BINA
KKKH 4284 PERANCANGAN BANDAR LESTARI
SEMESTER 2 2013/2014
TASK 5: LOCAL AGENDA 21
NAME : YONG SIEW FENG
NO. MATRIC : A133075
LECTURER : Prof. Ir. Dr. RIZA ATIQ ABDULLAH BIN O.K. RAHMAT
Dr. MUHAMAD NAZRI BIN BORHAN

2. You are given a task by the mayor of your hometown to evaluate and give suggestion on how to
plan the town in accordance with Local Agenda 21. Write a brief report on your evaluation and
suggestion.
Johor bahru area can be developed to establish a comprehensive action strategy for
environmental protection, economic prosperity and community well-being in the local
jurisdiction or area to fulfil the residents’ needs in term of better lifestyle, source of economical
income, improve development performance and environment consideration. The Local Agenda
21 development can be planning more systematically in order to achieve the goals.
Local Agenda 21 is a local-government-led, community-wide, and participatory effort to
establish a comprehensive action strategy for environmental protection, economic prosperity and

3. community well-being in the local jurisdiction or area. This requires the integration of planning
and action across economic, social and environmental spheres. Key elements are full community
participation, assessment of current conditions, target setting for achieving specific goals,
monitoring and reporting.
The Local Agenda 21 needs cooperation of many parties. In order to implement Local Agenda
21 in my hometown, Johor Bahru, the policy should involve society, private sector and local
authorities. So each party has their basic own role. These are some of them:
1. Individual or Society
 Give cooperation to any program or event that private sector or local authorities invented.
 Mass media need to announce the activity relate to this sector.
2. Associations and Companies
 An association of Local Agenda 21 needs to be established to focus on the vision of this
principle for the hometown.
 Any companies surround my hometown need to be alert to the necessity of the residential
of the hometown by providing the requirement for residents
3. Government representatives or local authorities
 Doing campaign and kind of same activity or event relate to Local Agenda 21
 Making collaboration within the authorities to execute any activities
The implementation of Local Agenda 21 in Johor Bahru are as follow:
Internal to the local government
The basic principles laid out in the Agenda 21 can be activated by the many organizations and
operations of a local government. These include local policy and programme development;

4. planning and management procedures in local projects, including preparing of development
plans; purchasing decisions in development and construction of public projects; development of
network (electricity, gas, water, roads) and social (community services, education, health)
infrastructure; day-to-day maintenance, including waste collection and disposal
Local government's interaction with its citizens
A local governments' interaction with its citizens in implementing plans to realize the goals set
forth in its LA21 Plan is key to the success of the plan. Changes in urban lifestyles have far
reaching consequences, positive and negative, on the local and global environment. Thus
education and training in environmental issues; information campaigns and awareness building -
using both formal and informal channels; monitoring and evaluation - including opinion surveys,
referandums; action plans involving the civil society, for example, in the 3Rs - reduce, reuse and
recycle; can be various ways in which the local government sensitizes its citizenry towards
environmental protection.
External to the local government
There are some actions that local governments can only influence, but where the essential
decision-making process is outside their control. Here issues such as green business proactices,
product and safety standards, green tourism, labour practices etc. play an important role.
Activities of the civil society at large, including community groups, NGOs, and other
institutions, also fall in this category.
There are six key elements of Local agenda 21. Based on these, the evaluation and suggestion are
committed.
1) Managing and improving the local authority's own environmental performance
Evaluation
For my hometown, the environmental performance should be upgraded and attention is needed
as it still lack of proper implementation.

5. Suggestion
It needs corporate commitment by cooperating with related local authorities to carry out
campaign for staff training and awareness rising among the residents. They should plan a good
environmental management systems and environmental budgeting based on the capability and
aim for our hometown. Policy integration also needs to be applied across the sectors.
2) Integrating sustainable development aims into the local authority's policies and activities
Evaluation
The term of sustainable development should be integrated and implement in project in my
hometown.
Suggestion
The need of implementation of sustainable development is very good way in order to
appreciating our nature and preserves it. It still needs a very good collaboration of the local
authorities and the resident. But still the private sector need to help in commercialized it and hold
the events. The local authorities should plan policies that the vision is based on sustainable
development. Some of the activities that can be apart of the programme are green housekeeping
and housing services. They should be plan the policy like transport policies and programmes that
encourage the use of electric or hybrid car that more environmental friendly. After all these it
needs the cooperation of all parties.
3) Awareness raising and education
Evaluation
My hometown needs an improvisation regarding on the awareness raising and education.
Suggestion
An initiative to encourage behaviour change and practical action need to be applied. For
examples is awareness campaign and so on. It still need support by private sector and authorities

6. by doing publication of local information and do some press releases. Supports for voluntary
group also need to be given by local authorities.
4) Consulting and involving the general public
Evaluation
In my opinion this element is cultivated in my hometown even not thoroughly. The forum is
being held once in a month in order to do some discussion regarding what happen in our
residential area. And to get the feedback some of questionnaire regarding problems/difficulties
and its solution faces by residents.
Suggestion
Some of suggestions that can be implementing for this element are the public consultation
processes, doing some forums and planning our hometown in Parish maps to divide the area
according to the economic base maybe.
5) Partnerships
Evaluation
The implementation should be encouraged in my hometown.
Suggestion
Partnerships can be done by doing meetings, workshops and conferences. And all these must be
based on sustainability development. It will be more efficient if the residents working in groups
or advisory groups. Round tables should be done to go through any issue arising from any
members. A plan on how environment city model should be improvised can be a good idea as
Local Agenda 21 is promoting sustainable development.
6) Measuring, monitoring and reporting on progress towards sustainability

7. Evaluation
There is no implementation in my hometown.
Suggestion
There are so many activities can be done for this element. Aim a target for developing the
hometown for every month and try to do some environmental monitoring to make sure the
planning is implementing properly and continuously. Put the sustainability indicator as a target.
To make the planning more based on the requirement, make sure the Environmental Impact
Assessment (EIA) is done thoroughly and strategic environmental assessment should be carried
out.