PROPOSAL: PROJECT OUTLINE

Background 

1. Introduction

Within a country, different populations face health constraints in different manners. Similarly, individuals from Australian aboriginal groups face different types of constraints related to health and wellbeing. Among these constraints, lack of physical inactivity and lack of nutritional habits are primary. Hence, it has been decided that providing job opportunities to aboriginals can be effective to resolve concerning health issues in a genuine manner.  

The following discussion has involved the strategies to implement a project plan for mitigation of the issues based on social determinants of health of the Australian aboriginals. In this respect, the project theme has been chosen to be focused to provide job opportunities to aboriginals in different fields. 

Project rationale 

The health issue and the concise background

Different surveys have revealed that people from the communities of Australian aboriginals are facing health problems due to lack of inactivity. Along with this, the rate of tobacco consumption is also higher among them. As a result of this, the average lifespan of aboriginals has been decreased at a rate of 8-9% in some years (Australian Institute of Health, 2020). In addition to this, the lack of healthy nutritional foods is also affecting their health status in a negative manner. Therefore, the concerned project is based on providing job opportunities to aboriginal’s health issues in the aboriginal community to improve these aspects.

Needs for prioritization

These social determinants such as managing funds and policies to mitigate these health issues in the aboriginal community need to be prioritized to support the growth of aboriginals and helping them to live in a healthy way. As mentioned by Stenberg et al., (2017), a health project is based on improving health facilities for a specific community along with the proper management of the monetary fund. Similarly, this project for addressing social health determinants of an indigenous population can be based on providing them job opportunities in different big businesses and corporate businesses for healthy living. It can be mentioned that if the social and economic position of the people can be developed.

Goals/Objectives

Table 1: SMART goals and objectives

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Alignment with Government and global health agenda

These objectives can be met by means of adopting Government priorities and sustainable development goals in the process of developing the employment scopes of aboriginal individuals in different corporate and business fields. Australian Government has focused on implementing “Indigenous-money smart” for the people like aboriginals and Torres Strait islanders (Barani, 2020). Besides, following the guidelines of Global economic policy will be effective for assessing economic requirements of the targeted community as well as meeting the needs through making an effective implementation plan (The United Nations, 2020). In this respect, sustainable development goals by the Australian Government will also be considered. It can be mentioned that until or unless an effective link has been made to the implementation of The United Nations sustainable development goals, project objectives can never be properly successful. 

Implementation and evaluation plan 

2. The priority actions 

Range of tasks to make the recommendations successful 

The following discussion has involved specific tasks for meeting project goals in a successful manner. In this respect, it can be mentioned that conducting a community survey will be effective to highlight different social determinants of health such as lack of job opportunities in community. In the views of Bonner, A. (2018), development of health qualities of community people can be initiated by making direct communication with them. As a result of this, the basic functions of this project will be started. Thereafter, the need for economic growth needs to be addressed by the project management team within the concerned community. Therefore, it will help to design the activities based on the required deliverables. Next, the project team can focus on implementing a policy that will be helpful to increase job opportunities for aboriginal communities and Torres Strait islanders. Additionally, the frequent conversation needs to be made with the Ministry of Health for making proper use of the monetary fund. At last, the overall progress of employment within the community needs to be checked based on the fact that if 5% of aboriginals and Torres Strait islanders have got job opportunities in fields or not. 

Responsibilities of the owner 

In case this project goes off track, the owner needs to take effective steps to keep the rate of project progress on track.

Table 6: Responsibilities of the owner

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Timeframes 

Formation of project time frames helps to have an idea regarding a tentative date to complete all activities (Thomas, 2017).

Figure 1: Milestones

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Risk and mitigation strategies 

In order to handle this project, the owner may face issues based on a range of project risks.

Table 7: Risk mitigation method

(Source: As influenced by Muriana & Vizzini, 2017, p. 322)

Metrics to monitor progress 

The project will be implemented in order to address the economic issue of the Australian aboriginals. In every project, there is a need for supervising the progress of the project as in this way; organizations can implement their project successfully. There are several metrics to measure the project progress such as the return of investment, ‘employees’ satisfaction score, gross profit-margin, cost-variance and others. Among them, it is recommended that they can utilize the ‘gross profit margin’ metrics to evaluate the monetary things of the project as to whether it is being used properly or not. Gross profit margin metrics will be helpful in this case.  Gross profit margin enables to measure the profitability of the project by calculating the gross profit as revenue percentage (Investinganswers, 2020). The Gross profit margin metrics can be used effectively in this project as it will evaluate the spending of the financial resource of this project. Gross profit margin defines the direct cost from earning revenue. Therefore, it will be possible to know the gross profit by deducting the costs of goods that will be used in this project. Gross profit margin calculates the leftover money from the product sales by subtracting the costs of goods sold. In this way, with the help of gross profit margin, the financial health of this project plan can be monitored properly. 

Evaluation criteria 

In order to analyse the project criteria as to where they meet the project requirements or not, the project plan can be implemented properly. Below a table is provided to evaluate the project criteria:

Table 2: evaluation criteria

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Conclusion 

This paper has discussed the strategies in order to implement a project plan properly in order to mitigate the employment issue of the Australian aboriginals which may help them to lead a healthy life. A range of tasks is recommended in this paper that could help this project plan to be implemented successfully. However, time management is very important in this project that needs to be maintained in order to complete this project within the given time. Along with that, the recommendation is provided through which it will be possible to measure the progress of this project plan.