Client
Cross Yarra Partnership Design & Construction Joint Venture
Melbourne
Key Achievements
Key Services
Theory of change | Outcomes framework | Evaluation | Social Return on Investment (SROI)
This work is considered to be world-first for a major infrastructure project commissioning both forecast Social Return on Investments (SROIs) to project the possible value of three of the project’s social sustainability initiatives (completed in 2019) and following with evaluative SROIs to measure the actual value created (to be completed in 2020 onwards).
The project to date has entailed three simultaneous SROI reports, involving over 250 stakeholders as part of Cross Yarra Partnership Design and Construction Joint Venture's (CYP D&C) work on the $11b Melbourne Metro Tunnel infrastructure project.
Each SROI was conducted to the highest standard, obtaining assurance from Social Value International and winning two national Social Impact Measurement Network of Australia’s Awards; first place for Outstanding Collaboration in Social Impact Measurement and second place for Innovation in Social Impact Measurement.
This project is providing an important opportunity to understand both the social and economic value that can be created through major infrastructure investments.
'We’re doing something bigger than just putting people into jobs, in some cases we literally turn people’s lives around' - Holmesglen team member
This project found that CYP D&C forecast to create significant social value across three major workforce initiatives:
1) Social procurement through project engagement of aboriginal businesses and social enterprises
2) Inclusive employment opportunities provided for Priority Jobseekers
3) Training and employment of Trainees and Cadets.
'It’s about breaking the cycles of unemployment that people are often trapped in. It is the thing that excites me the most about what we are doing. We’re hearing feedback almost weekly now on the changes that young people or parents are experiencing now we’ve given them a chance' – CYP D&C Manager
'[Without CYP D&C] I would be stuck in limited, unreliable, employment – in a profession I never planned to work in. I would not be utilising my skills and past experience to anything close to my potential.' – Priority Jobseeker
'[Working with priority jobseekers has] changed the way we address things, the way we talk about people, changed the mindset about how people are different' – Supply chain representative
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