STRATEGIC%20PLAN%20REVIEW%20AND%20UPDATE:%20GROWING%20AND%20STRENGTHENING%20WCCE

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STRATEGIC PLAN REVIEW AND UPDATE GROWING AND
STRENGTHENING WCCE

• NOVEMBER 2012
• EMILIO COLÓN - PRESIDENT
• TOMÁS A. SANCHO - PRESIDENT ELECT

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TOPICS

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Mission, Vision and Core Values
• 3. Objectives
• 4. SWOT Analysis
• 5. SWOT Strategies
• 6. Goals and Targets
• 7. Review
• 8. Comments

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1. INTRODUCTION

• What is the WCCE?
• Background
• Its Establishment
• - Founding members
• - Membership
• - Governance
• - Strategic Alliances
• Strategic Plan and its Benefits

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What is WCCE?

• Facilitates a global platform where
• all members are equal
• capable of addressing specific problems typical
  of the civil engineering fields
• Open to all existing organizations involved
  directly or indirectly in civil engineering and
  the construction business
• WCCEs core values
• Integrity and Ethics
• Solidarity with developing countries
• Commitment to achieve a humanistic sustainable
  development
• High technical standards
• Foster the free exchange and transfer of
  knowledge, technology and information
• Promote Engineering as the profession of choice

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Background

• Concept developed by the European Council of
  Civil Engineers (ECCE), which was created in 1985
  
• Established through ECCE in Istambul in November
  2005
• The World Council of Civil Engineers (WCCE) was
  founded on July 2006 in México, D.F.

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Founding Members

• Africa Engrs Forum - Assoc CE Greece
• Col Ing Agrim PR - Col ICCP España
• Col Ing Costa Rica - Cyprus Coun CE
• Esc Sup Ing Cam Esp - Eu Coun CE- ECCE
• Fed Col Ing Mexico - Inst Engr Tanzania
• Ord dos Eng Portugal - UNAICC Cuba
• Turkish Cham CE - Germany
• Zimbabwe Inst Engrs - CONFEA, Brasil

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Membership

• Ordinary members (voting)
• 1. National civil engineering organizations
• 2. International/regional civil eng
  organizations
• Associate members (non voting)
• 1. Corporate members
• 2. NGOs and Academic Institutions
• 3. Individual professionals
• 4. Students
• 5. Sectorial associations

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Current National Members
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Current members

• National members
• Greece - Puerto Rico - Spain
• Costa Rica - Brazil - Cyprus
• Mexico - Tanzania - Kuwait
• Turkey - Cuba - Nigeria
• Zambia - Zimbabwe - Bolivia
• Dom Republic

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Current Membership cont.

• International members
• European Council of Civil Engineers (ECCE)
• Africa Engineers Forum (AEF)
• Associate members
• NGO and Academic Institutions
• ETS Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos
  Madrid
• Fundación Aragonesa para el Fomento de las
  Infraestructuras (AFI)
• Corporate Members
• Associação Brasileira de Engenheiros Civis
  (ABENC)
• Zentralverband Deutscher Ingenieure (ZDI)
• Individual Professionals 87
• Students 2

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Strategic Alliances
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Strategic Plan and its Benefits

• Five-year Projections
• Growth
• Products
• Services
• Countries Provides direction
• Benefits
• - Guides achievement of goals and objectives
• - Provides for orderly growth
• - Establishes metrics system

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2. MISSION, VISION AND VALUES

• MISSION
• (overall purpose of WCCE, our raison d ' être)
  
• Provide a world working platform for all
  stakeholders in the civil engineering, on equal
  footing, that contribute effectively to
  sustainable development and to improve living
  conditions of all mankind, managing the built and
  natural environment, through
• Sharing knowledge and experience
• Application and transfer of technical skills
• Showing society the importance of civil
  engineering and its good practice

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VISION

• (what WCCE wants to achieve and aspires to become
  in the future)
• WCCE contributes all worldwide Civil Engineering
  to be
• the main vehicle for the sustainable development
• the reduction of global poverty
• the choice for young professionals

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WCCEs CORE VALUES (1)

• Members equality All national/international
  members participate on an equal footing in WCCE
  deliberations and decisions
• Solidarity with developing countries Solidarity
  Fund ensures that everyone who wants can
  participate. WCCE promotes full engagement by
  Civil Engineering profession promoting mobility
  of our professionals for the transfer of
  knowledge and adequate technologies, in order to
  help less developed societies to increase their
  standards and to help them to become equal
• Integrity and ethics WCCE requires acceptance
  of a detailed code of conduct for its members and
  encourages the development of actions against
  corruption by promoting ZERO TOLERANCE TO
  CORRUPTION

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WCCEs CORE VALUES (2)

• Commitment to achieve a humanistic sustainable
  development The purpose of WCCE is to improve
  living conditions for all mankind planning,
  design, building and managing sustainable
  solutions able to deal with the need of
  infrastructures demanded by society, and with an
  adequate comprehension of the natural processes.
• High technical standards WCCE promotes them
  worldwide. Civil Engineers perform and provide
  unique services for the community involving
  personal decisions and use of creative skills
  that carry and demand substantial responsibility.
  These services are more than often an essential
  requirement for everyday life and have to be of
  high quality, reliability and absolute safety. If
  the services are defective, disruption and grave
  consequences may result which could include
  injury
• and loss of life to many people.

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3. OBJECTIVES

• GLOBAL OBJECTIVES
• Promote cooperation between Civil Engineering
  organizations and the vasts fields associated
• Transfer of knowledge, technology, information
  and sustainable solutions to issues
• Global mobility of professionals
• Promote health, safety, mitigation risks and
  quality standards
• Professional conduct and fight corruption
• Promote meetings, seminars, congresses, and
  information data exchange

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4. SWOT ANALYSIS
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5. SWOT STRATEGIES

• SO Strategies Use strengths to take advantage
  of opportunities
• WO Strategies Overcome weaknesses by taking
  advantage of opportunities
• ST Strategies Use strengths to reduce threats
• WT Strategies Minimize weaknesses and reduce
  threats

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6. GOALS AND TARGETSSpecific Objectives (Key
Success Factors) what we are setting out to
achieve next three years, related with

• A) Membership
• B) Services
• C) Communications
• D) Finances
• E) Alliances
• F) Conferences and Seminars

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TARGET A. MEMBERSHIP - Increase membership
and be present in all continents- Maintain
on-going contact with Member Organizations

• Country approach
• - Identify Countries
• - Identify Civil Engineering Organizations
• - Identify related organizations
• - Establish Professional Practice Requirements
• - Identify Academic Institutions
• Membership benefits
• - Web Based (Intranet)
• - Conferences, Congresses and Activities
• - Journals
• - e-Newsletter

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ACTIVITIES TO INCREASE MEMBERSHIP

• Establish personal relationships (ExCo and
  Executive Director)
• Approach to ECCE members in synergy with ECCE
• Approach to UPADI members related with Civil
  Engineering
• Approach to African CE professional associations
• Approach to Asian CE professional associations
• Approach to Engineering Professional Associations
  of Portuguese and Spanish Language
• Approach to individual professionals offering
  services and facilitating e-contact ( reserved
  member web area and payments by computer)
• Approach to Academics and students

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Membership Targets

• Category 2012 2015
• National Members 18 30
• Corporate Members 2 10
• NGO's and Academics 2 5
• Individual Professionals 90 1000
• Students 2 300

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TARGET B. SERVICES - Increase the services
and ensure its continuity- Promote the activity
of the Standings Committees incorporating
representatives of all Members- Develop and
deliver specialized services on a segmented basis
as required

• GIACC Guides against corruption
• Professional mobility and recognition
• WEB (reserved area) and e-newsletter
• Conferences, Congresses and Activities
• Standing Committees activities
• JAWER Journal of Applied Water Engineering and
  Research
• WACER World Annual Civil Engineering Report
  (since 2014)
• Insurance certification
• Worlds Civil Engineering Heritage

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TARGET C. COMMUNICATIONS - Promote the
activity of the Standings Committees
incorporating representatives of all Members-
Increase communication and social presence of the
WCCE- Presence based on IT systems and solutions
to increase performance and reduce costs-
Promote a modern vision of civil engineering as a
profession of progress, enhancing the commitment
to sustainable development and the eradication of
poverty

• WEB (open area)
• Conferences, Congresses and Activities
• Standing Committees activities
• WACER World Annual Civil Engineering Report
• Intervention in International Forums and Global
  Pannels

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TARGET D. FINANCES - Adapt fees' policy to
the crisis, enhance solidarity fund, and
validation services to the WCCE as payment of fees

• General reduction of fees (associated to increase
  membership)
• Generation of new revenues from sale of new
  services (as JAWER or Insurance Certificate)
• Pay-pal or similar for individual members
• Regulate our Solidarity Fund and increase its
  amount
• Fees Reduction for national members of
  International members
• Fee reduction for individual members of national
  members
• Validation services of members as payment of fees

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TARGET E. ALLIANCES - Promote partnership
with global organizations (more strategic
alliances)- Compromising a framework of loyal,
productive relationships and synergies with other
global organizations

• Analysis Millenium Development Goals
• Regional Needs
• Country Needs
• International Organizations
• UN and its entities
• World Bank
• OTHERS IAHR, WWC, OECD, ICOLD

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TARGET F. CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS - Promote
the activity of the Standings Committees
incorporating representatives of all Members

• Annual Activities
• Activity 2012 2015
• Conferences/Seminars 1 3
• Congresses 1 1
• Continuing Education
• Web Based 0 2
• Conventional 5 2
• Other Training 2 1

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7. REVIEW and COMMENTS

• Vision, Mission and Core Values
• Objectives
• SWOT analysis and strategies
• Products and Services
• Projects
• Other activities
• Plans Update

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• ALL TOGETHER, SURE, WE CAN!
• Thank you very much!
• Emilio Colón
• Tomás A. Sancho