the international register of local actions

The International Register of Local Actions - or ‘IRLA’ - is an Australian-led, global initiative that seeks to accelerate social and environmental change by collecting and sharing the outcomes and learnings from environmental and social projects around the world. IRLA provides organisations with access to data and business intelligence tools that will enable them to view all organisations operating in their sector globally, the actions and initiatives being implemented by these other organisations, and outcomes achieved from these initiatives. The suite of IRLA systems include:

IRLA:JOBS - Global employment and labour market initiatives.

IRLA: ENVIRONMENT: Global environmental initiatives.

IRLA: JOBS LAUNCHING 2023.

The lead IRLA initiative is IRLA:Jobs which will see the international employment landscape mapped, with programs from stakeholders across Australia, the U.S. and Europe identified and outcomes measured.

• View the regional, national and international employment, skills and labour market landscape - who are the various stakeholders operating in the employment space, what actions and programs do they deliver, and what outcomes have they achieved?

• Learn from what others have done globally. View details of labour market programs from Australia, New Zealand, U.S., Canada, U.K., and the E.U.

• View your organisations’ own performance benchmarked against others.

• Report your activities and outcomes.

• Model your own future projects and actions, and forecast outcomes.

IRLA:Jobs will launch in 2023, and will be followed by IRLA:Environment.

capture a range of actions

The IRLA system is designed to capture, map and present a range of information, metrics and outcomes achieved for actions, such as what was done, technology that was used, savings and other outcomes achieved, and contractors used and their effectiveness.

business intelligence to report, analyse and model

IRLA gives organisations access to a reporting tool to produce a range of reports on projects they and others have implemented and the associated outcomes achieved.

This tool also allows organisations to carry out scenario modeling by drawing on the global data in the system to run research, assessment, benchmarking and modeling of proposed projects. 

For example, organisations can enter proposed projects into the system and run analytics to model the financial, environmental and social outcomes that will be achieved, based on what’s been achieved from similar projects in other organisations.

Users will also be able to run detailed searches and queries of Australian and global projects, such as a search and review of organisations that have been used to implement specific projects, and details of their performance, reputation, and the outcomes their project actually achieved.

All of this will assist organisations to better understand which project will deliver them the best returns, how best to implement the project, and which contractors and partners should be used – resulting in the development of more robust business cases to feed into the budgeting process.

a complete service - not just software

The IRLA initiative extends beyond the core tool to encompass a full suite of services that organisations can draw on to help it collect project data, analyse that data, calculate savings and other outcomes achieved, model future projects, and deliver training and performance updates to staff, external stakeholders and the community.

These services include:

• Data collection and entry by IRLA staff, on behalf of users.

• Performance measurement (i.e. calculating the outcomes achieved from projects, for entry into IRLA).

• Performance verification

• Presentations to staff, stakeholders and the community

• Training

World leading cloud based tool

IRLA has partnered with software developer integrum Management Systems to build the software elements of the IRLA service. integrum have delivered world-class management software to leading organisations including Westfield, Sydney Trains, Jetstar, Coca-Cola and British Telecom.

 Each organisation has full control over what is entered into the IRLA system, and who can access and view that data. Organisations can choose to remain completely anonymous to others, and to restrict some or all of their project information from being viewed.

 Organisations also have full download access to all data stored in the system. They’re able to access and extract system data 24/7 via export features in the business intelligence portal (in excel, word and PDF formats).