EACH STEP TAKES YOU CLOSER TO REALISING YOUR VISION

Ohu Development works with your community to develop a tailored programme to support you through the various phases of your project's development.

If you have a project idea and would like support please contact us.

 

PHASES

1 IDEA
  • Identify project purpose
  • Identify and assess potential of the project
  • Identify the community the project serves
  • Identify the social impact
  • Identify the financial return for the community
  • Identify the project lead/community builder
  • Secure funding to scope the project
  • Identify site options and define criteria for site analysis
2 SCOPE
  • Identify core project team and their roles and responsibilities
  • Identify key stakeholders and a communications strategy
  • Identify Ohu's support and establish an agreement with the project team
  • Confirm site selection based on multi-criteria analysis
  • Register entity to hold the project (company, trust, cooperative)
  • Identify a legal structure to best serve the project's purpose
  • Identify a financial framework and preliminary cost plan aligned to purpose
  • Identify risks and steps to mitigate them Identify first investors and secure funding for Phase 3 - Design
3 PLAN & DESIGN
  • Develop business plan in alignment with the community's purpose (budget, social impact, return on investment, timeline, etc)
  • Identify the social architecture (levels of commitment/contribution and respective communication channels)
  • Review and adjust project's risks
  • Review project team and their roles and responsibilities
  • Identify funding streams (crowd funding, financing, crowd loans, key investors, other)
  • Engage design team, and develop a staged design process in alignment with the community's purpose
  • Secure funding for Phase 4 - Construction
4 CONSTRUCTION
  • Engage construction team and schedule working bees (if aligned to project purpose)
  • Review and adjust project's risks and the team's roles and responsibilities
  • Review project team and their roles and responsibilities
  • Manage budgets and construction timeline
  • Health & Safety plan and implementation
5 OPENING
  • Acknowledge community and celebrate accomplishment
  • Identify and transition to operational team (depending on project purpose)
6 OPERATIONS
  • Review project team and their roles and responsibilities
  • Review and adjust project's risks and the team's roles and responsibilities
  • Identify regular communication channels and commitment to maintain a balanced and healthy community
7 REFLECTION
  • Review intended social impact and outcomes and if necessary refine future targets in alignment with project's evolution
  • Reflect on how to improve future iterations, share publicly for others to learn from
  • Share project realisation for others to learn from
  • Identify project purpose
  • Identify and assess potential of the project
  • Identify the community the project serves
  • Identify the social impact
  • Identify the financial return for the community
  • Identify the project lead/community builder
  • Secure funding to scope the project
  • Identify site options and define criteria for site analysis

 

  • Identify core project team and their roles and responsibilities
  • Identify key stakeholders and a communications strategy
  • Identify Ohu's support and establish an agreement with the project team
  • Confirm site selection based on multi-criteria analysis
  • Register entity to hold the project (company, trust, cooperative)
  • Identify a legal structure to best serve the project's purpose
  • Identify a financial framework and preliminary cost plan aligned to purpose
  • Identify risks and steps to mitigate them
  • Identify first investors and secure funding for Phase 3 - Design
  • Develop business plan in alignment with the community's purpose (budget, social impact, return on investment, timeline, etc)
  • Identify the social architecture (levels of commitment/contribution and respective communication channels)
  • Review and adjust project's risks
  • Review project team and their roles and responsibilities
  • Identify funding streams (crowd funding, financing, crowd loans, key investors, other)
  • Engage design team, and develop a staged design process in alignment with the community's purpose
  • Secure funding for Phase 4 - Construction

 

  • Engage construction team and schedule working bees (if aligned to project purpose)
  • Review and adjust project's risks and the team's roles and responsibilities
  • Review project team and their roles and responsibilities
  • Manage budgets and construction timeline
  • Health & Safety plan and implementation
  • Acknowledge community and celebrate accomplishment
  • Identify and transition to operational team (depending on project purpose)
  • Review and document social impact and financial return
  • Review project team and their roles and responsibilities
  • Review and adjust project's risks and the team's roles and responsibilities
  • Identify regular communication channels and commitment to maintain a balanced and healthy community
  • Review intended social impact and outcomes and if necessary refine future targets in alignment with project's evolution
  • Reflect on how to improve future iterations
  • Share project realisation for others to learn from