Risk Management Plan for ATA Solar Project in East Timor Region

This report presents an in-depth analysis of the Alternative Technology Associate (ATA) solar project in East Timor. The project, funded by Google, aims to provide affordable and sustainable lighting and electric systems to improve the living standards of East Timor residents. The report is divided into two parts: Part A details the project's introduction, the description of the solar project, and the execution plan, including training local technicians and addressing challenges like language barriers and quality control. Part B focuses on the risk management plan, outlining the identification, analysis, planning, prioritization, mitigation, and monitoring of potential risks, such as lack of government cooperation and language differences. The report emphasizes the importance of a structured risk management approach to ensure the successful implementation of the solar project, highlighting the steps ATA will take to manage different levels of risk and ensure project success. The report also discusses the challenges of executing the project. The ATA project is essential for the people of East Timor as it provides them with electricity.

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Executive Summary
Alternative Technology Associate (ATA) under the leadership of Kate Greenwood has a plan to
provide residents of East Timor region with affordable and sustainable lighting and electric
system. The lighting and electric system is to help improve the living standards of East Timor
residents. This proposal outlines a scrupulous analysis regarding the ATA and the risk
management plan to be used to implement the project. The proposal displays the risks that the
project crew experiences while advancing the project. ATA solar project system will provide
alternative electric as well as illumination system to the people of East Timor to better their
economic activities and allow children in the region with light for studying at night. The project
is financed by Google. ATA has been organizing to supply the solar power project hence with
the monetary support from Google they project is set to be developed and later on delivered to
East Timor residents.
Part A
Introduction
Alternative Technology Associate (ATA) team intention is to see to it that East Timor residents
are well supplied with affordable and sustainable source of energy. As a result, ATA being a
solar energy organization, it objective is to supply East Timor residents with solar generated
power as well as lighting systems to aid these people improve their economic condition
(Gonçalves, Ferreira, and Christiaans, 2017, p.109). To actualize the solar production project
Greenwood in collaboration with her project team should engage the local people by training a
number of them about the cosmological powered system high-tech. These peoples will aid ATA

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team in installing and maintaining the project. In this light, this research give a breakdown of
ATA solar project and the various administrative preparations undertaken by Greenwood with
her group to realize and effectively complete the project. Besides the paper will discuss a number
of issue experienced by the project throughout project management.
Description for East Timor Solar Project
Alternative Technology Associate (ATA) is not-for-profit non-governmental organization from
Australia that that deals with delivering of solar powered projects. ATA’s goal is to ensure that
that Australian people living in place without hydroelectric power have an alternative form of
power (Liang and Ku, 2014, p.1542). Therefore, ATA through its solar power project work to
decrease the usage of kerosene among individuals living in regions that do not have hydroelectric
power supply like East Timor. ATA’s solar project is to ensure that resident of East Timor
especially women and children do not continue to experience health problems as a result of using
kerosene as the lighting source among homestead in East Timor. In this regard, ATA solar
electric and lighting system will significantly help school going children since it will provide
them with lighting system for studying and for women in the homes they will enjoy improved
security in homes with the enhanced lighting during the night. Indeed, ATA project will
significantly improve the lifestyle of East Timor residents by cutting unnecessary expenses
associated with kerosene buying and on health complication caused by use of kerosene as a
lighting source. (Sully, 2015) In addition, the solar project will improve residents’ income
generation by using electivity to run several business activities.
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In order for Greenwood and her tam of associates to execute ATA project they will have to
involve themselves in the following activities:
Train the residents as technicians to aid in installing and maintaining the project: The first
thing that ATA associates will have to engage in is to look for operators from the village having
electronics expertise. These technicians will have to be trained on the way to install, maintain
and monitor the solar project (Gusmedi and Komalasari, 2014, p.136). In regard to specialist
training ATA shall work in collaboration with CNEFP to train the local picked technicians’ ways
in what ways to install, and sustain the solar power project. The payment of the technician team
shall be supported by money form the community kitty while ATA will provide the materials for
the project.
Plan to accomplish the project: ATA will have to install the solar program in two dry periods by
discounting the wet season due to the poor geographical topography of the area. Therefore, a
well-organized plan should be put in place to ensure the project is accomplished with the two dry
seasons.
Installation and maintenance: since maintenance needs money each home connected with the
solar project will be required to an annual maintenance fee to cater for purchases to replace any
faulty solar system parts (Meredith, Mantel Jr, and Shafer, 2017). ATA in partnership with
CNEFP team will ensure there in an onboard team of technicians to install and resolve basic
issues related to the solar program. CNEFP will only come to help in solving critical repair
problems.
Implementation of the project: The solar program will be executed in a systematic manner to
ensure that the three districts of East Timor with a population of more than 12000 households is

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lit. This will be done by sub diving East Timor based on districts and into villages according to
the geographical area to ease the implementation plan.
Challenges Experienced by ATA Team in Executing the Project Plan
Language differences: The primary challenge that Greenwood and her team experience is
language barrier while implementing the solar project. It becomes a major challenge to
implement the project since residents of East Timor show no obligation to embrace the solar
technology due to poor communication caused by language difference and cultural dissimilarity.
In this sense, ATA associates will be forced to learn the residents or look for interpreters to help
inform the residents the usefulness of the solar program in the area.
The challenge of quality: Since ATA team has to get technicians from residents of East Timor,
getting the most experienced and talented become a challenge. As a result ATA will spend a lot
of time looking for the most talented and experienced technicians from the residents. Thus, this
challenge could impact negatively toward the quality of the technicians hired since a lot of time
will be spend on training them with the required technical skills hence interfering with quality.
Conclusion
ATA team under the leadership of Greenwood play an essential role to the people of East Timor
by supplying the region with electricity. Consequently, the solar project helps the residents who
benefit much from the project in a number of ways such as lighting used by school children to
study and light used at night in homes.
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Risk Management Plan for ATA Solar Project
Introduction
East Timor is a mountainous region in Australia hence it has poor infrastructure making it a
challenge to connect electric power to the residents. Nevertheless, Alternative Technology
Associate (ATA) has am alternative solution to ensure the residents are supplied with affordable
source of electricity. ATA has introduced solar power program that target to connect more than
12,000 households in East Timor with the financial support of Google which has requested ATA
for a risk management plan. This proposal provide a risk management plan illustrating how ATA
will manage risks in implementing the solar project plan.
Risk Management Plan
A risk management plan is a procedure that incorporates sequential approaches to see to it that a
project is properly executed. The project manager among other stakeholders should therefore
have enough knowledge and skills to identify, evaluate and respond to risk factors correlated to a
project development. In respect to ATA solar project it risk management plan will commence by
coming up with possible solutions to the identified risks that are likely to negatively impact the
solar program (Pazhayattil, Sayeed-Desta, Fredro-Kumbaradzi, and Collins, 2018, p.40). Since
the solar project is highly significant to the people of East Timor it is important for ATA to
advance a risk plan by putting into consideration to each phase of development for it to become
successful. Based on the nature of the project, a number of risks factors are likely to arise such as
resources, costs and the nature of the region. Therefore, it is vital for ATA team to prioritize
critical aspects by ascertaining, classifying and planning in agreement with the risks
acknowledged and possible ways to reduce or eliminate them. The risk management plan will

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involve project stakeholders since they are in a better position to identify and analyze and
provide effective ways to the identified risks. The risk management plan cycle will take the
following steps, risk identification, analysis, planning, prioritization, mitigation and monitoring
(Rebitzer, 2015, p.4). ATA will therefore develop its risk management plan based on this risk
management cycle.
The ATA solar program is challenged by different risks at divergent phases. In order to manage
these risks ATA team will commence by unmasking the risk effect at every stage of the project.
ATA team will commence by pinpointing and analyzing likely risks linked to the project
(Rebitzer, 2015, p.3). In accordance to the information provided in part a, the project is faced by
several issues such as cultural differences, language barrier and historical nature of the region are
likely to hamper the project. Besides that, involvement of contractors if another probable risk.
Greenwood as the project leader she has to contract a party that will work be accountable and
work with transparency. Therefore, ATA project team will integrate certain risk factors based on
the effect they they convene toward the project (Ross, 2018). ATA will use the following risk
matrix.
Impact H Absence of
government
cooperation
Little support by the
locals
Scarcity of connecting
resources
M Language
dissimilarities
Lack of trust form from
contractors
Delay in access to
license
L Cultural differences Incontinence of experts
connectivity
Connecting solar power
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L M H
Probability
Risk Matrix
Impact
High-Risk that has the highest potential to impact on cost and performance of project
Medium-Risk whose impacts are slight higher on the cost and project performance
Low-these are risks that have little impact on project costs and performance.
Probability
High-Chances of risks occurrence greater than 75%
Medium-Chances of risk occurrence range in-between 25% and less than 75%
Low- chances of risks occurrence are below 25%
Risk Analysis
Based on the recognized risk potential, there is need to examine their impact to the project. Risk
issues that have high possibility of occurrence need to be resolved with a justifiable solution. In
order to deal with issues with high risk of occurrence, ATA project manager has to ensure that
they eliminate the causative agent of the risk. At this point, the project leader will develop
possible vandalism during fixing of the solar system (Amon, 2019). Therefore, ATA will engage
the skills and acquaintance of highly experienced corporation to deliver solar panel materials for

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connection. Also, ATA team will have to contact administrative organizations because they are
crucial participants. The next phase is to lessen moderate risk issues. In regard to ATA solar
project it should institute terms and conditions with its vendors to make sure they are transparent
and accountable of their work. For the low risk features, ATA ought to accept them such as
language differences, cultural dissimilarity and geographical vagaries at the time of solar project
connectivity (Qin, Mo, and Jing, 2016, p.151). Hence, ATA will device some mechanics to point
out the low risks factors with little effect.
Execution
During execution of the project, ATA will incorporate the government to help it with security
issues when making connection in the region. In addition, ATA will engage suppliers, and local
residence to provide solar implements and human resource respectively. The locals will also be
used as translators when it comes to ATA interacting with the community to enable smooth
running of the project.
Risk Response and Execution
While progressing with the project, ATA will put in place administrators to monitor its progress
(Kliem, and Ludin, 2019). The administrators will also aid in locating villages within East Timor
since it is a mountainous region to avoid missing out certain parts.

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