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Sustainable Management Fund :: Ministry for the Environment
Managing funding for sustainable projects in New Zealand is a full time job, that's why the
Ministry for the Environment has a team of three woking solely on sustainable management. For years,
the team had used an Access database to record funding applications, their amounts, and their details.
In 2007, they were in despeate need of a robust, web-based version of the database that they could easily
update, but that also fit into the style guidelines of the Ministry as well as being e-government compliant.
Using CakePHP and a MySQL database, I created the Sustainable Management Fund Online Database. The system supports keyword searching, displaying and reordering the data by submission date, user-authentication, and a stable, portable framework (thanks to CakePHP). Also followed are standards of compliance for government website, including accessiblity and cross-browser support.