Business case
"A management tool that records the current state of evidence and thinking concerning the development approval and implementation of proposal. It supports the processes of scoping, analysis, appraisal, planning, monitoring, evaluating, approval and implementation a proposal and is the repository for the evidence base."
Capital investment
"Public investment, or public capital expenditure, is spending by the state on the creation of fixed, long-term assets. The classic examples are spending on physical assets such as roads, buildings, bridges and tunnels - things that last. This is distinct from 'current' expenditure - i.e. spending that does not create fixed assets (such as spending on the state pension, drugs for NHS patients or the wages of civil servants) - which makes up the majority of total government expenditure." IFS (2024)
Case for investment
"A business case provides justification for undertaking a project or programme. It evaluates the benefit, cost and risk of alternative options and provides a rationale for the preferred solution." Association for Project Management
"It is the key tool for managing the project through its proposal stage. It is a live document that will grow and develop throughout conception." LGA, 2018
Community engagement
"Community engagement is a way of developing a working relationship between public bodies (for example, local councils) and community organisations. It is also a way in which other organisations like community groups, voluntary sector groups and the private sector can better involve people in what they do."
Scottish Community Development Centre
Community ownership
"Community ownership ensures that local people have control over the buildings and spaces that have significance to them and that these spaces are used in ways that meet the priorities and needs of the local community."
My Community (2024) Community assets and ownership
Community wealth building
"Community wealth building is a place-based approach to local economic development, which redirects wealth back into the local economy, and places control and benefits into the hands of local people." The Five Pillars of community wealth building are: inclusive ownership of the local economy; spending; workforce; land and property use and finance. Scottish Hub for Regional Economic Development.
Economic development
"can include targeted investment in, and running of, infrastructure, investment in skills and training, and support for marketing, promotion and network building. These interventions can have various purposes, including improving productivity, encouraging 'greener' activity, supporting innovation, generating more exports, promoting start-ups, encouraging inward investment, and getting people into good quality jobs." Scottish Parliament Information Centre Briefing on Economic Development in Scotland
Economic impact assessment
"The purpose of an economic impact assessment is to estimate the changes in employment, income, and levels of business activity (typically measured by gross receipts or value added) that may result from a proposed project or program."
International Association for Impact Assessment
Environmental Impact Assessment
"Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a means of drawing together, in a systematic way, an assessment of the likely significant environmental effects arising from a proposed development."
Equality impact assessment (EqIA)
A process or tool designed to ensure that a policy, project or scheme does not unlawfully discriminate against any protected characteristic.
Equality and Human Rights Commission (2010)
Equity
Refers to fairness and justice and is distinguished from equality: "Whereas equality means providing the same to all, equity means recognizing that we do not all start from the same place and must acknowledge and adjust imbalances. The process is ongoing, requiring us to identify and overcome intentional and unintentional barriers arising from bias or systemic structures."
Marin Health and Human Sciences (2021)
Glasgow City Region (GCR)
The eight member authorities that make up GCR are Glasgow City Council; East Dunbartonshire Council; East Renfrewshire Council; Inverclyde Council; North Lanarkshire Council; Renfrewshire Council; South Lanarkshire Council; and West Dunbartonshire Council.
The City Region Deal or City Deal is an agreement between the UK Government, the Scottish Government and eight Local Authorities across Glasgow and the Clyde Valley.
The partnership of eight neighbouring Local Authorities has secured £1billion infrastructure funding from government.
Health impact assessment (HIA)
"A combination of procedures, methods and tools that systematically judges the potential, and sometimes unintended, effects of a policy, program or project on the health of a population, and the distribution of those effects within the population. HIA identifies appropriate actions to manage those effects."
International Association of Impact Assessment, adapted from World Health Organization, 1999.
Health inequalities
"differences in people's health across the population and between specific population groups, that are systematic, avoidable, and unfair." Public Health Scotland.
Inclusive economy
"One where everyone is able to participate in the paid and unpaid economy. Being active within the paid economy confers social and financial benefits, such as an adequate income and stable employment. Access to the unpaid economy (e.g., caring, child rearing and community work) should also be available and shared (e.g., housework) with those less likely to participate in the unpaid economy (e.g., men)."
Inclusive growth
"Inclusive growth aims to both grow the economy and deliver a more equitable economy."
Public Health Scotland (2022).
Inclusive ownership
"Models of business ownership that enables the wealth generated in a community to stay in that locality." Scottish Government (2023) Building Community Wealth in Scotland: consultation analysis
Intersectionality
The term intersectionality describes the way people's social identities can overlap: "We tend to talk about race inequality as separate from inequality based on gender, class, sexuality or immigrant status. What's often missing is how some people are subject to all of these, and the experience is not just the sum of its parts."
Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment
"In Scotland, public bodies and private companies operating in a public character, such as utility companies, are required to assess and monitor the likely impacts of their strategies and developments will have on the environment. This process is known as Strategic Environmental Assessment."
Wider determinants of health
"A diverse range of social, economic and environmental factors which impact on people's health." However, the term is sometimes used interchangeably with social determinants.
Wellbeing economy
An economy that operates within safe environmental limits, and which serves the collective wellbeing of current and future generations first and foremost.
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