EASD

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EASD

• EASD Strategy 2004 - 2007
• Mobilising People and Knowledge for Sustainable
  Development in Africa

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Vision

• EASDs vision is a network of empowered people
  leading a new and powerful process of sustainable
  development in Africa that eliminates poverty and
  conserves the environment.

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Mission

• EASD develops people, technologies, projects,
  processes and institutions that enable
  sustainable development in Africa and globally.

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EASD Core Areas

• EASD focuses on research, development and
  service provision in the following areas
• Poverty, environment and development.
• Environmental information knowledge management
  systems.
• Capacity Building, coaching and mentoring.
• Facilitation and strategy development.

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Poverty, Environment Development

• Provide new models for sustainable development
  focusing on poverty alleviation that provides
  significant environmental co-benefits.
• Develop projects and initiatives that create jobs
  and provide human development while conserving
  the environment in South Africa.

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Environment Information Knowledge Management
Systems

• Facilitate the development of environmental
  information knowledge management systems for
  environmental management, development poverty
  alleviation.
• Produce and disseminate multimedia environment
  development information products that support the
  sustainable development process.

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Capacity Building

• Provide services for the design evaluation of
  capacity building programmes for environmental
  management.
• Produce a package of capacity building materials
  for Environmental information systems, Knowledge
  Management State of the environment reporting.
• Provide training, mentoring, coaching,
  networking, evaluation knowledge management
  services for Environmental strategy development,
  Environmental information KM systems,
  Management of environmental organizations State
  of the environment reporting.
• Develop ways of increasing personal
  professional competencies using the natural
  environments as a key component.

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Facilitation Strategy Development

• Provide facilitation and meeting management
  services for environment and development
  processes.
• Provide strategy and organisational development
  services for environment and development
  organisations and programmes.

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Organisation

• EASD is a private non profit organization.
• EASD works through associates, interns, partners
  and networks to ensure use of the most relevant
  African expertise for our work.
• EASD works to create opportunities through
  internship programmes for Africans to grow and
  develop, particularly those who have been
  oppressed by systems such as apartheid and gender
  bias.

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Organisation

• EASD is a learning organization.
• EASD is based in Cape Town, South Africa, and
  mobilises African expertise for sustainable
  development.
• EASD is funded by projects with the United
  Nations System, African institutions and
  governments, and other clients.
• EASD works to promote networking to enable
  effective use of African capacity.

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Organisation

• Ownership is vested in the projects and
  initiatives developed by EASD and not in EASD
  itself. The intellectual property rights and
  financial benefits and liabilities are defined
  for each project or initiative with the core
  participants.
• EASD values its partnership with fellow NGOs,
  the United Nations System, Universities, African
  governments and the private sector.
• EASD believes that the use of indigenous
  knoweldge, combined with digital technology
  (including the Internet, film, video and
  multimedia) are powerful tools that enable us to
  provide high quality services to our clients and
  partners.

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Values

• Respect for the dignity of all people.
• Commitment to personal development, the
  development of the EASD team and Africa.
• Creativity, fun, family and a balanced life.
• Integrity.
• Professionalism and high quality service.
• Passionate about people and the environment.
• Open communication, dialogue and exchange of
  ideas.

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Geographic Focus W Cape

• Develop projects and programmes that provide
  jobs, alleviate poverty conserve the
  environment.
• Develop environment based economic development
  projects.
• Provide, and assist in the development of
  creative models for education as a key element
  for breaking the poverty cycle.

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Geographic Focus West Coast

• Propose alternative sustainable development
  models and projects that eliminate poverty and
  conserve the environment in the West Coast
  region.
• Provide a strategic knowledge base for
  environment and development in West Coast Region.
  

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Geographic Focus South Africa

• Provide knowledge management solutions for
  environmental management.
• Assist in the development of effective state of
  the environment reporting.
• Assist the development of effective environmental
  information systems.
• Support the professional development of women
  managers in environmental organizations.

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Geographic Focus Africa

• Provide capacity building packages, knowledge
  bases and training for the development of
  environmental information and knowledge
  management systems and state of the environment
  reporting.
• Provide an effective African environmental
  information service to support African decision
  making processes.
• Provide services to improve the design,
  implementation and evaluation of capacity
  building programmes.
• Support the development of the capacity of women
  in management positions in African environmental
  organizations.
• Provide evaluation, training, mentoring and
  strategy development services to improve the
  effectiveness of African environmental
  organizations.
• Provide programme review and evaluation services.

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Geographic Focus - Global

• Support the United Nations Environment Programme
  (UNEP) in the development of effective global and
  regional programmes.
• Work in partnership with the UNEP-World
  Conservation Monitoring Centre to develop
  effective biodiversity information systems.
• Work in partnership with the UNEP and other
  partners to promote the development of effective
  integrated environmental assessments and
  environmental information systems at global and
  regional levels.
• Support the development of environmental
  assessment and environmental information capacity
  and systems in the Arabian Gulf.

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Associates

• Dave MacDevette Environmental Information KM,
  Capacity building, facilitation strategy
  development.
• Samantha Payne Poverty Environment.
• Karen Goldberg Personal growth Environment.
• Catherine Morris Video Production.
• Rowena Hay Capacity building, education
  training.
• Dan Claasen environmental planning and
  assessment.
• Koffi Kouakou Strategy, information,
  communication.
• Ciaran MacDevette Digital video production.
• Joanne Boulton Poverty and environment
  housing.

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Interns

• Nosisa Mhlathi Communication and law.
• Jill Oliver Development models.
• Sue Moses Development models.

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Partners

• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
• Umvoto Africa.
• Network for Environment Sustainable Development
  in Africa (NESDA).
• War on Malnutrition, Tuberculosis Hunger
  (WARMTH).
• Weave Productions.
• From the Hip (video production).
• University of Cape Town.
• Environment Wildlife Development Agency (ERWDA)
  Abu Dhabi.
• UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
  (UNEP-WCMC).
• African Association for Remote Sensing of the
  Environment.
• EIS Africa.
• Regional Organization for the Protection of the
  Marine Environment (ROPME Arabian Gulf).
• Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT), South Africa.
• Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
  (CSIR), South Africa.
• City of Cape Town.
• IUCN.

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Service Providers

• Pacit Computer Services.
• Gomedia Web and Internet.
• Cape Rose Administration Bookkeeping.
• Stirling Accounting Accounting Auditing.
• DR Designs Design and illustration.

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Network

• Wilderness Action Group, South Africa.
• World Water Assessment Programme.
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
• University of Costa Rica.
• Centre de Suivi Ecologique, Senegal
• Centre for Environment and Development for the
  Arab Region Europe (CEDARE), Egypt.
• International Institute for Sustainable
  Development (IISD).
• IUCN - The World Conservation Union.
• South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme
  (SPREP).
• World Resources Institute (WRI).
• The World Bank.
• UNEP GRID Arendal.
• United Nations Education and Training Institute.
• UNEP Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the
  Pacific.
• Department of Agriculture and Environment
  Affairs, KwaZulu Natal.
• Southern African Development Community.
• Periphery Development Media.
• Umvoto Africa.
• Weave Productions

• UNEP GRID Geneva.
• Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).
• National Institute of Public Health and the
  Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands.
• National Environmental Management Authority
  (Uganda).
• Musokotwane Environment Resource Centre for
  Southern Africa (IMERCSA)
• University of Botswana.
• Indian Ocean Commission (IOC).
• Seychelles Department of Environment.
• UNEP GRID Sioux Falls.
• Institute of Natural Resources, University of
  Natal.
• European Environment Agency.
• Department of Environment Affairs and Tourism,
  South Africa.
• Department of Environment and Development
  Planning, Western Cape.
• National Botanical Institute, South Africa.
• Southern African Institute for Environmental
  Assessment.
• Western Cape Nature Conservation Board.
• Cape Action for People the Environment.