The Bredasdorp Integrated Centre

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The Bredasdorp Integrated Centre
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Introduction

• The purpose of this discussion is to share
  experiences and lessons learnt concerning the
  innovative service delivery at the Bredasdorp
  Integrated Centre.
• Also this is an invitation to you to take part in
  this rolling success and be a partner.

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Topics of Discussion

• The Integrated Centre
• Partnerships
• LandCare Areawide Planning
• Real service improvement issues

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The Integrated Centre

• New District Municipality
• All roleplayers get together SanParks,CapeNature,
  Agric, IDP, Working for Water and Wetlands,
  CAPE, ABI,Health and Welfare
• Together they service our clients
• People formed in Communities or not especially
  people suffering from poverty.

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How should the centre be managed
Plan

• Adaptive Management

Act
Evaluate
Monitor
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Partnerships

• Natural Resource Management involves various
  partners, together we can make a difference an
  impact on the resource and poverty.
• Who knows about the R1 Billion of DEAT
• Nuwejaarsriver partnership and WfW
• Overberg Conservancy Foundation

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How will Integration improve the efficiency of
the Working for Water programme?

• 50/50 Partnership Landowner and Gov. Agencies
• Landowner is responsible for the management,
  equipment, bridging finance, transport and
  support
• WfW is responsible for the herbicide, cost of
  labour, waterworks program and survey
• Dept. Agriculture facilitates as well as
  agreement, quality control and linking to
  LandCare funds and vision.
• Municipality lists project in IDP, co funds and
  could be the agent for WfW

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LandCare Areawide Planning

• What
• Why
• Where
• How

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Integrated Natural Resource Management LandCare
Community led Linked to IDP process Community
based natural resource management Integrated and
diverse partners Natural resource planning
Spatial planning   LandCare Department of
Agriculture Western Cape South Africa May
2005  
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Introduction

• To effectively address many natural resource
• issues such as degradation of soil by water and
• wind erosion, pollution of drinking water
  supplies,
• invader plant infestation, pest and disease
• infestations, planning must be conducted at a
  scale
• larger than an individual farm or ranch.
• Strategy for larger scale planning in which local
  people identify concerns was adopted by
  Department of Agriculture
• Using the IDP as the vehicle

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What is LandCare Areawide Planning?

• Areawide Conservation Planning is a comprehensive
  problem solving process that integrates social,
  economic and ecological concerns over defined
  geographical areas.
• Natural resource management approach that
  integrates locally driven initiatives.
• Big picture
• Provides local people the process to assess their
  natural resourse concerns and determine what
  conditions they desire and formulate alternatives
  to achieve their goals.
• Process is led by people in the community

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What is LandCare Areawide Planning?

• Local people lead the planning process based on
  localy identified needs.
• Resource issues
• Define the geographic area
• Implement a planning process
• Agencies provide technical and financial
  resources
• Participants become knowledgeable about the logic
  used to identify problems and opportunities
• Science behind the planning and rationale for
  proposed solutions

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Why is LandCare Areawide Planning used?

• Advantages
• Improving awareness
• Coordinating community actions
• Fostering locally led conservation
• Involving broad representation
• Targeting resources
• Forming partnerships
• Leveraging resources
• Increasing efficiency

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Who is involved with LandCare Areawide Planning?

• It includes everyone with an interest in the
  health of the land and those who are familiar
  with the resource needs and conditions.
  Stakeholders may not agree on every issue, but
  they are bound by a common vision in the project.
• Involving stakeholders broad base
• Froming partnerships local people and
  organizations cooperate more effective and
  efficient
• Coordinate activieties with agencies

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How is LandCare Areawide Planning Applied?

• Local groups must adopt a planning process to
  help manage complex natural resource issues and
  to achieve their goals.
• The Planning process
• Addresses all resource problems identified
• Contains alternative solutions that meet the
  established criteria for each resource and
  applicable laws and regulations, and

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How is LandCare Areawide Planning applied?

• Is based on desired future conditions.
• Areawide Planning concepts and principles
• A shared vision
• Developing desired future conditions
• Focus on ecosystem
• Education outreach
• Program Neutral approach
• Adaptive management

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Real Life

• Impowering communities
• Impowering integration
• Building capacity
• Reducing poverty
• Improving service delivery by 100
• Ensuring sustainability
• Trusting and investing in people

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Problems preventing Integration

• Bureaucratic process
• Mishoop syndrome
• Effort it takes
• History of doing our own thing
• The threat of change
• Scared of giving your job away
• Add on to your job
• Want to be in total control

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Why is Integration of service providors and
Community buy-in Important

• If we do not Integrate we cannot function
  effectively,therefore poor piecemeal service
  delivery,which means less poverty relief
• Communities must buy-in and set the priorities
  and implement the projects. They add great value
  and can improve our efficiency by a few 100

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Way Forward

• Let us join hands and form real partnerships at
  ground level
• Somehow try and get rid of the mishoop
  bureaucratic processes we work under- this
  academy of learning can help
• Respect the people we serve and listen to them,
  the key to improvement lies in their ideas.

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Trust and Invest in people!

Francis Steyn Department of Agriculture Western
Cape Private Bag X1 Elsenburg 7607 Tel. 021 808
5090 Fax [phone] E-mail
franciss_at_elsenburg.com