Greening of the Nation Programme

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Greening of the Nation Programme

• Directorate Environmental Education

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Purpose of the programme

• To create a green,healthy and beautiful
  environment
• To re-introduce and conserve rare, endangered,
  extinct and threatened species
• To rehabilitate degraded land
• To instill a culture of greening to various
  stakeholders
• To contribute in the eradication of poverty
  through job creation and skills development

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Replication of existing outreach greening projects

• The following pictures show what is currently
  being done in schools and this is a picture of
  how indigenous garden development in schools and
  communities is going to look like

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A school before SANBIs intervention

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Garden design for the previous school

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Same school after being greened

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A school before being greened

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Same school after being greened

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A more developed garden after being greened

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One of the greened schools

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One of the greened schools

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One of the greened schools

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A greening team together with a Dept of Educ
official

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SANBI ORG Officer with the greening team

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A proud principal in a newly developed indigenous
garden

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SANBI Gardener educating the greening team how to
plant a tree

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To create a green,healthy and beautiful
environment

• Strategic selection of target areas
• DEAT nodal areas
• Existing partnerships
• Link with existing projects

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Re-introduce and conserve rare, endangered,
extinct and threatened species

• Selective consideration of indigenous plants to
  be planted in schools and community gardens
• Development of nurseries that will be used as
  educational facilities as well as production
  points to supply schools and community projects
  with indigenous plants

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Rehabilitation of degraded land

• De-vegetated/bare/sheet eroded sites
• Gully eroded sites
• Sites infested with alien and alien invader plant
  species

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Develop a culture of greening to key role-players

• Capacity building programmes
• Public awareness on the importance of planting
  indigenous vegetation
• Adopt an area approach (AAA)

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Contribute in the eradication of poverty through
job creation and skills development

• Number of jobs created
• Number of person days
• Skills development
• The internship programme

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About the programme

• Duration 2years 4 months
• Costs R70 000 000.00
• Deliverables
• 1 984 people must be employed
• 20 SMMEs must be utilized
• 45 631training days must be covered during the
  duration of the project
• 25 000m2 community greened area
• 4 500 trees planted
• 75 schools greened
• 6 indigenous and medicinal plant nurseries
  developed
• 20 interns
• 5 rehabilitated sites

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About the programme

• Target areas
• Sekhukhune
• Free State
• Mpumalanga (Nelspruit)
• Eastern Cape (Motherwell, Bizana, Mdantsane,
  Butterworth, Grahamstown)
• Western Cape(Mitchelsplain, Khayelitsha)
• Gauteng (Alexandra, Kagiso, Mamelodi, Eersterus,
  Hammanskraal, Winterveld, Atteridgeville,
  Soshanguve, Mabopane)
• Implementation strategy
• In-house
• Out sourcing
• Both

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What has been done (School greening)

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What has been done (Nursery development SMME
development)

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What has been done (Recruitment and training of
interns)

• Pretoria 5
• Western Cape 3
• Free State 3
• Walter Sisulu 2
• Eastern Cape 10
• Lowveld NBG 2

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Interns on a work-based experiential training in
December 2004

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Interns on a work-based experiential training in
December 2004

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Interns on a work-based experiential training in
December 2004

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Interns celebrating one of the gardens developed
during 12/04

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Plant propagation

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What has been done (Training Provided)

• Horticultural
• Landscaping
• Environmental Education
• Nature conservation
• Other

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What has been done (Development of a Project
management system)

• Web-based project management system

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What has been done (Corporate identity)

• Development of a logo for the greening programme

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What has been done (Integration of the greening
programme with other initiatives)

• Identification of gaps/needs and constraints
• Identification of relevant institutions to
  address such needs and linking them with the
  greening programme

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What has been done (Project identification ad
implementation)

• In consultation with municipalities, various
  government departments and communities identify
  and consolidate project concepts and put them out
  on adverts to get service providers to assist in
  the implementation
• Advertisement of the greening of Nelspruit town
  Burgersfort town, Bizana town and 40 schools