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SERVICE PROVIDER BRIEFING SESSION FOR EXTERNAL
EVALUATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMMES
DATE: 22 October 2013
Directorate: Monitoring and Evaluation
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
• Programme overview: EPIP & NRM
• Evaluation technical
PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
BRANCH: ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMMES
• Environmental Protection and
Infrastructure Programmes (EPIP)
• Natural Resource Management (NRM)
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION & INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMMES:
OVERALL OBJECTIVES
Better environmental management practices
Job creation
SMME Development
Skills Development
Funding Criteria Highlight
EPIP is an EPWP programme
Labour intensive projects – requirement of 35-45 % of budget for wages
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION & INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMMES:
FOCUS AREAS
Working on Waste
Working for the Coast
Working for Land
Greening & Open Space Management
People & Parks
Wildlife Economy
Youth Environmental Service
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION & INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMMES:
WORKING ON WASTE
Strategic Objectives
Create and support mechanisms for
the protection of environmental
quality
Create sustainable livelihoods
through recycling of waste (waste
collection & minimization)
Support the use of environmentally
friendly waste disposal technology
Promote environmental education
and awareness to the communities
especially as they are the main waste
generators
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION & INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMMES:
GREENING & OPEN SPACE MANAGEMENT
Strategic Objectives
• Restoration, enhancing and
rehabilitation of open spaces
• Maximize measures towards
pollution mitigation
• Improve climate change adaptation
through minimization of biodiversity
loss
• Encourage use of greener
technologies to mitigate against
environmental degradation
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION & INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMMES:
WORKING FOR LAND
Strategic Objectives
To restore and rehabilitate
degraded land
To encourage biodiversity
Curtailing of bush encroachment
Mitigate Bush Encroachment
Mitigate loss of top soil which will
enhance ecological integrity of
the ecosystem
Encourage better land use
practices
Environmental education and
awareness
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION & INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMMES:
PEOPLE & PARKS
Strategic Objectives
• Biodiversity conserved, protected and
threats mitigated.
• Fair access and equitable sharing of
benefits from biological resource
promoted.
• Biological resources sustainability
utilized and regulated.
• Improved socio-economic benefits within
the environmental sector.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION & INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMMES:
WILDLIFE ECONOMY
Strategic Objectives
• Fair access and equitable sharing of
benefits arising from bio prospecting
involving indigenous biological resources
promoted
• Biological resources sustainability utilized
and regulated.
• Improved socio-economic benefits within
the environmental sector.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION & INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMMES:
WORKING FOR THE COAST
Strategic Objective
• Protection and conservation of
coastal environment.
• Equitable access to coastal public
property
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION & INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMMES:
YOUTH ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE
OBJECTIVES
•Practical skills that are needed in the environment and conservation sector •High self esteem and a sense of self worth •Learn a sense of responsibility and accountability through years of service •A chance to enter the job market in the environment and conservation •Skills required to set up their own businesses
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: OVERALL OBJECTIVE
Improved socio-economic benefits
Public employment opportunities
Investment on restoration and maintenance of natural
resources (ecological infrastructure)
Enhance security and delivery of ecosystem services
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: FOCUS AREAS
Working for Water (WfW)
Working for Land (WfL)
Working for Forests (WfF)
Working for Energy WfE (Biomass to Energy)
Eco-Furniture Programme (EFP)
Working on Fire (WoF)
Working for Wetlands
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Working for Water (WfW)
AIM: improve integrity of natural
resources by preventing the
introduction of new invasive species;
and management of the impact of
established invasive alien species.
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Working for Land (WfL)
AIM: restore the composition,
structure and function of degraded
land, thereby enhancing ecosystem
functioning, such as carbon
sequestration, water regulation and
purification.
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Working for Forests (WfF)
AIM: promote the conversion of
invading alien plant stands, and
degraded Category B and C state
forests, into utilizable resources for
meeting basic community needs as
well as sustainable forestry land-use
practices.
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Working for Energy WfE (Biomass to Energy)
AIM: seeks to make optimal
use of the biomass cleared
through the Working for Water
programme,
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Eco-Furniture Programme (EFP)
AIM: seeks to make optimal use of the
biomass cleared through the Working for
Water programme, by creating work
opportunities to make products that help
Government to meet its needs, and
notably the pro-poor opportunities within
this. … , with a particular emphasis on the
needs of disadvantaged schools, including
school desks, benches and other
furniture.
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Working on Fire (WoF)
AIM: enhance the sustainability and
protection of life, livelihoods, ecosystem
services and natural processes through
integrated fire management.
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Working for Wetlands
AIM: protection, rehabilitation and
enhanced sustainable use of
South Africa’s wetlands
EVALUATION STUDY
RATIONALE
Programme logic/Design vs DEA mandate & EPWP
objective
Theory of change - Public Value & Measurement for
results
Intervention logic and inter-programme relations
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
AIM: rationale and description of ‘how’ and ‘why’ the programmes
should lead to the achievement of the intended outcomes and
impact.
OBJECTIVES:
Programme design of the Environmental Programmes,
Each programme leads to the intended programme results; and
Alignment with the departmental mandate.
KEY QUESTIONS
Underlying rationale for the programmes
Intended outcomes and impacts of the programmes
Programmes structured to achieve intended goals
Programme elements need to be modified
EVALUATION DESIGN
SCOPE OF THE EVALUATION:
Limited to the National Resources Management (NRM) and Environmental Protection and Infrastructure Programmes (EPIP).
TARGET POPULATION:
DEA officials – branch managers, programme managers
METHOD:
Quantitative - Regression Analysis
Qualitative
END
QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS