Transcript Department of Environmental Affairs Response to National Planning

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Diagnostic Overview
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DIAGNOSTIC OVERVIEW
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The table below demonstrates the diagnosis on cross-cutting issues
and planned actions by the department aimed at addressing the
identified challenges :
Diagnosis
Planned Action
Facilitation of Green economy
strategy (green jobs potential)
 Scaling up Expanded Public
Works Programme (creation of
decent work)- sustainable land
based livelihoods, working on
waste, people & parks, working
High unemployment rate and low
for: water, wetlands, coasts, fires
earnings
Labour intensive programmes
aimed at providing employment (in
most cases temporary in nature)
there is also a focus on skills and
experience to enable beneficiaries
to participate in mainstream
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economy
DIAGNOSTIC OVERVIEW

The table below demonstrates the diagnosis on cross-cutting issues
and planned actions by the department aimed at addressing the
identified challenges :
Diagnosis
Planned Action
•Cooperation with the Department
of Education, South African
Qualifications Authority (SAQA)
and Sector Education & Training
Authorities (SETAs) in supporting
The quality of education for poor continuous review of
black
South
Africans
is environmental curriculum linked to
sector demands (provincial
substandard
workshops, training teachers i.e.
Limpopo and Northwest
•Facilitating skills development for
the sector (engagement with
schools and tertiary institutions
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DIAGNOSTIC OVERVIEW CONT.
Diagnosis
Planned Action
Improved environmental impact
assessment processes (social and
economic infrastructure)
Contribution of environmental
assets towards rural developmentCreation of Community parks,
Poorly located and inadequate
infrastructure limits social inclusion easy access (roads)
and faster economic growth
 Cooperation towards resolution
of post-settlement claims & post
settlement support- economic
growth for communities (sourcing
funds and technical support for
communities post settlement of
their land claims
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DIAGNOSTIC OVERVIEW CONT.
Diagnosis
Spatial challenges continue
Marginalise the poor
Planned Action
•Sustainable Land use
management and integrated
spatial planning (alignment of
national and provincial sectoral
infrastructure initiatives with
to municipal plans)
•Infrastructure development in
rural areas (EPWP projects)
•Geographic Information System
(GIS) based spatial land- use
planning
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DIAGNOSTIC OVERVIEW CONT.
Diagnosis
Planned Action
Fostering a global sustainable
development agenda taking into
account the natural environment
as a material condition for
development
South Africa’s growth path is •Renewable Energy deployment
highly resource intensive and
• Mitigating & Adapting to the
unstable
impacts of climate change
•energy
intensive
coal-based
•restoration and rehabilitation of
nature of the economy
degraded ecosystems,
•Climate Change
•Expansion of the conservation
•Natural Resource exploitation
estate
•Threatened biodiversity
• Integrated and innovative
approaches to natural resource
management – establishing
minimum requirements for biodiversity
management in land use planning, 6
biodiversity good-practice guidelines
DIAGNOSTIC OVERVIEW CONT.
Diagnosis
Planned Action
Ease the burden on health system
by giving effect to the right of
citizens to an environment that is
not harmful to their health or wellbeing through:
The ailing public health system
Reduction of atmospheric
confronts a massive disease
pollutants including continued rollburden
out of Cleaner fires campaign
(Basa njegomagogo)
Effective Waste Management
(General, Hazardous & Medical
waste)
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DIAGNOSTIC OVERVIEW CONT.
Diagnosis
Planned Action
•Local government support in
The performance of the public environmental functions to
service is uneven
improve service delivery
•Improved sector monitoring &
evaluation capacity
Integrated approach to prevention
Corruption
undermines
state of poaching activities
legitimacy and service delivery
Cooperation with justice cluster
•Fight against crime and corruption on environmental crimes
 Improve
compliance
with
environmental laws
Contribute towards building
cohesive and sustainable
communities through
South Africa remains a divided implementation of expanded public
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society
works programme projects for the
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