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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


FOCUS AREAS

Working on Waste

Working for the Coast

Working for Land

Greening & Open Space Management

People & Parks

Wildlife Economy

Youth Environmental Service


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


GREENING & OPEN SPACE MANAGEMENT


• 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


WORKING FOR LAND


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


PEOPLE & PARKS


• 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.


WILDLIFE ECONOMY


• 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.


WORKING FOR THE COAST

Strategic Objective

• Protection and conservation of

coastal environment.

• Equitable access to coastal public

property


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

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QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS

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