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Important focus areas of the Department of Social Development’s Strategy on Population and Development are to promote sustainable human development by focusing on population, environment and development (PED) interactions especially on local government level. Specifically, we aim to enhance leadership and management capacity in the government and civil society to integrate population, development and environment interactions into policies and programmes. The training sessions are accredited with the international LEAD programme. Participants can continue to also attend other courses of the LEAD associate programme at any of the LEAD’s 14 member programmes worldwide.
Integrated Development Planning (IDP) as planning approach used by municipalities to direct development objectives, through cost-effective ways of providing services need to take linkages between population, environment and development into account in order to achieve sustainable development. Therefore, this course assists development planners in all spheres of government to effectively get an in-depth understanding of the integration of population, environment and development within the context of the local IDP’s as well as the actual functionality of IDPs.
In doing so, the following objectives are pursued:
- To introduce the concept of Sustainable Development and its operational implications, which serve as platform on which the remainder of the course plays out.
- To aid the comprehension of urban challenges faced by IDP by placing it in the context of the population/environment/development nexus.
- To introduce tools for sustainability with which urban challenges are to be addressed in the context of Sustainable Development as well as IDP.
- To explore the challenges faced by IDP from within this planning process itself, with special reference on the question of information availability.
- To illustrate how sustainability tools and methodologies can be integrated into IDP in aid of urban sustainability, as well as IDP functionality, through the production of relevant information.
- To focus on operational aspects of selected sustainability methodologies and thus enable participants to produce information for the IDP process themselves.
- To promote and illustrate the utility of two essential sustainability tools – that is, Community Visioning and Geographical Information Systems (GIS).
DURATION
The programme is presented over 5-days, by Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and LEAD. DATES
PROGRAMME OUTLINE
- Theme 1: Introduction to sustainable development
- Theme 2: Local sustainability challenges in South Africa – the PED nexus
- Theme 3: Introduction to tools for sustainability
- Theme 4: Local sustainability challenges in South Africa – IDP challenges
- Theme 5: Integrating sustainability methodologies into IDP
- heme 6: Integrating selected sustainability methodologies – a practical approach
- Theme 7: Community visioning: community participation in IDP made easy
Who should attend?
Persons performing integrated development planning at any of the three spheres of government, e.g. IDP managers. FEES Fees per delegate: ZAR 10 000,000 (USD 1500) Included in the fees:
- 5 day tuition and training materials
- Lunch and refreshments
- Certificate on successful completion of the course
Please note that participants need to attend all five days to qualify for the certificate Excluded from the fees: Travel and accommodation
REMITTANCE DETAILS Account name: LEAD Southern Africa Type: Foreign Currency Account Account number: 0241136463600 Bank address: National Bank of Malawi, P.O Box 945, Blantyre Bank City: Blantyre Bank Branch: Zomba Bank Country: Malawi Bank Swift Code: NBMA-MW-MW Correspondent Bank: City Bank, New York, Swift Address: CITIUS 33
Bank deposits \ transfers should clearly state: PED into IDPs and your name
VENUE
The venue is: Conference Facilities, Summerstrand INN Hotel, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape.
Tel: 041 583 3131
Fax: 041 583 2505
Contact person: Sabrina
It is recommended that participants stay at the venue to ensure networking and group work. You are responsible for your own travel and accommodation arrangements and payments.
How TO REGISTER
To register for a session, the Registration Form should be completed and sent to:
Delani Shabane: FAX: 086 611 4747 TEL: 012 312 7611: e-mail
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FOR MORE INFORMATION
Course directors are: Dr Anton de Witt, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University: E-mail:
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Prof Sosten Chiotha, Director LEAD Southern Africa, University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi Tel +265-1-526 059, Tel +265-9-358 870 (ext 145), Fax +265-1-524 251 E-mail:
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www.lead.org Participants should bring along a pocket calculator and if possible a laptop computer.
Since a session can only accommodate 30 people, please book early!
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