Greening of the Nation Programme

1. Greening of the Nation Programme Directorate: Environmental Education

2. 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

3. 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

4. A school before SANBI’s intervention • [PMG note: photographs not included]

5. Garden design for the previous school • [PMG note: photographs not included]

6. Same school after being greened • [PMG note: photographs not included]

7. A school before being greened • [PMG note: photographs not included]

8. Same school after being greened • [PMG note: photographs not included]

9. A more developed garden after being greened • [PMG note: photographs not included]

10. One of the greened schools • [PMG note: photographs not included]

11. One of the greened schools • [PMG note: photographs not included]

12. One of the greened schools • [PMG note: photographs not included]

13. A greening team together with a Dept of Educ official • [PMG note: photographs not included]

14. SANBI ORG Officer with the greening team • [PMG note: photographs not included]

15. A proud principal in a newly developed indigenous garden • [PMG note: photographs not included]

16. SANBI Gardener educating the greening team how to plant a tree • [PMG note: photographs not included]

17. To create a green,healthy and beautiful environment Strategic selection of target areas • DEAT nodal areas • Existing partnerships • Link with existing projects

18. 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

19. Rehabilitation of degraded land • De-vegetated/bare/sheet eroded sites • Gully eroded sites • Sites infested with alien and alien invader plant species

20. 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)

21. 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

22. About the programme • Duration: 2years 4 months • Costs: R70 000 000.00 • Deliverables: • 1 984 people must be employed • 20 SMME’s 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

23. 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

24. What has been done (School greening) • [PMG note: photographs not included]

25. What has been done (Nursery development: SMME development) • [PMG note: photographs not included]

26. 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

27. Interns on a work-based experiential training in December 2004 • [PMG note: photographs not included]

28. Interns on a work-based experiential training in December 2004 • [PMG note: photographs not included]

29. Interns on a work-based experiential training in December 2004 • [PMG note: photographs not included]

30. Interns celebrating one of the gardens developed during 12/04 • [PMG note: photographs not included]

31. Plant propagation • [PMG note: photographs not included]

32. What has been done (Training Provided) • Horticultural • Landscaping • Environmental Education • Nature conservation • Other

33. What has been done (Development of a Project management system) • Web-based project management system

34. What has been done (Corporate identity) • Development of a logo for the greening programme

35. 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

36. 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