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Sharing experiences for South – South leverage: Integrating population and environment issues for sustainable development

Jacques van Zuydam National Population Unit, Department of Social Development Republic of South Africa PPD International Conference Yogyakarta, Indonesia 26 – 27 October 2010

Presentation overview:

• Background
• Partners
• Course content:

Leadership Training in Sustainable Development: The Population Environment Development Nexus

• Progress
• Evaluation
• Other developments

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Background:

• ICPD PoA
• SADC’s “Maputo Resolution” 2004
• Population policy and national P&D

Strategy

• South – South collaboration
• Target groups

Partners:

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Course content:

POPULATION DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

NEXU EXUS

Pre-Course reading Pre-course evaluation

Main Theme: PED for Sustainable Development Topics

• Overview of Key Population, Development and Environment concepts and Linkages; international agreements
• Systems thinking
• Fish Bank
• The role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in sustainable development
• Globalization, trade and sustainable development

PED Nexus

Theme: Environment and Development Topics

• Ecosystems and global change
• Ecological Footprint
• Resource utilisation
• Case study (e.g. Mining)

Theme: Pop & Development Topics

• Pop, gender &dev
• Repro Health & Dev
• Socioeconomic impacts of

HIV/AIDS Theme: Pop & Environment Topics:

• Land tenure & Human Settle
• Agriculture & Food Security

Case study & Site visit Post-course Evaluation Competencies in leadership & Mgt Topics

• Communication Skills
• Conflict Resol, negot &Dec-Making
• Change Management
• Group dynamics & Teamwork
• Talk on what is leadership
• Monitoring & Evaluation

Enviro Mgt Tools & Frameworks

• EIA
• SIA
• IDP

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Progress:

• 18 courses at 5 universities, 465 participants since 2005
• 86 Participants from 13 SEA countries and 5 other PPD

members

• Feeder for the LEAD Fellows Programme: +- 60 persons
• Gender parity in enrolment
• Used in LEAD regional training in Senegal and Pakistan
• Spin-off courses:

PED in IDP training for municipalities 2008+ PED @ University of Dar-es-Salaam 2010+ LEAD IS 2010: Population, Climate Change and Development: 200 participants, many PPD member countries NMMU: Africa Population, Climate Change and Development training course 2011+

Evaluation:

• Comprehensive, independent evaluation in 2006:

“it indeed is succeeding in building capacity in substantive integration of population concerns with sectoral issues”

• PPD “best practice case study” 2010:

”innovative … unique way of interactive teaching methodology … raising awareness … various policy and planning settings … portable and replicable” “…participants grasped the idea … and have developed the skill to integrate them into policies and programmes … this outcome has been accomplished”

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Other developments:

• PED Research
• PED Newsletter
• Provincial PED Networks
• P&D Information and Knowledge Service
• PED in conferences and seminars
• National Climate Change Strategy: Adaptation
• Partnerships: regional and national
• PPD scholarships
• PPD “best practice” case study
• Port Elizabeth / Eastern Cape “Local Footprint Programme”:

awareness, capacity building, dialogue, strategy