PPT presentation

Understanding the interactions between population, environment and development for sustainable human development:

PED Nexus Training Programme in South Africa Innovative Approaches to Climate Change: Experiences from the United Nations System in South Africa COP-17, Durban, 28 November 2011

Jacques van Zuydam, National Population Unit Department of Social Development Republic of South Africa

Mark Bryan Schreiner Deputy Representative UNFPA South Africa

Presentation overview: • • • • •

Background Partners Course content Progress and evaluation Other developments

Background: • International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) PoA • SADC’s “Maputo Resolution” 2004 • South Africa’s Population Policy and National P&D Strategy 2004 - 2009 • Objectives • Target groups • Approach

Partners:

Course content: POPULATION

NEXUS

DEVELOPMENT

ENVIRONMENT

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

Competencies in Leadership & Mgt

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

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

Progress and evaluation: • • • •

23 courses, 716 participants since 2005 Participants from12 SEA countries; 13 global regions Feeder for the LEAD Fellows Programme NPU/UNFPA Evaluation in 2006: “... it indeed is succeeding in building capacity in substantive integration of population concerns with sectoral issues.” • PPD 2011: “… assessed to be an innovative practice that is portable, replicable and successful in addressing local development planning and implementation.”

Other developments: • • • • • • • • • • • •

PED in IDP training for municipalities 2008+ PED Research PED Newsletter Provincial PED Networks P&D Information and Knowledge Service PED in conferences and seminars National Climate Change Strategy: Adaptation Partnerships: south-south, regional and national, incl. scholarships LEAD IS 2010: Population, Climate Change and Development and its Local Footprint Programme (NMBM, Port Elizabeth) PPD International Conference 2011: Population Dynamics, Climate change and Sustainable Development and Pretoria Declaration PPD / UNDP/ UNFPA 2011: Sharing Innovative Experiences Vol19 NMMU 2012+: Pan-African course on Population, Climate Change and Development