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Title: EASD


1
EASD
  • EASD Strategy 2004 - 2007
  • Mobilising People and Knowledge for Sustainable
    Development in Africa

2
Vision
  • EASDs vision is a network of empowered people
    leading a new and powerful process of sustainable
    development in Africa that eliminates poverty and
    conserves the environment.

3
Mission
  • EASD develops people, technologies, projects,
    processes and institutions that enable
    sustainable development in Africa and globally.

4
EASD Core Areas
  • EASD focuses on research, development and
    service provision in the following areas
  • Poverty, environment and development.
  • Environmental information knowledge management
    systems.
  • Capacity Building, coaching and mentoring.
  • Facilitation and strategy development.

5
Poverty, Environment Development
  • Provide new models for sustainable development
    focusing on poverty alleviation that provides
    significant environmental co-benefits.
  • Develop projects and initiatives that create jobs
    and provide human development while conserving
    the environment in South Africa.

6
Environment Information Knowledge Management
Systems
  • Facilitate the development of environmental
    information knowledge management systems for
    environmental management, development poverty
    alleviation.
  • Produce and disseminate multimedia environment
    development information products that support the
    sustainable development process.

7
Capacity Building
  • Provide services for the design evaluation of
    capacity building programmes for environmental
    management.
  • Produce a package of capacity building materials
    for Environmental information systems, Knowledge
    Management State of the environment reporting.
  • Provide training, mentoring, coaching,
    networking, evaluation knowledge management
    services for Environmental strategy development,
    Environmental information KM systems,
    Management of environmental organizations State
    of the environment reporting.
  • Develop ways of increasing personal
    professional competencies using the natural
    environments as a key component.

8
Facilitation Strategy Development
  • Provide facilitation and meeting management
    services for environment and development
    processes.
  • Provide strategy and organisational development
    services for environment and development
    organisations and programmes.

9
Organisation
  • EASD is a private non profit organization.
  • EASD works through associates, interns, partners
    and networks to ensure use of the most relevant
    African expertise for our work.
  • EASD works to create opportunities through
    internship programmes for Africans to grow and
    develop, particularly those who have been
    oppressed by systems such as apartheid and gender
    bias.

10
Organisation
  • EASD is a learning organization.
  • EASD is based in Cape Town, South Africa, and
    mobilises African expertise for sustainable
    development.
  • EASD is funded by projects with the United
    Nations System, African institutions and
    governments, and other clients.
  • EASD works to promote networking to enable
    effective use of African capacity.

11
Organisation
  • Ownership is vested in the projects and
    initiatives developed by EASD and not in EASD
    itself. The intellectual property rights and
    financial benefits and liabilities are defined
    for each project or initiative with the core
    participants.
  • EASD values its partnership with fellow NGOs,
    the United Nations System, Universities, African
    governments and the private sector.
  • EASD believes that the use of indigenous
    knoweldge, combined with digital technology
    (including the Internet, film, video and
    multimedia) are powerful tools that enable us to
    provide high quality services to our clients and
    partners.

12
Values
  • Respect for the dignity of all people.
  • Commitment to personal development, the
    development of the EASD team and Africa.
  • Creativity, fun, family and a balanced life.
  • Integrity.
  • Professionalism and high quality service.
  • Passionate about people and the environment.
  • Open communication, dialogue and exchange of
    ideas.

13
Geographic Focus W Cape
  • Develop projects and programmes that provide
    jobs, alleviate poverty conserve the
    environment.
  • Develop environment based economic development
    projects.
  • Provide, and assist in the development of
    creative models for education as a key element
    for breaking the poverty cycle.

14
Geographic Focus West Coast
  • Propose alternative sustainable development
    models and projects that eliminate poverty and
    conserve the environment in the West Coast
    region.
  • Provide a strategic knowledge base for
    environment and development in West Coast Region.

15
Geographic Focus South Africa
  • Provide knowledge management solutions for
    environmental management.
  • Assist in the development of effective state of
    the environment reporting.
  • Assist the development of effective environmental
    information systems.
  • Support the professional development of women
    managers in environmental organizations.

16
Geographic Focus Africa
  • Provide capacity building packages, knowledge
    bases and training for the development of
    environmental information and knowledge
    management systems and state of the environment
    reporting.
  • Provide an effective African environmental
    information service to support African decision
    making processes.
  • Provide services to improve the design,
    implementation and evaluation of capacity
    building programmes.
  • Support the development of the capacity of women
    in management positions in African environmental
    organizations.
  • Provide evaluation, training, mentoring and
    strategy development services to improve the
    effectiveness of African environmental
    organizations.
  • Provide programme review and evaluation services.

17
Geographic Focus - Global
  • Support the United Nations Environment Programme
    (UNEP) in the development of effective global and
    regional programmes.
  • Work in partnership with the UNEP-World
    Conservation Monitoring Centre to develop
    effective biodiversity information systems.
  • Work in partnership with the UNEP and other
    partners to promote the development of effective
    integrated environmental assessments and
    environmental information systems at global and
    regional levels.
  • Support the development of environmental
    assessment and environmental information capacity
    and systems in the Arabian Gulf.

18
Associates
  • Dave MacDevette Environmental Information KM,
    Capacity building, facilitation strategy
    development.
  • Samantha Payne Poverty Environment.
  • Karen Goldberg Personal growth Environment.
  • Catherine Morris Video Production.
  • Rowena Hay Capacity building, education
    training.
  • Dan Claasen environmental planning and
    assessment.
  • Koffi Kouakou Strategy, information,
    communication.
  • Ciaran MacDevette Digital video production.
  • Joanne Boulton Poverty and environment
    housing.

19
Interns
  • Nosisa Mhlathi Communication and law.
  • Jill Oliver Development models.
  • Sue Moses Development models.

20
Partners
  • United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
  • Umvoto Africa.
  • Network for Environment Sustainable Development
    in Africa (NESDA).
  • War on Malnutrition, Tuberculosis Hunger
    (WARMTH).
  • Weave Productions.
  • From the Hip (video production).
  • University of Cape Town.
  • Environment Wildlife Development Agency (ERWDA)
    Abu Dhabi.
  • UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
    (UNEP-WCMC).
  • African Association for Remote Sensing of the
    Environment.
  • EIS Africa.
  • Regional Organization for the Protection of the
    Marine Environment (ROPME Arabian Gulf).
  • Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT), South Africa.
  • Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
    (CSIR), South Africa.
  • City of Cape Town.
  • IUCN.

21
Service Providers
  • Pacit Computer Services.
  • Gomedia Web and Internet.
  • Cape Rose Administration Bookkeeping.
  • Stirling Accounting Accounting Auditing.
  • DR Designs Design and illustration.

22
Network
  • Wilderness Action Group, South Africa.
  • World Water Assessment Programme.
  • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
  • University of Costa Rica.
  • Centre de Suivi Ecologique, Senegal
  • Centre for Environment and Development for the
    Arab Region Europe (CEDARE), Egypt.
  • International Institute for Sustainable
    Development (IISD).
  • IUCN - The World Conservation Union.
  • South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme
    (SPREP).
  • World Resources Institute (WRI).
  • The World Bank.
  • UNEP GRID Arendal.
  • United Nations Education and Training Institute.
  • UNEP Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the
    Pacific.
  • Department of Agriculture and Environment
    Affairs, KwaZulu Natal.
  • Southern African Development Community.
  • Periphery Development Media.
  • Umvoto Africa.
  • Weave Productions
  • UNEP GRID Geneva.
  • Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).
  • National Institute of Public Health and the
    Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands.
  • National Environmental Management Authority
    (Uganda).
  • Musokotwane Environment Resource Centre for
    Southern Africa (IMERCSA)
  • University of Botswana.
  • Indian Ocean Commission (IOC).
  • Seychelles Department of Environment.
  • UNEP GRID Sioux Falls.
  • Institute of Natural Resources, University of
    Natal.
  • European Environment Agency.
  • Department of Environment Affairs and Tourism,
    South Africa.
  • Department of Environment and Development
    Planning, Western Cape.
  • National Botanical Institute, South Africa.
  • Southern African Institute for Environmental
    Assessment.
  • Western Cape Nature Conservation Board.
  • Cape Action for People the Environment.
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