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CIDA Youth Internship: Integrated Rural Development:
October 6th, 2006
Project Description
The purpose of the Limpopo-SERA Greater Giyani Natural Resource Development Programme is to establish commercially viable projects through active community leadership and participation. This will be done through the establishment of a number of individual but ecologically and economically linked sustainable projects, focusing on the utilisation of the natural resources in the Greater Giyani Local Municipality jurisdictional area. The underlying focus of this programme will be the broad based economic empowerment of local communities and an integrated approach to sustainable development in the region.
In order for communities to succeed, a visionary approach needs to be adopted by the local municipality to support the communities in their efforts. Currently, Local Municipalities are faced with the daunting task of providing adequate services to their constituents, whilst, in many cases, faced with a lack of manpower and capacity.In light of these complexities, the Programme further aims to assist the Local Government in planning, coordinating, managing, monitoring and evaluating local economic developmentThe internship concerned will focus on determining the status quo in respect of agricultural production in the relevant traditional community areas within the jurisdictional area of Greater Giyani Local Municipality.
It will also determine the economic and related potential of the areas concerned (whilst taking into account present levels of skills and indigenous knowledge systems). The outcome of this status quo report will inform the drafting of an appropriate business plan for the identified activities by the intern specialising in business development.
The Centre for Property Studies has been granted funding for 2 young professionals to work under the scope of this project. The internships include: Business Plan Developer and an Agricultural Production
Business Plan Developer: Participation in the drafting of implementation manuals for government officials working with land reform, will be the key activity of the intern. Within this context, the drafting of a comprehensive and all encompassing implementation manual with a specific emphasis on communal tenure reform (which, in terms of the recently enacted Communal Land Rights Act 18 of 2004 will affect approximately 15 mil Traditional Community members who reside in South Africa's deep rural areas and who still, to a large extent, adhere to Traditional Governance structures and systems; in addition, this involvement will also be transferable to the transformation of communal tenure systems in other parts of Southern Africa).
The intern will also be involved in determining the appropriate intergovernmental relations between the National, Provincial and Local spheres of government which will receive particular attention. The internship concerned will focus on developing appropriate comprehensive business plans for the activities related to the substantive projects in the above programme (which include, but are not limited to, oyster mushroom production, the commercialisation of Mopani worm products and small-scale beekeeping). Furthermore, it will also encompass the integration and co-ordination in the business plan concerned of issues relevant to successful business development, including (but not limited to) access to finance, training, skills development, role of government, role of private sector, co-ordination and management structures and systems (both financial and substantive), as well as monitoring, evaluation, impact assessment and reporting and intervention structures and systems.
Evaluation of Agricultural Production: The focus of this internship will be to determine the status quo in respect of agricultural production in the relevant traditional community areas within the jurisdictional area of Greater Giyani Local Municipality. It will also determine the economic and related potential of the areas concerned (whilst taking into account present levels of skills and indigenous knowledge systems). The outcome of this status quo report will inform the drafting of an appropriate business plan for the identified activities by the intern specialising in business development.
This intern will be responsible for the evaluation of Agricultural production and will be required to identify what activities are currently practised in the communities in the intervention area, to determine the economic and related potential of the areas concerned.
Funding: CIDA
Partners: Centre for Land-related Regional and Development Law and Policy at the University of Pretoria, South Africa |
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