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:
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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:
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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:
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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