1. Greening of the Nation Programme Directorate: Environmental Education

2. Purpose of the programme To create a green,healthy and beautiful environment To re-introduce and conserve rare, endangered, extinct and threatened species To rehabilitate degraded land To instill a culture of greening to various stakeholders To contribute in the eradication of poverty through job creation and skills development

3. Replication of existing outreach greening projects The following pictures show what is currently being done in schools and this is a picture of how indigenous garden development in schools and communities is going to look like

4. A school before SANBI ’ s intervention [PMG note: photographs not included]

5. Garden design for the previous school [PMG note: photographs not included]

6. Same school after being greened [PMG note: photographs not included]

7. A school before being greened [PMG note: photographs not included]

8. Same school after being greened [PMG note: photographs not included]

9. A more developed garden after being greened [PMG note: photographs not included]

10. One of the greened schools [PMG note: photographs not included]

11. One of the greened schools [PMG note: photographs not included]

12. One of the greened schools [PMG note: photographs not included]

13. A greening team together with a Dept of Educ official [PMG note: photographs not included]

14. SANBI ORG Officer with the greening team [PMG note: photographs not included]

15. A proud principal in a newly developed indigenous garden [PMG note: photographs not included]

16. SANBI Gardener educating the greening team how to plant a tree [PMG note: photographs not included]

17. To create a green,healthy and beautiful environment Strategic selection of target areas DEAT nodal areas Existing partnerships Link with existing projects

18. Re-introduce and conserve rare, endangered, extinct and threatened species Selective consideration of indigenous plants to be planted in schools and community gardens Development of nurseries that will be used as educational facilities as well as production points to supply schools and community projects with indigenous plants

19. Rehabilitation of degraded land De-vegetated/bare/sheet eroded sites Gully eroded sites Sites infested with alien and alien invader plant species

20. Develop a culture of greening to key role-players Capacity building programmes Public awareness on the importance of planting indigenous vegetation Adopt an area approach (AAA)

21. Contribute in the eradication of poverty through job creation and skills development Number of jobs created Number of person days Skills development The internship programme

22. About the programme Duration: 2years 4 months Costs: R70 000 000.00 Deliverables: 1 984 people must be employed 20 SMME ’ s must be utilized 45 631training days must be covered during the duration of the project 25 000m 2 community greened area 4 500 trees planted 75 schools greened 6 indigenous and medicinal plant nurseries developed 20 interns 5 rehabilitated sites

23. About the programme Target areas: Sekhukhune Free State Mpumalanga (Nelspruit) Eastern Cape (Motherwell, Bizana, Mdantsane, Butterworth, Grahamstown) Western Cape(Mitchelsplain, Khayelitsha) Gauteng (Alexandra, Kagiso, Mamelodi, Eersterus, Hammanskraal, Winterveld, Atteridgeville, Soshanguve, Mabopane) Implementation strategy: In-house Out sourcing Both

24. What has been done (School greening) [PMG note: photographs not included]

25. What has been done (Nursery development: SMME development) [PMG note: photographs not included]

26. What has been done (Recruitment and training of interns) Pretoria: 5 Western Cape: 3 Free State: 3 Walter Sisulu: 2 Eastern Cape: 10 Lowveld NBG: 2

27. Interns on a work-based experiential training in December 2004 [PMG note: photographs not included]

28. Interns on a work-based experiential training in December 2004 [PMG note: photographs not included]

29. Interns on a work-based experiential training in December 2004 [PMG note: photographs not included]

30. Interns celebrating one of the gardens developed during 12/04 [PMG note: photographs not included]

31. Plant propagation [PMG note: photographs not included]

32. What has been done (Training Provided) Horticultural Landscaping Environmental Education Nature conservation Other

33. What has been done (Development of a Project management system) Web-based project management system

34. What has been done (Corporate identity) Development of a logo for the greening programme

35. What has been done (Integration of the greening programme with other initiatives) Identification of gaps/needs and constraints Identification of relevant institutions to address such needs and linking them with the greening programme

36. What has been done (Project identification ad implementation) In consultation with municipalities, various government departments and communities identify and consolidate project concepts and put them out on adverts to get service providers to assist in the implementation Advertisement of the greening of Nelspruit town; Burgersfort town, Bizana town and 40 schools