The Environmental Capacity Building, Sustainable Livelihoods and Communication Branch aims to promote environmentally sustainable behaviour and lifestyle changes and thereby improve the state of the environment in Cape Town. Working with a range of City line functions and external partners, and ensuring integration, the branch undertakes environmental education, capacity building, training, environmental communication, environment-based sustainable livelihoods, cleaner production, event greening, eco-procurement and community outreach programmes.
The City's Environmental Awareness, Education and Training Strategy provides a framework to guide its various environmental awareness, education and training initiatives. The goals of the strategy are to encourage the Cape Town public to be environmentally aware and ensure that staff members are competent in environmental matters pertaining to their responsibilities.
Environmental education initiatives include:
Sustainable livelihoods and Local Agenda 21 initiatives/projects include:
- The Cape Town-Aachen LA21 Partnership, which aims to promote projects and sustainable development in a practical way, with a particular focus on poverty eradication.
Communication and marketing functions include:
- Production of various publications and resource materials
- Publication of a bi-annual newsletter called Enviroworks
- Liaison with the media
- Organisation of events and launches
- Exhibitions and displays
- Website development and maintenance
- Database maintenance and image library management
For further information, contact:
Tel: +27 (0)21 487 2284
Fax: +27 (0)21 487 2578
E-mail: enviro@capetown.gov.za
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