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Internship programme boosts City’s environmental team
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On 2 March, 31 environmental interns started work at the City of Cape Town’s Environmental Resource Management (ERM) Department as part of an ongoing Environmental Internship Programme.
Each intern is placed with a specific City employee, who manages and mentors the intern for 12 months. Although highly qualified in a specific environmental field, the intern is fresh out of university and often lacks practical workplace skills and experience.
ERM has been successfully running these environmental internships for the past four years.
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| Back - left to right: Melissa Ray Goosen; Shane Woldendorp Row 2nd from back, left to right: Jacobus L Uys; Maike Hamman; Steven Marks; Claire Martens; Sarah Atmore; Farayi Madziwa; Treve Jenkin; Bruce Garven; Sven Ragaller; Yohann Rouillard Row 3rd from back left to right: Connette Koorts; Nicole Andrews; Mzwandile Fulani; Khumbudzo Ramasunzi; Ntobeko Dyani; Portia Tsomo; Graham Burt; Row 2nd from front left to right: Linda Kilani (CPUT Co-op student); Charlene Dickson; Taryn Joshua; Marie Louise van den Berg; Shafeeq Mallick; Front row: Stephanie Coetzee; Cindy Lee Cloete; Malcolm Lamour; Maheerah Hendricks Absent: Khungeka Beda; Megan Lukas; Nazmeera Ismail; Vonani Maluleke |
Interns will work in areas such as Biodiversity Management, Coastal Management, Heritage Resource Management, Environmental Management Systems and GIS, Nature Reserves, Environmental Communications and Education, and Sustainable Livelihoods.
The programme already enjoys a reputation of an excellent learning experience for interns, and the City of Cape Town departments, companies and organisations that have employed previous participants are impressed with the level of capacity building and skills enhancement that has been achieved in a year.
Last year, ERM interns worked on projects such as a feasibility study for bike rentals for Cape Town (to offer one solution to road congestion, air pollution, lack of access by the urban poor, energy shortages; a resource survey within the City investigating how much paper City employees use, and what’s done with it; and 2010 Green Goal Mouille Point Student Landscape Design Competition, where landscape design and architecture students from the University of Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology produced conceptual designs to landscape and furnish the Mouille Point Promenade and beachfront area.
For the past three years, the Environmental Internship Programme has been fully financed by the Danida Urban Environmental Management (UEM) Programme. | |
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Martin Pollack
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2009/03/16
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