Sustainable Neighbourhoods Programme

National Department of Human Settlements (NDOHS) Programme.

In December, 2008 the then National Department of Housing (NDOH) now known as the National Department of Human Settlements (NDOHS)  signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Sustainability Institute (SI), in which both parties agreed to collaborate on a 3 year capacity building programme which aims to operationalise South Africa’s national housing policy “Breaking New Ground” with a particular focus on integrated, sustainable human settlements.

For more details about the Sustainable Neighbourhoods Programme, see the Sustainable Neighbourhoods Network .

The partnership with NDOHS involves the following:

Phase 1:

Research investigations; site visits to NDoHS priority projects in 9 provinces; July workshop for priority project teams; executive course for provincial and local government housing officials and their project teams; curriculum development for basic and executive course and project web system design.

Phase 2:

Train the trainers program for designated provincial and local government; trainers who will train other government officials and project team members; further define and design curriculum including audio visual materials; national conference, roll out of basic and executive courses

Phase 3:

Train the trainers programme for community members in understanding integrated sustainable human settlements; national conference, roll out of basic and executive courses 

All work will be carefully documented and made available on our website.

City of Cape Town Bylaw Project

In phase 1, this  project  analysed waste minimisation strategies and determined the direct costs and associated benefits of the proposed City of Cape Town Integrated Waste Management (IWM) By-law under development by the Solid Waste Management (SWM) Department. The next phase of this project will  model tariff and rates implications of waste minimisation.  The proposed By-law gives effect to the Council’s IWM Policy that was adopted in May 2006, which follows national policy and waste management legislation.

City of Cape Town Discussion Papers Project

This project sourced lead consultants to write solutions based academic papers in the following sectors:

1. Water and Sanitation
2. Energy
3. Solid Waste
4. Transport
5. Natural Space and City growth
6. Urban Form
7. Economic and Industrial Development
8. Ecological Footprint
9. Architecture and building materials
10. Social Justice
11. Social Housing
12. Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security
13. Financial Flows

These papers are being compiled in a book, to be published by Stellenbosch University.