• Agriculture - Land Care o Science and Technology - Technology support
• Arts and Culture - products, culture,
• Water Affairs and Forestry - Working for Water, Fire
• DEAT - coordinate the sector

Roles of the sector departments

• Contribute to the sector strategic priorities and plan
• Put in place business plans
• Facilitate implementation
• Submit progress reports
• Determine areas of improvements and amendments to the sector plan

• Environmental improvement & tourism growth in the nodes using labour intensive approaches

• investments through funding sector projects aligned with Departmental strategic plans, IDP's & PGDS

• Sector training and skills development plan linked to possible exit strategies

Consolidation and expansion of service provision in areas of

• landscape rehabilitation

• greening lungs alongside housing developments,

• rehabilitation

• on of wetlands,

• control of invasive species,

• community nurseries establishment

• waste management Initiatives,

• artworks and market linked product development

• SMME technology support

• heritage and tourism mutes etc

How the sector works

The sector has formed 3 sub committees which look at

• Monitoring and evaluation

• Training

• Communication

• The coordinating committee meets quarterly.

• A sector DG's committee meets quarterly. A common M&E system is in place.

· A separate mechanism for the coordination of EPWP with Provinces & Local Govt being initiated.

TARGET OUTPUTS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE SECTOR

• 200 000 unemployed people to acquire work & income between 2004/5 and 2008

• Participants receive training linked to job requirements and exit strategies

• learnerships, Short courses or skills programmes offered

• emerging contractors trained in managing labour intensive contracts

• Officials capacitated to manage labour intensive contracts

• Hectares cleared of alien vegetation
• Wetlands rehabilitated

• Fire protection associations supported

• Coasts cleaned and facilities upgraded

• Technology transferred to SMMEs

Waste management programmes established

Progress to date

• Quarterly reports being submitted as required.

• 3 sub committees established and functional

• 1 208 EPWP projects being implemented

• 847 job opportunities created to date

• 155 training person days were achieved

• Provincial sector committees being developed and participation improved.

Way Forward

· Coordination of national sector and provincial sectors to be improved

· Involvement of provinces and municipalities to be improved.

· Further areas of expansion to be explored

· Training reports by the sector to be improved

· Relations with SETAs to be strengthened to enable learnership implementation