Development of a resource protection and waste strategy for water use by the agricultural sector

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
M.E. Ligthelm ◽  
R. Ranwedzi ◽  
M. Morokane ◽  
M. Senne
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Strategic Process ◽  
Resource Protection ◽  
Activity Measures ◽  
Potential Pollution ◽  
Strategic Context

The South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) has started developing a strategy to regulate activities and water uses by the agricultural sector that could impact on the water resource quality. The aim would not be to over-regulate the sector, but to protect the water resource where necessary. Most of these activities constitute diffuse sources of potential pollution. The strategic process will start with investigative discussions with major stakeholders and determining the strategic context and current situation. The latter will consist of a detailed literature and stakeholder survey, and an evaluation of existing agricultural activities. The next steps of determining a vision and the setting of strategic objectives will be done with active participation by the major players. An action plan will be developed to achieve the set objectives. Important components of the strategy will be to: classify activities according to their risk to the water resource, taking into account the sensitivity of the water resource; set regulatory measures in accordance with the risk posed by the activity (measures could include the promulgation of regulations, general authorisations and/or issuing of licenses); harmonise and link the process with existing relevant processes and guidelines within DWAF and other government departments; review existing guidelines; sign agreements with relevant government departments and the agricultural sector; and provide training, built capacity and raise awareness during and after the process.

scholarly journals A conceptual framework to facilitate clinical judgement in nursing: A methodological perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna C. Van Graan ◽  
Martha J.S. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
South African ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Clinical Judgement ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Teaching Learning

The South African health care and education systems are challenged to provide independent, critical thinking nurses who can cope with diversity in a creative way and define their role in a complex, uncertain, rapidly changing health care environment. Quality clinical judgement is an imperative characteristic that newly qualified professional nurses should possess. To accommodate these needs, SANC in line with the SAQA Act, advocated the development of teaching and learning strategies to balance theory and practice opportunities together with an outcome-based, student centred approach and appropriate clinical supervision. This resulted in a positive outcome to facilitate the integration/fusion of theory and practice. The purpose of this study was to synthesise a teaching–learning strategy for creating an enabling learning environment to facilitate clinical judgement in South African undergraduate nursing students. The proposed teaching–learning strategyis grounded in modern-day constructivist approach of learning. The conceptual or theoretical framework of this study aimed to link the central concepts that were identified from the conclusions of four (4) strategic objectives of the two preceding phases of the study into a new structure of meaning that served as a basis for the proposed strategy. The implementation of the proposed action plan to achieve the stated strategic objectives should empower the relevant role players to facilitate clinical judgement in undergraduate nursing students and thereby promote autonomous and accountable nursing care.

Understanding Key Intelligence Needs (KINs)

2007 ◽  
pp. 111-121
Author(s):  
A. Toit
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Furniture Industry ◽  
Practical Situation ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Essential Aspect ◽  
Internal Customers

This chapter explains how to translate an organization’s strategic aims into key intelligence needs (KINs) and how to prioritize and categorize the needs. It argues that an essential aspect for any competitive intelligence (CI) professional is to gain the confidence of management to determine what information about the environment should be collected in order to produce intelligence. Furthermore the author hope that understanding how to determine a set of KINs as derived from an organization’s vision, mission, and strategic objectives and how to break down KINs into general and specific KINs will assist CI professionals to understand what their internal customers want to know about, need to know about and should know about and why, when they need to know it, and who needs to know it by identifying KINs. The application of KINs in a practical situation is illustrated in a case study of a South African company in the furniture industry.

scholarly journals Mentorship alliance between South African established and developing farmers for sustainable agriculture sector reform

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 554-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
OO Olubode-Awosola ◽  
HD Van Schalkwyk
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Institutional Arrangement ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Institutional Infrastructure ◽  
Role Players ◽  
The Government ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Corporate Business

The South African government provides access to agricultural land for people not adequately represented in the agricultural sector.  However, the government lacks sufficient funds and institutional infrastructure to provide post-settlement support to the settled developing farmers. A farmer-to-farmer mentorship programme between established and developing farm types has been identified as an institutional arrangement that could complement the government’s efforts. However, at this stage government and other role-players lack frameworks for this type of mentorship programme.This study conceptualises a complementary mentorship alliance that is loosely structured, without the complicated legal and contractual processes involved in corporate business alliances. This alliance will hopefully lead to highly committed joint ventures in the industry in the near future.  The study also provides frameworks within which the role-players could contribute to the success of mentorship programme.

scholarly journals South African National Climate Change Response Policy Sensitization: An Assessment of Smallholder Farmers in Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape Province

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oluwabunmi Oluwaseun Popoola ◽  
Shehu Folaranmi Gbolahan Yusuf ◽  
Nomakhaya Monde
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
South African ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Climate Change Response ◽  
Change Response ◽  
Response Policy

The South African National Climate Change Response Policy (NCCRP) was instituted in October 2011. Amongst the policy’s priorities is building capacity and resilience in the country’s agricultural sector, with the public agricultural extension system being a principal component for climate change sensitization, education, and capacity building. This study, therefore, investigated the level of the policy awareness amongst smallholder farmers in the study area and the sensitization and response implementation. A multistage sampling procedure was used in the selection of the study population, with a cross-sectional household survey conducted using semi-structured questionnaires. Findings revealed that there was an extremely low awareness of the policy, and a dearth of sensitization campaigns and capacity-building training by extension officers in the study area. The practical and policy implications outlined could aid an increase in the resilience of farmers, with support from extension advisers and other relevant stakeholders.

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