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BIODIVERSITY SKILLS PILOT PROJECT – 2016-2018
As part of eThekwini Municipality’s work in the resilience space, a report was commissioned in 2015 to explore a range of social and economic trends in Durban. A key finding was that the City is currently experiencing a ‘Brain Drain’, i.e. the loss of skilled intellectual and technical labour through the movement of such labour to more favourable geographic, economic or professional environments.This challenge was also highlighted in the City’s Resilience Strategy, which points to the mismatch that exists between the skills of residents and the job opportunities that are available to them, as a critical factor undermining urban resilience. Skills and developing skills, especially scarce skills such as mathematics and science, has always been one of the focus areas within eThekwini Municipality, as noted within
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