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4.6.3. Community Reforestation Project (CRP)
The EPCPD has partnered with the Wildlands Conservation Trust (WCT) in order to restore selected indigenous forest areas in the EMA.The reforestation programme has adopted the Community Ecosystem Based Adaption (CEBA) model, which demonstrates the strong and vital link between socio-economic upliftment and biodiversity conservation, enhanced ecosystem functioning and carbon sequestration.‘Treepreneurs’ propagate treesattheirhomesteadsthroughtheIndigenousTreesforLife Programme developed by WCT. Treepreneurs then trade their trees for basic food items, clothes, building materials and even school fees. Ninety percent of people who now benefit from this project were earning wages below the poverty line, and are, therefore, from some of the most vulnerable communities in the country. Many of these Treepreneurs are women and children, unemployed adults and pensioners.
Table 9 indicates the performance indicators for the restoration projects at Inanda Mountain and Buffelsdraai, with Table 10 indicating budget comparisons between 2008 and 2019.
Table 9: Reforestation projects for the 2018/2019 municipal financial year
Key Performance Indicators
Achieved 2018/2019
Achieved 2018/2019
Buffelsdraai
Inanda Mountain
Total IAP control (ha)
314.17
128
Total initial IAP control (ha)
179.05
0
Total follow-up IAP control (ha)
1.16
128
Total maintenance IAP control (ha)
133.96
0
Total training person days
223
143
Total staff trained (incl. SMMEs)
138
30
Total treepreneurs trained
0
0
Total treepreneurs who traded trees
225
0
Total jobs created
60
30
Total contractors
32
2
Total permanent jobs
24
19
Total part-time jobs
4
1
Total temporary jobs
0
8
Total person days
9 490
2 895
Total plants planted
47 127
0
Total planting area (ha)
132.06
0
Value of plants traded
R377 383.00
R0
Total wages
R1 322 490.00
R699 110.00
Total SMME spend
R1 294 823.63
R911 890.00
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