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4.6.5. Community Reforestation Project (CRP)
The Community Reforestation Programme responds to the strategic goals of eThekwini Municipality’s Integrated Development Plan. Its aims include preserving and restoring forest biodiversity, enhancing ecosystem services, and offsetting carbon emissions. Utilizing a Community Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (CEBA) approach, the programme engages local communities to tackle forest degradation and unemployment. It focuses on managing or fully restoring natural ecosystem fragments while creating jobs for locals to maintain these forests. Additionally, the programme serves as a model for climate change adaptation. The tables below summarize achievements in the 2023/24 financial year.
Table 14: Buffelsdraai and iNanda Mountain Forest Restoration in 2023-2024
Total IAP control (ha)
Total initial IAP control (ha)
Total follow-up IAP control (ha)
Total maintenance IAP control (ha)
Total training person days
Total staff trained (incl. SMMEs)
Total Treepreneurs trained
Total Treepreneurs who traded trees
Total jobs created
Total contractors
Total permanent jobs
Total part-time jobs
Total temporary jobs 0 Total person days
Total plants planted
Total planting area (ha)
Value of plants traded
Total wages
Total SMME spend
Key Performance Indicator
Achieved 2023/2024
Achieved 2023/2024
Buffelsdraai
186,71
Inanda Mountain
135,74
32,22
0
0
0
154.47
135,74
0
306
31
25
78
0
0
9
31
25
7
2
20
15
4
1
7
6461
6144
21939
3300
29.6 ha
11
R 0.00
R 66 000.00
R 1,253,798.64
R 1,233,080.00
R 792 075.15
R641 700.00
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