RCE Eswatini-2012

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Submitted by RCEeswatini on Fri, 2012-08-10 00:00
1. General Information
Contact Name(s): 
Bhekithemba
Thusi
Organizational Affiliation : 
Swaziland National Trust Commission (RCE Swaziland member)
Role in the project: 
Trainer, organiser
To train local and regional ESD educators
E-Mail Address(es): 
neep@sntc.org.sz
bthusi2000@yahoo.co.uk
Project-relevant information: 
www.sadc-reep.org.za
2. Project Information
1. Project title: 
SADC-REEP/UNISWA MESA Chair Training of ERM Educators on ESD
2. Project Description: 
This project was a collaboration between the RCE Swaziland, Swaziland National Trust Commission (SNTC) and the SADC Environmental Education Programme (REEP). The project was a short course to train ESD educators in the fields of Environment, Resource management, Agriculture and Water from various SADC Countries.
3. Project Status: 
Finished
4. Key Words
Key Words: 
Biodiversity
Other: 
Education for Sustainable Development
5. Project categories
Project categories: 
Education
Networking and partnership development
Material production
6. Expected outcomes:: 
The anticipated outcomes include expansion of network of environmental educators in the SADC region.
7. Duration of the Project:: 
2 weeks
3. Project Leadership & Vision
8. Project coordination (e.g. teams): 
MESA Swaziland, SADC REEP, RCE Swaziland
9. Leadership structure
a. Administration: 
4
b. Transactional: 
3
c. Transformational: 
3
4. Project results
10. Project results : 
What are the current results of the project in terms of Outcomes:
project has achieved is intended outcomes; i.e. to capacitate environment educators on environment and sustainability issues
11. Contribution to reforms and innovations: 
At regional level; it facilitates networking, training and research amongst partner institutions
13.Core Partners: 
(who are the main partners of your project?) MESA Swaziland, RCE Swaziland, SNTC, SEA, University of Swaziland, SADC REEP, UNESCO,
5. Partnership and networking
14. Project Network
a. Information network: 
4
b. Knowledge network: 
3
c. Innovation network: 
3
6. Participation
15. Type of involvement: 
planning, organising, coordinating, implementing ESD activities
16. Participation opportunities
a. Informational participation: 
3
b. Consultation participation: 
3
c. Decision influencing participation : 
4
7. Education & Learning
17. Educational activities: 
capacity building Workshops, symposium, schools environmental campaigns, production of ESD materials
18. Learning activities: 
Oral presentations accompanied by group discussion and fieldwork. Participants developed posters and other materials to share experiences. Learners were also exposed to skill of using internet for research and development of teaching/learning support materials.
19. Educational activities
a. Theory: 
2
b. Discussion: 
6
c. Interactive and Multidimensional "action oriented education": 
2
8. Research Integration
20. Research & Development (R&D): 
Participants tarined on use of internet to access current data and information for researcj purposes. Research and development used for evaluation of teaching and community training activities and inform the process of development of teaching/learning materials.
21. Research partners: 
University of Swaziland, Geography and Environmental Planning
22. Description of research
a. Disciplinary: 
2
b. Interdisciplinary: 
5
c. Transdisciplinary: 
3
Type: 
Project Reports
Country: 
Eswatini
Region: 
Africa and Middle East
Community: 
Capacity Development
Issue: 
Capacity Development
Country: 
Eswatini