RCE Eswatini-2012

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Submitted by RCEeswatini on Fri, 2012-08-10 00:00
1. General Information
Contact Name(s): 
Isaac Gcina Dladla
Sipho Matsebula
Organizational Affiliation : 
Swaziland Environment Authority
Role in the project: 
Coordination
E-Mail Address(es): 
gdladla@sea.org.sz
smatsebula@sea.org.sz
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PDF icon Temvelo_Awards.pdf
2. Project Information
1. Project title: 
Temvelo (Environmental ) Awards Programme for Secondary and High Schools
2. Project Description: 
• A communication strategy to increase public awareness and participation in environmental management
• Secondary level students are encouraged and assisted to carry out projects / activities that help themselves, their schools, their communities and the environment
• Participants may work individually, in groups (class or club) or as a whole school in carrying out their activities. Partnerships with the community are encouraged
• In the process, participants receive recognition and awards
3. Project Status: 
Finished
4. Key Words
Key Words: 
Biodiversity
Other: 
Diverse Environemental themes
5. Project categories
Project categories: 
Education
Research
Awareness building
Influencing policy processes
Networking and partnership development
6. Expected outcomes:: 
School going youth informing community action by coming up with relevent interventions for local environment risks and challenges.
3. Project Leadership & Vision
8. Project coordination (e.g. teams): 
Clean and Beautiful Swaziland Forum through the Swaziland Environment Authority
9. Leadership structure
a. Administration: 
3
b. Transactional: 
3
c. Transformational: 
4
4. Project results
10. Project results : 
-a total number of 55 schools participated in the programme, 36 different awards given to different schools, with 98 different projects ranging from waste management, organic farming, tree planting, and land degradation being implemented.
11. Contribution to reforms and innovations: 
issues of Environment in schools have been intergrated more, the Education Sector policy intergrated
12. Unexpected / unplanned results: 
following the awards programme for schools, there has been a move to establish a similar programme for towns and cities to encourgage them to come up with sustainability projects for urban areas.
13.Core Partners: 
(who are the main partners of your project?) Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, Swaziland National Trust Commission, Manzini City Council, Ezulwini Town Council, Matsapha Town Board, Lobamba Conservation Club, Komati Water Authority.
5. Partnership and networking
14. Project Network
a. Information network: 
3
b. Knowledge network: 
3
c. Innovation network: 
4
6. Participation
15. Type of involvement: 
Parteners were involved in Planning the project, developing the concept, information dissemination, training of teachers, school visits for coaching on projects, development of judging criteria, judging of projects to come up with winners in the different categories, fund raising and looking for sponsorships, and staging of the the awards ceremony.
16. Participation opportunities
a. Informational participation: 
4
b. Consultation participation: 
3
c. Decision influencing participation : 
3
7. Education & Learning
17. Educational activities: 
practical skills on land rehabilitation, conservation agriculture,climate change to complement what students and teachers do in classrooms.
18. Learning activities: 
students get opportunities to reflect to on environment impacts of the projects i.e positive and adverse impacts.
19. Educational activities
a. Theory: 
1
b. Discussion: 
3
c. Interactive and Multidimensional "action oriented education": 
6
8. Research Integration
20. Research & Development (R&D): 
NA
21. Research partners: 
NA
Type: 
Project Reports
Country: 
Eswatini
Region: 
Africa and Middle East
Community: 
Teacher Education
Issue: 
Teacher Education and Better Schools
Country: 
Eswatini