PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS SUGGESTED FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAMME
- Programme Organisation Structure
- Proposed process for implementation
- Obtain support and approval from management and submit report to appropriate council
structures
- Identify geographical focus area for the programme
- Conduct the situational analysis
- Conduct the stakeholder analysis for the area
- Hold initial meeting and introduce stakeholders to the programme
- Form a local project implementation committee
- Coduct committee needs assessment
- Compile a local project plan
- Plan and conduct mass awareness with local implementation committee
- Agree with all stakeholders on venue and time for workshops
- Arrange venues
- Conduct educational workshops
- Facilitate porject that may be a spin off from the educational workshops
- Conduct ongoing workshops and record keeping
- Complete/compile project portfolio
- Write progress report and submit to Provincial Steering Committee
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Determine which action groups/individuals are interested in Environmental Pollution /
Health
- Situation Analysis
- The Community Profile
* What type of community will I be working with?
* What is happening in the area as far as Environmental Pollution/Environmental quality is
concerned?
* The implementation plan
* The evaluation plan
i) Getting to know the community
- Community setting (informal settlement, suburb, inner city, ethnic groups, language,
NGO's, community leaders, political groups)
- Infrastructure (electricity, schools, health care, industries, services, parks,
community centres, type of energy used)
- Demographic factors (adult literacy rate, age groups)
ii) Socio-economic status
- Economic factors (type and condition of homes, building materials used, primary source
of income, overcrowding)
- Social factors (disadvantaged or high income groups, political groups, communication
networks)
iii) Community organisations
- Describe relevant community organisations in terms of type, objective, decision making
process, history, achievements, community perception of the organisation
- History of community participation (traditional mechanisms, gender, social and economic
differentiation, leadership patterns, previous projects, sustainability of the projects)
- Environmental Health Profile
i) Environmental quality observation
- Air pollution (source, type of fuel used, presence of imbawula, electricity used, open fires,
monitoring stations and control measures)
- Water pollution (source, method of sewage disposal, toilet facilities, adequate drinking
water, stagnant water, control policies and methods)
- Land pollution (occurence of illegal dumping and littering, major source of pollution,
level of waste management services, presence if pests, policies)
- Noise pollution (type, major source, policies)
- Environmental Health Related diseases (perception of environmental health problems,
current diseases, diseases related to water, air, land pollution and other environmental
related diseases)
ii) Community needs assessment
- Perceived priority needs, difference by youth, gender, social and economic status,
perceived needs for an improved environment
- What does the community perceive as good health and illness in relation to environmental
health?
- Quality of the natural environment
- Local Project Plan
- Evaluation and record keeping
- Decide at the beginning of the programme how to do the evaluation
- Decide with the community on a set of realistic, specific and measurable success factors
- Look at the short and long term changes that took place in the community
- Write up why some projects or educational sessions were successful and others not
- Take photographs and keep record of all activities
- Compare short term knowledge gained through the pre and post tests
- How many people attented the mass awareness activities and the workshops?
- Access environmental knowledge gained through educational workshops
- Guideline document on a Mass Awareness Campaign
- Project Management and Implementation Plan
- Schedule of report document and report back workshops
Example of an Environmental
Education Plan :Doornkop Water Conservation Project (WMLC, 1999) |
