The Landmark Foundation has won a tender to conduct the review of the Eastern Cape Government’s, UNDP and DBSA project outputs of the Wild Coast Sustainable Development and Capacity Building Project conducted in 2004 – 2006.
Specifically it will involve the review of the following outputs of this project:
- Review of Wild Coast Project’s Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan
- Review of Wild Coast Project’s Spatial Development Framework
- Review of Wild Coast Project’s Strategic Environmental Assessment
- Review of whether the Wild Coast Project stakeholders’ inputs have been adequately addressed in the planning process.
- Review of the EU’s Wild Coast Tourism Initiative outputs
The Landmark Foundation is convinced that the Wild Coast Project outputs, and actions leading from it, could be catalytic in getting significant socio-economic development opportunities in some of the poorest municipalities in the country.
In a region where the project is focused there are three sectors of development: tourism, forestry and the agricultural sectors, which are all poorly developed. This project will focus on opportunities of unleashing local economic development in a socially, politically, economically and environmentally sustainable fashion.
The Landmark Foundation believes that the ecological, scenic and cultural-historic assets of the region constitutes the greatest resources of the region, and as such, through conservation based land-uses, it provides the best opportunities for development.
The review process will thus focus on producing the action plans required by the implementers as it emanates from the selected outputs of the Wild Coast Project and EU initiatives. The contract for this review is yet to be finalised. |
