Download PDF - Anchor Environmental

Verlorenvlei Estuary Management Plan
Part 4: Verlorenvlei Estuary Forum
NAME ORGANISATION TEL E-MAIL
Sean Ranger Ranger Consulting P.S.A 0832948776 Sean.ranger@gmail.com
Francois van Heerden
DWA:O/D
0274822233/
0828073539
vheerdf@dwaf.gov.za
Johan Burger CapeNature 022 9312900 jburger@capenature.co.za
Adrie Steinberg CapeNature 0229312900 adrie@gcbc.co.za
Paul Jones EBEDAG 0824923527
paul@elandsbayguesthouse.co.z
a
Diteboho Ramongolo DAFF 0219489278 ditebohoR@daff.gov.za
Steven Lamberth DAFF 021 402 3159 StephenL@daff.gov.za
However, the importance of introducing the Verlorenvlei EMP to other management initiatives –
ultimately the role of the Estuary Forum - in the area, e.g. the Annual Review of the IDP of the
Cederberg Municipality, was stressed. Until such time as the Estuary Forum is officially established,
workshop participants agreed that representatives of the local communities should attend the other
management initiatives to ensure that the EMP and its aims are communicated from the outset.
To be effective from an operational perspective, the EF also needs to establish an Executive team
directly responsible for the implementation of the plan. An Executive team typically consists of:
A chairperson, to be elected by the forum and to take the lead in the development and
implementation of the EMP.
Technical Working Groups (TWGs) or Sub-committees for each of the key issues packages
identified by stakeholders (see below).
Initially it was envisaged that TWGs would be established at the September 2009 Stakeholder
Workshop, but stakeholders were of the opinion that participation at that workshop were not fully
representative of all the local communities. Some of the authorities were also not adequately
represented. It was therefore considered inappropriate to establish the EF or TWGs at this point and
that this had to be done at a later stage.
The following technical working groups (or liaison teams) have been proposed (Felicity Strange, pers.
comm.):
Agriculture liaison team (must include 2 farmers as a minimum);
Enforcement liaison team, consisting of staff from municipality and relevant authorities with
executive powers (ensuring law enforcement);
Conservation, living resources and land use liaison team;
Water quantity and quality liaison team;
Enterprise and entrepreneurial liaison team; and
Empowerment liaison team.
A 3rd Stakeholder workshop will establishing the EF and the TWGs to ensure that responsible
authorities and local communities take ownership of the EMP, a crucial element towards achieving
the vision and strategic objectives of this plan, now and in future.
Page 4-3