Final Programme - ICLEI World Congress 2006

Wednesday, 1 March 2006All day, in parallelCT6 - BiodiversityFalse BayCT7 - HealthManagementCT8 - CoastalManagementCT9 - IntegratedWasteCT10 - IntegratedHuman SettlementsCT11 - DisasterManagementThe tour will explorethe conservationof biodiversity infragmented naturalhabitats in poor urbansettings. Delegateswill stop at the EdithStephens WetlandPark, a city partnershipwith Cape Flatscommunities. Then, adrive through the suburbof Khayelitsha willlead to the WolfgatNature Reserve. Nextis a visit at the CapeFlats Waste WaterTreatment Works, atop birding site andan example of cooperativemanagement.Follows the RondevleiNature Reserve, acommunity basedtourism initiative.Delegates will firstvisit the Oliver Thambocentre to learn aboutthe Khayelitsha AirPollution Strategyand the Servicing ofInformal Settlementsproject, improving servicedelivery to informalsettlements. Next stopis an informal meatmarket to discusschallenges faced bythe City’s health directorate.Followed bya visit to the FikelelaChildren’s Home forabused & HIV/AIDSchildren, as well asthe Sibanye EconomicEmpowerment Project.The KhayelitshaTraining Centre willhost lunch and aworkshop on healthmanagement.Along with scenicdrives, this tour willgive a frank look at thepressures, degradation,inequalities and developmentthreateningthe coastal ecosystem.Delegates will visitpristine and degradedcoastal environments,as well as undevelopedand developed zones.The afternoon workshopin Muizenbergwill focus on thebalance betweenoptimising social andeconomic benefits fromthe coastline withoutundermining theenvironmental qualitywithin a developingurban context.Delegates will visitinnovative waste alternativesimplementedin Cape Town toreach the PolokwaneDeclaration’s goal toreduce waste generatedand disposed ofby respectively 50%and 25% by 2012 anddevelop a plan for zerowaste by 2022. Stopsinclude the AthloneWaste Transfer Station,Tsoga EnvironmentalCentre and the CoastalPark Landfill Site,highly respected for jobcreation by waste minimisation.Next is theFootprints Recyclingand EducationalCentre and its communityrecycling depot. Alunch and a workshopfollows.The apartheid’s legacyand the followinghyper-informal growthled to challengesin providing shelterfor the very poor.Delegates will witnessthe dichotomies in theprivate and public sectordriven housing, theconstraints to integratedstrategies and theimpacts on the growthand development ofCape Town. The tourwill visit formerlysegregated suburbs,new market-developedintegrated suburbs,rapidly growing informalsettlements andpost-apartheid housingresponses. Lunch andthe workshop will beat the Edith StephenWetlands Reserve.Delegates will visit thesites of three major disasters.First, the site ofthe January 2006 fire,on the slopes of TableMountain, where 700hectares of indigenousvegetation was lost.Secondly, Joe Slovo,where a runaway fireravaged an informalsettlement. Finally thesite of the TreasureOil Spill in June 2000,which caused 40 000African Penguins tobecome oiled andthreatened and wherea rehabilitation centerfor Penguins is nowlocated. This will be followedby lunch and aworkshop.Cape Town Day InformationAt the Information Desk, located in the Ubuntu Market (Ballroom), you will find a board with a list of people registered foreach tour. Please confirm your attendance by putting a checkmark next to your name on the list. Several tours are booked out.Delegates who have not yet booked a tour can add their names directly to the tours that are not yet full.ICLEI World Congress 20067