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Wednesday, 12 May 2010 |
The Community
Participation Conference will be held at the Durban City Hall on 01 - 02
June 2010.
The purpose of the conference is to improve and
enhance community participation processes and practices for the
residents of eThekwini Municipality by:
- Translating the eThekwini
Municipality Community Participation Policy into a well known and
understood living document
- Exploring strengths and weaknesses of
eThekwini Municipality Community Participation Policy
- Providing a
platform for community participation practitioners (including policy
implementers and civil society organizations) to share best practices in
community participation
- Establishing and evaluating what mechanisms
are in place to facilitate community participation
- Marketing
eThekwini Municipality services and ensure that citizens have access to
these services and thereby demystifying Council processes and procedures
- Strengthening
the capacity and engagement of civil society organizations in community
participation processes
- Stimulating the growth of new partnerships
and concretizing existing ones between the various stakeholders within
the community participation sector
- Ensuring that community
participation processes includes marginalized groups, such as, shack
dwellers, people with disabilities, youth and women.
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Monday, 10 May 2010 |
On
April 24 an initial brain-storming session was held at the Corner Cafe in response to the 350.org call to Get to Work and start changing
our communities.
Next
session:
May 15: the Corner Cafe 197 Brand Rd, Bulwer
(nr Davenport Cntr & KZNA Gallery)
12.30 to 15.00
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Saturday, 08 May 2010 |
Indaba 2010 will see a tourism event of considerable national importance when the eThekwini Municipality and Durban Tourism launches the Inanda Tourism trail on Sunday, May 9.
Foreign and local media attending Indaba, as well as a number of high ranking dignitaries and community leaders will converge at the historic Dr. J.L Dube house in the heart of Inanda for the launch of a new branding for the area, as well as for the unveiling of a life-sized bronze sculpture of President Nelson Mandela casting his first democratic vote here in the historic 1994 elections.
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Friday, 07 May 2010 |
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Lungisa Indlela
Village, located in Cottonlands, Verulam is about to get R50 000 worth
of solar heating systems installed at their facility for widows and
HIV/Aids orphans, thanks to Silveray Manufacturing, which donated their
prize to the organisation after winning the Business Energy Saving
Competition.
The
competition’s
aim was to catalyse energy efficiency in Durban’s business community,
as a part of the overarching UN/DIPA projects. Each of the 13
competition
entrants were challenged to make the biggest energy savings through
a series of energy efficiency interventions that they undertook over
the course of the five month long competition.
The proud
winners
of the competition were announced recently. Stationery manufacturer,
Silveray Manufacturing, beat 13 eThekwini-based companies after
achieving
the greatest saving 585kW of electricity per week from the base month
of March.
Silveray faced
stiff competition from the runner-up of the competition, Verus Farming
and Investments, who implemented an extensive renewable energy
intervention
in a bid to become almost entirely independent of the Eskom energy grid.
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