Green Skills Programme: Overview, Purpose and Current Status

Professor Heila Lotz-Sisitka SARChI Chair: Global Change and Social Learning systems Rhodes University Environmental Learning Research Centre h.lotz@ru.ac.za

Purpose: Green Skills System Capacity Development To move green skills planning and capacity in SA from re-active to pro-active (ILO, 2011, DEA 2010) Better ways to understand and plan for green skills for green work – A systems perspective

Recommended a National

Environmental Skills Planning

Forum to take the

recommendations forward

A Project of the National Environmental Skills

Planning Forum, working with

in an open system partnership approach that is expanding!

DHET PSETA MQA CHIETA CATTHSETA EEASA RWL10… and others

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Source: Elmqvist, 2008

Human progress and

inequality

20/80 dilemma

Ecosystems

60 % loss dilemma

Climate

550/450/350

dilemma

Surprise

99/1 dilemma ”The Quadruple Squeeze”

”A polycrisis place”

WHY Green Skills Research and System Capacity Development?

What are the

implications for

education, training,

skills development

and social learning?

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…

Rockström et al. 2009 Nature, 461 (24): 472-475

Global fresh- water use

A new era for humankind – the Anthropocene A huge movement to consider a safe operating space for humanity – implicatons for all social and cultural systems, including education and training systems

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This is driving transformations in society, technology and economies

Forcing a shift

in skills thinking

…

Transformative

Society,

Economy,

Environment

Green Skills Programme Objectives & Work Packages

Main objective: to strengthen system capacity for green skills planning, analysis and employment in South Africa (2015-2018), funded by the DBSA

• WP 01 / Green Skills Co-ordination and Communication • WP 02/ Green Skills Analysis and Planning Capacity

Development • WP 03/ Green Occupations and Unlocking Demand for

Green Work • WP 04/ Green Careers Development and Curriculum

development (esp. TVET and colleges)

www.greenskills.co.za

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Studies (with SETAs and partners) [WP1] to better understand demand for green work: Green occupations & Greening occupations across the landscape of green work [WP3] And importantly, how to do these studies and plan for green skills [WP2]: • Methodology • Course • Toolkit

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Partnerships, communication and co-operation with all education, training and sector skills partners to better integrate green skills capacity Development – from a systems capacity development perspective! [WP 1, 4] but also [WP 2, 4]

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Overview of the Programme

Work Package 1:

Communication and

Coordination

• Partner and

stakeholder

engagement

• Website

Work Package 2:

Green Skills Planning &

Research Capacity

Building

• Green skills

research and

planning

methodology

• Training materials

and program

Work Package 3:

Occupational Profiling

and Articulating the

Demand for Green Jobs

• Refine green OFO

• Toolkit that builds

capacity

• Identify green jobs

and greening of

jobs

Greater

impetus,

alignment

and

synergy in

the national

system;

growth and

support for

the field

Training

program in

3 HEIs with

60 people

trained in

green skills

planning

and

research

Updated

green OFO;

Build

employer,

SETA etc

capacity to

plan for GS

along the

value chain

New Knowledge

Field Development

Green Skills

Research as a new

knowledge field

Work Package 4:

Career Development and

Curriculum Development

• Align with national

sysems of career

development

• Curriculum

development for TVET

• Possibly also new

qualifications

development?

Green

Careers

Information

available on

national

portal

Learning

Pathways

supply side

issues

1.8 M for 3 years 1.2 M for 3 years 1.2 M for 3 years