overview, purpose and current status - green skills
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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 [email protected]
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
6 Source: Montavaldo, 2009
This is driving transformations in society, technology and economies
Forcing a shift
in skills thinking
…
Transformative
Society,
Economy,
Environment
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