optimizing natural resource management in kzn by prioritizing high altitude clearing of aips
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Optimizing Natural Resource Management in KZN
by prioritizing High Altitude Clearing
of AIPs
WHY IS HAT IMPORTANT?High strategic priority for DEA and WfW
We attack the major source of infestation
METHODS AND SAFETY
TWIN ROPE SYSTEMIRATA TRAINING
HAT SUCCESSES: Setting the first standards
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Divider page textDivider page textGreytown
S15P1000019
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Divider page textDivider page texteThekwini
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Umkamhlamba
SCATTERED PINUS INFESTATIONS
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Divider page textDivider page textRECRUITMENT IN THE BERG
People EmployedPerson Days of Work Target Person Days % Person Days of Annual TargetAverage Person Days /monthWage Cost per Person Day
201323
5 3666 50483%23
R 139
201465
14 782 14 368103%
20R 153
HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE: PERSON DAYS
2015 YTD63
3 7913 90097%19
R 182
HECTARES CLEAREDGreytown eThekwiniMonks CowlCathedral PeakInjasuthi TOTAL %
2013PLAN ACTUAL180 139180 242
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106%
HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE: PRODUCTION
2015 YTDPLAN ACTUAL
32 3260 4130 3030 2636 27
83%
2014PLAN ACTUAL124 9983 116
108 73106 80
0 3496%
Total budget% Expenditure
20132 167 910
100%
20146 725 136
100%
HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE: EXPENDITURE
2015 YTD1 437 665
100%
APO SUMMARY: 2015/2016Operational budget R 5 750 659
Management budget R 251 181
Total budget R 6 001 840
Management person days 240
KPI's:
Cost/hectare (excl man) R 8 444
Cost/person day (excl man) R 368
Cost/hectare (incl man) R 8 813
Cost/person day (incl man) R 384
APO SUMMARY: 2015/2016Operational budget R 5 750 659
Management budget R 251 181
Total budget R 6 001 840
Management person days 240
KPI's:
Cost/hectare (excl man) R 8 444
Cost/person day (excl man) R 368
Cost/hectare (incl man) R 8 813
Cost/person day (incl man) R 384
KZN TEAMS
Calendar days
Budget person days
Training days
Base duties
Production days
Number staff
Paid Person days
Productive person days
Units/hectare
240
15 600
24
46
170
60
15 600
10 200
14.50
APO SUMMARY cont…
KZN TEAMS
APO SUMMARY cont…
Initial NBAL allocated hectares
Follow up NBAL allocated hectares
HELICOPTER HOURS
CAMPING DAYS
547
134
5
104
HAT as preferred vehicle
to implement NRM projects• Strategically- important and visible areas• Scope for intermediate sites• Institutionally established• Well trained teams, recruited from closest community• Excellent KPIs: Expenditure, Employment, Production• Standards finalised• GIS and reporting advantage• Good partner relationships
WAY FORWARD
• Aerial surveys and mapping new areas• Increase funding to optimise impact on
natural resources• Unlocking contribution potential • Implement a realistic exiting strategy
NGIYABONGA