resource mobilisation (eden dm) carli bunding-venter
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Resource Mobilisation (Eden DM)Carli Bunding-Venter
Economic Development Strategy
1. Call Centres (& supporting or related ICT)
2. Berries3. Vegetables4. Timber5. Dairy6. Education7. Hop Usage
1. CALL CENTRE’S & ICT
OUTENIQUA SMART CITY CORRIDOR 2020
BUILDING A KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION ECONOMY ON CONNECTED AND ENABLED
CITIZENS THROUGH A THEMED COLLABORATION
ICT INCUBATOR
• Initial funding: Provincial Gov. Western Cape • Funding declined: SEDA
• Existing contacts: Bandwidth Barn, CAPE IT Initiative, SEDA NMB Incubator
• Other contacts: Business Connexion, IBM, Dimension Data, (Vodacom – Knysna).
Incubator – documents available
• Original Concept Document• Feasibility Study (including budget)• You Tube clip outlining history, future focus
areas, etc. • PDF versions of above overview & process plan
for 2013
• Focus area: Private sector CSI funding to match possible DTI Incubator Grant funding
HANSMOESKRAAL SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY PARK
Hanmoeskraal – documents available
• Feasibility Study• Structure Plan for area (Draft)• Recent report on IASP Conference
• Focus area: Funding for feasibility studies & Planning , infrastructure later?
3. VEGETABLES
Vegetables… at lower level - strategy to action
Food Gardens
Surplus Producing Units
Spaza Shops
To Market
PACAStrategy Process
Vegetables as strategic
growth areaQUICK WIN
New Businesses / Co-operatives
Existing Micro Enterprise
Support
Planning & Housing
Existing Social project into sustainable livelihood &
economic opportunity
ACTIONS TO DATE-NGO willing to drive & co-ordinate- Quotation request: training-Link multiple projects & persons
URBAN AGRI PARK (Processing facility)
Vegetables – documents available
• Nothing formal other than Strategy• Some work on Food Gardens• Some Permaculture local contacts with
excellent ideas – e.g. localised resource centres
• Focus area: Pooling of funding & up-scaling Food Gardens + commercialisation
4. TIMBER
• Knysna Timber Cluster work? • Not very successful to date in George
• Business Plan available for a private sector initiative which reached a dead end with commercial funding (have to request approval from individual first)
OTHER AREAS TO LOOK AT
Sport
PAVILION COMPLETION-ROSEMORE 6 1,600,175 884,529 0 715,646
LAWAAIKAMP UPGRADE - LOTTO 7 200,000 200,000
CREATIION OF NEW SPORT FACILITY - ROSEDALE 14 1,700,000 1,700,000
UPGRADING ROSEMORE SPORT GROUND - MIG 6 900,000 900,000
UPGRADING THEMBALETHU SPORTGROUND - MIG 9-15 800,000 800,000
UPGRADING PACALTSDORP SPORTGROUND - MIG 14 500,000 500,000
UPGRADING MARAIKAMP SPORTGROUND - MIG 7 400,000 400,000
UPGRADING BLANCO SPORTGROUND - MIG 1 400,000 400,000
GEELHOUTBOOM RUGBY FIELD - ??? Who does it the property belong 22 250,000 250,000 0
TOUWSRANTEN SPORT FACILITY 4 500,000 500,000
CREATIION OF NEW SPORT FACILITY - UNIONDALE 24,25 1,300,000 1,300,000
Other
• Broadband Investment (Fibre)• Municipal Infrastructure
– Including maintenance of municipal buildings– New infrastructure e.g. Crèche's
• MSR (Men on the Side of the Road)– Former NGO, now taken over by municipality– Work placement for unemployed persons– Skills Development
