WESSA Phase 1 report to HHCT_28.10.2021

HIGH FINANCIAL REWARD

Ecoschools, YRE, LEAF

Young Reporters for the Environment

Green Key

Design and open a WESSA Skills Academy which amalgamates our 'WESSA lifelong learning' opportunity into a óne-stop- shop' which expresses our different offerings along the continuum of learning across the different WESSA educational offerings - business plan has been developed for the opening of an e-STEAM School, but needs to be thrashed out with new CEO

Selling e-STEAM Programmes both

Blue Flag

to Corporate funders and schools

UV accomodation, camps, family groups etc. reserve is beautiful but the facilities not too great(Great potential in education centers but no financial resources. ) - covid?

DO IT NOW

COMMERCIALISE IT

Turning LEAF into a Youth development programme

Green Coast

Renewable energy projects- CHDM project as example

Selling online training to university students

Selling PA Award Hikes

Eco-Schools with a focus

Amalgamate the WESSA- ON-WHEELS & WESSA Schools Programmes into one operation that delivers the different programmes and offerings alongside each other

and Journeys to both school and private groups

on student led development

Invest in our staff as a structured HR process

WESSA Alumni network <---

WOW at a broader level

Wildlife/ Biodiversity economy

S&Y - after the programmes, a pathway to

Groen Sebenza type projects??

Ecological Insfrastructure

MISSION DRIFT

becoming members

MISSION CRITICAL

"Nature based solutions" DO IT WHEN THERE'S RESOURCES

"community conservation/ conservancies"

DON'T DO IT

Education centres: offer more at the centres (eg. group hikes) and have a

Blue economy focused programme

Advocacy (social, environmental justice)

social media presence, icl. influencers

WESSA #OMY

LOW FINANCIAL REWARD

Figure 12. Example of a reward vs. strategic focus exercise completed by Exco. [Note the absence of items in the 'don't do it' category]. A more objective exercise will be completed during Phase 2. Low-risk endeavors are in green Gaps and new opportunities in the top right quadrant include activities that achieve the triple goals of combating climate change, biodiversity loss and inequality, building on its strengths to mobilize, enable and capacitate society to be environmental stewards or advocate for change. Strategy: streamline existing programmes to maximize their value • Identify programmes, projects and activities that can be Substituted, Combined, Adapted, Modified, put to different use, Eliminated or Reversed (Table 11).

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