Environmental Planning, Governance & Information Management
Purpose
To promote environmental sustainability through the development of tools, instruments, mechanisms and institutions to ensure sustainable development and sound cooperative environmental governance
The Sub-Programme is divided into 4 components:
1. Sustainable Development planning, Monitoring and Reporting
2. Local Government Support
3. Cooperative Environmental Governance and Policy
4. Environmental Information Management
Objective
• Manage the cooperative environmental governance programme which aims to ensure intergovernmental and sectoral participation in environmental management
• Ensure integration of environmental sustainability requirements in local and provincial government development planning frameworks
• Ensure the development of the provincial sustainable development framework through the development and implementation of relevant tools and frameworks
• Manage and disseminate environmental information for sustainable development
• Promote alignment of sustainable development and environmental governance frameworks with Integrated Environmental Management strategies
• Promote sustainability monitoring and reporting on environmental management and sustainable development progress in KwaZulu-Natal
• Transversal Planning, legislative development and Policy Coordination
Legislation
• Constitution
• National Environmental Management Act
• White Paper on Environmental Management Policy (1998)
• Intergovernmental Relations Framework Act, 2005
• Agenda 21
• Johannesburg Plan of Implementation
• Spatial Data Infrastructure Act (2003)
• Promotion of Access to Information Act
• Promotion of Administrative Justice Act
• Millennium Development Goals (Goal No7: Environmental Sustainability)