CAPACITY BUILDING
In order to ensure skills development and transfer during the development of the Karoo RSDF, the following instruments will be used:
Broad-based Online Learning
A series of online ’lectures/talks’ on topics will be prepared. These lectures, to be presented by members of the Project Team, will be freely available to anyone who has access to the internet, and could be downloaded and viewed, or used to introduce and/or structure discussions or meetings by stakeholders in the region, such as the Colloquia. Given that the lectures will also include a series of (1) ‘self-study questions’ and (2) references for further reading or viewing, those who are keen, could go far deeper into the topic than just the lecture
Project Learning Portal
The Project Team will keep track of ‘lessons learnt’ throughout the project, and update the report on the portal with these lesson seven times over the course of the project. The ‘Learning Reports’ to be kept by the ‘Young Regional Spatial Development Planning Professionals’ and submitted to the Project Team on a bimonthly base will also be used for this purpose. As in the case of the online lecturers, the lessons would be available for downloading and reading by anyone who has access to the internet. At the end of the project, the various learning reports and notes will be used to compile a ‘Karoo RSDF Learning Report’
Young Regional Spatial Development Planning Professionals Programme
The YPRSDPP will be offered over a fifteen month period to a group of not more than eighteen young regional development planning professionals. This group of young professionals, nominated and funded by their respective Government institutions to attend learning events, as and when these take place post-COVID 19, will be taken through a fifteen months’ Enterprises at the University of Pretoria-certificated course on regionalism and regional development planning
Colloquia
Colloquia will be hosted in which (1) members of the Project Team, as well as (2) experts from Government Structures and Academia would be tasked with providing ‘plenary inputs and reflections’
COLLOQUIA
ONLINE LECTURES
Online Lecture 1
To be announced
Online Lecture 2
9 October 2020
Online Lecture 3
4 February 2021
Online Lecture 4
8 April
2021
Online Lecture 5
10 June
2021
Online Lecture 6
14 October 2021