The Waste Management Flagship Programme (the Programme) is one of the eight ‘Near-term priority flagship programmes’ outlined in South Africa’s National Climate Change Response Policy.
The project seeks to provide the City of Johannesburg (CoJ) with a waste treatment technology facility that will accept 500 000 of the 1.6 million tonnes of municipal solid waste produced in Johannesburg per annum, and potentially generate 36MW per annum of energy through a ‘design-build-finance-maintain-operate-transfer’ or a Public Private Partnership (PPP).
Unsustainable agricultural farming practices (i.e. poor land use management and lethal predator controls) in South Africa have resulted in land degradation and the loss of plant and wildlife diversity in productive agricultural areas.
The DBSA took an integrated approach to municipal planning to help GTLM transition from an underperforming municipality to one with reasonable prospects of sustainability.
To support Apalia in deploying off-grid hybrid energy, telecoms and media (TV and Radio) in rural sub-Saharan Africa. Apalia’s first operation is sited in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The DBSA has supported communities by providing age appropriate and safe infrastructure facilities for already established Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres that lack adequate infrastructure but have demonstrated leadership capability for sustainability and growth.
The School Leadership Programme is an initiative designed to improve the quality of education by capacitating school principals from under-resourced schools and enhancing their leadership skills through partnerships with business leaders.
