Project Development and Management Services offered by Amandla:Resource Development
ARD has three key service divisions:
Natural Area & Resource Management:
- Natural resources identification and management planning;
- Social responsibility programmes with neighbouring communities;
- Development planning in the fields of tourism, conservation, rehabilitation, waste management and recycling;
- Ongoing holistic management of natural areas for the maximum return to the resource owners;
- Game management, maintenance, rehabilitation and erosion control, alien weed eradication, asset management;
- Waste management and recycling;
- Skills transfer and capacity building;
- Administration and payroll services.
Project Services:
- Preparation of business plans;
- Project management of development projects;
- Environmentally friendly infrastructural services
(waterless toilets, enviro-laundries, water purification);
Feasibility studies and associated research;
- Implementation of alternative energy solutions;
- Strategy and SWOT analysis;
- Fund management;
- Financial structuring and sourcing of funds;
- Establishment and financing of appropriate SMMEs;
- Mentoring for SMMEs;
- Community liaison, facilitation and capacity building.
Sustainable Systems and Training:
- Skills assessment and selection of trainees;
- Sustainable food production
- Integrated waste managementnd recycling.
- Rural based eco-tourism (guides, cooks, cleaning staff, maintenance, management).
- Crafts from waste and available natural resources (frequently using the timber harvested from alien plant eradication.
- Sustainable forestry methodologies;
- Promoting the sustainable use of and propagation of traditional medicinal plants.
- Establishment of SMMEs and associated training;
