Living Lands

Bringing synergies and added value to the landscape through:

• Promoting living landscapes;
• Mobilising civil society for sustainability;
• Enabling and facilitating social learning processes;
• Fostering mutually beneficial partnerships and participatory networks;

With a positive, creative, committed, honest and transparent approach.

• Building collective awareness and understanding (knowledge base) of the socio-ecological
  needs, challenges, values, norms, and behaviours of individuals and organizations;

• Creating collective intelligence surrounding the socio-ecological and economic opportunities and constraints;

• Producing collective action to create and mainstream a shared vision for a living landscape and grow a locally-driven learning network.

• Landscape Mobiliser
  Facilitates a social learning process to organise all stakeholders around the vision of living
  landscapes.
• Knowledge Broker
  Builds a solid knowledge base to inform restoration activities and sustainable development
  of the landscape together with local stakeholders, universities and other institutions.
• Landscape Ecologist
  Creates solid spatial understanding of the ecosystem and landscapes.
• Network Facilitator
  Engages with the PRESENCE network to build private-public partnerships.

• PRESENCE in the Baviaanskloof Program (2007-ongoing):
  Water for Food and Ecosystems, Restoration in the Western Baviaanskloof,
  Baviaanskloof Hartland: A Place for People and Wildlife.
• PRESENCE in the Kouga Program (2012–2015):
  Mobilising Civil Society for Living Landscapes.
• PRESENCE in the Krom Program (2011–2013):
  Partners for Water in the Krom.
• Other: The Baviaanskloof TMF Green Micro Grants, Mediation in Water Resources
  Management, Biodiversity Stewardship Program, Subtropical Thicket Restoration Program,
  PRESENCE Learning Village, Elemental Equity, Spearhead’ Ecosystem and Landscape
  Services (SELS), and SynBioSys.

Dieter Van den Broeck:
Co-Director and Social Change Facilitator.

Odi Selomane:
Co-Director and PhD Student (CSIR).

Marijn Zwinkels:
Senior Project and Financial Manager.

Silvia Weel:
Senior Landscape Ecologist and GIS Specialist.

Mike Powell:
Ecological/Restoration Advisor and Chairman, Director of Ecological Restoration Capital.

Rienette Colesky:
Financial Advisor, Financial Manager at Gamtoos Irrigation Board.

Ayanda Sigwela:
Ecological Restoration Advisor, Member of R3G.

Rudolf de Groot:
Scientific Advisor, Associate Professor at Wageningen University.

Silvia Weel:
Spatial Analyst and Management Advisor, Living Lands.

Maura Andrew:
Economy/Institutional Advisor, PhD Candidate at Stellenbosch University and
Research Associate at the Department of Environmental Science, Rhodes University.

Japie Buckle:
Catchment Restoration Advisor, SANBI – Working for Wetlands.

Matthew Zylstra:
Communications, Education and Outreach Advisor, PhD Candidate at Stellenbosch University.

• Government and Embassy of the Netherlands
• South African Dept. of Environmental Affairs – Natural Resource Program (Working for Water)
• Partners For Water (The Netherlands)
• Water Governance Institute (The Netherlands)
• WWF – Table Mountain Fund (TMF) (South Africa)
• WWF – NL (The Netherlands)
• IUCN Commission On Ecosystem Management (CEM) (Global)
• Gamtoos Irrigation Board (GIB) (South Africa)
• SANBI – Working for Wetlands (South Africa)
• Cape Action for People and the Environment (C.A.P.E.) Partnerhsip (South Africa)
• Eastern Cape Parks and Tourism Agency (ECPTA) (South Africa)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (Germany)