Record 1011Case study
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garden assessments in the field record
Read from North Coast assessment return
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Supporting ACT’s Social Employment Fund work with field assessment, practical technical recommendations, training-kit planning and programme reporting evidence.
Project frame
The programme needed garden assessments to inform decisions about water, fencing, soil, nurseries, tools and training.
Technical assessment, recommendations, training-kit planning and follow-up reporting support.
Twelve garden assessments plus a baseline assessment form from the documented North Coast visit.
Fieldwork across KwaZulu-Natal, the Bushbuckridge–Sabi Sand area in Mpumalanga, and Phuthaditjhaba–QwaQwa in Free State. The atlas groups multiple sites under broad town-centre markers.
My technical contribution covered garden assessment, practical recommendations, training-kit planning and reporting support.
Work in practice
Completed twelve garden assessments during a North Coast field visit.
Recorded site conditions including access, fencing, water, tanks, soil and nursery capacity.
Returned technical recommendations to improve the assessment and reporting process.
Supported planning for the programme training kits and associated technical inputs.
Provided follow-up technical support through the programme reporting cycle.
garden assessments in the field record
baseline assessment form returned with the visit
water, fencing, soil and nursery observations
technical input into planning and budgeting
Garden assessments and technical recommendations informed programme decisions about procurement, training and site support.
Evidence & interpretation
Confirmed email and attachment record
The records document Rory’s assessments, recommendations and training-kit support.
September 2023 email attaching twelve garden assessments and a baseline assessment form, with Rory’s recommendations.
February 2023 SEF training-kit correspondence sets out Rory’s training oversight and materials support across the KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Free State nodes, alongside later technical-support invoicing.
ACT’s 2023 Annual Report identifies the Phuthaditjhaba node in Thabo Mofutsanyana District and communities along the western boundary of Sabi Sand in Ehlanzeni District. These programme areas anchor the two additional atlas markers.
Open sourceSabi Sand Pfunanani Trust’s SEF overview names the programme communities: Dixie, Athol, Utah, Lephong, Dumphries B and C, Metsi, Lillydale, Newington C, Justicia, Mabaruhle and Huntington.
Open sourceHigh-resolution drone image supplied by ACT in April 2024 within the Social Employment Fund correspondence.
