On Friday, 24-26 June 2016, the Mayoral Urban Regeneration Programme (MURP) in the City of Cape Town in collaboration with Social Development, Health, Sports & Recreation, Harambee, hosted a youth summit.

The youth summit was targeting youth between ages of 13 and 25 years, but the youth candidates that are older than the said ages were not excluded from participation of the project. The recruitment targeted the non-political youth organisations\ structures within the Bishop Lavis, Bonteheuwel and Valhalla Park (BIBOVALLA) areas.

The individual youth candidates that were not members of any associations were also accommodated to participate, but based on the selection criterion that was agreed upon by the Project Manager, service provider

and members of the Project Management Team (PMT).

The article serves to provide experiences gained in City of Cape Town during the last six (6) months of experiential learning while studying at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT).

The experiences that I have gained was the

importance of involving community/ beneficiaries

during the needs identification period prior the

project/programme implementation. The summit

initiative was to deepen democracy through youth

participation in accordance to the provision of the

constitution of the Republic of South Africa (1996)

and, other relevant legislations, policies, strategies

and in line with the strategic pillars of the City of

ARTICLE ON EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING EXPERIENCES

BIBOVALLA 2016 YOUTH SUMMIT “together as youth we can make progress

possible

The Experiences gained at the organisation

INTRODUCTION

The City of Cape Town

The City of Cape Town is an Organization which is City of Cape Town Municipality. Established as per the constitutional mandate of the Republic of South Africa.

Core business:Rendering of service to communities such as housing, roads, electricity, refuse collection etc.

Departments:The organization has twelve (12) distinctive

directorates with various branches or

departments. The department that are aligned

to the aforesaid directorates provides services

delivery to communities that falls under the

City of Cape Town jurisdiction.

MURP

Subcouncil

CouncillorsStakeholders

Mayco Membes

COMMUNICATION CYCLE

Cape Town as enshrine in its Integrated

Development Plan (IDP).

Community Needs Stakeholders

What these experiences meant to me

Departments

Experiences contribution in achieving career objectives

As an official I have learned that never take decision on

behalf of other people. A process of community

engagement must be taken seriously. Every citizen has a

right to contribute/ comment on developmental

programmes in their respective areas. The youth

programmes was to give a platform to the youth in

expressing their views and take centre stage and make

meaningful contributions as agents of change in their

communities by identifying challenges and solution and

there after interventions needs to be undertaken.

YOUTH PROGRAMS GALLERY

Lorica Mene: MURP Cluster B Secretary

Holiday programmes will help boredom

Valhalla Park Youth get a kick out of skateboarding

Youth Summit Ambassadors