Department of Human Settlements Environmental Implementation Plan, 2015-2020

"Section 11 of the National Environmental Management Act (Act No. 107 of 1998) requires that the national and provincial departments exercising functions which may affect the environment, in terms of the Schedule 1 of the Act, prepare an Environmental Implementation Plan (EIP) and to monitor the implementation on a regular basis."

 The Department of Human Settlements has published its Environmental Implementation Plan, 2015-2020 in Government Gazette No. 39164 of 3 September 2015. "The National Department‟s core functions are to establish and facilitate a sustainable national housing development process and to fund the National Housing Programmes. This requires that the Minister, through the National Department, establish and facilitate a sustainable national housing development process." ​