The Barefoot Facilitator
The Barefoot Facilitator

About
The Barefoot Facilitator provides process facilitation, offering support for content to be translated in creative and accessible ways to all participants by ensuring that meetings, workshops, events, or projects are designed with conscious intent to meet pre-determined, specific objectives.
Services
Meeting, workshop and event facilitation; project facilitation
Contact
Rehana Moosajee
rehana@thebarefootfacilitator.co.za
South African Cities Network
South African Cities Network

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Services
Services Offered: Promoting shared-learning partnerships between different spheres of government to support the management of South African cities; research, knowledge sharing, peer learning & innovation; collecting, analysing and disseminating the experiences of large city government in a South African context.
Contact
Siphelelisiwe Ntombela
siwe@sacities.net
Reos Partners
Reos Partners

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Services
We work with people, building their systems leadership and collaboration capacity in diverse, complex, and uncertain settings. We help them to:
- Work with divergent actors, drives and interests
- Attend to issues of agency, power, equity, and inclusion
We work with leading institutions focused on systems change/transformation work to:
- Become more systemic and collaborative organisations, inside and outside (build the DNA)
- Build systemic and collaborative strategies, approaches, and structures/ operating systems
We design and guide multi-stakeholder initiatives and alliances to solve complex problems collaboratively and transform systems by:
- Exploring and imagining possible futures and narratives
- Collaboratively designing, testing and implementing strategic solutions to complex collective challenges
Contact
Mahmood Sonday
sonday@reospartners.com
Kaiser Economic Development Partners
Kaiser Economic Development Partners

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Services
Socio-economic partnering facilitation; multi-stakeholder process facilitation; support to multi-organisational teams; joint problem solving and co-design of implementation; research, strategy, advisory, technical services; policy and strategy development.
Contact
Rupert Barnard
rbarnard@kaiseredp.com
Innovate Durban
Innovate Durban

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Services
Innovation pipeline management, research, capacity building & skills development, prototyping services, co-working space.
Contact
Aurelia Albert
aurelia@innovate.durban
Gauteng City Region Observatory
Gauteng Development for Small Enterprise

About
The Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) is a partnership between the University of Johannesburg (UJ), the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), the Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG), and organised local government in Gauteng (SALGA). GCRO’s vision for South Africa’s economic heartland is a functionally integrated, spatially coherent, competitive, environmentally sustainable, and socially and economically inclusive region. GCRO helps to build the knowledge base that government, business, labour, civil society and residents all need to make this vision a reality through the collection of data, benchmarking the city-region, policy analysis and support, applied research and critically reflective academic work.
Services
Development of structures, processes and interventions to connect government to academic expertise, or to help academic specialists reach decision makers; collection and storage of strategically useful data, surveys, development of new data sources, GIS mapping and analysis work, and assembly of information into innovative data products; form a locus of intellectual enquiry and exchange; partnership and knowledge-sharing network building within the universities, across parts of government, and between government, academia and a wide array of research bodies operating in the region and beyond.
Contact
Melinda Swift
melinda.swift@gcro.ac.za
WCEDP
Economic Development Partnership

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Services
Knowledge-building activities and action learning; inclusive stakeholder engagement processes; systems thinking, joint problem identification & analysis; partnering frameworks & applied partnering processes; facilitated dialogues, learning networks and communities of practice; training and capacity building in adaptive and collaborative leadership
Contact
Gill Cullinan
gill@wcedp.co.za
Distillery
Distillery

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Services
Knowledge-building activities and action learning; inclusive stakeholder engagement processes; systems thinking, joint problem identification & analysis; partnering frameworks & applied partnering processes; facilitated dialogues, learning networks and communities of practice; training and capacity building in adaptive and collaborative leadership
Contact
Jeremy Timm
jeremy@dstlry.com