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


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South African Cities Network

South African Cities Network

About

A network of South African cities and partners that encourages the exchange of information, experience and best practice on urban development and city management


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

About

Reos Partners works with leading individuals and institutions over the long term to address complex societal issues in a systemic and collaborative way. We work with diverse stakeholders to shift narratives and develop, deploy, and institutionalise more equitable and durable solutions and partnerships. We have developed deep expertise through over 20 years of applying our methodologies in over 50 countries.


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

About

Kaiser Economic Development Partners provides strategic, partnership and implementation support to cities, government, international development organisations, development agencies and other organisations involved in socio-economic development in Africa.


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

About

Innovate Durban is a Non-Profit Company aimed at stimulating innovation within Durban. Its focus is to support and promote innovation by creating platforms that will build and develop the innovation ecosystem in Durban.


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.


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WCEDP

Economic Development Partnership

About

The EDP is a public benefit collaborative intermediary organisation that supports diverse stakeholders to harness each other’s energy, knowledge and resources for collective impact and change to improve development outcomes. The EDP designs, facilitates and enables processes for change which help partners develop capabilities to deal with complex societal issues which involve many stakeholders, diverging interests, polarised environments and uncertainty. Specifically, the EDP builds and strengthens relationships between state and society to enable effective communication and collaboration and to strengthen state capacity, based on its experience of working within diverse public sector environments.


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

About

Distillery combines organisational effectiveness tools and human behaviour methodologies to help leaders and organisations perform at their best through consulting, training and coaching services.


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