• Out of the Starting Blocks
Phuhlisani wishes everyone who we work with a constructive and stimulating 2012. |
• Op die Plasie: 16th December 2011
Masithethe, Laat ons praat, Let's talk. More than 300 people attend this Reconciliation Day Event starting an important new conversation about the future of life on farms. |
• Phuhlisani: 2011 in review
We have posted a report on our work in 2011 which describes the combination of research, strategy, training and capacity developmentlivelihoods and institutional development initiatives we have been involved in over the past year |
• Decentralised land governance
A new publication from PLAAS features local voices and case studies from Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique. Phuhlisani researched the Botswana case study with the assitance of DITSHWANELO, the Botswana Centre for Human Rights |
• Phuhlisani makes submission on the Green Paper on Land Reform
Phuhlisani emailed its submission to the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform today |
• Round table dialogue discusses troubled wine sector
Farmers, workers, unions, wine sector groupings, government departments and the municipalities in the CWDM search for solutions in a Phuhlisani research led dialogue |
• Global and local trends in the wine grape sector in the Cape Winelands District
A research led round table dialogue |
• Seeking your support for a new scan of rural civil society in South Africa
Who is out there? What are they doing? How do they engage with the state and other development actors? How can this engagement be strengthern by access to research? How can local needs inform action research agendas? |
• NAALD - a new rural services NPO to be launched in the Cape Winelands
In search of new narratives through neighbourhood based practical action |
• Gearing up for Year 2 of CWDM farmworker programme
Phuhlisani signs service level agreement for Year 2 |
• Training and development needs assessment
Unlocking capacity for pro poor policy development |
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• Online gallery of pictures from the CWDM farm workers open day available
All the photos from the farm workers open day have been uploaded to a Picasa gallery |
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• Cape Winelands Farm Workers Open Day a huge success
Hundreds of farm workers from all over the Cape Winelands District attended the second annual Farm Workers Open Day at the show halls at Kleinplasie in Worcester |
• What role for deliberative dialogue in the agricultural sector?
In a context of strained relations between organised agriculture, government, workers and NGOs working in the agricultural sector Phuhlisani is exploring the potential of structured dialogue to discuss and address problems. |
• Managing social conflict risk
Draft Memorandum of agreement prepared for discussion and review by key role players in the Cape Winelands District and the provincial government of the Western Cape |
• Phuhlisani to support Middelrus vegetable joint venture
Phuhlisani appointed by the KwaZulu-Natal Agribusiness Development Agency to support Middelrus vegetable joint venture |
• Investigating decentralised land governance in Botswana
PLAAS has partnered with DITSHWANELO - the Botswana Centre for Human Rights to examine issues arising out of the Land Rights Programme run from their Kasane office as part of a broader focus on decentralised land governance. |
• Developing a MOA to manage conflict risk between South Africans and foreign migrants
Reporting on the first three of a series of five workshops which kicked off in the Cape Winelands District on Tuesday, 1 March |
• Land, memory, reconstruction and justice
Launch of new book reviewing the Land Restitution process in South Africa |
• Back to the Plot!
Debating a new agenda for rural transformation in South Africa
A public debate on Monday 31st January at the Centre for the Book Cape Town |
• Capacity building for natural resource management in Ethiopia
Phuhlisani is part of an international consortium designing a three year capacity building programme for natural resource management, tourism, and eco-tourism with Ethiopian Institutes of Higher Education |
• A workbook on decentralised land governance in Southern Africa
Phuhlisani has been contracted by PLAAS to research case studies from Botswana, Madagascar, Mozambique and South Africa and prepare a workbook for practitioners and policy makers |
• Phuhlisani appointed to prepare a population migration strategy for the Cape Winelands District Municipality
CWDM seeks a preventative and a responsive framework to effectively minimise and manage social conflict related to the influx of foreign migrants into the urban areas within the District. |
• Tenure and Development Community of Practice established
Following up from the Learning from Complexity workshop it has been agreed to establish an online Tenure and Development Community of Practice to bring together researchers, practitioners and policy makers. |
• Actor collaboration toolkit complete
An overview of key debates, three case studies, a draft syllabus and an introductory Prezi prepared for the African Centre for Cities |
• Learning from complexity
Workshop on securing land rights in urban, rural and small town South Africa - 22 - 23 November 2010 |
• Actor collaboration toolkit under development
Phuhlisani has been commissioned to develop an online toolkit on actor collaboration for the Centre for African Cities on behalf of the Association of African Planning Schools |
• Assessing skills development needs on properties restored through Restitution
Phuhlisani has been appointed by AGRISETA to assess skills development needs on restitution projects in Limpopo and Mpumalanga where people on the land are focusing on livestock production |
• Schmidtsdrift: The poverty of Restitution?
Phuhlisani presented a paper at the recent conference on overcoming structural poverty and inequality which critically examined the impact of the Restitution programme on poverty and inequality in South Africa. |
• Poverty and Inequality Conference 20 - 22 Sept Johannesburg
Poverty falls marginally but inequality on the rise: Keynote highlights |
• Phuhlisani completes research into self survey process in Joe Slovo informal settlement
Phuhlisani has recently completed a series of interviews with role players involved in the 2009 self enumeration survey conducted in Joe Slovo informal settlement in Cape Town and written up a research paper. |
• Deliberative democracy as a tool for dialogue and development
In rural settings characterised by contestation how can 'deliberative democracy' approaches contribute to an improved climate of dialogue and meaningful change? |
• Hundreds of farmworkers turn out for the first Focus on Farmworkers Open Day
Kleinplasie Living Open-air Museum in Worcester was an appropriate venue for the open day which saw more than 200 farmworkers awarded certificates for their involvement in a civil rights education programme. |
• Joint Portfolio Committee Workshop on rural development and agrarian reform
Examining evidence around grassroots practices, policy implementation and identification of policy gaps |
• How could a Land and Rural Development Information System (LARDIS) assist in improved co-ordination of government development effort and provide reliable information for M&E?
Its no secret that government development effort in the land and rural development sector remains poorly aligned and co-ordinated. Development actors continue to work in silos. How can we break free? Collaborators wanted. |
• Cape Winelands farmworker education programme focuses on sectoral determination and dismissals
More than 150 farm workers gathered at a training venue near Rawsonville for the second workshop in the civil rights education series funded by the District Municipality. |
• Cape Winelands research and farmworker civic education programme get under way
View a Prezi which provides an animated overview of the programme |
• Rural development strategy takes shape in the Northern Cape
Phuhlisani has incorporated stakeholder commentary to produce five strategy papers as part of a draft rural development strategy for the Northern Cape. |
• Phuhlisani facilitates Live the Future HIV and AIDS scenarios workshop for Metropolitan Foundation
Phuhlisani runs initial one day workshop for officials from Breede River Municipality |
• Phuhlisani and Associates research evictions in the Cape Winelands District Municipality
Phuhlisani, PLAAS and IR Change have been contracted to research farmdweller evictions, develop and run a civil rights education programme |
• Phuhlisani welcomes two new partners
Ursula Smith and Siyabu Manona join Phuhlisani |
• Watch a two minute movie on Phuhlisani and our work
Phuhlisani has started using Prezi - innovative web based story telling and presentation package where the only limits are one's imagination. |
• Phuhlisani moves into new offices
Phuhlisani is now at 85 Durban Rd, Mowbray in Cape Town |
