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Viernes, 17 Mayo 2019 12:20

Cape Town 2025

Isandla Institute coordinated the research papers and conference that informed this visioning project, which was conducted in partnership with the City of Cape Town. The aim of this project was to create opportunities to dare to imagine images of a future cities founded on core values of equity, sustainability and integration, 2005.

International conference co-hosted with the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies and the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (UK), 2007.

Isandla Institute coordinated the production of a technical report on regional development on behalf of the Western Cape Government, which was presented at the Western Cape Integrated Development Planning Conference, 7-8 May 2007.

Isandla Institute provided logistical and project coordination support to this prestigious review on behalf of the Western Cape government. This included coordination of two OECD missions to South Africa, 2007-2008.

Isandla Institute conducted research into the role of culture in enhancing social inclusion and integration. The report advocates a more holistic and conscious response to culture in urban regeneration and documents over 50 case studies of innovative cultural activities, organisations and expressions, 2008.

Isandla Institute coordinated the international workshop on behalf of UNU-WIDER in June 2008.

Isandla Institute coordinated the SUD-Net Africa workshop (which culminated in the launch of SUD-Net Africa) on behalf of UN-Habitat, SIDA and the African Centre for Cities in February 2009.

Viernes, 17 Mayo 2019 12:17

Documentary ‘The Right to the City’

This documentary, developed in 2009, seeks to raise debate about the state of urban development and the nature of urban planning interventions in South Africa. Its main purpose is to promote discussion about an alternative urban development paradigm, one that is strongly grounded in a rights discourse.

Conference co-hosted with the Presidency (Programme to Support Pro-Poor Policy Development in South Africa, PSPPD), the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), Chronic Poverty Research Centre (UK), and the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII), September 2010. A civil society workshop aimed at knowledge sharing and strengthening collaborative action and advocacy on poverty and inequality took place in April 2011.

Between April 2014 to December 2016, Isandla Institute provided knowledge management, process facilitation, communication and logistics support to National Treasury in coordinating the ERLN, a national network of economic development practitioners in metropolitan, provincial and national government.

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