The meeting took place in Cape Town where Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) discussed their concerns with how the South African Government has been managing the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The meeting was very informative and various issues and possible solutions on how best CSOs and the South African Government can work together to achieve open […]
CLCB attended the Making all Voices Count Community of Practice Meeting. The meeting centred on Open Government Partnership, particularly the third OGP National Action Plan under the theme P4Partnership- Strengthening Partnership in fostering OGP Commitments. The session was attended by officials from various Civil Society Organisations, tertiary institutions and government departments.
The aim of the meeting was to create a platform for municipalities and businesses to discuss how the municipality business environment can be improved to accommodate effective municipal-business collaboration and increase foreign investment.
To close off the Business Climate Benchmark Project, CLCB in Collaboration with the Holland Business Chamber hosted a Business Trade Fair. The trade fair enabled a networking platform for the participating municipalities and various South African based Dutch owned businesses to interact and establish relations that could potentially lead to great partnerships and investments.
Give a Girl Child a Smile Campaign is a campaign that was initiated by CLCB in partnership with Tim Du Toit Attorneys in September 2016. With this campaign, CLCB aimed to make a girl child smile by collecting sanitary towels for under privileged girls at Pretoria Central High School. A ceremony to handover the gifts […]
The EU-LA Mining Programme was officially launched by CLCB and its partners VNG-International and Musina Local Municipality on 24 April 2018. The purpose of the launch was to introduce the programme to the broader public, particularly the government, and the mining sector and development practitioners.
On 9 May 2018, CLCB was part of the Europe Day celebrations. This is a day set aside to celebrate the existence of the European Union (EU) and to network. The event was attended by a multitude of African and European delegates.
The EU-LA Mining Programme partnered with Thabazimbi Local Municipality for their second mining forum. The aim of the forum was to create a platform for the municipality and the mining companies within their jurisdiction to identify ways to respond to the common interests of both parties for socio-economic development in Thabazimbi.
The South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARCHi) and the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) in collaboration with the EU-LA Mining Programme held a workshop to introduce the Mineral Law in Africa (MLiA) Research Project. The workshop was themed Coordinating Mineral Regulation and Compliance across different organs of state, and aimed to evaluate the […]
The Municipal –Mining Guideline and Toolkit Creation Workshop was held on 9 October 2018, and aimed to grant an opportunity to the EU-LA Mining Programme’s beneficiary municipalities and other selected mining municipalities in South Africa to highlight their expectations for the toolkit.
CLCB started the year off by attending a Mineral Law in Africa Workshop (MLiA) hosted by The University of Cape Town’s Department of Mineral Law, which took place from 12th -13th February 2019. It was a great honour for CLCB to be part of the workshop for the second time. The MLiA Workshop brings together […]
20 May 2019 was what has been marked in history as EU day (European Union day). EU delegations together with the European Investment bank, South African counterparts in Government, Civil Society Organizations, and the Business Community all gathered to celebrate the existence of the EU.
The Innovation and Local Economic Development Workshop was tailored to set the tone for the year, and to equip the Programme’s beneficiary municipalities’ officials with the necessary required capacity to diversify their localities by exploring innovative sustainable alternative economies. Read more in the first edition newsletter.
The Concept Note and Programme Development Workshop aimed to prepare the Programme’s beneficiary municipalities’ officials and stakeholders for the Netherlands Study Visit . This was to ensure that everyone is equipped as individuals and as a collective. A concept note and programme highlighting the expectations of the participants were also drafted at the workshop. Read […]
As part of the EU-LA Mining Programme, the CLCB Team, its stakeholders and the five beneficiary municipalities embarked on an international study visit to the Netherlands. The study visit took place from 14 – 22 September 2019, fulfilling the purpose of enhancing cross-thematic and international learning. The participants visited some towns in the province of […]
The Post Netherlands Study Visit Workshop created a platform for participants to share lessons learnt at the Netherlands Study Visit, and to identify lessons that can be effectively implemented in their own localities. Read more in the first edition newsletter.
In response to the challenge faced by many localities, of almost non-existent communication between the municipality and stakeholders in the community, Musina Local Municipality together with CLCB organised a Mayoral Breakfast. The breakfast’s aim was to remedy the challenge, as stakeholders from business, industry (the tourism sector in particular), officials from the municipality, members of […]
Musina Local municipality had their Strategic Planning Session with the objective of ensuring that their municipal plans and policies are consistent and coherent. With the support of CLCB and its associate experts, Dr Hlami Ngwenya and Mr. Ferdie Heunis, the session proved to be one that enabled the municipal officials to share a common vision […]
CLCB was honoured to receive an invitation from Thabazimbi Local Municipality to give an overview of the EU-LA Mining Programme and to motivate and empower the officials that gathered for their Strategic Planning Session. The aim of the session was to review progress, set a plan of action for improvements and to commit to implementation.