December 2009
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A new way of doing business
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Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Benjamin Mkapa, delivered the key note address to the southern African business community at the B4D Pathfinder launch in October. See the next section of this newsletter for more information.
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A new way of doing business is emerging in the global business community. The Southern Africa Trust's new Business for Development (B4D) Pathfinder offers a model and the tools for companies to start practising inclusive business in southern Africa. It's a model with the potential to provide win-win solutions to the social and economic challenges facing the world in the 21st century.
Inclusive business is an evolution in corporate social responsibility (CSR). CSR has conventionally been practiced as more of a reactive management function to enhance a company's reputation and brand and maintain the company's license to operate.
CSR and its related rating schemes have focused more on compliance with various national and global commitments through companies' CSR or CSI divisions, without really enabling businesses to contribute to pro-poor growth and development through their core business.
The B4D Pathfinder offers a new, holistic method of doing business, transforming CSR into a more innovative and proactive role, which searches for opportunities for business to engage with society for everyone's benefit.
There is a powerful social and economic case for inclusive business as presented in the B4D Pathfinder: it enables a company to meet its obligations to its shareholders and other key stakeholders and at the same time, drive poverty reduction. Ultimately, though, the B4D Pathfinder is about creating robust commercial relationships.
This new thinking says that companies can build bridges with low income communities and contribute to overcoming poverty by including them in their core business value chains. It could be as suppliers and consumers of products and services, or as potential distributors, retailers, employees (including shareholders, owners and partners in joint ventures), or even as sources of innovation in product development. It also offers companies a way to provide innovative, development enhancing products and services to the poor that increase the company's market and profitability.
This puts the relationship between a company and its community on a more equitable and mutually beneficial footing, so that they survive and grow together. It enables the community to participate productively in the local economy and promotes human dignity. At the same time, it enables a company to compete in new markets and respond to changing conditions.
The B4D Pathfinder's inclusive business model presents untapped potential to at once increase social benefits and companies' profits. However, it does require a new mindset that sees the marginalised as economic players, not as a drain on resources. The challenge is to find ways to unlock the economic potential of poor communities and find ways to include them in the company's network. The B4D Pathfinder offers the tools to do just that.
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B4D Pathfinder does more than overcome poverty through increased employment and access to income. It also:
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Bestows dignity and self-worth on individuals and families through sustainable livelihoods; |
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Transforms people from passive subjects to pro-active, economically engaged citizens with expanded social networks and work values, thus increasing institutional capital (governance); |
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Enables technology, skills and knowledge to be transferred throughout the system by involving previously poor communities in a value chain; |
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Results in the introduction of new products and services for poor communities by corporations, contributing to faster social and economic development. |
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A road map towards inclusive business:
Level 1 is a state of low CSR and inclusive business. Level 4, the gold standard means that companies have adopted best practice in inclusive business that takes their CSR commitments to a new level of impact. The levels reflect a changing balance between conventional CSR and the new model of doing inclusive business. |
The business community will be the main users of a charter, barometer and toolkit offered by the B4D Pathfinder.
Potential benefits for businesses include:
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A strategic opportunity for companies to enhance their social responsibility by deliberately incorporating low-income individuals and communities into their wider network and supply chain; |
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Enhancement of brand value as it will reach previously excluded consumers and prospective workers; |
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Potential to increase its profits as products become exposed to an increased and more diverse pool of potential customers, while at the same time saving on operational costs as there'll be more focus on sourcing goods and services from local players; |
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Developing new markets amongst, and products for, low income customers to increase market share and profitability. |
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The B4D Pathfinder is Launched
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Jerry Vilakazi, Chairperson of the SADC Employers' Group and CEO of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA), introduced the initiative at the B4D Pathfinder launch in Johannesburg on 28th October 2009.
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Following the SADC Conference on Poverty and Development in Mauritius last year, the Southern Africa Trust initiated the Business for Development (B4D) Pathfinder.
The B4D Pathfinder offers an innovative approach to corporate social responsibility (CSR) by helping companies go beyond corporate giving through corporate social investment (CSI) and even beyond compliance-focused corporate social responsibility. Instead, it integrates sustainable development objectives into the core business of companies.
Rooted in the principle of inclusive business, the B4D Pathfinder promotes the inclusion of low income individuals and communities into the supply chain of private companies, while at the same time, retaining profitability and advancing the CSR objectives of the company. It also enables companies to engage low income individuals as consumers of specially targeted products and services that have a positive impact on development.
The B4D pathfinder takes the inclusive business concept and turns it into a product that includes a framework, system, process and tools that can be used to achieve inclusive business. It will build on and work with existing CSR benchmarking and reporting schemes to help companies improve and add value to their overall sustainable development efforts, without unduly increasing their reporting burden.
The B4D Pathfinder is relevant to all companies that have a supply chain and could procure goods and services locally and from low-income communities. It provides a focus for all sectors to share the responsibility for poverty reduction at a local level, using globally ground-breaking concepts.
The vision is to drive change across the southern African region by harnessing corporate resources to overcome poverty.
The overall outcome for business of using the B4D Pathfinder would be a sector trusted by society that contributes to sustainable development and adds long-term value to the region's wellbeing.
Click here to see more about the B4D Pathfinder or contact Dr Themba Mhlongo at the Southern Africa Trust on (+27) 011-318 1012 or email: tmhlongo@southernafricatrust.org for more information.
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"The Southern Africa Trust has provided support at a crucial time for the strengthening of the private sector in the region."
Catherine Grant, Business Unity South Africa / SADC Employers' Group
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| BUSA has received three grants from the Trust since 2007, totaling US$ 140,000. |
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| Jerry Vilakazi, Chief Executive Officer of Business Unity South Africa with Former President Benjamin Mkapa at the B4D Pathfinder launch. |
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| Harrison Kalua, President of Association of SADC Chambers of Commerce and Industry, with Denis Kadima, Chairperson of the Southern Africa Trust, after the two organisations signed a memorandum of understanding in 2007. |
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Partner Links
Business Unity South Africa (BUSA)
Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) is a non-profit organisation based in Johannesburg, South Africa. BUSA represents South African business on macro-economic and high-level issues that affect it at both national and international levels.
BUSA's mission is to ensure that business plays a constructive role in the country's economic growth, development and transformation. It also seeks to create an environment in which businesses of all sizes and in all sectors can thrive, expand and be competitive.
BUSA is currently the chair and secretariat of the SADC Employers' Group (SEG). The organisation has also assumed some responsibilities for the SADC Business Forum (SBF). This has enhanced the opportunity for the SEG to strengthen the coordination and participation of business on regional poverty and development issues.
BUSA is involved in a number of activities aimed at:
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Lobbying and advocating on regional issues on behalf of the private sector in SADC; |
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Supporting sustainable social economic development initiatives in SADC and; |
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Promoting participation of the SADC private sector on regional issues including poverty and development. |
Read more at www.busa.org.za
Bench Marks Foundation (BMF)
The Bench Marks Foundation was launched in 2001 by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as an ecumenical agency of churches set up to serve churches and to monitor corporate conduct.
The BMF is part of an international faith-based coalition that has partners in Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, the USA, Colombia and the United Kingdom. The Foundation's partners in South Africa include the South African Council of Churches (SACC), the Ecumenical Service for Socio-Economic Transformation (ESSET), the Industrial Mission of South Africa, and the Justice and Peace Department of the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference.
The Bench Marks Foundation has three programmatic focus areas:
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To promote a culture of ethical investments in the churches and faith communities; |
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To monitor multinational corporations operating in Southern Africa and the rest of the African continent to ensure that they meet minimum social, environmental and economic standards; |
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To promote an ethical and critical voice on what constitutes corporate social responsibility. |
Read more at www.bench-marks.org
The Southern Africa Trust gave US$ 50,000 to the Benchmarks Foundation for an initiative called the Africa Roundtable on Investment. It brought together 27 organisations from Zambia, Malawi, Swaziland, Mozambique, Angola, Tanzania, Botswana, South Africa and the DRC.
One of the major achievements of the project was the development of a code of conduct for corporate social responsibility. Follow-up action for this process will be at a larger roundtable and conference in 2010.
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Selected projects approved:
June-November 2009 |
Business Unity South Africa
Amount: US$ 120,000
Connect Africa
Amount: US$ 40,000
Khanya College Johannesburg Trust
Amount: US$ 37,500
Mthente Research & Consulting
Amount: US$ 62,500
SADC-Council of Non-Governmental Organisations
Amount: US$ 132,000
String Communication
US$ 74,670
SADC Secretariat
US$ 140,000
Chagos Refugee Group
US$ 10,000
Helene Perold & Associates
US$ 6,357
Institute for Global Dialogue
US$ 86,000
South African National NGO Coalition
US$ 8,750
Umhlaba Development Services
US$ 125,000
Nelson Mandela Foundation
US$ 10,000
Forum Das ONGs Angolanas, Angola
US$ 14,433
Botswana Council of Non Governmental Organisations
US$ 4,500
Conseil National des Organisations Non Gouvernementales de Developpement de la Congo
US$ 22,820
Observatoire Congolais de la Pauvreté de l' lnégalité
US$ 120,000
Lesotho Council of Non Governmental Organisations
US$ 6,000
Plate-Forme Nationale des Organisations de la Societe Civile de Madagascar
US$ 12,000
Council for Non Governmental Organisations in Malawi
US$ 8,000
Namibia Non Governmental Organisation Forum Trust
US$ 6,000
Liason Unit of Non-Governmental Organisations, Seychelles
US$ 13,000
The Coordinating Assembly of Non Governmental Organisations, Swaziland
US$ 5,500
Zambia Council for Social Development
US$ 7,500
Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions
US$ 100,000
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| Change Magazine Launched |
The Southern Africa Trust and the African Monitor have launched a new quarterly online magazine for the southern Africa region. ChangeMudança reflects a shared vision for a publication that explores innovative ways of overcoming poverty through regional integration.
The magazine will profile best examples of best practice through case studies on innovation and provoke debate.
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Click here to read the new online magazine, ChangeMudança
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Grantmaking News
Total Grant Amounts allocated to Thematic Areas
November 2009
Live Grants
Full Portfolio
Innovation and diversity: These are the hallmarks of some of the latest projects in southern Africa that will be funded by the Southern Africa Trust...
Business Unity South Africa
The Southern Africa Trust granted US$ 120,000 to BUSA for 12 months for a project aimed at strengthening the interaction of the private sector in SADC on integration issues, including poverty and development.
Connect Africa
Connect Africa has received three grants from the Southern Africa Trust, totalling US$ 100,000 for the development of rural mobile telecommunications. The project aims at securing formal support from the Zambian Government to extend the trial project period and to roll-out a district wide service network.
SADC-Council of Non Governmental Organisations (SADC-CNGO)
The SADC Council of Non Governmental Organisations (SADC-CNGO) received US$ 55,000 from the Southern Africa Trust for the purpose of hosting the 5th SADC Civil Society Forum. The Trust will also support SADC-CNGO with another US$ 50,000 to promote popular participation in the design and implementation of the proposed SADC Regional Poverty Observatory. A further amount of US$ 27,917 has been granted to SADC-CNGO towards a summit of the regional civil society apex organisations, including the faith-based and trade union sectors, in Southern Africa.
SADC Secretariat
US$ 140,000 has been allocated to the SADC Secretariat for consultations with interest groups from all countries in the region on the establishment of the SADC Regional Poverty Observatory.
Helene Perold & Associates
Helene Perold & Associates was given US$ 6,357 for a study on youth, violence and civic engagement in Zimbabwe. This will contribute to a broader study that covers the southern African region.
Umhlaba Development Services
Umhlaba received US$ 125,000 to facilitate South African Civil Society input into the South African Government's Anti-Poverty Strategy and to develop an ongoing mechanism for engagement for state and civil society engagement.
Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions
An amount of US$ 100,000 was given to strengthen the organisation's governance and capability to better engage in regional policy development focusing on the contribution of small scale farmers to food security in southern Africa.
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Change4ever Campaign
Donations to the Trust are tax deductable!
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Every cent raised through the Change4ever Campaign goes directly to poverty-eradication projects.
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Change4ever: A Star is Born
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David Imani performing at Change4ever's 'Free to Be' concert in Johannesburg last year.
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Last year, our Change4ever campaign included the Free to Be concert at Wits University, in partnership with MTN and Music Is A Great Investment (MIAGI).
Several musicians from different countries in the region performed at Free to Be, including the unknown David Imani from the DRC - in his first major concert appearance.
During David's performance, Robert Brooks from MIAGI was heard to comment, "And a star is born!"
Following Free to Be, David was awarded his first recording contract and his debut CD will be available shortly. He is also planning some live performances.
Look out for David: he could be the next music superstar coming out of the DRC!
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The Drivers of Change awards recognise individuals or organisations from across the southern Africa region for making a real impact on the lives of people living in poverty.
Now in their fourth year, these prestigious non-monetary awards recognise outstanding new ways of working to overcome poverty.
It is awarded in four categories:
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| Archbishop Njongo Ndungane receiving an award for the Individual category. |
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"The Drivers of Change awards celebrate the tentative signs that things are beginning to change in our region.
The awards applaud some remarkable people and organisations for pushing the frontiers and leading the charge to a new way of doing things in our region.
This year's award winners represent a new kind of leadership - equally at the centre as at the periphery - that is needed to change our situation for good."
Neville Gabriel, Executive Director, Southern Africa Trust
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| The civil society category award was scooped by Luanda Urban Poverty Programme. |
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2009 Drivers of Change Announced
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Dr Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi (right), accepts the Drivers of Change Award (Government) from Dr Perks Ligoya, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Malawi and Trustee of the Southern Africa Trust.
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The 2009 Southern Africa Drivers of Change award winners were announced on 29 October 2009.
This year's awards received nominations from nine countries in the southern Africa region.
The Drivers of Change awards are presented jointly by the Southern Africa Trust and the Mail & Guardian newspaper, together with the annual 'Investing in the Future' awards.
The Winners
GOVERNMENT:
Dr Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi - for changing Malawi from a country in perpetual food deficit to one that is entirely food-sufficient. The boom in this sector has had a direct impact on millions of poor people. Under his leadership, poverty in Malawi has declined from 58 to 42% in five years. Through his direct involvement in turning Malawi's future around, he is building new confidence and hope amongst the citizens of Africa in their governments.
INDIVIDUAL:
Archbishop Njongo Ndungane - for his lifelong commitment to place the poor at the centre of social and economic policies and his efforts to drive change in the way leadership is exercised in Africa. Through his African Monitor initiative, he remains as steadfast as ever in pushing rich countries to meet their commitments to the poor in Africa while also working to ensure that the aid that is given benefits the poor.
CIVIL SOCIETY:
The Luanda Urban Poverty Programme (LUPP) in Angola - for driving systemic change in the way poverty reduction programmes are run in Angola, through a fresh approach that others have struggled to achieve. It is building participatory governance and more effective delivery of housing and basic services such as water. Benefitting over 400,000 of Luanda's poorest, LUPP has successfully laid the foundation for poor citizens to become active in shaping their futures.
BUSINESS:
A unique partnership between WBHO Construction, Dr Xolile Ngethu and the ComMark Trust - for driving change in the way corporate social responsibility is practiced. When WBHO Construction won the contract to build a road between Mount Frere and Matatiele in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, it partnered with ComMark and Dr Ngethu to help black farmers access previously inaccessible red meat markets, turning their cattle into assets that are generating real and lasting returns. The project is making markets work for the poor in the Eastern Cape.
SPECIAL COMMENDATIONS:
Bishop Dowling (South Africa) was honoured for his extraordinary contribution to driving social change, as much in the churches as in society in general.
Emma Kaliya (Malawi) was recognised for her tireless efforts to increase the percentage of women parliamentarians in Malawi from 14% to 22%.
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| A momentous occasion as the Trust signs a memorandum of understanding with the government of Mauritius and the Mauritius Council of Social Services. |
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Trust to Help Mauritian Civil Society
The Southern Africa Trust recently signed a groundbreaking memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Mauritian Government and the country's civil society organisations, which aims to build the capacity of civil society in Mauritius.
The MOU was signed in Port Louis by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Social Security, National Solidarity and Senior Citizens Welfare and Reform Institutions, Anbanaden Veerasamy, the Secretary of MACOSS (Mauritius Council of Social Service), Ram Nookadee, and Neville Gabriel, Executive Director of the Southern Africa Trust. In attendance was the Mauritian Minister of Social Security Ms Sheilabai Bappoo.
"For an effective and sustained drive to overcome poverty in our region, it is imperative to increase engagement between civil society organisations and governments. We need to develop leadership in both sectors to strengthen the capability of both to do this. We need to develop stronger relations of accountability and cohesion between governments and citizens' organisations. That's what we are committing to do together today," said Neville Gabriel.
Key areas of collaboration under the MOU include the establishment of a Civil Society Leadership Academy, a 'leadership for change' programme for NGOs in both Mauritius and other southern Africa countries and capacity building of 30 to 50 organisations working in the field of poverty reduction.
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Support for displaced Islanders
With a grant of $ 10,000, the Southern African Trust has committed assistance to the Chagos Refugee Group and will be funding the IT infrastructure and website development needed to strengthen their regional and international communication campaigns, as well as the development of a childcare facility at the group's training and resource centre at Cassis in Mauritius.
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Have You Heard of the Chagossians?
Between 1967 and 1973, the US and UK governments forcibly removed the people of the Indian Ocean's Chagos Archipelago to make way for the development of a US military base on the island of Diego Garcia. (The base gained attention recently in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as a launch pad for long-range bombers and as an alleged secret US detention site.)
The two governments deported approximately 1,500 people, known as Chagossians, to the western Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Seychelles, located 1,200 miles away. According to some reports, the displaced people received funding of around £650,000 from the British Government, but most individuals received nothing and with no resettlement plan, thousands of Chagossians quickly ended up living in poverty, mainly in slums in Mauritius.
Many Chagossians have committed suicide.
In 1976, a British government official admitted that Chagossians were 'living in deplorable conditions,' but three decades later, most Chagossians (currently more than 5,000 individuals) remain impoverished in Mauritius and Seychelles. In 1997, a World Health Organization-funded report found that most Chagossians were, 'still housed in tin shacks in the disadvantaged slums' of the Mauritian capital, Port Louis, 'without regular incomes and without real practical access to education or health care.'
Since the late 1990s, the Chagossians have struggled, protested and held hunger strikes to gain the right to return to their homeland and receive compensation to finance their return to the Chagos Islands. Yet, even though the British High Court found in favour of the Chagossians in November 2000 and ordered that they be allowed to return to the Chagos Islands (but denied compensation in another ruling in 2003), the UK Government enacted a Royal Decree, overturning the High Court's November 2000 decision. The Chagossians returned to the High Court in December 2005 to contest the Royal Decree and are currently awaiting a ruling. They are also involved in ongoing lawsuits against the US Government.
Whilst their ongoing legal battles have become well-known in recent years, particularly in Europe and the USA, the Chagossians are still living on the fringes of society in the Seychelles and Mauritius.
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Sobering Statistics:
Of the 249 million people who live in southern Africa, 40% live in deep poverty;
Only 5% of the land area in SADC is classified as arable land;
Only 45% of the arable land is cultivated;
Only 4.48% of the cultivated land is irrigated.
Statistics provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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Seeds of Plenty or a Future of Famine?
Millions of people in southern Africa have been affected by chronic food shortages, most recently exacerbated by the global food price crisis.
Although agricultural production is central to southern Africa's development, it has not achieved the levels of production necessary to ensure food security for all, particularly for the poor who make up about 40% of the region's population of 249 million people.
The potential of small-scale agricultural producers to contribute to food security, particularly for the most vulnerable, is a major area of underdevelopment. If countries in the region are to achieve food security for the poor at household level, small farmers should be supported to increase food production by a broad range of interrelated policy measures that include anticipating climate shocks, structural reforms, government policy innovation, and the establishment of partnerships.
Read more of the 'Seeds of Plenty' Policy Brief at www.southernafricatrust.org/docs/Policy_Brief_4_August2009.pdf
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Medicines for Zimbabwe
After an appeal by Doctors for Human Rights asking for medical support for the Mbare Polyclinic in Harare, Zimbabwe, Graça Machel approached private South African health care company Netcare and the Southern Africa Trust for help.
Netcare rose to the occasion, donating around R1 million worth of medical equipment and medicines through the Southern Africa Trust. TheTrust organised and funded the cross-border transportation of the medical supplies. The donation arrived at the Mbare Polyclinic last month and is being distributed for use by people who urgently need it.
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Who's been visiting us?
Baroness Lynda Chalker - A member of the UK parliament for more than 30 years and former UK Minister of State for Overseas Development
Benjamin Mkapa - Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania
Agrina Mussa - High Commissioner of Malawi to South Africa
Archbishop Njongo Ndungane - President of the African Monitor
Jonathan Kaunda - Coordinator, Formative Process Research on Integration In Southern Africa (FORPRISA)
Abie Ditlhake - General Secretary, SADC Council of Non-Governmental Organisations
Nic Dawes - Editor in Chief, Mail & Guardian Newspaper
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Upcoming Events
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| Launch of the Southern Africa Youth Exchange (sayXchange) |
4 February 2010 |
Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Donor Forum |
February 2010 |
Midrand, South Africa |
Office closes:
Friday 18 December 2009
Office reopens:
Monday 4 January 2010
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Trustee named as Malawi Reserve Bank Governor
Southern Africa Trust Trustee, Dr Perks Ligoya was appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank of Malawi in September.
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"Congratulations Mr Governor! No doubt, your contribution to the progress of Malawi and our whole region will be felt so much more powerfully through this development."
Neville Gabriel, Executive Director, Southern Africa Trust
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Meet the team
Karin Matthee - Office Manager
Karin is highly experienced in corporate and government administrative procedures and business administration, having worked for the South African Department of Trade and Industry and several investment and business houses. She holds a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) from UNISA's business school.
Apart from planning to study further, Karin enjoys travelling to far-flung destinations where she gets to meet and interact with people of different cultures and nationalities. She will be visiting her sister in the USA next year.
Karin is an avid reader and when she finds the time, enjoys painting and trying her hand at craft-making... often ably helped by Ya-Ya, her inquisitive and highly intelligent cat!
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