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Social Impact Assessments

Gautrain Rapid Rail Link;  Kumba Resources Sishen South Project;  Leeuwpan Coal Mine Delmas;  Glen Douglas Dolomite Mine Henely-on-Klip; Grootegeluk Open Cast Coal Mine;  South African National Road Agency Ltd – Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project; Waterfall Wedge housing and business development scheme in Midrand Gauteng;  Environmental Management Plan, Sedibeng District Municipality;  Exxaro Belfast Coal Mine Project; South African National Road Agency Ltd – N2 Wild Coast Highway;  The proposed Transnet Pipelines’ New Multi-Products Pipeline – commercial farming areas; Social Aspects of Large Dams and Reservoirs (OECD: Organization for Economic and Cultural Development), Technology Generations, inter alia in handling ICT-driven appliances (Philips).  Environmental Stakeholder Engagement consultant to Transnet (Pty) Ltd, the South African ports and rails operator. Tracking of EIAs, conflict transformation services and development of a stakeholder engagement strategy for megaprojects.

Social & Labour Plans;

Exxaro, Grootegeluk Open Cast Coal Mine; Matimba B Project; Exxaro, North Block Complex Belfast Project

Policy & Programme Evaluation

Australian – South African Sports Development program impact; The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime evaluation of a Centre for Violence Against Women; South African National Government’s Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP).

Strategy Formation

Strategic learning (National Fire Brigade, the Netherlands); Impact on Society of Sea-Level Rise (ISOS project, Delft Technical University, Netherlands).  The evaluation of inter- and intra-organisational trust

Social Research

University of Johannesburg – Research into the research output of Academics;

Various assessments on inter- and intra-organisational trust;  Releasing the Potentials of Senior Scholars & Scientists, Emerging Productivity in a new ERA Amsterdam: ERGO (see Becker, H & Schroots, J.J.F, 2009).  Our associates have published extensivly details of which can be provided on request.

Mediation & Facilitation

The Office of the Premier of the Western Cape Province.

Mining

Kumba Resources Sishen South Project;  Leeuwpan Coal Mine Delmas;  Glen Douglas Dolomite Mine Henely-on-Klip;  Grootegeluk Open Cast Coal Mine;  Exxaro Belfast Coal Mine Project.

Infrastructure including

Gautrain Rapid Rail Link;  South African National Road Agency Ltd – Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project; Waterfall Wedge housing and business development scheme in Midrand Gauteng;  South African National Road Agency Ltd – N2 Wild Coast Highway;  The proposed Transnet Pipelines’ New Multi-Products Pipeline – commercial farming areas Social Aspects of Large Dams and Reservoirs (OECD: Organization for Economic and Cultural Development), Technology Generations, inter alia in handling ICT-driven appliances (Philips).

Environmental management

Impact on Society of Sea-Level Rise (ISOS project, Delft Technical University, Netherlands); Transboundary Protected Areas Research Initiative for Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN). Focus on stakeholder engagement and protected area development in southern Africa;  Environment and development consultant: Key clients included: DANCED/DANEDA, Heinrich Boell Foundation (Germany), Ford Foundation, World Conservation Union (IUCN), IRG, IISD, Trade Record Analysis of Fauna and Flora in Commerce (TRAFFIC), South African Dept. of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, WWF, The Green Trust, Peace Parks Foundation, Endangered Wildlife Trust, Wildlife and Environment Society, Kumba Iron Ore; Social Impact Assessment for the Environmental Management Plan, Sedibeng District Municipality.

Education

University of Johannesburg – Research into the research output of Academics; Lectures by video-conferencing on social impact assessment, between Utrecht in the Netherlands and the University of Johannesburg; Consultant for distance learning, Council of Secondary Education, Netherlands; Sociolinguafranca^® system, inter alia facilitating  communication between Anglophones and Francophones, interactions based on man and man-machine models; Releasing the Potentials of Senior Scholars & Scientists, Emerging Productivity in a new ERA Amsterdam: ERGO (see Becker, H & Schroots, J.J.F, 2009).

Human Resource Management

Performance Management System for the South African Competitions Tribunal; Training Manual on Strategic Human Resource Management for the South African Management Development Institute (SAMDI) to be presented in South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Various Industrial Relations assignments focused on the building of employer – employee trust 

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