Social Impact Assessments

 

Review of Social Impact Assessments

 

Social & Labour Plans

Exxaro Resources Ltd – Grootegeluk Opencast Coal Mine Matimba B project   
Exxaro Resources Ltd – North Block Complex Belfast Project

 

Policy & Programme Evaluation

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime – Evaluation of a Centre for Violence Against Women in Upington;
Australian – South African sports development programme impact;
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 research outputs of the University
Various research assignments of organisational trust

 

Mediation & Facilitation

The Office of the Premier of the Western Cape Province.

 

Mining

Gold Fields West Wits Project; Kumba Resources Sishen South Project; Leeuwpan Coal Mine Glen Douglas Dolomite Mine; Grootegeluk Open Cast Coal Mine; North Block Complex - Belfast Project; Kumba Resources Limited’s Proposed Dingleton Resettlement Project at Sishen Iron Ore Mine.

 

Infrastructure

Gautrain Rapid Rail Link; N2 Wild Coast Toll Highway; N3 Toll Road Route Location Initiative – Tugela Plaza to Warden; Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP); Eskom Holdings Limited’s Proposed Ubertas 88/11kV Substation; Eskom Holding Limited’s Proposed Nuclear Power Station (NPS) and Associated Infrastructure – Assisted with rewrite; Transnet Pipelines’ New Multi-Products Pipeline (commercial farmers); Proposed Vale Moatize Power Plant Project (Mozambique); Waterfall Wedge Housing and Business Development Scheme.

 

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 

 

Enquiries: bewsco@netactive.co.za