Welcome to the Partnerships Central Portal for South Africa.
The Portal is currently under development. When complete it
will offer a range of information, tools and service to provide
the means, motivation and opportunity for partnerships for
sustainable development to form within South Africa.
For the moment, below are some of the
partnerships already operating in South Africa.
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Roundabout Outdoor (pty) Ltd
This project provides a childrens "merry-go-round" or "roundabout" which, when bolted on top of an existing borehole, pumps fresh clean drinking water while displaying AIDS awareness messages.
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Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
The initiative consisted of social acceptance testing and estimation of the market potential followed by test marketing and manufacture of solar stoves along commercial lines.
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International Youth Foundation / Nokia
A global, multi-year partnership to promote positive youth development worldwide through education.
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Global Nature Fund / Unilever South Africa
Protecting Lake St Lucia (and its environment) through the implementation of projects that demonstrate, to local communities, the importance of sustainable utilization of their natural resources.
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BMW South Africa / Dept. of Environmental Resource Protection, City of Tshwane (formerly known as Pretoria), South Africa
Economic recycling of plastic in schools and the local community.
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ABB
Innovative approaches to environmental and social responsibility for a new international airport servicing the Kruger National Park.
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Palabora Mining Company (a Rio Tinto Group company)
Building sustainable livelihoods around mining development.
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Shell Southern Africa Pty Ltd
Technical and business skills training and access to loans to facilitate small scale enterprises.
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BP Africa
The partnership focuses on the social and economic pillars of sustainability and a key issue of how to extend participation in the formal economy to historically disadvantaged South Africans, and women in particular.
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Eskom
Eskom's energy partnerships for sustainable development...
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De Beers
The township of Refilwe (outside of Pretoria) was experiencing an educational crisis with overcrowded and dilapidated schools trying to accommodate bo...
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ABB South Africa
The Lungisa project started in 1997, its name meaning, "Fix it" in Ngumi Languages. The project's aim is to help empower unemployed and disabled peopl...
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IUCN
Africa is home to 400 million people living in abject poverty, with over 50% of the population existing on less than $1 per day. Global warming is ye...
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Individual - Rosemary Naiden
De Beers has been one of the corporate sponsors of an extraordinary project in Soweto, one of the most notorious townships in South Africa.
The Buska...
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De Beers
The Vukuzenzele farming project was started four years ago in Refilwe township just outside of Pretoria. Refilwe is one of the poorest townships in Ga...
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Soutpansberg Conservancy
The Lesheba Wilderness Art Programme is aimed essentially at preserving and extending a unique and indigenous form of wood sculpting. The project is f...
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WSSA
Main objective of the initiative:
Expansion of municipal water services to 200,000 inhabitants in the periphery (new demarcated areas) of the two ci...
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De Beers
De Beers decided to develop a major conservation area in tandem with the development of the Venetia diamond mine in the Limpopo Province in the late 1...
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Roundabout Outdoor HIV/AIDS Initiative