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SEF Partner Presentation: Clean City SA
SEF Partner Presentation: Clean City SA

Established in February 2020, Clean City SA is an award-winning community based NPC which advocates for environmental justice. Clean City SA promotes the implementation of the circular economy in South Africa, through waste reduction, re-use, and recycling as the preferred waste management options. The SEF Programme is a major project at Clean City SA.

SEF Partner Presentation: MES
SEF Partner Presentation: MES

MES focuses on 5 groups: pre-schoolers, learners, school-leaving youth, youth & adults at risk and families at risk. Through SEF, MES is able to provide over 100 work opportunities across Johannesburg.

Knowledge sharing with the World Bank & Government of Ethiopia
Knowledge sharing with the World Bank & Government of Ethiopia

The World Bank hosted a delegation from the Government of Ethiopia’s Urban Productive Employment and Jobs Program. The delegates spent three days in Johannesburg visiting organisations that facilitate public employment, with specific interest in the technology developed for these employment programmes. The focus on day three was the Presidential Employment Stimulus which has created 1 […]

State of the EPWP report launched
State of the EPWP report launched

This morning, the South African Cities Network [SACN] and the National Department of Public Works and Infrastructure launched The State of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in South African Cities 2019-2020. In launching the report these were some of the findings noted: – Many cities are not yet meeting targets (CoJ is doing well […]

Learning from Voortrekker Road CID
Learning from Voortrekker Road CID

Following the International Downtown Association webinar on Homelessness in Urban Districts, Wilma Piek from the Voortrekker Road Corridor Improvement District (VRCID) was invited to present to the Johannesburg CID Forum. The VRCID aims to provide a Hand Up and not a Hand Out to people living on the streets. By working with the organisation Mould […]

Urban Agriculture Initiative Update
Urban Agriculture Initiative Update

Through the work of the Johannesburg Inner City Partnership key stakeholders have been brought together to form the Urban Agriculture Initiative (UAI) in order to address issues of food security, employment, education and skills development in Joburg. The Urban Agriculture Initiative in the press Progress of the Urban Agriculture Initiative On 11 October 2017 the […]