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Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke - Partner at Mesopartner
Presentation: Global trends in Quality Infrastructure
Eduardo Trajano Gadret - Researcher-Technologist in Metrology and Qualith at INMENTO
Presentation: Quality Infrastructure in Brazil
Martin Chesire - Chief Executive Officer at Kenya Accreditation Service (KENAS)
Presentation: Quality Infrastructure in Kenya
Programme
14:00: Facilitator opens the seminar: Saul Levin
14:05: Opening remarks Tshenge Demana: Quality Infrastructure in support of industrial development
14:10-14:20 Global trends in Quality Infrastructure: Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke
14:20-14:45 Presentations on international experience in Quality Infrastructure institutional role:
- Eduardo Trajano Gadret: QI in Brazil
- Martin Chesire: QI in Kenya
14:45-15:15 Discussion and engagement on how experiences of QI development could enrich South Africa in the context of Post-COVID-19 economic recovery
15:15 Closure
Background
South Africa’s industrial policy aims to bring about a change in the structure of the economy to put the economy on a more inclusive, industrialised and sustainable path. Quality Infrastructure (QI) institutions (SABS, NMISA, NRCS, and SANAS) are part and parcel of industrial policy measures, with international experience seeing a correlation between levels of economic development and robustness or effectiveness of a country’s QI. With the QI system evolving globally and an improved understanding of its critical role in industrial policy, consideration needs to be given to its role in post-COVID-19 economic recovery plans.
For more about the Institutional alignment of Quality Infrastructure in South Africa and links to case studies on QI in Australia, Brazil, Kenya and the Republic of Korea, go to Quality Infrastructure case studies.
About the Speakers
Eduardo Trajano Gadret is Researcher-Technologist in Metrology and Quality at INMETRO
Martin Chesire is Chief Executive Officer at Kenya Accreditation Service (KENAS)
Saul Levin is the Executive Director of TIPS
Tshenge Demana is a Chief Director in the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition
Ulrich Harmes-Liedtke is a partner at Mesopartner
RSVP by email: daphney@tips.org.za to confirm attendance
Zoom meeting details
Register online
- Date Monday, 25 October 2021
- Venue Zoom
This Development Dialogue webinar aims to provide a platform to hear from and engage with people from Steve Tshwete and Emalahleni. It aims to unpack key concerns, aspirations, visions and the needs of people in Mpumalanga, focusing on what is required to shift the status quo and make a positive change in the region in employment, poverty, energy, health, and the environment.
The second in a series, this event forms part of a larger project, funded by UK PACT, that intends to facilitate the co-development of a coherent just transition plan for affected communities in Mpumalanga, with a particular focus on Emalahleni and Steve Tshwete. The aim of this event is to unpack one of the issues raised in the first event relating to the future of existing mining jobs and the opportunities that might emerge in other sectors. What are the concerns of local workers and community members? What is a possible way forward? How can we solve some of the hard questions?
Programme
Welcome and introduction by Gaylor Montmasson-Clair (TIPS)
Overview of the project by Hameda Deedat (NALEDI)
Facilitated by:
Thomas Mnguni, Community Activity, groundwork and Melisizwe Tyiso, Researcher, NALEDI
Panel:
Jabu Khambule, Regional Educator, Highveld Region, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Emalahleni, Mpumalanga
Thembisile Mbethe, Vukani Environmental Justice Movement in Action (VEM), Emalahleni, Mpumalanga
Sicelo Masina, ex-worker Optimum Coal Mine, Steve Tshwete, Mpumalanga
Sipho Dhlamini, CEPPWAWU, Mpumalanga Regional Secretary
Discussion:
Michael Nkosi, LED Department, Steve Tshwete Local Municipality, Mpumalanga
Anna-Marth Ott, CEO, Middleburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), Steve Tshwete, Mpumalanga
- Date Thursday, 26 August 2021
- Venue Webinar
- Organisation TIPS and the National Labour and Economic Institute (NALEDI), supported by groundWork
On 19 August, the SA-TIED programme will host its final in a series of policy dialogues to enhance engagement on pertinent economic and social issues facing southern Africa.
This policy dialogue will be hosted under the work stream on Regional growth for southern Africa’s prosperity and will discuss strengthening regional economic development.
COVID-19 has created a trade crisis in southern Africa with a dramatic slowdown in cross-border trade. The crisis, which exposed weaknesses and deficiencies in the trade facilitation regimes, presents an opportunity for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to address and contribute to greater levels of trade within Africa.
What is the impact of the border closures in response to the pandemic, and its impact on trade and the movement of goods in and out of the southern African development community? How then should the AfCFTA address the long-term problems of weak trade facilitation systems and bring in measures that would advance greater intra-regional co-operation?
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become common across southern Africa in the past 20 years. In line with experiences in the rest of the world, they have had at best marginal success. Their essential premise is that it should be more efficient and effective to establish an enclave with world-class administration and infrastructure than to address cross-cutting blockages to growth. In east Asia, this approach was able to build on a broader national industrialization trajectory. In southern Africa, by contrast, it has proved unable to offset the main constraints on investment. The case of SEZs underscores the need to develop effective methodologies to test whether policy solutions developed in very different circumstances are viable in southern Africa.
Plastics are ubiquitous across the region and play an important role in multiple industries. Most plastics products are based on a value chain that is grounded in petroleum refining, posing an environmental challenge. Plastic manufacturing in South Africa suffers from the high cost of inputs. Mozambique is endowed with large deposits of natural gas. What then is the potential for the sustainable development of a plastics value chain in southern Africa?
About the policy dialogue
The policy dialogue will begin with a synthesis of research findings produced under the work stream on Regional growth for southern Africa’s prosperity by Saul Levin, TIPS executive director.
Following the synthesis presentation, speakers will dive into the main topics listed below. The discussion will be moderated by Mashudu Masutha, media liaison for South Africa’s Minister of Finance.
The following issues will be explored in the discussion:
- To what extent can SEZs be used as a policy tool for supporting industrialization, and what lessons can we learn from two decades of SEZs in southern Africa;
- The initial responses to COVID-19 in southern Africa saw border closures and lockdowns being implemented. These issues are discussed in the context of trade facilitation in southern Africa and its implications for the AfCFTA;
- Exploration of the upstream plastics sector as a regional value chain (RVC), and the possibilities of supporting the growth of this RVC and ‘future-proofing’ it against a number of headwinds.
Speakers
Saul Levin, executive director at TIPS
Neva Makgetla, senior economist at TIPS
Faizel Ismail, research fellow at TIPS
Liako Mofo, senior economist at TIPS
Register online
Register for the policy dialogue here.
- Date Thursday, 19 August 2021
- Time 14.00-15.15
- Venue Online via Zoom
Presentations
Thobile Mawelela - TIPS economist
Presentation: Small businesses and the post Covid-19 recovery data and trends
Gabriel Davel - CEO for the Centre for Credit Market Development; previously CEO of the National Credit Regulator
Presentation: Impact of the Covid-19 on credit flows
Dave Wilson (CEO National Mentorship Movement) and Sandra Makumbirofa (TIPS Economist)
Presentation: Supporting small business through mentorship programmes
Media
Simone Lidetke, Engineering News, 23 June 2021: Covid-19's devastation of SMME sector 'cannot be underplayed', says small business dept
Sarah Smit, Mail & Guardian, 25 June 2021: Covid undoes a decade of progress in small-business ownership
Press release
Real SME support critical to an economic recovery plan
This Development Dialogue will provide an overview of the small business sector in South Africa, and then discuss the role of
strengthening access to finance to small business in the post COVID-19 recovery period and the important role
that mentorship plays in strengthening small business.
Background
Small businesses have long offered hope in South Africa as a means to grow the economy and create jobs. During periods of major economic crisis they are the highly vulnerable to closing and shedding jobs. The 2008/9 global financial crisis had a major impact on the economy and small businesses in South Africa with an 11% decline amounting to the loss of 80 000 businesses; COVID-19 looks set to have a significantly worse impact on the economy. How are small businesses fairing? What measures can be taken to arrest the decline of this critical part of the economy so that we don't repeat the mistakes of the last major economic crisis?
About the Speakers
Mojalefa Mohoto is a Chief Director in the Department of Small Business Development (Opening remarks)
Thobile Mawelela is an economist at TIPS
Gabriel Davel is the CEO for the Centre for Credit Market Development and was previously the CEO of the National Credit Regulator.
Dave Wilson is the CEO of the National Mentorship Movement
Sandra Makumbirofa is an economist at TIPS
- Date Wednesday, 23 June 2021
- Venue ZOOM
- Main Speakers Mojalefa Mohoto (Department of Small Business Development); Gabriel Davel (Centre for Credit Market Development); Dave Wilson (National Mentorship Mocement) Thobile Mawelela and Sandra Makumbirofa (TIPS)
- For enquiries or to register please contact daphney@tips.org.za
Media
South Africa's just transition must accomodate myriad of considerations (Tasneem Bulbia, Engineering News, 3 June 2021)
Going coal turkey: SA's dilemma as it aims to develop greener economy (Lameez Omarjee, Fin24, 7 June 2021)
Press release
Tangible plans for economic diversification critical to a just transition in Mpumalanga
Media
Going coal turkey: SA's dilemma as it aims to develop greener economy (Lameez Omarjee, Fin24, 7 June 2021
South Africa’s just transition must accommodate myriad of considerations (Tasneem Bulbulai, Engineering News, 3 June 2021)
BackgroundSouth Africa has initiated a transition to a more sustainable development pathway, which involves moving towards a low-carbon economy. The country is a highly unequal society with many poor and vulnerable people. The need for a just transition has emerged as an imperative, whereby the poor and vulnerable should not be negatively impacted by the transition and should ideally be better off through it. In Mpumalanga, these challenges are exacerbated by the health, air and water pollution that has caused untold death and destruction to people and the environment.
Yet the voice of the people living in affected communities is often not heard, particularly at the national level. This Development Dialogue webinar aims to provide a platform to hear from, and engage with, people from Steve Tshwete and Emalahleni. It aims to unpack the key concerns, aspirations, visions and needs for people in Mpumalanga, focusing on what is required to shift the status quo and make a positive change in the region in terms of employment, poverty, energy, health, and the environment. It forms part of a larger project, funded by UK PACT, that intends to facilitate the co-development of a coherent just transition plan for affected communities in Mpumalanga, with a particular focus on Emalahleni and Steve Tshwete.
Programme
Welcome and introduction, facilitated by Peta Wolpe
Brief overview of the UK PACT project
About the Speakers
Jay Naidoo is a South African public figure and social activist. He is a board member of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, promoting governance and leadership in Africa. Previously, he was a Minister in President Nelson Mandela's Cabinet and the Founding General Secretary of Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).
Promise Mabilo is the co-ordinator of Vukani Environmental Justice Movement in Action (VEJMA), a community-based organisation in eMalahleni, Mpumalanga. The organisation was established in 2016 with the vision of promoting awareness of and advocating for environmental justice within the Mpumalanga Highveld and the country. Mabilo is an environmental justice activist and an alumni of the groundWork environmental justice school.
Lucky Moni is an Energy Researcher and National Educator at the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers' Union (CEPPWAWU), based in Mpumalanga.
Nonkululeko Makua is the Climate Change Champion of the Emalahleni Municipality. She is also the Manager for Parks, Cemeteries and Public Open Spaces, in the Environmental and Waste Management Directorate of the municipalities.
Alex Khumalo is the Head: Social Performance at Minerals Council South Africa. He has long-standing experience and expertise in socio-economic development, transformation strategies, community engagement and community empowerment, notably as the Owner and Chief Impact Officer of Lean Logic Solutions, and the Community Engagement Officer at Anglo American Platinum.
About the Facilitator
Peta Wolpe is an Energy and Climate Change Practitioner. She has extensive experience of working in urban energy and climate change, focusing on energy poverty and local level governance and policy. She was the Managing Director of Sustainable Energy Africa (SEA) for over 12 years. She is also an Associate Director of SouthSouthNorth.
- Date Thursday, 03 June 2021
- Venue Webinar
- Organisation TIPS and the National Labour and Economic Institute (NALEDI), supported by groundWork
Presentations
Neva Makgetla - Senior Economist, TIPS
Presentation: The pandemic and the economy in southern Africa
Klaus Schade - Independent Economic Analyst in Namibia
Presentation: The economic impact of Covid-19 on SADC: The Namibian experience
Gibson Chigumira - Executive Director, Zimbabwe Economic Policy Analysis and Research Unit (ZEPARU)
Presentation: Synopsis of COVID-19 situation and policy responses in Zimbabwe
Itumeleng Mokoena - Intern, TIPS
Presentation: The COVID-19 pandemic and the economy in Southern Africa: Botswana's response
Additional Research
The COVID-19 pandemic and the economy in Southern Africa
Media
Tourism bears brung of Covid-19 pandemic across SADC - researchers (Lameez Omarjee, Fin 24, 21 May 2021)
Southern African countries' Covid-19 economic recovery rapid – TIPS (Donna Slater, Engineering News, 19 May 2021)
Press release
COVID-19 leaves SADC poor worse off
This Development Dialogue takes place in the context of the SA-TIED programme. It provides an overview of the economic impact on SADC, and then unpack the specific issues impacting on Namibia, Zimbabwe and Botswana.
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14:00 Opening and welcome by chairperson: Themba Khumalo 14:05 – 15:05 Presentations: · Neva Makgetla: Overview of the economic impact on SADC · Klaus Schade: Namibian experience · Gibson Chigumira: Zimbabwean experience · Itumeleng Mokoena: Botswanan experience 15:05 – 15:30 Discussion |
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Background As in the rest of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic had a severe economic fall-out in Southern Africa, which endured an economic depression in 2020. The economic outcomes varied significantly over the course of the year, however. A sharp downturn linked to regional and international lockdowns in the second quarter was followed by a rebound in the remainder of the year. For 2020 as a whole, the regional GDP was around 6% below 2019. The available evidence indicates that the pandemic depression aggravated inequalities in Southern Africa, which were already among the worst in the world. Less-skilled workers saw a disproportionate loss of livelihoods; small businesses were also more likely to close down than larger ones; and government cuts to services in response to falling revenues had the sharpest impact on low-income households and communities. |
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About the Speakers Themba Khumalo is the Director of Africa Integration and Industrial Development at South Africa’s Department of Trade, Industry and Competition. Neva Makgetla is a senior economist at TIPS. Makgetla has published widely on the South African economy and worked for many years in government. Klaus Schade is an independent economic analyst in Namibia. Gibson Chigumira is the Executive Director of the Zimbabwe Economic Policy Analysis & Research Unit (ZEPARU). Itumeleng Mokoena is an intern at TIPS. |
- Date Wednesday, 19 May 2021
- Venue Online
- Main Speakers Neva Makgetla (TIPS), Klaus Schade (Economic analyst), Gibson Chigumira (ZEPARU), Itumeleng Mokoena (TIPS)
- For enquiries or to register please contact natasha@tips.org.za