Focal point
Location
Mowbray
Cape Town
Phuhlisani began as a consultancy started by a group of people who wanted to support emerging farmers who obtained access to land through land reform programmes in South Africa. In 2015, after 12 years in operation as a Closed Corporation, the members of the company decided to convert Phuhlisani to a Non-Profit Company which took place in October 2015.
Phuhlisani NPC provides comprehensive services and support for sustainable land reform and rural development including:
- Research and strategy development at national, provincial district and local scales.
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Providing development facilitation and conflict resolution services in complex and contested development settings.
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Providing individual project planning and implementation support.
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Supporting rights determination, strengthening land holding institutions and helping develop functional land rights management systems.
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Developing and strengthening associations representing people acquiring land through the land reform programme.
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Designing comprehensive capacity development strategies and materials.
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Facilitating learning process approaches within institutions and across development programmes.
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Market scoping, agricultural enterprise development and joint venture formation.
Phuhlisani has adopted a trans-disciplinary approach to its work. This involves breaking down the boundaries between so called hard and soft skills, specialist and local knowledge.
The organization believes that this helps to identify solutions which are socially, economically and ecologically sustainable in a context where land and agrarian reform, the promotion of sustainable livelihoods and pro poor rural development take place within an increasingly complex and contested national and international environment.
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Resources
Displaying 21 - 25 of 34Rural development policies and sectoral interventions since 1994
A presentation covering a range of land reform and small holder development and rural development initiatives in South Africa
Northern Cape Rural Development Strategy Papers
Strategy Paper 1: Reflecting on practice – Lessons from international and South
African experiences of rural development.
Strategy Paper 2: The rural development context in the Northern Cape
Strategy Paper 3: Critical success factors for rural development in the Northern Cape.
Strategy Paper 4: Draft Northern Cape Rural Development Strategy – Activities and
Outcomes
Strategy Paper 5: Draft Northern Cape Rural Development Strategy - Institutional
Options
International and local approaches to rural development
The review examines evolving ideas and approaches to rural development internationally from the 1950's to 2000s. It examines how the history of rural development in South Africa is embedded in the larger narrative of colonial land dispossession and the implementation of apartheid policies of separate development. It examines the various policy iniatives post 1994 relating to land reform, agriculture and rural development.
Schmidtsdrift plans and policies
This document summarises approaches to resolve disputes, profile the membership of the Communal Property Association, develop a new CPA Constitution and examine options for the utilisation of mineral, agricultural and game resources and the allocation of business sites. It also explores options for CPA management and the need for professional management staff in this large and complex restitution claim
Schmidtsdrift CPA
The report is structured into nine chapters and an appendix: