SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Our mission UCT aspires to become a premier academic meeting point between South , the rest of Africa and the world. Taking advantage of expanding global networks and our distinct vantage point in Africa, we are committed, through innovative research and scholarship, to grapple with the key issues of our natural and social worlds. We aim to produce graduates whose qualifications are internationally recognised and locally applicable, underpinned by values of engaged citizenship and social justice. UCT will promote diversity and transformation within our institution and beyond, including growing the next generation of academics. CONTENTS

FOREWORD 3 PREFACE 4 INTRODUCTION 6

CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON INSTITUTION-WIDE STRATEGIC INITIATIVES 8

Introduction 9 Schools Improvement Initiative 11 African Climate and Development Initiative 19 Safety and Violence Initiative (SaVI): a reflection 27 Poverty and Inequality Initiative 39 UCT Knowledge Co-op 47 Global Citizenship Initiative 50

REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CAPE HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM (CHEC) 53

Partnerships with the Western Cape Government (WCG) 54 City of 57 Going Global Conference of the British Council 59 Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges 59

REPORT ON INITIATIVES FUNDED THROUGH NRF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT GRANTS 61

FACULTY REPORTS 70

Introduction 71 Faculty of Science 75 Faculty of Health Sciences 87 Faculty of Law 148 Faculty of Commerce 158 Graduate School of Business 186 Engineering and the Built Environment 195 Humanities 208 CHED 230 2 SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 FOREWORD

The challenges that confront our country, Africa and the world enjoin universities to begin to think differently about how they bring to bear their resources to engage with these challenges. Due to the complexity of the challenges, there is more that is demanded of universities’ research, teaching and learning.

The four strategic initiatives, African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI), Poverty and Inequality Initiative (PII), Safety and Violence Initiative (SaVI), and School Improvement Initiative (SII) are examples of how researchers from various disciplines are coming together to draw from different disciplinary expertise to grapple with the complexity of socio-economic issues a manner that enriches knowledge production. and how they impact on developing nations and poor people. The report provides a critical Finally, the Report contains a progress report on reflection on these initiatives using a framework partnerships with the Western Cape (Provincial) which foregrounds the impact of the initiatives Government (WCG) and the on the University and for external partners. UCT, (CCT) illustrating how government is drawing on as a research-led university, can justly pride our researchers to assist with policy development. itself for having invested resources in these initiatives because the impact of this work will Reading the activities one can conclude that the be felt in poor and not so poor communities. traditional role of universities as society`s primary generators and transmitters of knowledge is Following the decision of the Senate Executive changing. Academic institutions form an important Committee in 2015, this report also contains part of a highly complex learning society where information on a cross section of university wide discovery, learning and engagement are integrated initiatives and faculty initiatives that reflect UCT’s activities that involve many sources of knowledge, commitment and efforts to engage with the generated in diverse settings by a variety of challenges that affect our country’s development. contributors. The Report highlights how knowledge is being produced in the context of application, The Report contains brief descriptions of activities in addition to the more controlled context of that have been funded through the National an academic discipline and its paradigms. Research Foundation’s Community Engagement Fund. This funding instrument provides the The 2015-2016 SR Report recognises the space for research that contributes to knowledge important work which many academics do production about community engagement. UCT’s and it helps to present the University of funded activities provide a rich account of how Cape Town in all its wonderful variety. the terrain of knowledge production is a site of multiple processes and relations, involving not only Vice-Chancellor academics but practitioners as well. Other activities Dr Max Price interrogate the ways in which tacit knowledge is surfaced through the process of engagement in

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Higher education (HE) is under increasing pressure to develop solutions to major social and economic problems affecting society. Critics contend that HE has drifted too far from its historical commitment to help meet the diverse needs of society. Public universities such as UCT, according to Hall (2006:4), should take as their primary object of transformation the cluster of issues that can be expected to have the greatest impact on the society in which they are situated. In – and sub- Saharan Africa- today, all key societal issues track back in one way or another to a foundational challenge, which is poverty. Hall points out that poverty is a trap of self-reinforcing vortex of circumstances that requires application of advanced knowledge to break.

By producing these annual Social Responsiveness . Secondly, by systematically distilling the (SR) reports we are showing how UCT as a public information on SR activities, we are able to answer university is engaging with a cluster of issues the questions above and, subsequently, grow a rich that may impact on addressing the scourge of body of knowledge on Engaged Scholarship (ES). poverty. The reports have never presented a comprehensive overview of the SR work of the The report on initiatives funded through NRF University. This is not for lack of trying. Over the Community Engagement Grant is important years there have been on-going efforts to build a in, firstly, interrogating the ways in which tacit profile of engaged scholarship but in the absence knowledge is surfaced in the complex process of incentives to report on these activities, or a of engagement with external constituencies. research portal from which information could be Secondly, to facilitate the development of sourced, the task has proved to be a big challenge. robust theoretical and conceptual positions on engagement in the South African context, and The 2015-2016 SR builds on UCT’s previous thereby stimulate and contribute to contemporary efforts to create a comprehensive inventory of debates on the scholarship of engagement. SR activities. The inventory is significant in many At UCT, the fund has been used to contribute ways. Firstly it reveals the nature and scope of to producing new ES scholars, and generating UCT’s SR activities. What types of activities are knowledge about practices of engagement. In faculty members involved in as publicly engaged particular, the funding has helped support two scholarship? What type of SR outputs could be postdoctoral fellows, three PhD students, five considered sufficiently robust to be recognised as Master’s students and one Honours student. part of the standard assessments of the academics’ The funding has also helped generate new performance or ad hominem applications. knowledge in the form of peer- reviewed articles

4 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 and conference papers. Knowledge in the service challenges, the Report also contains a progress of society requires the very best in advance report on partnerships with the Western Cape scholarship, validated through peer-reviewed Government (WCG) and the City of Cape Town publication in credible journals and books. (CCT), which summarises research that has been undertaken in support of government priorities. Using the theme of ‘building knowledge of the field of engaged scholarship’ the Report contains critical The information in the report is important not reflections on progress made by the four Pro Vice only in respect of its alignment with UCT’s Chancellor (PVC) initiatives, and the UCT Knowledge mission but also with regard to growing the Co-op – a fifth strategic initiative, funded through body of knowledge about ES. In the current the Vice-Chancellor’s Strategic Fund. Through this and contested discourse on transformation report we hope the reflections on the four PVC and ‘decolonisation’ it is important to view initiatives and the Knowledge Co-op, as well as engaged scholarship as another dimension the brief extracts on assessment of impact in the of transformation whose primary object is to faculty reports, will be used to generate discussion grapple with SA’s foundational challenge. about different approaches to undertaking impact assessments of engaged scholarship. Acting Deputy Vice-chancellor Professor Anwar Mall True to UCT’s commitment to engage with local

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Since 2005, the Social Responsiveness (SR) Reports have largely used case studies to profile the rich array of engaged scholarship initiatives at the University. Periodically, the University Social Responsiveness Committee (USRC) has attempted to compile an institutional picture of the scale and form of social responsiveness across the University.

This was done for the first time in 2011. Chairs of Community Engagement as a result Academics who were involved in activities of their international study on university- connected with the four institution-wide initiatives community research partnerships (Hall et al, led by Pro Vice Chancellors (PVCs) – climate 2015). The Carnegie Foundation (2015) has change and development, safety and violence, also argued that the “existence of systematic, public schooling, and poverty and inequality historic and ongoing efforts to assess – were invited to submit brief reports on their community engagement within universities” activities. The 2011 report therefore provided only is key to bringing ES into the institution, i.e. a glimpse of the multitude of SR-related activities, embedding it in the fabric of institutions. and the extent to which academics are drawing on their scholarship to engage with major challenges In 2014 the USRC again attempted to collect confronting the country and the continent. information on engaged scholarship across the University. The 2014-2015 report contained Internationally it has proved difficult to compile brief profiles of 175 activities. The analysis inventories of engaged scholarship (ES) at revealed significant variations in the quality universities, largely because this field of of information provided across the university. practice is hard to define and does not have The information provided has also revealed the same status as research and teaching. different understandings of the notion of engaged scholarship. This made it difficult to A review of the [international] literature extract trends to inform future planning. indicates that the way in which knowledge is being built about the processes, benefits and In 2015 the Senate Executive Committee risks of university-public relationships is highly acknowledged the value of case studies and fragmented and located in a wide range of reflective pieces on engaged scholarship, sectors and disciplines… but decided that future SR reports should Much research in this field is conducted in the contain profiles of faculty-based activities. form of case-study evaluation, often with a desire to prove benefit to funders. Alternatively, This decision resonates with the view of Facer where larger studies are conducted, these et al. (2012) that building a profile of social are often characterised more as advocacy responsiveness in a manner that demonstrates or tools for promoting engagement or its the value and the scale of ES necessitates the use funding than critical and reflective research. of both case studies and large-scale surveys. [We need to] move beyond evaluation and advocacy towards the production of Case studies are important tools for reflection rigorous, robust studies that can withstand on practice. Large-scale surveys of activity sustained scrutiny (Facer et al, 2012:5). provide an important snapshot of practice at a particular time. Neither of these approaches The need for rigorous, robust studies of is likely on its own, however, to provide engagement as a topic of enquiry has been insight into the longer-term implications endorsed by the United Nations Educational, of engagement activities. Research and Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) knowledge sharing in this area needs rather

6 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 to take account of the dynamic, unfolding and summary reports, but have also included resource longer-term chains of engagement. It needs, material, documentaries, and advocacy material. where possible, to connect together multiple studies and experiences. It needs to recognise We hope that the reflections on the four PVC that engagement chains may comprise initiatives and the Knowledge Co-op, as well both more fleeting and more sustained as the brief extracts on assessment of impact interactions over time (Facer et al, 2012:7). in the faculty reports, will be used to generate discussion about different approaches to For the 2016 report, it was decided to collect undertaking impact assessments of engaged information in a manner that would contribute scholarship. They highlight scholarly benefits that to building knowledge of the field of engaged have occurred as a result of the initiatives, and scholarship, through requesting people illustrate the extensive partnerships that have to report in a common format structured been developed within and beyond the University. around a set of headings that are critical to The scholarly benefits have advanced UCT’s the notion of engaged scholarship. Section strategic goals in a number of fundamental ways. Five contains a summary of the trends that These include advancing access to students from surfaced in the analysis of the information. disadvantaged communities, drawing on different epistemologies and expertise from different Using the theme of ‘building knowledge of the disciplines to enhance understanding of ‘wicked’ field of engaged scholarship’ the Report contains problems, promoting active citizenship among critical reflections on progress made by the four students, and helping to address critical challenges PVC initiatives, and the UCT Knowledge Co- facing many different kinds of organisations. op – a fifth strategic initiative, funded through the Vice-Chancellor’s Strategic Fund. Several For the first time, the Report contains brief students reflect on their participation in the descriptions of activities that have been funded Global Citizenship Initiative, which is also an through the National Research Foundation’s institution-wide strategic initiative. The student Community Engagement Fund. The aim of the reflections illustrate the value they have derived fund is to generate knowledge about the field of from their participation in the Initiative. engaged scholarship. As such, it is an important source of national funding for promoting engaged Since the launch of the Knowledge Co-op in scholarship. This brief report illustrates the 2010, 91 projects have been completed, involving wide range of activities being supported, and 218 students, 64 academics, and about 100 the innovative practices that are emerging. community organisations. A wide range of issues have been addressed. The Report summarises the Finally, the Report contains a progress report on number of scholarly outputs that have emanated partnerships with the Western Cape (Provincial) from the work of the Co-op. Useful outputs Government (WCG) and the City of Cape Town have also been delivered for the community (CCT), which summarises research that has been partners; these have mostly taken the form of undertaken in support of government priorities.

For the 2016 report, it was decided to collect information in a manner that would contribute to building knowledge of the field of engaged scholarship, through requesting people to report in a common format structured around a set of headings that are critical to the notion of engaged scholarship.

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CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON INSTITUTION- WIDE STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

8 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives Introduction Reflecting critically on the four strategic initiatives led by Pro Vice Chancellors and Directors

The University’s Strategic Plan, approved at the end of 2009, identified the need for a more strategic approach to enhancing UCT’s contribution to addressing development challenges. The Plan articulated a commitment to appoint experts to lead and coordinate interdisciplinary projects in four areas: safety and violence; public schooling; climate and development; and poverty and inequality.

At the end of 2009, the Vice-Chancellor sought impact it generates. What emerged from the approval from the Council to allocate R20 million reflection of each initiative using this framework per year over five years for the implementation is a rich understanding of the complexity of of the 2010–2014 Strategic Plan. By the end of trying to embed institution-wide initiatives in a 2012, experts had been appointed to lead the university system which is structurally not designed interdisciplinary projects in the four areas. Five for interdisciplinary collaborations. The reports years after the launch of the initiatives, the USRC illustrate how interdisciplinary collaboration accepted a proposal from Sonwabo Ngcelwane across silos helps to address particular challenges in the Institutional Planning Department to which require a multi-disciplinary approach. pilot the use of a tool for conducting a critical reflection of the work of the four initiatives. The approach to building relationships with multiple stakeholders has had major benefits for the In framing its approach to a reflection, IPD university. In some initiatives, opportunities have foregrounded particular questions: been created for different faculties to work together ··How do the initiatives negotiate the ‘tension’ and create new sites of learning for students. In between engagement and strengthening these sites, students are gaining new insights that the core functions of the university? feed into their research and the curriculum. In some ··How do the initiatives articulate with the initiatives, coordinators have developed expertise university’s mission and strategy? and produced evidence-based research to a point ··Do the initiatives offer new learning that the findings of their research are beginning opportunities (changes in quality and/ to influence government policy strategies. or scope of student experiences)? ··Have the initiatives led to innovations The reports on the four initiatives illustrate the in curriculum (curricular changes, new potential value of the Michigan framework for courses, curricular revisions)? reviewing engaged scholarship activities in ··Have the initiatives increased cross-disciplinary a systematic way. Underlying this framework collaborations (number of cross-disciplinary is the link with the core academic activities: or interuniversity collaborations)? knowledge generation, knowledge utilisation ··Have the initiatives increased collaboration and dissemination. An activity located in a with other institutions, NGOs, university context should be able to grapple with government, industry, and so on? issues of epistemological positions associated with practices of engagement – how forms of In identifying these questions, the IPD drew knowledge are structured, and the role and extensively from Michigan State University’ s ‘Four location of the authority that validates the Dimensions Framework’ which covers descriptions structure and content of the knowledge1. of the potential significance of the initiative, context of the initiative, an analysis of the nature of the links with scholarship, and an analysis of 1. Martin Hall, 2008, ‘Community Engagement in South African Higher Education’, a paper commissioned the outcomes of the initiative, as well as of the by Council on Higher Education, Pretoria

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Schools Improvement Initiative

The aim of this reflection is not to justify Schools Improvement expenditure (demonstrate impact to funders), but Initiative (SII): a to examine and develop practice, and improve understanding of the constraints, pressures and 2 Critical Reflection opportunities of the engagement, along with building evidence-based knowledge to help Evaluating public engagement is a daunting make a case for community engagement. task, because these initiatives take place in settings with multiple stakeholders, contextual factors that may have an unforeseen influence, Purpose of the SII and dynamic circumstances that may lead to unexpected changes. In complex social settings The SII emerged out of internal discussions at such as those where SR initiatives operate, we UCT as to how best the university’s resources and thought a critical reflection approach would initiatives could impact positively on schooling at a be better suited to surface the kind of issues local level in collaboration with education-related that may arise when universities engage across groups outside of UCT. In 2010, a consultative boundaries. Critical reflection is a reasoning process forum known as Edulab initiated the process, to make meaning of an experience. Without gathering and sharing information about ways in reflection, experience alone might cause us to which school-related work could be undertaken offer simplistic solutions to complex problems. across the university, and giving due consideration as to how these activities could be synergised. However, asking some simple questions about Out of these deliberations a decision was taken the purpose of the engagement and what the to explore the possibility of focusing attention on reflection is seeking to achieve can be helpful. a single geographical area, and after considering a number of different schooling communities, was chosen for this purpose. The aim of the reflection The SII’s vision articulates closely with the There is no internationally agreed-upon mechanism university strategy to improve public schooling to reflect on engaged scholarship initiatives. and to address the under-representation of As a result, it is difficult to demonstrate the Khayelitsha learners at UCT. The overarching value that these initiatives add to the academic aim of the SII is the development of a university- project, ie research, teaching and learning, school partnership as a vehicle for extending the or to the non-academic constituencies. With university’s engagement in schooling in Khayelitsha. increasing attention on the importance of social responsiveness in university contexts, it The SII’s model of school improvement is sought is opportune to start thinking about a coherent through the development of strong university- tool to help us reflect on these kinds of initiatives school partnerships. Through purposeful more systematically. A critical reflection lens collaboration, the SII focuses its interventions on may therefore help make an intervention more both the professional development of teachers and accountable through ongoing scrutiny of the the organisational development of the schools. objectives upon which it was conceptualised. Underpinning the SII’s work is its interdisciplinary approach to collaboration and its commitment to context-driven, mutually beneficial partnerships. 2. The report is based on an interview and subsequent meetings with Dr Jonathan Clark and Dr Patti Silbert that were held during 2016. It also draws on a The SII’s model of school improvement is number of documents which were provided by Dr operationalised through five strategic objectives, Patti Silbert to the Institutional Planning Department, as well as published articles, cited below. which are interconnected and interdependent.

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The five objectives were conceptualised after EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT the completion of the needs analysis during In deepening its engagement in schools, the the initial stage of the SII’s engagement with SII supports partnerships with education- the partner schools (see details below). The based groupings outside of the university. analysis of the schools’ needs, in conjuction with current research in the field of whole-school improvement, functioned to shape and inform Aims of reflection the objectives. The five objectives continue to provide a framework for conceptualising the work Against the backdrop of these key objectives, of the SII, and offer a structure against which the framework which will be used is called internal monitoring takes place. The objectives ‘The Four Dimensions of Engagement’4, which furthermore provide a base for assessing the provides guidance with regard to the Initiative’s effectiveness of the SII’s school-based engagement. significance, its context, its base in scholarship, and the outcomes/impact it generates. What is useful about the framework is that project leaders 3 The SII’s five objectives can add and eliminate components, questions, and indicators, tailoring the matrix to the culture TEACHER PROFESSIONAL AND SCHOOL and expectations of their specific project. ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT The main delivery vehicle for teacher professional This kind of reflection focuses on the and school organisational development is the range implementation of a project, and what of university-certified professional development can be learned about how context and courses administered and delivered by the Schools the influence of different stakeholders and Development Unit (SDU) in the university’s School practical real-world challenges affect the way of Education (SoE). This preferred professional and intended objectives play out in practice. organisational development model links formal qualifications with school-based support, thereby enabling university staff to address issues of course Significance and curriculum implementation in the classroom. The issue of improving public schooling is critical, PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE not only for the country and the communities SCHOOLS (PPS) in which the schools are located, but also for Through the School of Education, opportunities universities which draw learners from these schools. are created for UCT postgraduate student It is widely accepted that schooling in South Africa teachers to undertake their teaching practice is in crisis. Despite improved access to education, and practice learning in the SII partner schools. particularly at the secondary level, there remain As part of this initiative, piloted in 2013, the deep inequalities with regard to educational university also encourages its graduates to achievement. The poor performance of the majority apply for teaching posts in these (and other) of learners who attend schools results in Khayelitsha schools as they become available. relatively few of them qualifying for tertiary studies, thus reproducing deep inequalities in the social BROADER INSTITUTIONAL and economic fabric of South African society. ENGAGEMENT The SII sees itself as a conduit which facilitates Whereas South African universities have tended a greater level of engagement by university- in the past to take the view that problems in based social responsiveness initiatives and schooling were not theirs to fix, UCT has accepted programmes in Khayelitsha schools. that this is something that must change. The SII was established as a direct response then to UNIVERSITY RECRUITMENT the Vice-Chancellor Dr Price’s stated intention To facilitate opportunities for learners in that the University of Cape Town should engage Khayelitsha schools to study at UCT. 4. A tool designed by Michigan State University (1996) 3. The objectives, outlined here are discussed and adapted to assist and guide users in the kinds of in more detail under ‘Impact’ practical concerns associated with engaged scholarship.

12 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives practically, developmentally as well as critically expertise. Dr Jonathan Clark, the Director of the with the problems of schooling in this country. SDU in the SoE was appointed on 1 October 2011 to head up the SII. The Director of the SII is As part of the SII’s initial engagement with the effectively a part-time appointment, with Dr Clark Khayelitsha community and in the lead-up to remaining in his substantive, full-time appointment working further in the township, discussions were as Director of the SDU. The appointment is an held with community organisations including acknowledgement that there is significant overlap the Khayelitsha Development Forum (KDF), its between the objectives of the SII and the work sub-structure the Khayelitsha Education Forum of the SDU, a unit which works extensively in the (KEF), and with social activist groups, such as area of teacher professional development. All Equal Education and teacher unions. These initial work relating to teacher professional development engagements were important in developing and school organisational development is shared goals and objectives that are valuable undertaken by the SDU and the SoE. Educators to all stakeholders. The close collaboration with and managers from several Khayelitsha schools stakeholders – including officials of the Metropole (both primary and secondary) are (or have East Education District (MEED), responsible for been) enrolled on the various ACE programmes the delivery of schooling in the Western Cape that are presented by the SDU and SoE. township of Khayelitsha – is intentional, and signals a recognition that the improvement of In addition to this available capacity, Dr Patti the quality of educational provision requires Silbert was appointed SII Project manager in the co-operation and involvement of all those 2012. She brings to the SII her vast experience involved in education in this community. of having worked in the field of whole- school education in the NGO sector.

The University Context The SII’s collaborative model of building university-school partnerships means that the As a response to the crisis in South African Initiative can draw on the expertise of MEED, the education, SII was launched in 2012 as one of the School Management Team (SMT) and the School university’s strategic initiatives. UCT acknowledges Governing Bodies (SGBs) of the partner schools, that the underperformance of the majority of as well as organisations such as the ‘The Bookery’ South African public schools has had a direct in supporting the establishment of libraries in the impact on student admission to its undergraduate SII primary schools. This model is premised on programmes. For external partners, particularly the recognition by universities that their ‘destinies the WCED which seeks to improve learning are inextricably linked with their communities’ outcomes at schools, the partnership is important. (Harkavy & Hartley 2009, 9) and requires a shift in the relationship between the university and In the context of the university, for the initiative the school, from what at times might be limited to thrive and realise its objective it needs to be community involvement to the establishment of located in an appropriate unit with available deeply collaborative partnerships. An example

The SII’s collaborative model of building university- school partnerships means that the Initiative can draw on the expertise of MEED, the School Management Team (SMT) and the School Governing Bodies (SGBs) of the partner schools, as well as organisations such as the ‘The Bookery’ in supporting the establishment of libraries in the SII primary schools.

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 13 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives of this would be that, through strong, mutually role-players for the future. As part of the strategic beneficial collaboration, the SII seeks to address planning process, the setting of key development teachers’ professional development needs priorities created opportunities for participants to within the schools, while these schools provide collaboratively agree on the school’s needs, and opportunities for pre-service teachers to broaden to reflect on the goals. Examples of development their experience in the classroom. This objective priorities that were identified in the primary schools underpins the SII’s approach to collaboration included: support for leadership and management; which extends beyond the provision of services to and teacher professional development and schools, towards partnership and reciprocity from curriculum support, with particular focus on which both parties mutually benefit. A partnership improving literacy and numeracy systemic test built on mutuality and reciprocity implies that results in Grades 3 and 6. The need for effective the key stakeholders, namely the SII and the strategies to address classroom management partner schools, have participated in planning, was also raised as a development priority, as defining impacts, implementing and assessing was the need to heighten parent involvement. the project, and it is through this approach of mutuality and reciprocity that communication In the SII secondary schools, the need for and interaction between the SII and the partner curriculum-based support was addressed schools is kept open and multi-directional. initially through subject-based case studies in mathematics, physical sciences and life sciences. These case studies, conducted by SDU Education The SII’s methodological Specialists, generated an understanding of the approach specific areas of support needed. This in turn helped to inform the subject-level intervention The methodological approach underlying the strategies and the nature of support to be design of the SII intervention is based on the offered by the Education Specialists. case study, which generated substantial data on the needs of the school. The case study took Given the number of development needs, a the form of collaborative enquiry, in which the critical step in the strategic planning process SII Project Manager spent an average of two was the prioritising of goals into four to six weeks in each school conducting interviews key development areas, and linking these and focus group discussions with a range of with particular strategies and activities. In all school-based role-players, to ascertain the needs the SII schools the overarching goals focused of the school. Ensuring buy-in by the whole on creating an environment that would school community from the outset was critical support improved learner performance. in generating support, trust and investment. The case study approach is presented as a useful In addition to the case study offering a method to methodology in developing interventions in each generate an understanding of the school context of the partner schools. In addition to building trust, and to build trust and buy-in, it provided a platform the case study therefore functioned as an initiator of through which to initiate dialogue, feedback dialogue, and a platform for strategic planning for and stakeholder engagement. The process of the purpose of collaborative planning and action. the Project Manager feeding back the case study report to the principal, SMT and educators constituted a crucial stage of the case study, Impact offering participants an opportunity to engage in critical dialogue. The outcome of this feedback The impact of the SII can be looked was collaborative strategic planning. Following at against its five objectives. the case study feedback sessions, the SII provided support in the form of collaborative vision and OBJECTIVE 1: TEACHER mission crafting which involved both teaching and PROFESSIONAL AND SCHOOL non-teaching staff. The inclusion of all role-players ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: was viewed as a critical element in establishing Successful professional development equips loyalty and commitment, and in positioning all teachers to teach better. Located firmly within a

14 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives broader curriculum and whole-school development “the SII provides a platform for various disciplines approach, building teacher efficacy lies at the to come together for teaching and research. This heart of this work. To this end the SoE and the is achieved not only through provision of the SDU run a number of university-certified two-year sites, but also through each discipline applying part-time Advanced Certificates in Education itself to contributing to the objective of school (ACEs). The professional development model improvement”. This has created opportunities for preferred by the SDU links formal qualifications postgraduate research projects. There are two with school-based support, thereby enabling Master’s students (Speech and Language Therapy, university staff to address issues of course and and Graduate School of Business) and two PhD curriculum implementation in the classroom. As students (Physiotherapy, and SLT) undertaking indicated, the need for professional development their research in the SII partner schools. was identified as a priority need across each of the six schools. In 2011, 23 SMT members Signifying the collaboration between the SII from nine primary and four secondary schools and the Department of Social Development, in the township were enrolled on the Education a ‘COSAT Wellness Centre’ (CWC) at COSAT Management & Leadership Development ACE (one of the SII secondary partner schools) was programme; a further 11 educators on the approved by MEED and the Department of Health Foundation and Intermediate Phase Language, in Metropole East. The CWC aims to become a Mathematics & Curriculum Leadership ACE; model of excellence in school-based wellness, by and two on the Senior Phase Sciences ACE . developing strong interdisciplinary and community- based collaborations. This pilot involves third- and In addition, the SDU offers a number of fourth-year Social Work students (Department university-certified short courses, which are (as of Social Development) plus a number of other with the ACE programmes) specifically tailored role players, both at UCT and from the broader to meet the subject-specific professional community. CWC is a significant example of development needs of practising teachers. impact -– both from the UCT student’s professional practice perspective, and in terms of providing OBJECTIVE 2: PROFESSIONAL a wellness centre to a school in Khayelitsha. The PRACTICE SCHOOLS: CWC includes two postgraduate students from Through partnering with the schools the SII has UCT: a Masters student and a PhD student, both facilitated a strong link with the SoE, and also focusing on physical wellness. The PhD student created opportunities for UCT to encourage and his team of six physiotherapy students have its graduates to apply for teaching posts in been working with 112 Grade 8-10 learners. these schools as they become available. There are no other models in South Africa In addition to the pre-service teacher training of a school-based wellness centre that has referred to above, the PPS model enables fourth- been developed as part of a university-school year Occupational Therapy (OT) students from partnership. Significant also is the fact that the the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) to undertake CWC has full buy-in from MEED as well as the the practical component of their qualification Department of Health in District East – both of in the partner schools. From 2014, the seven- whom, together with the SII and COSAT, are week rotational blocks of these FHS students represented on the CWC Steering Committee. was extended to include Speech and Language Therapy, Audiology and Physiotherapy students. OBJECTIVE 3: BROADER UNIVERSITY Third and Fourth-year Social Work students from ENGAGEMENT (STUDENT the Social Development Department are also VOLUNTEERISM, SERVICE LEARNING AND ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP5): placed at one of the SII secondary schools. In Speech and Language Therapy and Occupational Directly linked to Objective 2 is the engagement Therapy there is an opportunity through the by university-based social responsiveness interdisciplinary collaboration to re-conceptualise initiatives and programmes in Khayelitsha certain aspects of the curriculum, with a stronger schools. Significant in terms of broader university focus on Community Development Practice. According to Associate Professor Roshan Galvaan, 5. See ‘Scholarship’ section below for input on Engaged Scholarship.

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 15 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives engagements is the collaboration between the SII having no representation in the first year at UCT; and UCT’s student volunteer organisations. The indeed, a number of schools in the township have student volunteer programmes, ‘TeachOut’ and never sent a learner to study at the university. ‘Inkanyezi’ (two of Ubunye’s three programmes), for example, are UCT-based interventions offered In 2014, the year in which the first 100UP group was by Ubunye student volunteers to Grade 8 and 9 eligible for tertiary studies, a total of 79 matriculants learners in one of the partner secondary schools. took up offers of places at the university, a notable Mention also needs to be made of LAWCO; the increase from the 29 of the previous year. Moreover, Knowledge Co-op in which HOCIP (Honours these learners were representative of 19 of the 20 Outreach and Community Involvement Programme) schools in the township. The increase in the number students undertake their service learning hours of students from Khayelitsha is important, given in one of the SII partner secondary schools; and the fact that UCT has long-standing partnerships SHAWCO Health & Rehabilitation, responsible with that community, and it also aligns to the for implementing an annual screening initiative transformational goal of broadening opening involving Grade 1s in one of the partner primary access to the institution from working-class schools. schools. The close partnership between the schools in the community and the collaborative Gill Net Programme: this functions as a kind way that the SII works has built a strong presence of short-form version of the three-year 100UP for UCT in the schools in Khayelitsha. programme. The Gill Net was initiated in 2014, in recognition of the fact that there are numbers of OBJECTIVE 4: UNIVERSITY academically gifted learners in Khayelitsha who do RECRUITMENT: not get the opportunity to participate in 100UP. In order to address the under-representation of Across all 20 schools, learners are recruited towards Khayelitsha learners at UCT, at the beginning of the middle of the year into an intensive third-term 2011, 100 academically gifted Grade 10 learners revision programme, which also includes assistance – five from each of the 20 secondary schools in with all aspects of university admission. In 2016, the the township – were chosen to participate in what Khayelitsha Gill Net involves a further 44 Grade 12s. is known as the ‘100UP’ programme. In terms of student recruitment to UCT’s undergraduate In total then, 144 Grade 12s (100UP & Gill Net) are programmes, the initiative has had direct impact. part of what is in effect an extended 100UP group This is well illustrated by the situation pertaining afforded out of the 100UP budget. When the 200 to recent admission trends of students who were Grade 10s and 11s are included, this means that schooled in Khayelitsha. At the end of 2012, a total a total of 344 Khayelitsha learners from the 20 of 2 938 learners in the township’s 20 secondary secondary schools are being assisted by UCT. schools wrote the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations. Of these, 1 934 passed In 2015, the Gill Net programme was extended to (i.e. 65.8%), with just under a third (575) of the the neighbouring township of Mitchell’s Plain, with candidates achieving a matriculation exemption 15 participating schools. In 2016, in addition to the or university entrance pass. Yet of the total of 575 programmes running in Khayelitsha and Mitchells matriculants who obtained a (nominal) university Plain, a Gill Net was established in the Southern entrance pass in the 20 Khayelitsha schools, only Cape as part of the ‘UCT in Eden’ initiative. 29 enrolled at UCT for the 2013 academic year; and of these, eight were from COSAT. The 21 Tracing the performance of the first (2014) remaining learners came from ten of the 19 schools 100UP group at UCT, 68 of the 79 students (excluding COSAT), with nearly half the schools (86%) passed and progressed into second year,

Yet of the total of 575 matriculants who obtained a (nominal) university entrance pass in the 20 Khayelitsha schools, only 29 enrolled at UCT for the 2013 academic year; and of these, eight were from COSAT.

16 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives and 55 (81%) have passed and progressed on the intersection of theory and practice has into their third year of studies in 2016. generated the following research outputs: ··Silbert, P. & Bitso, C. (2015). ‘Towards Once learners are accepted at UCT, they participate functional school libraries: supporting in a comprehensive support programme called library assistants in under-resourced schools 100UP+. Conducted by UCT’s Centre for Higher through a university-community-school Education Development, the programme partnership’. South African Journal of Library works to ensure the success of students as they and Information Science, 81(1): 53-62. negotiate the school to university transition. ··Silbert, P, Clark J. & Dornbrack, J. (2015). ‘”In schools, in community”: implementing a With 100UP participants drawn equally from university-school partnership at the University all 20 secondary schools in Khayelitsha, there of Cape Town’. South African Journal of is anecdotal evidence to suggest that the Higher Education, 29(3): 262-280. programme is recognised in the community as ··Silbert, P. & Verbeek, C. (2016). ‘Partnerships a meaningful commitment from the university’s in action: establishing a model of collaborative side to do what it can to facilitate access support to student and mentor teachers to tertiary studies across the township. through a university-school partnership’. Journal of Education, 64: 111-135. Furthermore, the point needs to be made that ··Galvaan, R & Silbert, P. (2016). ‘Service learning whereas UCT seeks to encourage successful in unequal contexts: towards transforming participants in the 100UP and Gill Net learning practices in South African schools’. programmes to study at our institution, given A paper presented as part of the Service UCT’s competitive entrance requirements, it is Learning Special Interest Group at the inevitable that numbers of matriculants will take American Education Research Association up first choice of study offers at neighbouring (AERA) in Washington DC, 8-12 April 2016. higher education institutions such as the University of Technology, University of Western Cape and the University of Stellenbosch. NRF Community Accordingly, 100UP presents itself a programme Engagement Grant which aims to facilitate access not only to UCT, but to tertiary institutions as a whole. A three-year NRF grant was awarded to the SII (2015; 2016 & 2017), with Assoc Prof Roshan OBJECTIVE 5: EXTERNAL Galvan as the Principal Investigator. The NRF ENGAGEMENTS project explores how the existing SII engagements This signals a commitment to forging partnerships promote a learning environment through with education-based groupings outside the engagement with school partners, and how this university. In addition to working closely with the informs the way that support for learning and departmental district officials, the SII partners teaching is conceptualised and implemented. with The Bookery in supporting the Library A key focus of the NRF research project is the Assistants in five of the SII schools. As part of the interdisciplinary collaboration within the institution library support intervention the SII collaborates between disciplines in Education and Health closely with the Library and Information Sciences Sciences. University disciplines involved in this (LISC) at UCT, and with Rotary, Nal’ibali and collaboration include Occupational Therapy (OT), Wordworks, through the SII Library and Language Speech Therapy (SLT) from the Faculty of Health Partnership. SII also partners with Childline Sciences (FHS), the School of Education (Faculty of (focusing on personal development, mediation Humanities) and Library and Information Studies and leadership skills) through the CWC. (LISC). Although it is too early to clearly state the impact that this study has on the academic field, findings to date suggest that the processes through Scholarship which the disciplines engage with the schools are contributing to shifts in learning practices. This Although the initiative was not established to has implications both at the level of the university generate new knowledge, the process of reflecting and at the schools. At the level of the schools,

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 17 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives interdisciplinary collaboration and community community with a low socio-economic status. engagement has created opportunities for shifting As an illustration of engaged scholarship, this professional practice for teachers, principals and multi-levelled interdisciplinary collaboration has students undertaking their practice learning. At generated new insights into the ways in which the level of the university, the project has enabled practices can be shaped that will create an academic staff to start exploring ways in which new enabling environment in which student learning practices might inform curriculum transformation. at tertiary level can be enhanced through According to Galvaan, the initiative has led to relevant context-based engagement – and in innovations in the work carried out in practice- which teaching and learning practices within the learning by disciplines in the Health Sciences. “It school may be enriched. This has informed both has also developed in the recognition that some the nature of the university-school partnership joint teaching is possible, and we are beginning as well as the university’s ongoing curriculum to put such arrangements in place between development within the various disciplines. the Faculty of Humanities and Health Sciences. The curriculum has been informed by insights In conclusion, the strength of the initiative is emerging through practice developments.” shaped by knowledge that is up-to date, cross- The NRF Community Engagement Grant has disciplinary and appropriate to the issue of created opportunities for publications, symposia, school improvement. In designing the initiative, books and seminars. Some of these outputs for example, studies on school improvement are listed below in the Scholarship section. were conducted. Positioning itself within the university-school partnership literature (Deppeler In addition to the above, a number of academics 2006; Groundwater-Smith and Dadds 2004; involved in the SII are currently engaged in Nehring and O’Brien 2012; and others), the SII researching the interdisciplinary practice that has holds that through purposeful collaboration come to define the SII’s school-based engagement. between the university, the education district, This scholarship is in the process of being written community organisations and the school itself, up as a publication for 2017, based on the SII’s a deeper, more effective support intervention three-year Community Engagement grant funded can be implemented and sustained. Pivotal by the National Research Foundation. The book to the notion of partnership is reciprocity and title is Partnerships in Action: transforming learning collaboration – and the development of mutually practices through interdisciplinary collaboration beneficial relationships (Nehring and O’Brien and community engagement. The authors examine 2012) to strengthen capacity at both the university processes of community engagement as they and the school. As Corrigan (2000) points out, occur through a university-school partnership collaboration extends beyond cooperation, between UCT and the SII partner schools. The and implies that something new is enabled or various chapters explore philosophical, conceptual produced that individuals or organisations would and practical aspects of school improvement not produce alone. The partnership is key to through processes of community engagement improving teaching and learning, and the school and interdisciplinarity. The collaboration between intervention strategy is constructed in context the university and schools is situated within a (in close collaboration with the principal, SMT, broader, whole-school development intervention School Governing Body and teachers). This facilitated through the SII. University disciplines whole-school development strategy implies a involved in the publication include Occupational multi-level focus on the professional development Therapy; Speech and Language Therapy; the of teachers as well as principals and school School of Education; Schools Development Unit; management, as a prerequisite for development.6 and Library and Information Studies Centre (LISC).

The collaboration that operates both at the level of interdisciplinary engagement across the university as well as at the level of partnerships with the schools has enhanced the SII’s understanding 6. The conclusion is based on Silbert, P, Clark J. & Dornbrack, J. 2015. ‘In schools, in community’: of how processes of community engagement implementing a university-school partnership have shaped and constituted its practice in a at the University of Cape Town. South African Journal of Higher Education, 29(3): 262-280.

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African Climate and Development Initiative

Evaluating public engagement is a daunting task, because these initiatives take place in settings with multiple stakeholders, contextual factors that may have unforeseen influences, and dynamic circumstances that may lead to unexpected change. In complex social settings such as those in which SR initiatives operate, we thought a critical-reflection approach would be better suited to surface the kinds of issues that may arise when universities engage across boundaries. The reason for the reflection is to surface issues that may help us understand the complexities of setting up strategic initiatives that aim to draw on the strengths of a university. In addition, it may also help us to understand how these initiatives provide opportunities for collaboration across disciplines, and provide evidence-based solutions to seemingly intractable problems. In engaging with the problems these initiatives draw on various epistemologies, while building capacity for a new cohort of researchers.

Critical reflection is a reasoning process for making continent. Despite a decrease in the percentage meaning of an experience. Without reflection, of people in Africa experiencing deprivation, the experience alone might cause us to reinforce absolute number of people in this situation continues stereotypes, offer simplistic solutions to complex to increase, as the continent struggles to keep pace problems, and generalise inaccurately based on with the demographic changes that are occurring. limited data. Reflections draw on documents provided by the initiative, and an interview with the Climate change adds to this development communications and marketing person involved. challenge. Much of the continent is arid, semi- All the information gleaned from the sources arid or sub-humid, with associated climate risks is analysed using a tool that provides a way to relating to temperature and rainfall variability and think about engagement. The four ‘dimensions’ stress. In many instances, vulnerability to these of quality engagement (significance, context, risks is high because of development deficits. scholarship, and impacts) reflect four fundamental Climate change is expected to exacerbate these characteristics of any engagement project in higher vulnerabilities in many cases, potentially slowing education. This tool helps frame the report on the or reversing development advances. Therefore, achievements of the ACDI in a manner that enables development that is well adapted to current and us to demonstrate the particular benefits that can emerging climate risks is fundamental to broader accrue from an institution-wide strategic focus. socio-economic development outcomes.

South Africa, like the rest of the African continent, Significance has an imperative to improve human well-being, but within the constraints of the need for low- Africa is changing rapidly. Its population is forecast carbon development, and the mounting impacts of to double by 2050, and double again by 2100. The climate variability and change. The ACDI has been majority of these additional billions of people will be formed to engage with these challenges, through living in urban areas, but at the same time there will interdisciplinary, innovative research and teaching remain a large population in rural areas, dependent that draws on the intellectual capital found across on natural resources. Achieving the Sustainable a wide range of disciplines at UCT. Its mandate on Development Goals (SDG), as set out by the United establishment was to “facilitate and substantially Nations, is the development challenge for the extend climate research and education at UCT, with

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the specific context of addressing the development stakeholder needs, across both impact and challenges of Africa from an African perspective”. adaptation and mitigation domains.

This included: From the above, the ACDI is envisaged as both a ··Identification, facilitation and coordination of vehicle for UCT to undertake cutting-edge research strong multi-, cross- and transdisciplinary research and teaching that goes beyond that already programmes, which draw initially on the unique occurring in different disciplines, and as a facilitator natural setting of the south-western Cape but will for interactions between the UCT community extend into the rest of South Africa and Africa. and the wide range of stakeholders looking for ··Creating synergies and fostering linkages critical insights, advice and applied research between key areas of outside stakeholder that can inform their thinking and action around community interest and the existing research climate change and sustainable development. strengths of UCT, including established capacity UCT has research capacity in the domains of addressing climate change and variability issues climate change, variability and development. in the natural, health and social sciences. ··Developing a university-wide approach Uniquely, the ACDI has had the ambition to merge to formal postgraduate education that climate change issues with development issues, emphasizes the value of and opportunities bringing together UCT’s breadth and depth of for multi-disciplinary research to address research and teaching in these areas, which were climate and development in Africa. previously conducted largely in isolation within ··Social, public and policy engagement a variety of departments and research centres. to raise awareness of climate-change issues, and to enhance the use of The effects of climate change will undoubtedly research in policy and practice, informing be felt in many parts of the world,

20 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives disproportionately impacting poor communities of climate and development issues, especially often characterised by high levels of economic between the humanities, social sciences, law and social vulnerability, high levels of exposure and the natural sciences. Therefore, at least to environmental risks, and limited capacity to initially, ACDI faced the challenge of asking adapt to and recover from these impacts. the UCT research community to volunteer time on a joint research endeavour without much guarantee of payback, and in competition with Context pre-existing research and teaching commitments.

A number of factors have influenced the way A mapping of the climate change and development that the ACDI research portfolio has evolved. community indicated that within UCT, there are nearly 100 faculty and research staff whose work First, the ACDI was established with a broad intersects in one way or another with climate, ambition to address “climate and development climate change and development. These people in Africa” by “creating synergies and fostering tend to be concentrated in the approximately links between key areas of [outside] community 22 academic departments or centres at UCT interest and the existing research strengths of that have research foci with a clear climate- UCT” and developing “a university-wide approach change and/or development component; but a to formal education that emphasizes the value significant minority are located in departments and opportunities of multidisciplinary research”. that one would not immediately consider to be This represented a wide canvas to work on, and climate-change- and/or development-focused. a wide set of research interests across UCT to There is also a growing list – currently over potentially engage with, rather than creating 300 – of stakeholders in the greater Cape Town potential tensions through a narrower strategic region who have asked to be part of the ACDI’s focus that might exclude some research interests. networking and public engagement activities.

Second, the Director of the ACDI was recruited The ACDI’s research approach is founded on the from outside UCT. Although he had some previous recognition that the development and climate research links to the Department of Environmental change nexus presents complex – even ‘wicked’ – and Geographical Science, his knowledge of the questions that are best answered in an integrative, research landscape across UCT was limited. While interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary setting. Such the Director was required to familiarise himself with a setting has the potential to enable and stimulate the UCT system, he had extensive and impressive cross-fertilisation of diverse viewpoints, and the academic background and experience, and brought production of new knowledge. Climate change with him many links to the international community and development are extremely broad research that were extremely beneficial to the ACDI. Having fields on their own. Therefore, a challenge for ACDI a fresh, new person engaging was a good thing. has been to carve out a niche within this terrain that is both sufficiently focused, and yet inclusive Third, there were limited financial resources to of UCT’s expertise and interests across these drive new areas of research internally that would domains. This has been further complicated by the create and foster interactions at the intersection presence of existing centres of expertise at UCT,

Uniquely, the ACDI has had the ambition to merge climate change issues with development issues, bringing together UCT’s breadth and depth of research and teaching in these areas, which were previously conducted largely in isolation within a variety of departments and research centres.

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 21 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives most notably within the Climate Systems Analysis via concentrated research activity in ‘themes’ Group (CSAG) and Oceanography for physical led by the Chairs/Fellows. During their tenure, climate science, the Energy Research Centre (ERC) it is expected that the Chairs/Fellows will be with regard to energy and mitigation, and the able to leverage additional funding to grow African Centre for Cities (ACC) with regard to urban their research themes beyond the initial term. climate change. The ACDI’s approach to research has been (i) to draw on, support and enhance, rather than replicate, UCT’s existing centres Impact of expertise; (ii) to build in critical areas where there are no concentrated centres of expertise; Visibility activities serve to raise the profile of UCT as and (iii) to integrate across existing strengths. an international hub for knowledge generation and training in Africa; this then enhances the university’s Researchers and practitioners/professionals potential to disseminate knowledge and influence who work on climate and development issues change, and makes UCT an attractive partner need a mix of deep disciplinary knowledge for research and a destination for education. and broad interdisciplinary knowledge across the broad climate and development terrain. The ACDI also continues to support a Additionally, they need a set of competencies growing number of postgraduate students and skills that allow them to work effectively in undertaking research in the climate change and this complex terrain, such as systems thinking, development arena, representing a diversity anticipatory thinking, and skills in working and of academic disciplines. An increasing number leading interdisciplinary teams. The approach to of these are working on ACDI-led projects. developing cutting-edge knowledge on climate change and development is constrained by a The ACDI has actively pursued external research- shortfall in human capacity regarding climate and funding opportunities. The priority has been to apply development research and practice in Africa, and for grants that support multi-year, multidisciplinary the need for interdisciplinary skills for dealing with projects that can draw the ACDI network together climate change and development questions. The into collaborative research. A second priority ACDI is therefore particularly focused on training has been to bid for shorter-term projects that that provides the requisite mix of interdisciplinary are strategically important for showcasing ACDI knowledge, deeper disciplinary expertise, expertise and building relationships with key and a range of competencies at the graduate actors in and beyond South Africa. Over the level, and in encouraging student research period 2012-2015, the ACDI has led (or co- projects that fit the ACDI’s research agendas. led) 32 externally-funded research projects; 17 have been completed, and 15 are ongoing. The ACDI has a number of associate researchers and early- to mid-career researchers who play The ACDI has also added value to research at an important role in steering its core research the university through developing and managing activities. Where possible, the ACDI partners with projects which otherwise would not have been local communities, civil society, government and possible without ACDI’s role in bringing in or private-sector stakeholders to ensure that multiple brokering project partners (both internal, and in perspectives and requirements are considered in many cases external to UCT). These projects are the development and implementation of research generally large, with multiple collaborators, working projects. It draws on these networks of expertise in multi-, inter- and sometimes transdisciplinary to participate in research, to supervise MSc and ways. Notably, ACDI collaborators span both PhD students, and to teach the ACDI’s MSc in local and international universities, as well as civil Climate Change and Sustainable Development. society, business consultancies, private-sector organisations and government departments. Many Adding to existing expertise, the ACDI has also of the projects have been made possible due established Research Chairs/Fellows. The purpose to cross-university initiatives such as the ACDI; of the Chairs/Fellows is to provide research either when led by the ACDI itself, or when the leadership and enhance research production in ACDI has assisted a ‘non-Core’ project lead in the ACDI and associated academic departments convening an interdisciplinary project team.

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The ACDI has funded six Research Chairs (from In April 2016, the ACDI was awarded long- diverse disciplinary backgrounds) over a three- term funding from the AXA Research Fund, year period, and these have provided invaluable for a Successional Research Chair Programme opportunities. It is clear that ACDI research in ‘African Climate Risk’. The programme productivity has improved, at times significantly. will fund three five-year Research Chairs in Res Altwegg, for example, might previously have succession from 2017 to 2031, to the value expected to publish one paper per year, given his of R1.5 million per year. Each Chair will be normal teaching load; but as ACDI Research Chair, expected to pursue a research programme in he was able to publish ten! Gina Ziervogel was able their area of expertise, within the broad field of to get involved in a larger number of collaborative understanding and responding to climate risks. projects, co-authoring more papers. She also spent more time on proposal writing, and raised more The ACDI has started to develop capacity and funds for ACDI-related projects. For Martine Visser, experience in facilitating, coordinating and the 75% buy-out of her teaching time via the ACDI managing interdisciplinary and collaborative Research Chair enabled her to obtain funding for projects that draw on the different sets of large research projects in excess of R13 million, skills and expertise of the ACDI network. It rolling out several large-scale randomised control has become clear that this capacity is essential trials and publishing in highly-ranked journals. for developing and managing projects, for horizon-scanning for funding opportunities, Most of the Chairs and Fellows, particularly and for philanthropic fundraising. Britta Rennkamp and Ralph Hamann, used much of their ACDI support to develop The ACDI offers a one-year master’s degree in postgraduate student researchers, by providing climate change and sustainable development. scholarships and devoting more time to This full-time, taught master’s course provides supervision. Thus the Research Chairs or Fellows interdisciplinary training in climate change could enhance not just their own research, and sustainable development, with a focus on but also the research of a broader network issues relevant to African development. Since its of scholars and postgraduate students. inception in 2012, the ACDI master’s programme has grown steadily, averaging 12 students per The ACDI Research Chair/Fellowship programme year who register for the master’s course and has been particularly successful from a research an additional few students who take one or income-generation and output perspective. In the more of the core courses as an elective within absence of philanthropic funding, this initiative another master’s course. To date, , 44 out of 48 was a key way to bring a greater breadth of registered students did graduate, a throughput expertise into the ACDI Core team, and build rate of 98%. Over the last five years, the number linkages to departments across the university. of applicants has increased steadily. Just over 150 Research Chairs have also leveraged a combined applications were received for the 2015 class, and total of R24 093 262 through various research throughout the years, the master’s programme project grants and external funding. Much of this has attracted a variety of students with diverse research funding (82%) has flowed through the backgrounds, from within South Africa, from Chairs/Fellows’ own departments. Much of the Africa, and also from North America and Europe. proposal writing that brought in these research grants would not have been possible without the The ACDI master’s course has successfully time freed up via their appointments. This has not provided a flagship training programme by only added value in research, but also in training which the ACDI has become widely recognised and capacity development through the provision and respected. Clearly it is contributing to a of student and postdoctoral scholarships. growing number of graduates in the field of

The ACDI master’s course has successfully provided a flagship training programme by which the ACDI has become widely recognised and respected.

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 23 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives climate change and sustainable development. 2015), attended by 23 people from 7 countries The master’s programme also serves the ACDI (Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, beyond the narrow limits of an educational Mali and the ); external activity, over time, by producing a network of stakeholders from a wide range of organisations, alumni across research and practice in South including the Ministry of Agriculture and the Africa, southern Africa and beyond, who help Ministry for Water, Irrigation and Energy in to ‘market’ the ACDI and UCT as a centre of Ethiopia, the National Drought Management excellence for research and training. Already Authority in Kenya, the NGO AMEDD in Mali, some of these alumni are collaborating with the and the Ministry of Environment in Ghana. ACDI on research projects, and recommending ··Two paper-writing courses: with support from the the ACDI to their own national networks. UCT Research Office, as part of the Emerging Researchers Programme, a selection of ACDI In terms of research students, the overall number staff have the opportunity to be hosted by the of doctoral and master’s students supported by Research Office at their facilitated writing retreats ACDI has grown steadily throughout the years. As in Stellenbosch. These writing workshops provide of the beginning of 2016, the ACDI has procured staff with the opportunity for a consolidated full funding for 10 doctoral students and seven period of time to concentrate on writing. master’s students. The remaining students have been granted partial scholarships, mostly through ACDI Core research staff are actively ACDI research chairs, ACDI-led research, and engaged in various activities that display through the ACDI student research fund. levels of research recognition and leadership outside the standard university activities When asked about the ways in which the ACDI of research, supervision and teaching. master’s course prepares students for the workplace, alumni have highlighted the benefits of the interdisciplinary nature of the course, Scholarship and its programme structure, which successfully prepares graduates for real-world situations in Since 2013, across the climate change and the climate-change arena. The majority of course development community at UCT, the ACDI has alumni (82%) have found employment in the tracked 428 peer-reviewed publications (PRPs) in climate-change and development sectors. its thematic areas, of climate and natural science; vulnerability, impacts and adaptation (VIA); The ACDI has offered a number of short and mitigation. Of these, 143 (33%) have been courses and training opportunities. These authored or co-authored by the ACDI Core team. have been targeted at both researchers in ACDI projects and those from the policy and Chair research outputs between 2013 and 2016 practice domains with which the ACDI works: include 97 research publications and 27 research ··Research into use and impact pathways: projects for which Research Chairs have leveraged Oxfam – one of the Adaptation at Scale in funds. Of these 97 publications, only 59 are Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) project lead climate-change- and development-related journal organisations – has run research-into-use training articles, books, book chapters and occasional in all ASSAR regions, focused on stakeholder working papers. However, it must be noted that the mapping and power analysis, vulnerability comparative number of publications and research and risk assessment, and other techniques. project involvements across the Research Chairs ··Gender and Climate Change Short Course: must not be viewed as a relative indicator of success, co-organised with the University of East Anglia as monitoring and comparing outputs from Research (June 2015), attended by 28 people from Chairs can be a complex and challenging task. For 14 countries (Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, some, their programme of work is diversified, and Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Namibia, the ACDI Research Chair and related outputs are Pakistan, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, but one part of a wider suite of work; whereas for Uganda and the United Kingdom). others, the focus of their work is somewhat narrower, ··Climate Information and Adaptation Course: with a significant backlog of research results ready held at the University of Cape Town (Sept to be written up for publication available at the

24 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives start of the Chair period, meaning their output Through promoting and disseminating a wide in terms of publications would be higher. range of research outputs to various external stakeholders, the ACDI aims to have impact in Conference presentations (limited here to the terms of providing access to the best available ACDI Core research team) have averaged six science for those working on the ground in the per year in 2014 and 2015. Furthermore, a total ‘policy and implementation’ space. This involves of 11 conference papers have been produced both translating new research into formats that are (three from the ACDI Core research team, and useful and useable for different target audiences eight from affiliate and associate researchers). – such as briefing notes, videos, and inputs to policy consultations – and also investing time in The ACDI’s Core team and the wider UCT CCD synthesising existing knowledge for use by external community have also produced a variety of other stakeholders, as well as proactively engaging with research outputs, including working papers, key actors and processes such as governmental reports, white papers, brochures, bulletins, and working groups. Again, the networking events case studies. Additionally, grey literature has been hosted by the ACDI aim to allow engagement published on independent project websites. Grey and dialogue around new research and thinking literature outputs equal about a quarter (21%) of which could inform implementation. The ACDI’s the ACDI’s total outputs distributed on our online contributions to the distribution of scientific platforms, and have been shown to have a wider knowledge on climate change and development reach among the ACDI’s external networks: This in formats that can be more easily accessed and provides lessons for science communication; understood by a wide range of audiences, such as for example, that academic literature may not local communities, practitioners, and policy- and be that accessible and understandable to a decision-makers, have become a way in which the wider audience. Thus, to pursue a research- ACDI can target non-academic audiences over into-use agenda it is helpful to develop outputs strategic timeframes to maximise their potential that are in a form and written in such a manner for achieving impact, influence and change. that they are accessible and understandable to the layman. This approach to communicating These interdisciplinary (ID) and transdisciplinary research outputs allows stakeholders and potential (TD) projects have missed opportunities for the interest groups to be involved to understand documentation of the benefits and challenges and interpret the knowledge generated. of ID, TD and engaged research on CCD: a large number of ACDI projects have been ID, Many ACDI projects have involved inter- and/or TD or engaged in their ambition and nature, but multidisciplinary teams, drawing on expertise from to date there has been no attempt to write up both within and outside UCT. Some of these – such the experiences of this approach to research. as Fostering Local Wellbeing (FLOW) and the The writing up of the experiences of the CKN Climate Knowledge Network (CKN) – have been process is a case in point, although the ACDI truly transdisciplinary, involving multiple disciplines does expect a draft book by end of 2016. and non-academic partners in research design and in the research process. Interestingly, these have proved the most difficult to produce PRP outputs Conclusion from, and are therefore harder to evaluate using the standard UCT/national accounting systems. The Strategic Initiatives are expected to show added major benefits of the CKN have been the creation value over and above what would have happened of a wide interdisciplinary network of academics – across UCT without their presence. If the ACDI across a wide range of departments – who trust and is judged against its stated objectives, one can understand each other and are adept at engaging say that it has succeeded in facilitating and in interdisciplinary discussion, debate and enquiry; extending climate and development research via and the strong, trusted links to key individuals the identification, facilitation and coordination of in local and regional government. From these, a strong multi-, cross- and transdisciplinary research number of additional projects have arisen, either programmes, through several mechanisms: directly – such as FLOW – or indirectly, such as i. Winning a number of research grants involving SmartAgri and the Berg River Nexus projects. interdisciplinary teams from ACDI associates, but

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also smaller projects that have multidisciplinary cohort of postgraduate research students, team members. A number of these projects either fully or partially. Initially, these were have also been multi-institution in nature, funded through the Carnegie Transformation building research collaborations outside of Fund; but more recently, a number of UCT, in South Africa, Africa and more widely; research projects have had scholarships for ii. The establishment of the ACDI Research students deliberately written into them. Chair/Fellow Programme, which has enabled ··Postdoctoral scholarships associated faculty to pursue research within the ACDI’s with research projects have supported a areas of focus, and to contribute their time to number of early-career researchers. a wide range of ACDI activities. By financial ··These activities have enabled the measures related to research outputs and grant following training ‘outputs’: income alone, the Chairs and Fellows have ··44 out of 48 registered students at least doubled the original investment; on the ACDI taught master’s (2012- iii. Internal and external relationship-building 2015) completed/graduated, with a has been an important enabling mechanism further 13 in the pipeline in 2016; for developing new research collaborations, ··38 PhD and 37 master’s (research) students and especially for positioning the ACDI fully or partially supported, of which three PhD to bid for more applied research projects and 12 master’s students have graduated; and for supporting other centres – such ··10 early-career postdoctoral researchers; as CSAG and the ERC – in designing and ··10 interns and junior research assistants. pulling together the requisite expertise ··To enhance its networking, visibility and for the projects they are leading. influence, the ACDI Core team has engaged in a number of activities through which relationships While it is always difficult to claim the and linkages with external stakeholders and causal effect of an intervention, one can collaborators have been strengthened. summarise core ACDI achievements in the ··On reflection, areas that the ACDI would like research domain quantitatively as follows: to have invested more effort into include: ··32 research projects directly led or co-led, as ··Strategic influencing, investing time in well as involvement in an additional 10 projects developing outputs targeted at key policy led by other departments and centres at UCT. processes, or influencing attitudes. ··Authorship on 143 peer-reviewed publications ··Briefings notes and briefing between 2013 and early 2016. sessions on ‘hot topics’. ··A wide range of non-peer-reviewed research ··More (and earlier in the ACDI’s life) outputs: reports, briefing notes, videos, and profiling of ACDI and wider UCT news articles on UCT and external channels. associates and affiliates research. ··The ACDI has had fourmain mechanisms through which it has enhanced what was already present at UCT with regard to education and training. Monitoring and evaluation. ··The ACDI taught master’s in climate change and sustainable development is our The ACDI project has increased cross-disciplinary flagship educational offering, providing an collaborations in the university and provided new interdisciplinary set of core courses taught by learning opportunities for a number of students staff from across the ACDI Core and Associates at graduate level. Its strategic use of internal teams, and offering opportunities for dissertation resources (Research Chairs/Fellows and associates) supervision in any department in the university. has enabled it to generate funding to support ··The ACDI Research Student Programme, trialled its research projects, and to build a cohort of in 2016, aims to offer a foundation in climate students/ researchers whose expertise in the field change and development for incoming research of climate change and development is needed students who are intending to undertake in the context of climate-change challenges. The research on issues that intersect with climate ACDI has provided a model for strategic initiatives and development, and then specific research located within universities on how to position capacity-building events through the year. themselves strategically in a university context, with ··Student scholarships have supported a limited resources and a wide research agenda.

26 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives Safety and Violence Initiative (SaVI): a reflection7

Purpose of the SaVI ‘The Four Dimensions of Engagement’ which provides guidance in reflecting on four dimensions SaVI’s mission is to establish research of engagement undertaken by higher education: collaborations that will contribute to promoting its significance, its context, its base in scholarship, safety, reducing violence and raising awareness and the outcomes it generates. What is useful about these issues within South Africa and other about the framework is that project leaders can add African countries. As university-based research and eliminate evaluative components, questions, collaboration, a key feature of SaVI’s role will and indicators, tailoring the matrix to the culture be to develop theory and to translate this into and expectations of their specific project. practice. This will be accomplished through: ··Enabling researchers to engage and cooperate across disciplinary boundaries; Significance ··Facilitating socially responsive research; ··Building a ‘critical mass’ of researchers focusing Violence is a national problem of crisis proportions on violence prevention and safety promotion; in South Africa. According to Chandre Gould, ··Making wider and more efficient use of existing of the ISS (News24, 18:09:2014) there were 827 research resources on safety and violence; children murdered in South Africa in 2012/13. That ··Developing research capacity in the is more than two a day. Added to that is the 21 575 study of safety and violence; children who were assaulted, with almost half of ··Participating in relevant national and those assaults being severe. In the same year 2 266 international networks, including links with women were murdered, and 141 130 women were civil society and the public sector; victims of attempted murder, assault, grievous ··Facilitating the dissemination of research. bodily harm and common assault. As horrifying as these statistics are, the number of women and To realise its vision and mission, SaVI children who fell victim to violence is dwarfed by has three principal functional areas: the number of similar attacks on men. In 2012/13 ··Research: Identification, facilitation and alone, 13 123 men were murdered. At best, half of coordination of strong multi-, cross- and these cases would have made it to court, and not trans-disciplinary research projects. all of those that make it to court result in a guilty ··Teaching: Facilitating the development of verdict and the perpetrator being punished. inter-disciplinary teaching on understanding and preventing violence at both the For some crimes, such as rape, domestic undergraduate and postgraduate levels. violence, and assault – including assaults ··Social Responsiveness: Undertaking evidence- against children – the cases recorded are a small based research; producing publications; and fraction of the incidents that actually occur. engaging in public education activities on the prevention of violence and the promotion The horrifying murder statistics are a great of safety that are relevant to communities concern for the SA government. In February and governments affected by violence. 2007, the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation was contracted by the South African government to carry out a study on Aims of reflection the nature of crime in South Africa. The study concluded that the country is exposed to high Against the backdrop of these objectives, the levels of violence as a result of different factors. reflective framework which will be used is called ··The normalisation of violence. Violence comes

7. This report is based on an interview with Guy Lamb, Director of SaVI, which was held on the 21 April 2016.

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to be seen as a necessary and justified means of poverty, unemployment, social resolving conflict, and males believe that coercive exclusion and marginalisation. sexual behaviour against women is legitimate. ··The reliance on a criminal justice system One statistic that attests to this is SA’s that is mired in many issues, including homicide rate, which counts deaths from inefficiency and corruption. interpersonal violence: it is the leading cause ··A subculture of violence and criminality, of injury-related deaths (at 46% of such deaths); ranging from individual criminals who rape and at a rate of 64.8 deaths per 100 000 or rob to informal groups or more formalised population, we have among the highest rates gangs. Those involved in the subculture are of homicide in the world (Norman, 2007). engaged in criminal careers and commonly use firearms, with the exception of Cape The significance of the issue of violence and safety Town, where knife violence is more prevalent. to the scholarly community and practitioners is Credibility within this subculture is related to important. Scholars at UCT have been working on the readiness to resort to extreme violence. issues relating to safety and violence for decades, ··The vulnerability of young people linked to but collaborative research across disciplines was inadequate child rearing and poor youth infrequent. This is a complex research agenda, socialisation. As a result of poverty, unstable within which are strands that might be considered living arrangements and being brought up with ‘meta-questions’ that cannot rely solely on a inconsistent and uncaring parenting, some single discipline. The complex research problems South African children are exposed to risk that violence presents demand inter-disciplinary factors which enhance the chances that they will collaboration by the full range of social and become involved in criminality and violence. human scientists: economists, educationalists, ··The high levels of inequality, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, etc.

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Only in working together can these problems this kind of expertise internally, SaVI is better be sufficiently well understood and effective positioned to facilitate debate, research and interventions developed. SaVI provides a interventions across the university, with a focus platform from which a comprehensive agenda on understanding and responding to violence for understanding violence and promoting and promoting safety. It can also be a weakness, safety in South Africa could be laid out. There because the deep-rooted faculty-based systems are many questions about violence that are as and structures at UCT have presented significant yet unanswered, and there are key roles for obstacles to the organisational development and many different disciplines in answering them. sustainability of SaVI as a truly interdisciplinary venture. Examples include: a lack of access to Violence results in considerable costs to society, the sufficient on-campus office space; ineligibility for economy and available government resources. The most internal research funding; and an absence SaVI study on violence against women and children of approved institutional growth pathways for (mentioned below), which is supported by a range entities that operate between faculties. of other rigorous studies, indicates that violence can be transmitted intergenerationally, namely Externally, SaVI’s main partners are (national and those who experience violence as children are at provincial) government and the City of Cape Town high risk of becoming both victims (particularly (CCT), which have over the years gathered data sets for girls) and perpetrators (particularly for boys) that can be used for research purposes. SaVI has as adults. A recent study by KPMG conservatively also developed partnerships with other research estimated that that gender-based violence cost and civil society organisations concerned with South Africa between R28.4 billion and R42.4 (youth) violence and violence prevention. In this billion each year, which was equivalent to between regard, SaVI actively interacted with the following 0.9% and 1.3% of GDP annually. If one was to factor organisations to devise joint research projects and in interpersonal violence between men, which is interventions: Amandla EduFootball; Campaign the most predominant form of violence in South for Safer Communities; Human Sciences Research Africa (on which there are no studies), then the Council; Institute for Security Studies; International estimated cost would be exponentially higher. Committee of the Red Cross; SafetyLab; Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading; Waves for Change; and the World Bank (Transitional Context Demobilisation and Reintegration Programme). All these networks bring with them all sorts of SaVI grew out of a project funded by the Vice- valuable expertise from which SaVI can draw. Chancellor’s Strategic Fund. As stated earlier the intention is to bring scholars from different All collaborative research endeavours have disciplines to research, theorise and provide entailed consultations with key stakeholders, evidence-based research which can be used but such stakeholder interactions have varied to influence policy and intervention strategies across partner organisations. Collaborative in curbing violence and promoting safety. The interactions with Cape Town-based partners have interdisciplinary nature of the initiative permits typically entailed targeted consultations with different languages and different approaches community stakeholders in violence-affected to the problem of violence. This can be the areas. The consultations have been facilitated strength of the initiative, because it draws on in an open and equal manner. With the case of the expertise of scholars from a number of AMANDLA EduFootball and the post-Khayelitsha departments, centres and units across UCT. With Commission of Inquiry research sub-committee

Externally, SaVI’s main partners are (national and provincial) government and the City of Cape Town (CCT), which have over the years gathered data sets that can be used for research purposes.

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(see below), research proposals and research Impact findings were presented to and discussed with key representatives from the communities affected. Research These networks have enabled SaVI to participate in national, continental (Africa) and VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN international dialogue and networks between the AND CHILDREN academy, civil society and public sectors. As Understanding and preventing violence against a result, SaVI has improved relationships with women and children is a key area of concern key academic, government and civil society for SaVI and its affiliates. In this regard, SaVI stakeholders, and increased its national and has hosted and co-hosted seminars, public international profile and reputation. lectures and workshops. It has also undertaken a number of joint research projects. Below is Prior to joining SaVI, Guy Lamb was a Senior information on SaVI’s research in this area. Research Fellow and Programme Head of the Arms Management Programme at the Institute Violence against women and children in South for Security Studies. He has undertaken research Africa: Study for National Government and managed a considerable number of major SaVI was commissioned by national government’s research projects and published on violence Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on Violence reduction, conflict management and peace- against Women and Children and the United building issues in Africa for more than 15 years. Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in 2014 to He has worked extensively with a number of 2016 to manage an interdisciplinary research African governments to strengthen violence project on the risk and protective factors reduction processes in Southern Africa. Guy is in relation to violence against women and currently a member of the technical advisory children in South Africa. Other key UCT committee of the Western Cape Government’s partners in this project included the Children’s Community Safety Improvement Partnership. Institute, the Centre for Social Science He also serves on the governing board of the Research, the Department of Psychology, Community Improvement District. the Gender Health and Justice Research Unit and the Division of Nursing and Midwifery. Given Guy’s experience and skills with respect to undertaking research and managing research The project has generated evidence-based projects, he is well placed to lead SaVI. analysis and predictive statistical models, and Recently he has led a major study on violence in mid-2015 made recommendations to the against women and children in South Africa for IMC on how to reduce and prevent violence Cabinet (national government); and a study on against women and children. The findings of the community safety organisations for the Western research will be used by Cabinet to inform the Cape Department of Community Safety. development of strategies to reduce and prevent violence against women and children. In addition, Lamb’s vast experience, the cluster of SaVI associates UNICEF identified the research undertaken for and the external networks built over the years this project as among the “best” that was funded bring sufficient expertise which could be harnessed by UNICEF during 2015. The research findings to address the issue of violence and safety. were also used to inform a detailed SaVI written submission on the Draft White Paper on Safety and It is at the level of projects that stakeholder Security. The revised White Paper now includes participation in planning, defining impacts some of SaVI’s recommendations. The findings and assessing the project can be determined. are currently being used by the Department of What seems to be a common thread in all the Social Development (DSD) to revise the content projects is a commitment to develop theory on of its national action plan on violence against violence, violence prevention and the promotion women and children, and has been used by DSD of safety, and to translate this into practice. This in its recommendations to Treasury about which will be accomplished through research, teaching, violence prevention interventions should be specialist advice, and dialogue and networking. prioritised in terms of government spending.

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Child Gauge 2014: Preventing violence against Government’s Department of Community Safety children – breaking the intergenerational cycle (DOCS) to undertake research on community police SaVI partnered with the Children’s Institute to forums and neighbourhood watch structures in produce the 2014 South African Child Gauge, 2015. The aim of the research was to determine the which focused on the prevention of violence against diversity of activities that have been undertaken children. The publication provides an annual by these community policing groupings, as well snapshot of the status of children in South Africa. By as their successes and the challenges that they drawing on the latest research evidence, the Child have faced. The focal areas for field research are: Gauge presents a set of plain-language essays on a Constantia//; Khayelitsha; different theme each year, alongside an update on Lavender Hill; Paarl East; and Vredenburg. The legislative developments that affect children’s rights. research project was completed in May 2016.

This publication was launched at a high-level The research findings were used to inform the event in Pretoria, at which both the Minister and finalisation of the Regulations for the Western Deputy Minister of Social Development delivered Cape Community Safety Act (Act 3 of 2013), with speeches. It also received considerable attention respect to how the Provincial Government will on all media platforms. Key DSD child protection recognise, accredit and support neighbourhood officials have suggested at a number of public watch organisations with a view to improving events that this publication is particularly helpful safety throughout the Western Cape (see: https:// in understanding the nature of the problem of www.westerncape.gov.za/assets/departments/ violence against children, and for prioritising community-safety/draft_community_safety_ appropriate violence prevention solutions. regulations_2015.pdf). Furthermore, DOCS ··http://citizen.co.za/276930/ have used the research findings to inform their violence-children-remains-widespread-sa-study/ community interventions in Paarl East (which is ··http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/opinion/ currently one of the priority areas for DOCS). its-everyones-business-1782549 ··http://mg.co.za/article/2014-11-21-00- the-right-to-protection-from-violence Youth and Gang Violence ··http://www.groundup.org.za/article/ prevention-strategies-key-curbing- LONGITUDINAL SURVEY RESEARCH violence-against-children_2464/ ON YOUTH VIOLENCE REDUCTION ··http://www.timeslive.co.za/ This project is in partnership with Amandla thetimes/2014/11/18/our-damned-children EduFootball and the Department of the Premier (Western Cape Provincial Government), and entails a 10-year longitudinal research study Community Safety in in and which seeks to the Western Cape ascertain the impact of youth violence prevention interventions in this area. Funding for the baseline RESEARCH ON COMMUNITY POLICE research has been provided by the Western FORUMS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport. WATCH ORGANISATIONS SaVI (along with the Centre of Criminology) was The reason for the selection of the area is this commissioned by the Western Cape Provincial is that Amandla EduFootball, in partnership

SaVI (along with the Centre of Criminology) was commissioned by the Western Cape Provincial Government’s Department of Community Safety (DOCS) to undertake research on community police forums and neighbourhood watch structures in 2015.

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 31 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives with the Western Cape Provincial Government, such a publication is difficult to measure, but it has has established a ‘Safe-Hub’ at a high school in been extensively recommended within government Gugulethu for Gugulethu and surrounding areas, workshops on youth and gang violence as the and this intervention has become one of the ‘go-to’ book. As a result of this research, Don flagship youth violence prevention programmes Pinnock has briefed both the Department of Social in the Province. The Safe-Hub is also the primary Development and the Department of Community site for the Western Cape Provincial Government’s Safety on gang violence-prevention best practice. after-school ‘Game-changer’. A ‘Game-changer’ is the current term used by the Western Cape In 2014 SaVI commissioned Pharie Sefali, a Provincial Government for priority projects, due journalist, to undertake ethnographic research to the potential they have to be catalysts for on the nature and dynamics of juvenile gang substantial improvements in people’s lives. violence in Khayelitsha. Pharie spent weeks interviewing gang members, police, school The project has also been granted a principals and NGOs. A publication in partnership research grant to the value of R50 000 with GroundUp was subsequently produced, with through the CHEC-WCG partnership. a view to informing public and policy debates on gang violence in Khayelitsha and possible The Department of the Premier in the Western prevention solutions. The paper was submitted to Cape has indicated that it intends to use this the Khayelitsha commission of inquiry into policing study as a means to assess the impact of its youth (see below). It is referenced in the Commission’s development and violence prevention interventions report in relation to providing a more nuanced in Gugulethu and Manenberg. The baseline analysis of the juvenile gang phenomenon in study is currently under way, and hence it is too Khayelitsha, and strategies on how to prevent it. early at this stage to determine any impact. ··http://ewn.co.za/2016/05/17/Safety-hub- launched-in-troubled-WC-communities Promoting Safety in Khayelitsha ··https://www.westerncape.gov.za/news/ media-statement-premier-zille-launches- The Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of gugulethu-manenberg-safe-hub Police Inefficiency and a Breakdown in Relations between SAPS and the Community in Khayelitsha PREVENTING GANG VIOLENCE officially began its work in late 2013. SaVI staff and IN CAPE TOWN associates provided expert input and testimony to SaVI has also provided funding for in-depth this commission of inquiry in both hearing phases. research by Don Pinnock (SaVI associate) on the genesis of gang violence in Cape Town and In November 2014 SaVI hosted a summit various interventions and programmes that have of police, provincial government and civil the potential to prevent it. The research findings society organisations at UCT to devise a were published as a book by Tafelberg Publishers detailed strategy for the implementation of the in 2016 (see publications section below). commission’s recommendations. SaVI hosted a follow-up strategic planning workshop with The book has received extensive media coverage SAPS senior leadership, government officials (see select listing below) and consistently good and civil society organisations in April 2015. reviews. Numerous government officials and policymakers have indicated that they have found SaVI currently chairs the SAPS/civil society research the book insightful and instructive. The impact of sub-forum on improving safety and improving

In 2014 SaVI commissioned Pharie Sefali, a journalist, to undertake ethnographic research on the nature and dynamics of juvenile gang violence in Khayelitsha.

32 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives policing in Khayelitsha, and regularly interacts with firearm murder) in South Africa was undertaken. the community organisations and SAPS in this area. The research results will be published in late 2016.

Testimonies and recommendations by SaVI staff Initial research results led to invitations for Guy and associates to the Commission of Inquiry were Lamb to make presentations at two high-level included in the Commission’s final report. The SAPS events in 2015, namely the National Firearm strategic plan for promoting safety in Khayelitsha Summit (Parliament) and the Ministry of Police’s was devised and finalised as a direct result of SaVI’s National Dialogue on Crime and Violence interventions. SaVI is also currently instrumental Prevention (Johannesburg). It is yet too early in ensuring that a dedicated research committee to determine the impact of such research. (which SaVI chairs) comprised of representatives from SAPS, Western Cape Provincial Government, civil society and academia meets regularly to discuss Ex-combatants and and coordinate research in relation to safety and violence reduction violence in Khayelitsha. The research committee was instrumental in working with Violence Prevention Ex-combatants are a specific population through Urban Upgrading and the City of Cape group that, due to their history, are at high Town to draft a new official map of Khayelitsha risk of perpetuating violence in post-conflict (based on community consultations), as the previous environments, particularly in Africa. The map was out of date, and was negatively affecting World Bank’s Transitional Demobilisation and policing services in the area. The SAPS in Khayelitsha Reintegration Program (TDRP) commissioned now display this map in the three policing stations SaVI to undertake two research projects: in the area, and use it for operational and planning 4. A historical review of disarmament, purposes. The new map is available at: http:// demobilization and reintegration (DDR) safekhayelitsha.org.za/safety-profile/sector-mapping/ programmes in southern Africa; 5. The use of information communication technology in DDR programming in Africa. Xenophobic Violence in South Africa The research findings were presented and discussed at expert meetings hosted by the World In 2016 SaVI secured funding from USAID to be part Bank in Tunisia and Durban. In particular the of an 18-month collaborative action-oriented research research findings have been used by the TDRP project on xenophobic violence in South Africa. to provide technical advice on DDR to interested Other partner organisations include: Freedom House; African governments, in terms of its capacity- African Centre for Migration and Society (University building programme with the African Union (see: of the Witwatersrand); Project on Conflict Resolution tdrp.net/auddrcp.php). This was particularly evident and Development; Centre for the Study of Violence in the TDRP technical support to South Sudan and Reconciliation; and Sonke Gender Justice. (see: tdrp.net/PDFs/1stDDRNewsletter.pdf). The project is still in its early stages, but is likely to yield considerable socially responsive impacts. Substance abuse and violence

Homicide Under the auspices of SaVI, a series of research projects on the relationship between violence This research programme will be to develop a more and substance abuse in Cape Town were further comprehensive understanding of homicide in South implemented in 2013. One of the projects, led Africa (and possibly other low- to middle-income by the Department of Surgery, investigated countries), based on interdisciplinary research, substance abuse in injured patients presenting to that will be used to inform debates and discourse the Trauma Centre over on homicide, as well as policy and legislative a two-month period. Another project, directed interventions to reduce such lethal violence. In by the Department of Psychiatry and Mental 2015 and 2016 research on the link between high- Health, tested an intervention for substance users density police operations and murder (particularly attending trauma clinics in the Western Cape.

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The research findings have re-emphasised the need to prioritise interventions relating POL5042F: Peace building: to substance abuse as a means to reduce Issues and Problems violence. The specific impact of these projects is not possible to prove; nonetheless, in late- Convener: Guy Lamb 2013 the Western Cape Provincial Government This course considers the concepts and theories of launched its Integrated Provincial Violence peace building, as well as how it has been applied Prevention Policy Framework document, which (mainly in post-conflict settings). The specific emphasises the link between substance abuse focal areas of the course are: the UN’s approach and violence (see: https://www.westerncape. to peace building; post-conflict economy; armed gov.za/news/western-cape-government- violence; arms control and disarmament; the launches-violence-prevention-policy). In 2015 demobilisation and reintegration of combatants the Provincial Government launched the into civilian life; security sector reform; refugees Alcohol Harms Reduction Game-Changer, and the diaspora; youth violence; policing; civil as a key programmatic intervention for the society and peace building; as well as information Province (See: https://www.westerncape.gov.za/ communication technology and peace building. speech/western-cape-budget-speech-2015).

Due to the collaborative nature of the research PBL5660S: Issues in Crime projects there is evidence that the findings are and Justice: Organised Non- impacting positively on policy and practice. State Violence in Africa The SAPS strategic plan for promoting safety in Khayelitsha is a good example of how SaVI’s Conveners: Guy Lamb and Julie Berg interventions has aided thinking strategically This interdisciplinary course provide students about policing densely populated but under- with an opportunity to familiarise themselves resourced communities. Another example is that with and critically reflect on this literature – the research findings on Research on Community concepts, theories and published research and Police Forums and Neighbourhood Watch commentary on organised violence in Africa. Organisations are being used to inform the The course will not promote a particular point finalisation of the Regulations for the Western of view in relation to organised violence, but Cape Community Safety Act (Act 3 of 2013). will seek to understand the origins, trajectories The revised White Paper on Violence Against and implications of a range of approaches. Women and Children now includes some of SaVI’s recommendations. Lamb has made presentations Through these courses SaVI has opened in Parliament and has been invited by Ministries new opportunities for student learning of government to present on the work of SaVi. and professional staff development. As can be seen from the media links above, the work of SaVI has received huge media coverage, and has leveraged additional resources for its Conferences and Colloquia partners to pursue other research projects. International Conference Teaching (postgraduate) on Violence Prevention

SaVI established two postgraduate courses in Cape Town, 8-9 September 2016 2015, namely in the Department of Political (In partnership with the World Health Organisation) Studies and the Department of Public Law at UCT SAVI and the Global Campaign for Violence UCT. Both of these courses were also offered Prevention will be hosting an international in 2016. Details pertaining to these courses are conference on violence prevention titled ‘Preventing outlined below. SaVI is planning to establish an Violence: from scientific excellence to effective interdisciplinary Master’s programme in 2018 to be practice’. The conference will be held from 8 to 9 titled ‘Violence, Conflict and Safety Governance’, September 2016 at the Atlantic Imbizo, Victoria which will be administered by the Faculty of Law. and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa.

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Awareness’ took place on 8 and 9 September 1st South African Homicide 2011 in Cape Town, back-to-back with the fifth Research Colloquium World Health Organisation (WHO) conference on the Milestones of a Global Campaign for Violence Cape Town, 3-4 September 2015 Prevention. High-profile keynote speakers from The aim of the colloquium was to develop a the WHO conference also attended the SaVI more comprehensive understanding of homicide conference. These speakers included Dr Alexander (with a particular focus on South Africa). Butchart and Dr Christopher Mikton of WHO, Homicide was the central focus of this event, who provided an overview of global violence but the event also explored the factors and prevention and summarised the key evidence dynamics that contribute to lethal violence. In in this field. Among the provincial and national this regard, this event brought together close to government representatives were Dr Gilbert 100 researchers, those who work in the criminal Lawrence of the Western Cape Department of justice and related sectors, policymakers, and Community Safety, and Dr Shaida Asmall, who violence prevention practitioners and activists. represented the National Department of Health.

Understanding and Preventing Seminars and Workshops Violence in Africa

Cape Town, 1-2 November 2013 Understanding, Responding (In partnership with the Cape Higher to and Preventing Xenophobic Education Consortium and the Western Violence in South Africa Cape Provincial Government) The two-day colloquium brought together Cape Town, 23 April 2015 academics, government representatives and The aim of this workshop was to explore what is civil society organisations to discuss a variety known about xenophobic violence, and how the of pertinent topics relating to violence and government and the people of the Western Cape evidence-based violence prevention interventions. and elsewhere should respond to it and seek to Examples of topics included: gender-based prevent it in the future. Speakers included Major- violence; substance abuse; youth violence; General Jeremy Vearey (South African Police community violence; violence in schools; violence Services), Dr Roni Amit (African Centre for Migration against children; and firearm violence. There and Society, Wits University) and Dr Chris Giles was also a special panel which focused on the (Violence Prevention Through Urban Upgrading). Western Cape government’s violence prevention framework. The colloquium aimed to serve as a springboard for future cooperative, consultative Crime and Punishment in and more focused engagement between Khayelitsha: Governing through academics, the Western Cape government and the Community on a Local Scale civil society organisations on prioritising violence prevention in the province. This forum provided Cape Town, 18 March 2015 an opportunity for relevant parties to gather Dr Gail Super presented a paper that analysed together to consider and recommend appropriate the overlaps between legal community-based approaches and programmes to significantly crime prevention initiatives and punitive practises reduce and avert violence in the Western Cape. in Khayelitsha. The focus was not on the intensely violent spectacle of ‘mob justice’, where suspects are killed, but on the more ubiquitous, hybrid Inaugural SaVI Conference formations that also fall on the vigilantism continuum. These include coercive practices, such Cape Town, 8-9 September 2011 as banishment, corporal punishment, the retrieval The first conference of the Safety and Violence of stolen goods by local policing formations Initiative (SaVI) at the University of Cape Town, (neighbourhood watches and community titled ‘Promoting Safety, Reducing Violence, Raising crime patrols), and trials conducted by street

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 35 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives committees. One of the questions asked was ‘how work creates the impression that SaVI is a ‘go- do local ordering mechanisms engage with, and to’ institution on violence prevention. Although reconfigure, state law?’ The central argument was not possible to reliably prove, the Western Cape that the notion of voluntarism, which is so important Government and the CCT have engaged with to the official discourse on crime, is particularly SaVI on violence prevention due to SaVI’s ‘brand- problematic when applied in poor communities building’ work. There have been at least 22 print with high rates of unemployment and crime. media and 15 electronic media articles in which SaVI is specifically referenced, including opinion articles by SaVI staff and associates. There have Gangs: Merchants, also been numerous radio and TV interviews. Warriors, Numbers

Cape Town, 12-14 August 2014 Scholarship SaVI and the Centre of Criminology hosted a three-day Gang Seminar. Topics of discussion at the Gang Seminar were ‘Gangs and Social Context’ SaVI Publications (12 August) and ‘Gangs – Thinking Strategy’ (13 ··Howell, S., Freeman, L. & Swingler. S. (2015). August). Discussants included Major General ‘X Marks the Spot: community responses Jeremy Vearey (SAPS); Major General Peter to tik and gangsterism on the ’. Jacobs (SAPS); Alderman JP Smith (WC Mayoral At the Coalface: Essays in Safety and Committee); Michael Smith (WC CPF Board); Violence, Issue 2, November 2015. Chris Malgas (DCS); Jonathan Jansen (Fusion); ··Sefali, P. & Pinnock, D. (2014). ‘Young, High and Pharie Sefali (GroundUp). On 14 August the and Dangerous: youth gangs and violence film ‘Four Corners’ was screened, followed by a in Khayelitsha’. At the Coalface: Essays in keynote address by the director, Ian Gabriel. Safety and Violence, Issue 1, May 2014.

South African Child Gauge Journal articles 2014: roundtable on ··Ward, C.L. & Lamb, G. (2015). ‘The Global Status children and violence Report on Violence Prevention 2014: where to for the South African health sector? South African (Jointly organised with the Children’s Institute) Medical Journal, 105(3), Cape Town, March 2015. 22 November 2013, , Cape Town ··Super, G., (2015). ‘Violence and Democracy The roundtable was held to discuss the focus and in Khayelitsha: governing crime through the content of the 2014 Child Gauge, the theme of ‘Community’. Stability: International Journal which was on children and violence. This Child of Security and Development, 4(1), part Gauge was a collaborative publication of the 31. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.ft. Children’s Institute and SaVI. The roundtable ··Lamb, G. (2015). ‘Fighting Fire with an comprised of both presentations by specialists in Inferno: the South African Police Service the field of violence against children, and small and the ‘war’ on violent crime’. International group discussions. Pertinent recommendations Journal on Human Rights, Issue 22. were provided, which were used by the Child ··Freeman, L. (2015). ‘The African warlord revisited. Gauge 2014 Editorial Committee to specify the Small wars & Insurgencies’. 26 (5), 790-810. scope and specific content of the publication. ··Freeman, L. & McDonald, C. (2015). ‘Mapping Khayelitsha: the complexities of everyday policing in a high-crime area’. Popular education South African Crime Quarterly, 53, 27-37. ··Sorsdahl, K., Myers, B., Ward, C., Matzopoulos, One of the objectives of SaVI is to contribute to R., Mtukushe, B., Nicol, A & Stein, D.J. (2013). shaping public discourse on violence and violence ‘Screening and brief interventions for substance prevention. It is difficult to measure the impact use in emergency departments in the Western of this, but key activities include media articles, Cape province of South Africa: views of health media interviews and public seminars. Such media care professionals’. International Journal of

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Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 1–8. ··Ward, C.L. & Wessels, I. (2013). ‘Rising to ··Ward, C.L., Artz, L., Berg, J., Boonzaier, F., the challenge: towards effective parenting Crawford-Browne, S., Dawes, A., Foster,D., programmes’. In Berry, L., Biersteker, L., Dawes, Matzopoulos, R., Nicol, A., Seekings, J., A., Lake, L., & Smith, C. (Eds.), South African Van As, A.B., & Van der Spuy, E. (2012). Child Gauge 2013, pp. 62-65. Cape Town: ‘Violence, violence prevention, and safety: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town. a research agenda for South Africa’. South African Medical Journal, 102, 215-218.

Books ··Pinnock, D. (2016). Gang Town. Cape Town: Tafelberg. ··Ward, C.L., Van der Merwe, A. & Dawes, A. (Eds.) (2012). Youth violence in South Africa: sources and solutions. Cape Town: UCT Press.

Chapters in books ··Donnelly, P.D. & Ward, C.L. (2015). ‘Interpersonal violence: a global health priority’. In Donnelly, P.D. & Ward, C.L. (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Violence Prevention: epidemiology, evidence and policy, pp. 3-8. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ··Ward, C.L. (2015). ‘Youth violence’. In Donnelly, P.D. & Ward, C.L. (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Violence Prevention: epidemiology, evidence and policy, pp. 27-34. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ··Williams, D.J., Gavine, A.J., Ward, C.L. & Donnelly, P.D. (2015). ‘What is evidence in violence prevention?’ In Donnelly, P.D. & Ward, C.L. (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Violence Prevention: epidemiology, evidence and policy, pp. 125. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ··Artz, L. (2015). National and international policies to reduce domestic violence. In Donnelly, P.D. & Ward, C.L. (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Violence Prevention: epidemiology, evidence and policy, p. 273. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ··Lamb, G. (2015). National and international policies to prevent and reduce armed violence. In Donnelly, P.D. & Ward, C.L. (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Violence Prevention: epidemiology, evidence and policy (pp. 285- 290). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Other ··Lamb, G. (2013) ‘DDR 20 Years Later: historical review of the long-term impact of post-independence DDR in Southern Africa’, Washington DC: World Bank.

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Poverty and Inequality Initiative8

Significance and Context and to identify areas needing further research. The idea was that the conference would serve UCT’s mission of becoming a premier academic as the launch event for a national inquiry on meeting point between South Africa, the rest strategies to overcome poverty and inequality. of Africa and the world commits the university – Professor Francis Wilson was appointed as the through innovative research and scholarship – to Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor, to allow him to grappling with the key issues of our natural and coordinate this national conference and keep social environments. This mission is meant to the momentum going after the conference. signal the university’s commitment to leveraging its (own) resources to contribute to addressing The Poverty and Inequality Initiative was formally major development challenges facing the country instituted as a strategic initiative with the and the continent more broadly. It is therefore not appointment of Professor Murray Leibbrandt as the surprising that at his inauguration in 1999, the Vice- Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Poverty and Inequality, in Chancellor committed UCT to developing strategic August 2013. Conceptualised as a multi-disciplinary initiatives to address four key social challenges: strategic initiative, the PII was tasked with climate change; crime and violence; the crisis in increasing the institution’s collective contribution the school sector; and poverty and inequality. to tackling major development challenges facing South Africa. In particular, the PII was viewed That the Vice-Chancellor committed to developing as the mechanism through which strengthening strategic initiatives in 2009 does not mean research in this strategic area would be achieved, that UCT was not engaging in activities that and the profile of existing and new research raised addressed societal challenges prior to that date. by providing it with central institutional support. In 2005 UCT produced its first annual Social Responsiveness Report, which profiled innovative Our work programme has given effect to this examples or case studies of UCT staff engaged via two prongs. The first is the provision of in work which addressed the developmental central institutional support and academic challenges facing the country, the continent and leadership, promoting knowledge sharing, cross- the rest of the world. This report, and subsequent disciplinary collaboration and communication reports produced by the university’s Social – both within and beyond the university Responsiveness Committee (USRC) was useful in community – to expand and raise the profile contributing to debate and discussion internally of UCT’s collective contribution to addressing about the role of higher education institutions in the twin challenges of poverty and inequality. contributing to the development of an equitable, This includes both research and teaching. The just and humane society in South Africa. second is facilitating and driving UCT’s leadership of the national initiative that was born at the In 2011, the USRC established the Poverty and Carnegie3 Conference in September 2012. Inequality Planning Group (PIPG), a small working group comprising key faculty members spanning the university’s five faculties. This working Central Institutional Support group took forward the proposal made by then- Minister Trevor Manuel, in April 2012, to host a The PII spans each of the university’s five faculties, national conference which would profile effective bringing together a range of staff and students strategies to overcome poverty and inequality, from diverse disciplines across the university – at

8. This report was submitted by Haajirah Esau and Prof Murray Leibbrandt on1 November 2016

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 39 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives regular meetings, seminars and other events – to share knowledge and promote collaborative Research research. Among its members, the PII includes staff from the following departments and research units: On the research side, the two special research ··African Centre for Cities projects of the PII, addressing the themes ··Centre for Actuarial Research of youth and social cohesion, have been particularly proactive in facilitating and organising CENTRE FOR AFRICAN STUDIES interdisciplinary engagements and projects, ··Centre for Curating the Archive across the university and between these UCT communities, civil society and policymakers. The CENTRE FOR FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES youth project has collaborated closely with the ··Centre for Law and Society Schools Improvement Initiative, and the social cohesion project has included partnerships CHILDREN’S INSTITUTE with the Safety and Violence Initiative. ··Centre for Social Science Research ··Department of Archaeology ··Department of Chemical Engineering Youth ··Department of Drama (in particular, the Magnet Theatre) The (youth) project enjoys the advantages of a collaborative national network of researchers DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY working in this area. We are pleased to highlight ··Department of Social Anthropology the following streams of work in this area: ··Development Policy Research Unit 1. Consolidating existing evidence on the ··Environmental Policy Research Unit situation of young people in post-apartheid ··Energy Research Centre South Africa through a powerful, multi- disciplinary collaboration with researchers GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DEVELOPMENT and policymakers, and supported by POLICY AND PRACTICE (GSDPP) partnerships with the Children’s Institute, ··Graduate School of Business, The Programme to Support Pro-Poor Policy particularly the Bertha Centre and the Development (PSPPD), Unicef, WorldVision, Raymond Ackerman Academy the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human ··Health Economics Research Unit Development (Wits University), and the ··Institutional Planning Department DG Murray Trust. This culminated in the ··Research Unit in Behavioural Economics publication and launch of the 2015 Child ··School of Architecture and Planning Gauge (www.povertyandinequality.uct.ac.za/ child-gauge), specifically aimed at informing SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS policymakers and practitioners. In addition, ··School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences the participatory work with young people ··School of Public Health and Family Medicine to provide them with a platform to make ··Southern Africa Labour Development their voice heard in the form of the Youth Research Unit (SALDRU), including the Abdul Matters bulletin, published with the Gauge. Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) 2. Developing indicators to monitor youth well-being at the small-area level, a project These members meet regularly as the Poverty that began with a focus mainly on the and Inequality Planning Group (PIPG). A Western Cape, but which has since grown number of these units came into the PIPG into a national collaboration also involving around the planning of the 2012 conference. Statistics South Africa and the Government Subsequent entry into the group has been Technical Advisory Committee (GTAC, as a result of expressed commitment based National Treasury). The indicators, made on an extensive set of engagements with accessible through an online, interactive faculties to inform them of the PII, or as a tool (www.youthexplorer.org.za/profiles/ result of collaborative research or curriculum province-WC-western-cape/) provide a development work with members of the PII. unique baseline of information for those

40 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives who design and implement policies and 1. DEFINITION AND MEASUREMENT: interventions directed at young people. This involves an analysis of the policy agenda 3. Convening research and policy dialogues for social cohesion as articulated in the that have drawn in a wide range of high- National Development Plan, and also an level policymakers, academics, civil society exploration of the philosophical principles organisations and young people themselves, underlying a meaningful definition of social to discuss issues ranging from the design cohesion. The theme examines the link of the new National Youth Development between reconciliation and social cohesion, Policy (2015-2020), to the inequality in our and whether taking a needs-based approach education system and in the labour market. to the former would lead to more meaningful 4. Beginning the work to systematically integration across South African society. review and map the existing research on the drivers of youth unemployment, policy 2. SOCIAL COHESION AND aimed at mitigating the high levels of youth ECONOMIC WELFARE unemployment, and interventions currently Work in this theme includes an investigation trying to increase youth employability, again of programmes that facilitate the link between in a broad partnership between UCT and the economic development, and a deepened University of Johannesburg, the Jobs Fund, understanding of the distribution of capital and REDI3x3 (www.povertyandinequality. and its impact on social cohesion in South uct.ac.za/youth-unemployment). Africa. It analyses the relationship between 5. Facilitating the process of carefully employment equity and social cohesion, crafting a basic package of support and whether there is a relationship between for young people, inviting a small but corporate social responsibility and tax dedicated multi-disciplinary team of aggressiveness for large companies on the JSE. researchers and policymakers to the table to gather the necessary evidence 3. SOCIAL COHESION AND HUMAN and draft a policy proposal. CAPITAL – experiences from education This theme focuses on education and the promotion of social cohesion through Social Cohesion increased participation in activities facilitated through shared educational experiences. On the social cohesion front, from 2014 onwards the theme has facilitated a series of workshops 4. SOCIAL COHESION AND HUMAN and dialogues which aimed to bring together CAPITAL – EXPERIENCES IN HEALTH members of the UCT community who are Work in this area draws on the work of working in the area of social cohesion, for critical health practitioners and researchers on the reflection and debate on the current social challenges of providing inclusive healthcare cohesion agenda in policy discourse at all levels. that takes a broader view of health. It includes The events have included presentations from a the contribution of rehabilitation to social number of researchers and policymakers working inclusion and development in rural settings, in fields that were influenced by or sought to and the relationship between social capital and have impact on the national social cohesion healthcare-seeking behaviour for children. agenda. The aim is to find ways to move forward a research agenda for social cohesion, including In October 2016, the PII and Agence Française de mapping of NGOs across the Western Cape, Développement (AFD) launched a major research organising gatherings to synergise efforts to project that aims to measure the degree of social tackle development challenges, consolidated cohesion in different communities, using a set of research outputs on social cohesion, and indices. The project aims to develop these indices implementing randomised control trials to – which include levels of inequality, perceptions of measure the impact of interventions on social crime, interpersonal violence, and others – in a bid cohesion. This is being achieved through in-depth, to track where we are in terms of a socially cohesive critical exploration of the following themes: society. It also aims to help policymakers identify the factors that can improve social cohesion.

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applications between individual research groups Other research have been facilitated within the PII. A stellar example is the Children’s Institute’s Child Gauge Aside from work within the themes of youth and of 2015. It had a focus on youth, and was funded social cohesion, there have been a number of and run as a partnership between the CI and consolidated research initiatives on poverty and the youth project in the PII. The partnership with inequality working within the PII. We secured a large Professor Mark Fleishman on the Magnet Theatre NRF grant to fund applied work by nine national project in Clanwilliam and Khayelitsha is another research Chairs to develop well-founded strategies excellent example. The publication of the book to overcome Poverty and Inequality. This funding The Equal Society: essays on equality in theory and is part of the national post-2012 process. However, practice, edited by George Hull of the Philosophy five of these Chairs are at UCT, and all are part of Department, was also made possible through a the PII. Thus the grant has served as a platform small grant disbursed by the PII. More recently, the for engagement at UCT between the members of PII has partnered with the African Centre for Cities this group, consisting of some of South Africa’s top to publish the book Building a Capable State – policy researchers. Within the conceptual framework service delivery in post-apartheid South Africa, by of polices to overcome South Africa’s deep-rooted Ian Palmer, Nishendra Moodley and Susan Parnell. inequality, this represents a substantive research programme assessing the current effectiveness The Pro-Vice-Chancellor led a successful bid and promising possibilities for urban, rural, for a European Union tender for research on education, health and labour market policies. South African inequality. The research was led by SALDRU and included participation by the DPRU, The PII is the UCT home of the Atlantic as well as the Johannesburg-based Mapungubwe Philanthropies partnership with the International Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA). Inequalities Institute at the London School of Another example is an ESRC grant submitted by Economics. Alan Hirsch of the GSDPP is leading the ACC, with SALDRU playing a junior role. this project, with the GSDPP administering the partnership. The research side of this partnership is headed by the Pro-Vice-Chancellor. It is not the Teaching primary concern of the Atlantic Philanthropies grant, but there are exchange possibilities for senior On the teaching side, the PII has set up two PII members, and a number of existing research processes to facilitate the development of relationships between members of the PII and interdisciplinary teaching and learning in a set of the LSE. There is enthusiasm on both sides of the fields that are relevant to poverty and inequality. partnership to fund serious research collaborations, The first has focused on a development studies and the PII has already partnered on a joint research community within the university. Here we have grant. The LSE has indicated that it is willing to enjoyed practical success in the development of an use some of its research funding from the Atlantic online handbook of development offerings at UCT. Philanthropies to seed research partnerships By profiling the content and entrance requirements with the PII. Discussions are underway with the of these offerings, and by conducting information economists at the LSE over an initial project. sessions with faculties and relevant departments around these offerings, this project has attempted Aside from these PII-run research projects, a to facilitate the participation of students from a number of research partnerships and joint funding wide variety of disciplines in development studies

On the teaching side, the PII has set up two processes to facilitate the development of interdisciplinary teaching and learning in a set of fields that are relevant to poverty and inequality.

42 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives courses for which they are eligible, and that are across this community. We have spent considerable already on the books across the university. time engaging with the e-revolution taking place at UCT in order to make sure that changes are We have been less successful in pushing on beyond communicated to our research community, and existing offerings in defining and processing an mesh well with the realities within which these interdisciplinary MPhil in Development Studies. researchers and research groups work. We organise However, it is important that we continue this information sessions and volunteer as guinea pigs discussion. UCT is very strong in this area in testing systems. For example, in September (top 10 in the world in the 2015 and 2016 QS 2014 the OpenUCT Initiative launched the World University Rankings by Subject). OpenUCT Institutional Repository, the product of a collaboration with UCT Libraries, ICTS, the Centre The enthusiasm to develop an MPhil in Social for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CILT) and Justice and Inequality emerged organically from the PII. This repository was developed as a pilot, a set of seminar discussions in our curriculum using collections of poverty and inequality-related seminar series covering Economics, Sociology, Law research generated by members of the PII. The first and Philosophy. An interdisciplinary group formed phase of the project identified and assimilatedkey from these discussions that saw the need for an collections that are now widely available and freely MPhil that is academically challenging, grounded accessible. The challenge, however, is in ensuring in African scholarship, and with a strong applied that the collections are maintained and updated. component. There is a shared sense that this could be valuable and sought-after by students who want The PII Seminar Series, usually held at lunchtime to equip themselves to leave UCT and make a on the last Wednesday of each month, showcases difference, through active work in civil society and/ UCT’s PII-related research and provides a or the world of policy. With a dedicated academic platform for researchers – across a range of in place to follow through on this momentum, disciplines – to engage on common topics and we could have an MPhil in place in 2018. provide multi-faceted input on a defined social problem. In recent months the PII has also hosted The goals of this proposed MPhil course mesh a growing numbers of seminars and lectures by well with the Global Citizenship programmes visiting scholars. This is perhaps indicative of the that UCT runs at undergraduate level. The PII increased visibility of the initiative over time. has looked at linking with this programme and supporting it. This has included teaching on The PII further provides support to the UCT the course for two years in the last three. community through partnering on events and initiatives that seek to impact on poverty and/ The partnership with the LSE provides funded or inequality. This includes the provision of opportunities for our students to participate in LSE communication and media support across a courses in their MPhil in Inequality degree, and range of platforms, co-hosting events, the for LSE students to come to UCT to participate in provision of small grants to assist publication, our courses. The details are still being finalised. and hosting international scholars. There is a shared realisation that the LSE/UCT July School provides a platform for a world-class offering that could be part of both UCT and LSE External Engagement offerings. As a step in this direction, in 2016 the LSE led an offering on the Economic Development In September 2012, UCT hosted the ‘Towards of Africa with participation from members of the PII. Carnegie3’ conference, which was attended by over 500 researchers, government officials and representatives from civil society, who shared Communication information and models for urgent action on the following key themes: the role of law; unemployment The PII seeks to be a hub in the middle of the and job creation; the land; urban and environmental excellent and impactful researchers and the challenges; education; health; government policy; research that is being done at UCT. A key activity and community mobilisation. The conference of the PII is to profile and facilitate communication produced a book (Overcoming Poverty and

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Inequality – guide to Carnegie3 Conference, 2013), edited by Emeritus Professor Francis Wilson and Challenges and Constraints Vaun Cornell. This book provides the framework that underpins the work of a new national initiative The primary mandate of the PII is to support, directly involved in tackling poverty and inequality, profile and ensure communication across and may be accessed at www.mandelainitiative. the diverse and strong research effort of the org.za/images/docs/Carnegie3_April13_WEB.pdf. university in overcoming poverty and inequality.

This national initiative, now known as the Mandela As detailed above, there is commitment from a Initiative (MI), is led by a high-level think tank. Out core group of researchers and units that have of a secretariat based in SALDRU and under the come into this network and work enthusiastically leadership of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Professor within it. It is imperative, then, that this Francis Wilson, the PII continues to play a leading infrastructure functions exceptionally well, as role in supporting the Initiative. It has taken great this creates the foundation for everything else effort to get this Initiative up and running. The in the PII. However, a key challenge faced by fact that the MI will go forward as a partnership the PII is that of insufficient resources for this with the Nelson Mandela Foundation is to the hub and for networking. This has limited the credit of all those at UCT who are involved. The support the PII has been able to provide to its MI process is now generating a steady flow of community, and impacted the PII’s ability to policy-relevant research, and conducting workshops expand its research and teaching programmes. and dialogues to engage stakeholders from civil society, government and research institutions. It is our goal that joint, interdisciplinary teaching and research activity will emerge from this The PII has also ensured that UCT researchers hub and networking function. The design and continue to give momentum to the MI’s work practice have been organic and non-threatening. programme. In addition to the themes of youth In line with this, we have been fairly successful and social cohesion which were identified in funding a number of conferences and for inclusion through the C3 conference engagements. However, in funding major PII process, PII members leading research in other teaching and research initiatives, we must be themes include (but are not limited to): careful not to get in the way of the individual ··Haroon Bhorat: Labour Markets and Policy teaching and research units, which often have ··Kath Hall: Social Security (Child Support Grants) established funders and networks. Given the ··Murray Leibbrandt: Inequality common focus areas, these already overlap, ··Diane McIntyre: Health Systems Reform and we have walked very cautiously. ··Lungisile Ntsebeza: Land Reform ··Edgar Pieterse: Urban and To some extent the PII’s activities have been cross- Environmental Challenges subsided by resources and income out of SALDRU, which hosts the core. This raises some issues for External engagements are not limited to the work sustainability going forward, as this arrangement that feeds into MI process. New collaborations is in place for only the current five years. have been forged with a range of external organisations, including the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR), the Agence Française de Highlights Développement (AFD), the Government Technical Advisory Committee (GTAC) and its Economies It has been good to experience the affirmation of Regions Learning Network (ERLN), to name a of the PII as a sensible and well-thought- few. The PII also co-hosted an international event through initiative for a university with our in partnership with the World Bank from 21 to 24 strengths in this area. Subsequent to the PII’s July 2015. Presentations from the Poverty and launch, a number of international universities Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) learning event ‘From and research organisations have created similar Evidence to Policy: innovations in shaping reforms initiatives. The LSE’s International Inequalities in Africa’ can be found at www.collaboration. Institute was conceptualised almost identically worldbank.org/message/11915#11915. off similarly strong, interdisciplinary strengths

44 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives in this area. Other universities in the country, by the third-year print media students, who the continent and beyond are trying to create engage with some of UCT’s leading researchers similar initiatives, but off weaker foundations. on poverty and inequality; furthermore, the students go into local communities to find There is buy-in and commitment to the core real stories that illustrate the bigger issues. objectives of the PII from across the university. Given that the PII was conceptualised to In 2017 Pippa will start working with the PII support and build on this wonderful blend community to ensure broader exposure – of commitment and academic excellence, this is scheduled for early in the year. this is fundamental and affirming. Additional infrastructure support is the provision In each area, over the last three years, the of a repository, developed in collaboration PII has shown some of its promise: with CILT, UCT Libraries, and ICTS. ··UCT’s policy researchers enjoy a remarkable profile in South Africa and internationally. In 2015 the PII welcomed Visiting Professor We have been overworked, rather than Hiroyuki Hino. Professor Hino will be at UCT for a scratching for copy in our profiling work. period of two years, and is working with Professors ··The 2015 Child Gauge is an example of support Justine Burns and Lungisile Ntsebeza on further and collaboration across departmental and developing their respective contributions. disciplinary boundaries working optimally, with a publication resulting. The whole was In September 2017 the PII will host the 2017 clearly greater than the sum of the parts. Annual Human Development and Capability ··The 2015 ISCI Conference was hosted Association Conference, a prestigious international in partnership with the PII. conference that will see eminent scholars such as ··We have played a support role Amartya Sen, Ravi Kanbur, Thandika Mkandawire, in two book projects. and Martha Nussbaum (to name a few) visiting UCT. ··The enthusiasm for an MPhil in Social This follows on from other successful international Justice and Inequality is encouraging. events hosted by or in partnership with the PII, ··A student newspaper focused on poverty including the 2015 International Society for Child and inequality has been produced Indicators Conference, and the World Bank’s 2015 annually, for the last two years. Poverty and Social Impact Analysis Conference. ··We have done UCT proud with our work in the MI So, what will be fair measures of the PII’s The PII is fortunate to be able to draw on the success, come the end of this cycle in 2018? experience and expertise of Emeritus Professor ··Having the UCT research community play a Francis Wilson. Professor Wilson currently leads leading role in the 2017 Mandela Initiative the national MI process, and has been actively engagement around policies and practices engaged in the mentoring and development of to overcome poverty and inequality, and in both the PII’s academic staff and its PASS staff. the 2018 engagements scheduled around the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela; In terms of infrastructure, the PII has put into place ··Having established and funded research processes to support requests from departments initiatives in Youth and Social Cohesion; and research units to profile both events and ··A high public profile for the PII, with policy-oriented research. This is done via the excellent communication about its PII website, and various social media platforms. programmes, researchers and units; The PII has further managed to secure the ··Having one interdisciplinary MPhil expertise of one of the country’s leading policy teaching programme in place, and a journalists, Pippa Green. In 2015 and 2016, settled set of teaching relationships; Pippa worked with the Centre for Film and Media ··Having a settled and highly beneficial Studies to produce Cape Connect, a newspaper relationship with the LSE; and focused on issues of poverty and inequality. ··Having a PII that is deemed to be valuable and genuinely value-adding by the UCT The newspaper is written, edited and produced community that it is meant to support.

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UCT Knowledge Co-op

The UCT Knowledge Co-op was established in 2010. The purpose was to establish a sustainable, visible mechanism for external constituencies to approach the university for assistance with research and other scholarly support. The facility was to operate as a pilot for three years.

The following Objectives were of the submitted topics (131) had been taken decided on for the facility: on by students9. Two types of projects have ··To enable external constituencies to emerged. Most are student theses at Honours access the knowledge, skills, resources and and Master’s level, with a few undergraduate professional expertise within the university research reports, under academic supervision. around problems they experience. A smaller number of short projects result from ··To provide a mechanism for research compulsory community service and ‘rapid and student training and learning that is research’ by volunteer interns; in these cases, grounded in an engagement with society. no academics are involved in the partnership. ··To enable the university to be more responsive ··Completed: 91 projects (39 research to the needs of external constituencies. theses; 11 rapid research; 39 ··To provide students with opportunities to learn community service; 2 internships) in new ways through working collaboratively ··Current projects: 40 (26 thesis research; with different kinds of communities 11 community service; 3 internships) across multiple knowledge frames. ··64 academics have been/are ··To enhance the relevance of UCT’s supervising Co-op theses; some of curricula by providing flexible modules of them refer their students to the Co- learning and project-based learning. op as a source of interesting and ··To provide students with opportunities to relevant thesis topics, and have already acquire research skills or apply theories supervised as many as seven topics. through working on/in real-life projects. ··218 students across all faculties have ··To generate new knowledge through been involved in individual/team projects, working in applied contexts. as well as a whole second-year class. ··Half of these are students in Information Systems (Commerce, n=80) and Numbers and themes Architecture (EBE, n=34) who chose to do their compulsory community- To date, 100 different community entities have service projects through the Co-op. In approached the UCT Knowledge Co-op, raising terms of thesis research, Humanities 355 collaboration topics. Of these, the biggest has the biggest number of students slice has been made up by NGOs and CBOs, with (53), followed by Health Sciences (20), local government second (CCT and WCG). Other Commerce (14 undergraduates), Law approaches came from local schools, UCT student (4), Science (3) and Engineering (3). agencies, individuals, and private businesses.

9. Another third of the topics submitted have been The first collaborative projects were initiated withdrawn (because they are no longer relevant) or rejected (as not suitable for UCT students); a in 2011; and by mid-2016, about one third further third is available for students to take on.

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25% Humanities 10% Health Sciences 16% EBE 7% (Comm serv) Commerce 2% Law 1% 38% Science Commerce 1% (Comm serv) Engineering

Chart: Numbers of students from different faculties involved in Knowledge Co-op projects.

About a third of the students participating advocacy material. In case of the community- in the Co-op are international students, service projects, the outputs include skills training half of them from the SADC region. (IT and creative), a website or app, design drawings for buildings, and garden features. While each Co-op project is a unique piece of research responding to the need of a specific community partner, a Evaluation during the pilot number of themes have emerged: phase 2010 – 2013 ··Social issues: unemployment and homelessness, (exiting from) sex work, An interdisciplinary team, led by principal aging, parenting, and domestic violence; investigator Janice McMillan (CHED) and ··Education: dropping out of school, early literacy, evaluation expert Suki Goodman (Organisational educational support at different levels, integration Psychology) received a three-year grant from the of racial groups, school feeding programmes; National Research Foundation to evaluate the ··Gender has emerged as an issue model developed by the UCT Knowledge Co-op across many of these themes; for addressing the objectives set, and to inform ··Impact assessment of the work the development of guidelines and procedures of a range of non-profits; for its future. During 2011-12 a comprehensive ··Health: waiting for cancer treatment, TB literature review was compiled, and pilot projects recovery, feeding choices for infants; were selected as research sites. Data were ··Alternative energy, green economy, collected by in-Department interviews with the vegetable gardening, IT systems. stakeholders of each project (community partner, student and supervisor), as well as with those The Co-op is committed to ensuring that each involved with setting up and running the facility. project delivers a useful output to the community partner. What form this should take is determined During 2013, two reports were produced, for by the community partner. These outputs are different audiences; both concluded that the most often summary reports or presentations objectives set for the Co-op had been met, albeit of the research, but have also taken the form that some had limited scope. The exception was of a model law, posters, a resource book (also the fifth objective, which was inappropriate for the available as a smartphone app), a bibliography, model developed for the UCT Knowledge Co- a video documentary (available on YouTube), or op. It was recommended that the Co-op continue

48 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part One: Critical Reflections on Institution-Wide Strategic Initiatives beyond its pilot phase, and that sustainable the academic (publications, conference papers, funding be sought to ensure its continuation. further research) and practical arenas (raising awareness, changing policy or practice, funding). The full report and other outputs are available on the Resource page. The 2014 responses indicated: some sense that a project helped raise awareness of the issue (50%); its results led to improvements in an existing policy, Ongoing evaluation programme or service (40%); or it increased the partners’ capacity to get project funding (18%). Once the pilot phase was over, ongoing quality assurance procedures were put Stakeholders also mentioned useful non- in place to assess the satisfaction of academic outputs (resource guides, reports), stakeholders with the collaboration. For mentions in the media, and further research this we followed a two-tiered approach: projects on the same or related themes.

END-OF-PROJECT-EVALUATION: Qualitative feedback also stressed the value of Questionnaires are sent out at or soon after this form of collaboration, both for community completion of each project. They assess groups and students. There was also all-round stakeholders’ satisfaction with their experience appreciation for the role of the Knowledge Co-op during the process, its outputs, and the involvement in facilitating and supporting such partnerships. of all partners. In a qualitative section, respondents give feedback on the most useful aspects of In 2015 there were very few responses to these the project and suggest improvements. questionnaires; and those that there were did include some questioning of the value of the In 2014 we received 64 responses from 130 projects, both academically and to the community stakeholders targeted. Well above 70% of the partner. The low response level as well as the responses indicated Agree or Agree strongly content of the feedback confirms that there are across all aspects of the questionnaire. Strongest challenges regarding measuring project impact. disagreement (10-25%; was found regarding the final outcome meeting the community partner’s needs, Due to very low return rates, we subsequently and/or about it representing significant academic requested feedback from each academic regarding research; and there was some dissatisfaction publications or academic outputs from the (20%) with how the process had run, and how projects they had supervised in the period 2011 efficiently the partnership had been conducted. to 2014. In total, out of 19 projects for which we requested information, we received feedback on In the following year, 22 projects were twelve. The following outputs were mentioned: targeted, and we received feedback from five ··Three published articles academics, eight community partners and 18 ··One book chapter students (we now differentiate questionnaires ··Three conference presentations by according to stakeholder type). the academic supervisors ··One academic is continuing research Over 95% of responses in the Quantitative with the community partner. section were in the Agree or Agree strongls ··A further student project to deepen y about benefits category, and the bulk of the findings of a project Qualitative comments were also positive. ··One student went on to do her PhD at St Andrews, Scotland, in the same field. Generally, feedback on the short projects was ··One project created awareness in the slightly less positive. This has prompted firmer students involved; they subsequently became guidelines for taking on such projects. involved in NGO initiatives. The real-world experience helped prepare them for further IMPACT ASSESSMENT: opportunities – they received mentoring A questionnaire one year after completion of the in the Silicon Valley area of the US, and a project assesses any impact of the projects in both one-month internship at a company.

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Global Citizenship Initiative

In 2009, following discussions by the Senate Academic Planning Committee and the University’s Social Responsiveness Committee, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Jo Beall and the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) submitted a Vice- Chancellor’s Strategic Fund request for a pilot project to initiate a UCT Global Citizenship (GC) programme. The programme speaks to UCT’s strategic goals.

A report containing students’ reflections follows: or free from the possibility of deconstruction. Nevertheless, there is a commitment to re- inscribing them with a sense of hopefulness Democracy, Citizenship that moves them away from mere platitudes and Social Justice: A of socio-political discourse towards imagining a more inclusive and egalitarian future for us 10 Student Perspective all. That the idea of discussion, debate and knowledge-sharing emerges as pertinent The first democratic elections in 1994 ushered to this project comes as no surprise. in a sense of hopefulness in the future that writer Sisonke Msimang has characterised as Khululwa, a fourth-year BCom Accounting a “politics of the imagination”11. In the years student, notes the importance of having since then, however, that hopefulness has conversations around macro- and micro social been increasingly tested by the effects of our injustices as a means of establishing more country’s colonial and apartheid history, by a democratic spaces, saying that “if people struggling and often exploitative economy that don’t know what’s wrong, they won’t be able has contributed to widening the gap between to find a solution. Ignorance towards social the poor and the wealthy, and by an inefficient injustices is detrimental to the development of government bureaucracy that has failed some of any society. So to combat that, I always have our most vulnerable citizens and non-citizens. discussions on such topics with my friends”.

It is against this backdrop that it has become Matthew, an Honours student in Finance, necessary for young people to consider their concurs with Khululwa, noting that “more relationships with democracy, citizenship and than anything, keeping informed was and is social justice; a kind of consideration that the most important aspect of my own social forms the cornerstone of the Global Citizenship development”. Knowledge of that which Programme (GCP), both in the curriculum and allows or impedes our ability to develop as pedagogy utilised in the classroom as well as societies and as individuals is thus significant in the service-work students are compelled to the project of democratisation and social to engage in beyond the University. justice. However, given the various ways in which identities – of race, of class, of gender, of Students on the Programme have grappled sexuality – become implicated in ideas around with their relationships with democracy, democracy, citizenship and social justice, such citizenship and social justice, often in ways discussions and knowledge-sharing can easily be which belie the idea that they are uncontested, thwarted by partial perspectives, and what writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls ‘single stories’12. 10. Contributor: Shannon Cupido, a student facilitator on A sense of discomfort with and troubling of one’s the Global Citizenship Programme pursuing a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) degree in Social Anthropology. own position is thus integral to this project.

12. The Danger of a Single Story | Chimamanda 11. The Gathering 2016, video, ENCA, 10 June Ngozi Adichie |TED Talks, video, TED, 10 October 2016, viewed 21 September 2016, . youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg>.

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Sarah, a fourth-year Anthropology student, warns ways of achieving the goals and ideals it against the “seductiveness of a comfort zone”, espouses, and that it is up to “the innovation noting that “coming from a position of privilege, and dedication of individuals and organisations it is all too simple to fall back into a rhythm where in South Africa to produce and implement one does not see the greater problems that others programmes to achieve the kind of democracy face in the world, as one can hide behind the walls and equality the Constitution imagines”. of particular race, class and gendered identities”. However, this work is not easy; and students With the aforementioned in mind, there is also a are aware of the myriad obstacles one might sense of the possibility of mobilising through the face in achieving such goals. Khululwa notes Constitution as a means of congealing notions that working towards justice and democracy of democracy, citizenship and social justice in means dealing with the negativity or lack of everyday life. Anele, a third-year Law student, states optimism of others, a lack of human and financial that citizenship should be thought of as enlarging resources, and the constraints of time. political agency as a means of being a civic actor in one’s community, noting that “citizenship speaks Nevertheless, there is a sense of cautious optimism to a state of being where one realises the social here, and Khululwa goes on to note that “social ills that exist in our context; and at the same time, justice is not a goal that can be achieved in one being active in the community in an attempt to day. It is a goal that we keep on working towards. change prevailing conditions of inequality”. The distribution of wealth and opportunity will not be equal among all South Africans in just one Nevertheless, La-eeqah – a third-year Media & day … we are not aware that it’s the little things Writing student – notes that the Constitution that we do every day that will lead to the ultimate does not provide any efficient and effective goal … I aim to be an agent of social justice.”

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REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CAPE HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM (CHEC)

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Partnerships with the Western Cape Government (WCG)

In 2015, the Joint Task Team of the CHEC and the WCG created a fund to support research proposals designed to address strategic priorities of the WCG. Grants of R100 000 were provided to each university by the WCG.

The thematic focus areas for 2015 and 2016 were: Faculty via a series of videos, as well as at the ··Resilience, Human Settlements 2015 UCT Teaching and Learning Conference. and Climate Change ··Digital Innovation for Inclusive Development CATHY WARD, DEPARTMENT. OF ··Social Inclusion, Youth and Skills Development PSYCHOLOGY: AN EVALUATION OF THE ··Knowledge Partnerships PARENT CENTRE’S POSITIVE PARENTING SKILLS TRAINING PROGRAMME – A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL In addition, R100 000 was set aside for a collaborative grant involving The programme under evaluation is delivered more than one university and at least by the Parent Centre, a non-profit organisation which provides a range of support services for one department from the WCG. caregivers of children. A postgraduate student was responsible for assessing the programme theory, 2015 WCG research grants the process of its delivery, and its outcomes. While the programme was found to have been implemented with high levels of fidelity, the low In 2015 the following projects were attendance rate undermined the ability of the supported with the grants13. evaluation to detect an effect, and the evaluation to date has not been able to draw first conclusions LORI LAKE, CHILDREN’S INSTITUTE: about the effectiveness of the programme. Future THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD plans include a one-year follow-up evaluation, RIGHTS AND ADVOCACY MODULE and the development of a policy brief. This project focused on the Child Health Advocacy module of the Postgraduate Diploma in Community and General Paediatrics introduced MARION HEAP, HEALTH AND HUMAN at UCT in 2015. The final report provides a RIGHTS PROGRAMME: EVALUATING summary of the approach and methods used A REMOTE SIGN-LANGUAGE INTERPRETING SERVICE IN CAPE in designing and developing the blended- TOWN; HEALTH SCIENCE STUDENTS learning curriculum framework (seven units, COLLABORATING WITH DEAF most of which were delivered online), the PARTICIPANTS AND INTERPRETERS learning tools (including blogs, discussion This project was carried out as a Special Subjects forums and a chat room) and the assessment Module (SSM) for second-year medical students system, including a final advocacy project. in UCT’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine, over four weeks in July and August Seven students were included in the first round 2015. Its aim was to evaluate the acceptability of teaching. Positive feedback has been received of a Video Remote Interpreter (VRI) service for from both students and colleagues who have hospitals and clinics, particularly those in outlying received the course. The lessons learned through and rural areas. In this way, the project would this project have been shared in the Health Science contribute to health care by advancing the reach of the medical interpreter service. It addressed 13. The information has been extracted from the thematic areas of social inclusiveness, progress reports submitted to the Consortium of Higher Education in the Cape. innovation and education and training.

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Two student reports have been produced, and of Environmental & Geographical Science) information from these has been shared in and Dr Judith McKenzie (of Disability Studies, three presentations: one with representatives in the Department of Health & Rehabilitation of the Western Cape Health Department, a Sciences) developed material to promote climate/ second with representatives of the National environmental literacy across the Disability Studies Department of Health, and the third with curriculum. The notions of vulnerability and academics from the Linguistics Department resilience within climate change resonate particularly at the University of Stellenbosch (SU). well with disability studies, as a discipline that is concerned with the impact of the environment as exacerbating or mitigating disability. 2015 Bavarian Partnership grant 2015 Collaborative Grant In addition to the grants from the WCG, a special grant was made available through the Bavarian A grant of R100 000 was awarded to the African Partnership with the WCG to support initiatives Climate Development Initiative (ACDI) as the lead related to incorporating issues pertaining to climate partner to implement a project in collaboration change in university curricula. The intention was with the other three universities in the Western to build on research conducted in 2014 on the Cape and the Department of Environmental extent of integration of climate-related issues Affairs and Planning. The focus is on ‘bridging into curricula across the four universities. the divide: Building resilience to climate change in the Western Cape through knowledge Assoc Prof Gina Ziervogel (of the Department exchanges’. This project is not yet complete.

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the research conducted under the auspices of the 2016 WCG research grants CHEC/WCG partnership. On 15 August, a workshop was held between the senior government officials Late last year Dr Laurine Platzky, Deputy Director involved in two of the strategic focus areas of the General in the Department of the Premier, took WCG and researchers from the four universities, over the role of co-chair of the Joint Task Team to discuss a research agenda. This agenda will (JTT). This has been very significant for our constitute a framework for future grant allocations. work, and has had the effect of re-positioning A further workshop is being planned in September, the WCG-CHEC partnership in a more strategic focused on two other strategic focus areas of manner within the Province. For the first time in the WCG. The joint development of a research the history of the partnership, the work of the agenda signals the beginning of a new phase JTT was presented in some detail at a meeting in the history of the CHEC/WCG partnership. of the Provincial Top Management (March 2016), which is chaired by the Director General. As a result of this engagement, it was agreed that Memorandum of Co- each of the Provincial Strategy Groups would operation Agreement be represented on the JTT to ensure greater alignment between CHEC and provincial priorities. between CHEC and the

The allocation of funding under the umbrella of the Office of the Premier JTT was delayed by the unrest on our campuses in (24 October 2014) for the second half of the last academic year, and the following grants were only finalised early in 2016. the procurement of ··A grant of R79 400 was awarded to Dr V research services Zweigenthal in Public Health, as the Principal Investigator. The focus of the project is on research In terms of this agreement, the Department dissemination systems facilitating research uptake of the Premier is able to send ‘requests for in the Western Cape Department of Health. The research services’ estimated to cost below main research question to be answered is: ‘What R500 000 to CHEC, for distribution to the four research dissemination systems and products institutions. Researchers submit proposals are feasible to ensure that health research is directly to the WCG, and CHEC has no taken up for implementation in the province?’ involvement in the contractual arrangements. ··Assoc Prof Jane Harries of the Women’s Health Unit received R46 600, a portion of the In terms of this agreement, CHEC secured two Collaborative Grant awarded to UWC for a larger research contracts with the Department of project on ‘Preventing teen pregnancy among Transport and Public Works (DTPW). One of these girls and promoting dual contraceptive use projects – a feasibility study for the revitalisation among teenagers’, in collaboration with the of the George-Knysna rail line – has been Women and Child Health sub-directorates successfully completed by researchers at UCT in the Department of Health in the WCG. and SU. The second project – the development of a road safety implementation programme for A new approach to the collaborative work is being the Western Cape – is under way, and will be trialled, with a view to facilitating better alignment completed in 2017. The UCT lead researcher between the research priorities of the WCG and is Assoc Prof Marianne Vanderschuren.

On 15 August, a workshop was held between the senior government officials involved in two of the strategic focus areas of the WCG and researchers from the four universities, to discuss a research agenda.

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City of Cape Town

In 2015 a similar research initiative was launched with the City of Cape Town, with funding from the four universities and the City. The City is particularly interested in the development of new knowledge, approaches and solutions to challenges faced, increased efficiencies, and enhanced service to citizens.

Emphasis is given to projects that provide evidence ‘Developing diversity in energy service and arguments to inform policy and practice delivery for low-income households in – ie strategic uptake and implementation. Cape Town in collaboration with the City’s Environment and Resource Management Department’. The project is not yet complete. 2015 City of Cape ··Dr A de Lannoy, South African Labour Town Grants Development Research Unit: ‘Development of local-level indicators for youth well-being’ Two projects received grants of R50 000 – Wards in Cape Town, in collaboration with each in 2015. UCT is participating in a third the City’s Strategic Policy Unit and the Social project that is being led by Stellenbosch Development and ECD Department. University. The projects are: This report mapped the spatial distribution of ··Prof S Parnell, African Centre for Cities: multidimensional youth poverty at ward level.

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To measure multidimensional poverty among that consistently experience high levels of youth, the report has made use of the recently crime and violence, including gang violence. developed Youth MPI, an index which essentially The project also has direct relevance for the integrates a number of dimensions of deprivation Manenberg Youth and Lifestyle Campus, a major into an aggregate measure that can then be upgrading project that is being implemented used to flag variations in multidimensional youth by the CCT, the WCG and VPUU. In addition, poverty across local areas of South Africa. this research project has relevance for the The estimates in this report were derived gang-reduction work of the Metro Police. from the 100% 2011 Census sample, in The outcomes can be used to develop more order to provide a ward-level analysis of targeted recreational and sports programming multidimensional youth poverty that captures by the CCT in terms of violence prevention. the geographic variations in deprivation that ··Prof Van Zyl-Smit. ‘Understanding tobacco aggregation at higher levels tends to conceal. dependence in Cape Town and the support ··Dr D Maralack, School of Management Studies: needed to address this major risk factor in Youth Leadership Development – Towards disease’. The project will be implemented Young Active Citizens: ‘How the City’s youth in collaboration with the Manager for development leadership programme – Camp Specialised Health, the co-coordinator Cape Town – has impacted on the individual for health promotion for the City, and the participant; as well as broader issues, such as the substance-abuse co-ordinator for the City. relevance and sustainability of these programmes The City of Cape Town has committed to in collaboration with Sport, Recreation & very strong anti-tobacco legislation, restrictions Amenities’. The project is not yet complete. on smoking in buildings, etc. The City also has very strong alcohol- and drug-addiction services – specifically the Matrix services, dealing with 2016 City of Cape alcohol, tik, heroin etc. For tobacco addiction, Town Grants commonly referred to as just ‘smoking’, there is a severe lack of educational material for patients, Two projects received grants of local healthcare services for tobacco-addiction R50 000 each in August. counselling and treatment, or even basic ··Mr Guy Lamb: ‘Determining the potential smoking-cessation-counselling training – which is for the prevention of youth violence not taught at medical schools or nursing colleges. through organised recreational and sporting A single service (albeit at tertiary level) has been activities: the case of Gugulethu and set up to provide a (limited) service for smokers Manenberg’. The project will be implemented wishing to give up smoking. UCT has partnered in collaboration with Specialised Operations: on several ad hoc local training courses to train Sport, Recreation & Amenities, as well as healthcare staff in smoking-cessation counselling. Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading The overarching objective of this project is (VPUU), a non-governmental organisation. to provide new, locally-relevant data to guide The proposed research project seeks to the City of Cape Town in the development of provide a nuanced analysis of the violence- appropriate smoking-cessation services, and prevention potential that organised recreational to support departments in terms of training and sporting activities have for youth in areas and resources to support these initiatives.

The City of Cape Town has committed to very strong anti-tobacco legislation, restrictions on smoking in buildings, etc.

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Going Global Conference of the British Council

‘Going Global’ is an annual event of the British Council, alternating between the UK and major international cities. Going Global 2016 took place on 3-5 May 2016 at the Cape International Convention Centre, under the theme of ‘Building nations and connecting cultures through international education’. CHEC was a local partner for this conference, and facilitated three parallel sessions:

··Decolonising the curriculum: a catalyst for in the SDGs (Chair: Yusuf Sayed, CPUT) change (Chair: Kasturi Behari-Leak, UCT) ··University partnerships: tackling poverty & ··Teachers, teaching and teacher education inequality (Chair: Crain Soudien, HSRC)

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges

Following the conference held in March 2015 with senior representatives from the six TVET colleges in the Western Cape and the regional office of the DHET, there have been regular meetings of the planning group. While a number of areas had been identified for possible collaboration, the main focus in 2016 has been on student articulation from the colleges to higher education. A mapping of the PQMs of the universities and colleges has also been carried out, to provide a picture of post-school provision in the Western Cape.

In the area of articulation, detailed work was the shortage of bursary funding) that restrict undertaken to identify possible pathways articulation possibilities. However, the into higher education for the first cohort of collaboration is helping to cement a partnership college students who were graduating with between the colleges and the universities. the new NCV qualification in primary health. This led to the acceptance of a number of Subsequent to the work in the health area, the students into UCT’s Higher Certificate in focus has shifted to articulation between Early Disability Practice. The process highlighted the Childhood Development qualifications and those policy and resource constraints (particularly in the Foundation Phase of Teacher Development.

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REPORT ON INITIATIVES FUNDED THROUGH NRF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT GRANTS

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Introduction

In 2010 the National Research Foundation (NRF) established the Community Engagement (CE) Funding Instrument, to support research and activities aimed at improving understanding of the full spectrum of community engagement. The Framework Document for the CE Funding Instrument stipulates that “this may include, inter alia: negotiating the terrain of knowledge production as a site of multiple processes and relations, interrogating the ways in which tacit knowledge is surfaced in the complex process of community engagement; and assessing the impact for and changes in communities as a result of newly-coded knowledge” (NRF, 2016: 4). Over a five- year period from 2011 to 2016, the NRF has allocated over R30 million.

The specific objectives of the Group in 2016, two served as members of the funding instrument are: ESP Reference Group in 2015, and four have ··To sharpen and mainstream the higher education provided inputs during the ESPs. This serves sector’s response to community engagement as evidence of a growing number of scholars as a third pillar of academic activity; who are interested in contributing to the body ··To facilitate the development of robust of knowledge about engaged scholarship, theoretical and conceptual positions on and in sharing their expertise with others. community engagement in the South African context, and thereby stimulate and contribute At UCT, the fund has been used to contribute to contemporary debates on the issue; to producing new ES scholars, and generating ··To create new forms of knowledge in this area; knowledge about practices of engagement. In ··To develop human capacity in the ‘field’ of particular, the funding has helped support two community engagement (NRF, 2016: 5). postdoctoral fellows, three PhD students, five Master’s students and one Honours student. Since its inception, 13 grants have been awarded to UCT staff across five To date, the following outputs faculties, totalling R8 885 814. have been produced: ··Two peer-reviewed journal articles The CHED grant (see Table below), was allocated ··Seven refereed/peer-reviewed to a team headed by Dr McMillan, comprising conference outputs three staff members from the Institutional Planning ··Two chapters in books Department (IPD), two from CHED, and one from ··One technical policy report the Faculty of Commerce. Ms Judy Favish from ··Four conference presentations the IPD has served as a member of the NRF panel for the three calls which have been issued. We turn now to examples of the kinds of projects that have been funded at UCT, drawing on the The Research Office organised workshops on progress reports submitted to the NRF for 2015 the CE Funding Instrument, in collaboration and 2016. The examples also illustrate how a with the Social Responsiveness Unit in the focus on practices associated with engagement IPD. These workshops have been important can help to improve the quality of service to building an understanding of the delivery and policy development, and provide objectives of the Funding Instrument. an evidence base for policy development. The Eh!Woza project illustrates how working One of the grant-holders participated in the collaboratively with young people in the process Engaged Scholarship Programme (ESP) in 2015, of knowledge generation about the reasons one served as a member of the ESP Planning for the rise in the incidence of TB can enrich

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GRANT- FUNDING AWARD AWARD AWARD AWARD AWARD AWARD AWARD HOLDER FACULTY DURATION 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Prof TS Health 2013- 234 000 274 000 234 000 Douglas Sciences 2015

Dr M Heap Health 2015- 461 338 485 994 492 426 Sciences 2017

Dr L Humanities 2015- 525 000 185 000 415 000 Maasdorp 2017

Prof UK Commerce 2015- 366 135 409 900 414 060 Rivett 2017

Mr F Humanities 2015- 165 166 94 912 86 362 Saptouw 2017

Dr DF Health 2015- 220 000 220 000 180 000 Warner Sciences 2017

Dr RG Health 2015- 339 900 403 476 389 944 Galvaan Sciences 2017

Dr M Heap Health 2011- 275 040 218 432 227 700 Sciences 2013

Prof L Health 2011- 456 090 416 330 462 181 London Sciences 2013

Prof T Health 2011- 347 580 408 000 247 000 Lorenzo Sciences 2013

Dr JME CHED 2011- 160 000 160 000 100 000 McMillan 2013

Prof SE Science 2011 140 000 Oldfield

Prof MR Science 2011- 250 000 244 000 119 000 Sowman 2013

the development of educational materials policy development. The study found that to mitigate this increase. In another project, local collaborations were more prevalent than an innovative method of monitoring ethical international collaborations. Translational procedures in engagement with children, through collaborations (AHI, HIS or AHIS), incorporating the establishment of an ‘oversight committee’, at least three of the four key sectors involved is being trialled at a school for Deaf children. in this sphere, are pivotal in fostering medical- device innovation that is both relevant and marketable. Few such collaborations were found Principal Investigator: on the South African landscape, indicating Prof Tania Douglas that there is room for increased collaboration. The types of devices being developed were The funding has been used for an investigation seen to focus on healthcare needs addressing of medical device development in South (in order of prevalence) the cardiovascular, Africa, in order to better understand the nervous, skeletal, immune and integumentary current state of activity in South Africa. systems. Device development was also found to occur on more general devices that do The study identified key players, investigated not address particular body systems. the collaboration activities they engage in, and ascertained the types of medical devices A second paper was based on an analysis the local market has focused on to inform of sectoral collaboration for cardiovascular

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medical-device development in South Africa of information across the network, with greater over a 15-year period. The main objectives of the potential than the remaining sectors to form study were to identify the nodes (organisations) new collaborations with isolated nodes, thereby and sectors that influence the behaviour of the enhancing device-development activity. Foreign cardiovascular device-development network, to nodes played a role in connecting local nodes identify the types of collaboration that exist within which would otherwise have been isolated. Overall, the network, to quantify the extent of collaboration collaboration across sectors has increased over within the network, and finally to analyse the the 15-year period; but science councils and changes in overall collaboration over time. industry still have room to become more involved, Collaboration across four sectors was considered: by partnering with the dominant sectors. The healthcare services; industry; universities; and studies laid the basis for deeper investigation lastly, science councils and facilities. Author into each of these focus areas, in order to identify affiliations, extracted from journal articles, were drivers of and barriers to successful medical- used to generate collaboration networks. device development in South Africa, and to make recommendations to promote the field. Collaboration between universities and healthcare- service nodes was the most prevalent type of Out of this grant one journal paper in 2015 cross-sector collaboration. Universities were found and two conference papers in 2016 were to be potential key players in the transmission published. See the abstracts below.

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Chimhundu C, De Jager K, Douglas TS. Sectoral collaboration networks for cardiovascular medical device development in South Africa. Scientometrics, 2015, 105:1721-1741 DOI:10.1007/s11192-015-1743-y. We present an analysis of sectoral collaboration for cardiovascular medical device development in South Africa over a 15 year period. The main objectives were to identify the nodes (organizations) and sectors that influence the behaviour of the cardio- vascular device development network; to identify the types of collaboration that exist within the network; to quantify the extent of collaboration within the network; and finally to analyse the changes in overall collaboration over time. Collaboration across four sectors was considered: healthcare services, industry, universities, and lastly, science councils and facilities. Author affiliations, extracted from journal articles, were used to generate col- laboration networks. Network metrics—degree centrality, betweenness centrality and graph densities—and network graphs were produced using network visualization software (UCINET) in order to identify the influential nodes and sectors, as well as to measure the extent of collaboration within and between sectors. The university and healthcare services sectors were found to make the largest contribution to the development of cardiovascular medical devices in South Africa. Collaboration between universities and healthcare service nodes was the most prevalent type of cross-sector collaboration. Universities were found to be potential key players in the transmission of information across the network, with greater potential than the remaining sectors to form new collaborations with isolated nodes, thereby enhancing device development activity. Foreign nodes played a role in connecting local nodes which would otherwise have been isolated. Overall, collaboration across sectors has increased over the 15 year period, but science councils and industry still have room to become more involved by partnering with the dominant sectors.

K de Jager, C Chimhundu, T Saidi, TS Douglas. Evolution of medical device innovation in South Africa: 2001-2013. XXVII ISPIM Innovation Conference (International Society for Professional Innovation Management), Porto, June 2016. Medical device innovation in South Africa was investigated using collaboration networks derived from a bibliometric study. Collaborating institutions originated from four sectors: academia (A); healthcare (H); industry (I); and science & support (S). A longitudinal study (5- year moving window) of the networks was carried out to investigate their evolution over time. Centrality measures identified dominant institutions. New actors entering the networks either exhibited preferential attachment to these institutions, or joined the network as part of an isolated cluster. Of the new institutions, foreign collaborators seldom stayed beyond 5 years, while local institutions seldom left after entering the field. Over the 13-year period considered, local collaboration activity persisted while local foreign collaborations were seen to decline.

F Salie, K de Jager, TS Douglas. Cross-sector collaboration for orthopaedic device innovation in South Africa. XXVII ISPIM Innovation Conference (International Society for Professional Innovation Management), Porto, June 2016. We investigate the orthopaedic device development network in South Africa by performing a bibliometric study. The objective is to identify the actors participating in orthopaedic device development, the sectors to which they belong and to characterise the intra- and inter-sectoral collaboration. Journal and conference articles on orthopaedic device development in South Africa, extracted from the Scopus database for the period 2000-2015, were used to draw the network. Social network analysis metrics (density, degree and betweenness centrality) were applied. The network was largely disconnected, having a density of 0.057. Actors from the university and healthcare sectors accounted for over 80% of the network, with local universities contributing most to the network. The actors with highest influence on the propagation of information in the network were local healthcare facilities. The strongest ties were between local universities and local healthcare facilities.

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Principal Investigator: Principal Investigator: Assoc Prof Digby Warner: Prof Ulrike Rivett Eh!Woza Project A study designed to understand how three local municipalities engage with communities in the The funding has been used by the Molecular Eastern Cape, in nine small towns/villages. Mycobacteriology Research Unit (MMRU) to run a workshop programme in which learners To date, the study has found that power relations from Khayelitsha are exposed to cutting-edge in municipalities stood out as a key inhibitor to tuberculosis (TB) biomedical research, and then open engagement, and as a barrier to knowledge given the skills and equipment to produce short transfer between communities, politicians and documentaries about TB in their communities. municipal staff. In certain communities, it became The project forms a collaboration with Ikamva very clear that councillors played a major role Youth, and is run by Dr Anastasia Koch, ex-MMRU in enabling or stopping engagement. Where doctoral student and now a postdoctoral research councillors were present during interviews, fellow in the Clinical Infectious Diseases Research participants became disengaged, and often Initiative (CIDRI), and Ed Young, a South African kept very quiet. In some of the communities artist. In 2015 and 2016, a programme of six it was also observed that councillors withheld biomedical research workshops and two weeks information from the community – even simple of media production workshops was held, with information, such as telephone numbers for 12 to 15 learners from Khayelitsha (who were 15 offices where complaints could be lodged. While to 18 years old). At the end of 2015, four short it was expected that power relations play an documentaries about TB in South Africa were important role in rural communities, we had not produced, and the 2016 documentaries are expected this to be quite as noticeable as it was. currently being finalised. A pilot workshop was held at the South African TB Vaccine Initiative The engagement with ward councillors (SATVI) clinical research site in 2015, and the differed between the towns, and clearly communications manager of this group has depended on the positive or negative nature suggested the implementation of workshops of the relationship between councillor and based on the Eh!Woza template at this site in community. Certain geographical areas of the the future. An Eh!Woza Facebook page has been municipality experienced more challenges, established; and over the last year, has gained a and the municipality distributed its resources in following of over 4 000 people – predominately order to provide a “greater part of that slice” in the 18- to 25-year-old age group. This provides (Municipal staff member, 2014) to these areas. an important resource to disseminate research and community engagement outputs. An Citizens had the opportunity to raise their concerns evaluation of the project has been conducted, and engage with the municipality as part of the and the findings will be used to inform further Integrated Development Plan (IDP) consultation community engagement work. Finally, a pilot process. However, it was unclear how many documentary produced by Eh!Woza in 2013 citizens made use of this opportunity. There was was accepted for presentation at the Health no evidence of the municipalities being held Systems Research Symposium in Vancouver, accountable or suffering consequences when , from 14 to 18 November 2016. failures relating to water and sanitation delivery

The engagement with ward councillors differed between the towns, and clearly depended on the positive or negative nature of the relationship between councillor and community.

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occurred. The study found that the majority of about gender-based violence. The research is municipalities still use loudhailers to communicate a collaboration between the Michaelis School with their constituencies. Participants highlighted of Fine Art and the HIV/AIDS, Inclusivity and the shortcomings of loudhailers, with only one Change Unit (HAICU), and is linked to the NRF of the towns identifying them as effective. Community Engagement Grant. The content expertise provided by the lead investigators, Public meetings, on the other hand, were Fabian Saptouw and Sianne Abrahams, was considered a mechanism that not only informs the relied upon in the research to implement the public, but also gives the public an opportunity participatory action research (PAR) method that to be involved in the decision-making process. was applied in two different community settings. As a result, community members felt that public In the first year, the PAR method was applied meetings build trust between experts and the among UCT students in their third-year elective, community. The introduction of focus-group which produced research outputs in the form of meetings through this study resulted in an overall artwork, discussion, and concept documents. In appreciation of this method of engagement. The 2015 we engaged primarily with the students at researchers plan to engage with SALGA about the the Michaelis School of Fine Art, and they created research findings. The project has raised awareness artworks in response to the links between GBV, internationally, and we are looking to establish HIV/AIDS and art as a tool for social commentary. collaborations with universities in England and Students were encouraged to see themselves as to develop a follow-up project proposal. social commentators and influencers, who can shift norms and perceptions about ‘what’ gender- based violence is, and ‘how’ one can intervene. Principal Investigator Mr Fabian Sabtouw During 2016, UCT students engaged with youth in to share learnings about gender-based violence, art forms, and Art and gender-based violence lived experiences. Students from UCT and Masiphumelele were encouraged to interact The research investigates the relevance of art as a with one another and develop strategies modality for engaging with youth in communities for public engagement. In accordance with

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 67 Part Three: Report on Initiatives Funded through NRFCommunity Engagement Grants the research plan, the implementation of research, with a particular emphasis on the PAR method took place this year in vulnerable groups. ‘Deaf’ capitalised refers to Masiphumelele, embedded in the Desmond those permanently sensorily-disabled children Tutu Youth Centre – which is a site where youth who have congenital or early-onset deafness from Masiphumelele are able to recreate, and who use sign language, referred to in this learn, and receive health-related services. country as South African Sign Language (SASL).

A series of lectures, interviews, discussions and The research team established trust and workshops were held with the entire group of rapport with the teachers and scholars by students (from UCT and Masiphumelele). After volunteering weekly at the school’s extra- the conclusion of this teaching block, the UCT mural activities. The first phase took place students proceeded to create art projects that during the first six months of 2016, on a were submitted for examination. The students Wednesday afternoon from 13h00 to 15h30, at Masiphumelele (hereafter referred to as the at the UCT Health Science Faculty (a survey Masi youth) worked with an art facilitator who and in-Department interviews that explore the supported the students with technical skills, while health and communication experiences of Deaf the Masi youth leaders organically developed children will follow). After training, the students their art theme workshops, lesson plans and facilitated interactive workshops with the exhibition, in consultation with the Masi youth children. They were assisted by two interpreters participants. The Masi youth met twice a week; and two Deaf research staff. Workshops they identified what art forms they would like explored with the children the meaning of to learn more about, and discussed how the art the concepts, ethics, informed consent and medium could be used in existing artwork and/ health research, the first steps to research. or the creation of a new product, to portray their reflections about gender-based violence. The report (http://nuffieldbioethics.org/ On 11 August, as a contribution towards the project/children-research) and the literature Women’s Day celebrations, the Masi youth generally make the point that health research exhibited their artworks, performance pieces with children is necessary if we are to develop and dialogues in front of fifty school children, effective and age-appropriate clinical and exposing them to important questions about policy interventions. The report also encourages violence, their agency in relation to violence, researchers to involve children in the planning and hegemonic norms. The Masi youth conclude and understanding of health research, their workshops in November this year. including ethics and informed consent.

In 2016, during the first week of August, Parsons and Abbott (2013) encourage the we also presented an exhibition of the use of digital technologies, such as laptops, previous Michaelis & HAICU third-year personal computers, tablet devices, and projects, which critiqued the oppression smartphones. As they are increasingly part of gender and sexuality. This exhibition of children’s everyday lives, they are seen to brought together a wide range of artworks have the potential to support the presentation produced by Michaelis students since 2014. of information about research topics and methodologies more effectively than by traditional, text-heavy, paper-based methods. Principal Investigator Marion Heap This project has set up an ‘oversight committee’ for guidance, and to act as ‘ombudspersons’. The institution of the ombudsman, first created Use of technologies in Sweden more than 200 years ago, is designed with Deaf children to provide protection for the individual where there is a substantial imbalance of power. The three-year study (2015-2017) based at a There is an imbalance of power in this project. school for Deaf children in Cape Town aims to We will be dealing with children and parents make a contribution to community-engaged who do not have experience with research.

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of the University and at the level of the schools. Principal Investigator Assoc At the level of the schools, interdisciplinary Prof Roshan Galvaan collaboration and community engagement has created opportunities for shifting professional practice for teachers, principals and students Schools Improvement undertaking their practice learning. At the level of Initiative (SII) the university, the project has enabled academic staff to start exploring ways in which new practices The research aims of the SII project are to explore might inform curriculum transformation. how the existing SII engagements promote a learning environment through engagement with school partners, and to inform the way that Principal Investigator care and support for learning and teaching is Dr Liani Maasdorp conceptualised and implemented. Academic disciplines involved in this partnership include Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, the Community engagement around School of Education, Library and Information video skills development Studies, and Social Development. Data has been generated through a range of activities including: The research aims to explore philosophical appreciative Inquiry sessions with occupational- and conceptual challenges associated with therapy and speech-therapy students; focus- the dynamics of community engagement and group discussions with postgraduate PGCE social responsiveness, in the field of outreach student teachers; focus-group reflective sessions video-skills development. Using two outreach with academics involved in interdisciplinary video-training initiatives as case studies, the programmes; interviews with homework mentors researchers aim to explore the processes and and Grade 6 teachers; and a public symposium, dynamics of engagement from the perspective attended by members of the partner schools, of the higher education sector; but in a manner officials from the Education District, and academics. that reflects a commitment to a reciprocal set of relations between the University and the Although it is too early to state clearly the impact community partners. The research concerns two that this study will have on the academic field, case studies involving Reel Lives and Stepping findings to date suggest that the processes Stone. To date, two rounds of Stepping Stone through which the disciplines engage with short courses have been offered, and interviews the schools contribute to shifts in learning have been held with past Reel Lives participants. practices. This has implications both at the level A literature review has also been completed.

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FACULTY REPORTS

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A structure was provided for the submission of reports on faculty-based activities. In addition, a diagram of examples of different types of engaged scholarship was sent to academics. For the first time, information was requested on the nature of the external constituencies and their involvement in the initiatives; the length of the relationship; the outputs emanating from the initiative; and the approaches used to assess the impact of the initiative.

A letter was sent to the Deans for distribution to all academics, with a request to provide information on one initiative in detail if people were involved in more than one activity, using the structure provided and listing other activities. The letter reminded readers of the definition of ES approved by Senate in 2012: ES as a form of SR refers to the utilisation of an academic’s scholarly and/or professional expertise, with an intentional public purpose or benefit (which) demonstrates engagement with external (non- academic) constituencies. It can help to generate new knowledge, promote knowledge integration, the application of knowledge, or the dissemination of knowledge (UCT, SR Policy Framework, 2012).

A diagrammatic presentation on the next page illustrates the connections between different forms of ‘engaged scholarship’. The connecting features are that the activities involve scholarship and interaction with an external (non-academic) constituency. Hence we have engaged scholarship in research, engaged scholarship in teaching and learning, and engaged scholarship in public-service work.

The Venn diagram provides a valuable listing of examples of sub-categories of ‘engaged scholarship’ that are embedded in the categories of teaching, research and professional service, plus examples of activities that are best viewed as Engaged Teaching-cum-Professional Service (eg participatory curriculum development) or Engaged Research-cum-Professional Service (eg participatory research), as shown in the diagram.

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Applied Public seminars/ research dialogue Publications/ presentations TEACHING Continuing education via Patents blended/online delivery RESEARCH Commercialisation Courses or programmes Cultural of discoveries designed for particular performances/ target groups exhibitions/ Needs assessments music events Conferences, seminars Contractual research and workshops organised with external groups Strategic research Public Service learning Knowledge transfer seminars/ and research dialogue Participatory Community- Based Research Community-based curriculum education development Participatory research Asset-based approach Action research Popular education Technical Asset-based approach assistance

Advice to external non- Consulting academic organisations Leading, or actively participating in, professional Clinical societies and associations Expert service ENGAGED testimony Policy analysis New business SCHOLARSHIP Evaluations ventures Knowledge exchange

SERVICE

Analysis of the activities reveals the ··Enable a community partner to engage dominance of research forms of engaged with students enrolled for Health Innovation scholarship, in line with UCT’s mission. and Design to generate solutions to Examples of different purposes health problems collectively. of engaged research: ··Identify effective behavioural nudges that ··Transform small-scale fisheries through the affect household water-consumption levels. use of a fisher-driven mobile app suite. ··Establish sustainable drainage systems. ··Revive and enhance traditional seed ··Reduce energy consumption and poverty. and knowledge systems and deepen understanding about their functioning, In relation to engaged teaching within the context of supportive agricultural, involving students as part of the formal cultural and ecological practices. curriculum, the purposes include: ··Develop, implement, evaluate and scale up ··To equip students to use art to plans for mental health care and the reduction engage with different communities of health and environmental risks linked to about gender-based violence; pesticides, in low- and middle-income countries. ··To provide Audiology students with opportunities ··Increase resilience and improve to work with Deaf staff at a Deaf Centre, to adaptation to global climate change. enhance the Centre’s services to Deaf people;

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··To equip second-year Architecture students ··Advancing the practice and quality to design and construct the seventh annual of environmental assessments and water platform in , in partnership the services of dietitians with members of the community; ··Contributing to the design of the National ··To provide opportunities for students to Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) develop the capacity to make art accessible ··Providing inputs on the Traditional and to residents in communities where there Khoi-San Leadership Bill of 2015 is little exposure or access to it. ··Participation in an investigation into a national minimum wage In relation to knowledge exchange, ··improving tax systems related to tobacco examples of purposes include: ··Developing a road-safety strategy ··Awareness-raising about different diseases (eg haemophilia, inherited retinal disease), using a variety of methods Relationships with ··Creating web-based platforms to share external constituencies information and conduct training courses ··Building capacity of health committees The relationships with external constituencies range to act as vehicles for democratic from long-standing relationships of over eight years governance in the health system to very new ones. Many of the activities are short, ··Strengthening networks of health- once-off annual events, eg for school learners. system practitioners and researchers, Others involve sustained, mutually beneficial to share information collaborations around numerous initiatives. ··Improving service delivery in informal settlements There is evidence of a wide range of methods of engagement, largely informed by the nature In relation to seminars/courses etc for of their purpose. Many common principles the public, purposes include: underpin the approaches evident in long-term ··Exposing school learners to a scientific relationships, such as valuing local epistemologies; environment, to encourage them joint decision-making and determination of to follow a career in science research questions and methodology; reaching ··Building the capacity of minibus operators to be agreement on expectations and the roles and future managers in a public transport system responsibilities of different players; highlighting ··Building capacity of local communities in the the voices of community partners and providing use of IT, to strengthen small businesses feedback to those partners on the research. ··Building leadership among Innovative approaches to knowledge sharing/ Emerging African Leaders exchange are being used, eg the use of festivals, ··Providing the general public, students, plays, exhibitions, websites, joint preparation academics and industry professionals with of educational materials and booklets, short insights from, and access to, leading academic films and community drama productions. and industry experts, in relation to financial risk ··Linking university and non-university Assessment of impact communities through creative collaboration The majority of responses refer to methods and social interaction between diverse designed to obtain feedback on the quality of an participants around the making of videos activity immediately after the event, rather than on an assessment of the impact of the activity In relation to service, examples include: – eg completion of evaluation forms at the end ··Providing various services for government, of a course or workshop. Where respondents eg forensic pathology, hypertension clinics did provide more detailed information on how ··Consulting to an audiology project at the actual impact of an intervention would be the Deaf Community of Cape Town assessed, this was generally being done in a ··Providing an occupational-medicine particular way in response to the requirements service to workers and employers of a funder or an external partner. For example, the Climate Systems Analysis Group (CSAG) In relation to policy, examples include: refers to an assessment to be conducted in

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accordance with the Future Climate for Africa the women and youth; and whereby members (FCFA) log frame that was developed at the actively work towards rebuilding sustainable inception of the project with representatives fisheries. Indicators as recorded through Abalobi from all constituencies involved. Additionally, the Fisher and Abalobi Cooperatives will allow FCFA is developing an impact-evaluation and fishers to assess and develop viable commercial learning strategy, which will be used to assess operations. Abalobi is thus a tool to help the impact of all consortia in this programme. fisher cooperatives to become successful small Some people reported that they planned to use business entities with a strong social impact.” different approaches to capture outputs and broad outcomes. A notable example was that of the Finally, there are many examples of the use of Abalobi initiative, a co-designed and fisher-driven proxies to assess impact related to the specific mobile app suite to transform small-scale fisheries objectives of the initiatives; eg in relation to ‘from hook to cook’. According to the report: initiatives designed to influence policy, reference was made to monitoring the integration of “There are close to 150 000 small-scale fishers recommendations in policy documents or and fishing households in South Africa, all of legislation. A few people referred to planned whom are currently being registered under future evaluations – eg the School of Development the Small-scale Fishing Policy implementation Policy and Practice reported that an independent programme. Abalobi has been endorsed by the evaluation would be conducted by an external Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to consultant to measure the medium- to long- become the official catch management system term impact of the programme on the Emerging for small-scale fisheries. Fishers in five pilot Leaders. Others referred to future research that sites along the coast already use the system would be undertaken to assess the impact of an and contribute to its further development. Key intervention, eg Xhosa courses for health staff. social indicators, aside from active participation and use of the app, will be the development It is hoped that the reports that follow will of fisher cooperatives that can produce clean generate useful discussion about the nature of audits, take care of their members, invest in new engaged scholarship currently taking place at technologies and services, [and] allow for benefit- UCT, in order to enhance the practice of engaged sharing with the broader community including scholarship and the impact of our scholarship.

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Centre in Information and Communications Technology for Development

Purpose of the ES initiative 4. Adjunct Senior Lecturer Dr David Johnson The Centre in ICT4D provides a focal point for from CSIR Meraka and Dr Melissa Densmore researchers applying their disciplinary expertise are leading the deployment of a community- to ICT in this context. The overall aim for this based cloudlet network in Masiphumelele Centre is to contribute significantly towards and Ocean View, intended to increase the understanding and addressing the massive accessibility of network-based services and inequalities in access to and use of ICTs in African the internet for the underserved communities contexts (the ‘Digital Divide’). This research there. We have five postgraduate and three centre has the following goals and objectives: honours students engaged in this project. ··To build a cohort of ICT4D experts 5. For the last 20 years, Assoc Prof Hussein Suleman in sub-Saharan Africa; has made ongoing contributions to ‘open access’ ··To produce knowledge informed by through the development and maintenance of African experiences of ICT problems the South African National ETD Portal (www. in order to understand, address and netd.ac.za) and the international metadata offer solutions to these problems; aggregator and search engine for electronic ··To gain international status by making theses (union.ndltd.org and search.ndltd.org) a valuable contribution towards the 6. Assoc Prof Hussein Suleman has worked for knowledge base in the ICT4D field. the last 10 years on projects related to the preservation of South African cultural heritage Brief description of the initiative and knowledge systems, including technical The Centre consists of 12 staff members and solutions for the Bleek and Lloyd Collection over 50 postgraduate students across the (in collaboration with the Centre for Curating Faculties of Humanities, Science, and Commerce. the Archive), the |Xam Dictionary and Rock Art As a result, our projects are too numerous Archives (in collaboration with Archaeology), to describe here. A few are highlighted: and laser-scan archives (in collaboration 1. Prof Edwin Blake has a long-running engagement with the Zamani Project in Geomatics). Most with the Deaf Community of Cape Town recently, we are developing the technology (DCCT), in which he and his students have for portable and redistributable law archives been developing tools to support International for African countries, in collaboration with the Computer Driving Licence Certification, to help Democratic Rights and Governance Unit in Law. to increase the employability of the participants. 7. Assoc Prof Marion Walton has had a long- 2. Dr Melissa Densmore is supervising the work running engagement with Ikamva Youth in of Grace Jegede, who is working with staff Khayelitsha to teach computer programming. and students of Afrika Tikkun (AT) and The Many of her students work with the youth every Zanokhanyo Network (TZN) to help job-ready Friday afternoon, and she has a number of graduates leverage ICTs more effectively in other projects related to digital participation. their search for opportunities and training. 8. Dr Serge Raemakers and Dr Brian DeRenzi The partnership with Afrika Tikkun has been have worked on the development of a mobile facilitated by the Knowledge Co-op. app to support small-scale fisheries in South 3. Dr Melissa Densmore is supervising two honours Africa. The Centre will host a workshop to students, Chelsea-Joy Wardle and Mitchell facilitate interaction with fishermen and Green, as they work with Milk Matters and other fisheries stakeholders later this year. breast-milk donors to develop an app to 9. Dr Maria Keet, Assoc Prof Hussein Suleman and Dr help increase engagement and participation Langa Khumalo of UKZN have worked on natural between the NGO and their donors. language processing for the Nguni language

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group. A number of students are involved, research partnerships and a production-level isiZulu spellchecker ··Provision of ICT technical support to NGOs is planned to be launched later this year. 10. Many members of the Centre have key positions Length of relationship in the organisation of AfriCHI2016, the first pan- ··Varies. African Human-Computer Interaction conference, to be held in Nairobi on 21-27 November. Dominant form of engaged scholarship Research Key thematic issues addressed ··Strategic research: government-funded, By themes: corporate-funded, non-profit-funded ··Accessibility/Disability ··Applied/action research and co-design ··Improving Employability (through ··Knowledge application/transfer, eg the education, services) development of products or patents ··Service Delivery (inclusive of Water Research ··Artefacts Commission (WRC)-funded work on water service delivery and water monitoring in Uganda) Public-service forms of engaged scholarship ··Health (inclusive of health-education ··Policy development/engagement/ initiatives in Lesotho, India, etc) systems development ··Cultural Heritage ··Organisation of conferences or workshops ··Digital Social Inclusion (for non-academic audiences) ··Open Access and Open Data ··Expert advice/support/assistance/ ··Social Media and Digital Participation evidence/service for public benefit (particularly for youth) ··Community outreach ··Empowerment and Sustainability Language technologies, focusing on computational Teaching forms of engaged scholarship information and knowledge management in ··Organisation of service-learning/ isiXhosa and isiZulu, which support identity, community-based education programmes accessibility, digital social inclusion and as part of the formal curriculum participation, and citizen empowerment. Nature of the outputs Nature of external constituencies Postgraduate dissertations, Honours and CS3 involved in the initiative Capstone projects, workshops and publications. NGOs, township residents, mothers, the Deaf community, fishermen, unemployed persons. Assessment of impact Many projects are fairly new initiatives, Nature of relationship with due to recent additions of new staff to the external constituencies Centre. At this point it is too early to assess ··Ongoing collaborative and generative the impact of these new engagements.

Department of Environmental & Geographical Science

A/Prof Merle Sowman

Purpose of the initiative Papendorp on the west coast of South Africa has To work with the fishers of the Olifants estuary been ongoing since 1993. Over the past year to enhance understanding of their rights, to co- the key focus of the work has been on taking produce knowledge that will ensure equitable forward the proposal to declare a community- access to coastal and marine resources and based conservation area at the mouth of the challenge unjust decisions, and to build capacity estuary, an initiative that is broadly supported by all and skills to monitor and manage resources stakeholders on the Olifants Estuary Management Forum. A second key focus has been to enhance Nature of the activities: understanding amongst community members of the Engagement with the fishers of Ebenhaeser and proposed mine prospecting application by Mineral

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Sands Resources (MSR) which is planned for farms on Form of engaged scholarship the northern bank of the estuary (for 15 km upstream Participatory action research, co-production of the river mouth) and which could have deleterious of knowledge and capacity development. impacts on the quality of the environment, and jeopardise community tourism ventures and Nature of the outputs the planned community conservation area. The focus here is on outputs for 2016 only 1. Complied and submitted a set of comments on A second objective is to clarify the procedures the Basic Assessment Report (BAR) prepared for participating in this process and facilitate by the Environmental Assessment professional linkages with other actors and communities that for the mine prospecting application are concerned about the mine application. One 2. Gave input to discussions and preparation Masters student is currently working on issues and of the final set of comments submitted impacts associated with the mining application. on the same BAR to the environmental consultant for the mine company Key thematic issues addressed 3. Produced a short article on the actions and through the initiative responses of the community to the mine The main themes addressed over this past year are prospecting application for the Community 1) community-based conservation and 2) proposed Conservation Research Network (CCRN) prospecting activities and possible impacts. With website, an international collaborative research regard to 1) the focus has been on determining project led by St Mary’s University in Canada. the boundaries of the community conservation 4. Forthcoming chapter in book: area, liaising with Cape Nature and examining Sowman, M. (forthcoming). Turning the Tide: appropriate legal mechanisms for declaring Strategies, Innovations and Transformative such an entity and 2) reviewing the relevant learning at the Olifants Estuary, South Africa. prospecting documents and legal requirements In: Armitage, D., Berkes, F. and Charles, T. and commenting on the Basic Assessment Report. (eds). Governing the Coastal Commons: Communities, Resilience and Transformation. A key focus is always on ensuring that the rights of To be published by Earthscan Routledge. the community are recognised and respected and that their views and concerns are communicated Assessment of impact: and contribute to decision-making processes Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG) affecting the estuary and surrounding areas.

Nature of external constituencies PART I: involved in the initiative The traditional fishers of Ebenhaeser and Purpose of the ES initiative Papendorp, as well as other members in To engage with, inspire and mentor learners thecommunity that participate in meetings and at Silikamva High School in . workshops where issues such as the declaration of the community conservation area, revitalisation Brief description of the initiative of community guesthouse in Papendorp and Together with Intermet Africa, CSAG has provided the new mine application are discussed. and installed automatic weather stations at strategic locations around the Fynbos Biome, providing Nature of relationship with real-time weather data for use in a larger fire external constituencies information system. This data forms an invaluable I have been involved with members of these resource for research in the Biome. In addition communities for over 20 years and together to fire management and risk assessment, a key with various students have worked on particular outcome of the project is ongoing research into fire issues that are of importance to the community regimes and potential linkages to climate change. at the time. There is a strong relationship of trust and mutual respect and benefit. The project is working with a range of stakeholders in the various regions that form Length of relationship part of the Biome. Key stakeholders are the fire- 22 years prevention associations that act as co-ordinating

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 77 Part Four: Faculty Reports agents in managing fire at a regional level. Brief description of the initiative As part of the project, CSAG has also provided The Future Resilience for African Cities And and installed a fynbos fire-specification weather Lands (FRACTAL) project has both research station at the Silikamva High School in Hout and applied aspects, and seeks to address Bay. The station serves as a focal point of the challenge of providing accessible, timely, engagement with the school, hopefully to applicable and defensible climate information grow into a relationship that will engage, that is needed by decision-makers operating inspire and mentor children from the school. at the city-regional scale in Southern Africa, and enabling city officials to make ‘good’ Key thematic issues addressed decisions. This aim is being achieved through a Weather, climate change, transdisciplinary learning approach to advance mentorship and inspiration. knowledge of climate science, and to integrate this knowledge into policy- and decision-making. Nature of external constituencies involved in the initiative To this end, a multitude of stakeholders (including We engage with Grade 9 to Grade 12 learners government representatives, engineers and at Silikamva High School in Hout Bay. The high researchers) are working together to co-produce school was established in 2013, and aims to serve relevant knowledge that will support resilient children from Imizamo Yethu and surrounds. development pathways in three Tier 1 cities (Lusaka, Maputo and Windhoek), three Tier 2 Nature of relationship with cities (Blantyre, Gaborone and Harare), and two external constituencies self-funded cities (Cape Town and Durban). The relationship is an informal two-way discussion between the school head, the school FRACTAL is funded by UK-DFID and geography teacher, and staff from CSAG. UK-NERC through the Future Climate For Africa (FCFA) programme. Length of relationship One year. Key thematic issues addressed Resilience, climate change, decision-making, Dominant form of transdisciplinary knowledge co-production, engaged scholarship adaptation, governance, complexity. Teaching, service and provision of equipment. Nature of external constituencies Dominant mode of engagement involved in the initiative Engagements with learners through There are a number of external constituencies practical lessons. Opportunity for learners involved in the project – most of them to engage in on-campus activities. fall into the categories of project partner or Early Career Researcher (ECR). Nature of the outputs No formal output at this stage. Nature of relationship with external constituencies Assessment of impact Joint design of the project proposal, No assessment at this stage. The relationship is and joint research to co-produce ongoing, and further discussion with stakeholders knowledge through implementation. will be used to derive measures of impact. Length of relationship Five years (+/- one year conceptualisation, PART II: and four years research).

Purpose of the ES initiative Dominant form of To build capacity and understanding in city engaged scholarship governance structures, to respond to climate Research, service. change through policy and adaptation.

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Dominant mode of engagement focused on developing effective climate-adaptation Policy analysis, applied research, and strategies across the City of Cape Town. provision of climate services. Key thematic issues addressed Nature of the outputs Climate vulnerability, climate adaptation, Academic papers, working papers, documentation co-exploration, user engagement. of transdisciplinary co-production learning processes (particularly in relation to climate Nature of external constituencies science in policy- and decision-making). involved in the initiative City of Cape Town staff. Assessment of impact The initiative will be assessed according to Nature of relationship with the FCFA logframe that was developed near external constituencies project inception, with representatives from all Consultation, and obtaining feedback. consortia (including outputs such as working papers, academic papers, etc). An impact, Length of relationship evaluation and learning strategy is also currently The project described took two months; being developed for FCFA, which will be used however, the working relationship with the to assess the impact of all consortia within this City of Cape Town spans about five years. programme. Acknowledging the importance of learning from the transdisciplinary processes Dominant form of to co-produce knowledge, FRACTAL is also engaged scholarship developing a Monitoring, Evaluation and Providing a Climate Service through Learning (MEL) framework, which will focus on research objectives. ongoing light evaluation of these processes. Dominant mode of engagement Small technical meetings, and a PART III: stakeholder workshop.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of the outputs Developing a decision-relevant update to the Capacity building of both researcher City of Cape Town climate-change projections. and policymaker, user-informed science, technical report. Brief description of the initiative Taking the opportunity to provide updated Assessment of impact climate projections for the City of Cape Town, This has not been done; but CSAG are the Climate System Analysis Group tested a new continuing to work closely with the City method of communicating climate projections on in their development of adaptation an urban scale. This was done through using the strategies. The relative impact of most recent science to update understanding, the engagement will become clearer while supporting the science with ‘storylines’ or as the engagement continues. ‘narratives’ of the future, for a range of plausible future scenarios. The utility of these narratives was then investigated during a participatory workshop PART IV: with City officials. The process required working in a close relationship with the City of Cape Town Purpose of the ES initiative Department of Environmental Policy and Planning, Building capacity in using climate information to understand their needs and how the information for adaptation and policy development. may be used in decision-making. Feedback from the The CSAG Winter School is an intensive course workshop is being incorporated into the narrative aimed at mid-career professionals engaged methodology going forward. This report and in decision-making and policy development workshop represents the first phase of a collaboration related to climate change and adaptation. The between CSAG and the City in a series of activities aim of the school is to provide an overview

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Brief description of the initiative Dominant form of The Climate System Analysis Group Winter School engaged scholarship is an annual one-week short course. The course Teaching, training, capacity building. is focused on the climate change and adaptation needs of developing countries, especially in Dominant mode of engagement Africa. The course aims to address the needs Training workshops. of participants from developing countries, to understand some of their constraints and to Nature of the outputs develop dialogue that enables a co-exploratory Building internal and external networks with approach to possible solutions and applications participants and facilitators, capacity building, of knowledge. The course is structured around contributions for graduate theses around an equal mix of interactive lecture input, direct application on uptake of climate information, interaction, and case-study-based group work. strengthening of CSAG internship programme.

Key thematic issues addressed Assessment of impact Climate dynamics, risk and vulnerability Every year on the last day of the course, framing, climate modelling, climate-change participants are requested to complete an scenarios, climate-adaptation frameworks, evaluation; on the online VULA system, which downscaling methods, adaptation allows participants to remain anonymous. planning, policy- and decision-making. Additional ES activities Nature of external constituencies ··Working with the health sector (National involved in the initiative Institute of Health and Department of Health) in The course facilitators are a mix of CSAG staff, Mozambique to assess the needs/requirements researchers, and specialists from external for a climate and health observatory. institutions. External contributors change ··Working with users of outputs from the every year, but in the past these have included International Development Research Centre the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI), Climate Change and Water programme to South African National Botanical Institution better understand how the research can (SANBI), Council for Scientific and Industrial be incorporated into decision-making. Research (CSIR), the City of Cape Town, the ··Providing a climate projection and potential- Energy Research Centre (ERC) at UCT, and an impact assessment for the Quirimbas independent climate-change-focused Journalist. National Park and Primeiras & Segundas in Mozambique, for the World Wildlife Fund. Nature of relationship with ··Working with the City of Johannesburg to external constituencies update climate projections and develop Interdepartmental and interdisciplinary informal narratives for decision-making.

Department of Environmental & Geographical Science

Dr Serge Raemaekers, Director of ABALOBI.

Brief description of the initiative ABALOBI.info) is an open, transdisciplinary and ABALOBI is a co-designed and fisher-driven social learning endeavour, bringing together various mobile app suite to transform small-scale fisheries stakeholders, with traditional fishers taking centre ‘from hook to cook’. The initiative (http://www. stage. It is a participatory action project with a strong

80 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports community-development interface. ABALOBI, as a Dominant form of the free mobile app and programme, is aimed at social engaged scholarship justice and poverty alleviation in the small-scale Research and service. fisheries chain, transformation in the way we produce knowledge, stewardship of our marine resources, Dominant mode of engagement and resilience-building in the face of climate change. Applied and collaborative action research. Many of ABALOBI’s team members, including the small-scale fishers of South Africa, were integrally Nature of the outputs involved in the design of South Africa’s new Small- Social enterprise with mobile app Scale Fisheries (SSF) Policy, which emanated from a suite and associated services, theses Constitutional Court order and international human and peer-reviewed papers. and fishing rights obligations. ABALOBI brings them together as an extension of their research, Assessment of impact of the initiative advocacy and policy work, and launches the team There are close to 150 000 small-scale fishers into implementation and co-operative governance. and fishing households in South Africa, all of In November 2015, after a successful pilot period whom are currently being registered under at several sites along the coast, the Minister of the Small-Scale Fishing Policy implementation Fisheries endorsed the platform as the official catch- programme. Abalobi has been endorsed by the management system for the implementation of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to Policy. More importantly, to date close to 100 fishers, become the official catch management system catch monitors and several cooperatives actively use for small-scale fisheries. Fishers in five pilot the app in their daily fisheries operations. The Small- sites along the coast already use the system scale Fisheries Policy is being implemented in 2016. and contribute to its further development. ABALOBI is the main tool to assist fishers as they walk with government in its implementation, develop Key social indicators, aside from active collaborations in the management of fisheries, and participation and use of the app, will be the explore a more empowered role in the value chain. development of fisher cooperatives that can produce clean audits, take care of their Key thematic issues addressed members, invest in new technologies and Transdisciplinary research, fisheries services, allow for benefit-sharing with the governance, social justice, empowerment. broader community including the women and youth, and in which members actively Nature of external constituencies work towards rebuilding sustainable fisheries. involved in the initiative Indicators as recorded through ABALOBI Fisher The concept of ABALOBI was born out of and ABALOBI Cooperatives will allow fishers brainstorming sessions between the University of to assess and develop viable commercial Cape Town researchers, the national Department operations. ABALOBI is thus a tool to help of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (DAFF), and fisher cooperatives to become successful small several small-scale fisher-community representatives, business entities with a strong social impact. following discussions about how the SSF Policy would be rolled out. These core stakeholders have Additional ES activities been part of the initial iterative design phases of Public seminars and dialogues on the the ABALOBI platform, with further development ecosystem approach to fisheries, numerous and refinement to be initiated through a bottom-up external workshops and seminars, advice to process. The aim is to provide a free platform that external non-academic organisations, technical will encourage sound monitoring, transparency and assistance, consulting, knowledge exchange. traceability of small-scale-fisheries-related data, and promote the empowerment of small-scale fishers to partake in governance of the sector.

Length of relationship(s) Many years, but brought together more recently under the ABALOBI umbrella.

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Department of Environmental & Geographical Science

Associate Professor Rachel Wynberg, SARChI Chair on the Bio-economy, Jaci van Niekerk, researcher, SARChI Chair on the Bio-economy, The Seed and Knowledge Initiative

Purpose of the ES initiative disciplines, to generate documented evidence The Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI) is a that will feed into and support the activities collaborative, creative and critically engaged related to the other three objectives, and in scholarship project that brings together farmers, particular the objective of policy engagement. activists, scientists, scholars and policy-makers, with a focus on southern Africa. Its primary Key thematic issues addressed aim is to revive and enhance traditional seed Seed sovereignty; agroecology; food security; food and knowledge systems, and to deepen sovereignty; farmer-led seed systems; collaborative understanding about their functioning, within research and knowledge-building; horizontal learning the context of supportive agricultural, cultural and knowledge exchange; community of practice. and ecological practices. SKI’s vision is a world in which agriculture is productive, diverse and Nature of external constituencies sustainable, and where seed and food systems are involved in the initiative in the hands of farmers and local communities. The NGO Biowatch South Africa is an environmental and social justice NGO, based Brief description of the initiative in KwaZulu-Natal, and is responsible for overall This long-term collaboration between UCT’s project coordination. Biowatch’s community work Bio-economy Chair, the NGO Biowatch South has largely been focused on supporting small- Africa, and a range of other organisations, builds scale farmers in agroecological practices, and on past and ongoing joint activities. Research, affirming and building on traditional agricultural documentation, and experiential learning are knowledge through agroecological training, ongoing processes, vital in shifting worldviews farmer exchanges, and supporting seed rituals. and paradigms by interrogating and challenging current assumptions in policy-making and Through Biowatch and other NGO partners, science. The project has several inter-related the Bio-economy Chair is linked to small- development, research and advocacy objectives: scale farmers in southern Africa. These ··To enable farmers and communities to revive farmers are rich repositories of traditional and enhance traditional seed and agricultural agricultural knowledge, and have been knowledge systems. This is complemented, selecting, saving and exchanging seed for among other activities, by training and generations, based on customary practices. farmer exchanges between communities and across borders in southern Africa. Since 2015, SKI has extended its network to ··To support community and farmer include new partners in Zimbabwe, such as the organisations in building their regional and Chikukwa Ecological Land Trust (CELUCT), the international networks for deepening and TSURO Trust, the Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic affirming their knowledge systems. Together Farmers Forum (ZIMSOFF) and Participatory these ‘communities of practice’ help build Organic Research and Extension Training (PORET). a more sustainable future, and challenge All of these institutions have a track record of the initiatives that undermine this future. working with farming communities on agricultural ··To engage nationally and regionally with key practices and seed, and they collaborate to stakeholders and decision-makers to advocate strengthen community-based seed systems in for policies and legislation that actively support Zimbabwe. Through Biowatch and CELUCT, SKI the revival of traditional seed diversity and has links to the African Biodiversity Network related knowledge systems or agroecology. (ABN). As key partners, they have participated ··To conduct collaborative research and knowledge in advocacy activities, capacity-building building, across different sectors and different workshops, and regional networking activities.

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Nature of relationship(s) with approach, and includes action research and external constituencies community-based research. Most of the research SKI was conceptualised collectively between is undertaken by postgraduate students affiliated UCT, Biowatch and regional partners. A steering with the Bio-economy Chair; however, NGO committee guides the work. Once a year, a research partners also facilitate farmer-led research. seminar is held in which research directions are jointly discussed, based on needs identified at Dominant mode of engagement grassroots level or in the policy arena. Ongoing Engagement takes on multiple forms, discussions help to refine this agenda. Postgraduate including applied research by postgraduate student interest in SKI has been substantial, and students and staff; policy analysis; public students participate in seminars, lead journal groups, seminars and dialogues; and social media. and often engage in NGO initiatives on the ground. Wherever possible, students joining the programme Nature of the outputs must not only conduct research that is conceptually The initiative delivers a range of outputs, including and methodologically robust, but must also aim to postgraduate theses, peer-reviewed articles, ensure it is participatory, community-needs-driven, policy briefs, fact sheets (translated into relevant and highlights the voices of partners. Feedback languages for farmers), and technical reports. in appropriate forms is an essential part of SKI. Assessment of impact of the initiative Length of relationship(s) There is a monitoring and evaluation framework The Seed and Knowledge Initiative was formalised in in place by means of which the overall impact of 2013, but the relationship between the Bio-economy the initiative will be measured. This will take place Chair and Biowatch, along with small-scale farmers at the end of the current project cycle, in 2019. associated with the NGO, dates back twenty years. Additional ES activities Dominant form of engaged scholarship Much of our work has an engaged scholarship The dominant form of engaged scholarship is component. Please see www.bio-economy. research. The research is based on a participatory org.za for further information.

Department of Environmental & Geographical Science

Dr Richard Hill.

Purpose of the ES initiative assurance of education and professional practice To advance the practice and quality of environmental in the field of environmental assessment, through assessment in South Africa, in the public interest the accreditation of degree programmes and and to the benefit of the environment, through the registration of Environmental Assessment establishing and maintaining a Registration Practitioners (EAPs) and Candidate EAPs (in training). Authority for Environmental Assessment Practitioners, thereby contributing to sustainable Nature of external constituencies development through environmental assessment. involved in the initiative The Minister of Environmental Affairs, officials Nature of the activities in the Department of Environmental Affairs, the Dr Richard Hill has been exercised as a Council on Higher Education (CHE) and the member of the Board of the Environmental South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA); Assessment Practitioners Association of South and the other 12 members of the Board of Africa (EAPASA), as a representative of the EAPASA, chosen according to the transformation academic sector, and as Chairperson of the requirements of the Association’s constitution to Board’s Standards and Criteria Committee. be representative of the demographics of the country and to include an academic, consultants, Key thematic issues addressed officials from national and provincial governments, Developing standards and criteria for the quality and two representatives of the wider community.

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Nature of relationship with the exit-level outcomes of the qualification external constituencies standard for environmental assessment In deliberative fora that involved the practice (SAQA ID 61831). I have finalised, as external constituencies listed above, I editor, the text for EAPASA’s online application provided knowledge of the theory and form, describing these core competencies practice of environmental assessment. and providing guidance on the portfolio of evidence that applicants need to submit in their Length of relationship applications to be professionally registered. I was a founder member of the Board which 3. I acted as editor in revising the EAPASA first met in February 2012, so the activities have Constitution and Rule Book. I was also a been ongoing for the last four and a half years. contributor to, and the editor of, EAPASA’s application to be appointed as the sole Form of engaged scholarship Registration Authority for Environmental Public service through the provision of Assessment Practitioners in South Africa, expert knowledge and advice, towards which was submitted to the Minister of the development of policy and systems in Environmental Affairs on 29 July 2016. external (non-academic) structures. Assessment of impact Nature of the outputs The Section 24H Registration Authority 1. On 22 July 2016, the Minister of Environmental Regulations stipulate that within a two-year Affairs promulgated the Section 24H period it will be a legal requirement that Registration Authority Regulations (Government EAP consultants preparing environmental Gazette No. 40154) under the National assessments, and EAP officials reviewing and Environmental Management Act. making decisions on these documents, will have 2. I have overseen the development, for to be registered in order to practise. The outputs EAPASA’s Registration Committee, of the core listed above have provided the foundation competencies that current practitioners need for the promotion of the Professionalisation of to meet in order to be registered, based on Environmental Assessment in South Africa.

Marine Research Institute

South African Research Chair in Marine Ecology and Fisheries (SARChI ME&F).

Purpose of the ES initiative Brief description of the initiative Southern Cape Interdisciplinary Fisheries The Southern Cape Interdisciplinary Fisheries Research (SCIFR) project: our goal in this project Research (SCIFR) project works with different is to build understanding of the marine social- knowledge systems, recognising that no one ecological system of the Southern Cape, in order perspective can contain the requisite expertise to increase resilience and improve adaptation required to understand and effectively run a system to global change. Specifically, we ask: as complex as a fishery. It engages resource-users ··How are natural and social changes in the as knowledgeable experts alongside experts from Southern Cape shaping and interacting other disciplines. This research informs various with marine social- ecological systems? decision-making entities at different scales, ··More specifically, how are selected natural- with the idea of enhancing resilience in coastal resources users in this area responding communities. The project draws on diverse scholars to global change, and how are they and researchers from various backgrounds, using shaping change in their region? a wide variety of methods in a transdisciplinary ··How can the knowledge of the current environment. This includes trust-building in hand- state of the social-ecological system be line fishing communities; designing integrated used to build more resilient systems? curricula on ocean, climate and fisheries for learners in previously disadvantaged areas of local fishing

84 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports communities; examining multi-scale interactions and ··Local Department of Agriculture, Fisheries feedback loops that increase fishers’ vulnerability and Forestry (DAFF): information exchange. to change; as well as linking farming and fishing communities’ climate knowledge systems. Length of relationship ··Small-scale commercial hand-line fishing and Key thematic issues addressed agricultural cohorts of communities residing in Knowledge co-production; participatory research; the Southern Cape: 2010 to present (6 years). modelling; interdisciplinary; transdisciplinary; social- ··Previously disadvantaged schools in research ecological systems; global change; oral histories. area: 2015 to present (1 year 7 months). ··Small-scale fishery non-governmental Nature of external constituencies organisation (NGO): 2015 to present (1 year). involved in the initiative ··Hessequa Municipality: 2013 to ··Small-scale commercial hand-line fishing present (3 years 7 months). and agricultural cohorts of communities ··Cape Nature: 2012 to present residing in the Southern Cape. (4 years 7 months). ··Previously disadvantaged ··Local Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and schools in research area. Forestry (DAFF): 2013 to present (3 years). ··Small-scale fishery non-governmental organisation (NGO). Dominant form of ··Hessequa Municipality. engaged scholarship ··Cape Nature. Interface between research and service. ··Local Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF). Dominant mode of engagement Applied research. Nature of relationship with external constituencies Nature of the outputs ··Small-scale commercial hand-line fishing Papers in peer-reviewed journals, peer- and agricultural cohorts of communities reviewed chapters in books, mimeos, residing in the Southern Cape: directly reports, working group documents, theses involved in project collaboration, knowledge (completed), theses (in progress). exchange, participatory and action research, feedback exchange and dialogue. Assessment of impact ··Previously disadvantaged schools in Will be assessed closer to project completion research area: designing and implementing in 2018, through feedback from participating local integrated curricula. communities, as well as all stakeholders/ ··Small-scale fishery non-governmental informants engaged at various governance scales. organisation (NGO): knowledge exchange. ··Hessequa Municipality: information Additional ES activities exchange and dialogue. Continued dialogue with participating ··Cape Nature: information communities and stakeholders. exchange and dialogue.

Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

Dr Inga Hitzeroth, Biopharming Research Unit in MCB Department.

Purpose of the ES initiative and other viruses, University of Cape Town Publication/presentations. (UCT) researchers have generated synthetic human papillomavirus-derived viral particles Brief description of the initiative called pseudovirions in tobacco plants. In a pioneering step towards using plants In an Open Access study just published in to produce vaccines against cervical cancer Nature Scientific Reports, BRU researchers report

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 85 Part Four: Faculty Reports using tobacco plants to create a synthetic viral uct-researchers-use-tobacco-plants-help-save-lives particle known as a pseudovirion. The BRU are ··Radio interview on CapeTalk also hoping to use this technology to create http://www.capetalk.co.za/articles/12363/ a therapeutic vaccine, which would also be a how-plant-matter-could-be-the- first of its kind. The idea would be to use the source-of-your-next-dna-vaccines pseudovirion to deliver DNA that could treat ··SABC News an ongoing HPV infection or even a tumour. http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/79b c16804bb20f15a6feae7beb9ae60f/ Key thematic issues addressed Your-next-DNA-vaccine-might-come-from-tobacco Vaccine. ··Quest Magazine – published by the Academy of Science of South Africa Dominant form of Volume 12, Issue 2, 2016 (http://www.assaf. engaged scholarship org.za/quest/Quest122%20final.pdf) Research. Assessment of impact Dominant mode of engagement We have a patent registered and will see if Media interviews and applied research. companies would like to license this technology.

Nature of the outputs Additional ES activities TV news interview, press release, Radio ··Contractual Research with Medicago in Canada interview and article in magazine ··Workshop organised end of 2015 ··Recorded interviews for eNews on the ENCA with attendance from SA, Botswana, news channel and eNuus on KykNet Mozambique, Czech Republic and UK https://www.enca.com/south-africa/

Department of Oceanography

Assoc Prof Mathieu Rouault.

Purpose of the ES initiative Dominant mode of engagement Warn society about the possibility of a serious Applied research, policy analysis, public drought for summer rainfall region. dialogue, media interviews (Carte Blanche, Hectic Nine, ETV, ASTV). Brief description of the initiative Explain the situation in workshop, TV Nature of the outputs and newspapers, and share possible ··Seminar, TV interview, layman consequence or mitigation. internet article, reports. ··http://theconversation.com/el-nino-threatens- Key thematic issues addressed southern-africa-with-yet-another-drought-50491 El Nino and drought in Southern Africa.

Nature of external constituencies involved in the initiative South African Weather Service, Water Research Commission, DWAFF.

Length of relationship Three months.

Dominant form of engaged scholarship Knowledge exchange.

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Department of Surgery

UCT Head and Neck Surgery: Working ahead in Africa and beyond

Head and neck surgeons care for patients with management of facial trauma by maxillofacial benign and malignant diseases of the head and surgeons. Prof Johan Fagan, who heads the neck. Prior to the UCT Head and Neck Fellowship programme, says that a recent benchmarking of programme, there were no trained Head and Neck their fellowship against two top USA programmes Surgeons in Africa other than in Egypt and South found that UCT fellows have greater surgical Africa. Patients in many countries were dying exposure than their American counterparts. from curable benign and malignant diseases. Furthermore, because about half of African Fellows have emanated from Kenya, Uganda, countries do not have radiation facilities, surgery Tanzania, Malawi, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Senegal, is the only curative option in such countries. Nigeria, and two different centres in Ghana. All have returned to teaching hospitals to teach and Ten years ago, the UCT Division of train others. The current fellow is from Nigeria, and Otolaryngology established the only Fellowship will be followed by fellows from Ethiopia and Libya. in Advanced Head and Neck Surgery in Africa. It is funded by Karl Storz Endoskopie, a German UCT has benefited in many ways from this medical equipment company. Fellows are programme. It has created awareness among our already qualified as ENT and general surgeons, staff about the challenges of living and practising in and join the Division for a period of one year. poorer African countries; we now have an extensive They spend up to 4 days per week in the network of friends and colleagues throughout operating theatre, as well as attending the Africa; and our division is internationally celebrated Division’s multidisciplinary cancer clinic. They are for the leadership role it has assumed in head and taught thyroid surgery by general surgeons, and neck surgery in Africa and the developing world.

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The 10th Fellowship was celebrated at a was established at the same meeting, of which meeting in Rwanda in June, attended by nine all the initial office bearers are past fellows. out of 10 past fellows; and a new organisation, Such a society is key to entrenching and the African Head and Neck Society (AfHNS) advancing head and neck surgery in Africa.

Department of Surgery

Assoc Prof Nagib du Toit, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Division of Ophthalmology.

In 2007, our department head tasked me after several meetings with GSH administration with sorting out the cataract waiting list and intensive planning. The fee that patients at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH), which paid for this service was used to pay for the included over 2 000 patients with a waiting cost of consumables, use of GSH theatres on time of 12-18 months for surgery. a Saturday morning, and payment of staff.

A new system of prioritising patients according to Unfortunately, the PFP was stopped in 2011. In the level of loss of vision based on World Health 2012, a member of the Teaching Hospitals Board, Organisation criteria was introduced for cataract who had witnessed the success of the PFP, was wait-listing. Patients who did not qualify as blind approached by a businessman (who had been or partially-sighted were unfortunately turned blinded by diabetic eye disease, and wanted away. The system was modified with time, so that to give something back to the community). He over a period of five years, the waiting list was asked me to restart the PFP, outside of GSH, completely eliminated, and patients could thus be by establishing a community-based cataract- booked directly onto a theatre list after presenting surgery day-centre, to provide a service to those to the clinic. By 2013, the waiting time for cataract patients from the lower socio-economic groups surgery was reduced to three to four months. who could afford private care. The project will finally be ready to start in September 2016. As a result of patients who did not qualify for In the meantime, Save Vision South Africa (a cataract surgery at GSH being refused, I developed branch of the Islamic Medical Association) has an alternative service for those who could afford approached us and agreed to sponsor patients, to pay or solicit the funds to cover the basic paying the basic costs for them to have surgery costs of their surgery. This was called the Patient- at the new centre. This means that surgery will Funded Project (PFP), and was initiated in 2008, be provided at no cost to indigent patients.

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Dr Frances Robertson; Nailah Conrad, Tinashe Mutsvangwa and Tania Douglas, Health Innovation and Design (Teaching and Research)’

The Department of Human Biology is currently and Design, who may then propose engaged in numerous activities that generate solutions to their health problems. new knowledge, and promote knowledge integration, the application of this knowledge Brief description of the initiative and its dissemination. These are summarised In 2014, under the auspices of the Groote below according to the various Divisions. Schuur Innovation Initiative, an intern named Dr Wafeeqah Mohammed designed and Purpose of the ES initiative prototyped a medication storage bag, in To allow a community partner to engage response to her experiences with patients who with students from Health Innovation had trouble managing, storing and keeping track

88 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports of their many medications for multiple medical analysis of data gathered, building on conditions. The students of Health Innovation existing ideas and knowledge. and Design (HUB5031F), a Masters course in the Department of Human Biology at UCT, offered Length of relationship improvements on the bag by incorporating Three months. more patient and nurse insights. They also developed novel solutions centred on insights Dominant form of gained from the Diabetic Clinic at the Groote engaged scholarship Schuur Outpatients Department. The course Teaching and research. utilises user-centred design to teach innovative thinking around Health. User-centred design Dominant mode of engagement encourages low-fidelity prototypes and early Applied research. feedback from multiple stakeholders, in order to arrive at the most appropriate solution. The Nature of the outputs Health Innovation programme was developed Refined prototype of the Pillbox, new solutions not only to train a cadre of students to think to address the problems the students uncovered, empathetically, with a user focus; but also to formal presentation to stakeholders, project reports, create solutions to health problems that meet the students with skills to empathise, think innovatively needs of that partner organization more fittingly. with a broader appreciation of user needs.

Key thematic issues addressed Assessment of impact Patient education, co-creation, service learning, Feedback from stakeholders. user-centred design, chronic disease management. Additional ES activities Nature of external constituencies ··In the second semester of 2016, Health involved in the initiative Innovation and Design will partner with the Dr Wafeeqah Mohammed, Groote Neighbourhood Old Age Home (NOAH) to Schuur Hospital (staff and patients). assess how to address anaemia in the elderly. ··Dr Frances Robertson will serve on the Nature of relationship with faculty of the IBRO (International Brain external constituency(ies) Research Organization) Advanced school in Interviews, obtaining feedback, neuroimaging in December 2016 (Service).

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Thomas Franz, Division of Biomedical Engineering; Neil Davies, Cardiovascular Research Unit.

Purpose of the ES initiative heart models. These models will establish a The purpose of this initiative is to form a public- unified foundation for cardiovascular in silico private partnership to accelerate research and medicine and serve as a common technology translation in cardiovascular diseases and therapies. base for education and training, medical- device design, testing, clinical diagnosis and Brief description of the initiative regulatory science – creating an effective The Living Heart Project (http://www.3ds. path for rapidly translating current and com/products-services/simulia/solutions/ future cutting-edge innovations directly into life-sciences/the-living-heart-project) is improved patient care. The Living Heart uniting cardiovascular researchers, educators, Project is led by Dassault Systèmes Simulia, a medical-device developers, regulatory multinational software company. The project agencies, and practising cardiologists in current has 44 members from academia and a shared mission to develop and validate research, 27 members from industry, 6 clinician highly accurate personalised digital human members and two regulatory members.

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Key thematic issues addressed Dominant form of the Strategic research; innovation; translation. engaged scholarship Research and Service. Nature of external constituencies involved in the initiative Dominant mode of engagement 27 international companies; two regulatory bodies. Advice to external non-academic organisations; knowledge transfer; technical assistance. Nature of relationship(s) with external constituencies Nature of the outputs Relationships with external constituencies Computational models; research include joint conceptualisation of activities publications; collaborations. with Dassault Systèmes Simulia and other members of the Living Heart Project, Assessment of impact of the initiative consultations, and providing feedback. An example of impact-assessment is through peer review of research outputs. Length of relationship(s) One year. Additional ES activities UCT school improvement initiative, 100UP project.

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Dr Sudesh Sivarasu, Division of Biomedical Engineering.

Dominant form of the high-school learners at science centres; engaged scholarship ··Interviews for podcasts published Teaching, research and service. on the NSTF website; As a follow-up to receiving the TW Kambule- ··Community or national radio talk shows in NSTF Award for emerging researcher, the home languages of the award-winners; Dr Sivarasu was invited to participate in ··Science Café talks to mature audiences the following activities which fall under interested in SET, arranged by science centres; public seminars/dialogue, specifically: ··Radio and newspaper interviews. ··Presenting career talks and inspiration to

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Professor Sharon Prince, Division of Cell Biology.

Purpose of the ES initiative a successful and well-attended event, and also Raising awareness around cancer prevention. raises funds that are donated to CANSA.

Brief description of the initiative Key thematic issues addressed In March 2016, the Prince lab organised and Awareness, advocacy, community involvement. hosted a CANSA Shavathon, in conjunction with the Cancer Association of South Africa Nature of external constituencies (CANSA). This is an annual event in the faculty, involved in the initiative and pays tribute to all those involved in the CANSA. fight against cancer. Moreover, the event helps in increasing the awareness around this Length of relationship(s) debilitating disease. The CANSA Shavathon is Ongoing.

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Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Dr Robea Ballo, main co-ordinator; Assoc Prof Lester Davids; Prof Susan Kidson; Prof Sharon Prince; Dr Liz van der Merwe.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of relationship(s) with To expose school learners to a scientific external constituencies environment, in order to encourage Joint conceptualisation and design. them to follow careers in science. Length of relationship(s) Brief description of the initiative Ongoing. ··The FHS through the Division of Cell Biology has teamed up with the Western Cape Department of Dominant form of the Education to host 20 or more Grade 11 learners engaged scholarship from historically disadvantaged schools for a Teaching. period of one week, during their school vacation. ··The programme also featured exciting seminars Dominant mode of engagement and visits to the Heart Transplant Museum, the Public dialogue. Science Centre in Observatory, and the UCT Pathology Museum. The learners were also Nature of the outputs shown how to design oral presentations, in order Feedback to schools. to prepare a report of their experiences in the lab, in the final activity of the programme. Assessment of impact of the initiative In consultation with the WCED representative, Key thematic issues addressed Mr Ronnie Engelbrecht, a database will Teaching science, school learners, science career. be compiled to carry details of all the participants over the years, and the numbers External constituencies involved of learners who go on to study in the The Western Cape Department of Education science stream at tertiary institutions.

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Dr Liz van der Merwe (main co-ordinator of initiative).

Purpose of the ES initiative in all topics was to speak to misconceptions that To popularise STEM to the broader community STEM is a male-dominated study and career (particularly school learners), to serve as a option. All in our group who participated were vehicle to showcase local innovations in science women, which included postgraduate students and technology, to make STEM appealing through to senior-rank managerial levels, who to learners and widen their knowledge served as role models to the schoolgirl learners. horizons with regard to career options. Topics included cancer awareness/prevention Brief description of the initiative (risks of smoking and sun on lung, breast and National Science Week is traditionally held in the first skin cancers, clean water and sanitation). week of August throughout the country, and follows the International Theme of Science for that year. This Key thematic issues addressed year the Theme is ‘Sustainable Development Goals’, Sustainable development: sub-sections: under which several sub-themes are incorporated. good health and well-being; affordable and Our initiative focused on female learners in Grades clean energy; clean water and sanitation; 9-11, with different themes. Inherent in our approach zero hunger – sustainable food sources.

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Nature of external constituencies Length of relationship(s) involved in the initiative SAWISE has been involved with National Science Department of Science and Technology Week in the West Coast district since 2012. provided funding; Department of Education Participants in our programme are mainly from UCT (West Coast Division) hosted the NSW (across faculties, and within own department). programme in this region. Other participants in the programme: ESKOM Mainstream Wind Dominant form of the Power; Human Sciences Research Council; engaged scholarship Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Knowledge transfer. UCT; Department of Surgery, Cardiovascular Research Unit, UCT; Division of Medical Dominant mode of engagement Virology, Department of Pathology, UCT; Public dialogue, and interactive discussions with schoolgirl learners and their teachers. Schools in various districts: Clanwilliam Secondary School, Graafwater High Nature of the outputs School, Ausberg Secondary School, Increased awareness of disease prevention Schoonspruit High School, Swartland High and good health (risk of skin, lung and breast School and Wesbank High School. cancers, Foetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder, HIV), sustainable crops (GMO foods and where these are Nature of relationship(s) with produced), clean energy (wind and other sources), external constituencies clean water – how this is achieved. Learners were By invitation, key role players from UCT’s also educated on the many options for studies at Department Human Biology Dr Liz van der tertiary institutions (UCT), and careers for women Merwe (Chair of the Association of South African in STEM. The district leaders have also said that Women in Science and Engineering – SAWISE) they have noted an increase in the grade average and Assoc Prof Alison September (EXCO of in subjects such as mathematics and biology in SAWISE – education portfolio) consulted with the the learners and schools who have participated Department of Education, West Coast District, in these National Science Week programmes, to participate in activities related to National and this is why they try to extend the number of Science Week. Other constituencies responded schools and learners participating each year. to a call by Dr Liz van der Merwe through the SAWISE network and the Department of Human Assessment of impact of the initiative Biology for participation in the NSW events. Feedback from the teaching staff.

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Assoc Prof Lester M. Davids.

Purpose of the ES initiative perceived social benefits of lighter skin, and the Changing government policy on the prevalent marketing expertise of the multinational cosmetics use of skin lighteners in the country. companies now involved in their production. In addition, the prevalence of skin lightener use across Brief description of the initiative the African continent has become a common TITLE:The Lightness of Whiteness: a community- part of life in African communities. Ultimately, based engaged research advocacy project. through a planned, strategic approach of meeting Africa, the continent that is home to two thirds with community leaders, informative seminars of the world’s darker-skinned population, has the will be conducted – with question and answer highest prevalence of skin lightener use in the sessions – to glean knowledge of skin lightener world. The chief reasons for this remain varied. use and prevalence within these communities. but it is undoubtedly strongly linked to the Overall, this information will be translated into a

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policy document presented to the Department Dominant form of the of Health regarding the illicit availability and engaged scholarship potential harmful practice of skin lightener use. Teaching and research.

Key thematic issues addressed Dominant mode of engagement Activist research; advocacy; policy change; Policy analysis, with a view to community involvement; skin lightener use. governmental policy change.

Nature of external constituencies Nature of the outputs involved in the initiative Community seminars; policy Community Advisory Boards (CABs) of document; open-access papers. multiple informal settlements in and around Cape Town; WC Department of Health. Assessment of impact of the initiative Will be done in five phases. Phase I: Introduction to Nature of relationship(s) with stakeholders, and explanation of strategy; Phase II: external constituencies Feedback from CABs and government consultation; Entering into discussions; seminars; consultation. Phase III: First draft of white paper policy on skin lightener cosmetics; Phase IV: Feedback to CABs Length of relationship(s) and community forums regarding policy; Phase Ongoing. V: Acceptance of policy and implementation.

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Additional ES activities

Robea Ballo ··Invitation to run Summer School ··SAWise outreach programme to female school Course in January 2017 learners in Malmesbury – August 2016 ··Grade 11 Learners’ Open Day (organised Sharon Prince by Human Genetics) – August 2016 ··Participation in an annual Learner’s ··Tech-talk on CRISPR technology Open Day for school pupils organised – September 2016 by the Division of Human Genetics ··With her postgraduate students, participation Lester Davids in the Science in Our School (SOS) ··Programme Director of the DST-NRF Research programme in the Health Sciences Faculty Presentation Day, Cape Town, February 2016 ··Routinely hosts learners from ··Past 12 months: six radio and TV interviews participating schools [eNCA/DSTV, SABC, CTTV, SAFM, Radio Highveld, RSG] regarding skin lighteners Liz van der Merwe ··Co-convenor of the Science in Our ··Radio interview (SABC) with topic of Schools Programme (2014-current) ‘Women in STEM’ (8 August) ··Current involvement with documentary on ··Collation, contribution and editing of a series skin lightener prevalence for Carte Blanche of career profiles of women in different fields ··Member of the UCT Engaged Scholarship of STEM for the online website publication Programme (ESP) cohort, 2016 of Careers SA (currently being published)

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Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Dr Victoria Gibbon, Division of Clinical Anatomy and Biological Anthropology.

PART I: Nature of relationship(s) with Purpose of the ES initiative external constituencies Osteobiography Service to Heritage Western Cape. No-fee-associated consultation.

Brief description of the initiative Length of relationship(s) When archaeological human remains are exposed Long-term. through building activities, Heritage Western Cape are contacted. They call a biological anthropologist Dominant form of the to the scene to assess whether the remains are in engaged scholarship fact human, to do an osteobiographical report, and Teaching, service and research. to give permission for different levels of research to be done on the recovered human remains. Dominant mode of engagement Public dialogue. Key thematic issues addressed Heritage, archaeology, human Nature of the outputs remains, osteobiography. Official reports to Heritage Western Cape; and when appropriate, to Nature of external constituencies potential research publications. involved in the initiative Heritage Western Cape. Assessment of impact of the initiative Not envisaged yet.

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Drs Victoria Gibbon and Jacqui Friedling.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of external constituencies Service to Forensic Pathology Services involved in the initiative and South African Police Services. Government organisations.

Brief description of the initiative Nature of relationship(s) with We provide a service to Forensic pathology external constituencies services and the police where we are approached Consultation for a fee. to apply our collective expertise on the assessment of highly decomposed human remains. We Length of relationship(s) try to provide an identity or a biological Long-term. profile consisting of age-at-death, stature, sex, and ancestry, as well as any other skeletal Dominant form of the abnormalities or identifiers that can be used engaged scholarship by the police in an official report or affidavit. Service and postgraduate training.

Key thematic issues addressed Dominant mode of engagement Forensic anthropology, human remains. Applied scholarship.

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Nature of the outputs Additional ES activities Official reports. On 12 August the team hosted 50 high- school-level students to demonstrate Assessment of impact of the initiative what is done within our Division of Clinical We assist in the identification of highly Anatomy and Biological Anthropology. decomposed human remains, and our description provides the police with an osteobiography to match to a list of missing people.

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Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine.

Purpose of the ES initiative Science and Sports Medicine. Learners are The aims of the workstations are to engage both divided into groups, and rotate between several learners and teachers around the Department’s interactive workstations. These workstations research strengths, and around the application provide a platform for scholars to engage with of technology currently being used in the research and basic concepts in medical research, South African environment. The learnership and to experience hands-on the cutting-edge programme provides an invaluable opportunity technologies currently being employed by our for our postgraduate students to practise colleagues in the Department. The workstations their communication skills in informing the are designed around selected areas of expertise community about research conducted at UCT. in the Department of Human Biology.

Brief description of the initiative Dominant form of the We host an annual learnership programme, first engaged scholarship launched in 2015, in the Division of Exercise Teaching.

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Dr Andrew Bosch.

Purpose of the ES initiative expert assistance to potential future international- To provide online training programmes for athletes. level athletes on the Maestros programme.

Brief description of the initiative Key thematic issues addressed Together with the High Performance Centre Online training, consulting. (HPC) of the Sports Science Institute of South Africa (SSISA), I have developed and continue to Nature of external constituencies develop a series of online training programmes. In involved in the initiative addition, also in conjunction with the SSISA HPC, a HPC, Maestros; American College of Sports system has been put in place for HPC consultation Medicine (ACSM): Education; International with athletes. I provide training programmes Association of Ultrarunners (IAU). to the provincial athletic association (Western Province Athletics) for athletes who cannot Length of relationship(s) afford coaches, as well as lecturing at athlete ··HPC: started 2016; information sessions and on coaching courses ··WPA: ongoing for many years, but new changes offered by the Association. I am consulted by the in 2016 (programmes); Maestros: Ongoing, over ‘Maestros’ programme run by SSISA to provide many years; ACSM: Ongoing, over four years.

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Dominant form of the Nature of the outputs engaged scholarship ··HPC: Online training; Maestros: Service, and to some extent also teaching. Athlete performance ··ACSM: Education. Dominant mode of engagement All.

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Dr Catherine Draper.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of relationship(s) with To provide a forum for practitioners, policy- external constituencies makers, researchers and students to communicate As the Chair of the Local Organising Committee, I information and raise awareness around Behavioural managed the content for the www.isbnpa2016.org Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA). website, and provided content for the www.isbnpa. org website and ISBNPA newsletters. I managed Brief description of the initiative the @ISBNPA2016 Twitter account, and worked The 2016 International Society of Behavioural with the Media and Marketing team at the Sports Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) Science Institute of SA to co-ordinate a social media Annual Meeting was held on 8-11 June plan in the lead-up to the conference, and to invite 2016 at the Cape Town International members of the media to attend the conference (for Convention Centre. The ISBNPA Annual further details on media: [email protected]). Meeting attracts practitioners, academics and early-career researchers in the fields of Length of relationship(s) behavioural nutrition and physical activity. Two years.

Key thematic issues addressed Dominant form of the Behavioural nutrition and physical activity; engaged scholarship contextual factors influencing these behaviours; Service. intervention strategies to positively influence these behaviours; methods to evaluation nutrition and Dominant mode of engagement physical-activity behaviour-change interventions. Active participation and leadership within a society.

Nature of external constituencies Nature of the outputs involved in the initiative A report. Practitioners who have a vested interest in improving nutrition and physical-activity behaviours. Assessment of impact of the initiative An evaluation report.

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Dr Yumna Albertus.

Purpose of the ES initiative Brief description of the initiative Education and career development. To provide high-school students with informative sessions that highlight career avenues in health and wellness.

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Key thematic issues addressed Dominant form of the Careers in health and wellness; University engaged scholarship requirements for admission. Teaching.

Nature of external constituencies Dominant mode of engagement involved in the initiative Public dialogue and applied research. Cedar House High School. Nature of the outputs Nature of relationship(s) with Lectures and practical demonstrations. external constituency(ies) Joint conceptualisation. Assessment of impact of the initiative Provide each student with a questionnaire to Length of relationship(s) complete before the end of the information 2016. session, which allows their feedback.

Additional ES activities

The Division is actively involved with job- scientific advisory commission. This expert shadowing programs throughout the panel provides individual scientific analysis year; and annually, staff and students to SAIDS on Athlete Biological Passport participate in the Eskom Young Scientist (ABP) results received from the anti-doping programme. This year, Excercise Science laboratory – of South African athletes, & Sports Medicine (ESSM) will also host as well as athletes who are members of two learners nominated as winners in their International associations for whom SAIDS categories, and expose them to the research provides anti-doping analysis, such as and teaching activities of the Division. the International Triathlon Association. ··Teaching: Talks at running clubs; Andrew Bosch community-based education ··I am a member of the International via running -club website. Association of Ultra-running (IAU) science and medicine advisory committee. The Catherine Draper committee is an integral part of the IAU, ··Member of the Scientific Advisory, upholding the highest scientific and and leader of the Early Childhood medical standards for an international Development section of the 2016 Healthy athletic organisation. The committee Active Kids South Africa Report Card. serves to ensure that sound scientific and ··Invited to speak to the staff at medical practice is followed by organisers Rhodes High School on physical of international ultra-races, and that activity and academic outcomes in state-of-the-art facilities are available children and youth (January 2016). on-site and practised during international ··Ambassador for the Cape Town races; and that the sport is competed International Convention Centre, and in in a clean manner, following the highest this capacity, attended the International standard of anti-doping procedures. Congress and Convention Association The committee is responsible for policy Sector Venues International Client/ input and reform of the standard and Supplier Business Workshop in Cancun, nature of medical support at international Mexico, with Megan Arendse, General ultra-races and championships. Manager – Commercial and Business ··With respect to anti-doping, referred to Development, CTICC (May 2016). above, I am a member of the South African ··Invited speaker at the Independent School Institute for Drug-Free Sport (SAIDS) Sport Conference: ‘Developing active,

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smart and healthy learners’ (July 2016). session – Careers in Health and Wellness. ··Invited speaker at the SSISA Schools Provided a two-hour lecture on careers and Sport Summit: ‘Fundamental movement university requirements, and the difference skills – how they fit into the school in streams for health and wellness. environment’ (July 2016). Did a one-hour demo on EMGWalking ··Invited speaker at the OneLife Hub, for Brandon Foundation: Speaker at Common Ground Church: ‘Let the opening evening of the foundation. children play’ (September 2016). ··Motivational speaker: Pelican Swimming ··Member of the South African Association School, Pelican Park – Keeping active as for Women Graduates; have been women in our communities and households. invited to deliver the Margaret Lindsay ··Interview with Dianna Neil from the Memorial Lecture (24 October 2016). Sunday Times, published 20 March, on Brandon Beack’s journey. I provided my Yumna Albertus professional input into his rehabilitation and ··Hosted Cedar House High School neuromuscular improvements over time.

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Prof Nelia Steyn, Division of Human Nutrition.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of relationship(s) with Prof Steyn is a public trustee of the external constituencies International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) The food and beverage industry pays a yearly South Africa. ILSI comprises members of fee to belong to ILSI, and this money is used academia (50%) and the food industry (50%), to fund projects relevant to the focus areas. and they engage in research for the benefit of the country in which they are found. Length of relationship(s) Prof Steyn has been a member of Brief description of the initiative ILSI for about five years. Prof Steyn undertook a literature review on all dietary studies done on children in RSA between Dominant form of the 2000 and 2015, in lieu of the fact that there has not engaged scholarship been a national dietary survey in RSA since 1999. Research, teaching and service is The report will be published on the ILSI website provided by academics of ILSI South and is currently undergoing corrections/editing. Africa. Research and service. This data was also presented at an ILSI symposium held in Durban in September 2015, which included Dominant mode of engagement academics and members of the food industry. Applied research; policy analyses and public dialogue. Key thematic issues addressed Children, micronutrient deficiencies, Nature of the outputs dietary intake, macronutrient intakes. Research reports and articles.

Nature of external constituencies involved in the initiative Members of the food industry and academics from nutrition departments and universities.

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Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Baheya Najaar, Megan Blacker, Nasreen Jaffer, Sharmilah Booley.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of external constituencies To organise an intervarsity quiz among final- involved in the initiative year dietetics students from UCT, UWC and Foodbank SA, a non-governmental US, with a social responsiveness component. organisation that collects food and other products from wholesalers and retailers and Brief description of the initiative redistributes it to beneficiary NGOs. It is an annual tradition that final-year dietetics students of the University of Cape Town (UCT), Nature of relationship(s) with Stellenbosch University and the University of external constituencies the Western Cape get together to generate and Collaborative relationship with Foodbank; we do support camaraderie among the students. UCT some professional work for them, and in return is hosting the event in 2016, and in addition to they provide learning opportunities to our students the outcomes for the students mentioned, we and the Division – this is one such example. are taking the opportunity to reach out to the underprivileged community in the Cape Metropole. Length of relationship(s) We are partnering with Foodbank SA, a non- Five years. governmental organisation (NGO) that collects food and other products from wholesalers and Dominant form of the retailers and redistributes it to beneficiary NGOs. engaged scholarship We are requesting that all three universities collect Service. products that will be packed for distribution by the students on the day. The staff have also Dominant mode of engagement developed a list for Foodbank on the type of Skills transition. products that are affordable, non-perishable and nutritious, to collect and redistribute. Nature of the outputs Input on documents regarding food and Key thematic issues addressed nutrition. Food provided to NGOs. through the initiative Alleviate short-term hunger. Assessment of impact of the initiative Weighed amount of food collected.

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Marieke Theron, Sharmilah Booley, Dr Janetta Harbron.

Purpose of the ES initiative Brief description of the initiative The development of the National Dietetic Norms There is no policy document describing the and Standards for dietitians. Marieke Theron focused norms and standards of dietitians at work in specifically on the food service management South Africa. The Department of Health decided aspects of the document; this has been ongoing to develop such a document, with the aim of since March 2015. In 2016, we have been updating understanding and explaining the role of the the Therapeutic Diets section of the document. dietitian in the South African health professional Sharmilah Booley has focused specifically on context. Representatives from the universities the Community Nutrition section, and Janetta that train dietitians in South Africa were asked Harbron on the Clinical Nutrition section. to work together in developing this document in partnership with the dietitians working for the

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Department of Health. This document will for the Nature of relationship(s) with first time make it possible to set a standard for all external constituency dietitians, and make it easier for new dietitians, The process has been ongoing since 2015. public hospitals and communities to understand where a dietitian may be placed to work and what Length of relationship(s) functions a dietitian may fulfil, including working One year. in the food service unit of the hospital, working in the wards of a hospital giving patients advice, Dominant form of the developing therapeutic diets for patients, working engaged scholarship in clinics in the community, doing research, Service. and serving as a nutrition expert in all areas. Dominant mode of engagement Key thematic issues addressed Policy analysis and development for Policy document, National Norms and Standards public and professional benefit. for dietitians, role and function of a dietitian, hospitals, communities, research, therapeutic diets. Nature of the outputs National policy document. Nature of external constituencies involved in the initiative Assessment of impact of the initiative Department of Health, Directorate Nutrition. Document not yet finalised.

Baheya Najaar ··Nutrition assessment and feedback to standards and policies related to feeding of race entrants of the Sunfoil 10km race. the infant and child, with the aim to improve ··Technical advisor for the Healthy Eating core child survival and minimise morbidity. group of the Western Cape Department of ··Technical advisor for the development Health. Activities included development of of the WoW recipe book. catering guidelines for the workplace, media ··Nutrition technical advisor for the WoW messages for the Western Cape on Wellness since 2015 (phase 1 & 2), and attended the (WoW) team, updates for the WoW resource feedback session for first phase in March 2016. guide, and tuckshop guidelines for schools. ··Board member of Mamelani Projects ··Technical advisor for the infant and young since 2013: NPO focusing on community child feeding task team of the Western Cape development. Involved in youth Department of Health. The focus is on setting projects, community wellness.

Megan Blacker, Kerry Sexton, Baheya Najaar, Nasreen Jaffer. ··These staff members take turns to provide to public-sector patients attending the free dietetic consultations every Monday hypertension clinic at Groote Schuur Hospital.

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Dr Janetta Harbron, Megan Blacker, and the Division of Human Nutrition staff.

Purpose of the ES initiative Brief description of the initiative The purpose is to organise and host a continuing In February 2016, the Division of Human professional-development event for non-academic Nutrition at UCT hosted their annual four-hour health professionals, specifically dietitians, to CPD event, on the latest research and practice convey and/or debate the latest research on guidelines for various nutrition and health- the nutritional treatment of various disease related topics. This event was attended by conditions, as well as the practice guidelines. about 60 non-academic health professionals.

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Key thematic issues addressed Dominant form of the Update nutrition knowledge and practice guidelines engaged scholarship of non-academic healthcare professionals. Teaching.

Nature of external constituencies Dominant mode of engagement involved in the initiative Teaching, knowledge transfer. All health professionals attending the event obtained CPD points and Nature of the outputs certificates after the event. Lecture notes.

Length of relationship(s) Assessment of impact of the initiative: We have organized CPD events Positive informal feedback from for the past three years. attendees; improved knowledge of non- academic health professionals.

Additional ES activities

Prof Nelia Steyn of the Theory of Planned Behaviour ··Appeared on a television interview on at the 2016 ISBNPA congress. sugar and its harmful effects, on SABC2. ··Member of the scientific committee of Janetta Harbron the 2016 World Nutrition Congress. ··Member of the scientific committee of the 2016 national nutrition congress. Baheya Najaar ··With Sharmilah Booley, co-hosted a four- ··Part of the organising committee for the hour workshop on the practical application Western Cape breastfeeding seminar, which of the Theory of Planned Behaviour was a four-hour event hosted by the Division at the 2016 ISBNPA congress. of Human Nutrition at UWC, UCT and US, as well as the Western Cape DOH. The event Kerry Sexton was attended by about 160 delegates, mostly ··In Jan 2016, gave a one-hour presentation and non-academic health professionals. At this discussion on vegetarianism and veganism event she also presented on breastfeeding, in children and adolescents to non-academic and the sustainable development goals. health professionals who attended a CPD event organised by FutureLife, a company Marjanne Senekal that manufactures specialised nutritional ··Chair of the scientific committee of the 2016 products. She received positive informal biennial national nutrition congress. She also serves feedback from FutureLife and from the on the organising committee of the congress, which dietitians participating in the event. is the most prominent nutrition congress in the ··In Feb 2016, gave a two-hour presentation country, and is hosted by the Nutrition Society of about identifying and managing overweight South Africa as well as the Association for Dietetics and obesity in children to parents of in South Africa. It is attended by approximately learners at Wynberg Boys Junior School. 600 delegates, including non-academic ··In March 2016, was interviewed on infant feeding registered health and nutrition care professionals, practices for the Discovery monthly newsletter. academics, researchers and industry partners. ··In March 2016, conducted nutritional assessments and gave advice to Sharmilah Booley participants in the Jive Big Walk. ··Member of the organising committee of the 2016 ISBNPA congress. ··With Janetta Harbron, co-hosted a four- hour workshop on the practical application

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Dr Sudesh Sivarasu, Division of Biomedical Engineering.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of relationship with Needs-assessment seminar, occupational external constituencies therapists from Western Cape Rehab Needs assessments and Joint Centre (WCRC) in . conceptualisation of project.

Brief description of the initiative Length of relationship reScribe™ is a virtually incubated company New. within the Medical Devices Lab. The device is based on UCT’s patent-pending technology for Dominant form of a Hand Exoskeleton invented by Mr Yasheen engaged scholarship Brijlal, Dr Lester John and Dr Sudesh Sivarasu. Research. (rescribetherapy.com). Members of reScribe met with occupational therapists from the Western Cape Dominant mode of engagement Rehab Centre (WCRC) in Mitchells Plain (wcrc.co.za/ Needs assessment. home.html). This initiative would give researchers from UCT access to provincial rehab facilities, and Nature of the outputs also engage the clinician in a government facility Project proposal, joint production of funding to use technological innovations such as this. application for project submitted.

Key thematic issues addressed Assessment of impact Stroke at early age, handwriting The assessment of the impact would be rehabilitation, remote technological done through collaborative efforts that intervention, joint funding application. have taken place since this initiative. For instance, we have already submitted a joint Nature of external constituencies MRC-SHIP application. If successful, we involved in the initiative would use the grant for pre-clinical trials. Occupational therapists from Western Cape Rehab Centre (WCRC).

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Dr Frances Robertson, Division of Biomedical Engineering.

Purpose of the ES initiative Key thematic issues addressed To promote awareness of scientific careers School learners, women in science, among female school learners in the West community outreach, sustainable health, Coast region of the Western Cape. biomedical engineering, HIV, foetal alcohol spectrum disorders, neuroimaging. Brief description of the initiative Participated in the West Coast National Science Nature of external constituencies Week events (10 and 11 August 2016) for school involved in the initiative learners in Clanwilliam and Malmesbury districts, Department of Science and Technology (DST), which involved presenting an overview of my Association of South African Women in Science research career and focus, and engaging in and Engineering (SAWISE), secondary schools discussion with female high school learners. in Clanwilliam and Malmesbury districts.

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Nature of relationship with Dominant mode of engagement external constituency(ies) Popular education/ public dialogue. Relationships included conceptualisation/ consultation with organisations, hosting Nature of the outputs and feedback from schools. Public discussion/seminars/demonstration.

Length of relationship Assessment of impact Two days. Impact will be assessed through feedback from the schools involved and SAWISE. Dominant form of engaged scholarship Teaching.

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Ernesta Meintjes, Alkathafi Alhamud and Marcin Jankiewicz, Cape Universities Body Imaging Centre at UCT; Deon Bezuidenhout and Neil Davies, Cardiovascular Research Unit; Malebogo Ngoepe, Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Purpose of the ES initiative Centre for High Performance Computing, To engage with school learners from Rosebank; Strait Access Technologies designated groups on science, engineering Pty Ltd; Simulia Dassault Systèmes, USA; and technology, and thereby attract them Simpleware Ltd, UK; further external to pursue a career in these areas. constituencies, eg companies involved in biomedical engineering, may be involved. Brief description of the initiative This is a new initiative, spanning departments and Nature of relationship with faculties. The first event is a workshop on biomedical external constituencies engineering for 100 Grade 10 learners from 20 Relationships with external constituencies are secondary schools in Khayelitsha, to be held in manifold, and include joint conceptualisation September 2016 at the Faculty of Health Sciences, with schools and industry, contributions (in UCT. The workshop is conducted in collaboration kind) of industry partners to the events, and with UCT’s School Development Unit. It contributes feedback from all external partners. to the 100UP project (sii.uct.ac.za/sii/100UP), which is based on one of the five objectives of the School Length of relationship Improvement Initiative (sii.uct.ac.za) supported by the Two months. VC. The Grade 10 learners are in their first year of the 100UP programme. During the half-day workshop, Dominant form of the learners will be exposed to different aspects of engaged scholarship biomedical engineering and related disciplines at Teaching. the various units/sites involved, including medical- device development, orthopaedic biomechanics, Dominant mode of engagement medical imaging and image processing, Public dialogue, popular education. biomaterials, and computational modelling. Nature of the outputs Key thematic issues addressed Report on divisional and departmental web pages. School learners, designated groups, outreach, SET, transformation. Assessment of impact Impact is assessed through UCT’s School Nature of external constituencies Development Unit, as part of the School involved in the initiative Improvement Initiative; and feedback from 20 secondary schools, Khayelitsha; CSIR the external constituencies involved.

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Judith McKenzie, Division of Disability Studies.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of external constituencies Development of a massive online open course involved in the initiative (MOOC) on the FutureLearn platform, in Department of Basic Education, and Inclusive collaboration with the Centre for Innovation Education South Africa (IESA), an NGO. in Learning and Teaching (CILT). Nature of relationship(s) with Brief description of the initiative external constituencies Judith McKenzie was the lead academic on a six- The DBE and IESA were involved in the basic week course on ‘Education for All: Disability and design and some of the conceptualisation. Diversity’. She was assisted by Chioma Ohajunwa and Ikechukwu Nwanze, and collaborated with CILT Length of relationship(s) in developing the course. The aim of the course 18 months. was to provide some practical guidance for teachers and parents who are working with children with Dominant form of the disabilities in low-income settings, and to encourage engaged scholarship them to find ways in which they can enhance these Teaching. children’s learning in inclusive settings. Over 750 people completed the course, although much larger Dominant mode of engagement numbers participated in at least part of the course. Open online materials. The feedback was very positive, with participants relating how much they had learned from the course, Nature of the outputs and how it gave them a grounding on how they The course is available online. might include children with disabilities into local schools. The enthusiasm that was generated during Assessment of impact of the initiative the course has led to the establishment of an active We intend to research what this role might be, Facebook page, where members of the group paste and how to develop it further in the second run. their ideas, links and resources on inclusive education globally. The Director General of the Department Additional ES activities of Basic Education (DBE), Mr Mweli, has endorsed ··Consultancy to the DBE for the the course for all educators in South African schools, curriculum for children with severe to and it will be run again in September 2016. profound intellectual disability ··Engagement with SECTION27 on the Key thematic issues addressed development of a position paper on Disability, diversity, open education, professional education for children with disabilities development for educators, inclusive education.

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Professor Theresa Lorenzo, Disability Innovations Africa.

Purpose of the ES initiative evaluation, along with Prof Roy McConkey. The Evaluation of Special Olympics International team consisted of Dr Judy McKenzie, Dominique Healthy Communities initiative at seven sites. Brand, Siphokazi Sompeta and Anthea Hansen. The purpose of the evaluation focused on the Healthy Brief description of the initiative Communities Initiative that was piloted in 14 sites Theresa was the Principal Investigator (PI) for the across four continents during 2012-2015. The

104 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports primary aim was to ensure people with intellectual 2015 we had a one-day online symposium, to disabilities have better access to health services share preliminary findings with the seven sites and and to health-promoting actions, through both with stakeholders in Cape Town. The SOI staff Special Olympics sports and by mobilising local also commented on the final draft of the report. community networks. This evaluation of the Health Communities Initiatives was undertaken in seven Length of relationship(s) locations world-wide and involved interviews Two years – April 2014 to June 2016. with over 500 participants, including athletes, family members and community personnel. Dominant form of the engaged scholarship Key thematic issues addressed Service. Disability, social inclusion and social change, inclusive sport and development, Dominant mode of engagement health promotion, community mobilisation Participatory action learning and and partnerships, sustainability. reflection, online symposium.

Nature of external constituencies Nature of the outputs involved in the initiative Technical internal report to SOI, journal Special Olympics International staff in seven publication on the pilot pending, online sites, namely, Rochester in New York State, symposium with stakeholders. Potential for policy Wisconsin, and Florida in USA; and Malawi, and curricula briefs to be developed. Short Thailand and Romania. We appointed local course, manual for training of co-evaluators, evaluation partners at each site who were conference presentations, internal report to either from a university at the site, or else an SOI, journal publications where possible. NGO or worked independently. We carried out the pilot study in Cape Town, South Africa. Additional ES activities ··Disability access audit for FNB Nature of relationship(s) with Bank City, Johannesburg. external constituency ··As part of a course in the Postgraduate In conceptualising and designing the evaluation, Diploma, AHS4118S: Monitoring Disability in we had constant dialogue with SOI staff in Society, the students worked in five groups. Washington through Skype meetings, and joined Each group worked with a disability NGO, the monthly Webinars with the 14 sites. We trained government department or a higher education intellectually disabled youth as co-evaluators during institution. We did a writing workshop at the the pilot, and encouraged each site to also use end of the course, for groups to rewrite their co-evaluators, which occurred at two sites. We assignments into chapters for a publication, did site visits where we trained and piloted the Disability Catalyst Africa Series 5: monitoring evaluation tools to make contextual changes. Once disability inclusion and social change, published data was collected and analysed, in November by Disability Innovations Africa: Cape Town.

Department of Human Biology (HUB)

Ikechukwu Nwanze.

Purpose of the ES initiative reseller, to test accessibility features of Apple Collaborative research project titled: computers for visually impaired students. ‘Comparatively, what is the user experience of students using Apple’s built-in accessibility Brief description of the initiative features, and the general accessibility solutions Ikechukwu Nwanze, with Dominique Brand offered by the UCT Disability Service: an African and Karina Fischer Mogensen, approached perspective”, with Digicape, Apple premium Digicape Cape Town with a proposal for a

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The postgraduate diploma in disability studies Length of relationship(s) was changed to a blended online mode in 10 months. 2015 to accommodate more learning needs and offer more personalised support to Dominant form of the improve the overall quality of the course, and engaged scholarship to ensure that no student who applies for Research. the course is excluded based on any form of unfair discriminationz, especially disability. Dominant mode of engagement User experience and testing. The students registered for the course arrived with an array of products that had Nature of the outputs accessibility needs for the visually disabled. Research report. Students who need assistive technology are not empowered to engage with the learning Assessment of impact of the initiative material on their own schedules, as they can’t This is yet to be implemented. We will use get licensed assistive technology onto their purposeful sampling to identify five to 10 visually personal laptops. For the last decade, Apple disabled students – not just from our department, has included accessibility features in their but from the University as a whole. Five of the operating systems that would give students students will be given Apple computers to study using these devices the use of the accessibility with, while the other five will use existing assistive features without having to purchase and technologies. We will develop a Likert scale to upgrade extra and expensive software annually. measure various levels of user experience for both groups engaging with their courses, in both Key thematic issues addressed online and offline modes. This scale will focus Accessibility, disability, inclusive education, on students’ ability to complete course-related universal design, visual impairment. tasks without difficulty, or with minimal difficulty.

Nature of external constituencies Additional ES activities involved in the initiative Development of massive online open Apple Education Europe, Digicape Cape Town. course (MOOC) on the FutureLearn platform in collaboration with CILT.

Department of Pathology

Anne-Louise Cruickshank, Division of Haematology.

Purpose of the ES initiative Key thematic issues addressed World Haemophilia Day: to raise awareness Awareness, education. and educate the public about haemophilia. Length of relationship(s) Brief description of the initiative Ongoing. Displays manned at major hospitals, with pamphlets to distribute and volunteers to Dominant form of the explain about haemophilia to the community. engaged scholarship Service to the community.

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Dominant mode of engagement disorders, Over 21 group, meetings with patients. Community dialogue and radio interviews. ··Visits to schools to educate staff and pupils about haemophilia. Additional ES activities ··Haemophilia nurse training, four-day course. ··Home therapy training with families. ··Talks to paramedics and to staff ··Support groups – women with bleeding at private hospitals.

Department of Pathology

Shaheen Mowla, Division of Haematology

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of relationship(s) with To inform Grade 11 pupils from schools external constituencies around the Western Cape about cell biology Joint conceptualisation. research and careers in cell biology. Length of relationship(s) Brief description of the initiative Four years. Since 2013 I have participated in the Grade 11 Learner’s Open Day (organised by the Division of Dominant form of the Human Genetics), in which approximately 200 Grade engaged scholarship 11 from schools around the Western Cape take part. Teaching.

Key thematic issues addressed Dominant mode of engagement Cell biology. Public dialogue.

Nature of external constituencies Nature of the outputs involved in the initiative Increase in public knowledge of research High schools. carried out at UCT Health Science faculty.

Assessment of impact of the initiative Feedback from schools.

Department of Pathology

Professor Collet Dandara, and the Division of Human Genetics.

Purpose of the ES initiative Key thematic issues addressed Grade 11 Learner’s Open Day: This is a flagship Education, career guidance, motivation, programme for the Division of Human Genetics. pharmacogenomics, medical genetics I came up with a proposal to make our Division and everyday genetics. accessible to relevant students in Grade 11 – particularly Grade 11, because these students Nature of external constituencies still have an opportunity to use the information involved in the initiative in deciding what courses they want to do. High schools in the Western Cape. We host at least 35 every year. Brief description of the initiative The programme involves a full day of activities; we Length of relationship(s) host on average 200 Grade 11 learners from across The program is now in its eighth the Western Cape Province, coming from at least 30 year, and is ongoing. schools. The learners are taken through a programme that includes lectures, practicals and workshops.

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Dominant form of the Assessment of impact of the initiative engaged scholarship We intend to carry out a survey among UCT Knowledge exchange. students to get an idea of how many students who took part in the initiative have eventually come to Dominant mode of engagement UCT, and if they were inspired by the Open Day. Public dialogue. Additional ES activities Nature of the outputs Professor Collet Dandara, together with a We write a report and analyse feedback group of academics and professionals in the from learners, and improve on our offering Eastern Cape, continued with their activities to in the following years. Other outputs celebrate and support top-achieving high school include learners who become motivated to learners at Fezeka High School in Gugulethu, register at UCT to pursue their dreams. one of the African township schools.

Department of Pathology

Nakita Laing, Genetic Counsellor.

Purpose of the ES initiative Dominant form of the International Rare Disease Awareness Day: to engaged scholarship raise awareness and educate the public about Service to the community. rare diseases, which are often genetic diseases. Dominant mode of engagement Brief description of the initiative Community and public dialogue, Displays manned at Red Cross Children’s hospital, social media engagement. with pamphlets to distribute and volunteer genetic- counselling students and interns, to explain about Nature of the outputs genetics to the community. Ribbons were also Increase in public knowledge of sold prior to the date to raise awareness, and for genetics and genetic counselling. people to wear “Jeans for Genes” on 29 February. A social media campaign was also supported. Assessment of impact of the initiative Public opinions and conversations. Key thematic issues addressed Education and awareness. Additional ES activities ··Genetics outreach trip, March 2016 Length of relationship(s) ··Genetic Alliance South Africa Board member This is the second year that we have managed 2016 (support group for congenital disorders, to have a major display for the Awareness which acts as an advocacy group and aims Day, with the first being last year at Groote to unite the patient support groups in SA) Schuur Hospital. This relationship is ongoing, ··Human Genetics Transformation as Rare Diseases SA assists us with our patients’ Forum member 2016 needs, and is a support to the community.

Department of Pathology

Lisa Roberts, Human Genetics.

Purpose of the ES initiative about inherited retinal diseases, with the To raise awareness and educate the public patient support group Retina South Africa.

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Brief description of the initiative Retina South Africa provides some funding for Prepared a press release for World Retina research and diagnostic testing provided by our Week (31 August 2015). Wrote a piece for ‘The group. Regular feedback is given to them. Conversation’ published online 23 September 2015 (theconversation.com/explainer-south- Length of relationship(s) -challenges-in-the-search-for-genes-causing- Ongoing (the relationship between Retina eye-disease-47534), and subsequently gave a South Africa and the Division of Human radio interview on ‘’. Provided Genetics was initiated 30 years ago). information to the Retina South Africa Eastern Cape branch, for a presentation to doctors in Umtata (9 Dominant form of the May 2016) regarding patient referral to the support engaged scholarship group and the benefits thereof. Attended the Service to the community, and research. Retina South Africa Western Cape branch AGM (13 August 2016), to give an update on current research Dominant mode of engagement and participate in a panel to answer their questions. Community dialogue.

Key thematic issues addressed Nature of the outputs Awareness, education, patient empowerment. Presentations, written pieces, and a radio interview.

Nature of external constituencies Assessment of impact of the initiative involved in the initiative This is not a formal initiative, and impact Retina South Africa is a support group for visually- assessment has not been planned. impaired patients and their family members. Additional ES activities Nature of relationship(s) with Participation in the formal Human Genetics external constituencies initiative: Scholars Open Day (on 29 August) .

Department of Pathology

Mohlopheni Marakalala, Division of Immunology.

Purpose of the ES initiative Key thematic issues addressed To increase public awareness on World TB day. Immune system, tuberculosis, host-directed therapies, World TB Day, awareness. Brief description of the initiative An awareness article on World TB Day (24 March Length of relationship(s) 2016), was written describing ongoing research Since March 2016. on tuberculosis, and prospects of targeting the immune system for the development of host- Dominant form of the directed therapies that can improve current engaged scholarship treatment protocols. The article was published Knowledge exchange. in the health and medicine section of ‘The Conversation’ (theconversation.com/au), which Dominant mode of engagement seeks to simplify complex science research Public dialogue. to be understandable to the general public. The article may be found at: theconversation. Nature of the outputs com/the-fight-against-tb-shifts-to-fixing-the- Media article for general audiences. immune-system-not-only-bacteria-56695.

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Assessment of impact of the initiative Additional ES activities The awareness article has been widely shared Presented a spotlight talk on TB at the and recommended by social media (twitter global gathering of the Next Einstein and LinkedIn), as well as prominent media Forum in Senegal, March 2016; see youtu. houses such as The Huffington Post. be/1mRTm6qPu1c?t=1m33s.

Department of Pathology

Hlumani Ndlovu, Division of Immunology.

Purpose of the ES initiative Dominant mode of engagement To inspire and motivate high-school learners Public awareness article, public from disadvantaged communities to use dialogue: teaching in workshops. education as a tool to change their lives. Nature of the outputs Brief description of the initiative Published a book that we give to We co-founded Dikakapa-Everyday Heroes learners free of charge. in 2012, with the aim of providing positive role models for high-school learners from Assessment of impact of the initiative disadvantaged communities. We have also We ask the learners to write an essay after published a book of short stories that we give to they have read the book, so that we can learners free of charge during our school visits. assess whether any particular story has had an impact on them. We also give them evaluation Key thematic issues addressed forms after each session, so that we can judge Motivation, inspiration, self-confidence, whether the session was impactful or not. dreams and aspirations, leadership Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health and community engagement. Centre for Public Mental Health.

Nature of external constituencies Purpose of the ES initiative involved in the initiative The purpose of the Programme for Improving We partner with other NGOs who have similar Mental healthcare (PRIME) is to develop, goals to ensure that we deliver the best-quality implement, evaluate and scale up mental service to the learners. We have recently healthcare plans in five low- and middle- established a partnership with iKamvaYouth, and income countries in order to improve health, conduct motivational workshops for their learners. social and economic outcomes for people living with mental illness and their families. Nature of relationship(s) with external constituency Brief description of the initiative We conceptualise and deliver the workshop, The PRIME (prime.uct.ac.za) is a research consortium while they provide us with access to comprising multiple partners, including academic their learners and their facilities. institutions, non-governmental organisations, international organisations and Ministries of Length of relationship(s) Health. PRIME aims to inform the development We have had a long-term relationship with of mental health programmes that improve health Fezeka High School since 2013. We started and socio-economic outcomes. The work is being working with iKamvaYouth in June 2016. conducted in five countries (Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa and Uganda), in three broad phases: Dominant form of the 1. Inception phase: we have worked to engaged scholarship develop feasible and acceptable district- Conducting educational workshops and tutoring. specific mental healthcare plans in all five countries using a range of methods, including

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Theory of Change workshops, individual Nature of relationship(s) with interviews and focus group discussions, a external constituencies costing tool, and the results of piloting. Partners from Ministries of Health, academic 2. Implementation phase: the PRIME mental institutions and NGOs have been involved from healthcare plans have been implemented the outset in the conceptualisation and design of in partnership with Ministries of Health in the programme, obtaining funding, development Ethiopia (eight facilities in Sodo district), India and implementation of the mental healthcare (three facilities in Sehore district), Nepal (10 plans in demonstration districts, development facilities in Chitwan district), South Africa of the evaluation strategy, and adaptation and (three facilities in Dr Kenneth Kuanda district) scaling up of revised mental healthcare plans. and Uganda (12 facilities in Kamuli district). The Ministries of Health have provided the Length of relationship(s) majority of the human and physical resources, The planning for PRIME started in June while the research institutions and NGOs 2010 with all the above stakeholders, and have assisted with training, supervision, and intensified in May 2011 when funding was developing and refining the interventions. received from the Department of International We have evaluated these rigorously using a Development in the UK to support this work. suite of evaluation methods, including repeat The programme will terminate in April 2017. community surveys and facility detection surveys, case studies and cohort studies. Dominant form of the 3. Scale up phase: the plans were adapted and are engaged scholarship being scaled up in partnership with Ministries of Strategic research: government-funded research, Health in Ethiopia (13 facilities in 13 sub-districts corporate-funded research, non-profit-funded in the Gurage zone), India (eight facilities in research, applied/action research; Public Sehore district), Nepal (33 facilities in Chitwan service: expert advice/support/assistance/ district), South Africa (20 facilities in Dr Kenneth evidence/service for public benefit. Kaunda and 10 facilities in Bojanala district). Dominant mode of engagement During the final stages of PRIME we will be Applied research. working to disseminate our findings and the key tools that we have developed to a range of other Nature of the outputs countries that have expressed interest in our work. The outputs of the broader programme are numerous, and so far include 53 peer-reviewed Key thematic issues addressed journal publications and 36 conference through the initiative presentations, 11 policy briefs, a website, Mental health, provision of health services social media presence, a film documentary, research, scaling up of health services, evaluation and contributions to teaching and supervision of complex health interventions, reducing of formal postgraduate programmes (PhD and the treatment gap for mental disorders. Masters programmes at UCT, LSHTM, KCL, AAU). In the implementation and scaling-up districts Nature of external constituencies in PRIME countries, outputs include trained involved in the initiative staff (including district-level staff, medical PRIME is led from UCT, and is a collaboration officers, nurses, community health workers between 1) academic institutions (Makerere and volunteers), improved supervision University, Uganda; University of KwaZulu-Natal, structures, community awareness programmes South Africa; Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; and functioning medication supplies. and the Centre for Global Mental Health, including the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Assessment of impact of the initiative Medicine and the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings There are various ways which we are College London, UK); 2) Non-governmental assessing impact. We are using a variety organisations (BasicNeeds, HealthNet TPO, of indicators outlined in our logframe to Nepal); and 3) the World Health Organisation and determine whether our collaboration has an Ministry of Health partners in all five countries. impact on policy. Some examples of these

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 111 Part Four: Faculty Reports indicators and our achievements are: that the proportion of people correctly identified ··Extent to which PRIME outputs contribute with depression attending primary care clinics to mental health aspects of international had increased from 6.0% to 16.0%, and there development targets beyond 2015 – by was a clinically significant improvement in March 2016, PRIME had been cited in depression at the three-month follow-up. two international policy documents: the 2013 WISH report, and the Disability and The results of our evaluation of the Development Inquiry in April 2014. implementation and scaling-up phases of the ··Use of research evidence from PRIME in key project will also contribute to our assessment policy documents, plans, speeches in the study of impact. For example, we are conducting countries – by March 2016, PRIME had been repeat community surveys in four of the PRIME cited in four documents in study countries. implementation areas to determine whether ··Percentage of men and women suffering contact coverage for treatment of alcohol use and from priority mental disorders in the PRIME depression has improved as a result of PRIME. implementation area who receive evidence- based treatment – by the end of March 2016, Additional ES activities there had been a 115% absolute increase in ··Showcasing of the work of the Alan J Flisher the percentage of people with mental illness Centre for Public Mental Health at the treated in the PRIME implementation areas historic World Bank/WHO meeting on Global in India, Nepal and Uganda (figures not yet Mental Health in Washington DC, April available for South Africa and Ethiopia). 2016: ‘Out of the Shadows: making mental ··2487 people with mental illness in PRIME health a global development priority’. countries (784 in Ethiopia, 543 in India, 450 in ··Ongoing participation in the South Nepal, 263 in South Africa and 447 in Uganda) African National Ministerial Advisory have been diagnosed, referred for care and Committee for Mental Health. entered into our PRIME cohort studies. These ··Co-ordination of World Mental Health Day aim to evaluate the effect of the PRIME mental activities with Cape Mental Health and healthcare plans on health, social and economic other non-governmental organisations, outcomes of people living with mental illness. to raise awareness for mental health. ··Preliminary findings from South Africa indicate

Department of Public Health and Family Medicine

Prof Leslie London, Head: Public Health Medicine Division; Health and Human Rights Programme.

Purpose of the ES initiative Network for Health and Human Rights which has To build the capacity of Health Committees to raised a number of grants to undertake training, act as vehicles for democratic governance in research and policy development to strengthen the health system; to enhance the realisation of health committees as participation structures. A health rights through community participation. human rights approach underlies this work – by recognising health as a right, and participation and Brief description of the initiative information as instrumental to realising other rights. Health committees are community participation structures established by the National Health Act From 2013 to 2015, the LN undertook a and intended to give communities a voice in the comprehensive programme, supported by a health system. However, a lack of institutional number of funders including the European support, poor role clarity and ambivalence from Union and the IDRC, to map the terrain of health professionals severely undermines their community participation through health effectiveness. The Division, though its health and committees across the country, train health- human rights programme, has established a Learning committee members in the Cape Town and

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Nelson Mandela Bay Metros, run workshops at community-systems strengthening, tries to for health professionals, undertake advocacy, address. The design of the project was iteratively and use research to inform policy development. developed and various funders approached, In working with health committees, it rapidly until the EU agreed to support it in 2015. became evident that community activists in health have to deal with a wide range of social Length of relationship(s) problems that are determinants of health – The CMHF and WFP have been working with the including violence, abuse, food insecurity and Division since 2008 in a Learning Network for trauma. To address these social determinants Health and Human Rights. Since 2013, health- of health, a follow-on project at three sites will committee capacity building has been a key focus on strengthening community systems to programme activity for the LN. The director for address these challenges; through local training, TFT worked as a senior trainer for the LN on the networking and empowerment, and building Health Committee project from 2013 to 2015 and the capacity of health committees’ leadership her NGO is now a partner in the new project. to act as agents of change. This project, to be implemented with the NGOs Women on Farms Dominant form of the Project and Training for Transition, will run engaged scholarship over three years, and work closely with health This project is mainly focused on committees in Gugulethu, Klapmuts and . service and advocacy.

Key thematic issues addressed Dominant mode of engagement Poverty, abuse, food insecurity, gender ··Research will evaluate the models implemented, violence, health system, empowerment, and test the effectiveness of different strategies. community systems, social determinants ··Public dialogues at local (community) and higher level of health, participation, human rights. will be an essential component of the interventions – to bring evidence to bear at local level to pressure Nature of external constituencies service providers to be more accountable. involved in the initiative ··The findings will be assembled for a number Two community-based NGOs – the Women on of policy platforms, including portfolio and Farms Project (WFP), and Training for Transition standing committees in local, provincial and (TFT) – are direct partners, receiving partner national parliaments; a National Colloquium funding from the EU through UCT. WFP is an on health committees; and presentations to advocacy NGO based in rural farming areas national government departments (Health and of the Western Cape, with an explicit feminist Justice). A policy brief will also be developed. approach to enhancing farm worker women’s self-esteem, capacity and skills to act as agents Nature of the outputs of change. TFT is an adult education training We anticipate the development of a model for consultancy that uses a Freirian approach to wider adoption. The project is running under an building the capacity of communities to address EU-supported programme called Socio-Economic their challenges. Additionally, the project will Justice for All (SEJA) under the Department of work with the Cape Metro Health Forum (CMHF), Justice. The nature of these EU-supported actions which is the umbrella body for health committees is to provide evidence for systems interventions, in the Cape Metro Health District, and who and we hope to be able to capitalise on this model. were trained through the previous EU project. Assessment of impact of the initiative Nature of relationship(s) with Our previous work with health committees has external constituencies been evaluated and shown to have strengthened The three partners drew up the project proposal the skills and confidence of health committees jointly, based on the experiences of the partners in to act as community representatives (still in the training health committees in the previous project. process of being written up). We have produced In that project, health committees identified many materials for training of health committees and issues they had to address on a daily basis, and health workers that have been widely disseminated it is these issues that the current project, aimed through an Open Access LN platform. Our policy

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 113 Part Four: Faculty Reports interventions have influenced National Guidelines African Sign Language interpreter services for on Health Committees. Our capacity building deaf patients. This research has supported has strengthened health committees’ advocacy undergraduate and postgraduate students for improved policy in the Western Cape. and modelled interpreter services for the Cape Metro, as well as facilitating a training Additional ES activities programme for professional interpreters. ··DR FEROZA AMIEN provides a service at ··MS LORNA OLCKERS leads two SHAWCO paediatric clinics in underserved undergraduate courses for students in the areas comprising free oral health screenings Health Sciences which involve student self- and oral health education to patients reflection and engagement with human and accompanying caregivers. She also uses this rights, with group production of health rights platform to teach medical students at the clinic materials addressing key social problems. how to detect and manage oral conditions. ··DR AMINA SABAN is a post-doc who is ··DR VIRGINIA ZWEIGENTHAL raised a developing a research programme addressing Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC) cultural barriers to treatment access for Xhosa- grant to work with the provincial health speaking men facing drinking problems. The department to research the process of health- programme has kicked off with a situation research management in the Western Cape, analysis of services in Khayelitsha, and is and to develop better systems for research working closely with a local NGO advocating dissemination. This is about applying research for brain-injured patients, many of whom to enhance the impact of research. sustained their injuries as a result of alcohol. ··DR TOLU ONI has developed a collaborative ··DR RICHARD MATZOPOULOS leads an research initiative, the Research Initiative for inter-disciplinary research project addressing Cities and Health (RICHE), which aims to generate the extent and risk factors for interpersonal African perspectives on urban health and violence in the Cape Metro. This project urban health equity, involving a wide range of supports a number of postgraduate students government and non-governmental stakeholders and works closely with City and Provincial health in building an agenda for urban health. This authorities in generating data for evidence- initiative has already provided a platform for a led action by the health authorities and other number of postgraduate students working across governmental departments and agencies. disciplines to advance knowledge in this area. ··ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ANDREW BOULLE has led the establishment of a health data centre in the Western Cape Health Department as a specialist in Public Health Medicine within the Health Impact Assessment Directorate. The Data Centre is a unique initiative which enables the linkage and merging of multiple different data sources related to patient care and patient contacts in the health system. This enables a wide range of research and monitoring to improve health care for users in the province. ··PROFESSOR LESLIE LONDON has a UCT Mobility PhD award for a PhD student, Remmy Shawa, who is researching the applicability of the Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Scientific Progress to the challenge of drug-resistant TB, and the need to develop new treatments for TB. This is an inter-disciplinary collaboration with Prof Fons Coomans at Maastricht University, and Dr Helen Cox of Medical Microbiology at UCT. ··DR MARION HEAP has led an eight-year programme of research around access to South

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Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Prof John Anthony.

Brief description of the initiative Nature of relationship(s) with Service delivery encompasses the provision external constituencies of clinical services and oversight of clinical ··Direct service delivery; services to women presenting for care with ··Consultation and feedback; pregnancies complicated by severe medical ··Professional guidance. disorders, or obstetric haemorrhage. Length of relationship(s) Key thematic issues addressed 25 years. Service delivery, teaching and training, research. Dominant form of the Nature of external constituencies engaged scholarship involved in the initiative Teaching and service delivery. ··Provincial healthcare structures; ··Advocacy through provincial and national Nature of the outputs bodies (eg the National Committee Guidelines and protocols. of Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (NCCEMD) Committee); Assessment of impact of the initiative ··Professional bodies – Colleges of Ceded to the provincial and national structures. Medicine, Health Professional Council.

Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Dr Leann Schoeman.

Purpose of the ES initiative Length of relationship(s) Member of the NCCEMD. 17 years.

Brief description of the initiative Dominant form of the National committee to oversee notification engaged scholarship and assessment of all maternal deaths. Applied research. Capturing of all provincial deaths on MaMMAS programme, and generating triennial Dominant mode of engagement reports with recommendations for reducing Policy generation and analysis. maternal deaths throughout the country. Nature of the outputs Key thematic issues addressed Triennial report. Maternal deaths. Assessment of impact of the initiative Nature of external constituencies Recommendations generated from the involved in the initiative assessments every triennium, with the aim Government. of reducing maternal deaths nationally.

Nature of relationship(s) with external constituencies Assisting with notification, assessment and data capturing.

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Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Dr Malika Patel, Head: Reproductive Health & Fertility Regulation.

Purpose of the ES initiative Dominant form of Department of Health partnership: engaged scholarship service, teaching & research. Teaching, research and service.

Brief description of the initiative Dominant mode of engagement Department of Health and Royal College of Clinical introduction and programme roll-out. Obstetricians & Gynaecologists of the United Kingdom (RCOG) partnered to roll out the Nature of the outputs introduction of post-partum intrauterine device ··New clinical practice; insertion (PPIUD) and comprehensive abortion care. ··Clinical competence of midwives; ··Assessment of quality of service. This programme will assess competency at procedures, healthcare worker attitudes and Assessment of impact patient satisfaction as a way of assessing the ··Competence assessed by theoretical quality of the service being rendered. test after workshop; ··Healthcare worker attitude survey; Key thematic issues addressed ··Patient satisfaction survey. Contraceptive coverage, post-partum contraception, comprehensive abortion care, best- Additional ES activities practice papers, clinical rollout, teaching, research. ··Setting up endometriosis guidelines with Bayer Pharmaceuticals and South Nature of external constituencies African Society of Reproductive Medicine involved in the initiative and Gynaecological Endoscopy; Western Cape Government Department of Health; ··Media briefing on contraception; Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists. ··Writing an article for Medicine Matters on contraception (based on media briefing); Nature of relationship with ··Interview on Bush Radio on menstrual external constituencies abnormalities and pain; Joint conceptualisation, input on best-practice ··Three talks at meeting of South African papers, running workshops, supervision of midwives Society of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists; at procedure, assessing logbooks, assessing ··Setting up job for contraceptive nursing competence, monthly operational meetings. sister to help spread the message of effective contraception in the community. Length of relationship Since 2015 – ongoing.

Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Prof Silke Dyer, Head: Clinical Unit.

Purpose of the ES initiative reproductive technology (ART), with the aim Leading, or actively participating in, professional of generating information on the availability, societies and associations; applied research. effectiveness and safety of these techniques.

Brief description of the initiative Key thematic issues addressed To establish a registry in sub-Saharan Africa for Infertility – reproductive health. the collection of data pertaining to assisted

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Nature of external constituencies Length of relationship involved in the initiative ··International Committee Monitoring: since 2010; ··International Committee Monitoring (an ··Latin-American registry for ART: since 2008; NGO in official relations with WHO); ··Representatives of national fertility organisations ··Latin-American registry for ART; in African countries: since 2015; ··Representatives of national fertility ··Clinical and laboratory directors of ART organisations in African countries; centres: in process of building. ··Clinical and laboratory directors of ART centres. Dominant form of Nature of relationship with engaged scholarship external constituencies Research. ··International Committee Monitoring: committee member; Dominant mode of engagement ··Latin-American registry for ART: advisory Applied research. capacity, assistance with software; ··Representatives of national fertility Nature of the outputs organisations in African countries: Reports and publications. collaboration, registry participants; ··Clinical and laboratory directors of ART Additional ES activities centres: collaboration, registry participants. Reproductive Medicine Committee, International Federation of Obstetrics & Gynaecology: Development of Figo Fertility Toolbox.

Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Mr Jason Marcus.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of external constituencies Development of the Limpopo Maternity involved in the initiative Care quality-improvement package. Provincial health department, University of Limpopo (in which LINC is nested). Brief description of the initiative The Limpopo Department of Health’s Maternal, Nature of relationship with Child and Women’s Health (MCWH) directorate, external constituencies in conjunction with the Limpopo Initiative for Facilitation of training, design, consultation. Newborn Care (LINC), sought technical assistance with developing a package to improve the Length of relationship quality of care received by women and mothers Eight months to date (17 August 2016). using maternity services in the province. To this end, a package was developed to include Dominant form of principles and elements of Respectful Maternity engaged scholarship Care and the Better Births Initiative. Technical Teaching, service. consulting was provided on the content of the package, training material and the facilitation of Dominant mode of engagement workshops to MCWH managers and district clinical Policy development, protocol specialist teams, to develop capacity to roll out development, training interventions. the LIMMCARE package to district managers, and ultimately to frontline health workers. Nature of the outputs Number of maternity healthcare workers (doctors, Key thematic issues addressed midwives and nurses) trained in the principles of Maternity care, patient care. respectful care and better births for women.

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Assessment of impact by local managers and providers. Consulting The impact assessment is still being developed. services are ongoing in this regard. Indicators are in the process of being identified

Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Dr Helen Buchanan, Occupational Therapy Division.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of the outputs To “advance the dynamic growth of quality 2015-2016 President’s Annual report, occupational therapy with a focus on occupation reports published in the official newsletter and a distinct South African identity” (mission (FOCUS), minutes of executive meetings, statement of the Occupational Therapy documents, policy responses. Association of South Africa (OTASA)). Assessment of impact of the initiative Brief description of the initiative Monitoring membership figures; In my role as OTASA president, I provide leadership evaluation of goal achievement. to staff, office bearers and members, as well as the broader occupational therapy community in Additional ES activities South Africa. This entails alerting members to ··Member of the organising committee for current policies and their implications for practice, the 2018 World Federation of Occupational creating opportunities for personal growth, and Therapists (WFOT) Congress to be held in Cape building an inclusive community of all involved Town (first time it has been hosted in Africa). in occupational therapy service, research and This requires attending and participating in education, with the aim of building the profession meetings with the WFOT Executive as well as in South Africa as well as internationally. with the chairs of the local sub-committees, and contributing to various tasks. Key thematic issues addressed ··Responsible for organising the Executive ··Policy; Meeting (held every two years) and the ··Professional information. Council Meeting of the WFOT in Cape Town in 2018 (held every four years). Nature of external constituencies ··South African delegate to the WFOT, which involved in the initiative entails reporting back to the WFOT executive Professional associations, non-profit on various tasks/projects, disseminating organisations, government departments, information from the WFOT to OTASA members, educational institutions, occupational and participating in the Council meeting therapists, occupational therapy technicians, held in Medellin, Colombia in March 2016. occupational therapy students, the public. ··Contributed to a report on quality indicators as a member of the Practice Development Length of relationship(s) Programme of the WFOT. The report was Seven years. submitted to the executive of the WFOT, and a formal task team has now been set up to identify/ Dominant form of the develop quality indicators for occupational engaged scholarship therapy. I am a member of this task team. Service. ··Regular contributor of short articles on evidence-based practice for clinicians in the Dominant mode of engagement FOCUS (official newsletter of the OTASA). Communication (email, telephone, WhatsApp, ··Associate staff member of the South African etc) and dialogue with staff members, office Cochrane Centre since April 2009. bearers, members and a variety of stakeholders.

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Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Ms Tara Kuhn, Division of Comm. Sciences & Disorders.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of relationship(s) with Consulting audiologist to audiology project external constituency at Deaf Community of Cape Town (DCCT). Joint conceptualisation and design, collaborative consultation, obtaining feedback, advice to Brief description of the initiative external non-academic, clinical service, consulting, The content of the DCCT audiology service differs community-based research, action research, from mainstream audiology in that the primary programmes designed for particular groups. resource essential for service delivery comes from the Deaf community itself. DCCT Staff are Deaf, Length of relationship(s) and all come from the community that they serve. Eight years. University Audiology staff and students work with Deaf staff to provide relevant services. The audiology Dominant form of the project provides two services; an audiology clinic, engaged scholarship and a community-based communication intervention Service and teaching. programme. This programme provides access to the Deaf community, which offers support and Dominant mode of engagement sign-language training and resources. Students Service provision at weekly clinic. work in collaboration with DCCT staff, with a Deaf Mommy and Me group and a Deaf old-age Nature of the outputs group that meets monthly. The audiology project World Federation of the Deaf conference also provides support to those clients applying presentation 2013; sustainable for disability grants, employment placement and audiology project over 15 years. family counselling, by collaborating with various professionals involved with the Deaf community. Assessment of impact of the initiative Annual review with DCCT executive committee; Ongoing and sustainable services are provided feedback from DCCT clients and staff. through regular consultation and collaboration with the DCCT executive committee. Audiology Additional ES activities equipment needs, clinic needs, project ··SAAA active member: Attend professional administration needs and collaboration with referral organisation chapter meetings, liaise with SAAA sources and other community-based organisations university representative, member of paediatric are managed by the consulting audiologist. electrophysioloy special interest group. ··Western Cape Deaf Club, Hard of Hearing Key thematic issues addressed Club, and Hearing-Impaired Association Audiology service, community-based (Deaf Club) committee member: Head of rehabilitation, group therapy, multi-professional education portfolio [team developing bursary service provision, collaboration. programme], attend quarterly meetings and AGM, collaborative consultation on Nature of external constituencies service provision and annual projects. involved in the initiative DCCT is a non-profit, grassroots organisation in the Deaf community, working with Deaf and hard-of- hearing individuals and other organisations in the Deaf community to empower the Deaf through various projects, and to raise Deaf awareness. Staff members are members of the Deaf community.

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Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Assoc Prof Shajila A Singh.

Purpose of the ES initiative Dominant form of Accreditation of proposed qualifications/ engaged scholarship academic programmes offered by Teaching. higher education Institutions. Dominant mode of engagement Brief description of the initiative Curriculum Programme Review. The Council on Higher Education reviews applications of new programmes to be Nature of the outputs offered by higher education institutions. Accreditation reports, with recommendations.

Key thematic issues addressed Assessment of impact Programme accreditation. Assessed based on HEQC approval of recommendations. Nature of external constituencies involved in the initiative Additional ES activities Council on Higher Education. ··HPCSA – Professional Board for Speech Language and Hearing Professions. Nature of relationship with ··Education Committee co-opted member. external constituencies ··Working group compiling and finalising Consultation. professional practice guidelines. ··School screening. Length of relationship 1.5 years.

Department of Public Health and Family Medicine

Assoc Prof Derek Hellenberg, Head: Family Medicine Division.

Purpose of the ES initiative There was very positive feedback from the To improve access to district-level health services participants, to the effect that they understood through an intervention language-learning the context of the patient better and were programme for staff at health facilities. able to communicate at a basic level with the patient in their mother tongues. Brief description of the initiative UCT FHS introduced isiXhosa and The Western Cape Department of Health could see language learning with the introduction of the the benefits that this programme held for improving revised undergraduate curriculum, in 2002. At communication between staff and patients, and the same time, the grant covered language thus improving access to health care services. As teaching for health staff at two community a consequence, the Western Cape Department of health centres at Delft and , where Health has agreed to fund a staff language-learning the language disparities were greatest between programme over the next three to five years. staff and patients. Both isiXhosa and Afrikaans courses (for beginners and intermediate) Key thematic issues addressed were offered over twelve-week blocks, with Extension of language-teaching programme pre-, mid- and post-course assessments and from undergraduate to postgraduate level; course evaluations being conducted. community-based staff learning of languages;

120 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports access to healthcare services; more focused on ··The teaching aspect is designed to understanding the patient context; avoiding improve communication skills between unnecessary investigations and expenditure. health professionals and patients, thus improving access to health care services. Nature of external constituencies ··When starting the new project, the research involved in the initiative will again focus on participant progress, The Division of Family Medicine worked closely and also the value patients and participants with the Afrikaans and isiXhosa sections of the place on the improved language skills of the Department of Languages and Literatures and the staff, and how this affected their access. Faculty of Humanities at UCT to undertake this ··Presentations to the Western Cape Department project. There was also close co-operation with of Health, and the local facilities/health the Northern Sub-structure within the forums, in order to promote the concept Western Cape Provincial Department of Health. of language learning for their staff.

Nature of relationship(s) with Nature of the outputs external constituencies ··A pilot curriculum was developed based on The Division of Family Medicine, the Afrikaans and the undergraduate medical-student curriculum isiXhosa sections of the Department of Languages for use in the staff language-learning project. and Literatures at UCT and the Northern Tygerberg Once this model has been established in Sub-structure of the Western Cape Department of the Western Cape, it is envisaged that it Health jointly drew up the proposal. The community will be extended to other provinces. health forums in those areas were also consulted, ··Two journal articles have been written, and their advice was taken on board. It was only with colleagues from the University after this extensive consultation process that the of Minnesota in the USA. staff language-learning project was implemented. ··The programme has also been presented at a few national and international conferences. Formal pre-, mid- and post-course assessments were done to measure the performance of Assessment of impact of the initiative participants on the course. Course evaluations were This has not been done, but it is intended that conducted to receive feedback from participants this aspect will be incorporated into the extended as to how the course could be improved. staff language project when it is implemented in There was an arrangement with CHED September 2016. Future research will measure to issue certificates to graduands who how the improved staff language understanding successfully completed the course. has contributed to improving access to health services for the community they serve. Length of relationship(s) The Division of Family Medicine has been working with the partners since July 2013, for the duration Additional ES activities of the EU grant up to June 2015. Subsequent to this, the Division has forged an ongoing Dr Noor Parker and Dr Farzanah Begg relationship in that the project group has been Run the SSM for the BaDr course, in which contracted to provide isiXhosa and Afrikaans students reside in one of Langa, Gugulethu language tuition to staff of the Western Cape or to immerse themselves in Department of Health as from 1 September 2016. the Afrikaans or isiXhosa languages, while completing a community research project which Dominant form of the encompasses both language and clinical skills. engaged scholarship Interactions with community representative This project was mainly focused on teaching cultural organisations in arranging lodging for students, context, as well as isiXhosa and Afrikaans, to staff as well as for their safety. This programme has members of the Delft and Kraaifontein CHCs. been operational since 2009, and has grown in popularity. Patients, community representatives Dominant mode of engagement and facility staff all support the students, and are The project has a wide range of engagement: always keen to hear their presentations on the

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 121 Part Four: Faculty Reports completion of their projects. The SSM outputs Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT), which are a completed community research project and scores the quality of care delivered at a primary a video recording of the student presentations. level. The results of this research have been The staff also perform voluntary service at fed back to the management in the Winelands the Etafeni Centre in Nyanga twice a year. District and the Western Cape Department of Health, who have incorporated some of the recommendations into their practice. There Dr Mosedi Namane are also a number of African countries that The Family Physician in charge at the Vanguard have expressed interest in the tool, and he has Student Learning Centre; coordinates and provided training for them in this regard. promotes community-based education, and interdisciplinary learning and teaching. She delivers clinical services to the community, Associate Professor Derek A Hellenberg and has a clinical governance function for the PI for EU project that ended in 2015, which had sub-district. She serves on many provincial five family-medicine packages, all with the purpose committees, which fulfil a quality-assurance of improving access to healthcare services. This role in the delivery of health services. Clinical included a pilot project to implement languages head of ecosystem in Western sub-district; teaching, in conjunction with paediatric teaching member of the Provincial PTC; successfully at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital. He also implemented projects for retention in care of supports the work of the HPCSA, and was the mentally ill patients and vulnerable children evaluator for the Internship Committee until discharged from hospitals; established a formal October 2015. He performs regular practice private/public partnership with a company in inspections where complaints have been laid; Epping. Vanguard assists them to follow DOH he was a member of team that did postgraduate protocols, and provides them with medication. programme inspections at the University of Pretoria in 2015, and more recently Walter Sisulu University, in July 2016. He is involved in Dr Liesl Morales-Perez the Khayelitsha Hospital Board: UCT delegate/ The Family Physician in charge of the Vredenburg member. He chaired a workshop to plot a way Teaching site and provides extensive community- forward for the implementation of a palliative- based teaching and learning opportunities care programme within the MDHS. Voluntary for medical students. Also facilitates regular service at the Etafeni Centre. Negotiated with interdisciplinary activities between medical and the Cape Clothing Industry Health Care Fund for health and rehabilitation sciences students. our second- and third-year students to receive Supports hospital doctors to appropriately teaching and training at their Salt River Clinic. facilitate learning and skills development of sixth-year students at Vredenburg; assists with critical/difficult cases, as well as when there is Dr Angela de Sa a service demand at Vredenburg Hospital. Engaged with community structures in the Retreat area. Also involved with CFP and South African Academy of Family Practice activities. Dr Abdul Isaacs, Dr Tsepo Motsohi and Dr Beverley Schweitzer All are involved in the College of Family Dr Elma de Vries Physicians assessment activities. Dr Schweitzer Together with colleagues in the Division of performs voluntary service at the Etafeni Family Medicine, developed a chronic disease Centre in Nyanga. Dr Motsohi is actively audit tool which is used across the Western involved with community structures to combat Cape for an annual audit exercise. She was the gang violence in the Hanover Park area. leader of the family-medicine sub-group that obtained the EU Grant to pilot a ‘patient voice’ in the chronic disease audit document. This was Dr Graham Bresick accepted by the province, and is now part of the Has done significant work relating to the audit process. She is a senior Family Physician at

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Mitchell’s Plain Hospital, and played a key role of African Palliative Care Research Network. in the commissioning of the new Mitchell’s Plain She was a member of the Harvard Global Equity Hospital in 2013. Several provincial leadership Initiative – Lancet Commission on global access roles, including chairing the MDHS Family to pain control and palliative care. Contributed Physician forum, and being a member of the to planning meeting of MDHS for integration Metro Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee, of palliative care into the Cape Metro. She is Provincial Integrated Audit Steering Committee, developing a strategic plan on behalf of the Provincial Antibiotic Stewardship committee, Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance to continue and the Laboratory Expenditure Containment high-level advocacy; promotes palliative care Project team. National leadership roles have education; assists in country development of included RuDASA chairperson, President of the palliative care services. Active in writing and Board of Médecins Sans Frontières South Africa, editing articles for eHospice – international news member of the steering committee of the Rural platform for hospice and palliative care. Close Health Advocacy Project, and member of the association with HPCA has certainly assisted our Management Committee for Gender DynamiX. students to access Hospice facilities, and receive Co-authored a guide for general practitioners excellent tuition from their staff. Our registrars about hormone therapy for transgender persons. also do part of their training at Hospice, and do house visits with the nursing staff. Students are assessed on all the work they do at Hospice. Dr Elizabeth Gwyther CEO Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa; Chair of Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance; Dr Rene Krause Director of African Palliative Care Association; Strong links to HPCASA, and does voluntary Director of Pain SA; Director eHospice; Member work for the organisation. Leading the of the WHO ad-hoc technical Advisory Group incorporation of palliative care into all on Palliative Care and Long-Term Care; Member levels of health service in the MDHS.

Department of Public Health and Family Medicine

Professor Rodney Ehrlich, Professor Mohamed Jeebhay, Dr Shahieda Adams and Dr Amy Burdzik – The Occupational Medicine Clinic at Groote Schuur Hospital, Occupational Medicine Division (Head: Prof Mohamed Jeebhay).

Purpose of the ES initiative hand surgeons, occupational therapists To provide an occupational medicine service and other professionals, the occupational to workers and employers (members of the medicine specialists and registrars staffing public) that spans diagnostic and therapeutic the clinic have not only provided diagnostic services, management of impairment and and therapeutic services, but also supported disability, and access to workers’ compensation. workers with compensation claims to realise their workplace and compensation rights Brief description of the initiative in an often unsupportive environment. The Occupational Medicine Clinic at Groote Schuur Hospital was established in 1990 as a Medical benefit examinations under the collaboration between the then-Department Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works of Community Health and the Department Act are provided. The clinic also works of Medicine. The clinic has provided a with employers and worker representatives comprehensive service to thousands of workers to improve workplace conditions, thereby affected by hazardous exposures in their promoting the health and safety of workplaces in work over the past quarter century. Working the province. The clinic also serves as a sentinel with respiratory physicians, dermatologists, centre for the identification of both occupational

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 123 Part Four: Faculty Reports diseases and deficiencies in the systems for and efficiencies within the compensation prevention, management and compensation of system and their impact on workers’ lives. workers. Clinic staff have used this experience to advocate for specific reforms of the workers’ Dominant mode of engagement compensation system in South Africa. The In addition to policy guidelines, advocacy clinic has thus served to link its role in medical and community outreach, for example via care with the mission of improving the lives appearance on radio and Cape Town TV in of South African workers. Multi-disciplinary a programme entitled Worker’s World to case management, together with other public discuss the compensation system and systemic interest groups – covering medical, legal, challenges experienced by workers injured or labour-relations and social-security dimensions. diseased as a result of occupational disease.

Key thematic issues addressed Nature of the outputs Diagnosis of occupational disease; facilitation Patients seen and clinical of legislative compliance through reporting assessments performed. of occupational disease to Department of Labour; facilitation and assistance with Assessment of impact of the initiative access to compensation; assessment of Plan to register a clinical database with the medical impairment and fitness to work; Health Sciences Research Ethics Committee, post-employment medical surveillance of and start collecting accurate statistics to high-risk workers such as miners through evaluate burden of disease and clinical performance of biennial medical-benefit profile of patients seen at the occupational examination; advocacy and systemic reform. medicine clinic (this is in progress).

Nature of external constituencies Additional ES activities involved in the initiative The divisional staff are also actively involved Department of Health; civil society entities in providing technical policy and programme such as the Industrial Health Research support in occupational health and safety to Group and the Legal Resources Centre. the Provincial Department of Health, Health Impact Assessment Directorate, with regard Nature of relationship(s) with to the occupational health and safety needs external constituencies of the health workforce in the province. Dr Provision of infrastructure and administrative Shahieda Adams has lead a research project support by the Western Cape Department of investigating the role of TB screening tests Health; clinical evaluation of complex cases from in detecting TB among healthcare workers in Department of Health referred via the Groote the Western Cape. Prof Mohamed Jeebhay is Schuur staff occupational health service. conducting research together with doctoral student Dr Hussein Mwanga on allergy and Length of relationship(s) asthma associated with cleaning agents in large The clinic has been in existence for 26 years. tertiary hospitals in the Western Cape and Tanzania, in order to develop safer chemical Dominant form of the usage and promote green hospitals. The staff engaged scholarship in the Division also serve on the Specialist Service primarily to those employees Occupational Medicine Reference Panel of the and employers with limited or no access Asbestos Relief Trust and the Khubeka Trust, to workplace-based occupational health established through litigation suits to secure services. The clinic also serves as a teaching workers’ compensation access to workers platform for occupational medicine registrars with asbestos-related diseases, silicosis and during the course of their clinical training. tuberculosis associated with mining activities. There is some scope for research, and some publications have been generated in the past year based on clinic patients and experience, primarily to highlight challenges

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Department of Public Health and Family Medicine

Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division (Head: Prof Landon Myer).

Purpose of the ES initiative Dominant mode of engagement To provide intensive biostatistics training to Training. researchers from other African countries. Nature of the outputs Brief description of the initiative Training materials, and researcher trained. Each year, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics staff led by Maia Lesosky travel to Assessment of impact of the initiative Blantyre, Malawi to teach epidemiology and The course tracks the achievements of biostatistics to over 50 clinical researchers from trainees, including publications, scholarships across Africa. The work is part of an annual course received and research funding obtained. run by the University of Malawi and the Pan-Africa Thoracic Society that works to develop research Additional ES activities capacity across the continent. Clinical research ··Leadership of Western Cape R Users Group in this group tends to be focused on the main which is a learning/teaching platform drivers of respiratory illness, including indoor and for statistical software (R). There are outdoor biomass pollution and tuberculosis. Course monthly seminars, an active social media content included study design, measurement in presence, and a web page and forum. research, sample-size estimation, and data analysis. ··Leadership of Data/Software Carpentry programs. An initiative aimed at bringing Key thematic issues addressed programming/technical skills to non-quantitative Research methods, biostatistics, clinical research. researchers. These sessions are taught quarterly across the country by Division staff. Nature of external constituencies ··Membership in PMTCT Technical Working involved in the initiative Group and Steering Committee, South Research centres across sub-Saharan Africa. African National Department of Health. ··Consultations on HIV viral load monitoring Nature of relationship(s) with in pregnancy, Kingdom of Swaziland Ministry external constituencies of Health, Zimbabwe Ministry of Health, Collaborative design and conduct World Health Organisation, PEPFAR. of training programme. ··Membership of Clinical Guidelines Group, World Health Organisation HIV Department. Length of relationship(s) ··Membership of Research Committee, Since 2013. Cancer Society of South Africa. ··Membership of Data Safety Monitoring Boards: Dominant form of the World Health Organisation, US National Institutes engaged scholarship of Health, Africa Centre for Health & Population Teaching. Studies, US National Institutes of Health.

Department of Public Health and Family Medicine

Head: Prof Lucy Gilson, Health Policy and Systems Division.

Purpose of the ES initiative and researchers in the Western Cape; to build The purpose of the Western Cape Health Policy trust and mutual understanding in a safe and Systems Journal Club is to strengthen ties environment; and to more effectively share and learning between health system practitioners experiences and evidence between sectors.

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Brief description of the initiative Length of relationship(s) The Western Cape Health Policy and Systems Bi-monthly since 2012. Journal Club is an initiative that has been running since 2012. On a bi-monthly basis, a Dominant form of the small group of around 20 to 30 researchers and engaged scholarship managers who are engaged in health systems All (research, teaching and service). practice and research in the Western Cape gather at a venue at UCT. The researchers mainly Dominant mode of engagement come from different units and departments Public dialogue. at UCT, the University of the Western Cape (School of Public Health), the Health Systems Nature of the outputs Trust, Stellenbosch University, and the Medical Internal notes and briefs, CPD points for the Research Council (Health Systems Unit). The practitioners, shared ideas and joint research managers mainly come from the Western Cape projects have emerged as a result. Department of Health, including provincial, regional and sub-district managers, and from Assessment of impact of the initiative the City of Cape Town health department. This has been externally evaluated, and has been assessed as highly valued by all participants. A standard journal club format is practiced – where two papers on a specific topic are Additional ES activities carefully selected, presented and discussed. ··Support for African Health Policy & Systems Examples of topics that have been covered Research (AHPSR) teaching through the include community accountability, translating Consortium for Health Policy and Systems evidence to practice, health systems leadership, Analysis in Africa (CHEPSAA), website health systems resilience, mental health, www.hpsa-africa.org (including sharing of and non-state providers (among others). materials, and support for teaching); ··Support of Low & Middle Income (LMIC) A key feature of this initiative is that we health leaders to attend University of the seek to ensure that the journal club space Western Cape Winter School HPSR courses is ‘protected’ – where practitioners and in 2015 and 2016 (supported through the researchers can discuss evidence and its Collaboration for Health Systems Analysis relevance for their contexts together in safety. and Innovation (CHESAI project); ··Activities towards the development of a Key thematic issues addressed Doctoral Programme in Public Health (with Public dialogue, service learning, colleagues in Ghana and Uganda); applied research, knowledge exchange, ··Several consultancies by Health Policy and practice research engagement. Systems Development (HPSD) staff (to World Health Organisation, United Nations AIDS, Nature of external constituencies the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems involved in the initiative Research, other African health system Researchers and staff from the University of managers, and the local SA health system); the Western Cape (School of Public Health), ··Policy engagement in South Africa – through Health Systems Trust, Stellenbosch University, the Wholesystem Project, the Schools Project; the Medical Research Council (Health ··Policy engagement in Ghana – through the Systems Unit), the Western Cape Department AHPSR Ghanaian study with non-state providers; of Health, and the City of Cape Town. ··Organised workshops and seminars with other LMIC guests, with a focus Nature of relationship(s) with on South-South engagement; external constituencies ··Involvement in and organisation of civil Joint planning and conceptualisation (jointly society engagement – including participatory deciding this is worth doing, jointly deciding asset mapping workshops in communities on what topics need discussing, sharing in South Africa, Ghana and Zambia; responsibility for preparing the readings). ··Continued participatory research engagement

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with local sub-district health managers – and Management in Health Care; through the District Innovation and Action ··Jill Olivier is Board Member of the Learning for Health System (DIAHLS) project; Joint Learning Initiative on Faith ··Collaborative development of future research and Local Committees; projects with health systems partners, including ··Maylene Shung King is a board member of the Wholesystem project (successfully three advisory boards to promote Child Health: awarded), the AHPSR-Ghana study (successfully Project Advisory Committee of the Children’s awarded), and a new proposal for a joint Hospital Trust of the Red Cross War Memorial SA-India-Kenya study to the Joint HPSR Hospital (RCWMH); Advisory Board of PaedsPal Medical Research Council (not yet known); (newly established NGO to promote services for, ··Involvement of several HPSD staff in Health and provide services to, children with palliative Systems Global, a Professional society – care needs); Advisory Board for Resources including involvement in the Programme Aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Working Group and Scientific Committee for Neglect (RAPCAN), NGO advocating for the the Fourth Global Health Systems Research prevention of child abuse and neglect); Symposium, Vancouver, November 2016; ··All HPSD staff continue to be involved in ··Lucy Gilson is a member of the Board of publication and knowledge translation Health Systems Global and has been a – including several publications that member of the Interim Advisory Board of are jointly authored with health system the South African Academy for Leadership practitioners and community members.

Department of Public Health and Family Medicine

Associate Professor Christopher Colvin, Ms Alison Swartz, Ms Zara Trafford, Social and Behavioural Sciences Division. Namhla Sicwebu, Tebogo Mokganyetji, Kim Tapscott, Amy Bustamam (postgraduate students). Assoc Prof Christopher Colvin, Head: Department of Public Health and Family Medicine.

Purpose of the ES initiative formative research for the Programme with children, Support the development, piloting and caregivers and health community staff. In the evaluation of a new caregiver-led child current phase, we are conducting a mixed-methods disclosure programme for children with HIV. process evaluation to track the implementation of the CDP at a new facility in Khayelitsha. Brief description of the initiative In response to the challenges surrounding child Key thematic issues addressed HIV disclosure in South Africa, Médecins Sans Child disclosure, HIV, implementation research. Frontières (MSF) developed a caregiver-led child disclosure programme. Child disclosure is generally Nature of external constituencies initiated and managed by health facility staff. In involved in the initiative contrast, the Caregiver-led Disclosure Programme Non-governmental organisations (including (CDP) empowers caregivers to initiate and sustain clinical ones such as MSF and community- the disclosure process with their children in their based support services such as Yabonga and homes. The CDP was first piloted at Ubuntu Generation Ubuntu); child-caregiver dyads and Clinic in Khayelitsha in 2011. Using a series of families; healthcare workers and managers. booklets for both children and their caregivers, the Programme aimed to ensure that the process Nature of relationship(s) with of disclosure was integrated within homes and external constituencies communities, between children and families. DSBS MSF made the request for support on this researchers initially conducted qualitative research project to the DSBS, and has been jointly to inform a process of improving and adapting the involved in the conceptualisation, design and booklet materials. We also conducted qualitative implementation of the project from the beginning.

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Length of relationship(s) have formal plans to assess the impact of Two years and counting. the DSBS/MSF partnership, but a good outcome would be a successful/useful project Dominant form of the and plans for ongoing collaboration. engaged scholarship Engaged research. Additional ES activities ··Field School for Community Dominant mode of engagement Health Research Methods; Applied/operational research. ··Iliso Lamakhosikazi (women’s support group for chronic disease management); Nature of the outputs ··iALARM/Sonke partnership to support Revised booklets and a revised programme HIV-positive men through the HIV cascade protocol; academic journal articles; presentations of prevention, treatment and care; to community members and healthcare ··The CERQual Project: development of workers; consultative meeting with other new methods to enable policymakers clinicians, NGOs and academics in Southern to assess confidence in the findings Africa working on child disclosure. from qualitative systematic reviews; ··People’s Health Movement applied Assessment of impact of the initiative research project on health activism, Our research project itself is an evaluation campaign building, and community of the child disclosure programme. We don’t health workers in South Africa.

Department of Public Health and Family Medicine

Head: Assoc Prof Hanna-Andrea Rother, Environmental Health Division. Associate Professor Hanna-Andrea Rother, Ms Nanzi Khumalo (Project Coordinator), Mr Kiren Reggo (Knowledge Management Project).

Purpose of the ES initiative to build the capacity of regulators in LMIC. To build national and regional capacity and Along with the development of the programme the capacity of lower/middle-income countries in 2011, the Division of Environmental Health globally to manage, reduce and prevent continued in 2016 to develop capacity building pesticide-linked health and environmental through a multi-pronged initiative incorporating risks, particularly for vulnerable populations service, teaching/training and research. This exposed to highly hazardous pesticides. includes conducting primary research on the specific problems faced in LMIC related to Brief description of the initiative pesticide use, in order to ensure the capacity Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) have a development initiatives are based on an LMIC high use and exposure risk to pesticides used in context and not an HIC context. Specifically, a agriculture, forestry, public health, public domains Memorandum of Understanding is being entered and domestically in homes. In High Income into with the City of Cape Town to conduct a Countries (HIC), 80 to 250 government staff are large-scale research project assessing pesticide dedicated to the regulation of pesticide use, use in low-income communities, and to develop compared to two to 10 in LMIC. The Food and participatory community-based interventions. Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations Technology has been used and continues to be (FAO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) explored for providing information-sharing and have developed a voluntary Code of Conduct problem-solving platforms. These include teaching on Pesticide Management, which is meant to through distance learning; a bi-monthly virtual support LMIC regulators. The FAO approached seminar with global experts, regulators, NGOs UCT to develop a postgraduate programme and academics to discuss the latest issues and

128 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports problems related to pesticide, and to collectively training, applied research, curriculum development, identify solutions; twitter and WhatsApp for intervention development and implementation. information-sharing and networking; and a daily distribution of latest research and global policies Nature of the outputs through an electronic list server. This project ··25 students registered for postgraduate also participates in national and international diploma in Pesticide Risk Management; policy development, particularly to address ··Two Master of Public Health students the needs, context and problems in LMIC. – one graduated in June 2016; ··Four multi-stakeholder meetings; Key thematic issues addressed ··One policy brief; Environmental determinants of health; pesticides; ··Several technical reports; capacity building; knowledge exchange; ··Four training sessions; vulnerable populations in low- and middle- ··Six email messages daily on new research, income countries, pest infestations, low-income policies, training opportunities, questions communities, participatory interventions, from members to 365 members; participatory training/curriculum development, ··400 stickers on how to read community-based education; policy development. pesticide and chemical labels; ··Two conferences and one seminar presentation; Nature of external constituencies ··Bi-monthly online virtual presentation/ involved in the initiative discussion with 365 members; ··Government officials representing Health, ··Articles in peer-review journals in the past year: Environment and Agriculture from South ··Rother H-A. (2016). ‘Pesticide vendors in the Africa, SADC, throughout Africa, South informal sector: trading health for income’. America and the South Pacific Island States; New Solutions: a journal of environmental ··International Agencies including the and occupational health policy, 26(2): 241- FAO, WHO, UNEP and the Swedish 252. doi:10.1177/1048291116651750; Chemical Authority (KemI); ··Rother H-A. (2015). ‘Addressing pesticide ··SA and International NGOs; risk management and risk reduction through ··South African provincial and distance learning education’. Outlooks municipal health authorities. on Pest Management, 26(2): 66-71.

Nature of relationship(s) with Assessment of impact of the initiative external constituencies We conduct student evaluations and evaluations ··Consultation, obtaining feedback and of the knowledge-management initiative, policy input, joint conceptualisation and and have a blog for beneficiaries of the design of training and course curriculum, project to post how the capacity-building risk-communication materials and initiatives have influenced their work. community-based interventions. Additional ES activities Length of relationship(s) ··Rother is an invited member of the ··Government – since 1997; South African Bureau of Standards ··Inter-governmental agencies – since 1996; technical committee on pesticides. ··KemI – since 2008; ··Rother is an invited member of South ··NGOs –since 2006; Africa’s Multi-stakeholder Meeting ··SA health authorities – since 2007. on Chemicals Management. ··Rother is an invited member of the SA Dominant form of the Department of Environmental Affairs engaged scholarship Research Forum Steering Committee. Service, teaching and research ··Training SA DEA Working for Water in order of dominance. health and safety officers and managers on herbicide health risks. Dominant mode of engagement ··Rother is a member of the FAO/WHO Joint Stakeholder dialogue, policy analysis, teaching/ Meeting on Pesticide Management.

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Department of Public Health and Family Medicine

Head and Director: Assoc Prof Edina Sinanovic, Health Economics Division/Health Economics Unit (HEU);

Dr John E. Ataguba.

Purpose of the ES initiative Length of relationship(s): Contributing to the design of National Since 2015. Health Insurance (NHI) in South Africa. Dominant form of the Brief description of the initiative: engaged scholarship Membership of two work streams for the NHI Service. in South Africa. The first pertains to the process of ensuring the purchaser-provider split and the Dominant mode of engagement: accreditation of providers, while the second Technical assistance. relates to the finalisation of the NHI policy paper for public release by Government. Nature of the outputs: Contributing to the design and refinement Key thematic issues addressed: of the NHI in South Africa. Universal health coverage; health service benefits; healthcare access; healthcare finance. Assessment of impact of the initiative: None yet. However, this has the potential to Nature of external constituencies improve health outcomes in the country. involved in the initiative: National Department of Health. Additional ES activities: Nature of relationship(s) with external constituency: Member, board of trustees of the African Consultation, advisory and policy input. Health Economics and Policy Association.

Department of Public Health and Family Medicine

Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research (CIDER) – Director: Prof Landon Myer.

Purpose of the ES initiative already been developed to achieve the same. To provide technical assistance to the NDoH, The Ekapa2 software could not be used across Western Cape Province and WHO in improving all clinic environments, as it relies on internet monitoring of the HIV/ART and TB services access to work. TIER.net functions offline, and (drug-sensitive and drug-resistant); and soon, all that is required is a working computer. working on Maternal and Child Health. A three-tier approach allows Ministries of Health to strategically implement one of the tiers in each Brief description of the initiative: facility offering ART services. Each tier produces CIDER has created a software application the same nationally-required monthly enrolment to monitor patients who are on HIV and TB and quarterly cohort reports, so that outputs from treatments. The electronic register is already in the three tiers can be aggregated into a single use in 3 000 clinics in South Africa. The brand database at any level of the health system. name for this software application is TIER.net. The application was developed to help automate Key thematic issues addressed: the capturing and tracking of HIV and TB patient HIV/ART and TB services, technical data. The development of the software is a assistance, maternal and child health. follow-up to the Ekapa2 application, which had

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Nature of external constituencies ··We wrote the first draft of the HIV/ involved in the initiative: TB Integrated M&E SOP; National Department of Health and ··We collaborated on the TB provincial departments of health of South digitisation strategy and vision. Africa; World Health Organisation. Software Development: Nature of relationship(s) with ··TIER.net is rolled out to over 3 500 facilities external constituencies: across South Africa, and is just starting Consultation relationship with partners: we provide implementation in all correctional services technical assistance and design, and develop the institutions. It is also used in projects in Malawi, software and many of the tools – sometimes in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Guinea and is collaboration; often, we write the first drafts. starting scale-up countrywide in the DRC. We were in Sudan and Yemen, prior to the wars. Length of relationship(s): ··National Department of Health – since 2010; Master Training: ··Western Cape Provincial Department ··We provide the master training to of Health – since 2001; the NDoH so that they can replicate ··WHO – since 2003. and improve in the provinces.

Dominant form of the M&E Tools: engaged scholarship ··We author most of the training exercises Research. and M&E tools, such as the audits and site visit task lists that are used nationally. Dominant mode of engagement: ··Technical expert for WHO 2015, 2013 and Policy guidelines and training. 2010 paediatric treatment guidelines. ··WHO technical expert consultations on: Nature of the outputs: --Paediatric ARV drug optimisation; Training, videos, Monitoring and --CD4 monitoring; Evaluation tools, policy guidelines. --Early infant diagnosis and treatment; --Modelling paediatric ART need; Assessment of impact of the initiative: --Strategic use of ARVs in Africa. The impact is visible: 3 500 sites are now ··External reviewer of WHO guidelines on reporting much more representative statistics on management of skin and oral HIV-associated their programme and longitudinal cohort data conditions in children and adults. (something they were not able to do previously). ··Technical expert input into national/ Resource allocation to these services is much local paediatric HIV guidelines such as more realistic, due to the more accurate statistics. Southern African HIV Clinicians’ Society The NDoH has commissioned an external guidelines on neonatal HIV diagnosis scientific evaluation, which has already started. and treatment, and guidelines on ART To date there is one research article, which regimens and monitoring for children. undertook a qualitative evaluation of TIER.net. ··Providing specific research inputs to inform development of policy guidelines: Additional ES activities: --Determining WHO paediatric ART initiation CIDER Research: criteria for 2013 and 2015 guidelines; ··Provincial health data centre; --WHO and national guidelines for ··Tier.net. paediatric ART regimen choice; --WHO guidelines for monitoring Policy/guidelines: ART effectiveness. ··We wrote the first draft of Chapter 3 of the WHO ··Involved in Red Cross Children’s Hospital Consolidated Strategic Information Guidelines, ART programme, including providing clinical and participated in the writing of other chapters; care, ongoing M&E, and supporting academic ··We wrote the first draft of the NDoH and continuing education activities. TB Implementation Guidelines;

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Department of Public Health and Family Medicine

Centre for Environmental and Occupational Health Research (CEOHR) – Director Assoc Prof Aqiel Dalvie.

Purpose of the ES initiative Length of relationship(s): Collaboration with Department of Environmental Two years. Affairs and Development Planning on the Air Pollution Project (DEADP). Dominant form of the engaged scholarship Brief description of the initiative: Research. CEOHR and DEADP are collaborating on a study investigating the health effects of air Dominant mode of engagement: pollution on children and adults residing in Applied research. informal settlements in the Western Cape. CEOHR is leading the research, with DEADP Nature of the outputs: providing input, funding, resources and Research reports, peer-reviewed support. The project involves the development publications, translation. of research capacity within DEADP, co- publication of research, community involvement Assessment of impact of the initiative: and feedback, and input to policy. Number of outputs, impact on policy.

Key thematic issues addressed: Additional ES activities: Environmentally marginalised communities, ··The COEHR is collaborating with the Division air pollution, research capacity. of Occupational Therapy in the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, and the School Nature of external constituencies Development Unit in the Department of Education, involved in the initiative: on a schools awareness programme in Khayelitsha, ··Input to design of research, funding, which includes environmental health issues; resources and support. ··The first-ever empirical study of risk perception ··Nature of relationship(s) with related to fracking in South Africa, done by an MPH external constituencies: student and accepted for publication in 2016; ··Joint conceptualisation and design, consultation, ··Partnership with Edith Stephens Nature reserve obtaining feedback, funding and support. on water and health research project.

Department of Public Health and Family Medicine

Director: Assoc Prof Jane Harries, Women’s Health Research Unit (WHRU).

Purpose of the ES initiative women could use their cell phones to accurately Designed a mobile phone application to assess their eligibility for early medical abortion, assist women in determining their gestational via an online gestational-age calculator. This age and contributing to self-autonomy. was the first time mobile technology had been used in this way. Most pregnancy calculator Brief description of the initiative: applications or websites use due-date calculators, The Women’s Health Research Unit, in collaboration and provide other information that is not suitable with a global nongovernmental organization, Ipas, for a woman seeking to terminate a pregnancy. developed and then tested the acceptability and This mobile app represents an opportunity to feasibility of an online gestational-age calculator empower women by providing them with self- called i-calculate. This initiative suggested that assessment opportunities, and with accurate and

132 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports safe abortion information. Seeking services earlier Nature of the outputs in pregnancy is safer, less expensive, and provides Academic journal articles; presentations to WC al more options for women. The ability to self- Department of Health and healthcare providers, assess gestational age using an online calculator managers and policymakers, NGOs and academics has the potential to empower women, providing in South Africa working in reproductive health and them with some self-autonomy of health care. rights; international conference presentations.

Key thematic issues addressed Assessment of impact of the initiative: Self-assessment, empowerment, mHealth, Used by healthcare providers and women; translational research, women’s health. use of this web-based platform by other NGOs locally and internationally. Nature of external constituencies involved in the initiative: Additional ES activities: Collaborated with NGO, and tested feasibility and ··Assoc Prof Jane Harries – Technical advisor acceptability with women seeking to terminate a and external peer reviewer to World pregnancy. Provincial and National Departments Health Organization (WHO) on Sexual and of Health: to be used in the reproductive-health Reproductive Health Guidelines: Health- setting, and in other resource-constrained settings. worker roles in providing safe abortion care and post-abortion contraception; Length of relationship(s): ··Assoc Prof Jane Harries – Steering Committee Three years, and ongoing with other constituencies Member, Leading Safe Choices, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG); Dominant form of the ··Assoc Prof Jennifer Moodley – serves on the engaged scholarship Ministerial Advisory Committee on the Prevention Applied/operational research. and Control of Cancer (MACC), and chairs the MACC cancer-research working group; Dominant mode of engagement ··Assoc Prof Jennifer Moodley – invited to serve Applied research, public dialogue, media on the American Association for Cancer Research interviews, social network platforms. (AACR) Regional Advisory Committee on Africa.

Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine

Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Initiative. Based in the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, in the Faculty of Health Sciences. Director and Infectious Diseases Specialist: Honorary Professor Robert J Wilkinson. Infectious Diseases Specialists: Professor Graeme Meintjes and Dr Armin Deffur.

postgraduate students and clinical staff) Purpose of the ES initiative conducting research in the field of tuberculosis, Our community-based research is an HIV, and HIV-associated tuberculosis and non- important part of our research-group communicable diseases. The main participant activities, as clinical research requires recruitment site is an independently-funded integrity and an ethical approach. research unit on the site of the Khayelitsha Day Hospital at Site B, as well as a unit Brief description of the initiative: within the Khayelitsha Hospital. A specialised The Clinical Infectious Diseases Research service for diagnostics and treatment of these Initiative comprises a group of academic diseases continues to be offered in 2016 to researchers (clinicians, post-doctoral fellows, the community participants for the duration

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 133 Part Four: Faculty Reports of the research projects and includes referrals Nature of relationship(s) with to relevant clinics. The unit has a digital X-ray external constituencies: machine that is available to the provincial ··Leading up to the award of funding grants, clinic site. A strong emphasis is placed on guidance is taken from the funders for the the support of the study participants. area of research supported by the funder when preparing the grant applications. Key thematic issues addressed ··Permission for performing research is obtained Diagnosis, treatment and research from Provincial Health and City of Cape Town of tuberculosis and HIV-associated authorities prior to starting a research project. tuberculosis and non- communicable ··Detailed consent is obtained from participants, diseases, diabetes and hypertension. ensuring their understanding of the research project according to Good Clinical Practice Nature of external constituencies principles and authorisation from the University of involved in the initiative: Cape Town’s Human Research Ethics Committee. Funding is sourced from international ··Report-back given via annual research and South African funders through days, written reports, and feedback to rigorous application processes. the community via open health days.

The current funders in 2016 include: Length of relationship(s): ··Wellcome Trust (UK); Awareness of the high rate of tuberculosis ··European Union; infection in Cape Town led Professor Robert J ··National Institutes of Health (US); Wilkinson to join the Institute of Infectious Disease ··Research Councils (UK) via Francis Crick Institute; 12 years ago to begin research in this field. ··South African Medical Research Council; ··South African Department of Dominant form of the Science and Technology; engaged scholarship: ··Locally, we have a strong relationship with the Research and service. Ubuntu clinic at Site B Khayelitsha, a provincial clinic on the site of the Khayelitsha Day Dominant mode of engagement Hospital, as well as the Khayelitsha Provincial Applied research with aim to improve outcomes Hospital and the other provincial- and City- of TB/HIV infection with a supportive clinical controlled clinics in the Khayelitsha District. service; tuberculosis treatment policy has ··We have collaborated with the following also been altered as a result of research community groups in Khayelitsha: conducted by the CIDRI research unit. --TAC (Treatment Action Campaign) – activist group, with whom we have collaborated on Nature of the outputs: new studies and community education; ··New treatment guidelines --Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has (national and international); assisted with consultation and collaboration ··Early diagnosis of infectious diseases on recruitment of study participants; and non-communicable diseases; -- College is an educational ··New vaccines tested; college that has allowed health days to ··Support of participants in the research studies; be held, giving our community-liaison ··Referrals to relevant clinics; team an opportunity to promote HIV ··Publications in peer-reviewed journals; education to a younger target group; ··Conference presentations; --Khayelitsha Health Forum has been informed ··Feedback to the community on of research projects being conducted, preventative measures to improve health and we have obtained their approval; related to tuberculosis and HIV; --Community Advisory Boards (CABS) have ··Feedback to the associated clinics been convened, with members of the and hospitals via research days; local community advising on culturally ··Feedback to the community via health open acceptable practice within the community. days such as World TB day (24 March 2016).

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Assessment of impact of the initiative: in health due to excellent patient care also The willingness of participants to take part indicates a positive impact of the initiative. in research studies confirms that the studies are being conducted with integrity. We have Additional ES activities: continued support from Western Cape Provincial ··Eh!Woza public engagement project authorities, the City Health Department and the for the youth in Khayelitsha; management of Khayelitsha Day Hospital and ··Voluntary patient care by clinicians Khayelitsha Hospital, as well as the other clinics in within the research unit; the Khayelitsha sub-district, and MSF and TAC. ··Participation in teaching ward rounds at Khayelitsha Hospital; An increase in knowledge of life skills related ··Consultations given by research unit clinicians to these diseases as well as an improvement on request from Ubuntu HIV-TB clinics.

Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine

South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI). FOCUS PROJECT: LIENKIE SE LONGE DRAMA Principal Investigator: Dr Michele Tameris.

Purpose of the ES initiative Length of relationship Public engagement, cultural performance, Between two and four years participatory research. Dominant form of the Brief description of the initiative: engaged scholarship The aim of this project was to engage Worcester- Teaching. area residents through drama, visual art and performance for improved understanding of TB, Dominant mode of engagement: clinical research, and their rights and responsibilities Applied theatre. as trial participants. We used street, prison, taxi and clinic theatre performances to raise Nature of the outputs: awareness about TB, and to develop, pilot and Street, clinic and taxi theatre refine a dramatic script for an adult version of performances, street festival. an awareness- raising TB drama. This drama was then performed at three different venues during Assessment of impact of the initiative: the annual Worcester Easter festival, as well as at Surveys post-performance, post- five community-based clinics in surrounding rural performance focus groups. areas. Short, rapid surveys were done after clinic performances and those at the Easter festival, Additional ES activities and volunteers for post-performance focus-group ··KICK TB & HIV PROGRAMME, MAY 2016 evaluations were drawn from those interviewed. In May 2016 SATVI launched the Kick TB & HIV Awareness programme, through Key thematic issues: which SATVI reached 17 000 primary- ··Street theatre, TB, stigma, adherence, school children across eight towns in the TB clinical research. Cape Winelands District, in conjunction ··External constituencies with the Department of Education (who ··Mothertongue Project, Medical Research Council. funded the programme), Department ··Nature of relationship of Health, and TB Care II-USAID. The ··Participation in a drama project and program followed a format developed by conceptualisation of project, the Kick TB & HIV Programme which, in a

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45-minute programme, teaches children is a novel approach, because the Youth about the signs and symptoms of TB and CAB, who are still being trained in this how to prevent TB. During the programme, photo-novella peer-education participatory TB & HIV coordinators at schools were research approach, have already started given TB educational toolkits and activity writing up the stories of adult CAB members. books developed by TB Alliance, and The project, which is at project proposal many have responded positively that development level, will run for one year, and they will use the material during the third will hopefully result in the production of ten term, when TB is discussed in the Life Photovoice Books, which will be exhibited at Orientation class. This has already led to local libraries and through the local press to a meeting of various partners within the share findings with the broader community. Department of Health working towards TB Partners: Children’s Resource Centre, Child education for vulnerable populations. to Child Trust, UCT Film & Media School. Partners: Department of Education, ··CHELEKA MPANDE, SATVI MSC STUDENT Department of Health, Kick TB participated in Eh!Woza, a Wellcome Trust- & HIV, TB Care II-USAID. funded community engagement project. ··KICK TB POSTER DESIGN The project aims to engage Grade 10 and COMPETITION, MAY 2016 11 pupils from lkamva Youth, a Khayelitsha- During May 2016 SATVI launched the based youth organisation, in terms of Kick TB & HIV Poster Competition, in biomedical Tuberculosis (TB) research, partnership with TB Alliance, AERAS and the and provide the youth with skills and Department of Education, at participating equipment to produce short documentaries schools in the Cape Winelands District. The about TB in their communities. Eh!Woza competition closed on 25 June 2016, and is coordinated by Dr Anastasia Koch, the adjudication process has commenced. a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Partners: TB Alliance, AERAS, Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Department of Education, and the Initiative (CIDRI) at the IDM, and Ed Young, UCT Michaelis Fine Art School. a South African artist. Cheleka Mpande ··TB, HIV/AIDS AND HEALTH assisted with all biomedical research PROGRAMME DIALOGUES, JULY 2016 workshops, and specifically, facilitated the During July 2016 SATVI participated in an TB vaccinology workshop, highlighting the HIV/AIDS and TB dialogue that reached clinical-trial research SATVI conducts. 256 Grade 11 learners at two schools Partners: Clinical Infectious Disease in the Cape Winelands District, namely Research Initiative (CIDRI), Ikamva Youth. the Hex Valley Secondary School (De ··MR KELVIN VOLLENHOVEN, SATVI Doorns) and Witzenberg High School Communications and Marketing Manager, (Wolseley). The aim of this dialogue was is involved with the Children’s Resource to raise awareness among learners about Centre (CRC), a Cape Town-based issues that came out of the AIDS 2016 non-governmental organisation that Conference held in Durban, South Africa. organises peer-education-based children’s Partners: Anova Health Institute, programmes, such as the child-to-child Government Communications Information health programme Values, Girl Child Systems (GCIS), Department of Movement, school-based health centres, Health: Cape Winelands District. and a children’s newspaper, together with ··PHOTOVOICE PARTICIPATORY other media work. Aside from being a MEDIA PROJECT, JULY 2016 board member he is also involved with During July 2016, SATVI embarked on media programmes within the CRC, one the implementation of a Photovoice of which is documenting the history of the media project, commencing among Youth CRC through media content development. Community Advisory Board (CAB) members and later being extended to other audiences (schools and social formations), targeting young people through peer education. This

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Department of Primary Health Care Directorate

Prof Steve Reid.

Purpose of the ES initiative ··Public service: Policy development/ Advocacy for rural health. engagement/systems development, expert advice/support/assistance/evidence/ Brief description of the initiative service for public benefit, involvement in Contributed to the foundation of the Rural Health external (non-academic) structures. Advocacy Project (RHAP), and has been on the RHAP Steering Committee since 2011. Their Dominant mode of engagement: primary aim is to advocate for the rights of rural Applied research. communities to access quality and equitable rural health care, and provide a coordinated voice and Nature of the outputs safe place for rural healthcare workers to channel Health policy changes. concerns and recommendations regarding issues affecting rural health care. RHAP believes that Assessment of impact of the initiative: healthy rural communities are integral to a healthy Ongoing research. nation. Their mission is to connect practice, policy and partners by being a leading resource in the Additional ES activities: field of rural health advocacy that facilitates the ··Medicine and the Arts MOOC; Leadership translation of rural health needs and healthcare Development for Health Equity; compulsory solutions into policy and decision-making. community service for health professionals; Strategic objectives include rural-friendly policies, resilience in health workers; social financing for rural health, human resources for accountability of medical education. rural health, and monitoring implementation. Their ··PRIMARY HEALTH CARE DIRECTORATE 2016-2021 strategic framework encompasses The growing inequities in South African society the fundamental importance of community voice and the persistent negative effects of the social and accountability to the community, to enable determinants of health have been highlighted rural people’s access to quality health care. by the recent student protests and the call for decolonisation of the university and society. Key thematic issues addressed As a unit charged with addressing these through the initiative societal disparities within the Faculty of Health Rural Health policy. Sciences, the PHC Directorate has sought to influence the teaching, research and service Nature of external constituencies of each department using the principles of involved in the initiative the Primary Health Care Philosophy. Themes Government (National Department of of human rights, equity, a holistic approach, Health), non-profit organisations, professional community participation, and health promotion associations, and rural communities. have been inserted into a number of existing Nature of relationship(s) with courses, particularly in the pre-clinical external constituencies: years, with varying degrees of success. Joint collaboration. ··Topics of research into equity in health care include: gender/queer theory; medical Length of relationship(s) health humanities; social health histories; Six years. eco-feminism; meat and masculinities; climate change and environmental health; Dominant form of the developing student agency; people-centred engaged scholarship health systems; community-oriented health ··Strategic research: government-funded care; health advocacy and activism; role research, corporate-funded research, of spirituality in health; developing the non-profit-funded research. ideal health professional in practice and

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education; community mental health; The hospitals in the Eden District include the marginalised communities; and impact secondary hospital in George, and the district of structural and embodied violence. hospitals in Oudtshoorn. Meetings have ··Prof Steve Reid (Director), Dehran Swart been held in 2016 with Knysna Hospital staff (Health Teaching Platform Manager), James in preparation for sending students there in Irlam (Senior Lecturer & Sixth-Year Electives 2017. There are also excellent opportunities Convenor), Dr Hermann Reuter (Eden for community-based learning through District CBE Coordinator), Dr Francois Marais Bethesda Hospice in George and the Ithemba (Eden District Student Coordinator). Lobomi project in Thembalethu, as well as ··The PRIMARY HEALTH CARE DIRECTORATE through other NGOs in the neighbouring (PHCD) has served the Faculty in 2016 via towns. The benefits for the area are enormous, the maintenance and development of the encouraging academics – many with clinical teaching platform. The highlight of specialized knowledge – to visit the district this development has been the extension of and provide services. It will raise awareness the teaching platform in the Eden District in that George is developing through institutions George, where a campus has been established of higher learning, and the presence of UCT for final-year medical students. Fifteen will further raise the awareness of all South students are participating in the initial one- Africans that George is a centre of learning. year longitudinal integrated in-service training Most importantly, it will assist in addressing curriculum in 2016, which follows an equivalent the escalating number of health issues, mainly programme to those based in Cape Town. This due to a shortage of treatment facilities and includes clinical and district hospital rotations, health-service staff, thus facilitating improved two elective periods, and after-hours work. opportunities for the people in the district.

Primary Health Care Directorate

Prof Steve Reid.

Purpose of the ES initiative Key thematic issues addressed Advocacy for rural health. through the initiative Rural health policy. Brief description of the initiative I contributed to the foundation of the Rural Health Nature of external constituencies Advocacy Project (RHAP), and have been on the involved in the initiative RHAP Steering Committee since 2011. RHAP’s Government (National Department of primary aim is to advocate for the rights of rural Health), non-profit organisations, professional communities to access quality and equitable rural associations, and rural communities. health care, and provide a coordinated voice and safe place for rural healthcare workers to channel Nature of relationship(s) with concerns and recommendations regarding issues external constituencies affecting rural health care. RHAP believes that Joint collaboration. healthy rural communities are integral to a healthy nation. Their mission is to connect practice, policy Length of relationship(s) and partners by being a leading resource in the Six years. field of rural health advocacy that facilitates the translation of rural health needs and healthcare Dominant mode of engagement solutions into policy and decision-making. ··Strategic research: government-funded Strategic objectives include rural-friendly policies, research; corporate-funded research; financing for rural health, human resources for non-profit-funded research. rural health, and monitoring implementation. ··Public service: policy development/

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engagement/systems development; expert Assessment of impact of the initiative advice/support/assistance/evidence/ Ongoing research. service for public benefit; involvement in external (non-academic) structures. Additional ES activities ··Applied research. ··Medicine and the Arts MOOC; ··Leadership Development for Health Equity; Nature of the outputs ··Compulsory Community Service Health-policy changes. for health professionals; ··Resilience in health workers; ··Social accountability of medical education.

Psychiatry and Mental Health:Centre for Public Mental Health

Prof Crick Lund, Erica Breuer, Emily Baron, Deepak Soowamber, Gillian Hanslo, Maggie Marx.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of external constituencies The purpose of the Programme for Improving involved in the initiative Mental Health Care (PRIME) is to develop, PRIME is led from UCT, and is a collaboration implement, evaluate and scale up mental between 1) academic institutions (Makerere healthcare plans in five low- and middle-income University, Uganda; University of KwaZulu-Natal, countries, in order to improve health, social South Africa; Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; and economic outcomes for people living and the Centre for Global Mental Health, including with mental illness and for their families. the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings Brief description of the initiative College London, UK); 2) Non-governmental The PRIME (www.prime.uct.ac.za) is a research organisations (BasicNeeds, HealthNet TPO, consortium comprising multiple partners, Nepal); 3) the World Health Organisation and including academic institutions, non-governmental Ministry of Health partners in all five countries. organisations, international organisations and Ministries of Health. PRIME aims to inform the Nature of relationship(s) with development of mental health programmes external constituencies that improve health and socio-economic Partners from Ministries of Health, academic outcomes. The work is being conducted in institutions and NGOs have been involved from the five countries (Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South outset in the conceptualisation and design of the Africa and Uganda), in three broad phases. programme: obtaining funding, the development and implementation of the mental healthcare During the final stages of PRIME we will be working plans in demonstration districts, the development to disseminate our findings and key tools that of the evaluation strategy, and adaptation and we have developed to a range of other countries scaling up of revised mental healthcare plans. that have expressed interest in our work. Length of relationship(s) Key thematic issues addressed The planning for PRIME started in June through the initiative 2010 with all the above stakeholders, and Mental health, health services research, intensified in May 2011 when funding was scaling up of health services, evaluation of received from the Department of International complex health interventions, reducing the Development in the UK to support this work. treatment gap for mental disorders. The programme will terminate in April 2017.

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Dominant mode of engagement ··Use of research evidence from PRIME in key ··Strategic research: government-funded policy documents, plans, and speeches in the research; corporate-funded research; study countries – by March 2016 PRIME had been non-profit-funded research; cited in four documents in study countries; ··Applied/action research; ··% men and women suffering from priority mental ··Public service: expert advice/support/assistance/ disorders in the PRIME implementation area evidence/service for public benefit. who receive evidence-based treatment – by the end of March 2016, there was a 115% absolute Nature of the outputs increase in the percentage of people with mental The outputs of the broader programme are illness treated in the PRIME implementation numerous, and so far include 53 peer-reviewed areas in India, Nepal and Uganda (figures not journal publications and 36 conference available yet for South Africa and Ethiopia); presentations, 11 policy briefs, a website, social ·· Preliminary findings from South Africa indicate media presence, a film documentary, and that the proportion of people correctly contributions to teaching and supervision of formal identified with depression attending primary- postgraduate programmes (PhD and Master’s care clinics increased from 6.0% to 16.0%, and programmes at UCT, LSHTM, KCL, AAU). there was a clinically significant improvement in depression at three-month follow-up. In the implementation and scaling up of districts in PRIME countries, outputs include trained staff The results of our evaluation of the implementation (including district-level staff, medical officers, nurses, and scaling-up phases of the project will also community health workers and volunteers), improved contribute to our assessment of impact. For example, supervision structures, community-awareness we are conducting repeat community surveys in four programmes, and functioning medication supplies. of the PRIME implementation areas, to determine whether contact coverage for treatment of alcohol use Assessment of impact of the initiative and depression has improved as a result of PRIME. There are various ways which we are assessing impact. We are using a variety of indicators outlined in our Additional ES logframe to determine whether our collaboration 1. Showcasing of the work of the Alan J Flisher has an impact on policy. Some examples of Centre for Public Mental Health at the these indicators and our achievements are: historic World Bank/WHO meeting on Global ··Extent to which PRIME outputs contribute to Mental Health in Washington DC, April mental-health aspects of international development 2016: ‘Out of the Shadows: making mental targets beyond 2015 – by March 2016, PRIME health a global development priority’; had been cited in two international policy 2. Ongoing participation in the South documents: the 2013 WISH report, and the African National Ministerial Advisory Disability and Development Inquiry in April 2014; Committee for Mental Health;

Coordination of World Mental Health Day activities with Cape Mental Health and other non-governmental organisations to raise awareness for mental health.

Surgery (Ophthalmology) Assoc Prof Nagib du Toit.

Purpose of the ES initiative Brief description of the initiative To provide low-cost cataract surgery to In 2007, our department head tasked me those who do not qualify for state services, with dealing with the cataract waiting list but cannot afford private care. at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH), which

140 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports included over 2 000 patients with a waiting but could not afford private care. This would be time of 12-18 months for surgery. done on a non-profit, cost-recovery basis, with any A new system of prioritising patients was excess funds to be used to provide free surgery introduced for cataract wait-listing, according to those who were really indigent. Over the past to the level of loss of vision based on World four years, approval has been obtained, a building Health Organisation criteria. Unfortunately, prepared, a clinic and theatre equipped; and the patients who did not qualify as blind or partially- project will finally be ready to start in October sighted were turned away. With time, the 2016. In the meantime, Save Vision South Africa system was modified; so that over a period (a branch of the Islamic Medical Association) has of five years, the waiting list was completely approached us, and agreed to sponsor patients eliminated, and patients could thus be booked and pay the basic costs for them to have surgery directly onto a theatre list after presenting to at this new centre. This means that surgery will the clinic. By 2013, the waiting time for cataract be provided at no cost to indigent patients. surgery was reduced to three to four months. Key thematic issues addressed As a result of patients who did not qualify for through the initiative cataract surgery at GSH being refused, I developed Cataract blindness. an alternative service for those who could afford to pay (or solicit the funds to cover) the basic Nature of external constituencies costs of their surgery. This was called the Patient- involved in the initiative Funded Project (PFP), and was initiated in 2008, Private business. after several meetings with GSH administration and intensive planning. The fee that patients Nature of relationship(s) with paid for this service was used to pay for the external constituencies cost of consumables, use of GSH theatres on Conceptualisation, planning, licencing, managing. a Saturday morning, and payment of staff. Length of relationship(s) Unfortunately, the PFP was stopped in 2011. In Four years. 2012, a member of the Teaching Hospitals Board who had witnessed the success of the PFP was Dominant mode of engagement approached by a businessman (blinded by diabetic Service. eye disease) who wanted to give something back to the community. He asked me to restart the PFP, Nature of the outputs outside of GSH, by establishing a community-based Cataract detection and surgical treatment. cataract-surgery day centre, to provide a service to those patients from the lower socio-economic Assessment of impact of the initiative groups. They did not qualify for surgery at GSH, Monitor cataract surgery rate and audit results.

Children’s Institute

Assoc Prof Shanaaz Mathews

Purpose of the engaged deaths due to abuse and neglect. The objective scholarship initiative of this pilot was to test the effectiveness of the The first national child-homicide study by the teams in strengthening response systems, and South African Medical Research Council (MRC) to prevent child deaths in the local setting. and the University of Cape Town shed some light on deaths that occur outside facilities by drawing Brief description of the initiative on mortuary and police data. This study estimated The pilot CDR project was initiated by the that 1 018 children died as a result of homicide Children’s Institute (CI), in partnership with Prof in 2009, with a large proportion (44.6%) of these Lorna Martin, Division of Forensic Medicine

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& Toxicology, Department of Pathology, UCT; Nature of relationship with Dr David Coetzee, Health Impact Assessment, external constituencies Western Cape Department of Health and The relationship with the Department of School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Health was one in which they were involved UCT; and Assoc Prof Chris Scott, Department in the conceptualisation of the project, of Paediatrics and Child Health, UCT. The aim with the goal of the Department taking of the project was to foster an intersectoral ownership should it show efficacy. collaborative approach to the management of child deaths through the development of a Length of relationship(s) surveillance system for child deaths presenting January 2014 to the present. to a medicolegal laboratory (mortuary). At the core of the process was the establishment of a Nature of the outputs multidisciplinary team with representatives from Two functional multi-agency CDR teams, at law enforcement, social services, health, forensic two sites in South Africa; two peer-reviewed pathology and prosecution services, at two pilot publications, and presentations at international sites: Salt River Mortuary in the Western Cape, conferences; a research brief; multiple stakeholder and Phoenix Mortuary in KwaZulu-Natal. These engagement meetings and media engagements. teams meet retrospectively to share case-specific information and review the circumstances of child Assessment of impact of the initiative death (birth to 17 years of age)s. The Child Death The CDR pilot has shown efficacy, in the South Review (CDR) pilot was modelled on international African setting, in providing valuable insights into best practice, taken from CDR teams that have out-of-hospital deaths. The review process, using a been in operation in high-income countries for social autopsy approach, brings together the social the past two decades. To our knowledge, this factors contributing to child deaths in conjunction was the first attempt to test the feasibility of with medical causes, to gain a better understanding a CDR in a low- or middle-income country. of why and how children are dying. The CI will be using these findings to advocate for strengthening Key thematic issues addressed of the child protection system. Furthermore, through the initiative the Department of Health has operationalised Child mortality, child deaths, respiratory the project, and CDR teams will be established tract infection, fatal child abuse, child death throughout the region by early 2017. Similarly, review, health system strengthening. the project is also being expanded in KZN.

Nature of external constituencies Additional ES activities involved in the initiative Training of additional CDR teams in Multidisciplinary range of agencies; the WC and KZN; continuation of CDR Departments of Health, Western Cape (WC) meetings in the WC and KZN. and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN); Departments of Social Development, WC and KZN; South African Police Service, WC and KZN; Childline South Africa; Child Welfare Society, KZN.

Children’s Institute

Katharine Hall, Winnie Sambu and Lizette Berry.

Purpose of the initiative African Early Childhood Review. The main purpose In 2016, the Children’s Institute at the University of of the initiative was to provide information on the Cape Town, in collaboration with Ilifa Labantwana situation of young children (aged six years and and the Department of Planning, Monitoring and below) in the country, focusing on the extent and Evaluation in the Presidency, published the South delivery of Early Childhood Development (ECD)

142 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports services. It was produced as a tool to be used by the majority of the research being conducted by ECD service providers and practitioners, in order Children’s Institute researchers. Ilifa Labantwana to highlight opportunities for linking services. coordinated provincial dialogues, at which the statistical brief was presented and discussed. Ilifa Brief description of the initiative also took responsibility for coordinating the launch The SA Early Childhood Review contains statistics and handling media liaison. The Department on over 40 indicators, gives an overview of the of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation gave situation of young children (0-6 years old) and that input and hosted the interactive launch. of their primary caregivers, and also examines the progress made over the years. In addition, it looks Length of relationship(s) at the delivery of Early Childhood Development The Children’s Institute and Ilifa Labantwana (ECD) services across five domains: primary-level have an ongoing relationship and have worked maternal and child health, support for primary together on multiple initiatives since 2011, caregivers, nutrition, social services, and early and on the statistical publication since 2014. learning. These domains are based on the essential The Department of Planning, Monitoring components of the comprehensive package and Evaluation came on board in 2015. of ECD services, outlined in the national ECD policy, that was approved by the South African Dominant form of the Cabinet in December 2015, which are needed engaged scholarship to support the overall development of young Research and knowledge exchange. children in the country. The initiative therefore serves as a useful baseline of ECD services and Dominant mode of engagement facilitates monitoring of the implementation of Applied research. the new ECD policy. The publication is based on Children Count (www.childrencount.net), a Nature of the outputs data and advocacy project run by the Children’s ··The SA Early Childhood Development Institute that uses statistics to regularly monitor Review (2016) www.childrencount.net/ the situation of children in South Africa. A uploads/SA%20ECD%20Review%20 statistical brief, which formed the basis of the 2016%20low%20res%20for%20web.pdf; review, was presented and discussed at provincial ··Launch workshop attended by government dialogues that involved various government officials and representatives from the NGO sector; departments and other stakeholders in the ECD ··Media engagement – radio, TV, sector. These dialogues took place in 2014. print & social media.

Key thematic issues addressed Assessment of impact of the initiative through the initiative An impact assessment has not been conducted. Poverty, nutrition, primary healthcare, early learning, The review attracted extensive media child health, maternal health, income support, coverage from print media, TV & radio. early childhood development, ECD services. Ilifa, DPME and other implementing departments have expressed interest in establishing this as Nature of external constituencies an annual ECD review, as it is regarded as a involved in the initiative useful tool for monitoring service delivery. The ECD review was a joint collaboration between the Children’s Institute and two Additional ES activities other organisations: Ilifa Labantwana, an Katharine Hall & Winnie Sambu worked NGO working in the ECD sector, and the on Children Count, an annual statistical Department for Planning, Monitoring and monitoring project (www.childrencount.net). Evaluation (DPME) in the Presidency.

Nature of relationship with external constituencies The Children’s Institute and Ilifa Labantwana jointly conceptualised and designed the review, with

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Children’s Institute

Poverty and Inequality Initiative (PII/SALDRU) and the Children’s Institute (Ariane de Lannoy, Lori Lake and Charmaine Smith)

Purpose of the initiative the Gauge submitted a joint set of comments The aim of the 2015 Child Gauge was to highlight on the draft policy to the Youth Desk within the precarious situation of children as they the Presidency, which was responsible for the transition into young adulthood, and the need for design of the policy. Furthermore, the 2015 interventions that support youth development. Gauge is accompanied by a youth bulletin called Youth Matters, created by young people and Brief description of the initiative in collaboration with Ikamva Youth. It provided The South African Child Gauge® is an annual youth with the opportunity to let their voices publication of the Children’s Institute, University be heard regarding the issues that shape their of Cape Town. It provides a snapshot of the lives. One of those issues, mentioned repeatedly status of children in South Africa, and in particular by the young participants, was that of a lack monitors progress towards the realisation of their of access to information – for instance, about rights. Each year, the publication focuses on a education, career trajectories, and ‘the world major challenge affecting children’s well-being, as of work’. In an attempt to respond to the a lens to critically analyse the position of children request of young people for information, the and the potential policy responses required. Poverty and Inequality Initiative, in partnership In 2015, the Poverty and Inequality Initiative with the Children’s Institute, Ikamva Youth partnered with the Children’s Institute to produce and the DG Murray Trust have developed a youth-focused edition of the Gauge. This ‘Yazi’, an easily accessible information portal publication highlights the precarious situation of that visually maps the pathways through the children as they transition into young adulthood, education system, from grade 9 onwards and the need for interventions that support into higher education, or into the world of youth development. The 2015 youth-focused work. It is meant to provide young people edition of the Gauge provides an overview of with the details they need to make informed the status of these older children and youth, decisions about their educational or career and allows for the identification of evidence- trajectories. The Gauge launch in November based programmes for youth that are aimed at 2015 was followed by a policy and research breaking the inter-generational transmission of dialogue on youth, inequality and education, poverty to the next generation of children. which provided for deeper engagement between researchers and policy-makers. As a key communication and advocacy tool, the 2015 youth-focused Gauge makes academic Key thematic issues addressed research accessible to a wider audience. through the initiative It provides evidence to educate and raise intergenerational transmission of poverty, awareness of critical issues affecting the country’s education, post-school education, the labour youth towards ensuring that government market, health, parenting, migration, identity policies, programmes and services promote the and belonging, and navigational capacities. realisation of their rights, and of the rights of the next cohort of children. As such, the Gauge Other key words would be: youth, youth also aimed to inform the process of designing development, poverty and inequality, youth the new National Youth Policy (2015-2020) and development policies and interventions. its implementation plan. At the start of the Gauge process, a national and multi-disciplinary Nature of external constituencies engagement with academics and civil society involved in the initiative was organised in collaboration with the Human Key partners included: Ikamva Youth and learners Science Research Council. The editorial team of taking part in the Ikamva programme; UNICEF

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South Africa; the Programme to Support Pro- The multi-dimensional approach to the 2015 Poor Policy Development in the Department Gauge and the evidence it has managed to of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation; World consolidate form a firm basis for the work Vision South Africa; the DG Murray Trust; the on youth that is now taken forward by the DST-NRF Centre for Excellence in Human Poverty and Inequality Initiative. Further Development, University of the Witwatersrand; partnerships with local and national government the Human Science Research Council; and (National Youth Desk; Treasury; Department the National Youth Development Agency. for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation; etc) continue to be fostered, and work extends Nature of relationship with across various academic departments and external constituencies institutions. There remains a strong focus on Each issue of the Child Gauge brings together bringing together solid academic evidence leading academics and policy-makers to and the voices of young people, in an focus on a critical dimension of child well- attempt to inform policy and practice. being – interrogating and collating the latest research evidence to inform policy and practice. Dominant form of the We consciously involve key stakeholders engaged scholarship throughout the production process, to inform Research and service. the scope and content of the Child Gauge and build a sense of common purpose. Dominant mode of engagement Applied research, presentations and A consultative roundtable with thought leaders publications, public dialogues, knowledge in government, civil society and research is translation to a range of audiences (policy- used to inform the purpose, scope and content makers, programme designers, youth). of the Child Gauge, and the conceptual framework is developed in consultation with Nature of the outputs the editorial advisory board. Over 20 authors ··Child Gauge distribution: 3 500 books contributed to the volume, and each essay published and distributed to policy-makers and was taken through an academic peer review practitioners. The Gauge is accompanied by a and plain-language edit to ensure that the policy brief, a poster, and in 2015, by a bulletin content was accessible and relevant to a wider produced by young people themselves. audience of policy-makers and practitioners. ··The launch and media outreach generated a total of 54 media reports, on television (3), A high-profile launch provides a platform for radio (13), in print (22), and online (16). dialogue between government, civil society and the development community, and a proactive Assessment of impact of the initiative media strategy includes the careful framing of key The South African Child Gauge was formally messages and supporting authors to draft opinion evaluated in 2007, and a process review editorials and participate in media interviews. was held with past editors in 2016.

Length of relationship(s) Additional ES activities The first issue of the South African Child Development and piloting of the Yazi portal; Gauge was published in 2005, and the current feedback on the pathways map that was model of engagement draws on the expertise developed by the Children’s Institute, the and critical partnerships that have been Poverty and Inequality Initiative, and Ikamva built over the 10-year period since, as well Youth, and that will be printed by the DG as the Children Institute’s broader advocacy Murray Trust; a Policy and Research Dialogue and engagement in the policy arena. on ‘Youth, Inequality and the Labour Market’.

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Children’s Institute

Lori Lake and Lucy Jamieson

Purpose of the engaged scholarship and district clinical-specialist teams across the The Child Rights and Advocacy module country; and through them, to effect change forms part of the new Postgraduate Diploma in clinical care and the design and delivery of in Community and General Paediatrics, and healthcare services that benefits child patients, their aims to build leadership for child health in the caregivers, and the broader population at risk. public health system. The course aims to build paediatricians’ capacity to advocate for child Nature of relationship with health, forge intersectoral partnerships, enhance external constituency the quality of care and develop innovative A series of structured portfolio tasks encourages health-systems responses to address the burden paediatricians to reflect critically on their of childhood illness within their catchment area. own practice, to listen and respond to the views of children and their caregivers, and Brief description of the initiative to use these insights to enhance the quality UCT launched its new Postgraduate Diploma of care; while the weekly discussion fora in Community and General Paediatrics in 2015; promote shared learning across different and based on the success of our child-rights sites, and create a supportive community of course, the Children’s Institute was invited practice as students become familiar with to contribute a module on Child Rights and the language of child rights and advocacy. Advocacy, which carries 10 points at NQF level 9. The eight-week course is positioned at the Length of relationship(s) start of the two-year programme, and is intended The Child Rights and Advocacy module runs to serve as a touchstone that students will refer over an eight-week period, and is designed as back to in later modules that focus on policy, a catalyst to shift both thinking and practice programmes, leadership and management. from the narrow clinical focus of paediatrics to incorporating a broader appreciation of the We drew on the expertise of the Centre social determinants of child health at district for Innovation in Learning and Teaching to level. The students’ advocacy projects and maximise the potential of the online platform, issues raised in the child-rights module are and to stimulate active participation and shared then carried forward and consolidated over learning across different sites. The blended- the course of the two-year PG Diploma. learning approach also provided an opportunity to introduce a number of practical tasks – such Dominant form of the as a home visit, a patient satisfaction survey engaged scholarship and a directory of local services – that enables students to integrate child rights into their Teaching. existing practice. The course culminates in an advocacy project of each student’s choice. Dominant mode of engagement It includes elements of blended Key thematic issues addressed learning, continuing professional through the initiative development and service learning. Child rights, child health, advocacy, community paediatrics, professional Nature of the outputs education, blended learning. A blended eight-week programme on child rights and advocacy, student Nature of external constituencies portfolios, and advocacy projects. involved in the initiative The blended-learning approach enables us to Assessment of impact of the initiative engage with paediatricians working in hospitals We have not yet done a formal evaluation,

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as the course is still in its infancy; but student evaluations speak to significant shifts in thinking and practice, and many of the advocacy projects have extended beyond academic exercises and have had real impact on the ground.

For example, a 2016 student project in Limpopo has helped raise awareness and improve living conditions in the Kangaroo Mother Care Ward – providing curtains for privacy, and a hot-water cylinder so that mothers can wash themselves and their clothes – which gives effect to women’s rights to dignity and an environment that is not harmful to their health, while improving children’s survival, health and developmental outcomes. Another student, in KwaZulu-Natal, used his knowledge of child rights to successfully challenge the Port Shepstone Hospital’s practice of charging caregivers for transport when accompanying their children to Addington Hospital, while a third used his advocacy skills to resuscitate the milk bank at Paarl Hospital.

A more formal evaluation in the form a Master’s thesis in Higher Education will follow in 2017, tracing shifts in students’ thinking and practice – with a particular focus on what enables their emerging voice and identity as child-health advocates.

Additional ES activities Lori works as commissioning editor at the Children’s Institute and plays a central role in the publication of the South African Child Gauge and the design and delivery of our child-rights courses for health and allied professionals. She contributed to civil society’s Alternative Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which serves as a key accountability mechanism in monitoring South Africa’s progress towards the realisation of children’s rights. Lori co-chairs the advocacy committee in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, and coordinated the Department’s critique of the National Health Institute’s White Paper from a child-health perspective. She was also privileged to participate in the 2016 Engaged Scholarship Programme.

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Department of Public Law

Prof Pierre de Vos.

Purpose of the initiative and the complexities of positionality) of the Promoting constitutionalism and social justice. right to equality, social and economic rights, and freedom of expression and religion. Nature of the activities Writing a blog (Constitutionally Speaking), Nature of external constituencies which is republished on the Daily Maverick involved in the initiative: website. This leads to numerous other I engage with readers of my blog public engagements with school groups, Constitutionally Speaking and on the Daily civil society groups and on social media. Maverick, learners from various schools (including, in 2015/16, learners from St Annes Key thematic issues addressed College – see picture – and learners from through the initiative: across Gauteng and North West Province Transformative constitutionalism, specifically who attended the Lebone Leadership Festival the exercise of power by the various branches in Phokeng, in the North West Province, at of government, and the manner in which the Lebone College, a high school run by the Royal branches (legislature, executive, judiciary) check Bafokeng Nation), civil society organisations the exercise of power by the other branches. and professional organisations. As a result, I The promotion of human rights, specifically the also engage on other social media platforms promotion of a more nuanced understanding where readers comment on my writing. The (taking cognisance of differences in power reach of this engagement is extensive.

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Nature of relationship with Nature of the outputs external constituencies Blog posts, tweets, opinion pieces in newspapers, As described above. comments in the print and electronic media.

Form of engaged scholarship Assessment of impact The nature of my engagement is mostly The blog and Daily Maverick together reach in public commentary and lectures. The more than 500 000 people a month. The reach strength of the work is that I use my of media comments (in electronic and print knowledge of constitutional law and theory, media) is difficult to assess, but from time to and of the judgments of the Constitutional time must reach large numbers of people. My Court, to provide thoughtful, accurate, engagement on social media also has extensive reflective analysis on legal issues in a reach; for example, over 3.5 million tweet way that non-lawyers can understand. impressions per month (see screen grab below).

Public Law, Criminology

Assoc Prof Julie Berg; Guy Lamb, Director, Safety and Violence Initiative.

Purpose of the ES initiative of operationalising a set of whole‐of‐society To improve safety through better design principles for security governance in the harnessing and coordinating the capacities province. The Steering Committee is comprised of state and non-state actors. of academics and members of the Department of Community Safety. It meets on a regular basis, and Brief description of the initiative its objectives include providing research input and I am a member of the Steering Committee of strategic direction to the Department of Community the Community Safety Improvement Plan (CSIP) Safety, improving operational functioning, as well of the Department of Community Safety of the as monitoring and evaluation of its programmes. Western Cape Provincial Government. The Steering As part of this, research on neighbourhood watches Committee of CSIP is a technical committee, and Community Police Forums was conducted in which was established in 2015 for the purposes six sites around the Province and fed into a report

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 149 Part Four: Faculty Reports to Provincial government on ways to improve safety Nature of relationship(s) with governance. One of these sites was Khayelitsha. external constituencies Therefore, closely related to this project, I am also Consultation, joint conceptualisation, research. a participant in a joint forum which was created to steer the implementation of the Khayelitsha Length of relationship(s) Commission recommendations. Membership of the Approximately two years. joint forum includes (for instance) members of the community, academia, government and security Dominant mode of engagement officials, NGOs, CBOs and NPOs. A number of Research, service. sub-forums were also established, each focusing on a particular area of concern; the aim of which is to Nature of the outputs take forward the Commission’s recommendations. Report to Provincial Government, public I am a participant in both the joint forum and the presentations, workshops with community research sub-forum (the latter aims to identify areas members, meetings with government. of research and conduct research so as to better understand the challenges of policing Khayelitsha). Assessment of impact of the initiative As part of this process I was invited on a number The impact has not been assessed, but we of occasions to present to government officials hope to continue the relationship with Provincial and/or community members of Khayelitsha on Government so that our recommendations may the meaning of ‘whole-of-society’ governance, become operationalised and the impact measured. and the applicability of these conceptions to how ‘policing’ is undertaken on the ground. Additional ES At the end of 2015, Guy Lamb (Director, Safety and Key thematic issues addressed Violence Initiative) and I ‘launched’ the Campus through the initiative Safety Innovation Hub (CSIH). The vision of the Security governance, whole-of- CSIH is to improve the safety of staff, students society governance and safety. and visitors on campus and its surrounds by using theory and research to make innovative Nature of external constituencies safety interventions in collaboration with Campus involved in the initiative Protection Services, the Student Representative Government departments (provincial and local), Council (SRC), UCT executive, Properties and Khayelitsha community members and leaders Services, Groote Schuur Improvement District of organisations, NGOs, CBOs, NPOs. (GSCID), Communications and Marketing, and the Sexual Assault Response Team.

Department of Commercial Law

Assoc Prof Johann Hattingh.

Purpose of the ES initiative provide regular opportunities for lead national To convene, design and present annual negotiators from all African countries to convene workshops on the theme of ‘Developing Africa’s and exchange experiences, explore options and economic negotiation capacity: building strategies for possible coordination of positions, negotiating capacity for improved terms of and listen to and engage with leading thinkers engagement with the rest of the world’, in and practitioners in the field in general and the area of international tax law and financial the following four areas of focus in particular: instruments, on behalf of the United Nations trade, investment, taxation and financial Economic Commission for Africa (UN ECA). instruments, and natural resources contracts. The workshops aim to contribute towards filling Brief description of the initiative the skills gaps in these areas, and strengthen the This is a five-year project that is intended to capacity of African governments and institutions to

150 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports negotiate international contracts and agreements Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) in Africa to that better serve national and continental interests. address the problems of creditor litigation, which The first workshop was presented in Dakar, ultimately led to the establishment of the African Senegal, from 30 November to 4 December 2015, Legal Support Facility. Most recently, the Report of and the second instalment is planned for 5 to 9 the High-Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from December 2016, provisionally in Johannesburg. Africa noted how the natural-resources sector is Nature of the activities: prone to the generation of illicit financial outflows through “secret and poorly-negotiated contracts”. Convene four-day workshop within parameters set out by the UN ECA in the focus area of taxation African government officials involved in the and financial instruments. This includes the design development of policies and the negotiation of the workshop, including the development of of treaties and contracts need to (1) have a course material, practical examples, exercises comprehensive understanding of the substantive such as mock negotiations, liaising with lead and procedural obligations contained in these subject experts and other faculty, delivery of the legally binding instruments; (2) master the workshop, and addressing plenary meetings. skills, techniques, processes and dynamics required to put the instruments together; Key thematic issues addressed and (3) appreciate the fast-moving policy and All governments increasingly devote significant regulatory landscape in these areas, and adjust time and resources to the negotiation of treaties their strategies and priorities accordingly. with other states; and especially for governments in Africa, the negotiation of large-scale and long- As part of its mandate on capacity development, term contracts with multinational corporations the UN ECA has launching a series of annual for the exploration and development of natural workshops that respond to these calls by focusing resources, or for infrastructure projects. on how member states and the continent can best protect their interests from being undermined As the adoption of the First Ten-Year through international agreements and contracts. Implementation Plan for the African Union’s Agenda 2063 testifies, the drive towards the Nature of external constituencies realisation of long-held Pan-African political involved in the initiative and economic visions is gaining momentum. These workshops are targeted towards African Particularly notable in this respect is Agenda governments, and attendance is by invitation of the 2063’s aspiration “to advance international UN ECA. The workshops on each focus area consist cooperation that promotes and defends Africa’s of approximately 20 high-ranking government interests, is mutually beneficial and aligned to our officials from nominated countries who take Pan Africanist vision; continue to speak with one overall responsibility for negotiating international voice and act collectively to promote our common agreements on behalf of their governments. interests and positions in the international arena.” The terms on which Africa engages in economic Nature of relationship with relations with the rest of the world determine external constituencies the realization of this and other laudable goals. Convenor and lead facilitator for the taxation and financial instruments focus area. Regrettably, however, the use of highly technical and legally binding agreements and contracts to tilt Length of relationship the playing field against Africa’s interests has been Annual event for five-year period. commonplace for far too long, making institutional capacity building an enduring challenge. That this Dominant form of institutional capacity deficit needs to be addressed engaged scholarship has been recognised for a long time. As far back The design and delivery of material for the as June 2003, the African Ministers of Finance workshops draw on my pre-existing research declared, at their meeting on Aid, Trade, Debt, IMF expertise in the field of international fiscal law. and HIV/AIDs, that there was a need to establish I have found that my experience to date has a legal technical assistance facility to help Heavily spurred new perspectives on my research, and has

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 151 Part Four: Faculty Reports widened my international network of resources. on tax treaty policy and negotiation. Although the workshops are primarily aimed at ··Facilitator, Regional dialogue about fiscal addressing skills deficits, they invariably provide regimes in the extractives industry, NEPAD, a forum to address and discuss tax policy Dakar, Senegal, 9 to 11 September 2015. developments, given that the participating civil ··Technical assistance advice, Davis Tax servants are high-ranking officials. This has also Committee, Base Erosion and Profit led to being approached on an individual basis Shifting sub-committee, 2015, 2016. to provide expert advice and support to specific ··Invited speaker, International Fiscal governments experiencing difficulties. Plenary Association South Africa (IFA SA), sessions convened at the start and end of the evening seminar: ‘Recent tax treaty case workshops provide a platform to provide more law’, Cape Town, 4 August 2015. general and policy comment to a wider audience. ··Invited speaker: ‘Corporate tax avoidance in developing countries’, inaugural Africa Nature of the outputs Tax Symposium, International Bureau of The expected outcomes from the workshop are: Fiscal Documentation (IBFD), Victoria ··Enhanced awareness of current thinking Falls, Zambia, 17 to 19 June 2015. and developments in the field of ··Invited speaker: ‘The East African community: international economic negotiations; multilateral tax treaty – fit for purpose?’, ··Improved negotiation skills; Second Africa Tax Symposium, International ··Improved understanding of national, regional Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD), and international legal frameworks; Lake Victoria, Uganda, 4 to 7 May 2016. ··Enhanced preparedness to safeguard ··Invited speaker: ‘Transfer pricing by South national and African interests in African multinationals’, Portfolio Committee international negotiations; and on Trade & Industry, Parliament of South ··Strengthened network of national negotiators. Africa, hearing of 23 April 2015. ··Executive Committee, International Fiscal Assessment of impact Association South Africa (IFA SA), 2015. The UN ECA conducts a formal assessment ··Executive Committee, Centre for Studies at the end of each workshop, and feedback in African Taxation, IBFD, 2016. has been overwhelmingly positive. ··Invited panellist: ‘The role of judges in This project stimulated new perspectives the development of tax law – implied on my research, and has widened my terms in legislation’, Inaugural Tax Policy international network of resource. Conference, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 13 April 2016. Additional ES activities ··Invited panellist: ‘Base erosion and ··Legal advisor (pro bono), International profit-shifting in developing countries’, Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP): Advising International Tax Conference, Mumbai, and assisting the Government of Liberia India, 3 to 5 December 2016.

Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC)

Philile Ntuli, Phiwe Ndinisa and Aninka Claassens, Land Project.

Purpose of the ES initiative the Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB); to analyse the In relation to Ingonyama Trust, the purpose is to legality of the Trust’s interpretation of its mandate; provide support to people who approached our to litigate in defence of customary land rights and research centre for assistance; to conduct empirical Section 25(6) of the Constitution; and to make written research about the impact of the Trust’s activities on and oral presentations to the ITB and the Minister land rights in KZN; to lay bare the way in which the of Rural Development and Land Reform about the Trust operates to abrogate land rights and invite/ systematic failure of the Trust to uphold Constitutional participate in public debate about the activities of rights and enforce applicable land-reform laws.

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Brief description of the initiative ··To conduct case studies with affected This initiative forms part of a broader research individuals and communities; project investigating the nature and status of ··To litigate where necessary in defence of historical land rights in post-apartheid KwaZulu- people with pre-existing land rights; and Natal. A series of consultative community ··To conduct community workshops to workshops alerted us to the serious problems relay our findings, inform people of their that rural people are experiencing arising from rights, and collect information which helps the actions of the Trust. We initially collected and us to identify further research sites. analysed all the Trust’s policy statements and reports to Parliament, which alerted us to the scale Key thematic issues addressed of unhappiness that institutions such as the Auditor Customary law, accountability, action research, General and Land Reform Portfolio Committee land rights, land administration, public service have expressed in relation to the financial theft, corruption, community workshops, statements and modus operandi of the Trust. advocacy, public policy, land reform.

Our ongoing research is currently focused on Nature of external constituencies investigating residential leases, which the ITB has involved in the initiative claimed to be the best land tenure solution for Community-based organisations (CBOs), rural citizens. Our work is focused on showing NGOs, academics, lawyers, activists, individual that this concept is inconsistent with the terms of rural citizens, Ingonyama Reference Group the Trust; ie in converting pre-existing land rights including individuals from PLAAS (UWC), to leasehold, the Trust downgrades rather than PARI (Wits), Richard Spoor Attorneys and secures strong pre-existing indigenous land rights. the Legal Resources Centre in Durban. In this regard we have done extensive fieldwork, and collected information and statements about Nature of relationship(s) with how the ITB abrogates historical land rights. external constituencies ··CBOs and NGOs: workshops, report We are also investigating the impact of the Trust’s backs, obtaining information, training; chameleon-like approach to its legal status. In ··Academics and lawyers: joint some litigation the Trust claims to be a statutory consultations, brainstorming research Trust that does not own the land, while in other ideas and litigation strategies. instances it claims to own the land outright. The Ingonyama Trust Act (1994) makes it an Length of Relationship(s) explicit condition that the Trust must preserve The Ingonyama research project resulted from pre-existing land rights, yet there are instances a community workshop in Pietermaritzburg where it is transferring land on which there are in October 2014. The Reference Group strong pre-existing rights into its own name. was created out of key participants from that and subsequent workshops. Following this background, our primary focus with this initiative is: Dominant form of the ··To probe the legality of the process whereby the engaged scholarship ITB transfers title of land to itself, particularly in ··Empirical research; instances where there are strong countervailing ··Public education. ownership rights by specific groups of people; ··To probe whether the transfers that have Dominant mode of engagement taken place conform to conveyancing Empirical research, policy analysis, requirements as stipulated in the media articles and interviews (radio and Deeds Registry Act (93 of 1998); TV), and community workshops. ··To conduct comparative analyses of the Annual Reports of the Trust in order to establish the Nature of the outputs manner in which the ITB justifies its actions, ··Submissions to Parliament; and how/if this changes over time, as well as to ··Factsheets simplifying and explaining the track the revenue it receives from the leases; legal framework and its implications;

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··Submissions to the High Level Panel on subsequently asked LARC to assist them by the Assessment of Key Legislation; availing the contents of our research findings, ··Working on dossier to present to in order for the Committee to probe the the Minister of the DRDLR; administrative practices of the Trust further. ··Already involved in litigation re Makhasaneni ··Journalists from major publications including and Evangeli Church in discussion with the Sunday Times and the Mail and Guardian LARC Mining and Trust Reference Group; have done follow-up stories on leads we have ··Academic papers. provided regarding the practices of the ITB. ··We are intent on exploring further Assessment of impact of the initiative avenues that will lead to the Ingonyama Some of the impacts of our initiative include: Trust Act being repealed. ··On 4 February 2016, Aninka Claassens delivered a presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Additional ES activities Rural Development and Land Reform in which ··Parliamentary submission on Communal she highlighted the continuous threat to land Property Association Amendment Bill (2016); rights in the former Bantustans, particularly ··Participated in engagements on in KZN. The presentation sparked rigorous Communal Land Tenure Policy; debate and strong denials from former Judge ··Published op-eds about land policy; Jerome Ngwenya, the chairperson of the ITB, ··Team members are compiling research who was invited to attend. It also influenced papers for publication and presentation; members of the Portfolio Committee to ask ··Research support for the Bakgatla ba more questions about the ITB’s practices. The Kgafela litigation in Constitutional Court; engagements led to Mr Ngwenya leaving ··Provided research support to the the meeting to avoid further questions. Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Members of the Portfolio committee have Act (2014) case (CCT 40/15).

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Monica de Souza Louw and Thiyane Duda, Traditional Governance Programme.

Purpose of the ES initiative also informs LARC’s own submissions on the Bill, To provide inputs on the Traditional and Khoi- which have been presented to Parliament and San Leadership Bill of 2015 currently before other stakeholders. Through this engagement in Parliament, and mobilise community partners the law-making process, LARC aims to prevent the to relate their experiences with Parliament. entrenchment of distorted apartheid versions of customary law in legislation, and instead ensure Brief description of the initiative: that principles of accountability and democracy The Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill are upheld, through an emphasis on the living aims to incorporate Khoi-San communities and nature of customary law. In particular, LARC is structures into the framework that has been concerned that the bill retains the controversial established for the formal recognition of other apartheid boundaries that were set up through the traditional communities and structures. In doing 1951 Bantu Authorities Act and created separate so, it will replace another piece of legislation, the homelands for different ethnic groups. These Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework boundaries formed the basis for the establishment Act of 2003, on which LARC has done extensive of tribal authorities, led by chiefs, and with research over the last seven years. Based on this jurisdictions over tribes that were a cornerstone past research, LARC’s role has been to provide a of manipulations and oppression by the apartheid legal and political analysis of the new bill that is government. The Bill uses these same jurisdictions shared with partners and the public (through the to ascribe roles to traditional authorities, without media) to supplement local knowledge about the putting in place corresponding mechanisms impact of the bill in people’s lives. The analysis to ensure accountability and the protection of

154 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports people’s land rights. Through its partnership with Dominant form of the the Alliance for Rural Democracy, LARC participates engaged scholarship in mobilisation processes around the bill at a Research. provincial level. Once public hearings are held by Parliament, LARC will also provide support to its Dominant mode of engagement community partners to attend the hearings, and Applied research, policy analysis make submissions that foreground local histories and public dialogue. and experiences of traditional authorities. Nature of the outputs Key thematic issues addressed Parliamentary submissions (oral and written), Accountability, democracy, customary law, workshops and workshop presentations, media traditional leadership, land rights, public articles and interviews, press statements, participation, law reform, advocacy. memoranda, factsheets, government briefings.

Nature of external constituencies Assessment of impact of the initiative involved in the initiative: The impact of the initiative would be evidenced Community-based organisations, by an increase in nuanced public engagement NGOs, academics, lawyers, activists, with issues around the bill, such as tribal individual rural citizens. boundaries, accountability and the roles of traditional leaders. Furthermore, the initiative’s Nature of relationship(s) with impact can be assessed by the participation of external constituencies ordinary people in consultation processes around LARC is a member of the Alliance for Rural the bill, and their ability to speak to the bill’s Democracy, a coalition of NGOs and CBOs potential impact on their lives. The initiative will working on issues relevant to land rights and ultimately have been successful if the majority of democracy in the rural areas of South Africa. As delegations in Parliament understand concerns part of the Alliance, LARC provides support to the around the bill, and either effect substantial mobilisation processes of the Alliance’s provincial changes to its provisions or reject the bill. committees. During discussion, joint agendas for action are devised by a steering committee, Additional ES activities: which includes LARC’s Deputy Director. ··Policy analysis and consultation with partners around Draft Traditional Courts LARC also has a partnership with the Legal Bill, including providing support to partners Resources Centre (LRC), an NGO law firm. participating in Department of Justice and LARC participates in programmatic reference Correctional Services reference group. group meetings with lawyers from the ··Intervention as amicus curiae in case between LRC, where resources are shared and joint Sanral and communities from the Xolobeni area strategies for legal intervention and responses along the Wild Coast, regarding the right of to legislation such as the Traditional and groups to litigate against a decision to support Khoi-San Leadership Bill are devised. the building of a toll road through their area. The case has since been withdrawn by Sanral. Length of relationship(s) ··Engagement with Matiwaneskop Syndicate The Alliance for Rural Democracy was born Committee in KwaZulu-Natal around issues during a campaign against the Traditional related to traditional leaders’ involvement in Courts Bill in 2012, and LARC (previously as the land administration – including community Rural Women’s Action Research Programme, or meetings, publishing newspaper articles, and RWAR) has been a member since inception. assisting committee to prepare a submission for a High Level Panel on the Assessment LARC’s relationship with the LRC has been ongoing of Key Legislation and the Acceleration of since the establishment of RWAR in 2009. Joint Fundamental Change, set up by Parliament. work on the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership ··Arranging and participating in periodic Bill’s predecessor, the Traditional Affairs Bill, meetings of a traditional governance began through a reference group in 2013. reference group with attorneys from the Legal

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Resources Centre and experts in customary traditional area, and providing research support law to discuss legal strategies and possible to the Legal Resources Centre, in respect of interventions for community partners. recommendations made by a Commission on ··Consulting with groups from Bakgatla ba Kgafela Traditional Leadership Disputes and Claims.

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Brendan Boyle, Thabiso Nyapisi and Joanna Pickering, The Mining & Trusts Unit.

Purpose of the ES initiative Key thematic issues addressed A major current project involves support for Informal land rights, former homelands, Bapo Ba Mogale community in North West consultation, accountability, freedom province in their engagement with Lonmin of association, imposed tribal plc, the Bapo Ba Mogale Traditional Council, boundaries, imposed identities. Kgosi Bob Edward Mogale, and local and national government to assert their rights as Nature of external constituencies land owners, and to demand consultation and involved in the initiative accountability in relation to mining on their land. LARC’s M&T unit works with community-based organisations including Serodumo Sa Rona Brief description of the initiative and the Bapo Ba Mogale Liaison Committee, The Ford-funded Mining & Trusts unit of LARC, as well as the Alliance for Rural Democracy. then the Rural Women’s Action Research programme within the Centre for Law and Society, Nature of relationship(s) with attended a Kgotha Kgothe in Segwaelane, near external constituencies Brits, on 29 July 2014. This was in line with the The programme is based on action-research unit’s research into the elite capture of mining deals workshops at which community members are on rural land. The event purported to be adequate given safe spaces to articulate their challenges, consultation of the community on the R664-million and to craft campaigns and strategies to royalty-for-equity swap negotiated between meet them. The M&T unit offers results of Lonmin and the Bapo traditional leadership. LARC research and analysis, and draws in NGOs that can lend further assistance. A cursory analysis of the information presented showed that the consultation Length of relationship(s) process failed every test of Bapo custom and The Bapo project began in July 2014, fell short of the requirements of the Mineral and continues with regular workshops and Petroleum Resources Development and almost daily telephone contact. Act, the Mining Charter and the Interim Protection of Informal Land Rights Act. Dominant form of the engaged scholarship The M&T unit has since built a relationship with The engagement with the Bapo Ba Mogale several local activists and community-based includes extensive legal, social and historical organisations. These CBOs have launched an research. It involves substantial transfer of application for a review of the purported approval knowledge to the community, and is seen by of the deal. Working with the LRC and various Bapo community members as a form of service. NGOs, the M&T unit has procured and helped to analyse extensive information about the deal. Dominant mode of engagement LARC and the M&T unit have also helped the The dominant mode of engagement is through community to win the active attention of the Public workshops and smaller consultations at face- Protector for their complaint about the plunder to-face meetings. The M&T unit also facilitates of community mining revenue by traditional public dialogue and extensive media coverage. leaders and politically connected individuals.

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Nature of the outputs Outputs include advice when sought; support for litigation; research briefings and factsheets, including some in vernacular languages; advocacy in print, radio and television.

Assessment of impact of the initiative One clear indicator of success would be a community victory with a precedent-setting judgment on the right to free and informed consultation in the Lonmin-Bapo review application. Another is the first report in July by the Public Protector to the community. At a broader level, the inclusion of the Bapo community’s issues in the national debate indicates success based on support they have received from the Mining & Trusts unit and many other civil society players.

Additional ES activities LARC receives requests for support at least weekly, and sometimes daily. Other activities involving the M&T unit include but are not limited to: ··Support for an imminent court challenge against the suspension for whistle-blowing of two elected Bapo council members; ··Support for the Cobaco anti-corruption CBO in the Bakgatla Ba Kgafela community; ··Research and analysis into the plunder of community D-accounts across NW; ··Expanding work with the Mapela community near Mokopane in Limpopo in their interactions with Anglo American; ··Research into the possibility of further support for several Mokopane communities impacted by Anglo’s mining and expansion, including both established and green-fields projects. ··Support for the development of a media unit to help rural communities to get their stories into the national conversation.

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Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU)

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of external constituencies Investigation into a National Minimum involved in the initiative, & Wage for South Africa. nature of relationship(s) with external constituencies Brief description of the initiative Government: Department of Labour The DPRU published a key report in 2016, (DoL) – the DPRU was commissioned by funded by the Department of Labour, in the DoL to undertake the research. order to further explore the possibility of introducing a national minimum wage (NMW) The DoL Reference Group consisted of in South Africa. The DPRU’s research agenda representatives from the: Department of Labour, focused on investigating: wage formation Business, Academia, and National Treasury. in the South African labour market, the potential impact of a national minimum wage The DPRU also acknowledges the ECC on key micro and macroeconomic variables, commissioners who agreed to be interviewed. and implementation of a NMW – discussing CSDA also acknowledges preparation and the costs and benefits of different levels coordination of fieldwork assistance from: at which the NMW could be set and the ··loveLife; relationship between a national minimum ··The Fit for Life, Fit for Work programmes and existing sectoral determinations, as at the Vrygrond Community Development well as relevant institutional mechanisms Trust, and at the Wits Reproductive to implement and enforce a national Health and HIV Institute (WRHI); minimum, etc. We considered the possible ··The Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA); phasing in of a minimum wage, and whether ··Radebe’s Bed & Breakfast & Coffee Shack; there are viable alternatives to a minimum ··Onamandla Project Management; wage that would also provide greater ··The Language Unit at the income security to vulnerable workers. University of Johannesburg.

In summary, the report recommends that Dominant form of the the South African Government consider engaged scholarship introducing a NMW to address low wages. Engaged research (scholarship), plus However, we argue that critical attention must engaged public service (interaction). be given to the design and implementation of the policy; so that it achieves the goal of Dominant mode of engagement protecting workers, minimises the potential ··STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND POLICY negative consequences on employment, ANALYSIS: REPORT PUBLISHED and ultimately succeeds in improving levels AS WORKING PAPER: of compliance with legislated wages. Bhorat, H. et al (2016). ‘Investigating the feasibility of a National Minimum Wage for Key thematic issues addressed South Africa’. Development Policy Research National minimum wage; wage inequality; low wage Unit Working Paper 201601. DPRU, University of workers; MW implementation; MW enforcement; Cape Town. www.dpru.uct.ac.za/sites/default/ MW compliance; sectoral determinations; files/image_tool/images/36/Publications/ wage legislation; sectoral coverage rates; wage Working_Papers/DPRU%20WP201601.pdf poverty; wage poverty gap; CGE model. ··PUBLIC DIALOGUE: Haroon Bhorat and Ben Jourdan:

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‘Maximum Debate on a Minimum Wage’, businesses-the-most-1984900 World of Work Supplement, Independent --16 February 2016: GroundUp: Zuma dropped Media (Cape Argus, March 2016). the ball on the national minimum wage http:// ··INTERVIEWS/MEDIA ENGAGEMENT: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-02-16- --12 August 2016: National minimum groundup-zuma-dropped-the-ball-on-the- wage: Is it time to pay up? http://www. national-minimum-wage/#.VsW4fvl95D8 financialmail.co.za/features/2016/08/12/ --16 February 2016: GroundUp: A too- national-minimum-wage-is-it-time-to-pay-up high minimum wage will hurt poor --27 June 2016: A minimum wage people, Daily Maverick http://www. needs to balance risk and opportunity, dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-02-16- says DPRU https://www.uct.ac.za/ groundup-a-too-high-minimum-wage- dailynews/?id=9816#top will-hurt-poor-people/#.Vsb9F_l95D8 --25 May 2016: Minimum wage talks stalled --16 February 2016: Cosatu’s high minimum http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/ wage demand will increase unemployment, minimum-wage-talks-stalled-2025918 Rand Daily Mail http://www.rdm.co.za/ --6 April 2016: Let’s be honest about business/2016/02/16/cosatu-s-high-minimum- wage-jobs trade-off http://www. wage-demand-will-increase-unemployment bdlive.co.za/opinion/2016/04/06/ --15 February 2016: South Africa: Zuma’s lets-be-honest-about-wage-jobs-trade-off National Minimum Wage ‘Own Goal’, --31 March 2016: Labour market: Inching GroundUp/All Africa.com http://allafrica. to reform, Financial Mail http://www. com/stories/201602151785.html financialmail.co.za/coverstory/2016/03/31/ --3 February 2016: Academics in favour labour-market-inching-to-reform of minimum wages, Moneyweb http:// --17 March 2016: When polemic distorts the www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/ research evidence, IOL.co.za http://www. academics-in-favour-of-minimum-wages/ iol.co.za/business/opinion/when-polemic- distorts-the-research-evidence-1998726 Assessment of impact of the initiative --16 February 2016: Minimum wage will Using various metrics and analytics tools, we cost small businesses the most, iol. hope to be able to gauge stakeholder reactions, co.za http://www.iol.co.za/business/ policy impact and any potential research opinion/minimum-wage-will-cost-small- uptake that results from these activities.

Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU)

guidance to domestic policymakers in the Purpose of the ES initiative fast-growing economies of Africa, as well as Understanding the African Lions: growth traps for the broader global community interested and opportunities in six African economies. in the development of the region.

Brief description of the initiative The research also offers a set of common In 2015 and 2016, the DPRU project lessons, from which the next generation managed the ‘African Lions’ research project, of high-growth African economies could which examines the economic growth and potentially learn. A better understanding development experiences of six key fast- of the structure of each country’s workforce growing or economically dominant African and the implications it has for human capital countries, to better understand the relationship development, the vulnerably employed and between economic growth and employment the working poor is critical to informing the outcomes at the detailed country level. future development policy agenda, and is thus the focus of the individual country studies The work provides the analytical basis for presented in this project: South Africa, Nigeria, policy recommendations and value-added Kenya, Mozambique, Ethiopia and Ghana.

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Key thematic issues addressed Dominant mode of engagement Global development; development economics; Strategic research and policy analysis: Outputs sub-Saharan Africa; economic growth; labour Six country papers have been collated into a series productivity; equality and inequality; poverty; of WIDER working papers and/or research briefs demography; demographic dividend. in 2015/6, Brookings working papers and blogs in 2016, and an edited book is to be published by Nature of external constituencies Brookings Press in 2016, edited by DPRU Director involved in the initiative and Haroon Bhorat, and UNU-WIDER Director Finn nature of relationship(s) with Tarp. The working papers are linked to and shared external constituencies on the DPRU and both funders’ websites, and ··FUNDERS: made available to multiple external audiences. --The African Growth Initiative (AGI) at the Brookings Institution; Assessment of impact of the initiative --UNU-Wider. We will measure impact through stakeholder ··Twelve external authors worked on the feedback, media coverage, and by working papers and book chapters. assessing various metrics and analytics such as web hits and visitor interaction. Dominant form of the engaged scholarship Engaged research (scholarship), engaged public service (interaction).

Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU)

these lessons can be applied to other countries Purpose of the ES initiative in Africa and Latin America, understanding Experiences and learning from Latin America that this subject is very case-specific. (ELLA) – South-South learning between sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. The ELLA programme involves research outputs, as well as various online and offline Brief description of the initiative dissemination platforms, in order to share The purpose of the ELLA initiative is to use a our work with policymakers, academics and combination of research, exchange and learning members of civil society. This programme in order to influence development policies and serves to connect researchers with those practices in the global South. The importance of individuals who are in a position to use that South-South exchange is reflected in the pairing research, and would benefit from the exchange of research units in Latin America and sub- and learning that the programme provides. Saharan Africa, as well as the requirement that the research outputs be comparative in nature. Key thematic issues addressed Economic development, informality, The DPRU has been paired with Fedesarrollo inclusive growth, informal labour market, of Colombia, with the specific aim of informing informal sector, informal worker, poverty, decision-makers in South Africa, Colombia, and unemployment, formalisation. more widely on the issue of ‘Informality and Inclusive Growth’, based on comparative research Nature of external constituencies on the two countries. The project will explore involved in the initiative and how the transitions between unemployment, nature of relationship(s) with informality and formal employment might affect external constituencies or promote inclusive growth at both individual ··In light of the lessons drawn from the first and macroeconomic level, and to what extent phase, a second phase of ELLA (2014-2017)

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was designed, again funded by DFID, and RESEARCH: coordinated and supported by Practical Action We have produced two research outputs, which Consulting (PAC, Latin America) and the UK are the basis for the online and offline learning Institute of Development Studies (IDS). initiatives we are currently undertaking. ··Our ELLA research partner is Fedesarrollo ··Online Learning Initiatives: research unit, Colombia: Joint We are currently co-running (with Fedesarrollo) conceptualisation and design or all research a 12-week Online Learning Alliance. The outputs, offline and online learning initiatives. purpose of this is to use the comparative ··Online Learning Alliance Participants: ella. analysis from our research output in order practicalaction.org/learning-alliances/ to engage peers from across the global informality-and-inclusive-growth/ south. This online platform includes over ··63 diverse organisations from several different 100 participants from research institutions, countries in the global south are involved. government and civil society who have come together to debate, exchange and learn about Length of relationship(s) the topic of informality and inclusive growth. 2014-2017. The goal is for these professionals to discern where the evidence-based research we are Dominant form of the dealing with provides lessons for tackling engaged scholarship development issues in their own countries. Research, exchange and learning. ··Offline Learning Initiatives: We are also organising a summit on Nature of the outputs informality and inclusive growth, to be held in APPLIED RESEARCH + POLICY Johannesburg in October 2016. The purpose ANALYSIS + PUBLIC DIALOGUE: of this summit is to offer an opportunity ··Key activities in 2016 such as the ELLA online to selected active members of the Online learning alliance, as well as upcoming seminar Learning Alliance to learn first-hand from events and the varied research publications experiences in Latin America. Policymakers published, have enabled the findings to be and academics with an interest in this topic shared and promoted among a variety of are also being invited. In addition, the external constituencies in South Africa, other DPRU is organising three additional offline sub-Saharan African countries, Latin America, events/workshops in late 2016, aimed at and other countries across the world. disseminating our comparative work.

Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU)

Purpose of the ES initiative and overall systems synergy. The DPRU is a The Labour Market Intelligence Partnership key research partner, and among others has (LMIP) aims to set up systems for reliable data partnered with the Human Sciences Research indicating skills needs, supply, and demand Council and the University of the Witwatersrand, in our labour market, allowing South Africa to in a consortium reporting to and funded by the plan better for human resources development. Department of Higher Education and Training.

Brief description of the initiative The LMIP is a unique undertaking designed The Labour Market Intelligence Partnership to inform and support evidence-based skills (LMIP) was formally launched in September development policy in South Africa. To build 2012 by the Minister of Higher Education and a credible institutional mechanism is a major Training, and focuses on creating a credible national undertaking, yet eminently worthwhile labour market intelligence framework to as the basis for excellence in education and ensure better information gathering, analysis skills and a growing economy for all.

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The DPRU is involved in the sector studies Nature of the outputs included in Theme Three: Selected sectoral ··JOURNAL ARTICLE: analyses, such as Skills-Biased Labour Demand, Bhorat, H., Cassim, A. and Tseng, D. (2016). the New Growth Path, SETA Labour Markets, ‘Higher education, employment, and the Informal Sector and Human Capital economic growth: exploring the interactions’. Accumulation and Pro-Poor Growth. Studies of Development Southern Africa, LMIP Special selected priority sectors focus on a set of skills Issue. Vol 33, Issue 3 DOI:10.1080/037683 needs-employment-and-growth outcome sector 5X.2016.1161501 p312-327 – June 2016 studies. The research contribution will be the http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ development of a generic SETA labour market pdf/10.1080/0376835X.2016.1161501 survey, which in future could be used by all ··OUTPUTS PREVIOUS TO 2016: SETAs. They form the basis of a more nuanced --Report #1: Occupational Shifts and analytical understanding of the workplace-skills Shortages: Skills Challenges Facing demand and supply challenges at sector level. the South African Economy --Report #3: Growth, Employment and The LMI project will provide information that is Skills: The New Growth Path Revisited crucial to all our post-school systems and to all --Report #5: Higher Education, sections of the labour market itself, by focusing Employment, and Economic Growth: on creating a credible labour market intelligence Exploring the Interactions framework to ensure better information --Policy Brief #3: Occupational gathering, analysis, and overall systems synergy. Shifts and Skills Challenges Facing the South African Economy Key thematic issues addressed --Policy Roundtable #1: Skills, Technology Labour market analysis, skills forecasting, and Capital Intensity: Employment & Wage selected sectoral analyses, pathways through Shifts in post-apartheid South Africa education and training and into the labour --Working paper #10: Studies of selected market, SETA Labour Markets, informality. priority sectors in the South African labour market: a proposed research programme Nature of external constituencies --Presentation: The sectoral involved in the initiative, & nature of our economic growth Nature of relationship(s) with trajectory: Three observations external constituencies --Presentation: Higher education, The DHET entered into partnership with employment and economic growth: the national research consortium led by the Exploring the interactions Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). Core members of the consortium are the Assessment of impact of the initiative HSRC, the Development Policy Research Impact assessment will focus on the programme’s Unit at the University of Cape Town, and the four main activities to encourage impact and University of Witwatersrand. Other partners uptake of research: dissemination, capacity include public and private research institutes, building, workshops, and policy roundtables. universities and independent consultants.

Length of relationship(s) 2012 to date.

Dominant form of the engaged scholarship Research.

Dominant mode of engagement Applied research, policy analysis.

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Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU)

Purpose of the ES initiative sectoral and occupational determinations; To quantitatively review the process of wage legislation; sectoral coverage rates; wage formation and minimum-wage- wage poverty; wage poverty gap. setting mechanisms in Mauritius. Nature of external constituencies Brief description of the initiative involved in the initiative The framework for the establishment of a national World Bank officials; Central Statistics Office; minimum wage council in Mauritius is currently wage setting boards (public and private); being hotly debated by policymakers, against private-sector employee federations; trade the backdrop of an economy in transformation union officials; government departments: coupled with multiple labour rigidities. Ministry of Labour and Ministry of Finance.

Although increasing the minimum wage is Nature of relationship(s) with politically popular, international experience external constituencies suggests that it would do little to reduce poverty Various meetings with the or inequality; and if the level of the minimum is stakeholders listed above. not carefully chosen, it does carry the potential threat of employment losses. It is with this in mind Length of relationship(s) that this report was commissioned to provide an 2016; ongoing. empirically intensive overview of wage formation and minimum wage setting in Mauritius. Dominant form of the engaged scholarship The analysis undertaken contained an impact analysis Research. to determine whether the prevailing minimum wage levels have had any effect on employment. Dominant mode of engagement Applied research, policy analysis. Key thematic issues addressed Mauritius; minimum-wage legislation; Nature of the outputs minimum wages (MW); MW compliance; Strategic analysis and report.

Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU)

Purpose of the ES initiative jobs agenda during the period 2013-16. The The goal of the Network on Jobs for Development DPRU, for sub-Saharan Africa, is one of five (NJD) is to contribute to the creation of multi-sector, global institutions that have joined the NJD. multi-disciplinary solutions to jobs challenges around the world, based on research and empirical Building on the World Development Report evidence from programmes on the ground. (WDR) 13 on Jobs, the Jobs Knowledge Platform, and the interest of the international Brief description of the initiative community in employment as part of the post- In 2016 the DPRU continues its membership of 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG) the Network on Jobs for Development (NJD) and the G20 agendas, this programme builds a partnership, financed from of the World Bank’s vibrant community of individuals and institutions Development Grant Facility (DGF). The NJD working on issues related to jobs that will share was established to pursue a multi-sectoral experiences and knowledge to inform policy and multi-disciplinary approach to the global debates and offer development solutions.

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The NJD initiative recognises employment Bank’s Jobs & Development Blog. generation as a critical condition for raising living ··ALSO, EVENTS: standards and achieving poverty reduction, as Organising and hosting a regional conference well as the role of globalisation in improving event each year, and arranging Google+ labour working conditions. It supports the Hangouts live virtual discussions. extension of the benefits of growth and good jobs to lagging regions within countries, and Nature of the outputs emphasises the role of employment and skills ··At present, three working papers have been in driving economic growth. This will help to confirmed for 2016 – they will all be authored by facilitate the identification and dissemination of DPRU research analysts, with some collaboration best practices and innovations in job creation. on two of the papers, with external contributors. ··Thus far, twelve topics and authors (either DPRU Key thematic issues addressed researchers or commissioned experts/academics Sub-Saharan Africa; jobs; employment; etc.) have been confirmed as blog submissions youth unemployment; informality; in 2016, and are currently in progress. technology; labour regulations; urbanisation; ··The DPRU is also producing two policy economic growth; development. notes in 2016; a format that allows for attempts to distil academic work into Nature of external constituencies a brief, policy-relevant document: involved in the initiative and --A brief on informality by Andrew Charman Nature of relationship(s) with (Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation) was external constituencies published by the DPRU in July 2016: PB2016- 45 ‘The South African township economy The World Bank Jobs group is our and informal micro-enterprises: what are counterpart at the World Bank, and the prospects for youth employment and our partner institutions include: entrepreneurship?’ www.dpru.uct.ac.za/sites/ ··The Institute for Structural Research default/files/image_tool/images/36/Publications/ (IBS), for Europe and Central Asia; Policy_Briefs/DPRU%20PB%2016_45.pdf ··The Institute for Emerging Market Studies --The second (IZA format) brief is being (IEMS) at Hong Kong University of Science & authored by DPRU researchers, and will Technology (HKUST), for East Asia and Pacific; focus on the labour regulations theme, ··The Indian Council for Research on International covering the National Minimum Wage in Economic Relations (ICRIER), for South Asia; South Africa and its various challenges. This ··The Latin American and Caribbean Economic is due to be delivered by December 2016. Association (LACEA), for Latin America. ··The DPRU is also collaborating with the other regional partners, and the World Bank NJD Length of relationship(s) and Jobs teams, to deliver a global event: 2013 to date. on 2-3 November 2016, in Washington DC, the Jobs and Development Conference will Dominant form of the convene over two days to discuss the latest engaged scholarship policy-relevant research to foster the creation Research. of multi-sector, multi-disciplinary solutions to jobs challenges around the world. Dominant mode of engagement ··The DPRU also hosted a Google+ Hangout ··APPLIED RESEARCH: on 15 March 2016. The virtual discussion Research products and publications: was titled: Labour and Unemployment in commissioning and/or writing a number of South Africa: Towards a ‘Grand Bargain’, with original working papers and policy briefs (some Ravi Kanbur, Michael Sachs, Rudi Dicks and of which will be in collaboration with IZA). Catherine MacLeod, moderated by Haroon ··PUBLIC DIALOGUE: Bhorat. http://www.dpru.uct.ac.za/news/ Producing a series of both DPRU/in-house google-hangout-labour-and-unemployment- and externally commissioned blogs and south-africa-towards-grand-bargain. video blogs for publication on the World

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Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU)

Purpose of the ES initiative Key thematic issues addressed National Student Financial Aid Scheme NSFAS; student funding; higher-education (NSFAS): updating the first-stage proxy funding; missing middle; poverty proxies; test for the NSFAS financial need test. means test; higher-education means test.

Brief description of the initiative Nature of external constituencies In 2016, the DPRU was tasked by NSFAS to involved in the initiative find a way to improve their funding allocation The National Student Financial Aid Scheme process, by researching new and better proxies – a loan and bursary scheme that is funded for the first stage of the NSFAS financial means by the Department of Higher Education and test. Currently, funding is allocated based on a Training for those who lack access to funds or means test. However, before the means test, and credit for their higher-education studies. in an effort to relieve the heavy administrative burden of means testing, NSFAS allocates full Nature of relationship(s) with funding to those who pass a proxy means test. external constituencies The proxy is attending a Quintile 1-3 school, NSFAS provided us with a brief, and our contact and is chosen to reliably identify the poorest with NSFAS has been through occasional students, and in this way, deal uncontroversially meetings at key points in the research. We and quickly with a large batch of applications. have received limited NSFAS support, and have mostly done the research on our own. Last year’s student protests put pressure on NSFAS to provide more funding for the ‘missing Length of relationship(s) middle’ – students who are not destitute, but who Three months. cannot afford tertiary studies without financial aid. Additionally, financial officers at many Higher Dominant form of the Education Institutions do not deem the School engaged scholarship Quintile proxy reliable for identifying the neediest. Research. Some students with two earning parents could be attending a Quintile 1-3 school and therefore Dominant mode of engagement qualify for full funding. As a consequence, this proxy Applied research, policy analysis, consulting. means test suffered from a high level of leakage. The DPRU’s research confirms that a high proportion Nature of the outputs of students not living in households below the The outputs have been in the form of poverty line are qualifying for full funding, when presentations and reports. We have submitted perhaps partial funding would be more appropriate. a draft report as well as two presentations – one of which was to the executive team of Our work has been centred on identifying new NSFAS. Our final report is due at the end of proxies using survey data that are both well-related August 2016. The ultimate output will be a to poverty and also practically verifiable by NSFAS. points system, based on a weighted set of The DPRU is combining appropriate proxies into proxies that we have identified through the a points system that is easy for NSFAS to use. use of survey data and statistical methods.

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Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU)

Purpose of the ES initiative Key thematic issues addressed An overview of the Seychelles labour market. Labour absorption, youth unemployment, migrant labour, wage determination, secondary Brief description of the initiative employment, informal sector, inequality, wage Following a request from the World Bank’s distribution, and wage Gini coefficient. Country Economist, the DPRU finalised a report in August 2016 into the structure of Nature of external constituencies the Seychelles labour market, highlighting involved in the initiative relationships between changes to the overall World Bank officials; Seychelles National structure of the economy and overall employment Bureau of Statistics officials. levels. This was discussed across various key themes: namely, changes to employment Nature of relationship(s) with levels by sector and skills type, migrant labour, external constituencies and employment in the informal sector. Provision of data, and responses to any data queries. The DPRU’s analysis suggests that future economic growth in the Seychelles is dependent Length of relationship(s) on increasing overall labour absorption levels Three months – ongoing. in a manner which ensures that employment opportunities grow at a sufficient pace to absorb Dominant form of the the rising number of labour force participants. engaged scholarship This outcome requires harnessing current growth Research. within the services sector to provide a sufficiently large number of low-wage jobs to counter the Dominant mode of engagement contraction in manufacturing. At the centre Applied research and policy analysis. of this challenge must be the growing issue of youth unemployment, which if not suitably Nature of the outputs addressed could thwart the future economic ··Strategic analysis and report development trajectory of this island economy. ··Assessment of impact of the initiative.

Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU)

Purpose of the ES initiative that should temporary employment be Temporary Employment Services (TES): an terminated where there was reasonable investigation into the effects of a Labour Relations expectation of future work, the termination Act Amendment on employment in the TES Sector. will be considered to be an unfair dismissal.

Brief description of the initiative Firm data suggests that this amendment has In January 2015 an amendment to the Labour had large negative effects on employment in Relations Act was passed in an attempt to the TES sector. Empirical analysis of survey regulate the TES sector. The amendment data matched TES workers to non-TES controls, states that after three months of work, and used a difference-in-difference approach any temporary worker will be considered to estimate the impact of the regulatory employed by the firm at which they work. amendment. Our findings were in line with the It also states than a temporary worker must firm-level data, confirming that the amendment be paid in line with permanent staff, and did have negative effects on TES employment.

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Key thematic issues addressed Dominant form of the Labour Relations Act; temporary engaged scholarship employment; TES; regulation; difference in Research. difference; propensity score matching. Dominant mode of engagement Nature of external constituencies Applied research, policy analysis. involved in the initiative National Economic Development Nature of the outputs Labour Advisory Committee. The initial output was a report on our findings. The work has also been written up as a presentation for external use and presentation to government.

College of Accounting

African Institute of Financial Markets and Risk Management (AIFRMRM) Research unit of AIFMRM; African Collaboration for Quantitative Finance and Risk Research (ACQuFRR).

Purpose of the ES initiative Key thematic issues addressed Masterclasses – The research unit of AIFMRM, Quantitative finance; risk management; financial the African Collaboration for Quantitative economics; empirical finance; financial markets; Finance and Risk Research (ACQuFRR), offers financial policy and regulation; asset management; a series of professional research masterclasses banking; insurance; teaching; service; research; annually, which is open to the general public mentorship; public seminars/dialogue; conferences, and all participants in the South African financial seminars and workshops organised with external services industry. The purpose of this initiative groups; strategic research; knowledge transfer is to provide the general public, students, and research; knowledge exchange; expert academics and industry professionals with testimony; advice to external non-academic insights from and access to leading academic organisations; consulting; policy analysis. and industry experts, in relation to issues, problems and research areas that are topical Nature of external constituencies and relevant to both industry and academia. involved in the initiative ACQuFRR partners with various public- and Brief description of the initiative private-sector industry bodies, along with ACQuFRR hosts a series of professional various other academic institutions. masterclass events annually, in either All events are open to the general public, Johannesburg or Cape Town, with the students and academics from all educational target audience being students, academics institutions, and all industry professionals. and professionals involved in the financial services industry. The research focus of each Nature of relationship(s) with event is carefully selected by AIFMRM after external constituencies interactions with leading global academic AIFMRM is fully funded by industry, and has a experts, professionals, companies, regulators governing board composed equally of UCT and and other private and public entities within industry representatives. AIFMRM therefore has and outside of the financial services sector. a natural, intrinsic relationship with both industry and academia. Most masterclasses are jointly These events discuss relevant qualitative and conceptualised, based on what is relevant in both quantitative industry-related problems and academia and industry at any given time. Being resolve them in an academically rigorous fashion, industry-funded, AIFMRM is also assessed by their incorporating the latest academic developments. industry partners with regard to the efficacy of their

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 167 Part Four: Faculty Reports social outreach programmes –masterclasses being assessed formally in this regard on an annual one of the key initiatives. Constant consultation basis, based on the aforementioned feedback. and feedback is therefore obtained, in this regard. Less formally, at each masterclass event the administrators of AIFMRM collect feedback Length of relationship(s) from attendees regarding various qualitative This is inapplicable for this particular attributes of that particular event. This information initiative, as masterclasses are considered is collated and analysed carefully in order to to be an ongoing offering of AIFMRM. continually improve the nature of the offering.

Dominant form of the Additional ES activities engaged scholarship Allied to ACQuFRR’s masterclass events, which Given the agile and flexible nature of the mode are primarily focused on public and professional of presentation of the masterclasses, as well education, AIFMRM also sustains a prominent as the fact that the mode of presentation is presence in the media as an independent analyst largely research-area- or topic-dependent, the of current events and developments in the local form of this particular initiative spans across all and global economy. AIFMRM is a frequent three areas of research, teaching and service. commentator in audio, visual and printed media on topical financial, socio-economic, and Dominant mode of engagement socio-political economic events. Available to Dependent on the nature of the research content, the general public, this content serves both as the dominant modes of engagement are: teaching; an independent opinion on topical affairs, and service; research; mentorship; public seminars/ as educational content with analysis derived dialogue; conferences, seminars and workshops from an academically rigorous perspective. organised with external groups; strategic research; knowledge transfer and research; knowledge Media publications in this regard during 2016: exchange; expert testimony; advice to external non- ··BDlive, 31 July 2016, ‘SMEs go deeper than pep academic organisations; consulting; policy analysis. talks’ by Christine Makanza and Co-Pierre Georg. ··BDlive, 29 June 2016, ‘Millennials do not have Nature of the outputs to be sacrificed in SA too’ by Co-Pierre Georg. Masterclasses are usually presented as ··Daily Maverick, 26 May 2016, ‘Operation seminars, conferences or workshops. Rescue SA: Possible, doable, feasible?’ by Marelise van der Merwe. Assessment of impact of the initiative ··eNCA, TechCentral, Independent Online, One formal mechanism of assessment is AllAfrica.com; 19 May 2016, ‘Why Julius feedback from AIFMRM’s industry partners Malema’s EFF doesn’t offer South Africans a and other collaborators with regard to the way out of poverty’ by Co-Pierre Georg. efficacy of masterclasses. Forming part of the ··BDlive, 09 Feb 2016, ‘Time for the youth key performance areas of AIFMRM, AIFMRM is to plot their future’ by Co-Pierre Georg.

Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice (GSDPP)

Professor Alan Hirsch, Adjunct Prof Lindiwe Msengana-Ndlela, Mark Engel, Malcolm Keswell.

Purpose of the ES initiative method of constructing, a theory of change; This course aims to equip participants with: An understanding of how the use of An understanding of the factors that influence evidence can improve the performance of policy and implementation processes, and the leaders and departments, as well as the difference between evidence and opinion; implementation and impact of policies; An understanding of the reason for, and the An opportunity to reflect on existing

168 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports policymaking and management processes, Persons in positions that allow them to and their strengths and limitations; influence and/or apply new approaches An understanding of tools for evidence- to policymaking and implementation. based policymaking and implementation; An understanding of the role of Nature of relationship(s) with evidence in managing. external constituencies The course was delivered in partnership with the Brief description of the initiative Department: Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Short Course: Evidence-Based Policymaking in the Presidency (DPME) in the Presidency and and Implementation: The programme is an the Programme to Support Pro-Poor Policy executive course for strategic leaders and top Development in the Presidency (PSPPD II) in the managers in the public service. It is designed Presidency. The GSDPP has partnered with the to assist participants to use evidence to DPME and PSPPD to deliver this course since 2013. make well-informed decisions about policies, The course will have been delivered six times by programmes, projects and services, and to the close of 2016. The GSDPP partners with the improve government’s impact on society. The DPME and PSPPD on other events; the nature of course unpacks the different influences on the partnership in delivering this course includes policymaking and implementation processes course design, preparation, funding and delivery. (facts, experiences, expertise, judgement, The GSDPP also brings in expert speakers to politics and institutional capacity), and the ways present on various topics relevant to the course. in which evidence can be incorporated into the management process. It analyses the different Length of relationship(s) types of evidence and their usefulness in different Three years. arenas. The course is practical, using case studies and drawing on participants’ experiences as Dominant form of the well as global thinking and best practice. engaged scholarship Teaching. Key thematic issues addressed Evidence-based policymaking; Dominant mode of engagement: theory of change; research to inform Teaching. policy; evaluation, monitoring. Nature of the outputs Nature of external constituencies Executive short course. involved in the initiative Senior officials, from Director General Assessment of impact of the initiative to Chief Director level, in a national or Course evaluation forms are completed; but provincial government department in these measure the usefulness of the course South Africa, tasked with managing policy to participants, rather than directly measuring processes (preferably with their teams). the impact of the course on participants.

Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice (GSDPP)

Prof Murray Leibbrandt, Prof Haroon Bhorat, Prof Alan Hirsch; Trevor Manuel; Aislinn Delaney & Cecil Mlatsheni.

Purpose of the ES initiative inequality and inclusive growth; The objectives of the course are to ··An understanding of the dynamics and provide participants with: causes of poverty and inequality at an ··A conceptual understanding of poverty, individual, household and societal level;

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··An understanding of poverty, inequality with the Programme to Support Pro-Poor and growth measurements; Policy Development (PSPPD II). The GSDPP ··An understanding of the levers of change has partnered with the PSPPD to deliver and strategies for tackling poverty and this course since 2014. The course has now inequality and creating growth; been delivered three times. The GSDPP ··An understanding of trends in poverty and partners with the PSPPD on other events; the inequality reduction from around the world; nature of the partnership in delivering this ··An increased understanding of how to use research course includes course design, preparation, and evidence to inform policymaking and planning; funding and delivery. The GSDPP also ··An understanding of what this means for existing brings in expert speakers to present on government strategies and programmes, various topics relevant to the course. and what changes may be required. Length of relationship(s) Brief description of the initiative Two years. Short Course: Understanding Poverty and Inequality in South Africa. Dominant form of the engaged scholarship Key thematic issues addressed Teaching (promotes knowledge integration Poverty measurement; inequality; poverty and application; utilisation of an academic’s reduction; social policy; economic policy. scholarly and professional expertise, and engagement with external constituencies). Nature of external constituencies involved in the initiative Dominant mode of engagement Officials in key line departments whose work is Teaching. important to tackling the challenge of poverty and inequality. This includes the Presidency, Nature of the outputs National Treasury and the Departments of Social Executive short course. Development, Basic Education, Health and Human Settlements, as well as the economic departments. Assessment of impact of the initiative Course evaluation forms are completed, but Nature of relationship(s) with these measure the usefulness of the course external constituencies to participants, rather than directly measuring The course was delivered in partnership the impact of the course on participants.

Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice (GSDPP)

Prof Brian Levy; Prof Alan Hirsch; Prof Robert Cameron; Assoc Prof Ursula Hoadley; Dr Vintothan Naidoo.

Purpose of the ES initiative (ESID) Research Workshop: The politics and To share the preliminary findings of the governance of basic education in South Africa. research project on “the politics and governance of basic education in South Key thematic issues addressed Africa”, which is part of the global, Governance; education; applied research. comparative Effective States and Inclusive Development research programme. Nature of external constituencies involved in the initiative Brief description of the initiative The workshop was targeted at those working in Effective States for Inclusive Development the governance and education research arena at

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UCT, as well as researchers from other universities Dominant form of the (UWC, SU) and research institutions (HSRC, PARI), engaged scholarship representatives of not-for -profit organisations Teaching (utilisation of an academic’s scholarly active in the thematic area (Equal Education) and professional expertise and engagement with and government departments (DBE, WCED). external constituencies; helps to generate and accumulate new knowledge in the field; promotes Nature of relationship(s) with knowledge integration and application). external constituencies The workshop forms part of a research programme Dominant mode of engagement that is part of the global, comparative Effective Applied research. States and Inclusive Development research programme (www.effective-states.org), co- Nature of the outputs ordinated by the University of Manchester, Research papers; research workshop. and funded by the United Kingdom’s Department for Economic Development. Assessment of impact of the initiative Project still under way (no plan submitted). Length of relationship(s) One year.

Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice (GSDPP)

Prof Alan Hirsch; Adjunct Prof Lindiwe Msengana-Ndlela; Prof Sakhela Buhlungu; Prof Brian Levy; Dr Marianne Camerer; Prof Anwar Mall; Prof Edgar Pieterse.

Purpose of the ES initiative analysis and action on the difficult issues facing The course ‘Leading in Public Life’ aims to Africa. Each year stakeholders from across the strengthen public leadership in Africa and public sphere in several sub-Saharan countries create networks connecting a strong cohort – including journalists, civil society leaders and of ethical young leaders committed to driving parliamentarians – are invited to participate in change in their own countries and across the broadening the conversation with policymakers and continent. The programme emphasises the experts at regional events, supported by current importance of acknowledging the specific research, data, case studies and other evidence. character of development challenges, and the rich and diverse experience of leadership Key thematic issues addressed thinking and practice on the continent. The two- Emotional intelligence, ethics, values, balancing week residential programme provides a unique personal and Professional development, creativity, learning space, combining substantive inputs innovation, self-reflection, effective communication. from African policy and thought leaders focused on a central theme, with the development of core Nature of external constituencies leadership skills and the practical application involved in the initiative of concepts and tools in real-life situations. African emerging (public) leaders in government and civil society, between the ages of 25 and 35. Brief description of the initiative Building Bridges is a multi-year policy-focused Nature of relationship(s) with research and outreach programme combining external constituencies fellowships, meetings and workshops (both The course was delivered in partnership with a public and closed) and a leadership development number of external agencies, including: former South component. By ‘building bridges’ between African Finance Minister Mr Nhlanhla Nene; Former political actors and policy research experts, the Editor of City Press; former Political programme aims to close the gap between Prisoner; Section27; Social Justice Initiative; Social

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Justice Coalition; African Monitor; J-Pal; Bhekisisa; Nature of the outputs Mr Trevor Manuel (former SA Finance Minister and A two-week residential programme for African GSDPP Senior Fellow); and Uongozi Institute of Emerging Leaders in Cape Town, South Africa. African Leadership for Sustainable Development. Assessment of impact Dominant form of the of the initiative: engaged scholarship ··Course evaluation forms are completed, but Teaching; thoughtful communication, and use these measure the usefulness of the course of knowledge based around policy-making to participants, rather than directly measuring and economic development; promotion of the impact of the course on participants. knowledge integration and application. ··Independent evaluation exercise by an external consultant to measure the Dominant mode of engagement medium- to long-term impact of the Teaching. programme on the emerging leaders.

Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice (GSDPP)

Prof Sandra Klopper; Prof Alan Hirsch; Prof Brian Levy; Dr Marianne Camerer.

Purpose of the ES initiative Francophone and Anglophone participants. The five-month certificate programme is aimed at training senior African managers to Nature of relationship(s) with incorporate the challenges related to growth external constituencies and sustainable development on the continent The course was delivered in partnership with a into the practices of their companies and number of external agencies, including: Cape organisations. It is a professional-development Town Partnership; Narachi Leadership; Ms Lulu programme that aims to enhance the Gwagwa (public servant, and National Planning leadership and business skills of current and Commissioner); Mr Lionel Davis (former Robben future African leaders in the public and private Island political prisoner); Allan Gray Foundation; sectors, as well as to develop supportive Ms Noxolo Hlongwane (philanthropy specialist professional networks across the continent. at Nedbank Private Wealth); MTN South Africa; Total Southern Africa Region; Juma Drums; Brief description of the initiative and Mr Trevor Manuel (former South African The LeAD Campus programme is an innovative Finance Minister and GSDPP Senior Fellow). skills development programme offered over five months on three campuses by the Dominant form of the University of Cape Town (GSDPP), the Paris engaged scholarship Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), Teaching; promotion of knowledge integration the Higher Institute of Management (ISM) in and application; utilisation of an academic’s Dakar, and CEFEB, the corporate university scholarly and professional expertise, and of the French Development Agency. engagement with external constituencies.

Key thematic issues addressed Nature of the outputs Leadership, ethics, business skills. A one-week residential programme for senior African executives, delivered in partnership with Nature of external constituencies SciencesPo, AFD/CEFEB and ISM for completion involved in the initiative: after two additional modules: ‘My Business’, in LeAD Campus targets senior African Dakar, and ‘My Society’, in Paris, at SciencesPo. executives, and intentionally selects both

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Assessment of impact of the initiative to participants, rather than directly measuring Course evaluation forms are completed, but the impact of the course on participants. these measure the usefulness of the course

Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice (GSDPP)

Eftychia Nikolaido.

Purpose of the ES initiative Dominant form of the Participation in a team of experts invited by engaged scholarship the Stockholm International Peace Research Research. Institute to offer advice and expertise on a revised database on the world’s military expenditure. Dominant mode of engagement Applied research. Brief description of the initiative Advice to an external non-academic organisation, Nature of the outputs namely the Stockholm International Peace Release of a revised, extended and tested Research Institute, an International organisation military expenditure database. in Sweden that collects and releases the world’s military expenditure data. Assessment of impact of the initiative The release of the revised military expenditure Key thematic issues addressed data by SIPRI, which is extensively used World military expenditure data revisions by researchers in the Economics for Peace and methodological issues. and Security area all over the world.

Nature of external constituencies Additional ES activities involved in the initiative ··Invited public lecture on the ‘Greek Debt Crisis’ Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, by the Hellenic Community of Cape Town; funded by the Swedish Riksbankensjubileumsfond. ··Contractual research with the African Economic Research Council (AERC) on Nature of relationship(s) with ‘The Financial Sector Reform in Africa’; external constituencies ··Active participation in Economists for Consultation, feedback and release of Peace and Security (EPS), a US not-for- the revised military expenditure data profit organisation that is against the for all countries in the world. arms trade and military spending. Also, Chair of the Greek affiliate of EPS. Length of relationship(s) One year.

Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice (GSDPP)

David Kaplan.

Purpose of the ES initiative Brief description of the initiative Governmental support for innovation The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) is a and technology-based start-ups. government agency funded via the Department

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 173 Part Four: Faculty Reports of Science and Technology. It has a budget of Dominant mode of engagement around R500 million, and approximately 160 Policy analysis; applied research. employees. Its objective is to support innovation – through support of technology programmes Nature of the outputs and platforms, and the funding and support of Enhancement of the national system of innovation. start-ups. The TIA has a board, which reports Establishment and improved performance of to the Minister of Science and Technology. technology platforms and stations that provide access for business to technology. Establishment Key thematic issues addressed and development of technology-based start-ups. Innovation; technology development; start-ups. Assessment of impact of the initiative Nature of external constituencies A process of assessment of the TIA involved in the initiative will be undertaken in the future. Government; business community – more especially, small companies and start-ups. Additional ES activities ··Wrote a report for Centre for Development Nature of relationship(s) with and Enterprise advocating the establishment external constituencies of an Economic Processing Zone (EPZ) in Board member, and member of Audit and Risk Port Elizabeth; a summary appeared as an and Investment and Finance Sub- Committees. op-ed in Business Day. Have addressed Period of service large public meetings on the issue, plus May 2013 – May 2017. meetings with local business people, chamber of industries, exporters and others. Length of relationship(s) ··Part of a team that completed a major report Four years. as an input into new SA government White Paper on S&T. This was an undertaking for the Dominant form of the National Advisory Council on Innovation. engaged scholarship ··Undertaking work for the International Service, but also putting research on ST Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris – to into operation, particularly in developing arrange and address a seminar on how the overall strategy of the organisation. scientists can engage more in innovation.

School of Economics

Anthony Leiman.

Purpose of the ES initiative Key thematic issues addressed Pro bono work on natural-gas fracking. ··Economic impacts, gas, fracking, Karoo; ··Nature of external constituencies Brief description of the initiative involved in the initiative; This was part of an exercise requested by the ··Initiated by the South African Government, who directed it at the Council for Government, run by CSIR. Scientific Research (CSIR), who in turn assembled a team of experts who compiled the basic materials Nature of relationship(s) with for a report. The individual sections were peer- external constituencies reviewed. This section involved the economic Conceptualisation, provision of feedback, consequences of fracking activities in the target discussion and development. area. It also entailed attendance at a series of meetings, and extensive revision of documents. Length of relationship(s) One year.

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Dominant form of the Additional ES activities engaged scholarship Preparation of summer-school courses (public Research. lectures). Working with the South Africa Deep Sea Trawl Association and the Department of Dominant mode of engagement Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in addressing the Applied research. problems associated with the renewal of long-term species-specific quotas, and helping students to Nature of the outputs do appropriate and relevant research in the area. Public report.

School of Economics

NIDS – National Income Dynamics Study (SALDRU).

Purpose of the ES initiative Dominant form of the Pro bono expert advice to STATTSA in engaged scholarship effective computerised data collection. Teaching and service.

Brief description of the initiative Dominant mode of engagement Engagement with the government statistics Workshops, ad hoc query response, presentations. office to assist them successfully navigate their way to computerised fieldwork data collection. Nature of the outputs A selection of workshops and site visits. Presentations, review communications.

Key thematic issues addressed Assessment of impact of the initiative Knowledge transfer, data collection, consultancy, . This is in the hands of STATTSA.

Nature of external constituencies Additional ES activities involved in the initiative ··Workshops with government departments on Divisional heads of the various how to use panel data for better policy; STATSSA undertakings. ··Internships for postgraduate students identified as future policymakers/influencers; Nature of relationship(s) with ··Training courses on effective use of panel data external constituencies targeted towards government departments; Consultation and review. ··Publishing of new open-source STATA module; ··YouTube channel with assorted videos to Length of relationship(s) encourage the use of our data by policymakers Ongoing since 2014. and policy influencers outside of academia; ··Workshops with government departments on use of NIDS panel data as evidence for policymaking.

School of Economics

Martine Visser, NIDS – National Income Dynamics Study (SALDRU).

Purpose of the ES initiative on Behavioural Nudges and Water Use at a Using Behavioural Nudges to affect household-level Household Level. During the summer of 2015/16 water use during the recent drought in Cape Town. we conducted a large-scale, randomised control trial with a sample of 400 000 households in the Brief description of the initiative: City of Cape Town. The aim of the study was to Study with City of Cape Town Municipality incentivise households to save water, using several

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 175 Part Four: Faculty Reports different behavioural frames (such as financial gain/ Length of relationship(s) loss framings; graphs explaining the tariff structure Three to eight years with various departments. that households face; social norms messages comparing households with their neighbours, and Dominant form of the social recognition treatment – asking households engaged scholarship to reduce consumption by 10%, and in turn have Research and service. their names published on the City’s website. The study coincided with one of the worst droughts/ Dominant mode of engagement water-scarce periods in 20 years (with dams only full Applied research and policy analysis. up to 20% capacity). Working closely with the City of Cape Town municipality, we used the campaign Nature of the outputs very effectively to influence household behaviour. Research papers and policy briefs; seminars and workshops aimed at knowledge dissemination. Key thematic issues addressed Water scarcity; consumer education; Assessment of impact of the initiative making the utilities bill more salient; Our intervention led to a 1.5% to 8% reduction financial literacy; social recognition. in water consumption across households over the six-month intervention period. More than Nature of external constituencies 50% of the households in the Social Recognition involved in the initiative treatments where we asked households to Cape Town Municipality (Utilities Directorate; aim to reduce their consumption by 10% Water and Sanitation Department). were successful in meeting the target.

Nature of relationship(s) with We believe the impact of our behavioural external constituencies nudges campaign, in conjunction with the Extensive consultation; partnership agreements; City’s media campaigns and tariff increase, data-sharing contracts; joint conceptualisation was hugely successful in saving water and and obtaining feedback; logistics planning; averting a crisis over the late summer careful joint execution of the field intervention during a period of acute water scarcity. and roll-out of the water savings campaign.

School of Economics

Corne van Walbeek, Economics of Tobacco Control Project (housed in the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit in the School of Economics).

Purpose of the ES initiative already done by members of the Project in The Knowledge Hub will provide policy guidance countries ranging from Jamaica to Senegal, Ghana, to countries that wish to implement higher excise Malaysia, Vietnam, Botswana and Namibia, and taxes on tobacco, and/or better excise tax systems. creates the platform for extending this work.

Brief description of the initiative The role of the knowledge hub is to address The Economics of Tobacco Control Project was concerns that government may have, and support approached by the Secretariat of the World Health officials in the Ministries of Health and Finance to (1) Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco implement good excise tax structures, (2) increase Control (WHO FCTC) to become a knowledge the excise tax, and (3) predict the likely impact of hub on tobacco taxation. The Knowledge Hub a change in the excise tax structure and/or level. at UCT is one of only six established worldwide, and the only one that focuses on the economics Key thematic issues addressed of tobacco control. By becoming a knowledge Public health, tobacco taxation, hub, the WHO FCTC acknowledges the work government revenue.

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Nature of external constituencies in December 2015. There is no agreed end involved in the initiative date, although either country can terminate The beneficiaries of the Knowledge Hub the agreement with six months’ notice. based at UCT are primarily officials in the Ministries of Health and Finance. Although the Dominant form of the Knowledge Hub is available to all 180 Parties engaged scholarship to the WHO FCTC, in practice the focus will be Research. primarily low- and middle-income countries. Dominant mode of engagement Nature of relationship(s) with Applied research and policy analysis. external constituencies We did not have any involvement in Nature of the outputs the conceptualisation and design of the Workshops to officials from the Ministries of various knowledge hubs. This was done Health and Finance, as well as reports advising by the WHO FCTC Secretariat. governments on optimal tax systems and rates, with the possibility of publishing papers, if appropriate. Length of relationship(s) At a meeting in Gaborone in April 2015, Assessment of impact of the initiative one of the senior members of the ETCP was Short-run impacts will be the successful approached by the FCTC Secretariat about the implementation of suggested tax systems or possibility of creating a knowledge hub at UCT, rates. The long-term impact of an effective specifically focusing on Article 6 (tax and price) tax system, or increased excise taxes, will be and Article 15 (illicit trade). The relationship was a decrease in tobacco consumption, which formalised by a memorandum of understanding will result in improved public health.

Department of Finance and Tax

Phillip de Jager.

Purpose of the ES Nature of external constituencies To curb the abuse of monopoly involved in the initiative power in the South African economy; Government agency. in this case, excessive pricing. Nature of relationship(s) with Brief description of the initiative external constituencies Excessive pricing is determined by first Consultation. calculating a fair cost for a product, including a fair return on the capital employed. Cost Length of relationship(s) calculation requires accounting and auditing Two months. expertise, and the calculation of a fair return on capital requires financial market knowledge Dominant form of engaged scholarship and expertise. For both cost and fair return on Research. capital calculations a measure of judgement is involved. Pricing in excess of twenty percent Dominant mode of engagement above the fair cost of a product is deemed Applied research. excessive. My role is to assist a commission with these cost assessments and calculations. Nature of the outputs Report to the commission. Key thematic issues addressed Excessive pricing investigation. Assessment of impact of the initiative Might be tested in court.

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UCT Institute for Fiscal Research

Professor Jennifer Roeleveld and Associate Professor Craig West.

Purpose of the ES initiative ··International Fiscal Association – foremost non- ··Enable comprehensive interdisciplinary governmental and non-profit organisation to research of value to society at large; further scientific research of all fiscal matters. ··Spur novel research projects. Forum for debate by tax experts, academics, government officials and revenue authorities. Brief description of the initiative President is Professor Jennifer Roeleveld. This initiative has at its core the following: ··To be Africa’s leading academic Nature of relationship(s) with research institute in fiscal matters; external constituencies ··To draw on global knowledge and research The Institute aims to enhance public engagement networks in developing fiscal knowledge for with civil society and create opportunities the benefit of developing countries, particularly for engagement at the highest levels of the African continent and South Africa; government, tax administrations and professional ··To provide a globally recognised platform for societies, both in and outside South Africa. engagement in fiscal matters, with an emphasis on a developing country/BRICS context; Length of relationship(s) ··To maximise UCT’s existing research and The relationship has been in operation teaching capacity in the field of taxation; for two years, but has brought on board ··To develop and retain African collaborations that already existed and which expertise within Africa. are ongoing, some for four and five years.

Key thematic issues addressed Dominant form of the BRICS projects, sustainable tax governance, engaged scholarship global tax transparency, developing Research-dominated, but also to inform countries, academic staff exchanges. teaching and government policy.

Nature of external constituencies Dominant mode of engagement involved in the initiative Mainly applied research, but also policy ··International Bureau for Fiscal Documentation analysis and public dialogue. (IBFD) (based in the Netherlands); ··(The BRICS and the Emergence of Nature of the outputs International Tax Coordination, Principles Outputs have been in the form of books, of Taxation for Developing Countries). chapters in books, articles and refereed Research published in book form; papers. Conferences have also been held. ··Research Council of Norway – ongoing papers written on the main theme ‘Sustainable Assessment of impact of the initiative tax governance in developing countries Some of the outcomes have already had an through global tax transparency’. (Uruguay, impact, in that future conferences at high level Colombia, Brazil, South Africa, Vienna will be debating the issues raised. We have and Norway) – meta articles forthcoming also managed to achieve a first for the African to feed into the UN and OECD. continent by having been chosen (as a result of ··European Union Marie Curie Research our collaborations) to be the venue for the 76th Fellowship Programme: International International Fiscal Association Congress in 2022, Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES). attracting about 2 000 tax experts, government ··Global Tax Policy Institute at the Vienna officials, revenue authorities, policymakers University of Business Economics; (eg OECD, UN etc) from around the world.

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Department of Finance and Tax

Francois Toerien/Department of Finance and Tax.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of relationship(s) with Improving the investment knowledge and external constituencies understanding of pension-fund trustees. Involvement in conceptualisation and content creation, as well as implementation. Brief description of the initiative This initiative involves workshops to expose Length of relationship(s) pension-fund trustees to economics, Three years. investment asset classes, portfolio concepts and sustainable investing. The workshops Dominant form of the are an initiative of the ASISA Academy (the engaged scholarship training arm of the South African investment Teaching/service. and savings industry organisation). Dominant mode of engagement Key thematic issues addressed Training involvement. Pension fund trustees, improvement of basic investment knowledge. Nature of the outputs Pension-fund trustees with improved Nature of external constituencies investment knowledge and understanding. involved in the initiative The Association of Savings and Investments Assessment of impact of the initiative South Africa (ASISA), and pension-fund trustees. Done by the ASISA Academy through an ongoing evaluation process.

Department of Finance and Tax

Darron West.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of relationship(s) with Commercial application of skills for corporate external constituencies governance and risk management purposes. Member of the Board of Directors.

Brief description of the initiative Length of relationship(s) Independent non-executive chairman of Since 2007. the board of directors of Infiniti Insurance Ltd, member of the audit committee. Dominant form of the engaged scholarship Key thematic issues addressed Service. Corporate governance, risk management, taxation, finance, insurance. Dominant mode of engagement Analysis and application of regulation, Nature of external constituencies law and governance precepts. involved in the initiative: Public company. Nature of the outputs Recommendations to the management and board of directors.

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Assessment of impact of the initiative Additional ES activities Monitoring and implementation ··Advocate of the High Court and of regulation is ongoing. Member of the Cape Bar; ··Independent consultant – Food Asset Management.

Department of Information Systems

Joint staff initiative/Department of Information Systems.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of external constituencies Giving opportunities to community members involved in the initiative to develop themselves by using IT. The community that we identified is Vrygrond informal settlement, which is located The Vrygrond Community Lab (VCL) is an IT between and Lavender Hill. competence centre in Vrygrond. The VCL is equipped with 20 computers, and offers Nature of relationship(s) with comprehensive IT support for professional external constituencies and personal life. Community members can This was a joint venture between IS Department engage in courses, trainings and volunteering. UCT, Pforzheim University and initAID (a German NGO created for VCL, to encourage The VCL works as a practice, teaching and volunteers to work in Vrygrond) Germany. research project, on three different levels: ··PRACTICE Length of relationship(s) Specific support for the local people, by creating Six years. educational opportunities, as well as help through community development in cooperation Dominant form of the with local institutions and other non-profit engaged scholarship organisations. The structures, which were created Service to the community in the form of teaching. together, will be taken over and developed by the community members in the long term. Dominant mode of engagement ··TEACHING Teaching. For our volunteers from Germany and the students of the University of Cape Town, the Nature of the outputs work in this project is an exceptional opportunity Courses offered (minimum six weeks): to create experiences in the intercultural, social ··Basic computer course and ethical dimensions, which may have a deep ··Advanced Excel course impact on their life. Beside the well-founded ··Kids’ afternoon classes scientific studies, this is a contribution to an ··Kids’ programming workshops ethical, responsible education for the students. ··Basic computer-repair course ··RESEARCH A research partnership between the University We also run courses for different of Cape Town and Pforzheim University will NPOs/NGOs in the area. validate how the development of single persons can be intermeshed with the development of a Assessment of impact of the initiative whole community. If this succeeds, this model Not yet considered/not submitted. could also be transferred to other townships.

Key thematic issues addressed Living Labs, ICT4D, ICTS.

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School of Management Studies

Landi du Toit, Actuarial Science.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of relationship(s) with Volunteer (trainer) in Paradigm Shift initiative, basic external constituencies business training of micro-business entrepreneurs. Training tools and manuals developed by Paradigm Shift core team, used by volunteers Brief description of the initiative for training at various locations. The Paradigm Shift programme is a tool that connects business men and women in Length of relationship(s) churches to micro-entrepreneurs in poor Relationships between volunteers (trainers) communities. Through business training, and entrepreneurs are generally nine weeks discipleship, microcredit and one-on-one per education level (nine contact sessions); mentoring, volunteers engage with developing three levels are available. Relationship with entrepreneurs, who in turn bring economic Paradigm Shift core team is ongoing. possibility to their impoverished communities. Dominant form of the Key thematic issues addressed engaged scholarship Business training: pricing, selling, budgeting, Teaching and service. record keeping, understanding costs, advertising, branding; discipleship; mentoring; micro-credit. Dominant mode of engagement Facilitation. Nature of external constituencies involved in the initiative Nature of the outputs Paradigm Shift programmes are run at various Entrepreneurs can complete several locations. Every Paradigm Shift programme levels of training. Outputs are measured location is run by business professionals who by attendance records and evaluation volunteer their time in providing business forms following completed levels. training, mentorship and discipleship. The main participants during training are Assessment of impact of the initiative the volunteers and entrepreneurs. Significant increase in earnings reported by micro-entrepreneurs following implementation of new knowledge.

School of Management Studies

Terri Grant, Claudia Kalil, Gao Nodoba/Professional Communication Unit (PCU).

Purpose of the ES initiatives of the committee that deals with the exemption 1. Academic and professional assistance as examination procedures. She acts in an advisory communication specialists to the Actuarial capacity in terms of setting, proofreading and Society of South Africa (ASSA). editing the A302 communication examinations. Both 2. Terri Grant: advisory capacity, and mentor she and Claudia Kalil are on the marking panel, and as English as Additional Language (EAL) the PCU is the only external body involved in the specialist to Trade Law delegation. marking of the national exams (May & October).

Brief description of the initiatives Terri is also involved with the Institute for ASSA is a professional body that governs the International Trade (ITT) at the University of actuarial profession in South Africa. Terri is part Adelaide, who run an annual trade law and

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The PCU media launch of the new PG Assessment of impact of the initiative Diploma in Business Communication resulted ASSA & IIT themselves assess the impact. in a number of hard copy and digital press Publicity via the press has contributed to articles, and social media activity. enquiries about proposed diploma.

Key thematic issues addressed Additional ES activities Professional communication training, proofreading/ ··TERRI GRANT: editing, mentorship; media publicity. --Hosted Association for Business Communication (ABC) conference at Nature of external constituencies UCT, and on scientific committee. Also involved in the initiative on steering committee of two others, ··ASSA staff and committee; SAIMS and 8iCom conferences, and on ··IIT staff, African trade delegates (Terri); scientific committee of the latter as well. ··The media (journalists). Presented at ABC in January, and will also present at 8iCOM in December. Nature of relationship(s) with --Editorial panel of the Business Column external constituencies of the Business and Professional ··Joint moderation and feedback Communication Quarterly (BPCQ). of educators on the exams; ··CLAUDIA KALIL: ··Consultation, giving and receiving --Active in Toastmasters club, including feedback, reporting on progress (Terri); providing educational programmes on ··Media interviews (Terri & Gao); professional communication; running opinion piece (Gao). Toastmasters course in residence system (since 2014); Proposed: to run a Speechcraft Length of relationship(s) course for a group of students in 2016. Between one and six years. ··GAO NODOBA: --Was also on scientific committee Dominant form of the of ABC conference held in January engaged scholarship (and co-presented a paper) Teaching and service (both).

School of Management Studies

Prof Joha Louw-Potgieter, Organisational Psychology.

Purpose of the ES initiative Key thematic issues addressed Programme evaluations for NGOs. Programme evaluation.

Brief description of the initiative Nature of external constituencies MPhil PE students do a 50% dissertation involved in the initiative for their degree. The dissertation is an Various NGOs. evaluation of a real-life programme run by NGOs, who contact Prof J Louw-Potgieter or the Bertha Centre for an evaluation.

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Nature of relationship(s) with Dominant mode of engagement external constituencies Applied research. Joint design of evaluation framework for the programme, use of programme data to answer Nature of the outputs specific evaluation questions, evaluation report. An evaluation report in the form of a dissertation.

Length of relationship(s) Assessment of impact of the initiative One academic year per NGO. We have done this for nine years and have expanded our reach, as we get more requests Dominant form of the for evaluations than we can deal with. engaged scholarship Research.

School of Management Studies

Professor Tom A Moultrie, Centre for Actuarial Science Research (CARe).

Purpose of the ES initiative High level conceptualisation and design of research. To enhance and develop the evidence base for the use of data in the monitoring of the Length of relationship Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One year.

Brief description of the initiative Dominant form of the engagement The United Nations Sustainable Data Solutions Research. Network(UN-SDSN) is a grouping located in the Secretary-General of the UN’s office. UN-SDSN Dominant mode of engagement has arranged itself in a number of thematic Applied research. panels, one of which relates to the integration and harmonisation of ‘Big Data’ into conventional Nature of the outputs approaches of measuring and monitoring Policy papers; public engagement. progress on the SDGs. The panel meets regularly, virtually and face-to-face, to catalyse and guide Assessment of impact of the initiative new research and initiatives in this area. Will be carried out by UN-SDSN.

Key thematic issues addressed Additional ES activities Sustainable development; Big Data. Council member of the International Union for Nature of external constituencies the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) – the International organisations; private- only global organisation for demographers and sector companies; academia. population experts (academic and non-academic). Nature of relationship

School of Management Studies

Chao Mulenga & Ines Meyer/Organisational Psychology.

Purpose of the ES initiative Brief description of the initiative Community strengthening through Using an asset-based community development organisational development. approach, the project seeks to strengthen active citizenship in Wards 18 and 87 in Khayelitsha,

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Actuarial Science

Shivani Ramjee.

Purpose of the ES initiative Key thematic issues addressed To strengthen the quality of hospital Healthcare quality; accreditation. services in South Africa. Nature of external constituencies Brief description of the initiative involved in the initiative This project involves academics working with Private sector companies; not-for-profit; COHSASA (a local healthcare facility accreditation academia (international and local). organisation). The project seeks to assess the relationship between hospital accreditation Nature of relationship(s) with and key health outcomes, to develop a large, external constituencies quality dataset (across time and facilities) Joint conceptualisation of research; and to investigate the differences in quality data; consultation. between the public and private sectors. Length of relationship(s) Two years.

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Dominant form of the Additional ES activities engaged scholarship ··Member of the Government Technical Research. Advisory Centre (GTAC); ··Development of National Health Dominant mode of engagement Accounts for South Africa; Applied research. ··National Health Insurance (NHI) costing; ··Costing of primary healthcare Nature of the output (PHC) in the public sector. Conference papers, working papers, journal articles, public engagement.

UCT Unilever Institute of Strategic Marketing

Director, Professor John Simpson; Paul Egan; James Lappeman.

Purpose of the ES initiative Diploma students have been exposed to the ··Connecting with Survivors (the term we use research as a large part of the curricula. to describe consumers who live in households that earn less than R6 000 per month and Nature of relationship(s) with who make up 70% of the population); external constituencies ··To educate about marketing for the The project involved a large number of players – Survivor segment of the education; funders who contribute both financially, to offset the ··To inculcate in businesses the need to costs of the research, as well as intellectually (this sustain not only their own organisations, included Tiger Brands, Nedbank, and Unilever). but the population at large. Length of relationship(s) Brief description of the initiative One year. This project is part of a broader initiative to give marketers, academics and students an Dominant form of the understanding of South Africa’s diverse consumer engaged scholarship population, as well as developing approaches Research and teaching. and methods for marketers to follow in order to operate successfully; specifically in the Survivor Dominant mode of engagement segment, which is very poorly researched, Workshops. especially since it has undergone such profound change since 1994 and continues to change. Nature of the outputs Articles in newspapers such as Business Key thematic issues addressed Day, Business Times, New York Times; Market research methodology, interviews on radio business programmes. marketing to Survivors, sustainability, marketing insights, teaching.

Nature of external constituencies involved in the initiative In excess of 1 500 marketers and business strategists have attended our public presentations. Thirty companies have asked for modified presentations to their staff. Data from the project has been used by Doctoral, Masters and Honours students. All students registered for Marketing 1 and postgraduate

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Graduate School of Business

Ralph Hamann.

Purpose of the ES initiative scholarly literature – in project outputs. This The Network for Business Sustainability (South has also involved a smaller, more committed Africa) or NBS-SA enables business sustainability, group of Leadership Council members. by fostering collaboration and co-creating knowledge through research and practice. Key thematic issues addressed The overarching thematic focus is on business Brief description of the initiative sustainability. Within this domain, our projects NBS-SA was established in 2013 as an affiliate have focused on the following specific themes: of the Canada-based Network for Business ··Social capital; Sustainability. We initially invited senior managers ··Strategic planning in the context of from about 15 South African companies social-ecological uncertainty; with strong sustainability commitments to ··Business model innovation for sustainability; participate in our ‘Leadership Council’. ··Change agents’ strategies for engaging senior leaders. In 2014 and 2015, this group met to identify between eight and ten research questions Nature of external constituencies that represented priority knowledge needs involved in the initiative for the managers. Two of these were chosen We connect two primary constituencies: for dedicated attention in ‘flagship’ research ··Senior managers focused on projects for the year, in which we commissioned business sustainability in leading competitively-selected research teams to South African companies; conduct a systematic review of the literature, ··Leading researchers from around the world as well as conduct some primary research who conduct and synthesise and translate on emergent practices. Outputs included a research for a management audience. systematic review report targeted at other researchers, and a short executive report In addition, we engage with other managers targeted at practitioners. (These reports are and researchers and students – eg in April available on the NBS website: http://nbs.net). 2016, we hosted a public panel discussion on the South African social-ecological context. To support the research teams, a ‘Guidance Committee’ consisting of four or five members Nature of relationship(s) with of the Leadership Council participate in short, external constituencies regular teleconference calls (every six weeks) As outlined above, our primary partners to discuss progress and next steps. Our engage in ongoing interactions in the own role in this process has been to act as co-production of knowledge. brokers; and so, for instance, we chaired the annual Leadership Council meetings and the Length of relationship(s) Guidance Committees’ teleconference calls. NBS-SA has been going since 2013. Our current members have been with us since then. In 2016, we have adapted our model to improve our processes and outcomes. We include more Dominant form of the face-to-face interactions between the Guidance engaged scholarship Committee and the research teams, and a greater Research, but including strong teaching focus on emergent practices – rather than only and service components.

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Dominant mode of engagement in this regard is the following: None of the above. I consider this ··Hamann, R. & Faccer, K. (forthcoming). categorisation of engaged scholarship too ‘Mind the transformation gap: knowledge limiting. Terms that have been used for this exchange, interests, and identity in research- kind of initiative include ‘research-practice practice collaboration’. In J.M. Bartunek and partnership’ and ‘community of practice’. J. McKenzie (eds), Academic practitioner research partnerships: developments, Nature of the outputs complexities and opportunities. Routledge. We have published four executive guide reports and three corresponding systematic Finally, we published a number of media review reports, on the following topics: articles on this work, including the following: ··CEO Decision-making for Sustainability; ··Hamann, R. (2015). ‘The high returns on social ··Business Models for Shared Value; capital’. Business Day, 25 February 2015. ··Strategic Planning for a Shared Vision; ··Hamann, R. (2014). ‘Spotlight on Southern ··Measuring and Valuing Social Capital. Africa: what all businesses can learn’. Network for Business Sustainability In addition, we published two annual Thought Leaders (nbs.net), 2014. reports in 2014 and 2015: ··The Value of Vision: sustainability challenges Assessment of impact of the initiative for South African companies (2013); We conducted an internal assessment based ··Pathways to Change: business sustainability on interviews and email correspondence. These challenges in South Africa (2014). data contributed to our analysis in the ‘Mind the transformation gap’ chapter mentioned above. All of these reports are available via http://nbs.net. Additional ES activities I continue to Chair the Southern Africa Food In addition to these reports, we have Lab, which won UCT’s Distinguished Social also interpreted our experiences for Responsiveness Award in 2011. I am also a scholarly publication. The primary output Director of the .

Graduate School of Business

Dr Tim London.

Brief description of the initiative Nature of external constituencies Organised a conference that brought involved in the initiative together City officials, informal traders, and Constituencies were informal traders, union relevant unions to discuss issues facing these members, city officials, and academics. groups and how they can work together to improve challenges and build on success. Nature of relationship(s) with All parties involved are seen as being external constituencies essential to Cape Town’s success and are The conference was designed and representative of many of the issues playing conceptualised by Cape Town city officials out throughout the rest of South Africa and members of the informal traders in the as well. Current issues were analysed and city (along with related organisations). discussions held about how to work together more effectively for mutual benefit. Length of relationship(s) This conference is held on an annual Key thematic issues addressed basis, and has been for several years. Informal trading; unions; local economy; trade.

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Dominant form of the Assessment of impact of the initiative engaged scholarship As noted, the creators of the conference should Discussion with the relevant stakeholders be following up on improvements, tracking via a panel, and Q&A sessions based on changes to thinking/practice, and planning for research and connected to service. further engagements outside of the conference.

Dominant mode of engagement Additional ES activities Public dialogue/panel/Q&A Invited talk at Wesgro about values-based leadership and what this might mean for Nature of the outputs the development of their organisation, their Engagement during the conference, and have mission, and how to improve trade into been requested to contribute my thoughts to a and within Cape Town/South Africa. post-conference discussion on how to improve the conference/build in follow-up activities.

Graduate School of Business

Prof Anton Eberhard.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of external constituencies The purpose was to improve the adequacy involved in the initiative and reliability of electricity supply in Government and state-owned utility. South Africa through research on why we experienced power cuts, and the formulation Nature of relationship(s) with of proposals to improve Eskom’s performance external constituencies and to restructure the electricity sector. Appointed by Deputy-President to chair an advisory committee, and to formulate policy advice based Brief description of the initiative on knowledge and research on electricity sector. I chaired an Advisory Panel on Eskom and Electricity Supply Security for the Deputy-President, Length of relationship(s) Cyril Ramaphosa. This work has involved research Formally, one year. But have interacted with the on why we experienced power cuts, and what kind Deputy-President for a longer period, including of interventions were necessary to improve Eskom’s on the National Planning Commission. performance. Research was also undertaken on international models for restructuring electricity Dominant form of the sectors, to create greater incentives for sustainable engaged scholarship improvements in delivering adequate, reliable Research and service. and competitively-priced electricity. The research was translated into a number of policy advisory Dominant mode of engagement notes for the Deputy-President which were used Applied research and policy analysis. in his engagements with stakeholders (including Eskom, Nedlac and inter-Ministerial meetings). Nature of the outputs A number of policy advisory notes to the Deputy- Key thematic issues addressed President, as well as participation in government’s Electricity, power cuts, policy Eskom ‘War Room’ and inter-ministerial meetings. advice, reform, restructuring.

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MOOC social change, Bertha Centre

Louise Albertyn, Francois Bonnici & Warren Nilsson of the Bertha Centre Education innovation programme. In collaboration with Reconstructed Living Labs (Rlabs) & Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT).

Purpose of the ES initiative the first cohort currently under way and the Engaged scholarship in teaching and learning next cohort starting on 22 August 2016. through the creation of the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to catalyse social change. Nature of relationship(s) with external constituencies Brief description of the initiative The Bertha Centre, CILT and RLabs teams MOOCs are free, with no entry requirements, spent many brainstorming sessions around and allow for features such as interactive online the meaningful integration of academic forums that can involve hundreds of students in concepts with the practical application and peer-to-peer discussions, as well as access to video deep community knowledge illustrated by the lectures and course materials in online format RLabs narrative. The course debunks common to increase the reach of quality teaching. This assumptions around what resources are needed innovative dissemination form has allowed access to begin acting as a social innovator. to a wide range of participants often not reached through usual university courses (see below). Dominant form of the engaged scholarship UCT’s Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching. Teaching (UCT CILT) launched its sixth free MOOC, ‘Becoming a Changemaker: introduction to social Dominant mode of engagement innovation’. The six-week course was co-created Participatory curriculum development – as indicated between the Bertha Centre and Reconstructed Living above, the creation of the MOOC was participatory, Labs (RLabs), and is designed to debunk common and a co-creative methodology was used. assumptions around what resources are needed, Popular education through continuing education as well as to encourage people to begin acting as via online delivery – MOOCs are free online social innovators and changemakers. Participants courses, and have no entry requirements. Anyone will follow the journey of RLabs and other with an internet connection can take part. examples of social innovations in Africa and all over the world. They will be challenged to Media coverage/interviews: get out of their comfort zones, and to start ··www.iol.co.za/atlantic-sun/news/uct-social- engaging in and with the diverse spaces, people, innovation-ngo-launch-freecourse-5380771 challenges and opportunities around them. ··whatamission.com/2016/07/22/uct-socinn-mooc/ ··disrupt-africa.com/2016/07/rlabs-bertha-centre- Key thematic issues addressed launch-free-online-courseon-social-innovation/ Social innovation/engaged/ open access/co-creation. Nature of the outputs A free six-week online course hosted Nature of external constituencies on the Coursera platform. involved in the initiative Co-creator RLabs: is a social enterprise that has Additional ES activities: impacted more than 7.5 million individuals globally The Bertha Centre Education programme in 22 countries, reconstructing communities was involved in the following: through training, innovation and entrepreneurship. ··Youth Unemployment Conversation Series with the Poverty and Inequality Initiative, in Online audiences: to date, approximately a partnership also with JPal Africa and RAA. month after the launch of the MOOC, the www.earlylearningtoolkit.org/blog/ total number of students enrolled is 1722, with conversations-j-pal-teaching-level-child

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Social Innovation Lab (SILab), Bertha Centre

Social Innovation Lab (SILab) at GSB/MTN Solution Space in Philippi Village – Sarah-Anne Arnold, Simnikiwe Xanga, Phakamisa Puza, Warren Nilsson, Francois Bonnici and Ella Scheepers.

Purpose of the ES initiative organisations on a particular social innovation Teaching of SILab in Philippi Village. idea (for example, the Kukua Impact Investment Fund). Other partners for SILab projects Brief description of the initiative include Abalimi/Harvest of Hope, Cycle Hack, The University of Cape Town (UCT) Graduate Philippi Music Project, mothers2mothers, and School of Business GSB), through the others. Nature of relationship(s) with external Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and constituencyies – joint conceptualisation and Entrepreneurship and the Solution Space, is design, consultation, obtaining feedback, etc. working in partnership with one of Cape Town’s ··PHILIPPI COMMUNITY: The ecosystem of poorest areas – Philippi – to boost business Philippi Village comprises a range of partners development in the area. Philippi is one of the and stakeholders, some of whom have larger townships situated outside of Cape Town. collaborated with the Bertha Centre over the Philippi Village is a new development that aims past few years. These include: the Business to shift that by creating a space in the centre of Place (resource centre for local entrepreneurs); Philippi that will nurture entrepreneurs, support PEDI (Philippi Economic Development skills development, and harness job creation. The Initiative); Silulo Ulutho Technologies (ICT development aims to invigorate this area with training); Harambee (a youth training and job opportunities and recreational activities. employment bridge); the Clothing Bank (enterprise development); Abalimi Bezekhaya The UCT GSB intends to contribute to these (urban agriculture); LEAP science and maths objectives and to the Philippi Village ecosystem schools; and the IDC, amongst others. by initially offering existing GSB courses and ··JOINT CONCEPTUALISATION: SIL aimed to programmes there, and to extend the work move beyond a purely theoretical exploration of the Solution Space (SS) at this site. The of social innovation; therefore it was essential SILab is a core course on the MBA for the that the development of SILab was a co- first time (in previous years it was an elective creative collective effort between different on the MBA). In partnership with the new SS disciplines, academics and partners. It aimed based at PV, students on the SILab course to engage students and the field practically can engage more with different spaces, and proactively. Students and external partners entrepreneurs and other organisational such as RLabs were invited to participate in partners based in Philippi and surrounds. co-creating the course. This co-creative design process meant that the learning and teaching Key thematic issues addressed environment was infused with the current needs Social innovation; teaching; learning; of the audience of the course (ie the students), participation; social change: and took into account the opportunities and www.gsbbusinessreview.gsb.uct. challenges of organisations working in the field. ac.za/business-schools-unusual/. ··CO-TEACHING AND CO-LEARNING: The theoretical elements of the course involve using Nature of external constituencies South African and African case studies based involved in the initiative on organsational partners that the Bertha The teaching environment included practitioners Centre has built relationships with over many who have co-created case studies (for example, years, and published as teaching case-study RLabs). And they have participated in co-creating material. These expose students to examples the learning environment by working as MBA of social innovation such as community-based group project partners, whereby MBA students digital learning platform RLabs, peer-to-peer can practically engage and work with partner healthcare organisation mothers2mothers,

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Impact Investing funds in Africa, and Nature of the outputs many others. These organisations not only The lab part of the course means that these served as case studies, but as co-learning students produce practical outputs for the partners, where staff of these organisations organisations/businesses they work with. have actively participated in classes and The course deliverables require a portfolio workshops, as both learners and contributors. of work to be submitted at the end, which includes personal reflections, a systems map, Length of relationship(s) and a history of their engagement with the The course was initiated under the guidance organisation they worked with. Out of these and support of the Bertha Centre, supported projects organisations and businesses have been by the Bertha Foundation, with institutional launched; some of these include businesses support for its initiation and development such as Lakheni and Philippi Music Project. from the former GSB Director, Professor Walter Baets. The course has now been running Assessment of impact of the initiative for five years, first as an elective and now as In 2012, the Social Innovation Lab at the a core course on the MBA programme. UCT GSB was included as a case study in the Inspirational Guide for the Implementation Dominant form of the of Principles for Responsible Management engaged scholarship Education, an initiative of the United Nations Teaching – the Social Innovation Lab course is an Global Compact, which highlights 64 schools existing GSB course, and the relationship with around the world leading the way in this regard. the GSB/MTN Solution Space in Philippi Village is the next step to take the course into the Service Additional ES activities space of ES, recognising that the students The SI Lab has also been featured as an will explore knowledge exchange, consulting, example of good practice internationally, in clinical service and other engagements with the Inspirational Guide for the Implementation Philippi Village residents through this course. of Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). The Guide provides answers Dominant mode of engagement to the most frequently asked questions ··Course for a particular target group; concerning the implementation of the PRME, participatory curriculum development; and seeks to inspire further integration by ··Asset-based approach; highlighting real-world examples of the Principles ··Workshops organised for external groups. in practice at signatory schools and universities.

Innovative Finance, Bertha Centre

Susan De Witt, Barry Panulo and Aunnie Patton Power of the Innovative Finance Bertha Centre team.

Brief description of the initiative public sector funding for outcomes-based The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and contracts. That work came to fruition in 2016, Entrepreneurship has been instrumental in when the Western Cape Department of Health introducing Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) into (DoH) and Department of Social Development the South African market. An Impact Bond is a (DSD) announced the allocation of budget for contracting and financing mechanism by which three social impact bonds (SIBs) to improve socially motivated investors pay for social services the health, nutrition and developmental status up front, and are repaid by outcomes funders of pregnant women and children (up to five if pre-agreed outcome targets are achieved. years) who live in low-income communities. Together, the two departments have set aside This project represents the culmination of work approximately R25 million for priority outcomes at national, provincial and local level to unlock over the next three years, with an additional

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 191 Part Four: Faculty Reports amount to be contributed by the private sector. --Business Day: How Social Investment can bridge the gaps; More specifically, the funding will be --Stanford Social Innovation Review: Bringing made available to three community-based Impact Bonds to the global south; organisations working with pregnant women --Impact Bonds webinar: South African and children up to five years of age, with perspectives and progress; outcomes including improved antenatal care, --CNBC Africa: Africa’s first prevention of mother-to-child transmission Social Impact Bonds. of HIV, exclusive breastfeeding, a reduction in growth stunting, and improved cognitive, Nature of the outputs language and motor development. Three Impact Bonds; A Guide to Impact Bond Investing, with Bowman Gilfillan The role of the Bertha Centre was extensive, from developing the knowledge around SIBs in South Assessment of impact of the initiative: Africa to building the relationships with external ··The Bertha Centre will sit on the oversight constituencies for the implementation of SIBs. committee with provincial government and private donors for the duration of the project. Key thematic issues addressed ··Learnings during implementation phase Social impact bond; innovative finance; will be captured by an external evaluator. social development; knowledge transfer. ··A case study will be written up on development process. Nature of external constituencies involved in the initiative Additional ES activities ··ssir.org/articles/entry/ Outcomes-Based Contracting & Impact Bonds bringing_impact_bonds_to_the_global_south; course: www.gsb.uct.ac.za/s.asp?p=712 ··Instigation and design: Western Cape Office of Feasibility studies in South Africa have the Premier, Bertha Centre and Social Finance; resulted in multiple outcomes-based contract ··Project development funders: The Lego projects in different phases of development: Foundation and Innovation Edge; ··Economic Development Department: Improved ··Lead commissioning departments: work-readiness programmes resulting in WC Departments of Health (DoH) improved demand-driven job, education and Social Development (DSD); and training placement of unemployed ··Private donor funders: Discovery Trust youth. Designing specifications outcomes- and ApexHi Charitable Trust; based contract for workforce development ··Potential investors: DG Murray Trust, alongside the City of Cape Town’s (CoC) Mergence, Bridges Ventures, UBS Optimus; Economic Development Department. ··Intermediary: D.Capital and mothers2mothers. The CoC is potentially to allocate R15 million over three years to the project. Length of relationship(s) ··Department of Basic Education: Altered Three years. delivery of pre-service teacher training, resulting in better quality teachers in scarce Dominant form of the subjects. Working with Department of engaged scholarship Basic Education and specifically Fundza Research. Lusaka to investigate outcomes funding for pre-service teacher training. Dominant mode of engagement ··Department of Higher Education and ··ACTION RESEARCH – Workshops, Training: Wraparound support models of interviews, site visits, desktop research, deep care for high-risk students, resulting in engagement with government databases. better graduation rates at tertiary level. ··PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA INTERVIEWS Designing an Impact Bond for wraparound --A Guide to Impact Bond Investing; support for tertiary students on behalf --Pioneers Post: Designing Social Impact of the ministerial task team restructuring Bonds in developing countries; National Student Financial Aid Scheme.

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··Department of Culture and Sports: After-school prevention of HIV in key populations. Working academic support, resulting in improved high with Global Fund, national Department school results and tertiary education placement. of Health and Social Finance to design an ··Department of Health: Better coordination Impact Bond to support the prevention of of community-based services, resulting in HIV in key populations at national level.

Raymond Ackerman Academy (RAA), Bertha Centre

Raymond Ackerman Academy (RAA) – Elli Yiannakaris, Nareeman Africa & Francois Bonnici.

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of external constituencies The Graduate Entrepreneur Support involved in the initiative Service (GESS) programme. RAA graduates and alumni who, on completing the course, would like to start a business, Brief description of the initiative or who require assistance with their existing The Raymond Ackerman Academy of Entrepreneurial businesses, or with navigating the opportunities Development (RAA) is a tertiary-level, post-high- in entering private-sector employment. school-level academy at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, and at the Nature of relationship(s) with Soweto Campus of the University of Johannesburg. external constituencies The RAA offers an inspiring, innovative and practical The GESS programme forms part of the Youth programme in entrepreneurial development to Economic Participation Initiative, in which shared young people who do not have the opportunity learnings are exchanged across the eight partner to access tertiary education, but are passionate sites. These learnings are facilitated by the about business and personal development. Learning Partner from the University of Minnesota, with whom the GESS team works closely. The objectives of the GESS programme are to: 1. Assist in developing sustainable Length of relationship(s) GESS businesses; Three years. 2. Provide appropriate skills training for each GESS entrepreneur while on the programme; Dominant form of the 3. Ensure external support is in place for engaged scholarship each GESS-participating entrepreneur, Service. so that they continue to be sustainable once they exit the programme; Dominant mode of engagement As indicated above, the programme provides The RAA GESS team choose a small group of conceptual and practical support for entrepreneurs. graduate entrepreneurs to work with each year. Participation in the GESS programme is selection- Nature of the outputs based – they work with graduates who’ve shown GESS is one of eight international university passion for what they do, and who have a projects selected to form part of the Talloires good reputation for hard work and dedication. Network Youth Economic Participation The participants in the GESS programme have Initiative, which aims to address the global businesses in a range of industries, including crisis in youth unemployment by supporting the health, furniture manufacturing, marketing, efforts of universities in developing countries events, fashion, hair and beauty, and tourism. to develop and test innovative university-led models that enable graduates to become Key thematic issues addressed successful entrepreneurs. The Talloires Network Innovation; entrepreneurial has selected eight universities globally from development; work opportunities. different regions, including Africa, Asia and Latin America, to run the pilot YEPI programme.

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The RAA‘s GESS programme is the only South African project in the YEPI programme.

Monthly reports are submitted by participants. Sales and jobs are created, and social betterment indicators are tracked.

Additional ES activities RAA has been involved in the following: ··QUEEN ELIZABETH II DIAMOND JUBILEE SCHOLARSHIP – The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business and the University of Toronto are involved in an exciting collaboration, to build a network of student leaders trained in inclusive innovation to work together to address the challenges of low-income communities, and how to promote innovative and workable solutions. As part of this collaboration, we have a selection of students from the Munk School of Global Affairs in Toronto coming to South Africa this year to conduct 12- to 16- week internships with host organisations. ··TSHOMI PROGRAMME – a two-way mentorship programme between students from the full- time MBA class and the Raymond Ackerman Academy of Entrepreneurial Development, in July 2015, to create a platform that provides the opportunity for cultural, racial, and class- based differences among diverse business professionals to be embraced, and serve not as dividers but as sources of inspiration for sharing knowledge and understanding.

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Definitions of the Five Categories or guidelines; and/or actively participating in of Social Responsiveness public policy review and amendment processes. (SR) in the EBE Faculty The Faculty reviewed the criteria used in CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROVISION OF assessment of performance of academics SERVICES for the public sector and/or civil in order to encourage more academics to society and/or industry (including innovations, report their engaged scholarship activities systems development or community outreach and and utitlise these in ad hominem applications development): direct application of professional where appropriate. The criteria follow. knowledge, expertise, scholarship, research findings or experiential teaching activities including CONTRIBUTIONS TO INDUSTRY student service-learning programmes (as part OR THE ENGINEERING AND BUILT of the formal curriculum) for the purpose of ENVIRONMENT PROFESSIONS contributing to public-sector services or industry- Direct application of specialised knowledge, provided services; and/or to support the needs, expertise, scholarship or research findings in a hopes, aspirations and development challenges professional setting beyond the university. This of community-based organisations (including category includes contributions to industry or NGOs, community leaders, economically stressed professional societies as a specialist (research or residents) via innovations, service-learning or innovation) advisor, or being called on by industry/ community outreach initiatives/activities. This societies to take part in their policy or management category might also include systems development, formulation structures. Contributions might also the production of popular materials, the provision involve actively serving on committees, boards of technical support or advocacy services in a or councils of local/international organisations public-sector or community setting, as well as the or non-academic societies that are external monitoring and evaluation of implemented services to the university and academia. Alternatively, and materials. Or, it might include facilitating contributions to industry or the profession workshops, CPD-type courses (or other forms might entail facilitating Continuing Professional of knowledge transfer) for state-based and/or Development (CPD) courses, or conferences/ community-based and/or industry-based partners. workshops for non-academic audiences. Or, these contributions might entail working with (non- ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP WITH THE PUBLIC academic) public- and private-sector constituencies SECTOR, INDUSTRY OR CIVIL SOCIETY for the purpose of enhancing professional practices CONSTITUENCIES FOR THE PURPOSE that, in turn, have a wider public benefit. OF CO-PRODUCING KNOWLEDGE This category explicitly involves the co-production CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FORMULATION of knowledge with public sector constituencies OF STATE POLICIES AND FRAMEWORKS and/or industry and/or civil society (including This category entails direct contributions to, or NGOs, community-based organisations, and influence on, public policy development. This might economically stressed residents) for the purpose include: undertaking requested policy research, of enabling knowledge-sharing, mutual learning for example in the form of short written briefs or and reciprocity during various phases of an carefully considered verbal advice; being contracted engaged scholarship initiative (namely during the or consulted by the state to write or contribute conceptualisation, design and implementation to public policy; submitting substantive policy of an engaged scholarship project). To this end, or technical briefing papers to the government; applied or participatory action research (PAR) making evidence-based submissions to Parliament; methods – or teaching and learning methods that participating in the drafting of policies, frameworks fulfil the requirements of community-university

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 195 Part Four: Faculty Reports engagements (as part of the formal curriculum) and debates at local, national and international – are employed. This category of social levels beyond academia. This public information responsiveness is underpinned by values of dissemination might include: media interviews; participatory democracy for the intentional purpose writing articles or opinion editorials for print of enhancing engaged scholarship (ES). Engaged media; sustained and purposeful engagement scholarship, in turn, assist us in generating co- on social media; participation in public debate produced knowledge, as well as new methods panels; public lectures; and the like. of teaching, learning and collaborative research with external, non-academic constituencies. For the purpose of reporting to Institutional Planning and SEC, we will present only those INFORMATION DISSEMINATION activities that align with the ‘contributions IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN to the provision of services’ and ‘engaged Direct application of professional knowledge, scholarship’ (namely, categories 3 and 4). expertise, scholarship and/or research findings These are presented (below) by the individual to inform, shape or challenge public discourses facilitators of each project or engagement.

Hosting an EBE-Specific Workshop on Engaged Scholarship

Associate Professor David Cooper and Sonwabo Ngcelwane

The workshop was convened to promote ‘use-oriented’ scholarly work, and moreover could more awareness and understanding of include a wide range of ‘constituencies’ including engaged scholarship in the Faculty. industry, government and civil society organisations. Sonwabo Ngcelwane followed this presentation The workshop, held on 1 April 2015, was organised with his own outline, in which he stressed that ES by the Institutional Planning Department (IPD) of could include ‘research forms of ES’, ‘teaching forms UCT, as requested by EBE Deputy Dean for Social of ES’ and ‘professional forms of ES’; and for each Responsiveness and Transformation (SR), Associate of these three types, he provided a set of specific Professor Tanja Winkler. Tanja welcomed about 20 examples. He discussed also what he viewed as ES EBE academic and research staff to this workshop at embodying ‘critical elements of good scholarship’, the opening morning session. This was followed by and signalled that it is important to evaluate ES Professor Shirley Pendlebury as co-ordinator, who in terms of ‘quality practices’ – a topic he would explained the purpose of the workshop: to provide elaborate on further in the afternoon session. insights into the meaning of SR and specifically its more defined concept as applied to academics After the morning tea-break, three academics at UCT – Engaged Scholarship (ES) – as well as presented detailed case studies of their own ES providing examples of case studies of ‘best practice’ practices: (i) Associate Professor Gina Ziervogel of so that this might inform participants, both to EGS (Environmental and Geographical Sciences) enhance their own ES work and also to assist them outlined her own work of ‘engagement’ with in putting forward their activities when applying for community organisations around issues relating ad hominem promotion within the EBE faculty. to environmental challenges, and provided a fascinating narrative of how she recently successfully In the first part of the morning session, Associate applied for ad hominem promotion by linking her Professor David Cooper presented an outline of ES work to her ongoing research and teaching the UCT SR Policy Document of 2012, with its work, and showed how these inter-related while definition of ES as focusing on: (i) the utilisation also having their own specific components; (ii) Dr of an academic’s scholarly and/or professional Kirsty Carden of Urban Water Management within expertise for (ii) engagement with external non- Civil Engineering followed with a careful exposition academic constituencies with (iii) an intentional of how her unit combined research into water public purpose or benefit. He further outlined how management with engagement with a wide range this concept encompassed a broad spectrum of of stakeholders, including local government and

196 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports civic organisations; (iii) Professor Roger Behrens (2007) – which contained guidelines, case examples of the Centre for Transport Studies within Civil and positive approaches which may all be fruitfully Engineering concluded with an exposition of applied to help enhance an academic’s CV when their transport research, and (among other issues) applying for promotion. There followed thereafter very interestingly raised questions about ‘who to some small group discussions, facilitated by Shirley engage with’ in order to maximise the impact of Pendlebury, during which sub-groups deliberated research findings in contributing to social change. over core issues presented during the workshop; and also considered were questions arising from After the lunch-break, Sonwabo Ngcelwane outlined the recently revised EBE ‘criteria for quality social a framework he has developed which comprises responsiveness’ – which an EBE sub-committee a set of ‘quality criteria’ and sub-criteria which led by Tanja Winkler had recently developed – in may be used to evaluate ES practices – which relation to ad hominem promotion criteria for the moreover may be utilised by academics seeking SR category of the EBE faculty (and presented recognition of their (quality) ES work for purposes at the beginning of this workshop by Tanja). At of ad hominem promotion at UCT. David Cooper mid-afternoon everyone departed; and from the followed this up with an illustration of a ‘toolkit’ evaluation forms about this workshop, completed developed by an American-based Community- at the end of the day, it appeared that both the Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) entitled contents of the presentations and allied discussions ‘CES Review, Promotion and Tenure Package’ linked to these were highly valued and appreciated.

Department of Architecture, Planning & Geomatics

Mr Mike Louw, Architectural Studies.

Purpose of the ES initiative Department of the City of Cape Town in May The Imizamo Yethu water platforms. The project 2011) make use of shared toilets and taps – this has two dual primary purposes: improved service means that the service ratio in the settlement is delivery in an informal settlement, and its teaching 61.1 households per toilet, and a staggering 394.3 and learning opportunities in undergraduate study. households per tap. As part of a continuing effort to engage with this issue, the University of Cape Brief description of the initiative: Town’s secondyear Architecture students, together In Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay, an estimated 9 464 with a few key staff members and members of households (as surveyed by the Solid Waste the local community, recently helped to design

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 197 Part Four: Faculty Reports and construct the seventh annual water platform ··National charity (Operation Smile): Procurement in Imizamo Yethu (or IY, as it is known to local of materials and leveraging this into a monetary residents). The platforms are a way of providing contribution to the charity to help pay for additional services, more dignified places for operations for children with cleft palates. water collection and washing, social gathering ··Private-sector companies and professionals: spaces, and cleaner areas for children to play. Obtaining material donations and technical/professional advice. The project has been stitched into both the second-year Design and Theory course and the Length of relationship(s) second-year Technology course; so students Five years with most partners developed designs for the platform, in the (seven years with some). Design and Theory course, before the project moved into the Technology course, where they Dominant form of the designed and manufactured physical prototypes engaged scholarship of components. Approximately a third of the Service delivery, teaching and learning. class then volunteered to physically construct These aspects have also been turned into the platform on site during an intensive six various media publications, exhibitions, and days in the June vacation. The progression of peer-reviewed conference proceedings. a project through different courses culminating in an actual built artefact offers a wide range of Dominant mode of engagement learning experiences for students, and eventually Applied teaching and learning. for community members. Community members were involved during the planning phases, and Nature of the outputs unemployed community members were then A physically constructed water platform (the nominated by the community to assist during seventh so far), in-practice learning for students construction: There was an exchange of knowledge, (and community members), media publications, where students taught community members new and peer-reviewed conference proceedings for the skills, while the community members in turn taught Sustainable Futures Conference that will take place the students artisanal skills and demonstrated the later this month in Nairobi, Kenya. The platforms realities of living in informal settlements to them. have also previously formed part of two exhibitions.

Key thematic issues addressed Assessment of impact of the initiative Service delivery, teaching & learning, Post-occupancy analysis through peer- recycling, innovation. reviewed conference proceedings for the SFC 2016 in Nairobi, student feedback in the Nature of external constituencies form of work experience reports, and written involved in the initiative feedback from a community partner. The resident community, a local social worker, a local school art group (the Lalela project), a Additional ES activities national charity (Operation Smile), and several ··Third-year Design and Theory: I’ve structured a private sector companies and professionals. project in the third-year Design and Theory course where we are assisting organisations who approach Nature of relationship(s) with us for help with the development of an actual external constituencies project need. Our students then engage with ··Resident community and social worker: Joint these clients to develop their briefs and prepare conceptualisation and site selection with design proposals that they can use to obtain community representatives, and involvement funding for their projects. The projects provide of the community in design (limited, due to the opportunity for students to work with real timeframes), construction, teaching and learning clients, and the projects allow for the co-production (in other words, the co-production of knowledge). of knowledge, where students gain a deeper ··School art group (the Lalela project): understanding of the specificities of the work that Joint design and production of specific these organisations do, and the communities they components for the project. aim to assist. This year we assisted the House

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of Smiles/Khanyisa Centre in Philippi (last year of commenting on the potential futures of we assisted the Chrysalis Academy in Tokai). Woodstock through film, art installations and ··Other – Third-year Design and Theory ‘Design performance, which culminated in an event Blitz’: The so-called Design Blitz in 2016 was led attended by over 600 people. The past work this year by the third-year Design and Theory of the studio and the Design Blitz were both conveners, where all the students in the BAS well-documented digitally by Future Cape degree engaged in a week-long project called Town, and the third-year work will be exhibited ‘Occupy Woodstock’. They were set the task later this year (hopefully in the study area).

Department of Chemical Engineering

Dr Nico Fischer, Senior Research Officer, Centre for Catalysis Research; Centre of Excellence in Catalysis Research, c*change, Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa.

Purpose of the ES initiative Although it is available online, over 6 500 hard- Provide support for teachers and copy packs (including the online content on learners in disadvantaged schools in an interactive DVD) were distributed by 2014 the field of science education. in over 60 nationwide roll-out workshops. c*change still receives and entertains regular Brief description of the initiative: requests by local departments of education The DST-NRF CoE in Catalysis c*change has a to distribute more of said material. In 2016, mandate beyond conducting fundamental research 100 packs were sent to the North West and a and training postgraduate students nationwide further 40 to KwaZulu-Natal Departments of to support science engagement and knowledge Education to be distributed in rural schools. dissemination. To this end, the CoE has installed a Key Performance Area (KPA) in both Science The new initiative, led by young c*change Engagement and Knowledge Brokerage, which researchers at UCT, NWU and UJ is now developing are championed by Dr Fischer. While the latter a further resource pack which will specifically target focuses more on the scientific community, both the practical requirements in the syllabus. As a lot within South Africa and internationally, the of schools do not have the capacity to maintain a former is very much aiming at uplifting students science laboratory, this initiative aims at developing from poorer and disadvantaged backgrounds in a ‘lab in a box’ approach which facilitates all relevant South Africa by offering a possibility to engage practicals, relying on everyday products available in natural sciences; and specifically, chemistry. locally at low cost. Distribution methods could range from the manufacture and distribution of Established in November 2015, the KPA Science the boxes, including descriptions of the practicals, Engagement is building on a foundation of a to a manual empowering the respective learners previous initiative, namely the Chemical Industries and teachers to assemble the box themselves. Resource Pack (http://www.cchange.ac.za/ outreach/ and https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/ Key thematic issues addressed: item/7584/CHEMICAL%20INDUSTRIES%20 Support of teaching, science practicals, teaching %7c%20RESOURCE%20PACK.pdf?sequence=1) , materials, engagement with science. which was developed under the lead of c*change and produced in partnership with SASOL and Nature of external constituencies Petro SA, and provides learners in grades 11 and involved in the initiative 12 as well as teachers materials, videos, quizzes As we are in the early stages of the project, the and animations in the field of petrochemicals, project team was established in 2016, and currently batteries, chlor-alkali and fertilizers. This resource consists of three young c*change researchers pack was aimed at closing a gap between the from UCT, NWU and UJ. The task at hand is to syllabus and available teaching materials. identify exactly the need and requirements as

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 199 Part Four: Faculty Reports well as the potential for other, similar products Assessment of impact of the initiative available. To this end, meetings with teachers, So far there is none, as it is in the early stages. and schools and interviews with local education The impact can hopefully be assessed based departments have and are being conducted. on the interest of teachers in the developed materials, and ideally in an improved Nature of relationship(s) with performance of students in associated external constituencies courses, although the latter will be the effect With fellow c*change researchers: of various interventions in parallel, and as joint conceptualisation, development such difficult to assign to just one project. and business plan writing. With external constituencies such as Additional ES activities teachers and local education departments: Within the KPA Knowledge Brokerage: information gathering, understanding ··Organizing first-ever Faraday Discussion of need, willingness to participate. event on the South African Continent in January 2017 in Cape Town. Length of relationship(s) ··Organisation and hosting of c*change The project was initiated in November 2015. Good Research Practice Course for all MSc students nationwide within the CoE Dominant form of the (including CoC HySA Catalysis) to prepare engaged scholarship them for the MSc project and create a network of students. The main target of Teaching and service provision. this intervention was the reduction of residence time of MSc students in the system, Dominant mode of engagement and we have successfully managed that Interview with teachers, development of resources. within the CoE over the last four years. ··Organising the international Syngas Nature of the outputs Convention 3 in Cape Town in 2018. A lab in a box, facilitating scientific ··Additionally, the elected Chairperson of practicals in disadvantaged schools. the Catalysis Society of South Africa.

Department of Civil Engineering

Dr Kirsty Carden, Urban Water Management Research Unit.

Purpose of the ES initiative Brief description of the initiative The research and associated activities The WSD CoP project is a five-year (extendable being undertaken as part of Water Research to 10-year) programme aimed at creating a Commission Project K5/2413: ‘Development Community of Practice with all relevant actors, and management of a Water Sensitive who (together with research partners) test the Design (WSD) Community of Practice (CoP) concepts, framework and options of Water programme’ are geared towards facilitating the Sensitive Design in South Africa. The overall aim implementation of WSD in South Africa, and of the WSD CoP is to “strengthen the researcher/ specifically towards the knowledge sharing and stakeholder and implementer interface in order to capacity development required to encourage a leverage partnerships and facilitate, manage and paradigm shift in the water sector. It represents document technology transfer opportunities from a purposeful form of scholarly engagement the planning and design phases through to the with a wider (non-academic) society in terms piloting (adapting) and implementation phases”. of socio-economic-cultural development challenges, and in this way, is aimed at The initiative began by scoping potential and applying and disseminating new knowledge current WSD project opportunities in South Africa and promoting knowledge integration. in an attempt to determine the main drivers

200 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports and barriers to WSD implementation, as well as Nature of relationship(s) with some of the institutional challenges associated external constituencies with implementing WSD into the planning and The nature of consultation with the various external implementing environment. Moving forward, constituencies depends on the mode of engagement, the main focus areas are the development and and ranges from consultation and training activities maintenance of an information transfer system to obtaining feedback/input to designs and/or (website/database), and the identification of reporting, as well as co-production of knowledge. possibilities for collaborative and participatory interaction between all relevant actors – through Length of relationship(s) the development of appropriate WSD ‘Learning The WSD CoP project was initiated in April 2014, Alliances’. This includes awareness-raising/ but many of the stakeholder relationships have appropriate WSD training activities – using been active for a far longer period, by way of the the recently-published WSUD framework and various research projects leading up to this point. guidelines for South Africa as a starting point – as well as attempts to strengthen and broaden Dominant form of the the researcher base, both across disciplines engaged scholarship as well as among different institutions. All three forms of ES are undertaken as part of this initiative. The awareness-raising and information-sharing activities associated with this project are being Dominant mode of engagement addressed in multiple ways. These include the Engagement in this project makes use of various development and monitoring of appropriate different modes, including applied research, municipal task teams and other stakeholder policy analysis, public dialogue, media interviews groups; writing articles/press statements/‘blogs’/ and more. Examples of this are as follows: opinion pieces, etc, as well as presenting at ··Documenting research outputs for publication conferences and holding workshops and training as WRC technical reports and guideline seminars on different aspects of WSD. documents (i.e. applied research). ··Providing advice and/or commentary to the Key thematic issues addressed media (written and radio) on issues pertaining to Conventional approaches to urban water service delivery and urban water management. management may not be sustainable in ··Participating as members of the Water Institute the long term, and a change in approach is of South Africa (WISA), South African Institution required. It is acknowledged that increasing of Civil Engineering (SAICE) and Institution of awareness among all stakeholder groups Municipal Engineers of Southern Africa (IMESA). will be key to influencing the radical shift in ··Convening (and lecturing at) the masters- thinking required – and that this could even level/CPD block course on Integrated require that some experts in the water area Urban Water Management. ‘de-learn’ so that they can embrace a broader ··Conferences – chairing sessions, leading vision. Keywords are thus: Water Sensitive workshops, invited speakers, etc. Design; Community of Practice; Learning ··Running of seminars on the operation Alliance; shared learning; capacity building. and management of SuDS. ··Involvement in the activities of community- Nature of external constituencies based organisations such as Liesbeek Life – involved in the initiative comprising environmental and social activists There are various external constituencies involved aimed at contributing to the management and in this initiative, including: national, provincial conservation of the by engaging and local government; water service authorities/ public and local neighbourhoods in the area. water service providers; consultants (engineering, ··Invited member of the City of Cape Town’s Inland and planning, etc); research councils; NGOs/NPOs; Coastal Water Quality group – to provide research business development organisations; community- feedback and advice on water management issues. based/civic organisations; private developers; ··Policy analysis and representation at professional organisations/institutes; ratepayers’ Parliamentary Portfolio Committee associations; members of the public, etc. meetings on policy development.

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Nature of the outputs projects in the WSD field; Outputs include traditional academic literature ··Evidence of policy development and in the form of journal and conference papers/ implementation at national and local level. presentations and technical reports, as well as material for CPD courses and seminars, editorials Additional ES activities and other popular publishing, interviews, ··Various projects aimed at establishing the website/blog reporting, policy input, etc. feasibility of implementing WSD in South Africa; ··Investigating the treatment efficacy of Assessment of impact of the initiative permeable pavements with a view to ··WSD uptake/implementation at local harvesting stormwater for use; authority level – being measured ··Establishing a Sustainable Drainage Systems by way of ongoing research; (SuDS) demonstration centre in Franschhoek; ··Evidence of ongoing community- ··Developing resource guidelines on level/community-led initiatives; greywater use and management. ··Increasing number of related research

Department of Civil Engineering

Dr Herrie Schalekamp, Centre for Transport Studies.

Purpose of the ES initiative Brief description of the initiative To build the capacity of a cohort of minibus- Over the course of the first semester of 2016, taxi operators from Khayelitsha and Mitchell’s the UCT Centre for Transport Studies (CfTS) Plain to be future managers of a new wave of offered a programme of 10 short courses in public transport operations in Cape Town. transport management to a group of 26 people

202 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports from the minibus-taxi industry in Khayelitsha ··City of Cape Town officials; and Mitchell’s Plain. CfTS was approached to ··Golden Arrow Bus Services. develop and run the short-course programme after the positive reception of two short courses Nature of relationship(s) with in public transport planning that Dr Herrie external constituencies Schalekamp from CfTS facilitated in 2015 for ··Joint conceptualisation of course topics a larger group from the same constituency. with all external constituencies; ··Ongoing consultation with JV and ODA to The programme forms part of a broader capacity- align learning design with developments building initiative for current and prospective in the reform negotiation process; MyCiTi public transport operators, as part of ··Ongoing formal and informal engagement the City of Cape Town’s drive to overhaul public with students to refine their learning approach, transport in the municipal area. The overall to identify learning needs and gaps, and initiative is being funded by the City of Cape to inform the design of future offerings. Town and managed by the Express Joint Venture, an interim MyCiTi bus operator formed Length of relationship(s) by Golden Arrow Bus Services and minibus-taxi Eight years. associations in Khayelitsha and Mitchell’s Plain. Dominant form of the The 2016 short courses spanned various aspects engaged scholarship of public transport operations, business planning and management, and the regulatory environment. Teaching. The topics emerged from engagement between Dr Schalekamp, the municipal and consultant Dominant mode of engagement team tasked with leading the public transport Dialogue with students in the course reform process, JV representatives, and a number setting around positive change in their of students who completed the 2015 offerings. business and industry contexts.

Key thematic issues addressed Nature of the outputs ··Business management in the Research publications, drawing on the minibus-taxi industry; interviews with students and learning design. ··Public transport reform in Cape Town; ··Capacity building in the public transport sector. Assessment of impact of the initiative ··Regular, informal and structured, formal Nature of external constituencies engagement with the students during and after involved in the initiative the short-course programme, to gauge students’ ··Current and future managers from the minibus- transfer of learning to practice, learning needs, taxi industry in Mitchell’s Plain and Khayelitsha; and scope for improving the course offerings; ··Consultants appointed by City of Cape Town to ··Informal engagement with involved facilitate public transport reform process (ODA); consultants and municipal officials.

Department of Civil Engineering

Assoc Prof Marianne Vanderschuren, Centre for Transport Studies.

Purpose of the ES initiative per 100 000 inhabitants was 25.1 fatalities in Road Safety Improvement. 2013. This is 44% higher than the global average, and seven times the fatality rate of countries Brief description of the initiative such as Denmark and the Netherlands. According to the World Health Organisation, South Africa’s fatality rate from road accidents Over the past years, the promotion of

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Non-Motorised Transport facilities and improved ··The collaboration with the University road-safety measures has been my core ‘Engaged of Stellenbosch, on this topic, started Scholarship’ activity. This year, my students and with the described initiative. I are collaborating with researchers from the University of Stellenbosch and a consulting firm Dominant form of the called SMEC to identify short-, medium- and long- engaged scholarship term measures for the Western Cape Government Road Safety improvement initiatives are (WCG). The project unpacks road-user behaviour, part of teaching, research, services and infrastructure and governmental structures. On engaged scholarship. The borders are all levels, road-safety improvement measures often unclear. Research findings influence are identified. These measures will be aligned teaching and engaged scholarship, while with local, national and global initiatives, and ES provides the practical examples needed range from improved user behaviour education, in teaching African-based examples. enforcement, and vehicle and infrastructure engineering, to data collection, processing Dominant mode of engagement and analysis (commonly called evaluation). The engagement is mainly through applied research/policy analysis and media interviews. Key thematic issues addressed Road safety, equitable road space, non- Nature of the outputs motorised transport, vulnerable road users. The specific output for this year is the development of a Road Safety Strategy, i.e. a Nature of external constituencies government document. Once this document involved in the initiative is developed, there will be workshops and ··The main road safety partner in road safety training sessions in the province, to develop initiatives is the Western Cape Government. the know-how for implementation. ··The development of a Road Safety Strategy started in 2016 and carried out in partnership Assessment of impact of the initiative with the University of Stellenbosch Previously, we have assisted the province, and SMEC Consultant Engineers. to a lesser extent, with the development of a baseline document and best practice Nature of relationship(s) manual. At the beginning of 2014, the WCG ··SMEC and the Universities of Cape Town reported that fatality rates in the province and Stellenbosch are developing the were 30.1% lower than in 2009, when the strategy in collaboration. Every partner implementation of the programme started. brings specific knowledge to the table. Jointly, the final approach is developed. Additional ES activities ··The Western Cape Government provides ··Recently, my UCT colleagues and I were feedback on the implementability involved in the development of a special of suggested approaches. CPD course for African practitioners (outside SA) in the transport arena. The Length of relationship(s) promotion of safe pedestrian facilities ··The Western Cape Government has was a core focus in this initiative. been partnering with UCT since 2008, ··Another part of the population, who have i.e. for the past nine years. not seen the improvement in access to ··The collaboration between SMEC and UCT opportunities, is the rural population. Access exists since 2012, when Assoc Prof Marianne poverty mapping is continuing in 2016. Vanderschuren was asked to assist with the ··Lastly, I work on an international planning of a study tour on implementable, initiative on Women Security (personal pedestrian and cycle-friendly infrastructure. safety) in Public Transport.

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Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr Britta Rennkamp, Energy Research Centre (ERC).

Purpose of the ES initiative side event with the UNFCCC and COP Chairs Climate change mitigation, energy on questions of support for implementation for and poverty Reduction. INDC. I engaged with several donors (GIZ, BMZ, UNDP, LEDS) on details of the implementation. I Brief description of the initiative engaged with delegations from Southern African My research on climate change mitigation, energy countries on participative planning projects for and poverty reduction at the Energy Research the implementation of their specific INDC, and Centre over the past five years has evolved in shared our research reports and previous findings. close engagement with non-academic actors. My performance under social responsiveness for Conceptual work on climate change mitigation this year mainly falls under dissemination, but and poverty reduction, the alignment of climate also information of public policy and provision and development policies (so called ‘co- of services to specific public actors and donors. benefits’) developed in close collaboration with practitioners in the six middle-income countries Key thematic issues addressed (South Africa, India, Chile, Brazil, Colombia and Climate change mitigation; energy and Peru). This work has informed an evidence base poverty reduction; implementation of which largely built the base for the “Intended INDC; climate and development policies Nationally Determined Contributions” that led to in the global South; overcoming trade-offs the Paris Agreement on Climate Change in 2015. between emissions and poverty reduction. I continued my research on the implementation of climate and development policy, as we now Nature of external constituencies have to better understand how to align and involved in the initiative implement these so-called INDC within the ··government officials, delegates to the constraints of carbon-hungry political economies United Nations Framework Convention and their existing policies. My comparative on Climate Change (UNFCCC); research on climate governance and poverty ··negotiators; reduction in three middle-income countries was ··observers: civil society organisations, well placed at the SB 44, which was the bi- business representatives, international annual meeting of the United Nations Framework knowledge networks, donors. Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This conference was mainly concerned with the Nature of relationship(s) with implementation of the Paris Agreement and the external constituency: INDCs in particular. I organised and presented ··in 2016, mainly dissemination of research at a side event along with ’s Fundazione Eni results, limited service and teaching; Enrique Mattei on climate change mitigation and ··conversations about the results in the poverty reduction, which mainly falls under the implementation of the INDC; category of dissemination to a professional non- ··project development towards implementation academic audience. I engaged in the UNFCCC’s of the INDC with delegates and donors.

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Length of relationship(s) representatives, covered through blog posts; Since 2011, ongoing. ··Network Analysis training involving civil society and private sector Dominant form of the representatives (teaching); engaged scholarship ··Public Lecture on Nuclear Policy paper that Research, and to some extent service- was attended by civil society and private sector learning (via limited teaching). representatives, and found media coverage; ··Networking Seminar on Community Dominant mode of engagement Renewables, and the social development Applied policy research, dissemination events criteria under the South African Renewable and networking events, blogs, interviews. Energy Program (REIPPPP) at UCT that involved representatives from six SA universities, civil Nature of the outputs society and private sector representatives; Research papers, blog posts. ··Membership of the Steering Committee of the South African Wind Energy Association Assessment of impact of the initiative for the WindAc Conference in 2016. The The progress of the implementation of the invitation was based on the close relationships INDCs will reveal impact. Also, concrete with the industry that developed during progress on continuation of participative my research on the implementation of the research will demonstrate impact. renewable energy programme, and the local content requirements for industrial Additional ES activities development and job creation; ··Seminars on ‘Zero emissions, zero poverty’ at ··Student visit to Kuyasa Solar Water UCT involving civil society and private sector heating project, Cape Town.

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr Sarah George, Centre for Materials Engineering.

Purpose of the ES initiative that puts an emphasis on aluminium metallurgy I have a solid industry relationship with Hulamin in both postgraduate teaching and research. Rolled Product. This relationship is mutually beneficial, in that the relationship means that Owing to this, many of the research projects Hulamin brings real-time industry-related problems that I work on are directly related to industry- to me, upon which I am able to base research linked problems, where the outcome will directly topics; but because of the human capital that has affect the production process and parameters been built and the technical knowhow relating to for the manufacture of the beverage can body hot rolled aluminium, we are able to help solve stock material. With this relationship under way, short-turnaround-time projects for Hulamin. we provide a platform for short-turnaround- time problem solving as well, owing to the Brief description of the initiative fact that the infrastructure is present and there Hulamin Rolled Product is a major producer of is human capacity with the knowledge and aluminium sheet used for the manufacture of skills necessary to perform the tasks quickly beverage cans. With the move from combination and in a skilled way. Because of this, my steel-aluminium cans to the all-aluminium can in relationship with Hulamin continues to grow. South Africa, the demand for large volumes of good-quality stock material has become a large In the past I have been invited to workshops part of the Hulamin output. Hulamin approached at Hulamin to talk about how the university the Centre for Materials Engineering (CME) at infrastructure can be used to help problem- UCT for help, as we are one of the only institutions solve manufacturing problems in the mill. I also

206 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports liaise directly with the consulting firm TSC, which research side of the relationship. Each year handles the strategy design for the rolling mills. there are between two and five Hulamin employees who attend the short course In collaboration with Hulamin and TSC, the Centre on wrought aluminium, who leave with for Materials Engineering hosts a short course an increase in the knowledge and theory annually focusing entirely on the properties and behind the production of wrought aluminium processes involved in the manufacture of wrought sheet, which is Hulamin’s core business. aluminium material. Each year participants from Hulamin and industry are invited, where the aim Assessment of impact of the initiative is to build knowledge in the aluminium sector There has been no formal assessment of and further develop the symbiotic relationship the impact of the engaged scholarship. The with the aluminium industry in South Africa. relationship is impactful, and this can be seen by the continued relationship between the Key thematic issues addressed partners, as well as the fact that the scope of Industry problem-solving, knowledge building. work is now about to extend to a new alloy and product line, namely the production of age- Nature of external constituencies hardened automotive body sheet material, involved in the initiative which is an area where the manufacturing ··Hulamin Rolled Product: Industrial producers of sector in South Africa is beginning to expand, rolled aluminium sheeting and other products; and which would be a massive driver for ··TSC: Technology Strategy Consultants. locally produced material product. A UK-based group that provides solutions to the technology needs of Additional ES activities: aluminium manufacturing companies. ··Wrought aluminium short course (Hulamin, TSC); ··Research projects: Nature of relationship(s) with --Effect of temperature variation on external constituencies the texture development in AA3104 ··Hulamin, CME and TSC present the wrought can body stock material. aluminium short course annually. --Effect of homogenisation parameters on the ··Hulamin and TSC liaise with CME regarding intermetallic and dispersoid structures in industry-related problems that need short- AA3104 aluminium can body stock material. turnaround-time problem solving, or ··Consultation with TSC on the AA6061 that are proposed as long-term research automotive body sheet material to be problems. There is always a good feedback produced at Hulamin, and a collaboration loop between the three entities. with Warwick University in the UK, who are currently working with this alloy. Length of relationship(s) ··Initial stages of the planning of a second The relationship was forged in about 2011, and symposium/conference on Microstructure, has been growing and strengthening since then. Texture and Formability of Metal Alloys, which will take place in 2017. Dominant form of the engaged scholarship The dominant form of ES has been teaching and service in the past, but the research side has been growing over the last three years.

Dominant mode of engagement The mode of engagement is through applied research and experimentally- based problem-solving support.

Nature of the outputs There have been two MSc outputs on the

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Department of Fine Art

Prof Jane Alexander.

Brief description of the initiative and information about the field available in a The Annual Third-Year Masiphumelele constructive and stimulating way, as well as to Exhibition Project is a curriculum-based socially- create awareness of a potential career path. responsive project involving an exhibition at Masiphumelele Library, and a workshop at Key thematic issues addressed Michaelis with learners from the settlement. It through the initiative has run since 2008. The aims of the project are Access to art. to introduce various aspects of professional practice and social awareness to students Nature of relationship(s) with in an alternative context to conventional art external constituencies venues, and to make aspects of art accessible Reciprocal creative exchange. to residents of Masiphumelele, where there is little exposure or access to it. The project is Length of relationship(s) intended to lead to the production of socially- Eight years. and site-appropriate artwork by the students in the context of contemporary art with artist’s Dominant form of the statements presented in English and isiXhosa, engaged scholarship and reciprocal creative exchange and group Teaching: Organisation of Service Learning/ collaboration through a creative workshop for community-based education programmes learners visiting Michaelis and the Iziko South as part of the formal curriculum. African National Gallery. The benefits intended for the residents and learners are to make Dominant mode of engagement examples of contemporary art, creative skills Teaching, service.

Centre for Film and Media Studies

Dr Martha Evans.

Purpose of the ES initiative and inequality are persisting; and even, To teach journalism skills, research in the case of inequality, deepening. poverty, and publicise the research of the Poverty and Inequality Institute. The staff of the newspaper is the third-year print journalism class at the Centre for Film and Brief description of the initiative Media Studies. After hearing some of UCT’s Cape Connect newspaper, produced in top economics researchers, such as Professor 2015 and 2016, is a joint project between Murray Leibbrandt, UCT’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor the Centre for Film and Media Studies and for Poverty and Inequality, as well as Professors UCT’s Poverty and Inequality Initiative (PII), Haroon Bhorat and Francis Wilson, the students one of the Vice-Chancellor’s four Strategic went out to some of the poorer communities in Initiatives. The newspaper assists the PII with Cape Town to record the voices of those who its mandate, which is to tackle the question have struggled to find dignity and well-being in of why, in a country of rich resources, poverty South Africa, even after the end of apartheid.

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Launched in 2011, the PII hopes – through an Dominant form of the inter-disciplinary programme that harnesses engaged scholarship research and interventions across the university Teaching: Continuing Education/Continuing – to make an impact on policy and the public Professional Development courses; Public discourse in a bid to find more effective service: production of popular materials. solutions to the country’s problems. Since a key role for journalism is to try to find the human Dominant mode of engagement stories that illuminate the big issues in society, Teaching, service. partnership between the PII and CFMS worked well. The stories produced in the paper reflect Nature of the outputs the hardships and hopes of communities in 28-page printed newspaper. Cape Town affected by poverty and inequality. Assessment of impact of the initiative Key thematic issues addressed Student assessment. through the initiative Poverty, inequality. Additional ES activities Various charitable initiatives.

South African College of Music

William Haubrich.

Brief description of the initiative ··Bergvliet High Public concerts; The Brass Bash Outreach. ··Bishops High ··Delft Music Project Purpose of the ES initiative ··Herzlia High The purpose is to extend the reach of activities ··Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre of College of Music brass staff and students to ··Parklands High high schools and music programmes in South ··Rustenberg High Africa via workshops and rehearsals, culminating ··SACS High in a collaborative performance. The performance ··Westerford High will be this year’s Brass Bash at the Baxter, involving all brass students at College. I have School music students will gain musical experience, made simplified parts and scores for two Brass be introduced to College, meet College students, Bash works and sent them with recordings to and have the thrill with playing with advanced high schools with brass students. The music musicians. College students will share their instructors will rehearse brass students and bring expertise and enthusiasm, and act as role models. them early to the Bash performance, where I The intention is to create an annual event, with will rehearse them en masse. The high-school ongoing workshops and interaction. School students, teachers and parents will then attend students will gain perspective on advanced music the performance, joining in for the last two works. making in a warm but professional environment. In preparation I have provided workshops at Music instructors will be asked to garner reactions some of these schools. Participating schools: from students and relay them to me. The ··Alexander Road High Port Elizabeth College of Music will become familiar to music ··Beau Soleil Music Centre instructors, music students and their parents.

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South African College of Music

Mr John Davids; Dr Miles Warrington and Dr Theo Herbst.

Brief description of the initiative initial skills transfer framework is the outcome A collaborative ES initiative. of a consultation process involving SACM academics, ComArt and the I-CAN managing Purpose of the ES initiative operator. Feedback from the initial skills transfer The purpose of the proposed ES initiative is activities with youth beneficiaries during the to contribute to youth skills development by recent Unyazi Electro-Acoustic Festival3 was sharing university (SACM) knowledge and presented at scheduled consultation sessions resources with a predominantly working-class with ComArt leadership. Such consultation and community. Integral to the establishment of this planning sessions are not only characteristic two-way partnership is the utilisation of music of the relationship between all stakeholders, technology as vehicle for knowledge transfer. but will continue to shape and inform the programme design, also contributing to the The ES initiative, hosted by Community Arts sustainability of the proposed activities. Association (ComArt) in Elsies River, utilises music technology as a discipline to facilitate skills transfer Length of relationship(s) to youth in the Grade 8 to 9 phase. Located in the Consultation between ComArt and the SACM Interactive Community Access Network1 (I-CAN) started in February 2016. Warrington and Herbst, facility in Elsies River, this youth empowerment together with Davids, conducted an on-site visit initiative will serve a historically marginalised, of the I-CAN facility in Elsies River during March largely working-class segment of society. In order 2016. The purpose was to form an impression to do so, music technology is briefly defined as of the existing infrastructure, and to consult the hard- and software ‘toolbox’ that enables with the Genesis Community IT Initiative. In July human interaction with the audio-visual domain in a group of learners from Range High School the context of creative applications. Two primary was introduced to game audio design during skills transfer components are addressed in this the Unyazi Electro-Acoustic Festival hosted initiative: on the one hand computer literacy, and by the SACM. The first in a series of follow-up sound and visual manipulation on the other. sessions is scheduled for September 2016.

Key thematic issues addressed The dominant form of engagement Youth empowerment, social justice, creativity, Teaching-oriented engaged scholarship. soundscape composition, game audio. The dominant mode of engagement Applied research and teaching activities, executed External constituencies in a community-based music technology laboratory. Located in Elsies River on the Nature of the outputs: Basic computer skills, Cape Flats are as follows: enabling the design and development of ··ComArt (Community Arts Association), simple game and game audio applications a community-based arts and culture at an introductory level, form the core of the organisation established in 1997; projected outcomes. The output generated ··Genesis Community IT Initiative, the by participants represents a broad footprint I-CAN managing operator; and encompassing audio and audiovisual skills. ··Grade 8 and 9 learners as well as a Importantly, relationships between the SACM teacher at Range High School. and community stakeholders will be stimulated.

Nature of relationship(s) with Assessment of impact of the initiative external constituencyies Indicators to assess the impact of the initiative ComArt, as the principal community partner, will include the number of participants and serves as the link between the SACM and youth their attendance, their participation and buy- beneficiaries. The conceptualisation of the in, and frequency of interaction. Assessment

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Drama Department

Dr Veronica Baxter.

Brief description of the initiative A playwriting competition is under way, for one-act BEAT TB PROJECT, A COMMUNITY- plays that engage with the theme of tuberculosis. BASED THEATRE INITIATIVE TO ENGAGE WITH TUBERCULOSIS Key thematic issues addressed A community-engagement collaboration between Theatre, education, tuberculosis, health education, Veronica Baxter, Drama Department; the South Boland, SATVI, The Mothertongue Project. SATVI African TB Vaccination Initiative, Worcester; and is part of the Faculty of Health Sciences. The The Mothertongue Project, McGregor. The project Mothertongue Project is a non-profit organisation was funded by the Wellcome Trust. The objective working with the arts to effect change. was to intervene in knowledge and attitudes about TB, using theatre performances in clinics, Dominant form of the hospitals, a prison, farms, on the streets and on engaged scholarship taxis. The final production was performed at the Combination of all three, in that we sought Worcester Easter Festival, in the open air as well as to provide an educational and theatrical in church halls. This particular set of performances service to the local community, to developing was accompanied by graffiti artists, a stilt-walker, local actors, to teach Drama students about and the involvement of the local radio station and working in this way, and to conduct research newspaper. The main production that toured was theatre as a way of engaging communities. titled Lienkie se Longe (Lienkie’s Lungs), using comedy, with songs and choreographed pieces Dominant mode of engagement of action. The use of vernacular (Afrikaans with Public theatre performances. some Xhosa) and the comic style of performance entertained the audiences, and follow up Q and A Nature of the outputs: demonstrated that theatre is an effective medium ··Theatre performances of: Taxi theatre, street to educate local audiences. The performances theatre, Lienkie se Longe in clinics, hospitals, toured the region to great success at the level prison, on farms, and at the Easter festival. of reaching audiences, and in training a group ··Newspaper insert, Worcester Standard of young, mostly unemployed men and women newspaper, Friday 25 March 2016. in applied theatre skills. This work took place ··Radio interviews by investigators and between September 2015 and April 2016. The actors, Vallei Radio, 28 March 2016. project was evaluated as research through focus groups and interviews with community members. Assessment of impact of the initiative A group of second-year drama students were Assessment of impact has been conducted involved in the initial stages of the project, giving through interviews and focus groups, conducted them an opportunity to work alongside community in April 2016, and in situ. Envisaged journal members of their own age, and mutual learning. articles and a book chapter. Findings have

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 211 Part Four: Faculty Reports been very positive, and we have been asked facilitating the development of local expertise several times to engage with new tours of in theatre for, and public research about, Lienkie se Longe. Negotiations are ongoing. young people. This includes incorporating aspects of the scholarship around ASSITEJ Additional ES activities and the festival into the drama curriculum. ··Veronica Baxter is co-convening the Cradle ··Veronica Baxter is course convenor of of Creativity festival conference for the DRM2011S ‘Learning through theatre and international ASSITEJ World Congress in Cape Drama’, the only course in undergraduate Town 2017, and has attended several meetings, studies in Drama that does theatre fieldwork networking functions, put in an application for in school, community and museum contexts. conference funding, attended a conference, In 2016, she is leading a company performing written the call for proposals, and is in the to schools in the SA Jewish Museum, and process of dealing with venue management, another that tours to three high schools. In and disability access to Hiddingh campus. postgraduate studies, she has coached and ASSITEJ is an international organisation supervised drama students creating work in and that strives to work with children and young for Goodwood prison, a primary school and people, developing theatre and research two high schools. In September 2016 she led into this age group, and ASSITEJ SA is very a group of postgraduate students to work with active in the region. The work involves the the George Arts Theatre, George, to develop development of a research programme, but also local capacity in devising original theatre.

Drama Department

Clare Stopford.

Brief description of the initiative to be part of the artistic and intellectual life of Cape BRIDGE FOR DRAMA GRADUATES Town. Equally urgent is a need for black graduates INTO THE THEATRE PROFESSION: to be developed for succession plans for major In partnership with the Baxter Theatre I have artistic institutions in Cape Town and the rest of the initiated a theatre-making project with eight country. This early interface with a very large theatre particularly talented and promising 2015 graduates gives graduates knowledge and experience of from the Drama Department. Starting in February theatre infrastructures and how they are managed. this year (2016) and resuming in August and September, the production will be shown to an Key thematic issues addressed audience at the Baxter Theatre in October 2016. Graduate benefit, professional skills/expertise, The graduates are self-driven, with support and bridging, mentorship, support, transformation mentorship from me and the production staff at and decolonisation, public benefit, external the Baxter Theatre. The finished product will be constituencies, creation of jobs, succession plans. managed and sold nationally and internationally by the Baxter Theatre. The key objectives of the Nature of external constituencies initiative are to provide immediate support for involved in the initiative trained black graduates to develop work that The Baxter Theatre plays a very large is meaningful to them and to their community, and appropriate role in managing, in order that they may contribute to the funding and mentoring the participants transformation and decolonisation of the theatre in all aspects of production. ‘scene’ in Cape Town; it is a safe space or a ‘bridge’ from the Drama Department into the profession. Nature of relationship(s) with The wide frame is a strategy to try to keep trained external constituencies black talent in Cape Town, as opposed to losing All entities are shared equally between them to the television industry in Johannesburg; me, the Baxter Theatre and the graduate and finally, making it possible for them to continue artists. As the project progresses from

212 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports development into a full-blown production standard about the graduates’ involvement that may tour, these entities may shift. with the RMF and FMF movements. ··Relevant and topical material: a contribution to Length of relationship(s) public understanding of the issues embedded With the graduates: four and a half years. in the student protests; potential arenas With the Baxter Theatre: 30 years. of public debate and media interest.

Dominant form of the Assessment of impact of the initiative engaged scholarship The project is not complete. I will monitor the Service and teaching through impact from three angles: feedback sessions mentorship. Potential research. with the graduates; feedback sessions/data from audiences, including media and press; Dominant mode of engagement feedback data from the Baxter Theatre. As the content of the play is the student activism The development of new writing for theatre in the Rhodes Must Fall (RMF) and Fees Must and a continuation of professional bridging: Fall (FMF) movements, the play will contribute I will hold a play-reading event on Hiddingh to public and campus dialogue and media Campus in November, engaging professionals interviews. The dominant mode of engagement to mix with student performers in reading the is closer to mentorship, teaching and skills new writing of professional writers who will transference. Potentially, it is applied research. benefit from audience feedback. This initiative is in concert with my key social responsibility Nature of the outputs focus, which is to contribute to the growth of the ··End product: a production of a high theatre industry in Cape Town and nationally.

Drama Department

Sara Matchett.

Brief description of the initiative The Mothertongue Project has over the past THE MOTHERTONGUE PROJECT four years been implementing a project aimed WOMEN’S ARTS COLLECTIVE (CO- at developing creative expression, leadership FOUNDER AND BOARD DIRECTOR) and entrepreneurial skills among young men and An applied theatre service learning experience in women in the rural Langeberg region. Research collaboration with The Mothertongue Project that undertaken by the Langeberg Municipality and assists students to decide on their education’s worth other NGOs within the region indicates poverty to others. The Mothertongue Project is a collective and high levels of unemployment as one of the of women artists, activists and practitioners core development challenges of the region and committed to personal and social transformation its people, particularly the youth. Connected to through participatory theatre and integrated this is a prevalence of alcohol foetal syndrome, arts methodologies. The organisation exists to high dropout rates among school-goers, teenage promote the well-being of those most excluded, pregnancy, ensuing gangsterism, drug abuse, and has identified women and young people as gender violence, and a rise in crime. Central to this groups consistently marginalised in society. situation is excessively high levels of unemployment. The collaboration with UCT Drama Department The project addresses the need, as expressed by forms part of the Learning through Drama and the youth of the region, for the creation of dialogue Theatre course that is a core module for the groups for young men and women, and the undergraduate Drama major, which combines imparting of leadership development through life theory with practice. The collaboration also skills, communication training, and self-management engages postgraduate students at the level of skills. It is envisioned that intervention strategies planning, implementation and monitoring and that address these will result in an increase in self- evaluation (which feeds into research practice). confidence and esteem, which in our experience

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 213 Part Four: Faculty Reports motivates and assists participants in imagining Nature of the outputs and actioning a different, more productive life for ··Academic articles and chapters in themselves, in which they are active agents in the relevant journals and books. choices that they make. More broadly speaking, ··Conference presentations. collaboration with The Mothertongue Project ··The work contributes towards the contributes towards the development of the field of development of the field of Applied Theatre Applied Theatre within the Department of Drama within the Department of Drama at UCT at at UCT at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Key thematic issues addressed Assessment of impact of the initiative ··Health issues such as HIV and AIDS, and TB; The Mothertongue Project is currently ··Unemployment; embarking on an M&E process that will ··Teenage pregnancy; include the collaboration with UCT. ··Substance abuse; ··Gender violence. Additional ES activities Work with The Mothertongue Project has also Nature of external constituencies involved conceptualising, co-creating and involved in the initiative performing in Walk: South Africa, a performance A registered not-for-profit organisation with that responds to gender violence and rape NPO status that exists to promote the well-being culture. The performance is centred around a of those most excluded, ie women and young sparse aesthetic that foregrounds the figure people as groups consistently marginalised in of the woman. Its focus is very much on the society. The Mothertongue Project is a collective five woman performers and considering the of women artists, activists, practitioners and unavoidable, physical fact of their bodies – a academics committed to personal and social fact which we understand rape culture to see to transformation through participatory theatre obfuscate or erase. I recently performed a solo and integrated arts methodologies. version of Walk: South Africa at the Freedom and Focus Voice Conference in Dublin (July Nature of relationship(s) with 2016). Additional work with The Mothertongue external constituencies Project’s Langeberg Youth Theatre company Joint conceptualisation, design and (made up of young people from towns and implementation of programmes and projects. neighbouring farms in the region) has involved ongoing skills-development workshops, the Length of relationship(s): creation of awareness-raising performances Six years. that address social challenges in the region, as well as facilitating the making of Umhlaba: Dominant form of the in die Skoot van die Aarde, a multilingual engaged scholarship (Afrikaans, isiXhosa and English) performance Research, teaching and service. for the annual McGregor Poetry Festival. The performance blends self-written poetry, music Dominant mode of engagement and physical theatre that reflect the performers’ Applied research and public dialogue. responses to notions of land and belonging.

Drama Department

Amy Jephta.

Purpose This initiative uses a mobile application, alongside To connect women playwrights with other social media, to build a virtual community researchers, practitioners and each consisting of female creative practitioners other through a virtual community. living in Africa and involved in poetry, play

214 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports writing, and theatre making, both professionally Theatre. As such, the forum facilitates discourse and in community projects, with researchers between female creative practitioners living and other interested parties engaged with in Africa regarding what isses related to literary or gender-based research in any part the experiences of women in Africa need of the world. The mobile app is available to discussion, analysis and creative expression. all, including featured mobile phone users, and as an online site to computer-users. Key thematic issues addressed Women in theatre, new play development, It facilitates other publics, including potential writer development, global networking, audiences, critics, producers, directors, artistic/ knowledge exchange. literary managers and cultural programmers to access and engage with under-represented Nature of external constituencies creative practitioners, and thereby broadens involved in the initiative awareness of these largely unrepresented women Arts & Humanities research council (primary and their work. The African women creative funding body); University of Warwick practitioners who register create online profiles (institution); Every1Mobile (mobile for with their contact details, and the ability to social impact www.every1mobile.net/). upload play scripts, photos and links to video or YouTube clips. All other users are able to see Nature of relationship(s) with the women’s profiles and work, participate in external constituencies the forums, and access announcements and a Co-investigator, joint conceptualiser; live events listing. The forum is a space for the collaborative analysis of issues and co-creation of Length of relationship(s) knowledge regarding various concerns specific to 18 months. the experiences of being contemporary African women. This involves moving away from static Dominant form of the or macro approaches to our understanding of engaged scholarship so-called ‘African’ identities to an understanding that transcends the beleaguered discourses of Research/service. ‘gender and development’ or ‘empowerment’. Dominant mode of engagement Central to this project is the methodological Public dialogue, online and in-person approach that aims to place African-authored networking, applied research; theories and practices related to gender, sexualities and identities at the centre of the study. The Nature of the outputs efficacy of this approach is evident from the Website (awpn.org), symposium reflections by African women practitioners on (February 2017), conference (June 2015), their own work, and the transferable potential book publication (in progress). for similar practice in other contexts in African

Drama Department

Mbongeni N Mtshali

Brief description of the initiative a technology of (post)colonial power, and the (S)KIN/LANGUAGE: complicated and intimate violence that it does to To explore ethnographic performance as a vehicle bodies – people – who are rendered at the margins for engaging critically with problems of race, class, of ‘proper’ national, cultural and ethnic citizenship gender and sexuality in the post-apartheid South by virtue of their being named as different. African public sphere. In particular, this specific iteration of the project addresses language as This project, titled in (s)kin/language, will result

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 215 Part Four: Faculty Reports in the production of a choreopoetic ensemble Key thematic issues addressed work that draws on intimate personal histories Bodies; gender; sexuality; race; class; as well as found prose, poetry, and visual and colonialism; ‘tradition’; postcolonial modernity; auditory historical archival material in order racism; privilege; patriarchy; PARIP. to explore how the sensuous and embodied process of ‘coming into language’ shapes and Nature of external constituencies situates us within specific cultural and political involved in the initiative worlds. It engages with post-apartheid cultural The Artscape Theatre, a publicly-funded citizenship and belonging as they emerge in arts production agency and theatre arts seemingly transparent everyday encounters with complex with broad public reach; the imagined boundaries of ethnic tradition, Professional, working performance practitioners. racial authenticity, and normative gender and sexual identity that both spoken and written Nature of relationship(s) with language inscribe onto and into our bodies. But external constituencies how might the body be rendered in ways that Joint conceptualisation and design, allow it to speak otherwise, in ways that resist consultation, production. easy closure? How might we engage with these questions in ways that open up the conversation Length of relationship(s) around South African national and cultural identity Eight months. to a multiplicity of competing perspectives? Dominant form of the This project proposes the practice of making engaged scholarship theatre and performance both an object of Teaching. study, as well as a methodology; that is, it not only sees practices in cultural performance as Dominant mode of engagement the sphere under investigation, but the making Applied research. of performance itself as the means through which to engage in this practice of cultural, Nature of the outputs social and political critique. By working with Theatrical production; scholarly papers. professional practitioners in the public theatre and performance sphere, this project transfers Assessment of impact of the initiative skills and models of thinking out of the academy Audience polls; participant-observer and into the spaces where we engage with interviews; exit interviews with the producing these pressing, complicated questions that agency (the Artscape Theatre Complex). affect us every day as national citizens.

Department of Sociology

Dr Jacques de Wet.

Brief description of the initiative small-scale evaluation research that is useful DEVELOPMENT STUDIES PROGRAMME: to their host organisations. The groups of An internship programme that gives students are supervised by their lecturer and a Master’s students in Development Studies member of staff from their host organisation. the opportunity to contribute to evaluation research which is useful to Cape Town-based Key thematic issues addressed organisations working in the development Evaluation research; development organisations. sector. As part of an eight-week internship programme, groups of Master’s students Nature of external constituencies in Development Studies assist different involved in the initiative development organisations by undertaking Development organisations (mostly NGOs).

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Nature of relationship(s) with Dominant mode of engagement external constituencies Applied research. A partnership between the Development Studies Programme and numerous host organisations. Nature of the outputs Research reports. Length of relationship(s) Eight weeks. Assessment of impact of the initiative An evaluation questionnaire is completed Dominant form of the by each host organisation’s representative engaged scholarship and each of the students. Research.

Department of Sociology

Amrita Pande.

Description of the initiative a tangible manifestation of the women’s ‘labour’. MADE IN INDIA. AN INTERACTIVE, MULTIMEDIA The Made in India lecture series is based on Pande’s PERFORMANCE LECTURE SERIES extensive ethnographic research and subsequent Public performance of an academic monograph, monograph, titled Wombs Labour: Transnational so as to make available to the general Commercial Surrogacy in India (Columbia University public (outside of academia) the medical, Press, 2014), which explores for the first time the social, and legal debates surrounding the experiences of Indian women who act as surrogates recently booming and controversial industry for childless couples. The lectures are delivered of ‘paid pregnancy’ or ‘hiring wombs’. as an interactive performance, involving recorded interviews and video clips. The audience since Participatory action research in order to include then has varied from activists, domestic workers, and empower the often very disadvantaged black union workers and high school students to general women involved in the paid pregnancy industry, theatre-going audiences. For more about the and the specific respondents of the research. performance lecture and the upcoming tours, see globalstories.net/productions/made-in-india/ Made in India is an interactive, multi-media performance-lecture series that debuted at the Key thematic issues addressed fourth ‘Women Deliver’ Conference, held in Reproduction, infertility, women’s Copenhagen in April 2016. As the largest global labour, globalisation. conference on the health and rights of women and girls and the first conference to convene on Nature of external constituencies these issues following the development of the involved in the initiative Sustainable Development Goals, the ‘Women The Made in India series has been developed Deliver’ Conference brings together world leaders, in collaboration with a creative theatre team policymakers, researchers and thought leaders. In (Global Stories, Denmark) and aims to present 2016, the event was attended by close to 6 000 the debate to audiences across the globe. delegates representing 169 countries. Since then, Made in India has since been selected for Nature of relationship(s) with permanent exhibition in the National Museum external constituencies of Denmark. A part of the permanent exhibit Jointly conceptualised with a creative artistic team, in the National Museum, Copenhagen are the and aims to obtain feedback from audiences and embroideries made by the surrogates themselves. policymakers as well as surrogates, across the globe. These are a product of the livelihood-generating workshop conducted by Pande in April 2016, as part Length of relationship(s) of the Made in India series. The embroideries are Six years.

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Dominant form of the Nature of the outputs engaged scholarship Performance and exhibitions. Research, teaching and service. Assessment of impact of the initiative Dominant mode of engagement Assessment of impact through peer Applied research, public dialogue and media reviews, as well as feedback and performance ethnography. from audiences across the globe.

Department of Philosophy

Dr Tom Angier.

Purpose of the ES initiative Key thematic issues addressed Rehabilitation of prisoners, and moral and through the initiative spiritual sustenance while in prison. Healing from life of crime, social justice, recompense to victims, learning Brief description of the initiative new skills for post-prison life. Since September last year I have been involved in the Prison Care and Support Network (PCSN). We Nature of external constituencies are a volunteer organisation that visits prisons in involved in the initiative the Western Cape. We run workshops in prisons, Inmates of Western Cape prisons. eg poetry workshops, workshops improving writing skills, visual art workshops. We also run family days, Nature of relationship(s) with where prisoners are reunited with their families and external constituencies have a chance to reconcile with them. I attended one Workshop leader and counsellor. of these days at Worcester prison, and it was a very moving occasion. Those prisoners who participate Length of relationship(s) tend to have a lower re-offending rate, since they One year. have built up support networks outside prison, which they can rely on once released. I visit Pollsmoor Dominant form of the regularly and will soon receive a full ID pass, which engaged scholarship means I can work with prisoners on my own. ··TEACHING: Continuing Education/ Continuing Professional Development Working with PCSN has taught me a lot in a short courses, applied/action research; time. It has revealed the very difficult conditions ··RESEARCH: Cultural performances; faced by prisoners in South Africa’s prison system. ··PUBLIC SERVICE: Public commentary/lectures, They are sometimes psychologically and spiritually organisation of conferences or workshops bereft, and unfortunately it is difficult for us to visit (for non-academic audiences), involvement the same prisoners on a regular basis. The prison in external (non-academic) structures. authorities are keen for us to visit a wide variety of inmates, which means continuity of relationship is Dominant mode of engagement not likely. On the other hand, prisoners are often Teaching, service. very resourceful people, eager to learn and full of energy. They have been placed in conditions Nature of the outputs which have made it easier and more tempting for Rehabilitation of prisoners for the common good. them to transgress. By giving them a concrete sense of self-worth, however, they become capable Assessment of impact of the initiative of viewing the future with hope, or at least more n/a. equanimity. All this forms an inspiring complement to my work in moral and political philosophy, and I Additional ES activities look forward to more work with PCSN in the future. n/a.

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Centre for Film and Media Studies

Dr Martha Evans; Pippa Green, media manager for the Research Project on Employment, Income Distribution and Inclusive Growth (REDI) at SALDRU.

Purpose of the ES initiative South Africa, even after the end of apartheid. To teach journalism skills, research The stories produced in the paper reflect the poverty, and publicise the research of hardships and hopes of communities in Cape the Poverty and Inequality Institute. Town affected by poverty and inequality.

Brief description of the initiative Key thematic issues addressed Cape Connect newspaper, produced in 2015 through the initiative and 2016, is a joint project between the Centre Poverty, inequality. for Film and Media Studies and UCT’s Poverty and Inequality Initiative (PII), one of the Vice- Dominant mode of engagement Chancellor’s four Strategic Initiatives. The ··TEACHING: Continuing Education/Continuing newspaper assists the PII with its mandate, which Professional Development courses; is to tackle the question of why, in a country of rich ··PUBLIC SERVICE: production resources, poverty and inequality are persisting, of popular materials. and in the case of inequality, even deepening. Dominant mode of engagement The staff of the newspaper is the third-year Teaching, service. print journalism class at the Centre for Film and Media Studies. After hearing some of UCT’s Nature of the outputs top economics researchers, such as Professor 28-page printed newspaper. Murray Leibbrandt, UCT’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Poverty and Inequality, as well as Professors Assessment of impact of the initiative Haroon Bhorat and Francis Wilson, the students Student assessment. went out to some of the poorer communities in Cape Town to record the voices of those who Additional ES have struggled to find dignity and well-being in Various charitable initiatives.

Centre for African Studies

Prof Lungisile Ntsebeza, AXL: NRF Chair in Land Reform and Democracy in South Africa; Associate Professor Horman Chitonge; Dr Femke Brandt; Mr Nkululeko Mabandla.

Purpose of the ES initiative case involves residents of one of the villages In post-1994 Eastern Cape, residents are of Xhalanga, Cala Reserve, on the one hand, merely informed of decisions taken by the and the Eastern Cape Government on the ‘royal family’, namely the chief(s) in the area. other. The issues of governance vary from who Headmen so appointed become hereditary, should lead in villages, to land ownership and as future headmen will be appointed from the administration in communal areas, and access same family – they become a ‘royal family’ even and rights of villagers to natural resources if they do not have ‘chiefly’ blood. The decision in their areas. These rural communities are to impose headmen is fiercely contested in from both the former Transkei and the former the Xhalanga area in particular, but there are Ciskei. The purpose of this research is to other villages in the Eastern Cape that are support communities in their struggles to now following suit. In the case of Xhalanga, democratise rural governance in areas under the matter has been taken to court. One such the jurisdiction of traditional leaders.

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Brief description of the initiative ··Land rights, judicial transformation, The project partnership was founded on common land restitution; interests of research that contribute to the ··Media advocacy, public engagement, development of rural people in the Chris Hani civic engagement, civic campaigns. District Municipality. The partnership is between CALUSA (Cala University Students Association) – a Nature of external constituencies non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in involved in the initiative Cala, Eastern Cape – and the Centre for African ··Ntinga Ntaba kaNdoda (a social movement Studies (CAS) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). in Keiskammahoek), Siyazakha; Both these social-responsiveness interventions have ··Villages of Sakhisizwe, Emalahleni and been performed under the strategic leadership Engcobo; eight communities in Whittlesea; of CAS NRF Chair Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza, seven communities of Amahlathi (Stutterheim); who also leads the pre-colonial historiography communities in Keiskammahoek and in Berlin; catalytic project. This partnership grew out of the villages in Cala Reserve, Tsengiwe and Mnxe; positioning of CAS NRF Chair Ntsebeza in an ··NGOs CALUSA (Cala University Students ongoing research collaborative relationship with his Association) and its Youth Commune; former doctoral student (sponsored by the NRF), Dr Border Rural Committee (BRC); Fani Ncapayi. The NRF award was made to Ncapayi ··Chiefs; on the understanding that he will return to work ··Legal Resources Centre; with the people of CALUSA on completion of his ··Vukani Community Radio station; SAfm; doctoral studies. In 2014, the Planning Committee ··Human Sciences Research Council; of Cala Reserve successfully challenged in the High ··Chris Hani District Municipality; Court the imposition of an unelected headman. Parliament; Bisho High Court; Research by the NRF Chair on headmanship in ··Multi-Agency Grant Initiative (MAGI); Xhalanga facilitated the success of the Planning ··NRF Committee’ legal challenge. His research provided unchallenged evidence about local practices Nature of relationship(s) with regarding the ascension of headmen in Xhalanga. external constituencies The partnership was extended to pre-colonial Joint influencing of governance decisions; joint research work with youth. This research project lodging of court cases; joint research; joint fitted in with CALUSA’s work on youth development, campaigns; joint dialogues and decisions; joint which takes place through the Youth Commune, training programmes in oral history interviews; a programme that revolves around two concepts: sharing of knowledge; asking pertinent education with production, and self-reliance. The questions together about the past and present; ultimate idea is to develop young people with engaging critically with the pre-colonial in knowledge and skills that will enable them to have the landscape; engaging critically together historical sensibility, to make informed judgements, on rural governance; explanation of sections and to be self-reliant. The landmark high-court of relevant legislation and ways to challenge judgement on rural governance and land rights, as them; combining education with production; a result of Ntsebeza’s work, has assisted CALUSA youth development; mobilising rural villagers and the organisations it works with to mobilise around issues of governance; three provincial rural villagers around issues of governance. seminars organised with representatives of communities; democratisation of processes; Key thematic issues addressed resource sharing in terms of knowledge, human through the initiative capital and funding of seminars; networking ··Rural governance, democratisation, mediation with diverse stakeholders. political education, local governance, government policy transformation; Length of relationship(s) ··Rural education development partnerships, Organically formed over a number of years of pre-colonial history education, skills engaged scholarship in the region, culminating training, curriculum transformation; in groundbreaking impact in the second term ··Youth development, inter- of the NRF Chair (with more research resources generational social cohesion; that were made available as a result).

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Dominant mode of engagement was established and supported. ··Strategic research: government-funded ··Public and media debates: weekly radio research, corporate-funded research, talk shows and local phone-in programmes non-profit-funded research; were hosted; seminars in rural villages ··Public service: policy development/engagement/ with youth, elders, NGOs, etc. systems development; public commentary/ ··Joint research capacity strengthened lectures; organisation of conferences or through new research questions generated workshops (for non-academic audiences); by the villages themselves; building expert advice/support/assistance/evidence/ research capacity among the youth. service for public benefit; involvement ··Skills training and education in rural in external (non-academic) structures; South Africa: strengthening oral history clinical service or community outreach. methodologies and research; strengthening understanding of pre-colonial history; Dominant mode of engagement education on rural governance legislation. Research, applied research, teaching, service. Assessment of impact of the initiative Nature of the outputs The ground breaking High Court judgment in Bisho ··Research by the NRF Chair on headmanship on governance: Ntsebeza has been approached in Xhalanga provided unchallenged evidence by researchers in the Cape Town Parliament to talk regarding local practices on the ascension of with them about the Eastern Cape case, which headmen in Xhalanga. His evidence showed has led to Parliament considering amendments that headmen are elected by communities to the Traditional Leadership and Governance in 21 of the 22 villages of Xhalanga. Framework Act that was central to the case. ··Local advocacy for democratisation: growth from 12 to more than 30 communities that As a result of the media advocacy on the align with the campaign. This indicates the research findings by Professor Ntsebeza and impact the High Court case has had in the the supported public education programme, campaign to democratise rural governance. In there has been a growth from 12 to more than solidarity with Siyazakha and CALUSA, other 30 communities that align with the campaign rural organisations such as the Border Rural for democratisation of rural governance. Committee NGO and Ntinga Ntaba kaNdoda mobilised other rural communities in the Invitations by these organisations to Ntsebeza former Ciskei and Transkei to picket outside to workshops and seminars over the last year the premises of the High Court. The support to address this issue are further testimony of and solidarity contributed to popularising the the recognition of this interventionist work. For campaign throughout the province, not only in example, under the series ‘Human and Social rural communities, but also in the corridors of Dynamics (HSD) Research Seminar’, the Department power. The attempts of Prince Burns-Ncamashe of Science and Technology (DST) and Human to have a dialogue with rural organisations in Sciences Research Council (HSRC) organised a 2015 were a direct result of the campaign. two-day conference with the theme ‘The meaning ··Direct pressure from villages and their of democracy in post-1994 rural South Africa’, which structures on government to democratise focused on the judgement and its implications rural governance: since the High Court for social and policy processes (www.hsrc.ac.za/ case, Siyazakha and the Task Team on Rural en/events/events/meaning-of-democracy-post- Democratisation have made efforts and 1994-sa). The workshop was held in East London supported the Planning Committee (PC) and was attended by an average of 100 people, to put pressure on Chief Gecelo and the including rural residents, traditional authorities, government to implement the orders of the social movements and government officials. final judgement. This involved the writing of letters by the PC to Chief Gecelo. Members The Judgement has also led to a series of of the PC wrote a series of letters to the Chief workshops in various parts of the Eastern Cape. requesting him to implement the judgement. In these workshops, rural residents who are ··A Rural Democratisation Task Team facing similar challenges as those seen in the

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Xhalanga case are keen to learn from that case closely with a number of these organisations. about how they could democratise their own Other civic organisations that the NRF chair villages. Ntsebeza and his former doctoral is engaged with are (among others) the Trust student Dr Fani Ncapayi are frequently requested for Community Outreach and Education’s farm to present papers in these workshops. workers project (www.tcoe.org.za), and South African History Online (SAHO) (www.sahistory. The project is ongoing, and more assessment org.za) for the establishment of a ‘Migrant Labour impacts will be planned on the renewal of this Museum and Knowledge Centre’ in Pondoland. important NRF Chair position to assist in supporting the sustaining of democracy in rural South Africa. The NRF Chair continues to work in close collaboration with his former doctoral student Additional ES activities and post-doc Associate Professor Horman Through the NRF Chair on Land Reform and Chitonge, who published a seminal work in 2016 Democracy in South Africa, Professor Ntsebeza titled Beyond Parliament – human rights and supervises doctoral and post-doctoral students the politics of social change in the Global South engaged in ES activities. Post-doctoral student Dr (www.africanstudies.uct.ac.za/cas/features/2015/ Femke Brandt conducted research about power beyond_parliament), and who is also regularly relations in the commercial farming landscape engaged in public discourse on political elections, and experiences of farm workers and land reform democratisation, and alternative land justice in the Chris Hani District of the Eastern Cape. and sustainability strategies. An additional She has engaged prolifically in public education publication of Chitonge’s within the social programmes on her research during her post- responsiveness framework is Economic Growth doc. See for example her contributions to the and Development in Africa: understanding question ‘How do we make democracy work for the trends and prospects (see www.africanstudies. poor?’ at www.polity.org.za/topic/femke-brandt. uct.ac.za/cas/features/2014/economic_growth).

Together with his former doctoral students Dr Fani On 4 July 2016, the Centre for Social Science Ncapayi and Associate Professor Horman Chitonge, Research (CSSR) held an informal discussion who is also the first post-doc fellow of the Research about the August 2016 local elections in South Chair, on 1 March 2016 Professor Ntsebeza Africa. Professor Chitonge led this discussion commenced with further research in the Chris with Dr Mundia Kabinga (of the Graduate School Hani District municipal area. The research team of Business), and Hangala Siachiwena (a PhD will be collaborating with Hiroyuki Hino (visiting student in Sociology and the CSSR). The event professor, South African Labour and Development was organised by Hangala, whose research Unit, SALDRU), whose research focus is on social focuses on the effects of change of government cohesion. The role of land will be used as a lens. on social policy-making. Chitonge is a regular public commentator on his research area, such as Furthermore, Professor Ntsebeza’s work on the the ‘African economies must diversify to survive’ political and intellectual history of the late Archie interview from 19 May 2016 on SciDev.Net Mafeje, in a changing Higher Education context (annual meeting of the -Africa Universities in which students are demanding what they refer Network) (www.scidev.net/global/human-rights/ to as the ‘decolonisation of the curriculum’, is not multimedia/african-economies-diversify-survive. only gaining interest among fellow academics, html). His other public speaking engagements as well as students, but also within public include: AAUN International Africa Forum 5-6 May discourse – such as on radio on 15 August 2016 2016, Cape Town, on ‘Education imperatives for (see www.sabc.co.za/news/a/66123d804ddf334 food, nutrition and environmental security’ and 482e7be1caade0c3d/Mafejes-legacy-has-been- ‘A decade of implementing water services reform marginalised:-Ntsebeza-20160815). Mafeje’s in Zambia: review of outcomes, challenges and work will find an audience among activists in opportunities’. Chitonge has also been teaching NGOs and social movements, who are the ones on the IARU Global Summer Programme 2016, who are putting pressure on research that will on ‘Sustainable water management in Africa’. inform alternatives to the existing land-reform This course adopts an interdisciplinary approach programme of government. Ntsebeza works very to examine the current water crises, trends and

222 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports conditions in developing countries. It critically What is its importance in the present climate? engages with the technical, social, cultural, How do we understand 1976 in relation to our economic, political, economic and environmental national popular memory? The exhibition ran until challenges of water demand, supply and treatment, 16 August 2016 at the CAS Gallery. Mabandla with an understanding of the role of water in was also organiser of the AC Jordan Building society and in sustaining livelihoods. Further, it Renaming Event (i.e. the renaming of the Arts Block addresses the need to derive maximum benefit building in honour of Professor AC Jordan), and from each water resource used, while incurring of The Sam Moyo Colloquium to celebrate and minimum burden and promoting the need to honour the life and work of Professor Sam Moyo. secure ‘new taps’ in a water-sensitive urban- design context. The United Nations University 5. The NRF Chair is also holder of the AC Jordan Education for Sustainable Development in Africa Chair in African Studies, and Director of the (ESDA) – Next Generation Researchers (NGR) – CAS Gallery. While based on Upper Campus, National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF) UCT, the gallery offers a public connection to invited Chitonge to take part in a workshop on the work related to African Studies. Through ‘Developing an exploratory research programme on exhibitions, seminars and events, it mediates a the role of youth entrepreneurship for sustainable space for dialogue and debate around topical development in Africa’, which was hosted by the issues under the broad rubric of African Studies. University of Cape Town from 4-6 March 2016. Chitonge addressed the workshop on the theme Weinberg has been strategically seconded from ‘Africa Rising: the role of youth entrepreneurs’. UCT Libraries, and is senior curator of the CAS Other social responsiveness activities include a Gallery. A well-known South African photographer, written expert submission on urban land in support his career began in the early 1980s when he of Ndifuna Ukwazi’s ‘#StopTheSale of the Tafelberg worked for South African NGOs, and photographed site in ’ campaign, 9 June 2016; and current events for news agencies and foreign radio and TV Interviews with various new agencies newspapers (see www.sahistory.org.za/people/ on alternatives for Africa’s economic growth. paul-weinberg). Weinberg has built up a large body of work, which portrays diverse peoples, Doctoral student Nkululeko Mabandla engages cultures, and human environments ‘beyond as an activist scholar on a diversity of social the headlines’. It demonstrates a sustained responsiveness fronts: cultural, curatorial, archival, engagement with indigenous people throughout educational and political. As project leader of ‘The southern Africa, particularly in rural settings. Louis Mofolo Legacy Project’, he has organised a series of events including a colloquium, exhibition Here follows the gallery exhibitions and a performance to be staged in October report for 2015 – 2016: 2016, which will feature acclaimed drummer Louis ··1976/360 Moholo as a central figure. The purpose of this This year we successfully commemorated work is to explore the hidden history of South forty years after 1976. The exhibition, entitled African musicians in exile and their contribution 1976/360, drew an important audience. It was to the world of jazz, especially in Europe. In 2016, MCed by Professor Crain Soudien, with speeches he was organiser of the UCT Marikana Forum, a by Murphy Morobe and Peter Magubane, and platform for solidarity with the miners of Marikana a poem delivered by veteran struggle poet which hosts annual events to raise awareness about James Matthews. It was attended by classes the massacre and the plight of mineworkers more and conference delegates, and there was also broadly. In August 2016, Mabandla organised the a public walkabout conducted by curators Neville Alexander Annual Seminar. These seminars Nkululeko Mabandla and Paul Weinberg. The are in remembrance of Neville Alexander and his exhibition in its ‘360’ sense worked closely with contribution to scholarship, and to engage critically the SACC, who brought together an important with his ideas. To mark the 40th anniversary of meeting of minds – the 1976 Foundation the 1976 student uprising event, he co-curated (veterans of the 1976 movement), and former (with Paul Weinberg) the ‘1976/360’ exhibition, SADF soldiers. This installation was shown at around the following questions: How do we reflect the exhibition, but was also used as a tone- on this cataclysmic moment in our history today? setter for a conference between 1976 activists,

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SADF former conscriptees, and peace activists. through book launches or seminars or both, It was also shown at a major event at Orlando these events draw audiences beyond the Stadium on 16 June. Another installation which campus. Some of these in 2016 include: was part of the exhibition documented UCT’s --Marikana Remembered. A screening of Miners memory. Staff, former students and workers Shot Down and a slide show by Dr Asanda shared their experiences. All this information is Benya, with a discussion led by the Student accessible online through the CAS website. Left Forum, took place on 15 August; ··OTHER 2016 EXHIBITIONS PLANNED --A forum to discuss creative and --For a conference on Afro Asia studies, an artistic responses to TB; exhibition in Heritage Month will show --The fourth annual Neville Alexander the linkages between African and Indian Seminar, which included the launch of musical instruments. There will also be a book called Non-Racialism in South an exhibition on the Malay Choirs. The Africa – the life and times of Neville exhibition will feature a performance at CAS Alexander, took place on 27 August; Gallery by African and Asian musicians. --REDI (Research Project on Employment, --An exhibition and performance Income Distribution and Inclusive Growth), about the last living member of the a conference about spatial inequality; Blue Notes, Louis Moholo. --LARC, a contested history workshop; --Sociology, a conference on political society. ··POP-UP EXHIBITIONS --Africa, South Asia and Popular --An exhibition that launched the Politics in the Postcolonial World #Khomani San website Furthermore, in close collaboration with former --A student exhibition on the mining industry students and colleagues, the NRF Chair has also been appointed Coordinator of the Land ··EVENTS Grabs and Food Sovereignty in Africa project, CAS hosts a number of events throughout which is run under the auspices of the Council the year that bring significant issues and for the Development of Social Science Research public debate into the space. Whether in Africa (CODESRIA) based in Dakar, Senegal.

Centre for African Studies

Prof Lungisile Ntsebeza, NRF Chair and Director: Centre for African Studies; Associate Professor Horman Chitonge, Centre for African Studies (Chris Hani Municipality); Dr Femke Brandt, Centre for African Studies (Chris Hani Municipality); Mr Nkululeko Mabandla, Centre for African Studies (various, and Centre for African Studies Gallery); Mr Paul Weinberg, Senior Curator, Centre for African Studies Gallery; Dr Fani Ncapayi, Honorary Research Associate, Centre for African Studies (Chris Hani Municipality); Professor Hiroyuki Hino, SALDRU.

Purpose of the ES initiative Brief description of the initiative The NRF Chair leads the research project on The Delindlala research project aims to assist the Delindlala Communal Property Association the members of Delindlala to reach their own (CPA), a land reform group consisting of vision; in which poverty has been eradicated, villagers from Luphaphasi in the Eastern and households of members are self-sufficient Cape Province, to whom the ownership of a and able to educate their children through 2009-hectare farm was given under the Land income raised mainly from dairy and beef stock Redistribution for Agricultural Development and sheep farming. It is envisaged that a model (LRAD) programme in 2001. To make the farm of successful land reform in South Africa will financially viable, the quantity of its livestock emerge through a collaborative community- must be fairly large; but the Delindlala CPA based research approach for tangible influence on does not have sufficient financial resources to national policy and implementation, as a successful own and manage livestock on that scale. case study of a land-redistribution project.

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Key thematic issues addressed service for public benefit; involvement through the initiative in external (non-academic) structures; 1. Land restitution, land reform; clinical service or community outreach. 2. Higher education strategic partnerships, equitable community research partnerships, Dominant mode of engagement community-led research, innovative Research, applied research, teaching, service, micro-economic model development. policy analysis, public dialogue, media interviews, community consultation, community education, Nature of external constituencies information dissemination, youth training. involved in the initiative Farmers of Delindlala, NRF, Nelson Mandela Nature of the outputs Initiative, local government, Fort Hare University. Engaged scholarship-informed Research Paper on an emerging micro-economic development Nature of relationship(s) with model in Delindlala to be considered for replication external constituencies in rural South Africa. A working paper will be Joint research; community-generated new completed by February 2017, and the final draft by research questions; sharing of research August 2017. The paper will also serve as an input findings in accessible form; mutual facilitation to the second and third phases of the project. of process-led research methodology; joint conceptualisation and design of economic Assessment of impact of the initiative development models; democratising research; Should funding become available, we will ownership of research findings by stakeholders conduct scientific studies of: (a) optimal to make tangible differences to their own livestock management in the area; (b) optimal lives; mutual education; sharing of knowledge; use of water resources, including irrigation micro rural economic development. schemes; and (c) optimal use of land, based on agronomy and farming systems. Length of relationship(s): Organically formed over many years of The second phase comprises the Impact engaged scholarship, rural activism and Evaluation: to compare quantitatively the establishment of diverse research networks advance that members of Delindlala have in the region, culminating in ground- made with those of farmers in Luphaphasi breaking impact in the second term of the village, and more broadly in Chris Hani district, NRF Chair (as a result of more research to analytically evaluate the impact that the resources that were made available through Delindlala CPA has had on the living standards this crucial national designation). of its members, focusing on land ownership and collective farming. The main deliverable Dominant mode of engagement of this phase will be a working paper which ··Teaching: organisation of Service Learning/ will offer a real micro-story of the economic community-based education programmes development of a rural village in the Eastern as part of the formal curriculum; Cape. Phase III involves creating innovative ··Teaching: Continuing Education/Continuing blueprints for the transformation of Delindlala: Professional Development courses; to develop a model of cooperative livestock ··Strategic research: government-funded farming under collective land ownership which research, corporate-funded research, can be replicated in other cases. This will non-profit-funded research; involve interviews with commercial farmers in ··Applied/action research, Research: the area, and engagement with researchers Maps, plans, artefacts; at the University of Fort Hare. Findings will ··Public service: policy development/ be discussed with members of the CPA, to engagement/systems development; public make a few alternative recommendations. commentary/lectures; production of popular Concurrently, we will review vast experience materials; organisation of conferences or in cooperative management throughout workshops (for non-academic audiences); the developing world, and prepare a expert advice/support/assistance/evidence/ note on its relevance for Delindlala.

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Fine Art

Prof Jane Alexander.

Brief description of the initiative skills and information about the field available The Annual Third-Year Masiphumelele Exhibition in a constructive and stimulating way, as well as Project is a curriculum-based, socially-responsive to create awareness of a potential career path. project involving an exhibition at Masiphumelele Library, and a workshop at Michaelis with learners Key thematic issues addressed from the settlement. It has run since 2008. The through the initiative aims of the project are to introduce various Access to art. aspects of professional practice and social awareness to students in an alternative context Nature of relationship(s) with to conventional art venues, and to make aspects external constituencies of art accessible to residents of Masiphumelele Reciprocal creative exchange. where there is little exposure or access to it. The project is intended to lead to the production Length of relationship(s) of socially and site-appropriate artwork by the Eight years. students in the context of contemporary art, with artist’s statements presented in English Dominant mode of engagement and isiXhosa, and reciprocal creative exchange Teaching: Organisation of Service Learning/ and group collaboration through a creative community-based education programmes workshop for learners visiting Michaelis and the as part of the formal curriculum. Iziko South African National Gallery. The benefits intended for the residents and learners are to Dominant mode of engagement make examples of contemporary art, creative Teaching, service.

Linguistics

Assoc Prof Heather Brookes, SARChI chair on Migration, Language and Social Change; Jo-Anne Duggan, the Archival Platform; Prof Clive Gray, Department of Immunology.

Purpose of the ES initiative a participatory community exhibition that included To preserve community history old photographs and recent photographic portraits of Stirtonville residents done by Clive Gray. Brief description of the initiative The aim of this initiative was to document and Key thematic issues addressed preserve the history of Stirtonville, a mixed- through the initiative race freehold township on the East Rand from Community history. where in 1964 people were forcibly removed to Vosloorus. Heather Brookes worked with youth Nature of external constituencies from Vosloorus to hold a community exhibition involved in the initiative in Vosloorus on the history of Stirtonville. The Non-governmental and community organisations. outreach was sponsored by the Archival Platform and the SARChI chair on Migration, Language and Nature of relationship(s) with Social Change at UCT. This community initiative external constituencies also involved assisting current organisations in Research and training. Vosloorus to document and preserve the rich history of their community. The initiative involved a Length of relationship(s) Local Dialogue Forum run by Jo-Anne Duggan, and Twenty years.

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Dominant mode of engagement Nature of the outputs Research: Cultural performances; maps, Community exhibition; archived with plans, artefacts; preserving cultural history. South African history online.

Dominant mode of engagement Assessment of impact of the initiative Research. Not done.

Philosophy

Dr Tom Angier.

Purpose of the ES initiative Healing from life of crime, social Rehabilitation of prisoners, and moral and justice, recompense to victims, learning spiritual sustenance while in prison. new skills for post-prison life.

Brief description of the initiative Nature of external constituencies Since September last year I have been involved in involved in the initiative the Prison Care and Support Network (PCSN). We Inmates of Western Cape prisons. are a volunteer organisation that visits prisons in the Western Cape. We run workshops in prisons, Nature of relationship(s) with e.g. poetry workshops, workshops improving external constituencies writing skills, visual art workshops. We also run Workshop leader and counsellor. family days, where prisoners are reunited with their families and have a chance to reconcile with Length of relationship(s) them. Those prisoners who participate tend to One year. have a lower re-offending rate, since they have built up support networks outside prison, which Dominant mode of engagement they can rely on once released. I visit Pollsmoor ··Teaching: Continuing Education/Continuing regularly and will soon receive a full ID pass, which Professional Development courses; means I can work with prisoners on my own. ··Applied/action research, Research: Working with PCSN has taught me a lot in a short cultural performances; time. It has revealed the very difficult conditions ··Public service: public commentary/lectures; faced by prisoners in South Africa’s prison organisation of conferences or workshops system. This forms an inspiring complement to (for non-academic audiences); involvement my work in moral and political philosophy. in external (non-academic) structures.

Key thematic issues addressed Assessment of impact of the initiative through the initiative Not applicable.

Sociology

Dr Elena Moore; Prof. Chuma Himonga, NRF Chair in Customary Law.

Purpose of the ES initiative justice to customary rights that in the areas The study examined the impact of the reformed of marriage, its effects and its dissolution, laws of customary marriage and succession in as well as succession, fall within a normative South Africa. The object of the research was context that is historically prior to the new to show how legislators in a new democratic constitution of South Africa, and above all constitutional framework have sought to do are based on different value systems.

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Brief description of the initiative Assessment of impact of the initiative The research team held information sessions and The research had an impact at the popular, community discussion groups about the new laws policy, academic and regulatory levels. In each in marriage and succession at each fieldwork site of these, the discourse on the new laws was (across six provinces). The information sessions deepened through an engagement with the were facilitated by the coordinators of the National research. At the popular level this was apparent Movement of Rural Women (NMRW). These in two ways. Firstly, the number of people who sessions also included training of the coordinators attended the discussion groups at the fieldwork of the NMRW, in terms of their socio-legal and sites was overwhelming. We had at least 50 to methodological training. The aim of the community 60 people at each of six sessions, and many discussion groups was to inform mainly rural-based people travelled up to 300km to attend. The women and men about the new laws, and to people welcomed the opportunity to discuss provide a platform where rural-based individuals these matters. While it is a subjective measure could share some of their experiences and of evaluation, the quality and depth of the perceptions about matters concerning marriage, discussion at these sessions deepened the divorce and intestate succession. The research understanding and seriousness of the matter. identified ways of improving the implementation of Secondly, the media articles were viewed and the new laws, and wrote up these recommendations read by over 500 people. To date we have as a free, downloadable report (jutaacademic. also sold over 100 copies of our book, which co.za/uploads/SAR/), which we disseminated at was published late in 2015. The academic discussion meetings with a range of stakeholders, articles written were published in high-impact including the National House of Traditional Leaders, journals, including Gender and Society, to with a range of officials from the Department of try and ensure a greater academic impact. Justice and Court Services, the National Movement of Rural Women and Sonke Gender Justice. The research identified ways of improving the The meetings held with the National House of implementation of the new laws. The meetings Traditional Leaders and the Department of Justice held with the National House of Traditional discussed these recommendations, and we are Leaders and the Department of Justice discussed continuing to engage with these stakeholders. these recommendations, and we are continuing to engage with these stakeholders. The impact Key thematic issues addressed of the research is evident in the ability to through the initiative hold certain stakeholders to task and engage Customary marriage, divorce, intestate succession. them in a series of discussions concerning the Nature of external constituencies improvement of the implementation of the involved in the initiative. Act. While we cannot control the outcome Department of Justice, National House of of this engagement, the research has at Traditional Leaders, Sonke Gender Justice, least been brought to their attention. National Movement of Rural Women. Lastly, the research provides a critique of the Nature of relationship(s) with existing legislation, and demonstrates ways external constituencies in which it can be improved. In calling for a Collaborator with National reform of the legislation, and engaging with Movement of Rural Women. the legislator in a series of conversations about the shortcomings of existing legislation, Length of relationship(s): we hope the research will make an impact Four years. on the reform of the legislation.

Dominant mode of engagement Additional ES Applied research. Public Lecture in Cape Town National Library, ‘Gender and Families’, 22 March Nature of the outputs 2015, IHP / 22 October 2015 Health Book, report, peer-reviewed articles, online and Community Programme. newspaper articles, community discussion.

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School of Languages and Literatures (SLL)

Dr Joel Claassen; Professor Derek Hellenberg, Division of Public Health and Family Medicine; Dr Minnie Lewis, School of Languages and Literatures; Mr Zukile Jama, School of Languages and Literatures; Dr Nayna Manga, Division of Public Health and Family Medicine; Ms Delena Fredericks, Faculty of Health Sciences.

Purpose of the ES initiative Language Teaching project (COLT-project) is Teaching isiXhosa and Afrikaans communication funded by the Metro District Health Services skills to staff at two Community Health centres [Department of Health (PGWC)] to offer both in the Northern Tygerberg Substructure of new healthcare workers (doctors, nurses and the Metro District Health Services (MDHS). various other staff) and past course graduates isiXhosa and Afrikaans communication skills, at Brief description of the initiative three different levels of competence, in 2016. Between 2013 and 2015, in a European Union (EU) funded project, isiXhosa and Afrikaans Key thematic issues addressed communication skills courses were offered by the through the initiative Faculties of Humanities (School of Languages) Communicating about HIV/Aids, tuberculosis, and and Health Sciences to staff at community health the cardiovascular system, in isiXhosa and Afrikaans. centres in two sub-economic and heterogeneous suburbs in the Cape Peninsula. The Career- Nature of external constituencies Orientated Language Teaching (COLT) project is involved in the initiative aimed at equipping doctors, nurses, healthcare Northern Tygerberg Substructure (NTSS) professionals and auxiliary staff with career- in Metro District Health Services of the orientated isiXhosa and Afrikaans communication Department of Health (PGWC). skills. The communication skills courses were derived from the Becoming-a-doctor module Nature of relationship(s) with in the Division of Family Medicine and existing external constituencies Health and Rehabilitation Sciences courses offered Curriculum design consultation; obtaining at the University of Cape Town since 2003. feedback from healthcare staff.

The pilot project was a partnership between Length of relationship(s) the Northern Tygerberg substructure (one of Three years. four subdistricts in the Provincial Government of the Western Cape Department of Health) Dominant mode of engagement with the Family Medicine division (UCT School Teaching of Public Health) and Afrikaans and African Languages sections (UCT School of Languages). Nature of the outputs The EU-UCT service staff project was offered Research paper is under review at the between September 2013 and March 2015 at BMC Health Services Journal. the Delft and Kraaifontein Community Health facilities. The EU-UCT pilot project reached its Assessment of impact of the initiative conclusion in 2015. The healthcare staff who have Participating staff have already been surveyed, graduated in 2015 have already been equipped while the impact of language use on patient with Basic and Intermediate communicative and healthcare staff relationship, at relevant isiXhosa and Afrikaans respectively, relative to healthcare centres, will be measured with their communication with patients in specific the assistance of the Northern Tygerberg roles and career-needs within the community substructure (Metro District Health Services). health centres (CHCs). The Northern Tygerberg Substructure has indicated a commitment to the Additional ES staff in the healthcare facilities for the continuation Clinical Languages for Paediatrics (EU-UCT of the courses. The new Career-orientated project to fifth-year MBChB students).

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Voluntary Mathematics Tutoring to 100UP high-school students on WhatsApp

Anita Campbell, lecturer, Academic Development Programme: EBE (A.S.P.E.C.T.), CHED

Purpose and description Length of relationship Grade 11 students on the UCT 100UP programme The first phase is offering tutoring to students receive mathematics homework help from in grade 11 in 2016. The project will run as a voluntary tutors by sending messages and research project until 2019, expanding to include photos of work on WhatsApp. The tutors are grade 11 and 12 students in 2017-2019. engineering students at UCT. Tutoring sharpens the high school mathematics of both tutors and Dominant form of the tutored. Tutors gain voluntary hours for their CVs, engaged scholarship while the high-school students have someone Teaching. they can ask for help with homework when the people around them cannot give them help. Dominant mode of engagement The tutors also share study tips with students. WhatsApp chats.

Key words Nature of the outputs Tutoring, mathematics, social media. ··Tutors and the tutored gain confidence and mathematics skills needed Nature of external constituencies for success at university. involved in the initiative ··Research Assistants collaborate on a conference The 100UP programme takes the top five presentation at ICED/Heltasa 2016. The academic-achieving students from 20 schools conference paper will be submitted for in Khayelitsha . Tutors are engineering publication in a Journal such as the International students who have experienced failure in Journal for Educational Development. mathematics at university although they were ··My PhD thesis uses data from this initiative. very high academic achievers at school. ··Once analysed for my PhD, transcripts of Two students who were part of the first cohort of WhatsApp chats will be stripped of identifiers 100UP students and are currently in their third year and made available in an open-source repository. at UCT are employed as research assistants, as this project forms part of a research programme. Assessment of impact of the initiative Nature of relationship with external constituency Qualitative feedback from tutors and tutees I presented sessions on mathematics problem- through questionnaires and interviews. solving for Grade 10 students during 100UP camp in 2015 and obtained feedback from these students Additional ES activities on what the best platform for online tutoring would In my capacity as committee member be. WhatsApp was by far the favourite choice. (communication officer) for the Association of The idea of online tutoring came from a Mathematics Educations for Southern Africa, I successful programme run on MXiT and have helped arrange annual local conferences started by the Meraka Institute of the CSIR. and a national conference in 2013.

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South African People’s Health University (SAPHU), People’s Health Movement – South Africa (PHM-SA)

Contributor: Melanie Alperstein, CHED’s Education Development Unit, Department of Health Sciences Education

Background Nature of external Having been engaged in the SAPHUs of 2013 and constituencies involved 2014, I was asked to co-ordinate the development PHM-SA is a civil society network of of the SAPHU 3 programme this year, together individuals and organisations working towards with a team from PHM-SA steering committee. health for all. It is part of Global PHM. This was based on my education expertise and involvement with Community-based Health Nature and length of relationship Workers (CBHWs) over the last three decades. Being part of the steering committee means that the nature of the relationship is joint Purpose and brief description conceptualising, implementation and ongoing of the initiative monitoring and evaluation with all involved. The SAPHU is one of the main capacity-building activities that PHM-SA undertakes. The first two I have been a part of PHM-SA since its SAPHUs consisted of a five-day capacity building inception in 2003, as a founder member. programme designed for about 45 people working in community-based health work. SAPHUs are Dominant form of engaged aimed at training a new generation of health scholarship and dominant activists. SAPHU 2 and 3 focused on CHWs mode of engagement developing an understanding of the primary The form of engaged scholarship is teaching, and health care approach, the proposed NHI for South the mode of engagement is applied research and Africa and the activist role of CHWs. SAPHU 3 advocacy to influence policy, public dialogue, also focused on capacitating CHWs to work as media interviews and popular publications. agents of change and community mobilisers and advocates for health in their communities. Assessment of impact of the initiative SAPHU 2016 aimed to strengthen the knowledge Together with mentors who will support and skills of CBHWs in policy and political participants for approximately six months after analysis, in advocacy, mediation and activism. SAPHU, a monitoring and evaluation process is The programme does not duplicate present being put in place to assess the impact of the education and training of CBHWs, but focuses on programme. Mentors and selected CHWs will be aspects usually neglected in other programmes. brought back to Cape Town to share what they have achieved in a two-day follow-up workshop Based on an extensive evaluation after SAPHU in late November/early December 2016). Since 2, radical changes were introduced to the returning, the participants have reported back curriculum. SAPHU 3 started with three provinces to their organisations, and with the help of their (Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Western Cape) mentors, are planning implementation of their with eight participants from each project (2 projects. Thus far there is a positive feeling about CHWs from four different projects in each implementation of projects that could start a province) to develop a department and growing movement for HFA, but a fair amount sustainability. PHM-SA hopes to run SAPHU in of follow-up and support will be needed. a similar way for the other six provinces over the next two years, funding permitting. Additional ES activities ··Other PHM-SA activities – Designing and Key themes/words facilitating workshops for Health Committees in Capacity building, community the Cape Town Metro regarding the National mobilisation, agents of change. Health Insurance (NHI) White Paper, and assisting

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with collating their responses to the White together health professionals from Madwaleni Paper. Workshops for Women on Farms Project and Zithulele Hospital and clinics in the area, on the NHI and social determinants of health. Community Health Workers, indigenous ··Board member of Mamelani Trust since 2010. health practitioners, traditional leaders, ward ··Assisted with organising a conference at the councillors and academics from UCT and US to Donald Wood Foundation in Madwaleni, share knowledge and discuss ways of tackling Eastern Cape, on Indigenous Health the social determinants of health to improve Knowledge, 1 & 2 July 2016. This brought the health of the community together.

UCT Global Citizenship Programme

Contributor: Dr Janice McMillan, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT), CHED

Purpose of the ES initiative Nature of external constituencies The UCT global citizenship programme (GCP) involved in the initiative is a series of short courses aimed at extending Development Action Group (DAG), a leading and enriching the learning experiences NGO in the urban sector, was established for students across all faculties. See www. in 1986. We work closely with citizens, civil globalcitizen.uct.ac.za for further information. society organisations and government to address emerging urban challenges, and While the GCP is focused on enriching the we are highly committed to a partnership learning of UCT students, it does this in the model of intervention that favours a pro- context of two important external partnerships: poor agenda. Through DAG, we are with the Development Action Group (DAG), working with a number of DAG’s partners, an NGO working in the urban sector in Cape which include both CBOs and NGOs. Town, and with the Global Education Network Most of the CBOs are located in informal (GLEN), a coalition of European NGOs working settlements in the greater Cape Town area. in the area of youth leadership and learning. Nature of relationships with Brief description of the initiative external constituencies PARTNERSHIP WITH DAG (WWW.DAG.ORG.ZA) In planning and designing the SI course, we Based on the successes of the short courses, work directly with DAG and their partners. the GCP also runs a credit-bearing course in the Students are invited to meet with community EBE faculty: Social Infrastructures: engaging with activists and partners through the course as community for change (SI). SI is open to all UCT a way of contextualising their engineering students, even though located in EBE, and it knowledge. During these meetings in situ focuses on exposing students to the daily lived off campus, community partners serve as realities of communities outside of campus, many educators for the students. In turn, community of which are under-resourced. The course asks partners attend class on campus to work students to think about issues of development and with our students. Finally, DAG is also part of community engagement as part of their developing the teaching of the course. These activities professional expertise. The partnership with DAG are examples of horizontal learning spaces. is ongoing and provides a space to examine some The DAG partnership thus locates our of the challenges of community engagement work locally, and provides an important work more intentionally and thoughtfully. context for our teaching and learning.

Key thematic issues addressed Length of relationship Horizontal learning; partnership development. We have been working with DAG since early 2015.

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Dominant form of the partnership, and are looking at more formalised engaged scholarship ways of assessing impact going forward. As At present, the partnership is focused mainly DAG has had a change of leadership very on teaching and learning, both on and off recently, we are beginning to have these campus. In the off-campus classes, community conversations with the new leadership. members are the educators for our students. Additional ES activities Dominant mode of engagement Partnership with GLEN (http://glen-europe.org/) Curriculum development. ··exploring an online learning exchange by students as GCP and GLEN tutors of Nature of the outputs their experience across the GCP and the Curriculum development and horizontal, GLEN multiplier training programme; community-engaged learning. ··a successful submission to the EU for Erasmus+ funding has resulted in a research and Assessment of impact of the initiative development project – the global learning To date, assessment has taken the form of platform (GELP) – aimed at understanding the students’ course evaluations on the one nature of global education across a range of hand, and reflections with DAG on the other. global contexts, in order to develop materials Both partners have been positive about the to work with students on global education.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

Contributor: Janet Small, Course Development Manager, Centre for Innovation in Learning & Teaching (CILT), CHED

CILT Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) Implementation Team working with the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Graduate School of Business and RLabs; and with the Disability Studies Programme in the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.

Purpose of the ES initiative through equipping and connecting teachers The UCT MOOCs Project involves developing with resources, examples and case studies. online courses available to anyone. One of the Being free to access and available globally objectives is to make UCT’s knowledge resources made the MOOC mode of delivery attractive globally accessible. These courses provide access to the Disability Studies Programme, to high-quality learning, and are also accessible who want to promote the potential of to people not able to attend university. In 2016, inclusive practices not only for disabled UCT produced two new MOOCs which had children but also the whole community (as specific purposes around social engagement. a means of promoting social cohesion).

Brief description of the initiative The CILT MOOC team worked with The Bertha The two most recent UCT MOOCs – ‘Education Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship for all: disability, diversity and inclusion’ (from the and partnered with the Cape Town-based NGO Disability Studies Programme) and ‘Becoming a RLabs to create the ‘Introduction to Social changemaker: introduction to Social Innovation’ Innovation’ MOOC as a free online course to (from the Bertha Centre, GSB) – produced in 2016 inspire and empower ordinary people to tackle had explicit social responsiveness agendas. complex problems and bring about change in their communities. In taking a co-creation ‘Education for all’ is aimed at promoting approach to the content and case studies for inclusive education in low-resourced schools the course, the MOOC design has involved

UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 233 Part Four: Faculty Reports those audiences in its conceptualisation and and the departments. Once developed, development who would find the course useful. the courses are offered to the public on an ongoing basis at least until 2018. Both courses are free to access, with the ··‘Education for all’ – twice per year on materials licensed for legal re-use through the FutureLearn, a global MOOC platform. application of Creative Commons licences. ··‘Becoming a changemaker’ – starting every 4 Optional certificates are available at reduced weeks on Coursera, a global MOOC platform. prices for any students who wish to have a more formal record of their participation and Dominant form of the achievement, while in the case of the Social engaged scholarship Innovation course, financial aid is available for Teaching – for us, the engagement is about students who cannot pay the certificate fee. working with different constituencies to develop an approach to learning materials and course Key thematic issues addressed design for these public-facing courses. These ··‘Education for all’: Disability, social inclusion, two particular MOOCs have a direct concern barriers to learning, human rights; to provide under-resourced and underserved ··‘Becoming a changemaker’: Innovation, communities with access to educational material design thinking, appreciative that can help to address social problems. In the enquiry, complex problems. case of ‘Education for all’, it is the exclusion of children with disabilities from formal schooling; Nature of external constituencies and in the case of ‘Social Innovation’ it is to involved in the initiative provide hope to communities facing seemingly The Disability Studies Programme worked with intractable social problems (such as poverty, youth local and international NGOs (Inclusive Education unemployment and environmental degradation). SA and Atlas Alliance) and included guest The course development teams (comprising presenters from schools, the Department of Basic UCT academics and CILT online learning Education, and people living with disabilities. designers) work with external constituencies to blend the academic knowledge with local and The Bertha Centre partnered with RLabs to contextual resources to create appropriate and co-create and co-host the MOOC ‘Becoming freely shareable online learning materials. a changemaker’. This was a fully participatory learning design and content creation exercise Dominant mode of engagement with nominated members of the RLabs Applied research and public dialogue – The organisation and the Bertha Centre academics. topics presented in the two MOOCs represent both the application of research in the Nature of relationships with departments, and a real interest to share this external constituencies with a wide public audience in South Africa ··‘Education for all’ – some collaborative and beyond. The MOOC format lends itself course design in creating the MOOC with to this form of public engagement to reach the NGOs. The course is now offered for free a large audience and support learning. on FutureLearn, a global MOOC platform. ··‘Becoming a changemaker’ has been Nature of the outputs conceptualised, designed and run on ··‘Social Innovation’ – six-week free online course a full partnership model with the RLabs www.coursera.org/teach/social-innovation NGO. The course is co-hosted by RLabs’ ··‘Inclusive Education’ – six-week free online course Marlon Parker, with Francois Bonnici and www.futurelearn.com/courses/education-for-all/ Warren Nilsson from the GSB. The course launched on Coursera in July and has Assessment of impact of the initiative already attracted over 2 000 registrations. ‘Education for all’ was first offered in May 2016. Over 9 000 people signed up from around the world, with Length of relationships 20% from African countries. 80% of those joining The two MOOCs were produced over a year were actively involved in schooling as educators, of planning and development between CILT teachers or school administration, with the remainder

234 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN SOCIAL RESPONSIVENESS REPORT 2015-2016 Part Four: Faculty Reports comprising family members or health professionals, ‘Becoming a changemaker’ is still in its so the course is reaching the envisaged target first course run, and so we do not have audience. In some follow-up interviews with many monitoring results yet – although learners, we came across people with disabilities the early enrolments show high interest taking the course, and people with limited access from South Africa, with RLabs NGO making to professional development opportunities. The active use of the course in their youth South African Department of Basic Education education projects. We will be following Director General has written to endorse the course the local use of the course through and recommend it for South African teachers. interviews later in 2016 and in 2017.

Poetry for Life

Contributed by Dr Finuala Dowling, Centre for Extra-Mural Studies (EMS), CHED

Purpose of the ES initiative Additional ES activities Teaching South African learners the benefits of Since 2014, organising PEN South Africa’s learning and reciting poetry ‘off by heart’, through annual event to mark the International Day of an annually organised national competition. the Imprisoned Writer; since 2015, judging a poetry competition for elderly people, run by Brief description of the initiative the St James Retirement Home but open to all I work with a South African organisation, people over 70; annually giving public talks and Poetry for Life, and its affiliate, Cambridge workshops on request (eg a workshop in March University’s ZAPP (South African Poetry 2016 to 100 learners from schools in the Knysna Project), both of which encourage learners to area; a poetry reading in May 2016 to the South love, read and recite both South African and African Council of English Educators); annually international poetry for public performance. appearing on literary panels as chair or participant (Kingsmead Book Fair and Franschhoek Literary Key thematic issues addressed Festival, both in May 2016). Annually since 2011: Learner achievement; love of literature member of the Ingrid Jonker Prize Committee.

Nature of external constituencies involved in the initiative Grade 10-12 learners; schools

Nature of relationship(s) with external constituency Trustee, advisor, judge.

Length of relationship Since 2014

Dominant form of the engaged scholarship Service.

Dominant mode of engagement Evaluation.

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Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

Contributor: Dr David Worth, Finance Manager, CHED

Background and description Principal external constituencies This initiative is associated with the creation ··The Victoria and Alfred Waterfront of South Africa’s first Museum of Modern Co. (Property Development); Art. The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary ··Heatherwick Studios (Architects); Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), constructed in ··Heritage Western Cape and The City of the disused 1924 Harbour grain Cape Town (Statutory heritage authorities); elevator, is due to open in September 2017. ··Media and documentary film-maker.

The grain elevator and associated storage Nature of relationship with silos, no longer fit for their original purposes of external constituencies handling and storing grain, were closed in 2000. Advising on heritage issues relating to the conservation of the Table Bay Harbour grain Proposals and recommendations in my PhD ‘Gas elevator, and its reuse as the Zeitz Museum of and Grain: the conservation of networked industrial Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA). landscapes’ (UCT 2004), were instrumental in preventing the total loss by demolition of the Period of engagement elevator, and in pressing for its reuse. While with this project the statutory heritage bodies, being Heritage Since 1995 Western Cape and the City of Cape Town, supported arguments for conservation and Dominant form of the reuse of the site, at that time there were no engaged scholarship economically viable proposals for redevelopment. Research and service.

After a decade in which the elevator became Nature of the outputs increasingly derelict, the Waterfront began ··The most significant ‘output’ is the retention, to explore new proposals for reuse. The conservation and reuse of one of Cape outcome is a scheme in which an international Town’s landmark industrial buildings. contemporary art museum has been designed ··Conference proceedings. by UK architect Thomas Heatherwick. ··A book is planned.

Throughout the twenty-year period since I first Assessment of impact of the initiative started researching the site, I have been involved The museum is due to open in September 2017. in ongoing dialogue with the V&A Waterfront, sometimes as lobbyist, sometimes as consultant, sometimes as independent researcher. This has included sitting in on Design Review Committee meetings, architects’ ‘charettes’, meeting with documentary film crews and journalists, visiting the architect in London, completing a detailed inventory of the site, arguing for a fine-grained attention to heritage issues, and speaking at international conferences (most recently in France and Argentina).

Key thematic issues industrial heritage; industrial archaeology; adaptive reuse of industrial buildings.

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Careers Service – Beyond School Programme

Contributor: Mr Athi Matinise.

Purpose of the ES initiative Assessment of impact of the initiative The Beyond School Programme is part of To measure the impact of the Career the Careers Service in CHED. Its main focus Management Skills programme in participants’ is to work with young people in schools confidence levels, participants were asked and communities to help them make better to complete a pre-questionnaire before informed study and career choices. the programme commenced, and a post- questionnaire at the end of the programme. Brief description of the initiative A five-week career-development skills programme Additional ES activities for unemployed youth and adults in Khayelitsha UCT Beyond School Programme; career- township. The main focus of the programme was development workshops to various school to help participants to identify and take advantage groups, NPOs and bursary programmes. of career-development opportunities available to them, and to further assist them to take the next step in their career-development journey.

Key thematic issues addressed through the initiative The key themes of the programme were: Study and career choices.

Nature of external constituencies involved in the initiative Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU) is a non-profit organisation that works closely with groups of unemployed young people, adults and youth at risk in various townships in the Western Cape.

Nature of relationship(s) with external constituencies VPUU requested the UCT Beyond School Programme to develop and implement a career- development skills programme for the unemployed young people in their programmes in Khayelitsha, and to further equip their volunteers in various communities with career-management skills.

Length of relationship(s) Ongoing with the VPUU, but five weeks to deliver the career-management programme.

Dominant mode of engagement Teaching, service, learning facilitation.

Nature of the outputs Delivery of programme and individual professional career consultations.

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