SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT Maisha Social Solutions Brokering partnerships, transforming communities and delivering sustainable solutions. PHOTO: Pixabay/Pexels Maisha Social Solutions is a sustainability consultancy, specialising in ESG (environment, social and governance), partnership brokering and tailored solutions for social change. We work with business, civil-society organisations and governments to design appropriate context-based solutions through training and facilitation, research and advisory services. Social development is at the heart of our work with a shared value agenda to ensure all partners meet their described objectives. “Our competitive advantage: Your benefit.” We work in a partnership model and specialise in partnership brokering on behalf of our clients as the best solution to delivering social benefit. Maisha operates on a dynamic team basis, drawing together consultants with skills suited to deliver our unique offering to our clients. We design the solutions that fit the specific context and needs of our clients and their stakeholders. Having worked as colleagues and partners we have worked closely to design the type of solutions we now wish to offer our clients. We are passionate about designing tailormade solutions to fit the needs of our clients and for the benefit of communities and society at large. Team and employment model Maisha Social Solutions has been recognised as a Top Gender Empowered Company. Maisha works on a unique model of employing and capacitating women as freelancers and small-business owners. Women have different needs at different stages of their lives, so someone may need part-time contract work because she is studying, or in retirement, while someone else may want to register their own business and work with Maisha in an association role. The flexibility that Maisha provides means we are a dynamic and ever-changing business, but with a core and loyal group of women. Maisha is proud to have played a role in empowering many employees who have been mentored while working at Maisha and who have gone on to become entrepreneurs. Our experience • Government sector: National, provincial and local municipal levels • Mining sector • Energy sector • Social sector: International donors, community-based organisations, national non-profit organisations, community trusts, traditional authorities, etc Cybil Mandeveldt, Social Performance Principal Nonkululeko Sikakane, Social Performance Principal Rifquah Hendricks, Maisha Social Solutions Associate 24 | www.opportunityonline.co.za
What we offer Strategy and programme management • Management of social investment project portfolios. • Design of socio-economic project pipelines. • Strategy development. • Social and Labour Plans (SLP): regulatory-compliant strategy and socio-economic projects. • Entitlement Matrix and Compensation Agreements done with full collaboration from the people affected by the project. • Monitoring and evaluation of displacements. Our clients Research and assessments • Socio-economic baseline studies. • Social Risk Assessments and management plans. • Social Impact Assessments and management plans. • Monitoring and evaluation. Partnership brokering and stakeholder strategies • Stakeholder-engagement strategies for partnerships and shared value. • Facilitation of spaces for diverse partners to design shared vision and strategy for joint projects. • Public participatory processes. Obtaining local support for private sector and government projects. Training and facilitation • Internal capacity-development programmes. • Internal policies and Standard Operating Procedures. Resettlement and livelihood restoration • Design of IFC-compliant RAP and LRP to minimise negative impact on lives and ensure people are better off. Contact details Address: 10 Da Gama Street, Douglasdale, Johannesburg 2191 Tel: +27 11 787 3708 | Mobile: +27 71 857 4147 | Email: geralda@maishasocialsolutions.co.za Website: www.maishasocialsolutions.co.za PHOTO: Ben White on Unsplash | Warren Rohner on Wikimedia Commons | Jennifer Coffin-Grey on Unsplash
