The Sustainability Institute will be hosting the annual conference of the South African Grantmakers Association (which is also a Working Associate of the Institute) during the course of this coming week. 150 delegates have already signed up. The meeting will take place in the hall at the Institute. See below the Programme Details and note that Mark Swilling will be presenting the findings of his latest book entitled The Scope and Size of the Non-Profit Sector in South Africa.
SAGA AGM AND CONFERENCE 2002
PROGRAMME
‘Linking social investment to sustainable development – lessons from developing world contexts’
Thursday 26 September
10h00 Registration/Tea
11h00 Welcome SAGA Chair and Director
11h10 Keynote address Ms Rory Tolentino
Executive Director
Asia Pacific
Philanthropy Consortium.
Philippines
11h40 State of Giving Research
SAGA & Centre for Civil Society
11h40 Relevance of this research Mr Delani Mthembu
for sustainable development CEO
& poverty alleviation programmes National Development
Agency
12h00 Focus and expected outcomes Professor Adam Habib
of the study Director
Centre for Civil Society
University of Natal
12h10 Questions/Discussion
12h20 HIV/AIDS in the region:
Challenges for donors
12h20 Communication by Soul City Ms Harriet Perlman
on HIV/AIDS in the region Regional Programme
Director
Soul City
12h40 HIV/Aids in Southern Africa – Synergos Institute
Study
what are donors doing? (Speaker to be announced)
13h00 Questions/Discussion
Chair: Ms Gail Campbell
General Manager: Corporate Social Investment
ABSA SAGA Chair
13h10 LUNCH
During lunchtime there will be a demonstration of the Praxis
Project Tracking System
(This presentation will be repeated at 16h00 while the SAGA Annual
General Meeting is in process)
14h00 Plenary panel discussion
Policy implications of the findings of the South African non-
profit study on relationships between donors and development
NGO’s
14h00 Professor Mark Swilling
Director
Sustainability Institute
14h20 Mr Eugene Saldanha
Director, Non-Profit Partnership
Executive Director, CAF Southern Africa
14h40 Dr Meshack Khosa
General Manager
MTN Foundation
15h00 Questions/Discussion
Chair: Mr Cas Coovadia
Transformation Manager
Banking Council
SAGA Board member
15h30 TEA
16h00 SAGA annual general meeting
Repeat demonstration of the Praxis Project
Tracking System
17H00 Tour of Sustainability Institute’s development projects
19h00 DINNER – The Village Hotel, Spier Estate (Dress: Smart/Traditional)
Welcome: Ms Joy Mills-Hackmann
Development Manager
South African Sugar Association
SAGA vice-chair
Entertainment
Friday 27 September
09h00 New research on corporate social investment in South Africa
Dr David Fig
Sociology of Work Programme
University of the Witwatersrand
09h30 Questions/Discussion
09h40 Perspectives on Global Corporate Responsibility
Emerging findings from two developing world action research
Projects (including Bangladesh, Brazil, Ghana, India, Lebanon,
Nigeria, Phillippines, Sri Lanka and South Africa)
Dr David Murphy
Director
New Academy of Business
United Kingdom
10h10 Questions/Discussion
10h20 The Ethos Institute’s approach to sustainable development
Ms Nelmara Arbex
Manager
Knowledge Management and International Relations
Ethos Institute
Brazil
10h50 Questions/Discussion
Chair: Dr Ivan May
Assistant General Manager
Nedcor Ltd
11h00 TEA
11h15 PANEL/PARALLEL WORKING SESSIONS
Panel One
Corporate investment and business leadership for a sustainable
future
Dr David Murphy
Director
New Academy of Business
United Kingdom
Mr Kumi Naidoo
CEO
CIVICUS
Chair: Ms Amelia Jones
CEO Community Chest
SAGA board member
Panel Two
Development partnerships
Lessons from developing world contexts
Ms Rory Tolentino
Executive Director
Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium.
Philippines
Ms Nelmara Arbex
Manager
Knowledge Management and International Relations
Ethos Institute
Brazil
Ms Katharine Miszewski
CEO
Old Mutual Foundation
Chair: Ms Zohra Dawood
Executive Director
Open Society Foundation
Panel Three
Community resource mobilisation strategies
Ms Katharine Pearson
East Africa regional director
Ford Foundation
Ms Monica Mutuku
Director
Kenya Community Development Foundation
Ms Vuyo Mahlati
Programme Director: Integrated rural development
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Chair: Ms Nomhle Nkumbi’Ndopu
CEO
Social Change Assistance Trust
13h00 LUNCH
13h45 Plenary closing session
13h45 Panel chairs report back
14h30 Questions/Discussion
Chair: Ms Gail Campbell
General Manager: Corporate Social Investment
ABSA SAGA Chair
14h45 Conference closure – SAGA Chair and Director
15h00 TEA