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Umsizi Sustainable Social Solutions

Agriculture

Johannesburg , South Africa

Umsizi is a company specializing in the design and implementation of socio-economic development programmes focused on rural communities. We have compiled over 300 Socio-Economic Development Programmes, including Social and Labour Plans, and have managed the implementation of most of these. In doing so, Umsizi has forged close working relationships with industry, government, communities and traditional authorities. Umsizi has a proven track record in successfully implementing Sustainable Development Programmes in rural communities in South Africa. Our key areas of operation are in the provinces of the Northwest, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Kwazulu-Natal, and Gauteng.

Umsizi’s Socio-Economic Development has a proven and successful track-record, specialist skills base and extensive experience in socio-economic development, and sustainable community development. Umsizi’s Socio-Economic Development solutions are implemented throughout Southern Africa and Africa with many successful examples. Umsizi is lauded as an expert in the fields of Socio-Economic Development, Rural and Community Development, Broad-Based Livelihood Development, Local Economic Development, Sustainable Economic Production, Skills Development and Enterprise Development. We have strong expertise in the design and execution of Social and Labour Plans, Socio-Economic Development, Rural and Community Development, Social Impact Assessments, Stakeholder Engagement, Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment and Sustainability Reporting.

The Umsizi team consists of leading experts in sustainable socio-economic and community development, such as community development facilitators, socio-economic scientists, stakeholder engagement specialists, design engineers, project managers, report writers, impact assessment practitioners, agricultural specialists, business development practitioners and sustainability experts. Everyone at Umsizi is incredibly proud of the work we do and we feel privileged to use our expertise in improving the quality of life and eradicating poverty in impoverished communities.

Umsizi is led by John-Mark Kilian as its Executive Director and is proudly a level 4 BBBEE compliant company. Our CSI is a non-profit organization called Impophomo which focuses on socio-economic development in impoverished urban communities. Umsizi invests a significant portion of its resources in running Imphomomo to meaningfully develop impoverished communities.

OUR EXPERTISE:

• Socio-Economic Development
• Social & Labour Plans
• Local Economic Development
• Rural and Community Development
• Broad-Based Livelihood Development
• Socio-Economic Impact Assessments
• Sustainable Livelihood and Enterprise Development
• Household Development
• Agricultural Development
• Livestock and Poulty Development
• Light Industries and Manufacturing Development
• Broad-Based Business Development
• Community and Stakeholder Engagement Processes
• Corporate Social Investment
• Sustainable Social Development Solutions
• Baseline Socio-Economic Studies and Surveys
• Resettlement Action Plans
• Social Closure and Sustainable Land-use Management
• Sustainability and Impact Reporting
• Legislative Compliance and Assessment
• Community and Stakeholder Mobilization
• Programme and Project Design and Implementation
• Socio-Economic Infrastructural Development

Umsizi’s proven impact is in empowering people, communities and socio-economic development programmes. Umsizi’s niche is to assist stakeholders and clients to meet their development, compliance and reporting requirements through effective social, economic and community development. We offer a highly professional practice based on providing expert advice.