Grootbos Foundation - Impact Reports

Creating an enduring developmental legacy from FIFA2010: the Football Foundation of South Africa (FFSA)

The success of the FFSA highlights gaps in megaevent legacy planning. International sport bodies should develop formal mechanisms for drawing their corporate stakeholders together with community-based groups to identify and deliver sustainable developmental programmes.

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A critical examination of the ‘green economy’ concept as a vehicle for inclusion: a qualitative case study of the Agulhas Plain, South Africa

Development interventions have historically struggled to promote equitable and inclusive outcomes for marginalised people. As new conceptualisations of development emerge as potential solutions to address global social, economic and environmental crises, these new forms of development must ensure that marginalised people are not left behind. Against this backdrop, the ‘green economy’ concept has gained prominence in the global development discourse over the past 15 years as a policymaking paradigm that can potentially combat environmental crises and promote inclusive development outcomes.

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Impact Report: Grootbos Foundation

Grootbos is exceptionally proud of the community and conservation work which has been carried out since 2003. The Grootbos Foundation has widened the impact of Grootbos, beyond the scope of being a tourism facility.

Coventry University is an independent and unbiased organisation, that we have contracted as an external moderator to measure the impact of the first fifteen years of impact of Grootbos Foundation.

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