Module 1 of this year's Waterberg Collaboration Leadership Training has just concluded successfully in Modimolle, Limpopo. The group of participants, leaders from Business, Civil Society, Municipal offices & Councillors, will attend four intense two-Day modules of interactive sessions, also to facilitate cross sector collaboration for development.

It was a proud moment this week when our partners from the South African Police Service, the ISS and the Western Cape Government shared their efforts to promote evidence-based policing at the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing Conference in Washington, DC.

The 2022 Western Cape Seasonal Schools for Councillors have started in George. Central Karoo and Garden Route District councillors discussed how public representatives can best fulfil their mandate through ethical leadership, which obstacles they face and how to overcome them.

The first 2022 group of municipal middle managers has successfully completed their on-the-job training as part of the Western Cape Department of Local Government / School of Public Leadership / Hanns Seidel Foundation Mentoring & Coaching Programme for Middle Managers.

We were honoured to welcome Bavarian State Minister Melanie Huml at our office in Cape Town during her visit in the Bavarian partner province Western Cape in South Africa.

We joined the German-African Conference of Parliamentarians with our long-standing partner, the Institute for Security Studies, and its Executive Director Fonteh Akum, for a week full of engagements, looking at how to improve the bilateral cooperation in the age of a new geopolitical rivalry.

Our first Newsletter for 2022 has just been published. Open it to read about productive work our great partners did recently in diverse projects, and find links to research reports, articles and videos. Don't miss it!