Title | Date | Location | Price |
Fundamentals of Community Engagement and Social Impact Management | 8 – 9 September 2025 | Cape Town | R 19995 |
Introduction to Human Rights Due Diligence | 1 – 10 April 2025 | Online | R 25000 |
Fundamentals of Community Engagement and Stakeholder Relations | 2 – 12 June 2025 | Online | R 19995 |
Company-Community Conflict Management | 20 – 22 August 2025 | Johannesburg | R 25000 |
Professional Practice of Community Investment and Development | 6 – 10 October 2025 | Cape Town | R 37200 |
Course Delivery: In-person (Cape Town)
Duration: 16 hours (full-time, 2 days)
Dates: 8 – 9 September 2025
Course Fee: R19995
Application deadline: Monday, 11 August 2025
As a student, you will have a comprehensive understanding of the critical role that community engagement and social impact management play in ensuring the long-term sustainability of businesses.
Through the course, you will develop your knowledge and appreciation of key concepts and practical tools to effectively manage social performance, engage meaningfully with communities and key stakeholders, manage social impacts and risks, ensure socio-economic benefit delivery and implement monitoring and evaluation best practices in complex environments.
You will gain insights into international best practices through an environmental and social governance (ESG) lens. The course emphasises the importance of understanding the internal and external system’s impact and challenges of this practice area in organisations and within local operating contexts, as well as the well-being and professional development of social practitioners.
By the end of the course, you should have a solid grounding in key principles and practices, enabling them to appreciate the value of stakeholder engagement and effectively managing social impacts and risks. Overall, the course aims to empower you to contribute to sustainable and socially responsible business practices in their respective roles and industries.
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Course Delivery: Online
Duration: 24 hours (part-time, 2 weeks)
Dates: 1 – 10 April 2025
Course Fee: R25000
Application deadline: Friday, 21 March 2025
Application link: https://www.gsb.uct.ac.za/executive-education/human-diligence/
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the business and human rights framework and the critical role that ongoing human rights due diligence (HRDD) plays in companies being able to proactively manage impacts and demonstrate that they respect human rights.
Through this course, students will learn key concepts and acquire practical tools to effectively assess human rights risks, act based on the findings, track responses, and transparently communicate how impacts have been addressed. Additionally, students will gain insight into emerging international best practices around supply chain management and ensuring access to effective remedy for affected people.
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Course Delivery: Online
Duration: 16 hours (part-time, 2 weeks)
Dates: 2 – 12 June 2025
Course Fee: R19995
Application deadline: Tuesday, 29 April 2025
Application link: https://www.gsb.uct.ac.za/executive-education/community-stakeholder-relations
The context of businesses and society has evolved significantly. There is a growing recognition that businesses cannot operate in isolation from the communities and societies in which they operate. Understanding community stakeholder engagement within the broader ambit of social impact management in socially complex environments has become increasingly important for businesses globally. This course introduces students to the required knowledge, methods and tools for establishing and sustaining positive relationships with local communities and project stakeholders.
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Course Delivery: In-person (Johannesburg)
Duration: 24 hours (full-time, 3 days)
Dates: 20 – 22 August 2025
Course Fee: R25000
Application deadline: Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Application link: https://www.gsb.uct.ac.za/start-application/?c=7048355A-8853-4EF2-8734-C14442AB605A
The fundamental purpose of this course is to help build more conflict-sensitive individuals and organisations, in particular those that are working and operating in highly complex company-community contexts.
To meet this purpose, you are taken on an applied learning journey, using your real-life conflict experiences, deepening your understanding of the nature of conflict, its causes and drivers, and how best to prevent and manage conflict as part of the way your organisation makes decisions and manages their impacts and risks.
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Course Delivery: In-person (Cape Town)
Duration: 40 hours (full-time, 5 days)
Dates: 6 – 10 October 2025
Course Fee: R37200
Application deadline: Monday, 8 September 2025
Application link: https://www.gsb.uct.ac.za/executive-education/community-investment-development/
This course provides students with a solid grounding in the dynamics of private sector-led community social investments and economic development (CoSI and ED) within the natural resource sector.
By exploring fundamental concepts, paradigms, models and approaches you will gain the essential knowledge and skills for designing and implementing impactful CoSI and ED programmes. Utilising a mixed-methods approach of theory and hands-on learning, you will develop practical strategies to foster sustainable development and positive change in communities affected by natural resource projects.
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