TRAINING CALENDAR 2024

COURSE OVERVIEW

This course will provide students with the necessary tools and skills to gather and analyse socio-economic data and develop management responses for businesses functioning in complex company-community contexts.

The course will also provide an understanding of the nature of socio-economic impacts and risks for a range of place-based project contexts. The course also explores additional topics and issues relevant to the ongoing management of these impacts and risks, including human rights and institutional capacity requirements.

What you will walk away with:

• An understanding of the complexity of businesses and projects operating in local community contexts, and its bearing on social and economic impacts, and associated business risks.  
• The ability to evaluate and select appropriate socio-economic data gathering processes and tools.
• Skills to analyse where responsibility and mitigation is required for socio-economic impacts. 
• An understanding of social complexity, inter-connectedness, and root-cause analysis.
• Approaches to analysing the capacity and potential of institutions and communities associated with one’s operation.
• The ability to identify and assess community-level socio-economic impacts and risks to business.
• An understanding of human rights issues in the operational context and associated human rights due diligence processes.
• Skills to interpret data related to local socio-economic baseline conditions. 
• The ability to evaluate and select appropriate information management tools, and processes applicable to the daily operational needs of project sites and operations.

Minimum Requirements:

• National Senior Certificate, NQF 4 or equivalent 
• English proficiency

Who should apply:

Entry to mid-level social impact professionals