Good Governance & Service Delivery in Municipalities
Kagiso Trust and the KC Institute bring you a collaborative Zoom Webinar entitled: Good Governance and Service Delivery in Municipalities. The discussion will bring forth insights on the role played by local government leadership that result in municipalities either over or underperforming. We will reflect on how communities can build stronger coalitions and collectively hold municipal leaders to account.
Topic:
1. “The blurred lines in the roles of the executive mayor and the municipal manager in municipalities.”
2. “The importance of stakeholder collaboration to improve ideation and implement meaningful change.”
Official Hashtag: #GoodGovernanceItCanBe
Official Accounts: Facebook: Kagiso Trust
Twitter: @Kagiso_Trust; @KC_Institute
SPEAKERS
Kgotso Schoeman
Designation: CEO of Kagiso Capital
Kgotso Schoeman is currently the chief executive officer of Kagiso Capital, an Investment Company established by Kagiso Trust (KT). He has been involved with KT for over 20 years and CEO for 10 years. He successfully managed KT’s transition from being dependent on international grants from donors such as the EU, Japanese Government and Swedish Development Agency, to a Trust that is now self-financed through its Investment Company.
Paul Smith
Designation: Head of Local Governance, Kagiso Trust
Paul has consulted into the Local Government sphere government since 1997 and has headed up the Kagiso Trust Local Governance program since 2010. Paul’s role in Kagiso Trust is to both manage consultancy business and continually innovate new approaches to local government sustainability and strengthening local governance structures to enable stakeholders to be collaborative in finding effective solutions that impact their communities.
Beyond KT Paul is a qualified business leadership coach, P2 project management practitioner and a graduate from Gibs and Said – Oxford University executive leadership program.
Marlene Ogawa
Designation:Country Director, Synergos
Marlene Ogawa is a passionate facilitator who has worked within the private sector, and NGOs globally and the government of South Africa. Her expertise is in designing and implementing adult learning and sharing interventions addressing both micro and macro needs. She works across various leadership and collaboration initiatives which build on the principles of Theory U and relational leadership. She strategically designs and holds space using various methodologies including World Café and Open Space Technology. Marlene works in leadership, organisational and team transformation work with diverse public, private and civil society sectors as well as academia, using Appreciative Inquiry. Over the years Marlene has supported cross and multi-sectoral collaborations towards systemic change and institutional redress through journeying with, project management and facilitating collaborations and gatherings with diverse sectoral groups and communities. Her work at Synergos focuses on bridging leadership through individual and collective transformation, trust building processes, systems thinking.
