Nedlac & Mistra Webinars
Nedlac and Mistra will host two webinars, on July 19, 2022 and August 02, 2022, looking at lessons and legacy of the Covid-19 pandemic for social contracting and social partnerships.
Since March 2020, organised business, labour, community, and government have worked together, lobbied, negotiated, and exercised oversight over the management of the Covid-19 pandemic to address the devastating impact on lives and livelihoods. There is now a recognition that while there may be further pandemic phases, the Covid-19 is endemic and the response to Covid-19 needs to be integrated into a new normal, with general public health measures and occupational health and safety in place.
There are significant lessons for stakeholders. To consider the lessons and legacy of the last two years, Nedlac is partnering with Mistra to host two webinars as follows, to which you or representatives from your organisation are invited.
Very different relationships between social partners and actors in society were required to outsmart the Covid19. The two webinars focus on the South African experiences, successes, and failures in this regard.
The recommendations arising from the webinars will be compiled in a report for approval by the Nedlac structures and submitted to relevant government and social partner structures for further consideration.
WEBINAR 1: SOCIAL CONTRACTING DURING THE COVID19 PANDEMIC
At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, it could be argued that the social contract between the people and government was high, with strong adherence to lockdown restrictions. However, by the end of the pandemic, this was reversed with, for example, far fewer numbers of people agreeing to be vaccinated. This webinar will focus on what happened to the social contract looking at adherence to non-pharmaceutical measures, respect for lockdown regulations, and attitudes to vaccination.
Webinar details: Tuesday, 19 July, 8h30 to 10h30
WEBINAR 2: PARTNERING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
The crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdown, economic distress, and the 2021 July unrest saw significant levels of consensus and working together between the social partners. This webinar will focus on the different kinds of collaboration and partnership that developed, what lessons can be learnt and how can partnerships be sustained where relevant going forward.
Webinar details: Tuesday, 2 August 2022, 8:30 to 10:30
PRESENTATIONS
- Reflections on Covid-19 response social contracting – David Harrison, DG Murray Trust
- Social Contracting During The COVID19 Pandemic (Nedlac Webinar, 19 July 2022)– Yogan Pillay, Extraordinary Professor, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University
- Lessons from COVID & Lockdown, Presentation by SACTWU to Nedlac, July 2022– Simon Eppel, Director of the Research and Policy Unit & SACTWU
PRESENTATIONS, AUGUST 02, 2022
- B4SA Vaccine Rollout – Nedlac – Cas Coovadia, BUSA
- Case study WC Food Forum as collaborative response to Covid crisis- Andrew Boraine, Western Cape Economic Development Partnership
- NATJOINTS Nedlac Lessons Learnt – Setepane Mohale, NatJoints Workstreams Coordinator DMRE
- Nedlac Mistra Webinar Covid-19 lessons 02 08 2022 – Matthew Parks, COSATU
- Nedlac Mistra Webinar Partnering During COVID 20220801 – Wendy Tlou, Solidarity Fund
Profile of speakers, August 02, 2022
Setepane Mohale, NatJoints Workstreams Coordinator/ DMRE |
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Cas Coovadia, Business Unity South Africa |
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Mathew Parks, Cosatu Parliamentary Co-ordinator |
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Wendy Tlou, Solidarity Fund |
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Andrew Boraine, Western Cape Economic Development Partnership | Andrew Boraine has been involved in South Africa’s political, local government, urban, economic and sustainability change processes for the past four decades, as student leader, anti-apartheid activist, advisor, negotiator, government planner, city manager, chief executive, facilitator, partnership and partnering specialist, systems change practitioner, institutional designer, communicator and writer. He is the CEO of the Western Cape Economic Development Partnership (EDP), a collaborative intermediary organisation based in Cape Town. The EDP facilitates issue-based and area-based partnering solutions, as well as knowledge-sharing and learning, aimed at strengthening grassroots, local, metropolitan and regional systems and processes to achieve better development outcomes |