INSPIRE REIPPPP Booksprint

The REIPPPP Booksprint is a collaborative and creative documentation project that captured a decade of lived and worked experience in implementing social performance in South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP). This initiative sought to be a first-time comprehensive and collaborative effort to distil insights, challenges, and lessons learned by SP practitioners working at the frontlines of the country’s large-scale renewable energy deployment. 

In August 2025, a diverse group of practitioners gathered in Cape Town for a three-day reflective retreat designed to surface and articulate what has been learned about SP in the unique context of a government-driven procurement programme that aims to combine energy security and economic transformation policy objectives. The retreat blended traditional writing with art, journaling, poetry, embodiment, and dialogue, ensuring the final outputs reflected both the technical and emotional dimensions of the work. 

Following the retreat, this body of work was captured and encapsulated into a book.  

The book Titled Rewiring Development: Moving from Transactional Compliance to Transformational Impact in REIPPPP, is structured into four parts that guides the reader from foundational context of the programme through the specific pillars of the scorecard, and finally into the human and systematic dimension of the work. 

This book will be launched in mid-2026.