Guidelines and Toolkits

The Community Trusts Self-Assessment Tool is designed to assist trusts in evaluating their organizational capacity, governance structures, and overall effectiveness in fulfilling their mandate. This self-assessment tool provides a structured framework for trusts, especially those established under the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP), to reflect critically on their internal operations, identify their strengths, and recognize opportunities for improvement.

This framework was developed from the Trust Matters Project to aid various members of the trust support ecosystem across four key elements influencing trust efficacy. Created through a series of consulting and co-design workshops with REIPPPP stakeholders, this approach forms the basis of the Trust self-assessment tool.

This report serves as guidance for stakeholder engagement in the transition context for practitioners in the energy sector. The guide highlighted stakeholders across labor, communities, businesses, and government as distinct groups of stakeholders to engage in the transition context.

Powerful Futures shares insights and experiences from local initiatives working to ensure the deployment of utility scale RE is just and equitable in the Global South.

We believe that through the collective efforts and learning described in these pages, practitioners can find some of the tools and inspiration needed to drive meaningful change on responsible land and water management, responsible supply chain management, effective community engagement and benefit sharing.

The content guide has been developed to advance community development within the renewable energy sector by building trauma-informed leadership capacity. It provides information that can be used by social practitioners and community leaders for enhancing their capacity to lead within highly stressful and traumatic contexts.

This toolkit is about community development for project developers in the green hydrogen sector. Its focus is to provide practical step-by-step advice for community development personnel or managers responsible for community development work in green hydrogen companies. Through fifteen tools, the toolkit provides detailed guidance on the various aspects and phases of community development work -all adapted for the specific situations the green hydrogen sector is likely to face in South Africa and beyond.

FAQ guide discussing the most common M&E questions associated with community investments in REIPPPP.

Method guide introducing a group coaching methodology working with case clinics.

This poster can be used to inform non-REIPPPP specialists about the programme and its opportunities for communities and local economies.

This guide focuses on human rights impacts arising during the project deployment phase, including those that can flow from environmental impacts such as loss of biodiversity during project land clearing.