Medium to longer term applied research projects
Current Projects
The Territorial Review will be the GCRO’s largest project in the short- to medium-term. It involves an 18-month research and consultation process that will deliver a comprehensive report on the challenges and opportunities facing the city-region, in comparative perspective. It has been proposed to OECD that their published report can form the basis of a subsequent GCRO book project.
This is a 'study from below' (ethnography) of organisational culture, organisational dynamics, organisational structures, formal and informal procedures and rationales that impact on the functionality and/or dysfunctionality of state institutions, and therefore on their ability to deliver reasonable quality services. The project consists of a number of case studies.
GCRO and Strategy & Tactics, supported by The Atlantic Philanthropies, have jointly commissioned a national study of civil society responses to the xenophobic violence of 2008. We are working with partners from UKZN, UWC and UJ.
