Skip to main content

Mpho Putu" s bio

  Mpho is regional development manager for FoodBank South Africa (FBSA) in the north region. His role is to help grow the organisation’s footprint and to manage stakeholder relationships, including relationships with FBSA’s agencies.


Mpho is the former director of Boundary Crossing, a non-profit organisation that promotes and supports citizen leadership.

Community development is Mpho’s passion. He worked for the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) for almost nine years, first as a training coordinator for Idasa’s Community Policing Unit, then as the manager of Idasa’s Community Participation Unit, and later as manager of the Citizen Leadership Unit. He has also worked as a training and development manager for The Aids Consortium, a non-profit human rights organisation committed to openness and non-discrimination of people living with HIV/Aids.

His community work includes serving as chairperson of the Labour Forum for the South African Police Service and as a board member of the SA Reflect Network. Mpho is the founder and former director of Emthonjeni Fountains of Life Aids Project.

Mpho’s work has taken him abroad, as an international fellow of the Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio; as a training and development advisor seconded to the European Union; and as an elections monitor in Zimbabwe and Lesotho. Mpho has also facilitated citizen leadership workshops in Angola, Zimbabwe and Swaziland and facilitated deliberative forums in the USA, Russia and Botswana.

A former high school teacher, Mpho’s also an avid learner. He has a diploma in education, a Bachelor of Arts (Education), a Bachelor of Education (Educational Management), a diploma in human resources management, a diploma in municipal governance and a Masters in public management and development.

Cell Number: 084 836 0966

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The role of Ward Committees in enhancing Public Paticipation in the Rustenburg Municipality: A critical evaluation

The role of Ward Committees in enhancing Public Participation in the      Rustenburg Municipality: A critical evaluation Mpho Putu, 2006 Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Magister in Development and Management in the Faculty of Arts at Northwest University I hereby declare that this dissertation is my own work and has not been submitted for degree purposes at any other university nor have I copied it from any other person’s academic work. ___________________ Mr. I M. PUTU Date:    April 2007 Dedication: This work is dedicated to my family especially my wife Buyisiwe who kept on encouraging me even in difficult times and my children Tshegofatso and Rorisang for their supportive work right through the time of   my study. Particular attention goes to Thabo Putu (twin brother), whom we spent many long hours studying together and finally his family who always showed their interest and willingness...
Post a Comment
Read more

Food Security: Establishment of Food Distribution Networks in South Africa - Mpho Putu

Food security is a condition related to the supply of food, and individuals’ access to it. The final report of the 1996 World Food Summit states that food security “exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”. The Four Pillars of Food Security 1.     Availability:  Food availability relates to the supply of food to production, distribution, and exchange. A variety of factors determine Food production such as land ownership and use; soil management; crop selection, breeding, and management; livestock breeding and management; and harvesting. Crop production is not required for a country to achieve food security. 2.     Access;  Food access refers to the affordability and allocation of food, as well as the preferences of individuals and households. Poverty can ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Food For All - Mpho Putu

Mpho Putu, 2012 July South Africa recently launched a new social protection initiative – the Food for All ”  inspired by Brazil’s “Zero Hunger strategy”. The Campaign intends to tackle some of South Africa’s most pressing social ills linked to hunger and malnutrition, especially affecting woman and children. Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forest – Calls it Zero hunger tolerance Hunger and malnutrition have become an increasingly worrying concern throughout South Africa. Also, high unemployment rates, the rippling effects of HIV/AIDS and gender inequality have aggravated the problem. Additionally, more and more South Africans, especially woman and children have become the central victims of this socially and economically debilitating issue. According to the Human Science Research Council of South Africa (HSRC), South Africa ranks among the countries with the highest rate of income inequality on the globe, in comparison to other middle income countries. Further, South Afric...
Post a Comment
Read more