Training profile, Tisha Greyling, South Africa

A photo journey

Greylingtisha@gmail.com

Yemen Papua New Guinea Nigeria

Experience highlights

➢ Co-developed IAP2 training materials

➢ Trained on all continents (except Antarctica!)

➢ Worked in 35+ countries in public participation, focused

on emerging economies

➢ Wrote 10 public participation manuals

➢ Piloted World Bank funded 3 day training course for

Southern African Institute for Impact Assessment

➢ Trained for several years public participation as

component of environmental Masters course at SA

universities

➢ Also trains in practical application of IFC Performance

Standards (social and environmental)

International Association for Public Participation (IAP2)

certificate training

This training, presented in South

Africa, included participants from

Kenya, Ghana, South Africa and

Malawi

IAP2 training for Community Liaison Officers (CLOs)

Two CLOs (at the back) practising a

communication technique

Working in a small group on a case study

Tisha Greyling relating public

participation theory to

practice for Newmont Ghana

Gold CLOs

Tisha Greyling demonstrating to CLOs

how a gold mine works

Training mining CLOs, oil

and gas and

environmental regulators

in Ghana

IAP2 training for Community Liaison Officers (CLOs)

CLO training

for Newmont

Ghana

IAP2 training in Lima, Peru

Simultaneous translation: English/Spanish/Portuguese

Expert

translator

Training CLOs in stakeholder engagement

Card storming by CLOs of Yemen LNG in Yemen to

define difficulties and challenges in their work situation

Training CLOs on project risks and how

to communicate them

Working in small groups to identify

solutions to challenges

Training in stakeholder engagement in Romania

Developing a list of key stakeholders

Role playing a stakeholder interviewContributing ideas to a group session

Training in stakeholder engagement in

Papua New Guinea

Community Affairs and

Stakeholder engagement

personnel on the ExxonMobil

PNG LNG Project, 2010

Training company personnel and CLOs in Public

Participation for Environmental Authorization

Training mine personnel and CLOs

in the DRC prior to stakeholder

meetings

Trained CLO registering a

stakeholder at a meeting in DRC

Trained CLO explaining a project to

stakeholders in Ghana Trained CLO explaining an EIA

process to communities in Ghana

Training company personnel and CLOs in Public

Participation for Environmental Authorization

CLO trained (women on right) helping

people record their issues in Ghana

Environmental officer trained (right)

explaining a project in DRC

Two mine CLOs (women on left)

trained interacting with stakeholders

in DRC

Practical training for CLOs in DRC

Setting up for a community meeting

CLO explaining the project to a local chief

Taking elders on a site visit (the hill

to be mined)

Trainers at hand at all initial meetings for

practical in-field training. Subsequently,

CLOs were able to conduct stakeholder

engagement themselves.

Training construction contractors in social management to

IFC Performance Standards

Social

management

training for

construction

contractors, Japan

for the ExxonMobil

PNG LNG Project

Social management training for

construction contractors, Australia for the

ExxonMobil PNG LNG Project

Training Chevron CLOs in Nigeria

Training in

stakeholder

engagement in

Lagos and Warri

Practical, hands-on mentoring and support

Supporting a CLO and

client during first round

of community meetings

in the DRC

Training public

participation in

Environmental

Authorisation with Tanya

Burdett in Durban, South

Africa, 2018, trainees

from 8 countries

Training IFC Performance

Standards in Africa, 2018,

trainees from 12 African

countries working in

Agri-Business

Other examples of training delivered

➢ IAP2 training

➢ London: Various banks, insurers and consultants

➢ Phoenix: Top management team of Phelps Dodge Mining

➢ Ottowa: First Nations Negotiators for Inuit benefit agreements in Northern

Canada

➢ South Africa: Attendees from virtually all large mining and industrial companies,

various NGOs, government departments

➢ Custom-designed training in stakeholder engagement

➢ Palabora Mining Company; Joburg City Parks; Free State University

Environmental Masters Course; KZN Dept of Environment;

➢ Custom-designed training in developing and monitoring an EMP

➢ Mining and industrial companies, various NGOs, government departments

➢ Training public participation in environmental authorisation

➢ Virtually all large mining and industrial companies in SA

➢ Namibia: environmental practitioners from 14 African countries (World Bank

funded)

➢ Mozambique: Sasol, Riversdale Mining, Mozambique Hydro (Norsk Hydro),

others

➢ Numerous times to government departments and at IAIA conferences