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Fair Share is a unit of the School of Government, at the University of the Western Cape. Within the School of Government’s broad vision of fostering democratic and effective governance, Fair Share, works primarily within communities to assist civil society organisations to participate in municipal governance. The focus of our work is to strengthen the capacity of communities to participate effectively in municipal planning and budgeting processes.

Since it inception, Fair Share has developed and implemented various programmes designed to strengthen the participation of community organisations in municipal processes. Through its two main programmes, i.e. Higher Certificate in Economic Development, the Local Government Partnership Programme, Fair Share has undertaken many capacity building interventions for communities, community organisations, ward committees, municipal councillors, municipal officials and broad range of non-governmental organisations.

Fair Share is well known for its work on economic literacy, national and local budgets. In the past 10 years we have worked with communities in Limpopo, North West, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng, Free State and Eastern Cape provinces.

Vision

To contribute to effective, accountable and democratic governance responsive to the needs of marginalised people.

Mission

Fair Share, a unit of the School of Government, University of the Western Cape, strives to build the capacity of communities to participate effectively in democratic governance, by assisting in the training and development of leadership.

The photo of the Class of 2007 gives Fair Share another reason to celebrate: for the first time since the inception of the course we eventually got the gender equity right! Getting more women to attend the course has always been a challenge to Fair Share staff.