GCRO Five-Year Strategic Framework 2020–2025
The Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) has been operational since December 2008. In the five years since the last phase of strategic planning, there have been several significant developments in both the external context in which the GCRO is embedded and within the GCRO itself. Three extensions of the GCRO’s conditions – size, complexity and reach – have together required rethinking our internal organisation in several ways. Accordingly, the Board has approved the new Strategic Framework for the 2020–2025 period, which reflects the decisions made to manage these changing conditions.
This Strategic Framework covers the period from April 2020 to March 2025 and identifies nine goals to guide the GCRO on its journey to 2025. Broadly, the GCRO system is about the co-production and dissemination of knowledge to address the pressing needs of the Gauteng City-Region (GCR) – socio-economic, environmental, etc. And, in addition to the nine goals, this new framework details nine thematically focused programmes of research for the next five years, namely poverty, inequality and social mobility; quality of life; spatial transformation; inclusive economies; the governance agenda for the GCR; histories and futures of the GCR; sustainability and just transitions; social change; and data analytics, informatics and visualisation.
Date of publication:
November 2020
GCRO Self-Review Report 2019
This organisational self-review report was written in July 2019 in preparation for a five year review of the Gauteng City-region Observatory (GCRO) by an external panel whose work started in August 2019. It marks a particular moment of reflection, assessing the period 2014 to mid-2019. It has not been subsequently updated with more recent progress and developments.
Date of publication:
August 2019
GCRO 3-year Strategic Plan 2011-2014
This three year strategic plan covers the period from 2011/12 to 2013/14. Building on initial work such as the OECD Territorial Review of the GCR, the first Quality of Life Survey in 2009, the launch of an interactive GIS website, and significant government support such as on the Green Strategic Programme, this plan envisages substantial growth in the organisation over the three year period.
Date of publication:
April 2011
GCRO Strategic Plan 2010-2011
The Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) has been operational since December 2008, when an Executive Director was appointed; by May 2009, most of the current staff (research, technical and administrative) were in place, and a Research Director was appointed in July 2009. The Board approved a Strategic Plan for the final third of 2008/09 (December 2008 to March 2009) and a full Strategic Plan for the 2009/2010 year (April 2009 to March 2010).
This Strategic Plan covers the period April 2010 to March 2011. At that stage, GCRO will have completed the first three-year funding and operational cycle, and the next three-year cycle will be ushered in with a more detailed, longer-term Strategic Plan. At that stage, both the Board of the GCRO and the Research Advisory Committee (RAC) will make inputs regarding a research agenda for the Gauteng City-Region (GCR) generally, and more specifically for the GCRO.
Date of publication:
January 2011
GCRO Strategic Plan 2009-2010
The Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) has been operational since December 2008, when an Executive Director was appointed; by May 2009, most of the current staff (research, technical and administrative) were in place, and a Research Director was appointed in July 2009. The Board approved a Strategic Plan for the final third of 2008/09 (December 2008 to March 2009) and a full Strategic Plan for the 2009/2010 year (April 2009 to March 2010).
This Strategic Plan covers the period April 2010 to March 2011. At that stage, GCRO will have completed the first three-year funding and operational cycle, and the next three-year cycle will be ushered in with a more detailed, longer-term Strategic Plan. At that stage, both the Board of the GCRO and the Research Advisory Committee (RAC) will make inputs regarding a research agenda for the Gauteng City-Region (GCR) generally, and more specifically for the GCRO.
Date of publication:
January 2010
