Transition Assistance Practice Group /

Andrew Boraine

Prof. Andrew Boraine is an independent partnering and systems change practitioner with over five decades of experience working in South Africa’s political, local government, urban, economic, and sustainability transformations.

Andrew established and led three collaborative intermediary organisations: the South African Cities Network (SACN), the Cape Town Partnership (CTP), and the Western Cape Economic Development Partnership (EDP).

Andrew has hands-on experience with over 100 multi-stakeholder partnering processes, covering a wide range of issues and sectors, such as water, waste, energy, just transition, mobility and transport, inclusionary housing, food and nutrition, public safety and violence reduction, agriculture and rural development, local economic development, youth employment, homelessness, urban management and place-making, tourism, open data, wetlands conservation, and collective memory work.

Andrew advises a diverse spectrum of local and international partners in government, civil society, community organisations, business, and research and knowledge institutions on how to achieve collaborative impact. Andrew is an adjunct professor at the University of Cape Town’s African Centre for Cities (ACC) and a research fellow at Stellenbosch University’s Centre for Sustainability Transitions (CST).

Andrew was previously Deputy Director General (Local Government) in the Department of Constitutional Development in the mid-1990s. In this capacity, he assisted with the drafting of the local government chapter in the SA Constitution and initiated the first Local Government White Paper process in 1997. Andrew was City Manager of Cape Town from 1997 to 2001.