Green Hydrogen Community Development Toolkit

This toolkit is about community development for project developers in the green hydrogen sector. Its focus is to provide practical step-by-step advice for community development personnel or managers responsible for community development work in green hydrogen companies.

Through fifteen tools, the toolkit provides detailed guidance on the various aspects and phases of community development work – all adapted for the specific situations the green hydrogen sector is likely to face in South Africa and beyond.

The toolkit aims to serve the following purposes:

• Provide accessible, inclusive and practicable guides to green hydrogen project developers on what to do, why, when and how to work on community development
• Draw on best practices in community development by various business sectors but especially mining and energy
• Adapt these best practices to the needs of the green hydrogen sector
• Guide community development workers in the green hydrogen sector in South Africa, but also be of use in other places