JUST SA, through TIPS, supports the Presidential Climate Commission in creating a targeted diversification strategy specifically for the Komati region. To ensure inclusive and practical outcomes, the initiative organises multi-stakeholder social dialogue sessions that bring together business, labour, civil society and government representatives to discuss opportunities and challenges, with a focus on incorporating gender perspectives.

The project assesses South Africa’s and Mpumalanga’s industrial policy landscape to identify opportunities for green industrial development, with a focus on advancing gender-responsiveness. It supports strategic planning for collaboration between government and the private sector to drive economic diversification through green industrial policies. Additionally, it develops frameworks to create an enabling environment for green investments and leads the implementation of targeted investment promotion initiatives.

The MSME Facility implemented by GIZ in collaboration with the JET PMU provides targeted capacity development and business support to MSMEs in Mpumalanga that previously applied for support on the JET PMU's matchmaking funding platform. The platform helps projects become investment-ready by connecting businesses with local and international grant funding opportunities. While the platform facilitates engagement between businesses and investors, the MSME Facility specifically supports enterprises in increasing their bankability when applying for funds through the matchmaking platform. It offers a structured business development program to a group of pre-selected MSMEs to help them grow, improve their ability to raise and effectively absorb further financing for expansion, with a strong focus on market entry. Additionally, the facility aims to strengthen the small business development environment in Mpumalanga through peer-to-peer learning and the sharing of lessons learned.

The Business & Coaching Loop (MSME Loop) is a structured training and coaching program designed to strengthen entrepreneurial competencies among approximately 200 selected MSMEs focused on the Just Transition. Developed and successfully piloted by GIZ in over 16 countries, the MSME Loop provides systematic capacity development through targeted training and ongoing coaching support. This approach builds an entrepreneurial mindset, improves business skills, and enhances management capacity, resulting in increased income and employment for participants. The training addresses three learning levels, mindset, skills, and knowledge, while coaching helps participants apply new skills in their businesses, take ownership of their growth, and connect with business partners and relevant service providers

The JET-SET Mpumalanga is an initiative supporting a just energy transition in coal-dependent communities across Mpumalanga. The project combines community awareness and engagement with targeted support for green and inclusive small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), focusing on communities around the power stations to be decommissioned in the near future. By strengthening MSMEs through technical guidance, financial assistance and market development, and by raising awareness among local stakeholders and communities, the project aims to create employment, build skills and diversify local economies, with particular attention to women, youth, persons with disabilities and other groups vulnerable to transition impacts.

The Komati Just Energy Transition Community Engagements and Innovations Co-Creation (K-JET CEICC) Project is a community-focused initiative in the Komati area of Mpumalanga, funded by the Innovation Regions for a Just Energy Transition (IKI JET) project. It aims to increase understanding among local communities about climate change and the just energy transition, facilitating co-creation of locally tailored, low-carbon, climate-resilient and socially inclusive interventions through social ownership models.

In response to concerns about exclusion and lack of ownership the K-JET CEICC Project, implemented by Indalo Inclusive through the JUST SA programme, fostered local innovation through inclusive design, business incubation and support for community-led solutions. A pitching event provided a platform for community teams, which were established as part of the community engagement and business incubation processes, to showcase their green, socially inclusive innovations to funders, government and ecosystem stakeholders. Serving as the culmination of the co-creation and incubation process, the event offered a tangible example of procedural justice in action – linking local innovation with financing opportunities to help turn ideas into scalable solutions. The project yielded two community-led innovations receiving R100 000 in grant funding FROM GIZ, with a further two receiving R50 000 grant funding from the ACF.

JUST SA successfully partnered with the DFFE, DARDLEA, GIZ Climate Support Programme and Indalo Inclusive as the implementing partner on the Indalo Just Transition Enterprise Programme, to train and support SMMEs in Mpumalanga, enhancing entrepreneurial skills and providing grants that enable green business growth. This collaboration has empowered local enterprises to drive sustainable development and contribute to South Africa’s just, inclusive and low-carbon transition. Sixteen SMMEs were trained by Indalo Inclusive on innovative thinking, principles of costing and understanding the entrepreneurial profile, to establish and develop successful business ventures and to upscale just energy transition entrepreneurial innovations in the water, energy, and agricultural nexus