Corporate Social Investment Portfolio Assessments

Logitudinal impact tracking evaluation for a Saturday School programme (Sharp Minds) involving 400 rural learners in 4 provinces in South Africa. It focussed on Maths, Science and English for grade 10 to 12, including an ICT component.

Conducted an evaluation of the Fund for Social Development Projects implemented from 2005 – 08. Assisted the Embassy with the pre-screening of applications and evaluation of proposals in terms of OECD DAC criteria.

Site-audits of 30 income generating / social development projects in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal.

Analysed and reported on quantitative data from approximately 900 projects from 75 countries.

Gap analysis of current reporting practises against sustainability reporting requirements.

Development and implementation of a monitoring, evaluating and reporting system for corporate investment performance.

Development of a quantitative scoring model for data analysis to assess company sustainability performance for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Social Responsibility Index.

Review of social investment performance. This included aspects such as: Instrument design, Interview and focus groups, Quantitative and Qualitative analysis and reporting.

Review of social investment performance. Including Instrument design, Strategic review, Interviews with focus groops, Quantitative and Qualitative analysis and reporting.

Development of a toolkit for feasibility assessment, management as well as monitoring and evaluation of corporate social investment and local economic development initiatives.