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Monitoring and Evaluation: A necessary tool for Social Change

With COVID-19 revealing the divides between the haves and the have-nots and continuously skyrocketing social inequality, the role played by monitoring and evaluation cannot be downplayed. At its core, monitoring and evaluation provide us with answers in terms of how we are moving towards a society that is more just and equitable. We need to track the progress we are making with the National Development Plan and Sustainable Development Goals, and monitoring and evaluation is one of our most important scientific tools to do that objectivity.

December 7, 2023

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Part 1: The proliferation of intervention programmes and thinking for sustainable education intervention or En-core Issues

In response to the challenges for education in South Africa, a range of actors aim to drive change and provide interventions that can positively impact education in South Africa. Many interventions take an approach which goes against the discourses centred around the failure of learners and instead focuses on the

March 22, 2023

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Part 2: Building a response to education- Reflections on the approach to school-based education interventions or Kaleidoscopic Chameleon Eyes

Opportunity for reflection: A concerted effort from a range of actors sees interventions and studies in the field of school-based education. This is a continuous and dialogical reflection on the general models by which the topic is approached as well as some of the thinking that guides them. The continuous

March 22, 2023

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Part 3: Conceptualising the Pilot Programme in Education- Paying attention to the harmful possibilities in how we think about pilot programmes in School-based intervention or All Aboard.

Elsewhere we have discussed the internal split of aims. We discussed how the misalignment of aims is not something to be eliminated or papered over but that this was split reflected the fact that, and the ways in which, different stakeholder are positioned differently in relation to an intervention.

March 22, 2023

Youth & Employment

Migrant Domestic Workers in the SADC Region

The study Migrant Domestic Workers in the SADC Region – Making decent work and safe, orderly and regular migration a reality was commissioned by the International Labour Organization (ILO) under the Southern African Migration Management (SAMM) project and prepared by Tara Polzer Ngwato, Amy Tekié, Kimani Ndung’u under the overall

June 20, 2022

Gender & Sexuality

Understanding the impacts of microfinance on women’s empowerment in South Africa

Based on a study which Social Surveys Africa conducted in 2017-2018 with the IMAGE programme and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHMT), a new open access academic journal article summarises insights on the impacts of microfinance programmes on women’s empowerment and intimate partner violence. There are

February 5, 2021

Social Cohesion & Protest

Seminar series – collecting social data (during covid-19)

The COVID-19 crisis and worldwide lockdowns effectively shut down all traditional forms of data collection and forced researchers to become more creative and tech savvy in their quest for robust, representative and ethically sourced data. Social Surveys Africa is proud to have collaborated with The Gauteng City-Region Observatory

November 16, 2020

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Survey of South African Cannabis Users and Growers

With so many countries, both neighbouring South Africa and in the rest of the world legalising the sale and use of cannabis, there has been much anticipation that South Africa would follow suit on the 18 September 2020 when Judge Davis’s ruling would be promulgated into law. However, after meetings

September 2, 2020

COVID-19

Social Surveys Africa endorses the C-19 Civil Society Coalition Programme of Action in the time of Covid-19

A call for social solidarity in South Africa We, as civic organisations, trade unions, organisations of informal workers, faith-based organisations and community structures in South Africa, call on all people, every stakeholder and sector, to contain infection, reduce transmission and mitigate the social and political impacts of the COVID-19 virus.

April 8, 2020

COVID-19

UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Statement on Covid-19

Social Surveys supports the official Statement adopted by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights yesterday on the duties of States Parties to the Covenant (which of course includes SA) in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. Introduction 1. The COVID-19 pandemic is threatening to overwhelm public health

April 8, 2020

Inights and Articles

Monitoring and Evaluation: A necessary tool for Social Change

Part 1: The proliferation of intervention programmes and thinking for sustainable education intervention or En-core Issues

Part 2: Building a response to education- Reflections on the approach to school-based education interventions or Kaleidoscopic Chameleon Eyes

Part 3: Conceptualising the Pilot Programme in Education- Paying attention to the harmful possibilities in how we think about pilot programmes in School-based intervention or All Aboard.

Migrant Domestic Workers in the SADC Region

Understanding the impacts of microfinance on women’s empowerment in South Africa

Survey of South African Cannabis Users and Growers

Social Surveys Africa endorses the C-19 Civil Society Coalition Programme of Action in the time of Covid-19

UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Statement on Covid-19

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