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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.
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
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
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
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
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),
Education
Access to Education Study
“First nationally representative study in SA to measure the barriers to access education for primary and secondary school children”.
Education Study Fact Sheets
Farm Evictions Study
“Cutting edge new methodology to measure the prevalence & impact of farm evictions in South Africa.”
Book: “Still searching for Security” by Social Surveys and Nkunzi Development Association
The NPO Study
“First nationally representative study to determine size & scope of the NPO sector in SA – part of the Johns Hopkins NPO Project”
Book: “Size & Scope of the Non-profit Sector in South Africa” by Mark Swilling & Bev Russell-Rice
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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
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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)
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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.
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Measuring African Civil Society
In 2010, Bev Russell described her methodological innovations in the measurement of civil society in Africa at the ISTR Conference in Istanbul. Her paper outlines the practical methodological and measurement considerations for undertaking a bottom-up, evidence-based
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The Contribution of the South African Volunteering Sector to Sustainable Development
Bev Russell has been a member of the UN Volunteering Methodology Panel for over almost two decades. In 2002, the UNDP commissioned a paper on the Contribution of the South African Volunteering Sector To Sustainable Development.
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Measuring the Contribution of Volunteering to the Sustainable Development Goals
As part of the global working group on measuring the contribution of volunteering to the Sustainable Development Goals, Bev Russell, Social Surveys Africa CEO, presented on the measurement of volunteering in the Global South at the
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