Our Exhibitors at the SAMEA Inaugural Conference

  Impact Consulting is a BEE social development consultancy working to improve the impact, efficiency and sustainability of South African nonprofit organisations and the programmes they implement.  Services we offer include:

• Outcomes-based monitoring and evaluation (M&E)
  • Needs assessments and feasibility studies
  • Baseline surveys and project monitoring
  • Implementation and impact assessments
  • Development of integrated M&E systems
• Advantage ©, our customized web-based management software system
• Resource development including documentaries, CSI reports and other multimedia resources
• Fundraising strategy and advancement systems training and development
• Social development research (including socio-economic surveys)
• Project formation and coordination
• Social marketing

For more information on Impact Consulting please visit www.impactconsulting.co.za

 FeedbackRA is an innovative research and analytics services provider, inspired by the challenges of sustainable development. By applying creativity, conscience, obsessive curiosity and uncompromising scientific rigor, we empower clients with the best possible empirical basis for taking action and making an impact.

FeedbackRA is committed to the emergence of institutions that are ethically beyond reproach, socially just, environmentally sustainable, and financially vigorous, that contribute to the improvement of everyone’s quality of life at no one’s expense, and are accountable to all stakeholders.

Services offered by FeedbackRa include:

• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Data Analytics
• Data Quality Assessments
• Policy Research
• Stakeholder Relationship Management
• Data Management Systems
• Custom Research
• Log Frame Training
• Enviroscans
• Strategic Planning
• Market Intelligence
• Return on Sponsorship

Research should empower people with knowledge to act and impact. At FeedbackRA we recognise our responsibility to our clients and to the stakeholders whom their actions affect. Consequently we are committed to delivering research solutions that are scientifically sound, empirical, comprehensive, reliable and valid, customized to the clients needs and, most importantly, translated into actionable recommendations.

See more on www.feedbackra.co.za

loveLife promotes healthy, HIV-free living among South African teenagers. Organised under the auspices of the loveLife Trust, loveLife combines a sustained high-powered multi-media campaign with nationwide community-level outreach and support programmes for youth. loveLife’s programmes are implemented by a national youth volunteer service corps known as groundBREAKERS in partnership with more than 150 community-based non-government organisations, 3700 schools and 350 government clinics across South Africa. Major funding for loveLife is provided by the South African Government and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Additional support is provided by Avis, Barloworld, BMW, ClearChannel Independent, IBM, Independent Newspapers, Le Boeuf Lamb Green & MacRae, Mondi, Murray & Roberts<script></script> , Novell SA, Pick ’n Pay, Primedia, Rapport, the South African Broadcasting Corporation, Southern Sun, SPSS, Ster-Kinekor and the Vodacom Foundation.

For information visit www.lovelife.org.za or call thethajunction on 0800 121 900.

 The staff of e-Soul (Pty) Ltd has over fifteen years experience in management consulting services, business process engineering, system analysis, design and software development at large South African organizations in the services sector.

For the past seven years we have been involved at HOPE AFRICA, an affiliate of HOPE WORLD WIDE, an international NGO focusing on HIV/AIDS and other social project. A business process engineering was performed on the organization to define a set of internal best practises on all their Key Focus Areas and the outcome was used to design and develop a Monitoring and Evaluation solution.

All the business and system challenges for a Monitoring and Evaluation solution were considered and since no products could be found to fit their needs e-Soul developed the EDMES (Electronic Distributed Monitoring and Evaluation) solution.

Functionality and features include:

• Design of programs and service that correlates with key indicators;
• Design of questionnaires for ad hoc research and qualitative measurement;
• Deployment of programs, services and questionnaires for disparate sites;
• Design and implementation of metrics and budgets for services;
• Capturing of service delivery;
• Full audit trail with required elements (Date, time, place and staff);
• Customization of business processes;
• Data validation rules;
• Duplication identification;
• User right profiles;
• Consolidation of information from disparate site to a central site.

A research component is available for base line or other qualitative research. This takes the EDMES solution to a next level.

It however seem that the market is not yet ready for

Issues that were identified in the sector include:

• The lack of understanding of potential benefits of technological solutions;
• No budgetary funding available for M&E despite major manual work enquired;
• Non compliance to audit standards by NGOs;
• Organizations not in line with the government’s M&E policy.

EDMES is also complemented by our training administration solution, e-Student that assists with the administration of capacity building.

We believe that the EDMES solution will contribute positively in the service sector to improve the quality of service delivery, to optimise resources and to track project budget figures.