Khulisa Management Services

The programme Towards the Elimination of Child Labour (TECL) of the International Labour Organization (ILO) is a regional programme that builds on the achievements of TECL I that supported the implementation of the Child Labour Programme of Action (CLPA) in South Africa and laid the basis for concerted action against child labour in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland, by putting into place National Action Plans (NAPs) on the elimination of child labour. South Africa, Botswana and Namibia have been chosen as the main target countries for TECL II. Khulisa has been contracted as part of an international team to conduct the midterm evaluation of the TECLII programme focusing on the South Africa component of the programme.

The Bertha Philanthropies requested Khulisa's assistance in providing the African Leadership Academy (ALA) with basic M&E fundementals as ALA wishes to develop an M&E Framework for their Wellness Programme. Khulisa suggested a half day workshop with a senior M&E specialist at ALA to develop the Wellness Programme’s theory of change, which will lead to the programme’s conceptual M&E Framework. After the workshop, Khulisa will document the final theory of change and recommend a broad M&E Framework appropriate to the ALA Wellness Programme.

Khulisa Management Services was commissioned by the International Labour Office (ILO) to conduct a mid-term evaluation of the CoopAFRICA programme.

Despite the magnitude and dire consequences of the growing number of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in South Africa and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, there is insufficient documentation of the strategies deployed to improve the well-being of these children. To fill these knowledge gaps, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) commissioned Khulisa to research and write case studies of 32 OVC programmes in South Africa that receive Emergency Plan funding. PEPFAR provides financial and technical support to 168 OVC programs in South Africa. See for more information about this project.

Khulisa Managament Services was comissioned by The Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda) to develop an evaluation framework with guidelines for comprehensive evaluation. The framework document was designed to provide sufficient evaluation information so that individuals with little monitoring and evaluation experience can gain a general understanding of evaluation.

Khulisa, as a sub-contractor to John Snow, Inc. (JSI) is working to strengthen the capacity of individuals and institutions in Southern Africa to collect, analyze, and use information. Working closely with local organisations, the USAID-funded Enhancing Strategic Information Project for South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland supports all three countries to effectively use information to improve their response to HIV/ AIDS.

Khulisa, in a consortium led by Winrock, was awarded this US$5 million project funded by the US Department of Labor, which aims to reduce child labour through education initiatives focused in five districts in Tanzania. Khulisa designed and is implementing five district programmes to strengthen national institutions and policies, raise awareness of education for all children, support the education of withdrawn or at-risk children in rural areas, develop formal and transitional education systems, and to ensure long-term sustainability of the above efforts.

The TECL project was a joint initiative of the South African Government and the ILO to operationalise key action steps recommended by the Child Labour Action Programme (CLAP). World Education, Inc. and Khulisa Management Services were awarded a major contract to undertake a series of research and study activities.

Khulisa provided a Data Quality Auditor to participate in a larger team, led by IBTCI, that conducted DQAs on the programme data of USAID/Iraq. The purpose of the DQAs was to determine if the data submitted by USAID/Iraq partners met minimum acceptable data quality standards.

Khulisa has been working with the EMIS Directorate since 2003 and has provided a variety of services to the Department to improve the information and data management processes. Khulisa currently holds a three year project (2007 to 2009), to conduct an annual Education Management Information System (EMIS) survey in 4% of all schools as well as a data quality audit in Further Education and Training institutions and Adult Basic Education and Training facilities across South Africa.

The Health Promoting Schools (HPS) concept is considered one of the main pillars of improving health outcomes for children, youth and the communities in which they live. Funded by JICA, this project is a joint collaboration project in Gauteng, South Africa. The Department of Health and the Department of Education are conducting a pilot project to implement the HPS initiative in 14 primary schools. Khulisa is developing teaching, learning and contributory materials to be used in the pilot schools to complement other activities being implemented as part of the pilot HPS project.

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is a key component of PEPFAR, providing strategic information for planning and monitoring programs; documenting and reporting on progress; and ensuring that resources are used effectively and efficiently. To assist the USG in efficiently and effectively managing the performance data of more than 240 partners, Khulisa has developed and maintains the PEPFAR/South Africa Data Warehouse (DW) and SHARING (Sharing HIV/AIDS Resources and Information Networking Group) website.

Khulisa pioneered the use of data quality instruments and procedures in PEPFAR/South Africa to assess and enhance the extent to which PEPFAR partners produce results that are valid and reliable. The Data Quality Assessments (DQAs) are designed as a learning process for both the selected PEPFAR partners as well as the USG, with a goal to build M&E capacity and systems among PEPFAR partner organizations.

Following reports of children being used to work under exploitive conditions in West African cocoa farms, the Harkin-Engel Protocol called for the creation of a certification process that would ensure that no abusive child labour would be used in cocoa production. Key components of this process include public reporting by each country on the worst forms of child labour including trafficking, and adult labour practices in the cocoa sector and the external verification of these reports. Khulisa and partner organisation Fafo AIS were contracted by the International Cocoa Verification Board to conduct this external verification.