Economic Growth and Private Sector Development

Poverty reduction will not be possible without rapid, sustained, and inclusive economic growth that provides opportunities for the poor to improve their lives.

The private sector drives growth, creating income and employment opportunities for poor women, men, and children. Without access to resources, the poverty cycle will continue as required improvements in health, education and other social services go unobserved.

Economic and private sector growth programmes, just like other initiatives, need to be monitored and evaluated. Many programmes in the area of economic growth and private sector are monitored based on the standard banking industry measurements; however, Khulisa understands that these indicators are not sufficient to measure the impact of programmes with objectives of reducing poverty and wide-spread economic growth. We use our experience to design monitoring systems to encompass all required indicators to effectively assess the broad ranging outcomes of private sector initiatives.



Examples of our recent and ongoing projects include:



Interim Evaluation of the Lonmin Local Supplier Development Program

Khulisa was contracted to conduct an interim evaluation of the Lonmin Local Supplier Development (LSD) program to identify and understand the intended and unintended outcomes and impacts of the program and to provide learnings to guide future replications of the program.

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M&E for Financial Education Fund

Khulisa Management Services provides Monitoring and Evaluation technical support to the Financial Education Fund Management Team to ensure the effective evaluations of grantee projects in effort to learn more about financial education and improving financial capacities in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Southern Africa Financial Sector Program (FSP)

The USAID-funded Financial Sector Program (FSP) intends to expand access to financial services and lower financing cost for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa. By working with local partners to reform the legal and regulatory framework affecting the financial sector and business environment and improving the commercial viability of lending to historically disadvantaged SMEs in South Africa.

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