Value for Money

Download the following documents Introduction to Value for Money Cost effectiveness Economy in the programme cycle Effectiveness in the programme cycle Efficiency in the programme cycle Social cost benefit analysis […]

Over the three year implementation period, the Centres of Excellence model has evolved with GL devising new strategies to strengthen the process. This has increased effectiveness as well as led to media houses taking greater ownership and accountability of the process.

The GBV Indicators project took place in 6 countries. GL was able to leverage 79% of implementing costs for the project through strategic partnerships and from other donors. PPA contributed 22% of the total amount.

This case study outlines the value for money achieved by the GL in working with the Alliance focal networks across 12 SADC countries. The Alliance networks conducted country meetings to strengthen the networks through thematic cluster mapping to reflect the protocol targets and the special interest groups that included faith based organisations (FBOs), climate change and the men’s sector.

This case study outlines how the Alliance through Gender Links (GL) and South African Women in dialogue (SAWID), who have a signed MOU with the alliance has used the alliance focal network to conduct provincial dialogues in the 9 provinces of South Africa to collate evidence of the demands that the women of South Africa have since the 1954 Women’s Charter.

The GL internship programme provides an opportunity for young people to gain or strengthen work and like skills. The period April 2013 to March 2014 GL engaged 19 interns across the different countries.

GL has 60 staff and as organisation we constantly have to scan the environment so that GL as an organisation can attract not only the right talent but also ensure that we get value for money by having a fair, defensible and sustainable reward strategy, policies and procedures in place.

The Gender Links News Service (GLNS), formally known as the Gender Links Opinion and Commentary Service, is an innovative multi-media project that aims promote gender equality in and through the media, to provide the media with fresh views and voices on current affairs.

This case study outlines how Gender Links has used the online platform to collate evidence of the SADC Gender Protocol@work case studies for the summits. The SADC Gender Protocol summits are a platform of knowledge creation, sharing and learning from the district level to the regional level.

Gender Links is using Meltwater Media Monitoring, a comprehensive media intelligence tool, designed to track, monitor and analyse the presence of an organisation and their work in global -primarily online- media. Meltwater will take the place of manual media tracking by GL staff and track and monitor usage of our articles as well as GL in the news.

Gender Links takes procurement as an essential soft ‘regulatory tool’ for value for money spending in all expenditure that takes place in the Organisation. Among the many activities that make up procurement and logistics at Gender Links the cost saving in travel bookings, and use of preferred service providers’ enables procurement to save an average of 10% in GLs overall annual spend.

The SADC Gender Protocol barometer is an annual production of tracking progress of the SADC Gender protocol targets across the SADC region. The publication is used by many of Gender Links (GL) stakeholders as reference material. It is interesting that the barometer is also used by the governments as an accountability tool for the progress they have done in implementing the protocol.