Award Criteria
How are award-winners assessed?
 

Innovativeness

The extent to which creative and new procedures have been developed to address poverty-related issues.

Effectiveness

The extent to which the Project has achieved or is on the way to achieving its stated objectves and other socially desirable outcomes.

Poverty Impact

The demonstrable effect of the Project in improving the quality of life of poor communities and individuals.

Sustainability

The viability and sound functioning of the Project within constraints that include funding and staffing.

Replicability

The value of the Project in teaching others new ideas and good practises for poverty-reduction programmes.

 
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PLATINUM

5 projects were awarded Platinum in 2002.

The Re-a-Shoma Road Maintenance Service Delivery Project

The Re-a-Shoma Service Delivery Project is an initiative to commercialise road maintenance in the Limpopo Province and was established in 2000. It is a joint venture between the National Department of Public Service and Administration, the Limpopo Provincial Department of Public Work and the private sector.

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HIV/AIDS Lay Counsellors Programme

This comprehensive programme, which operates in Cape Town, involves recruiting unemployed people from disadvantaged communities with a high HIV prevalence and offering them training in counselling skills and all areas of HIV/AIDS information and support.

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Cato Manor Development Association (CMDA)

The Cato Manor Development Association (CMDA) has been the lead agency redeveloping the Cato Manor area of Durban-once the site of forced removals and most recently the site of land invasions and internecine violence amongst poor communities.

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APD Free State: Adding Value to Persons With Disability and the Deaf

The Association for Persons with Disabilities (APD) and the Deaf in the Free State has been in existence since 1947 and this specific project was initiated in 1999. The need for this project arose because poverty amongst persons with severe disability is quite high and they do not normally have access to health facilities and health-related information.

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Beekeeping for Poverty Relief (BPRP)

The Departments of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Social Development and Agriculture commissioned the Plant Protection Research Institute of the Agricultural Research Council to introduce beekeeping to rural disadvantaged communities as part of their Poverty Relief Programme.

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