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 2003.

Rural Mobile Community Service Centre

Rural Mobile Community Service Centre

Rural Mobile Community Service Centre was established in 2001 in Thohoyandou. Limpopo Province has a population of 5 million, 89% of whom live in rural areas. Many of these areas are remote and inaccessible and maintaining law and order in them is difficult.

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Bethesda AIDS Action Team

Bethesda AIDS Action Team

Bethesda Aids Action Team Project is situated at the Jozini Health Clinic in the Umkhanyakude District in KwaZulu-Natal. It services five tribal authorities and is a typical rural area where poverty & unemployment are widespread

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Gundo Lashu - Labour Intensive Rural Roads Programme

Gundo Lashu - Labour Intensive Rural Roads Programme

Roads Agency Limpopo (RAL), an agency of the Limpopo Province Provincial Government launched Gundo Lashu in 2001 to improve transport infrastructure in poor and previously disadvantaged rural areas. Limpopo province’s road network consists of 22 000 km of which 6000 km have been paved.

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Re-Engineering Health Services at the Kimberley Health Complex

Initiated in Kimberley in April 2000, the Kimberley Health Complex (KHC) transformed health services by focusing on accessibility and restoring the dignity of targeted population, which consists of the previously disadvantaged, women and children, people with mental and physical disabilities and men served at the men's health clinic.

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Masakhane - People Working Together

Masakhane - People Working Together

This project was started in January 2002 in Mooiplaas, a rural village in Mpumalanga. It is an acknowledged poverty-pocket of the province. The Masakhane project was started by a primary school. Although lovely at first glance, on closer inspection severe poverty, joblessness, severely limited infrastructure, gangsterism, substance abuse, very limited knowledge on Human rights, illiteracy, orphans, households headed by children and HIV/AIDS were witnessed.

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