Whether you need to establish a CSI function or have a fully fledged department, CSI Solutions have the skills, expertise and tools to add value to your company.

FOR A NEW CSI INITIATIVE


YOU NEED

Strategy
  • Ground work & strategic planning
  • Management buy in
  • Setting up policies, & procedures

Identifying
  • Identify projects to support that are in line with company objectives

Planning
  • Plan with project partners
  • Plan your outputs and  impacts

Managing
  • Manage & monitor projects
  • Manage relationships with partner organisations

M&E
  • Set indicators to evaluate your impact

Reporting
  • To capture inputs, outputs and impact to ensure you can report to Management efficiently


OUR SOLUTIONS

  • Assistance with policy & strategy facilitation
  • Set up processes and procedures
  • Establishing project criteria
  • Establishing governance processes
  • Build capacity and empower CSI practitioners
  • Advise your decision making committee/ board meetings
  • Assess projects - Capacity assessments of NGO’s, research, ID projects , site visits
  • Engaging and planning with partners to set targets and monitoring indicators
  • Site visit evaluations
  •  Assist with reporting
  • Conduct an in-house workshop
  • CSI Navigator - Electronic tool to capture data and report automatically
  • LBG
  • CSI Library

FOR AN EXISTING CSI FUNCTION


YOU NEED TO:

  • Know how CSI impacts your business
  • Understand your reach and current landscape
  • Revisit strategy
  • Ensure consistency of spending by all divisions
  • Ensure Good governance practices are followed
  • Know the effectiveness of current service providers and their funding
  • Understand trends, the industry, best practices, networking, sharing lessons learnt
  • Report internally on cost to the business, outputs and impact

Benefits of our interventions
  • Management buy in, efficiency in managing projects, reporting to board, professional, structured department,knowledge of costs to business, knowledge of industry: benchmarking
  • Capacity Building - CSI Solutions will establish robust procedures, criteria and processes that will enable employees to manage the function efficiently
  • Access to information, coaching, dialogue sessions, information sharing sessions,capacity building and access to expertise

OUR SOLUTIONS

  • Audit of projects funded to-date
  • Identify which projects fit into the CSI strategy to continue supporting and those that need to be exited.
  • Workshops, coaching, consulting
  • Assess effectiveness of current partners to date
  • Capacity assessment
  • LBG
  • CSI library
  • CSI Navigator
  • LBG