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