Author: Martin Mwita

You’re probably aware of the importance of knowing your payment dates each month if you’re a SASSA grant beneficiary in South Africa, as I do. Now, if I tell the truth, many beneficiaries like us face recurring issues with their scheduled payments from SASSA and keep searching for the appropriate solutions. Today in this blog post, I will take you into some of the most common problems with SASSA grant payment dates and how you can go about fixing them yourself. By understanding these hassles and their remedies, you can ensure timely access to your grant funds every month. So…

While the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reports US$300 billion of annual investments in developing countries, only 20 per cent of the implementing practitioners have the sufficient data required to successfully meet the needs of the communities they work with.

According to Rural Senses CEO Yau Ben-Or, this is because most projects are still built solely on quantitative data.

“Although necessary, quantitative data doesn’t reveal what success looks like for the local communities. Existing tools for the collection and analysis of qualitative data are time-consuming, costly and often introduce biases and ambiguous results,” Ben-Or notes.

As a result, important insights are missed, organisational learning is compromised, and projects’ sustainability is limited, he added.

The index pointed to a solid improvement in the health of the private sector economy, helped by a recovery in business activity as Covid-19 cases continued to fall across the country.

New business levels at Kenyan companies rose sharply in February, as survey panellists commented on a rebound in customer demand and increased marketing efforts.

The rate of growth was the second-fastest since October 2020.

Export sales rose to a much greater extent than in January, but growth remained weaker than seen in the fourth quarter of last year.