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Social Audits
Social audits are a community-driven process, that uses budgets and other official government documents to monitor the delivery of services and engage with government. Since the first in 2013 more than 15 social audits have taken places across South Africa on issues ranging from water deliver to the fulfilment of social labour plans by mining companies.
A social audit is a community-led process that facilitates public participation in the monitoring of government service delivery and expenditure
This guide helps you to develop a social audit questionnaire that will collect evidence or information that will be easy to capture and analyse, and will provide accurate and representative findings and recommendations that can be used to engage with government.
Incwadana Yokwenza Uphicotho Ntlala eMzantsi Afrika
This step-by-step guide will help you conduct a social audit in your community from start to finish.
Umhlahlandlela Wasekhukhwini Wo Kuhlolwa Kwezenhlalakahle eNingizimu Afrika
The Mpukunyoni Tendele coal mining social audit reviewed crucial documents to determine whether mine expenditure and service delivery outcomes promised by the mine truly reflected the money spent and the experiences in the mining community.
This social audit covers a number of communities that fall under the same sanitation contract. This scaled-up approach allowed us to move beyond site-specific sanitation problems and to identify common problems with the delivery of outsourced temporary sanitation in Ekurhuleni.
The social audit focussed on the desludging of pits and Ventilated Improved Pit (VIP) toilets in Thembelihle, a service that is delivered by Supreme Sanitation (Pty) Ltd. Residents experienced a number of problems with the delivery of this service and decided to collect information through a social audit to enable a constructive, evidence-based discussion with the municipality about how these issues might be resolved.
This report presents the findings from a social audit following the rural community of Glenmore’s dissatisfaction with a refurbishment project around their sports field. The report establishes if the specifications of the Engqushwa Municipality tender for the Glenmore sports complex were adhered to, or if any deviations were recorded, by the contractor.
This social audit conducted an inspection of the Glenmore sports complex with an objective to establish if the specifications of the Engqushwa Municipality tender were adhered to, or any deviations were recorded, by the contractor.
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