How effective is your CSI spend? Do you know exactly what the impact is on the ground? Is your spend effectively aligned with your corporate goals? Are you certain your funding is being spent as you intend?

Triple bottom line reporting is becoming the norm globally for ethical, responsible companies. Understanding how to move CSR initiatives from pure philanthropy to a more strategically beneficial programme can deliver a multitude of benefits to companies throughout the supply chain and creates a compelling business case for CSR These benefits include:

• Improved financial performance.Reduce exposure to non-financial risk.
• Enhance brand image and reputation.
• Increase sales and customer loyalty.
• Improve recruitment and retention performance.
• Create of new business networks.
• Increase staff motivation, contribution and skills.
• Improve trust in the company and its managers.Improve government relations.
• Reduce regulatory intervention.Reduce costs through environmental best practice

We provide a full set of services around CSR including:

• Evaluation of initiatives,
• how do your CSR initiatives integrate with your communications strategy,
• are you leveraging maximum reputational benefits,
• how do your initiatives fit into your broad stakeholder engagement,
• does it benefit your human resources,
• how can it align to other company policies such as biodiversity planning or community relations?

Linked to this is also evaluation of individual projects to asses the long term sustainability, recommend interventions and ensure objectives are met.ETC-Africa also carries out long term monitoring and facilitation of CSR projects, ensuring the ability to report accurately and implement effective tools for measuring progress and impacts.