Tshikululu – Due Diligence – NGO Early Development Expansion Programme
Tshikululu Social Investments commissioned Mthente Research and Consulting Services to conduct a due-diligence evaluation of a Faith-based Non-Government Organisation (NGO) based in Pretoria, and their Pre-school Forum Expansion programme. The programme had capacity to work with 43 early childhood development (ECD) centres and was proposing to expand working with 150 ECD centres in the next two years and 750 ECD centres in the next 6 years.
The objectives of this due-diligence study were to:
- Define and analyse the organisation’s proposed operating model
- Identify whether the model is worth replicating
- Ascertain if the organisation has sufficient resource capacity
- Understand the organisations finances and costing (financial due diligence)
- Observe its impact on beneficiaries.
In order to make decisions on funding this programme, the due-diligence evaluation conducted research with the NGO, as well as conducting research with the ECD centre beneficiaries of the Pre-school Forum programme. In so doing, the NGO’s structure and overall financial, human resource, and governance capacity was investigated, as well as the structure, content and impact of the Pre-school Forum.
