The projects involved the establishment of a capital management framework and a plan to support the CHP board approved growth strategy that will result in significant increase in owned assets over the next 5 years.

In addition to establishing the framework, we worked closely with the senior management team (CEO, CFO and COO) to establish relationships with long term capital partners to support current and future growth-related capital requirements.

Despite being known as one of countries with the highest rate of violence against women and children in the world, South Africa had not previously assessed government’s performance in the prevention of violence and support to women and children who survive violence.

Since its democratic birth in 1994, South Africa has established progressive and leading legislation and policy but is often described as having an ‘implementation gap’ between policy and lived experience.

The diagnostic review assessed national, provincial and local government’s role and performance across ten government departments with responsibility for safety, safeguarding, protection, health, shelter, income security and justice.

The diagnostic assessment considered factors such as government’s leadership of the issue, institutional arrangements, integrated working, workforce skills and attitudes, funding and service provision.

The literature review and final evaluation were peer reviewed, per government’s requirement for evaluations issued by the Presidency.

Since its publication, the diagnostic review has mobilised government and civil society around key issues that prevent better outcomes for women and children who experience violence. Gender-based violence is now a priority and new intersectoral institutional arrangements to better plan, deliver and coordinate services and support have been implemented.

As part of supporting the bid by the government for the Games, this project identified, explored and quantified where possible the potential economic, social and environmental impact of city who was to host the Games.

Such benefits considered included:

• Economic impacts such as new expenditure resulting from trade, new infrastructure, event operations and related tourism
• Social impacts such as legacy from having hosted the Games; community spirt, prestige and civic pride along with a series of health-related benefits
• Environmental impacts such as resource utilisation, energy consumption, waste generation and potential impacts n local ecosystems.

Importantly, the exercise included the quantification of a number of the less tangible social impacts, including those related to volunteering, community pride and increases in physical activity.

The engagement involved undertaking research on the prevalence of resident-on-resident incidents in residential aged care facilities (RACF) nationally (the study).

Resident- on-resident incidents refer to where one resident of the facility causes harm to another resident. These incidents can take various forms, including physical, verbal, or emotional abuse, sexual assault, or theft of personal belongings.

Such incidents can occur due to a variety of factors, including cognitive impairment, mental health issues, or behavioural changes in residents. The close living quarters and shared spaces in these facilities can also contribute to the occurrence of these incidents.

Understanding the prevalence of these incidents involved developing a definition of such incidents, designing the data collection tool and guidance manual for RACFs to compete the tool consistently.

The statistical analysis of the data collected involved designing an approach that facilitated national estimates and associated standard errors of the prevalence of serious incidents in residential aged care. This included unlawful sexual contact between residents and assault between residents.