With South African companies investing billions in corporate social investment annually, M&E provides the mechanism to account for this spend and assess its social impact. It ensures accountability and compliance with governance processes, often a condition of funding, and advances reporting from anecdotal accounts to evidence-based results.  

Beyond accountability, M&E is a valuable tool enabling learning and informed decision-making. It identifies which project elements should be discontinued, improved, or scaled.  

While most companies and nonprofits invest in M&E processes, there is scope for significant improvement, with an opportunity to strengthen M&E practices while maximising the value of social investment. Trialogue’s 28th edition of the Business in Society Handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the critical role of monitoring, evaluation and impact measurement in enhancing corporate social investment and responsible business practices.  

Explore monitoring and evaluation resources on the Trialogue Knowledge Hub for a clear understanding of what M&E is, why it matters, how it works, and how it can be applied.