Impact

Monitoring and evaluation are a key part of how we measure our success. Formal evaluations and anecdotal feedback reflect the impact our work is having.

Formal evaluations

Our monitoring and evaluation help us understand how effective our projects are in the real world. For this, we do dipstick analysis and ongoing reviews once our projects are underway. This helps us to strengthen and adapt our work and to make sure we are on track to meet our goals for the work we do.

Heartlines also partners with external monitoring and evaluation specialists to assess the impact of our work.

Summative Evaluation 2023

This report by Singizi Consulting Africa is a summative evaluation of Heartlines programmes between early 2020 and May 2023.

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Case Study: Empowering the unemployed

This case study on the use of Heartlines toolkits in partnership with Taking Care of Business to help empower the unemployed.

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Case Study: Rehabilitation for offenders

This case study on the use of Heartlines toolkits in partnership with the Department of Correctional Services as part of its offender rehabilitation work.

Fathers Matter ECD Evaluation

The Heartlines Fathers Matter Early Childhood Development (ECD) programme addresses the persistent challenge of low father and male caregiver involvement in children’s early development, a gap observed globally and in South Africa.

Fathers Matter Coach Survey

Fathers Matter Coach assists fathers with day-to-day parenting advice, emotional support, and fatherhood information tailored to their needs. This report presents an analysis of user interactions with the Coach platform.

Broad impact

Over 2.5 million people have watched our Fathers Matter films.
We have done over 200 radio and TV interviews on more than 40 different mainstream and community stations.
In the past 12 months over 30,000 people have received our newsletters.
We have been invited to present at key events and engagements, including the Department of Basic Education's Lekgotla.

Individual impact

Our face-to-face engagements in churches, communities, workplaces, sports clubs and ECD centres have reached over 26,000 people to date.
From our events, people have gathered into regional hubs to use Fathers Matter in their local contexts.
The Fathers Matter WhatsApp Coach has over 11,000 active users an average of 5 questions being asked per user each month.

What people are saying about Fathers Matter

"I have learned

that being present is not enough, we need to be active. When I let go of my child's hand that's when the gangster takes it."- Firefighter, Kynsna

"This session has allowed me

to deal with wound that I've been carrying for years. For the first time I feel I can talk about it begin my healing journey..."- Workshop Participant