Accountability
Ubuntu Education Fund has a Board of Directors comprising business and civil society leaders from South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Our executive team has years of experience working within our communities as well as expertise in finance, NGO management, global development, education, and psychology. The Board reviews Ubuntu’s performance every month through a management report that tracks progress against a pre-approved strategic plan. We are audited annually by an external accounting firm.
As a community institution, Ubuntu Education Fund is held accountable to a number of stakeholders: our clients, the general community, our partners, staff, and donors from around the world. We run the organization according to the best business practices, adhering to the highest ethical standards for accounting, human resources, and program development.
Ubuntu has an independent Monitoring and Evaluation Department that is specifically responsible for the evaluation and analysis of our programs. The department:
- Tracks every intervention provided to every client in Ubuntu’s customized database.
- Compiles registers that track feeding distribution, workshop attendance, client intake forms, home assessment forms, and client services logs.
- Trains the entire Ubuntu team to ensure that data is standardized within departments and is kept confidential.
- Produces reports reflecting everything from the number and type of interventions accessed by clients to progress on internal organizational targets.
Our Monitoring and Evaluation Department unearths any discrepancies between Ubuntu’s targets and actual outputs, and presents all its findings for analysis. We track each client’s progress, consistently monitor our work, and keep learning. Since our inception, our model has been constantly refined based on data, analysis, and best practice research.
Latham & Watkins, LLP provides Ubuntu with pro bono legal services, for which we are deeply grateful.
