Kagiso Development Trust

KDT's role, as a grant-making institution, has become more tightly focused with the formation of the Group and the implementation of the "Programmatic Approach to Development" (PAD) to grant-funding.

The PAD is a move away from the funding of individual and isolated projects to the facilitation, funding and support to selected, flagship, precedent-setting and replicable development models focused, KDT hope to facilitate sectorial and integrated, locally-based and geographically defined development programmes.

The PAD approach is holistic and provides support to communities through various needs development stages such as:

• identification
• feasibility studies
• programme identification
• programme conceptualisation
• economic empowerment
• organisational building
• organisational development
• implementation
• monitoring
• review
• completion

In addition to its own funding, KT seeks leverage:

• additional funding from other financiers
• co-financing with other donors or collaborative partnerships with the Government, the private sector, donors and other civil society organisations.

The Trust administers grants with very few overheads due to the fact that much of the hands-on field work is contracted out to field workers working in the field and in close proximity to KT's target groups. The Trust has retained its excellent reputation at the grassroots level as being able to speak the language of the people and to empathise and sympathise with under resourced communities, This reputation continues to grow as the Programmatic Approach is pursued successfully entrenched in under resourced areas across South Africa.

The Trust approach to development is sure to make it one of the leading edge, grassroots development agencies in the county.