Interim Impact Assessment of the Southern Africa Trust
This report provides an overview of how the Southern Africa Trust has implemented its work since 2006 and what its impact has been towards achieving its founding purpose to support deeper and wider regional engagement in policy development to overcome poverty in southern Africa. This summary gives brief pointers to some but by no means all, of the main outcomes of the Trust’s work over the period. It demonstrates how the Trust has enabled voices of the poor to have an impact on policy development in southern Africa.

1. Index and Introduction
2. Summary in English
3. Summary in French (written in French)
4. Summary in Portuguese (written in Portuguese)
5. The Trust’s Strategy
6. Review of the Trust’s Performance: Capacity Building
7. Review of the Trust’s Performance: Policy Dialogue
8. Review of the Trust’s Performance: Evidence Based Advocacy by the Poor and Marginalized
9. Review of the Trust’s Performance: Enabling Environment
10. Review of the Trust’s Performance: Establishing a Regionally Owned Funder to Support Civil Society Voice
11. Impact and Conclusion
12. Annex: The Trust’s Logical Framework 2008