A new Mastercard study, conducted by Genesis Analytics, reveals that using cash cost consumers R23-billion or 0.52 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product in 2015. These costs are disproportionately carried by low-income earners, serving as a major barrier to financial inclusion.

Genesis has contributed to the debate on the role of evaluation in building democracy in South Africa with a chapter in a recently published anthology, Democratic Evaluation and Democracy: Exploring the Reality. 

Genesis Analytics curated a strand on Innovations in Evaluation, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, at he AfrEA conference in Uganda last month. The conference brings together cutting-edge ideas from across the globe to allow for collaborative learning opportunities in order to deepen evaluative thinking and practice necessitated by the changes in the developing world.

Genesis Analytics went to Stellenbosch University in March  to attend the prize-giving for the top Economics students in their Department of Economics. 

Cabinet reshuffle. Credit downgrade. Radical Economic Transformation. White Monopoly Capital. State capture. Price fixing. Political risk. Collusion. Corruption. South Africa is at a crossroads.

Recognising this, Genesis Analytics is partnering with the Gordon Institute for Business Science (GIBS) to present a two-day executive education programme, “Business and Government Relations: Working more effectively with the public sector”. 

The Centre for Communication Impact (CCI) has commissioned Genesis Analytics to evaluate the ‘Testa Boy’ campaign and establish a baseline assessment of the knowledge and awareness of HIV viral load and treatment literacy among men and women in South Africa

An evaluation by Genesis Analytics and Digby Wells Environmental of environmental governance in mining was endorsed by the Cabinet on 15 February 2017. The evaluation assessed the relevance and effectiveness of environmental legislation in mining and its implementation.

Newly formed investment company, Arise has recently acquired a 27.7% stake in CAL Bank in Ghana. PwC Transaction services and Genesis Analytics acted as due diligence advisors to Arise.

The Corporate Finance Transaction Advisory team at Genesis Analytics supported The Carlyle Group’s acquisition of a significant stake in Global Credit Ratings (GCR), a pan-African ratings agency with headquarters in Johannesburg. 

Dr Saul Johnson, a well-known epidemiologist and public health specialist, has been made a partner at Genesis Analytics. He joined Genesis in 2016 when the firm bought Anansi Health Consulting and established a Health practice.

Genesis, in partnership with UK-based IOD PARC, has been appointed by the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) in the Office of the Presidency to evaluate South Africa’s National Evaluation System.

Genesis Analytics has partnered with a network of audio visual production companies and film makers to capture the lessons learnt from development interventions by our clients.