Crime and Criminal Justice Survey
C A S E together with the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation and E E Research focus won a tender in 2007 to conduct surveys of crime and the criminal justice system. The studies were envisaged to constitute a large national household study, institutional surveys based at the courts and the development of indicators to measure improvements in the performance of the National Prosecutions Authority. In 2007 we completed a victims of crime survey which was conducted at the household level. Last year the project delivered a report that was based on a satisfaction survey at the courts. This year we will be doing a court-based survey with prosecutors around service delivery and a qualitative study that looks at customer satisfaction from the perspective of the partners of the NPA. This project could lead to improvements in the criminal justice system.

Educators Mitigating the Impact of HIV and AIDS.
C A S E is part of a consortium that comprises the Centre for Education Policy Development and South African Institute for Distance Education. C A S E was responsible for supplying a short-term quantitative expert as well as conducting a survey in schools in 500 schools where we sourced 5 educators who completed a self administered questionnaire. The project was done for Higher Education South Africa and funded by the European Commission.

Evaluation of service delivery at the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) pay points
This study, commissioned by the Department of Social Development, is measuring adherence to the norms and standards set out by the Department of Social Development for the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA). SASSA is the agency contracted by the department to administer the payment of social security grants. It is a survey of 1 600 people who use the pay points and the offices of SASSA and 54 in-depth interviews. We are also capturing data using observation sheets.

Crime and Construction
This study for the Safety and Security Department of the Gauteng Province is looking at the relationship between crime and construction sites. It constitutes a survey of households that are located close to construction sites and interviews with contractors and police. It wishes to establish whether there is any relationship between crime and construction.

Rural Women and Land
The Women and Land Rights project is a two year project that that will generate research findings through literature reviews, a survey and participatory research with rural women's organisations. This research will then be used to support litigation and advocacy, in particular around “living” customary law. this will be done through policy discussions and other engagements with policy makers, submissions and litigation to support women’s claims for their rights, in terms of individual claims, struggles in particular areas, and in more national contestations, for example around the ongoing development of national legislation.

Municipal Infrastructure assessment
This project builds on a previous study that C A S E did for the Development Bank of Southern Africa where we assessed municipal infrastructure through analysing the 2007 community survey data. The current focus is to understand problems in infrastructure delivery through holding focus group discussions with community members and interviews with municipal officials.

Evaluation of donor support for OVC’s in Lessotho and Swaziland.
C A S E has been contracted by the Open Society Foundation to prepare a report on donor support for Orphans and Vulnerable children in Lesotho and Swaziland.

Migration and Remittances survey
A 2000 household survey is being conducted in Gauteng and Limpopo provinces around migration and remittances. C A S E is contracted to do the fieldwork.

USAID\Health Policy Initiative
Selection of HIV and AIDS Policy Champions
The Health Policy Initiative (HPI) is collaborating with the University of Stellenbosch to provide technical assistance for the development and teaching of modules on HIV/AIDS policy through a module on the Management of HIV/AIDS in the World of Work. This is done through a Postgraduate Diploma, offered by the Graduate School of Public and Development Management (PDM). It is presented by the African Centre for HIV/AIDS Management in the World of Work (Stellenbosch University). The Futures Group International (FGI) commissioned the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (C A S E) to conduct a study aimed at identifying and selecting HIV/AIDS policy champions targeted for technical assistance and profiling. The target group is graduates who completed the PDM course in 2007 and, who are involved in HIV/AIDS policy and programme related work in South Africa. The methodology constituted both qualitative and quantitative analysis through site visits and telephone interviews.

UNICEF BASELINE STUDY
The Children's Act of 2005, provides for child and youth care centre’s (CYCCs) as a form of alternative care for children found to be in need of care. The Act requires that child and youth care centre’s register with the Department of Social Development (DSD. More than 350 centres that would have been categorised as children's homes, places of safety and shelters under the Child Care Act are currently registered with DSD. C A S E has been commissioned to conduct a baseline survey of these registered CYCCs. The survey will collect basic information on each of the centres and the individual children residing in them. The resultant database will establish the basis for a set of indicators that will be used going forward to ensure that the centres conform with the requirements of the new Act.

Community Development Workers Programme (CDWP)
The Community Development Workers Programme (CDWP) is a national programme and was introduced by previous president Thabo Mbeki in his State of the Nation Address dated 14 February 2003. The main aims of the programme are to improve poor people’s access to government services and, to strengthen the relationship between government and ordinary people. C A S E is commissioned by the Gauteng Department of Local Government and Housing to assess the CDWP in this province. The main objective of the study is to assess the extent to which the CDWP has been able to achieve its mandate of taking government closer to ordinary people, including the development of sustainable communities. This study employs both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and involves a literature review, in-depth interviews, a household survey and focus group discussions.