Hands-on Learning Issue 29
Through the Hands-on Learning publication, we hope to play a helpful role in synthesising information from innovators and implementers in civil society, supporting them to share what they have learnt so that others can draw from and build on their experiences. Data-informed arguments for investment in children In 2024, analysis of routine data revealed that […]
Learning Brief – Data-informed arguments for investment in children
In 2024, analysis of routine data revealed that some of South Africa’s gains in child development and wellbeing are stalling, and may be starting to reverse. Young children are now more likely to live in poverty, suffer from food insecurity and malnutrition, and die before their fifth birthday than they were before the Covid-19 pandemic. […]
Learning Brief – Learning to lead in fellowship: Approaches to leadership development for civil society
DGMT has set three goals to help South Africa escape the inequality trap, and has identified 10 powerful opportunities to realise each goal. This forms the guiding framework for everything the organisation does. The first goal is an innovative and inclusive society, which can build the scaffolding for human and knowledge capital to thrive and […]
Learning Brief – Setting up public school partnerships in the Northern Cape
The Lesedi Solar Park Trust in the Northern Cape has a mandate to invest in communities within a 50-kilometre radius of the Lesedi Power Project over an extended period of time. DGMT’s place-based synergies (PBS) team is responsible for managing community development funds for the trust and facilitates supportive developmental pathways for people in the […]