Opportunity 4: Reflection and Analysis
Risk and opportunity as early childhood development moves to Department of Basic Education
This year’s State of the Nation Address may have radically changed South Africa’s prospects for education and economic growth. For the first time, there is a clear commitment to early childhood development (ECD), which is globally recognized as the most powerful investment in human capital that a country can make.[1],[2] At last there is real […]
Tags: ECD, ECD Scale-up, Resourceful Young Children
Posted on 11 Feb 2019
Love, Germs and Skill: Reframing early childhood care and education
In this talk DGMT CEO, Dr David Harrison, shakes up our thinking about early childhood care and education by asking probing questions such as “what is love?” and “how can we harness the power of love to enable children to thrive?” He draws on biology, genetics, chemistry and history to bring us closer to answering […]
Posted on 6 Aug 2018
Homeopathic doses of early learning just won’t work
Once the dust settles, it will dawn on us that much of the extra R57 billion allocated to higher education will be wasted as half the beneficiaries drop out. Why? Because their educational foundations are too shaky to cope with the demands of university or college. Over the next three years, more than a trillion […]
Tags: ECD, Resourceful Young Children
Posted on 26 Feb 2018
The South African Child Gauge 2017: Invest in children for sustainable development
Most of South Africa’s children are surviving, but too many are failing to thrive and achieve their full potential, and this is costing the economy billions in lost human potential. Investing in children – and particularly in violence prevention, networks of care, nutrition, education and inclusive services – would drive the next wave of social […]
Tags: Child Gauge, ECD, Resourceful Young Children
Posted on 28 Nov 2017
What a difference the Child Support Grant makes!
The South African Child Gauge 2016 by the Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town has recently been released and – focusing the theme of Children and Social Assistance – it offers an interesting spotlight on the Child Support Grant (CSG). Here follows some very encouraging facts shared in the publication relating to the benefits of the CSG […]
Tags: Child Gauge, Child Support Grant, Resourceful Young Children
Posted on 7 Mar 2017
Unlocking the economic value of young children
First published on Business Day Live, 27 May 2016 Most business people are hard-nosed and soft-hearted. This has been my experience in trying to galvanise corporate support for social development over the past 25 years. These are exactly the attributes needed to find economically sound solutions to the country’s social problems. However, corporate professionals often act […]
Tags: Resourceful Young Children
Posted on 27 May 2016
The “ordinary magic” that can change a child’s future
This article was first published in the Star on 9 May 2016 Since 27 April 2015, ‘Mandela’s children’ have been turning twenty-one. They are the first of the ‘born-free generation’ to become adults. Are they better off than young adults were in the early nineties? It’s a difficult question to ask at the best of […]
Tags: Early literacy, Resourceful Young Children
Posted on 11 May 2016
Radio interviews: David Harrison talks about the potential of ECD and reading for joy
On World Literacy Day last week (8 September 2015), DGMT CEO, David Harrison was interviewed by Tim Modise from Power FM, John Maytham on Cape Talk and SA FM’s The Talk Show. He talked about DGMT, our work and that of our implementing partners, but most importantly he explained why early childhood development and helping children to […]
Tags: David Harrison, Early literacy Development, ECD, Reading for enjoyment
Posted on 14 Sep 2015
Developing potential: How technology can help to scale-up provisioning of early childhood development in South Africa
This learning brief reviews some of the possibilities inherent in technology and the potential that this has to improve service delivery. Space4Development shares some of their insights gained through the design and implementation of technology solutions for ECD Non-Profit Organisations. Read the article here.
Tags: ECD, ECD Scale-up, Resourceful Young Children, technology
Posted on 11 Sep 2014
Taking early childhood development services and programmes to scale: exploring the potential of social franchising
This learning brief considers the characteristics of the South African ECD sector and reflects in detail on what a replication strategy like social franchising would need to offer to achieve scale-up. Read the article here.
Tags: ECD, ECD Scale-up, Social franchising
Posted on 11 Sep 2014
