The impact engine
The Learning Lunch podcast explores ideas, approaches and social innovations – creating opportunity for non-profit organisations’ teams to discover what others are learning and space to reflect on what these insights might mean for their own strategy and programme implementation. Download takeaway instructions Civil society organisations, particularly community-based organisations, are often on the frontlines of […]
The hidden dimensions of poverty
The Learning Lunch podcast explores ideas, approaches and social innovations – creating opportunity for non-profit organisations’ teams to discover what others are learning and space to reflect on what these insights might mean for their own strategy and programme implementation. Download takeaway instructions Youth development practitioners often focus on the supply and demand side of […]
The economic value of free books
The Learning Lunch podcast explores ideas, approaches and social innovations – creating opportunity for non-profit organisations’ teams to discover what others are learning and space to reflect on what these insights might mean for their own strategy and programme implementation. Download takeaway instructions Owning books can change a child’s life trajectory. This is a profound […]
The Perspectives Series: Turning development on its head
Many of South Africa’s most pressing challenges are structural — but their impact is felt most deeply in people’s everyday lives. While reforms are often pursued at a national or provincial level, they don’t always translate into meaningful change for communities. What if transformation could also start from the ground up? “Place-based approaches” offer bottom-up, […]
Op-ed: Gender-based violence is preventable. What’s missing is action
A child’s four-year-old body is ripped open over four hours. Neighbours hear her screams and pleas for her father to stop hurting her. They even record it. But they don’t break open the locked room to save her. They were scared. The child, on life support in the hospital, succumbs to her injuries. Her mother […]
What we’ve learnt about power and trust in South African philanthropy
The Sukuthula! Project, co-funded by DGMT, explores trust-based philanthropy, an approach to social innovation that addresses the inherent power imbalances between funders, implementing partners and the communities they serve. In essence, trust-based philanthropy turns the traditional funding model on it’s head. Instead of linking funding to narrow, pre-set deliverables and often complex compliance demands, it […]
Thinking on the edge
The Learning Lunch podcast explores ideas, approaches and social innovations – creating opportunity for non-profit organisations’ teams to discover what others are learning and space to reflect on what these insights might mean for their own strategy and programme implementation. Download takeaway instructions South Africa has a constitutional responsibility to uphold children’s rights. The government […]
Would an advertising ban reduce teen drinking?
The Learning Lunch podcast explores ideas, approaches and social innovations – creating opportunity for non-profit organisations’ teams to discover what others are learning and space to reflect on what these insights might mean for their own strategy and programme implementation. Download takeaway instructions There is no safe amount of alcohol consumption for teenagers. Early binge […]
Is there an app for that?
The Learning Lunch podcast explores ideas, approaches and social innovations – creating opportunity for non-profit organisations’ teams to discover what others are learning and space to reflect on what these insights might mean for their own strategy and programme implementation. Download takeaway instructions Mobile apps are designed to simplify and digitise almost every aspect of […]
Case Study: Mainstreaming scaling
The Scaling Community of Practice (CoP) launched an action research initiative on mainstreaming scaling in funder organisations in January 2023. This initiative has three purposes: to inform the CoP members and the wider development community of the current state of support for and operationalization of scaling in a broad range of development funding agencies; to […]