Under construction: Our new Monitoring and Evaluation Website
We are in the process of developing a Monitoring and Evaluation Resource website for organisations. Have a look at this presentation where we explain why we are developing the website as well as how it will work. This presentation is powered through Prezi, please wait a few moments for the presentation and embedded images to load.
Update on Activate!
In January 2012 an ambitious new programme – Activate! Leadership for Public Innovation – was launched with the aim of building a network of young leaders from across the poles of South Africa that could collectively tackle South Africa’s biggest challenges. Last year 182 Activators completed the intensive residential component of the programme and are […]
Experiencing Activate!
I dream that Mount Frere will produce the top performing matriculants in the country and all its schools will achieve a 100% matric pass rate. Those of you who know Mount Frere know just how big my dream is, but for those of you who don’t here are the facts: lowest matric pass rate (47.2%) […]
Ilifa Labantwana 2012 highlights and forward in 2013
By Sherri LeMottee Ilifa Labantwana is an initiative to develop quality, scalable and sustainable Early Childhood Development (ECD) programmes for disadvantaged children in South Africa. It is jointly funded and driven by the ELMA Foundation, the DG Murray Trust and the UBS Optimus Foundation. 2012 has been a year of change, growth and increased momentum […]
Literacy: The simple profound something we can all do
By Carole Bloch “In this society which urgently needs to educate citizens to be articulate and literate, there is something simple but profound we can all do – we can tell and read stories to children. Far from being a luxury, the story habit establishes in children the sturdy bedrock on which to grow the […]
Philosophy for Children (P4C)
How motivating to go on a course that really inspires you! I recently attended a two-day Philosophy for Children (P4C) course run by Sara Stanley, an early years teacher from the UK as well as a level 1 trainer, which made me re-think how we approach the learning and teaching of young children. The aim […]
Career Planet: Opportunities for youth through cellphone technology
70% of unemployed South Africans are aged between 15 and 35. Additionally, recent research reveals that 25% of unemployed South Africans have been job hunting, unsuccessfully, for at least 5 years. Not only do we clearly have a serious youth unemployment problem, we are also faced with the reality that a serious communication gap compromises […]
Children’s Act Guide for Drop-in Centre Managers
Children must be put first in society to ensure optimal child development and South African law makes provision for this. Through the Children’s Act 38 of 2010 (as amended by Act 41 of 2007), which came into operation on 1 April 2010, policies, laws and interventions are advocated to create improved conditions and circumstances so […]
Join the billions rising against violence and abuse against women and children
This morning I received a concept document by the Parliamentary Millennium Programme for events in Cape Town to support the international One Billion Rising Campaign. The statistics cited in the document made me choke in my coffee. According to the United Nations 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during […]
A little piece of Heaven – Towards A Rural Based Industrialisation
Late last year, a small DGMT team set off for the little coastal nook of AmaJingqi Village, home of Chief Dumalisile. It all started with a letter which landed in our CEO, David Harrion’s inbox, from the Chief himself, explaining his 30 year plan to develop and industrialise his village, and which so succinctly revealed […]
