In 2011, the DGMT began to reflect more deeply on models of support for children in places of safety. We were particularly interested in models that have a strong focus on reintegrating children back into communities, as well as, on the provision of long-term post-placement support. Through a grant made to Give a Child a […]
Tags: Enabling Communities, Family Reunification Programmes, Inclusive
Posted on 1 Jun 2012
Philani has developed a home based maternal, child health and nutrition model in an effort to work with the South African government in reaching the Millennium Development goals (4 & 5). Their model has been shown to be effective in an urban setting and in this Learning Brief they share the results and lessons that […]
Tags: ECD
Posted on 1 Jun 2012
The Wild Coast Rural Schools Development Project addresses the challenge of training and educating teachers who are willing to teach in rural contexts or to work in partnership with under-resourced schools. The majority of newly trained teachers choose to teach in urban areas which exacerbate shortages of qualified teachers in rural schools. The Wild Coast […]
Tags: Connection to Opportunity
Posted on 1 Jun 2012
The Rural Education Access Programme (REAP) targets young people from very disadvantaged rural communities who have struggled against the odds to achieve a National Senior Certificate. REAP offers an opportunity for tertiary education to a selection of these students who qualify for university entrance due to their hard work and persistence despite difficult circumstances. In […]
Tags: Bursary programmes, Connection to Opportunity
Posted on 1 Jun 2012
In January 2012, a new national network of young public innovators was established under the name ‘Activate! Leadership and Public Innovation’. This year 220 young adult leaders drawn from communities across South Africa have joined a three year programme to build their skills in public innovation. At this point, the 2012 Activators have completed Module […]
Tags: Activate!, Leadership, Public Innovation, Youth
Posted on 1 Jun 2012
This learning brief summarises some of the most important findings of ‘Narrowing the Literacy Gap’, a recently published report coauthored by Dr Shelley O’Carroll and Rebecca Hickman. The report investigated opportunities to strengthen the literacy and language development of children between birth and six years old. In this learning brief Dr. O’Carroll explains that literacy […]
Tags: Creative Learners, Literacy development
Posted on 1 Jun 2012
Recently, a group from DGMT (Marianne MacRobert, Phillip Methula and David Harrison) visited literacy projects in India. They were intrigued by the claims of Pratham that children of about 5 to 6 years of age could learn to read within 6 weeks and that children lagging behind could catch up to their same-age peers. These […]
Tags: Creative Learners, Literacy development
Posted on 1 Jun 2012