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The DGMT Learning Lunch
The Learning Lunch is an opportunity for NPO teams to be exposed to new ideas, discover what others are learning, and reflect on what that means for their implementation and strategy. Visit www.dgmt.co.za/resources/learning-lunch for the full experience and to access the podcasts and instructions for a ±30-minute group reflection.
Episodes
26 episodes
The Learning Lunch - What are policy windows?
In the world of policy change, timing is everything. According to political science scholar John Kingdon, a significant policy shift happens when three things are in place. First, the problem must be well understood. Second, there must be a via...
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28:34
The Learning Lunch - The anatomy of a powerful idea
Civil society is a vibrant ecosystem of interest groups, activists, advocacy groups and organisations delivering a range of social services. These groups are often the first to design and test interventions, learning from their successes and fa...
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30:39
The Learning Lunch - What does tomorrow’s workforce look like?
Imagine if solving unemployment was as easy as creating more jobs or ending food poverty by producing more food. It's never that straightforward.In South Africa, around 3 million young people aged 15-24 are not in education, employment,...
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32:00
The Learning Lunch - Caring about the care economy
In recent years, non-profit organisations (NPOs) have grappled with dwindling donor funding and reduced support from government departments, affecting their ability to provide crucial social welfare and development services to communities. Thes...
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21:24
The Learning Lunch - Using incentives for change
Social and economic incentives are powerful tools to motivate and influence behaviour in individuals, communities and organisations. Social incentives often involve recognition, belonging, or social approval, while economic incentives typically...
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36:51
The Learning Lunch - When projects don't go according to plan
Civil society organisations are a catalyst for innovation and positive social change in communities – filling gaps in service delivery. To be effective, these organisations must be agile and able to adjust their programmes and products to meet ...
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27:12
The Learning Lunch - Putting children first
Imagine a world where every child is loved, nourished, and protected—where they are read to, and encouraged to be curious. In this world, children don't just learn well, but they thrive, and so does the entire country. Nobel Prize Winner for Ec...
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26:20
The Learning Lunch - Trust-based funding for NGOs
Community-based organisations (CBOs) are non-profits operating at the local level, albeit with limited resources at their disposal. They tend to be reliant on volunteers, responsive to the unique needs of their community and best placed to diag...
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22:04
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The Learning Lunch - Community ownership is not a means to an end
If you work in civil society or the socioeconomic development sector, you have probably heard, or used, the term “community ownership” because it aligns with broader goals of promoting social equity, empowering local communities and sustainable...
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29:07
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The Learning Lunch - Fellowships for social change
Civil society organisations, in their form and function, are distinct from corporations and the state. But this doesn’t preclude them from using programmes and strategies that are also used by governments and businesses to shape societal outcom...
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30:44
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The Learning Lunch - Communications tools & active citizenry
Many civil society organisations (CSOs) have placed promoting active citizenry at the core of their strategies. Generally speaking, active citizenry refers to individuals participating in the social and political affairs of their communities to...
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28:34
The Learning Lunch - Disrupting harmful gender norms with role models
Gender norms are shared beliefs, ideas and expectations about how men and women are supposed to be and act, according to a classification system that categorises people as either male or female, known as a gender binary. These social principles...
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30:50
The Learning Lunch - What does it mean to scale?
Civil society organisations and innovators are rightly concerned with scaling their interventions to reach more people. In the socioeconomic development sector, terms like scaling up, out and deep are commonplace. But...
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28:56
The Learning Lunch - Zero-rating: a bridge across the digital divide
Mobile technology has the potential to transcend structural divides and enhance access to services that could accelerate socioeconomic development. However, apps and digital offerings that could link marginalised groups to much-needed resources...
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24:15
The Learning Lunch - Scaling up with social employment
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, social employment emerged as one of the levers that could stimulate the country’s economic recovery. As part of a host of publicly funded interventions, the South African government sought to centre and sup...
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31:09
The Learning Lunch - Keeping it real with #keready
Young people make up a third of South Africa’s population and are a key demographic for social, economic and political change. According to South Africa’s National Youth Policy, as well as its National Youth Commission Act (1996), the demograph...
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20:43
The Learning Lunch - Social Connections
Inequality of opportunity means that every child does not start their life with the same chances. Inherited circumstances such as race, gender, socioeconomic status and place of birth affect their likelihood for upward income and social mobilit...
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27:20
The Learning Lunch - How to keep volunteers motivated and engaged
Doing voluntary work carries several benefits for the volunteers themselves, for the organisation hosting them, and for prospective employers. Volunteer work can help young people to gain work experience and explore their passions and strengths...
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19:34
The Learning Lunch - Is there a sweet spot to working with government?
Civil society is made up of thousands of different actors with varying degrees of formality. These actors play different roles in society; some look long term at broader structural issues, others are focused on short-term goals, such as ensurin...
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31:16
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The Learning Lunch - Stronger together: building strategic coalitions in civil society
In South Africa, young people continue to be disadvantaged in a labour market where the youth unemployment rate is higher than the national average. In increasingly tough times, unemployment statistics paint a bleak picture. Unfortunately, and ...
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24:22
The Learning Lunch - Systems thinking for social innovation
How can we explore and create new approaches for achieving a more equal society that tackles both social and environmental challenges? How can we reimagine social systems and institutions to bring about positive change? We need to start at the ...
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27:10
The Learning Lunch - Leadership lessons from the Arch
The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, or the Arch as he is fondly referred to, once said on hope: “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness” and on being a wise leader: “Wisdom is when you are able to use your exper...
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33:08
The Learning Lunch - Exceptional storytelling with Embrace
Storytelling can be used in the non-profit sector as a means of listening and sharing, gaining trust within your network and shaping how you move forward with your work. In this podcast, Embrace Movement for Mothers shares their unique best pra...
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36:07
The Learning Lunch - Keeping young people afloat
Many NGOs work with children and young people – and mostly with children and young people who grow up in exceptionally difficult circumstances. Poverty and inequality often form the backdrop to a difficult and painful childhood marred by toxic ...
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33:25
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