The DGMT Learning Lunch
Episodes
The Learning Lunch - The impact engine
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Civil society organisations, particularly community-based organisations, are often on the frontlines of responding to complex social challenges. Yet, ...
The Learning Lunch - The economic value of free books
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Owning books can change a child’s life trajectory. This is a profound statement rooted in evidence from research around the world. Toddlers who are ...
The Learning Lunch - The hidden dimensions of poverty
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Youth development practitioners often focus on the supply and demand side of unemployment: greater investment in skills development and quality educat...
The Learning Lunch - Would an advertising ban reduce teen drinking?
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There is no safe amount of alcohol consumption for teenagers. Early binge drinking has long-term consequences on brain development, health and wellbei...
The Learning Lunch - Thinking on the edge
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
South Africa has a constitutional responsibility to uphold children’s rights. The government does this in different ways, by setting laws, deliverin...
The Learning Lunch - Is there an app for that?
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mobile apps are designed to simplify and digitise almost every aspect of our modern lives. You can buy groceries from your couch, order take-out, catc...
The Learning Lunch - Maternal Support Grant: It's social justice
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What comes to mind when you hear the term ‘social protection’? For many, it’s social grants or government assistance programmes. But at its core...
The Learning Lunch - Litigate to advocate
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Strategic litigation is a tactic that involves going to court to promote social change or human rights. This approach targets specific legal barriers ...
The Learning Lunch - What are policy windows?
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the world of policy change, timing is everything. According to political science scholar John Kingdon, a significant policy shift happens when thre...
The Learning Lunch - The anatomy of a powerful idea
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Civil society is a vibrant ecosystem of interest groups, activists, advocacy groups and organisations delivering a range of social services. These gro...
The Learning Lunch - What does tomorrow’s workforce look like?
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine if solving unemployment was as easy as creating more jobs or ending food poverty by producing more food. It's never that straightforward....
The Learning Lunch - Caring about the care economy
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, non-profit organisations (NPOs) have grappled with dwindling donor funding and reduced support from government departments, affecting...
The Learning Lunch - Using incentives for change
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Social and economic incentives are powerful tools to motivate and influence behaviour in individuals, communities and organisations. Social incentives...
The Learning Lunch - When projects don't go according to plan
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Civil society organisations are a catalyst for innovation and positive social change in communities – filling gaps in service delivery. To be effect...
The Learning Lunch - Putting children first
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 d...
The Learning Lunch - Trust-based funding for NGOs
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Community-based organisations (CBOs) are non-profits operating at the local level, albeit with limited resources at their disposal. They tend to be re...
The Learning Lunch - Community ownership is not a means to an end
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you work in civil society or the socioeconomic development sector, you have probably heard, or used, the term “community ownership” because it ...
The Learning Lunch - Fellowships for social change
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Civil society organisations, in their form and function, are distinct from corporations and the state. But this doesn’t preclude them from using pro...
The Learning Lunch - Communications tools & active citizenry
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many civil society organisations (CSOs) have placed promoting active citizenry at the core of their strategies. Generally speaking, active citizenry r...
The Learning Lunch - Disrupting harmful gender norms with role models
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Learning Lunch - What does it mean to scale?
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Civil society organisations and innovators are rightly concerned with scaling their interventions to reach more people. In the socioeconomic developme...
The Learning Lunch - Zero-rating: a bridge across the digital divide
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mobile technology has the potential to transcend structural divides and enhance access to services that could accelerate socioeconomic development. Ho...
The Learning Lunch - Scaling up with social employment
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
The Learning Lunch - Keeping it real with #keready
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Af...
The Learning Lunch - Social Connections
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Inequality of opportunity means that every child does not start their life with the same chances. Inherited circumstances such as race, gender, socioe...
The Learning Lunch - How to keep volunteers motivated and engaged
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Doing voluntary work carries several benefits for the volunteers themselves, for the organisation hosting them, and for prospective employers. Volunte...
The Learning Lunch - Is there a sweet spot to working with government?
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Civil society is made up of thousands of different actors with varying degrees of formality. These actors play different roles in society; some look l...
The Learning Lunch - Stronger together: building strategic coalitions in civil society
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In South Africa, young people continue to be disadvantaged in a labour market where the youth unemployment rate is higher than the national average. I...
The Learning Lunch - Systems thinking for social innovation
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we explore and create new approaches for achieving a more equal society that tackles both social and environmental challenges? How can we reim...
The Learning Lunch - Leadership lessons from the Arch
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Learning Lunch - Exceptional storytelling with Embrace
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 forw...
The Learning Lunch - Keeping young people afloat
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many NGOs work with children and young people – and mostly with children and young people who grow up in exceptionally difficult circumstances. Pove...
The Learning Lunch - Harnessing Thunder
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Where lies our hope at the moment? The last two years have been challenging for civil society. The COVID-19 pandemic heightened the inequalities of So...
The Learning Lunch - Theory U: Create the future
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As civil society, we see ourselves as drivers of change. But, sometimes we can get so bogged down in the day-to-day humdrum of our work, that we lose ...