• More than a tickbox exercise: Embedding Learning for Stronger Teams and Smarter Investments

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    Beyond monitoring and reporting: Building empowered and capable teams Embedded learning in action A recent project for Frontline Aids has got us thinking about the work we do and how we do it. While it’s a given that donors and organisations require data and insights to assess the impact of their investments, MEL is about…

  • From a Childhood of Connection to a Lifelong Journey of Advocacy

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    Gethwana Mahlase is a renowned storyteller, HIV and AIDS activist, and the founder of a HIV and AIDS NGO called Targeted AIDS Interventions (TAI). Her work reflects an inspiring blend of resilience, vision, and determination. “I had no office, no equipment, no computer, no chair, nothing. But I had something very powerful. I had the…

  • Investing in change

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    Over the last few months we have been focusing a lot on what it takes to help the helpers, to inspire the inspiring. We want to strengthen the groups that are creating social justice in all areas where it’s still needed. How do you capacitate and upskill individuals within organisations that are at the coalface…

  • Inspiration for the Inspiring

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    Looking around the world at the moment, it would be easy to feel despairing and hopeless; wars, climate change catastrophes, a roll back on human rights, a mental health epidemic are but a few of the issues that we as humanity are facing.  One of our favourite quotes is from Fred Rogers “When I was…

  • Look at the stars and how they shine for you

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    Employed at Southern Hemisphere as part of the @SAMEA Young Emerging Evaluator programme, Natefo Mothupi, who once dreamt of being an astronomer, has a path lit up by promise. Keep a lookout, this is a future Women at the Helm Foundation, family and focus It is clear that family has been formative in Natefo’s young…

  • A life lived on purpose – Christina Nomdo

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    Commissioner for Children, Western Cape and activist with a passion for the realisation of children’s rights is recognised as being a leader and an exemplar of a Women at the Helm A life lived on purpose Christina is the embodiment of a life lived with a clear purpose; hers is to promote and protect children’s…