Five-year strategy: 2023-2027

The DG Murray Trust (DGMT) is a public innovator through strategic investment. Innovation is achieved through behavioural change (influencing individual and societal mindsets and actions) and through technological change. For us, public innovation is simply the process of making the world a better place for all people, in synergy with nature.

We are committed to developing South Africa’s potential by helping to create an ethical and enabling environment where human needs and aspirations are met; and where every person is given the opportunity to fulfil their potential, for both personal benefit and for that of the wider community.

We see our role as to: ɸ commission projects that can seize the opportunities for success; ɸ communicate those opportunities in ways that inspire leadership and action; and ɸ connect people of like and unlike mind, who are committed to the same goal.

Our focus

Our approach to communication

Our approach to funding

WHAT INFORMS AND DRIVES THE DGMT TEAM?

What is the inequality trap?

Twisting our way out of the trap

The conditions for a thriving society

Ten opportunities to escape the inequality trap

WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO INVEST IN

Connect and cultivate imaginative leaders

Release systemic chokes that trap us in inequality

Build productive synergies between communities and the environment

Give every child the benefit of early childhood development

Stop nutritional stunting of young children

Make sure every child is ready to read and do maths by the time they go to school

Build simple, loving connections for every child

Accelerate learning for learners failed by the system

Create new connections to opportunity for young people

Support young people to keep their grip on opportunity

Place-based synergies

Cultivate community engagement and ownership

Enable integrated human development programme implementation

Create opportunities for economic participation

Foster safe and enabling environments

Scale the impact of effective programmes