South Africa and Children and young people
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- Children's participation in transport planning and policy: Ghana, South Africa and India
- M. Mashiri; S. Dube; D. Buiten / Commonwealth Youth and Development, 2007
- Transport plays a significant role in the lives of children and young people, facilitating or constraining their ability to discharge their domestic responsibilities, providing opportunities for earning an income, supporting or inhibi...
- Offering support to elderly carers
- Children in Distress Network / Children in Distress Network, 2007
- The role of caring for orphaned and vulnerable children rests heavily on elderly women in communities severely affected by HIV and AIDS. This proposal concept from the CINDI Network programme in South Africa outlines the results of a ...
- Examining worldwide practices of youth social entrepreneurship
- S. Maak / Child Rights Information Network, 2007
- The term “social entrepreneurship” has emerged as a recognisable field in development work with young people. This growing interest began in the 1980s with the emergence of two schools of practice that aimed to invest in y...
- Harmonising child rights laws in Eastern and Southern Africa
- African Child Policy Forum, 2007
- This report reviews and analyses how far 19 Eastern and Southern African countries have gone in harmonising and implementing the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the African Charter on the Righ...
- The effects of having pensioners in the household on South African labour supply responses
- C. Ardington; A. Case; V. Hosegood / Research Program in Development Studies, Princeton University, 2007
- This paper quantifies the labour supply responses of prime-aged individuals to changes in the presence of old-age pensioners in their households, using longitudinal data collected in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The authors c...
- Story telling to tackle psychosocial problems
- J. Morgan / Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative For Children Affected by HIV/AIDS, 2006
- This manual leads children and youth, in groups, through a series of autobiographical story telling and art exercises, designed to explore solutions and to mobilise a community response, in the face of specific personal and social cha...
- Harmonisation of national laws with Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)-Country reviews
- African Child Policy Forum, 2007
- This is a regional examination of the extent of harmonisation of national laws relating to children under the umbrella of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). This report reviews and analyses how far countries in Eastern a...
- Essays on child poverty in South Africa: how effective are government initiatives for poor children?
- J. Monson; K. Hall; C. Smith; M. Shung-King / Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2006
- The South African Child Gauge provides an annual snapshot of the situation of children in South Africa, and of progress towards realising children’s rights. The 2006 issue focuses on children and poverty. Features include a discu...
- Participatory research to link vulnerable children, communities and local government in South Africa
- P. Cook; L. duToit / Canadian International Development Agency, 2004
- This document is the final report on a participatory research project that aimed to empower communities in South Africa to support vulnerable young people affected by HIV and AIDS and protect them from abuse. The project was conducted...
- Unity among African youth organisations will give voice to young people
- U.E. Diemer / African Child Policy Forum, 2006
- Fragmentation is preventing youth organisations in Africa from becoming effective agents for change, this report concludes. The report draws on views of young people from Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan an...
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