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The South African Child Death Review Project - effective intersectoral collaboration
Child Rights & Child Law Short Course for Health & Allied Professionals
Children Count – Abantwana Babalulekile
Children’s Act: Promoting Implementation
Social Assistance for Orphaned Children Living with Relatives
Social security – towards comprehensive protection for children
South African Child Gauge
Group Care for the First 1,000 Days
Intersections of Violence against Women and Violence against Children
Safe Inclusive Participative Pedagogy: Improving Early Childhood Education
Completed Projects
Analysing the nature and extent of child-headed households in South Africa
Caring Schools: Schools as nodes of care and support
Child Health Services review
Child Survival Project
Child-Centred Analysis of Government’s Budgets
Children and antiretroviral treatment
Completed Projects: Overview
Children’s Bill Project
Dikwankwetla – Children in Action: Facilitating children's participation in the Children's Bill
Evaluations and case studies of the CI law-reform methodology
Firearms injuries
Foster care in the time of AIDS: Children 'in need of care' or in need of cash
Southern Africa regional network on child indicators
Growing up in a time of AIDS: Abaqophi BakwaZisize Abakhanyayo Children's Radio Project
Health and social services to address the needs of orphans and other vulnerable children in South Africa
Healthy cities
Home truths: Residential care in the context of the AIDS pandemic
Infants and HIV/AIDS in South Africa: The fragility of life
Means to Live: Evaluating the targeting of poverty alleviation for poor children and their households
Media and the representation of children affected by HIV/AIDS
National Child Poverty Monitor
National Children's Forum on HIV/AIDS
National Directory of Services for children and youth infected and affected by HIV/AIDS
National Health Act
National school health services policy
Ordinary Politics: Race and opportunity in contemporary South Africa
Piloting the Care Dependency Grant assessment tool
Project 28: Promoting children's socio-economic rights
Rapid appraisal of primary level health care services for HIV-positive children at public sector clinics in South Africa
Researching and developing systems to facilitate the identification, monitoring and support of vulnerable children
Social Assistance Act and regulations
Social Security and Disability
Social Service Practitioners Advocacy Network
Theorising children’s participation: Learning across countries and across disciplines
Western Cape Developmental Screening Programme
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REPORTERS' RESOURCES ON VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN
MEDIA GUIDELINES
Reporting on Gender-Based Violence: A Guide for Journalists and Editors (2017)
OVERVIEW OF VIOLENCE
Economic Burden of Violence Against Children (2017)
Overview of violence: Infographics
Gauteng's Children in Lockdown (2020)
General Risk and Protective Factors (SA Child Gauge 2017, p62)
Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children 2020: Infographic
Risk and Protective Factors by Setting (SA Child Gauge 2014, poster)
Setting and Injuries by Stage of Development (SA Child Gauge 2019, p118)
Socio Ecological Model of Risk and Protective Factors (SA Child Gauge 2019, p122)
Violence Against Children is Widespread (2018)
Violence Against Women
Violence Against Women and Children are Linked (2017)
Violence Experienced by Children Throughout Their Lives (2018)
Violence through the life course of a child (SA Child Gauge 2014, p29)
WWSF 2017 Call to Action: Prevention Kit to End Violence Against Children/Youth - Agenda 2030
Overview of violence: Media Summaries
Few Safe Places for South African Children (2018)
Violence in the Lives of Children - What Have We Learnt From the Birth to 20+ Study (2018)
Video Series: CSDA Seminar on Violence in the Lives of Children in Africa
Overview: Briefs
Gender Dynamics and Girls' Perceptions of Crime and Violence (2011)
Guidelines for Legal Representatives of Children in Civil Matters (2016)
National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence Shadow Framework (2017)
Preventing Youth Violence: An Overview of the Evidence (2015)
Reducing Violence in South Africa: From Research to Action (2017)
South African Integrated Programme of Action: Addressing Violence Against Women and Children (2013-2018)
Strengthening the Child Protection System in South Africa (2017)
Violence Unwrapped: The Social & Economic Burden of Violence Against Children in South Africa - Executive Summary (2016)
What Will it Take to Prevent Interpersonal Violence in South Africa? (2019)
Overview of violence: Academic Papers
A Longitudinal Perspective on Violence in the Lives of South African Children from the Birth to Twenty Plus Cohort Study in Johannesburg-Soweto (2018)
Adopting a Violence Prevention Approach Shifting from Policies and Plans to Implementation (2014)
Preventing Violence: From Evidence to Implementation (2017)
The Economic Burden of Violence Against Children in South Africa (2017)
The Prevention of Violence Against Children: Creating a Common Understanding (2014)
Towards Effective Child Protection: Adopting a System Approach (2014)
Using a Child Rights Approach to Strengthen Prevention of Violence Against Children (2016)
Violence Against Children in South Africa: Developing a Prevention Agenda (2014)
Violence Against Children in South Africa: The Cost of Inaction to Society and the Economy (2018)
Overview: Reports
A Familiar Face: Violence in the Lives of Children and Adolescents (2017)
Children in Danger: Act to End Violence Against Children (2014)
Children's Rights in South Africa: Unfinished Business - 2016 and Beyond
Ending Violence in Childhood. Global Report 2017
Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children 2020
Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children 2020: Executive Summary
Global Status Report on Violence Prevention 2014
Hidden in Plain Sight: A Statistical Analysis of Violence Against Children (2014)
INSPIRE Handbook: Action for Implementing the Seven Strategies for Ending Violence Against Children (2018)
INSPIRE Indicator Guidance and Results Framework - Ending Violence Against Children: How to Define and Measure Change (2018)
INSPIRE: Seven Strategies for Ending Violence Against Children (2016)
Making Room: Facilitating the Testimony of Child Witnesses and Victims (2015)
Out of Harms Way? Tracking Child Abuse Cases Through the Child Protection System at Five Selected Sites in South Africa (2017)
Report on Diagnostic Review of the State Response to Violence Against Women and Children (2016)
Sexual Victimisation of Children in South Africa. Final Report of the Optimus Foundation Study: South Africa (2016)
Too Costly to Ignore - The Economic Impact of Gender-Based Violence in South Africa (2014)
Towards a More Comprehensive Understanding of the Direct and Indirect Determinants of Violence Against Women and Children in South Africa With a View to Enhancing Violence Prevention (2016)
Violence Against Children: A Review of Evidence Relevant to Africa on Prevalence, Impacts and Prevention (2018)
Violence Unwrapped: The Social & Economic Burden of Violence Against Children in South Africa (2016)
CHILD MURDER
Child murder: Infographics
Adolescent Murder (2019)
The Pattern of Child Murder (2019)
What is Child Murder? (2019)
Child murder: Briefs
Child Death Reviews in the Context of Child Abuse Fatalities - Learning from International Practice (2013)
Child Deaths in South Africa: Lessons from the Child Death Review Pilot (2016)
Child Homicide Patterns in South Africa: Is There a Link to Child Abuse? (2012)
Every Child Counts: Lessons From the South African Child Death Review Pilot (2015)
Fact Sheet NR 1: Child Deaths
Facts About Firearm Injuries and Fatalities Among Children in Cape Town (2006)
Fatal Child Abuse - The Murder of Children in the Home
The Epidemiology of Child Suicides in the City of Cape Town Metro West Region (2018)
The Optimus Study on Child Abuse, Violence and Neglect in South Africa (2015)
Child murder: Academic Papers
Developing an Understanding of Fatal Child Abuse and Neglect: Results from the South African Child Death Review Pilot Study (2016)
Gender Differences in Homicide of Neonates, Infants, and Children Under 5 y in South Africa: Results from the Cross-Sectional 2009 National Child Homicide Study (2016)
The South African Child Death Review Pilot: A Multiagency Approach to Strengthen Healthcare and Protection for Children (2016)
Sexual Homicides in South Africa: A National Cross-Sectional Epidemiological Study of Adult Women and Children (2017)
The Epidemiology of Child Homicides in South Africa (2013)
Underreporting Child Abuse Deaths: Experiences From a National Study on Child Homicide (2013)
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE AND CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
Corporal punishment: Academic Papers
Corporal punishment: Briefs
Physical violence: Infographics
ChildSafe - Unicef: Child Pedestrian Safety Project (2018)
Childsafe / UNICEF: Preventing Road Injuries Impacting Children in South Africa (PRICSA) (2018)
Corporal Punishment (2018)
Interconnections Between Intimate Partner Violence and Violence Against Children (2018)
Violence Against Children in the Home (2018)
Corporal punishment: Reports
Physical violence: Briefs
Appropriate Implementation of the Prohibition of Corporal Punishment in Schools in South Africa (2015)
Corporal Punishment is Against the Law: Nobody is Allowed to Hurt you at School! (2016)
Fact Sheet 1: Prohibiting Corporal Punishment Does Not Mean Criminalising Parents (2014)
Fact Sheet 2: Most Cultures Have Claimed That Corporal Punishment of Children is Part of Their Culture (2014)
Fact Sheet 3: Despite a Legal Ban, Corporal Punishment is Still Widely Practiced in South African Schools (2014)
Fact Sheet 4: The Negative Impacts of Corporal Punishment (2014)
Fact Sheet 5: Does Sparing The Rod Really Spoil the Child? (2014)
Fact Sheet 6: Positive Parenting Does Not Use Punishment, But Supports Discipline (2014)
Fact Sheet 7: Government Has a Duty to Protect Citizens of All Ages From Violence and Abuse (2014)
Fact Sheet 8: Children Have the Right to Legal Protection From Corporal Punishment (2014)
Fact Sheet NR 4: Crimes Against Children (2003)
Facts About Child Deaths in South Africa (2006)
From Fieldwork to Facts to Firearms Control. Research and Advocacy Towards Firearm Control Legislation in South Africa: A Case Study (2005)
Instances of Severe Corporal Punishment Damages Claim (2017)
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in South Africa: How To Break the Vicious Cycle (2015)
Progress Towards Prohibiting All Corporal Punishment of Children in East and Southern Africa (2016)
Reducing Physical Punishment of Children: Using Schools as Nodes of Intervention (2018)
Shifting Attitudes and Behaviours Underpinning Physical Punishment of Children (2017)
Physical violence: Academic Papers
Homicide Pattern Among Adolescents: A National Epidemiological Study of Child Homicide in South Africa (2019)
Physical, Emotional and Sexual Adolescent Abuse Victimisation in South Africa: Prevalence, Incidence, Perpetrators and Locations (2016)
Young Children: Preventing Physical Abuse and Corporal Punishment (2014)
Physical violence: Reports
Adolescents: Preventing Interpersonal and Gender-Based Violence (2014)
Ending Legalised Violence Against Children by 2030: Progress Towards Prohibition and Elimination of Corporal Punishment in Pathfinder Countries (2018)
Ending Violence Against Children: Six Strategies for Action (2014)
Violence Unwrapped: The social & economic burden of violence against children in South Africa (2016)
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
Sexual violence: Infographics
Media's Silence on Children Reflects it's priorities (2020)
Sexual Violence Against Children (2020)
What's Behind Children's Silences on Sexual Violence? (2020)
Sexual Violence: Media Summaries
Rape murder of women and children in South Africa
Understanding Child Sexual Abuse in South Africa
Sexual violence: Briefs
Children and Sex Work (2016)
Helping Children Recover from Trauma: Strengthening Therapeutic Responses for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse in the South African Context (2016)
Rape and Other Forms of Sexual Violence in South Africa (2014)
Understanding Men's Health and Use of Violence: Interface of Rape and HIV in South Africa (2009)
Very High Rates of Sexual Violence with Younger Learners Most Vulnerable (2017)
Sexual violence: Academic Papers
A Longitudinal Perspective on Boys as Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse in South Africa: Consequences for Adult Mental Health (2018)
A Psychosocial Understanding of Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure Among Female Children in South Africa (2016)
Exploring Mental Health Adjustment of Children Post Sexual Assault in South Africa (2013)
Sexual Violence Against Children in South Africa: A Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Study of Prevalence and Correlates (2018)
Sexual violence: Reports
An Outcome Assessment of a Residential Care Programme for Sexually-Abused Children in South Africa: A Research Report (2016)
Child Sexual Abuse in Atlantis (2003)
Responding to Children and Adolescents Who Have Been Sexually Abused: WHO Clinical Guidelines (2017)
Sexual Exploitation of Children in Africa- A Silent Emergency (2019)
Sexual Violence by Educators in South African School: Gaps in Accountability (2014)
VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS
Violence in schools: Academic Papers
Primary School Children: Widening Worlds and Increasing Risk of Sexual Abuse (2014)
School Violence in South Africa: Results of the 2012 National School Violence Study (2013)
The Frequency and Predictors of Poly-Victimisation of South African Children and the Role of Schools in its Prevention (2017)
Violence in schools: Reports
Addressing Bullying in Schools (2012)
Game Changer Roadmap 2017: After School
Positive Discipline and Classroom Management (2012)
Promoting Effective Enforcement of the Prohibition Against Corporal Punishment in South African Schools (2014)
School Violence and Bullying: Global Status Report (2017)
The National School Safety Framework (2015)
FEMICIDE
'I Had a Hard Life': Exploring Childhood Adversity in the Shaping of Masculinities among Men Who Killed an Intimate Partner in South Africa (2011)
'So Now I'm the Man': Intimate Partner Femicide and its Interconnections with Expressions of Masculinities in South Africa (2015)
Alcohol Use and Its Role in Female Homicides in the Western Cape, South Africa (2009)
Intimate Femicide-Suicide in South Africa: A Cross-Sectional Study (2008)
Intimate Partner Violence, Relationship Power Inequity, and Incidence of HIV Infection in Young Women in South Africa: A Cohort Study (2010)
The Epidemiology and the Pathology of Suspected Rape Homicide in South Africa (2008)
VIOLENCE IN THE HOME
Violence in the home: Infographics
Violence in the home: Briefs
Domestic Violence in South Africa (2014)
Engagement in Parenting Programmes: Exploring Facilitators of and Barriers to Participation (2016)
Engaging South African Fathers: The MenCare Childcare and Protection Programme (2019)
Parenting for Lifelong Health: Supporting Families in Low-Resource Settings (2018)
Prohibition of Corporal Punishment in the Home in South Africa (2015)
Violence in the home: Academic Papers
Rising to the Challenge: Towards Effective Parenting Programmes (2013)
Stopping Family Violence: Integrated Approaches to Violence Against Women and Children (2018)
INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN
Intersections VAWC: Infographics
Intergenerational Cycle of Violence
Intersections VAWC: Media Summaries
Fatal Child Abuse: The Murder of Children in the Home
Intergenerational consequences of violence in the home
Understanding Developments in the Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children Fields
Understanding Shared Risk Factors for Violence Against Women and Children
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