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- Child poverty and inequality
- Early childhood development
- Violence against children
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Developing an understanding of the intersections of violence against women and children
- Bridging the divide between VAC and VAW
- Common risk factors
- Shared social norms
- Co-occurrence
- Compounding Intergenerational Effects
- Intersections repository
- Promising strategies to address the intersections of VAC and VAW
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Intersections blog
- Child Protection Week: Tend to our children’s cry for help
- Gender-transformative approaches are key to programming aimed at reducing violence against women and children
- Gender-based violence and Covid-19: A collision of pandemics
- Preventing violence starts with changing discriminatory gender norms
- Early intervention is best way to break cycle of child, gender violence
- Ending violence against women and children requires a shift in our thinking and practices
- End this heartbreaking cycle of violence against children
- Our Covid-19 strategy must include measures to reduce violence against women and children
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Current Projects
- Current Projects: Overview
- 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
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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
- Commissions & Tenders
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REPORTERS' RESOURCES ON VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN
- MEDIA GUIDELINES
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OVERVIEW OF VIOLENCE
- Economic Burden of Violence Against Children (2017)
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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CHILD MURDER
- Child murder: Infographics
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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)
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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)
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PHYSICAL VIOLENCE AND CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
- Corporal punishment: Academic Papers
- Corporal punishment: Briefs
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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SEXUAL VIOLENCE
- Sexual violence: Infographics
- Sexual Violence: Media Summaries
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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)
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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)
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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)
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VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS
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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)
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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)
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Violence in schools: Academic Papers
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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)
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VIOLENCE IN THE HOME
- Violence in the home: Infographics
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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
- INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN
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Child Gauge
- Child Gauge: Overview
- CG 2024: Early childhood development
- Child and adolescent mental health
- CG 2020: Food and nutrition security
- CG 2019: Child and adolescent health
- CG 2018: Children, Families and the State
- CG 2017: Survive, Thrive, Transform
- CG 2016: Children and social assistance
- CG 2015: Youth and the intergenerational transmission of poverty
- CG 2014: Preventing violence against children
- CG 2013: Essential services for young children
- CG 2012: Children and inequality: Closing the gap
- CG 2010/2011: Children as citizens: Participating in social dialogue
- CG 2009/2010: Healthy children: From survival to optimal development
- CG 2008/2009: Meaningful access to basic education
- CG 2007/2008: Children’s constitutional right to social services
- CG 2006: Children and poverty
- CG 2005: Children and HIV/AIDS
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Children's Act
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- Budget Monitoring
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Research and submissions
- South Africa's Progress in Realising Children's Rights: A Law Review (2014)
- Submissions to National Assembly (Submission on Children's Amendment Bill [B18 – 2020] November 2020)
- Submissions to National Assembly (Submission on Children’s Amendment Bill and Children’s Second Amendment Bill September 2015)
- Submissions to the Department of Social Development (May – November 2011)
- Submissions to National Assembly (August - September 2007)
- Submissions to Provincial Parliaments (September 2006 - March 2007) - by province
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- Submissions to the Department of Social Development (June 2006)
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