The Children's Institute monitors South Africa's progress in realising children's rights and generates evidence to centre children's rights in government's planning and reform processes. Through this work, we hold the state accountable to its constitutional obligations. We play a leading role in developing civil society shadow reports to international and regional human rights treaty supervisory committees.

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Launch of 2024 SA Child Gauge

That South Africa must invest in early childhood development to break intergenerational poverty and inequality is the key message of the latest Child Gauge