Journal articles 

  • Abrahams N, Mhlongo S, Chirwa E, Mathews S, Dekel B, Ketelo A, Lombard C, Shai N, Ramsoomar L, Labuschagne G, Matzopoulos R, Prinsloo M, Martin LJ, Jewkes R. Femicide, intimate partner femicide, and non-intimate partner femicide in South Africa: An analysis of three national surveys, 1999-2017. PLOS Medicine. 2024; 21(1):1-21. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004330
  • Bakuwa TC, Saloojee G, Slemming W. “This can certainly work…”: stakeholder perspectives of the feasibility of a caregiver-led training program for caregivers of children with cerebral palsy in a rural setting in Malawi. Front Public Health. 2024; 12:1390645.  doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1390645
  • Chen S, Quinton M, Alharbi A, Bao H, Bell B, Carter B, Duiganan MB, Heyes A, Kaplanidou K, Karamani M, Kennelly J, Kokolakakis T, Lee M, Liang X, Maharaj B, Judith M, Smith A, van Blerk L, et al. Propositions and recommendations for enhancing legacies of major sporting events for disadvantaged communities and individuals. Event Management. 2024; 28(8):1243-1254.  doi.org/10.3727/152599524X17077053867647
  • Chikoko W, van Blerk L, Hunter J, Shand W. Realising capabilities for street young people in Harare, Zimbabwe: A new approach to social protection. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. 2024; 25(1):110-130. doi.10.1080/19452829.2023.2261868
  • Drimmelen T, Slagboom MN, Reis R, Bouter LM, Steen JT van der.  Decisions, decisions, decisions: an ethnographic study of researcher discretion in practice. Science and Engineering Ethics. 2024; 30(6):1-24. doi.org/10.1007/s11948-024-00481-5
  • Hajdu F, van Blerk L, Ansell N, Hemsteede R, Mwathunga E, Hlabana T, Robson E. Livelihood Trajectories of Rural Young People in Southern Africa: Stuck in Loops? Development and Change. 2024; 55(3):465-492. doi.org/10.1111/dech.12826
  • Hargovan M, London L, Orgill M. The influence of crisis on policy formulation: the case of alcohol regulation in South Africa during COVID-19 (2020-21). Health Policy and Planning. 2024 August; 39(7):753-770. doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czae055
  • Julien AG, Elzen WPJ den, Reis R, Touwen D, Gussekloo J, Drewes YM, Vitality of older individuals through internal and external connectedness. Aging and Health Research. 2024; 4(2):1-7. doi.org/10.1016/j.ahr.2024.100185
  • Kiarie G, Gilson L, Orgill M. Workplace based learning in district health leadership and management strengthening: a framework synthesis. Health policy and planning. 2024; 40(1):105-119. doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czae095
  • Martens N, Haverkate TMI, Hindori-Mohangoo HD, Hindori MP, Aantjes CJ, Beeckman K, Van Damme A, Reis R et al. Implementing group care in Dutch and Surinamese maternity and childcare services: the vital importance of addressing outer context barriers. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2024; 24(427):1-13. doi.org/10.1186/s12884-024-06720-8
  • Mathews S, Berry L. Developing an understanding of complex trauma among child sexual assault survivors in South Africa: implications for practice. Child Abuse Review. 2024; 33(6):1-10. doi.org/10.1002/car.70012
  • Nyawose ZZ, Naidoo R, Christie C, Bassett S, Coetzee D, van Gent M, Monyeki A, Gradidge P, van Rensburg CJ, Cozett C, Young M, Slemming W, et al. Results from South Africa’s 2022 Healthy Active Kids’ Report Card on physical activity, body composition proxies, and nutritional status in children and adolescents. J Phys Act Health. 2024; 21(9):861-871. doi.10.1123/jpah.2023-0708
  • Orgill M, Marchal B, Harris B, Gilson L. Initiating systemic capacity development for leadership from the bottom-up: a realist evaluation of a leadership innovation in a South African health district. Health Policy and Planning. 2024; 40(1):31-41. doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czae099
  • Pell C, Masilela N, Hlatshwayo P, Dlamini P, Dlamini B, Molemans M, Nxumalo N, Masuku S, Reis R, Shabalala F. Decentralizing care for hypertension and diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from mixed-methods implementation research in Eswatini. SSM - Health Systems. 2024; 1-42. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmhs.2024.100024
  • van Blerk L, Hunter J, Shand W. Crisis temporalities and on-going capabilities in the lives of young people growing up on the streets of African cities: An ethnographic longitudinal perspective. Royal Geographical Society with IBG.  2024; 56(1):1-9. doi.org/10.1111/area.12892
  • Van Damme A, Talrich F, Crone M, Rijnders M, Patil CL, Rising SS, Abanga J, Billings DL, Hindori-Mohangoo AD, Hindori MP, Martens N, Mathews S, Molliqaj, M Orgill, Slemming W, Beeckman K. Identifying anticipated challenges when implementing group care: Context-analyses across seven countries to develop an anticipated challenges framework. Midwifery. 2024; 139:1-10. doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2024.104166
  • Van Damme A, Molliqaj V, Beeckman K, Orgill M, Wiseman O. Implementing group care. The Practising Midwife. 2024; 27(4):18-23. doi:10.55975/GLLP9867
  • van de Sande MCE, Fekkes M, Diekstra RFW, Gravesteijn C, Kocken PL, Reis R. Low-achieving adolescent students’ perspectives on their interactions with classmates. An exploratory study to inform the implementation of a social emotional learning programme in prevocational education. Children and Youth Services Review. 2024; 156; 1-9. doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107263
  • van de Sande MCE, Pars E, Diekstra RFW, Gravesteijn C, Kocken PL, Reis R, Fekkes M, Parents’ perspectives on adolescent social-emotional learning. An explorative qualitative study amongst parents of students in prevocational secondary education. Health Education. 2024; 124(1/2):1-9. doi.10.1108/HE-07-2023-0074
  • Whyte M, Ibisomi L, Chirwa T, Levin J, Slemming W. Fidelity of implementation of national guidelines on malaria diagnosis for children under-five years in Rivers State, Nigeria. Malaria Journal. 2024; 23(1):1-11. doi.org/10.1186/s12936-024-04957-4

Books and book chapters 

  • Almeleh C, Hall K, Giese S, Dowdall N, Kotze J. Early childhood development data systems. In: Slemming W, Biersteker L, Lake L, editors. South African Child Gauge 2024. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town; 2024. p.168-178.
  • Bamford L, Slemming W. Ensuring that mothers and young children survive and thrive: The role of the health sector. In: Slemming W, Biersteker L, Lake L, editors. South African Child Gauge 2024. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town; 2024. p.77-87.
  • Berry L, Slemming W. Mind the policy gap: An overview of progress toward providing universal services for young children in South Africa. In: Slemming W, Biersteker L, Lake L, editors. South African Child Gauge 2024. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town; 2024. p.66-76.
  • Biersteker L, Lake L. Delivery systems: What is needed to strengthen delivery on the ground. In: Slemming W, Biersteker L, Lake L, editors. South African Child Gauge 2024. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town; 2024. p.179-193.
  • Collins TM. Children’s rights in professional practices with children and youth. Elgar studies in human rights series. Edward Elgar Publishing; 2024. p.236.  
  • Collins TM, Tisdall K, McMellon C, Gibson S. Child and young people’s participation in impact assessment. In: Burdett T, Sinclair J, editors. Public participation in impact assessment. Edward Elgar research handbooks of impact assessment series. Edward Elgar Publishing; 2024. p.221-235.
  • Hall K. The status of early childhood development in South Africa: A statistical overview. In: Slemming W, Biersteker L, Lake L, editors. South African Child Gauge 2024. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town; 2024. p.57-76.
  • Hunter J, van Blerk L, Shand W, Lampety R. Street youth as human billboards – a paradox of performed street citizenship: novel political participation by street youth in Ghana. In: Pinnock K, Jones N, van Blerk L, Gumbonzvanda N, editors. Young people in the global South: voice, agency and power.  Routledge: London; 2024. p.213-224.
  • Jamieson J, Rizzini I, Collins TM, Wright, LHV. International perspectives on the participation of children and young people in the Global South. In: Twum-Danso A, Imoh L, Rabello de Castro P, Naftali O, editors. Studies of childhoods in the Global South: Towards an epistemic turn in transnational childhood research. Routledge; 2024. 
  • Jones N, Pinnock K, van Blerk L, Gumbonzvanda N. Young people in the global South: voice, agency and power, Routledge: London; 2024.
  • Naicker S, Gwele M, Samuels A, Delany A, Lake L, Slemming W. All families need some support, and some families need all the help they can get: Achieving equity by providing extra care. In: Slemming W, Biersteker L, Lake L, editors. South African Child Gauge 2024. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town; 2024. p.112-125.
  • Pinnock K, Jones N, van Blerk L.  Introduction: Adolescent and young people’s voice, agency and citizenship in the global South. In: Pinnock K, Jones N, van Blerk L, Gumbonzvanda N, editors.  Young people in the global South: voice, agency and power, Routledge: London; 2024. p.1-26.
  • Pinnock K, Jones N, van Blerk L. Final reflections and next steps for policy, programming and research. In: Jones N, Pinnock K, van Blerk L, Gumbonzvanda N, editors. Young people in the global South: voice, agency and power, Routledge: London; 2024. p. 337-390.
  • Proudlock P, Nyathi M, Hansungule-Nefale Z, Peacock T, Lake L, Frank T, Pereira-Kotze K. Law reform and case law affecting children. In: Slemming W, Biersteker L, Lake L, editors. South African Child Gauge 2024. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town; 2024. p.16-35.
  • Slemming W, Biersteker L, Lake L, editors. South African Child Gauge 2024. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town; 2024. p.1-244.
  • Slemming W, Berry L, Lake L. Invest early to build a strong foundation for national development. In: Slemming W, Biersteker L, Lake L, editors. South African Child Gauge 2024. Cape Town: Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town; 2024. p.38-43.

Research reports 

Research and policy briefs

Legal and policy submissions

  • SECTION27, Centre for Child Law and Children’s Institute joint written submissions on the South African Council for Educator’s revised draft Sanctioning Policy for the Contraventions of the Code of Professional Ethics. 2024 August 24. 

Guides

Opinion editorials and press statements 

Presentations (international)

  • Collins TM. How children's rights are relevant to professional practices with children and youth: a proposal for a relational child rights-based praxis. Presented at Unity Conference, Resetting the Foundation Stones of Relational Practice. 2024 November 12; Dublin, Ireland.
  • Collins TM.  Child rights and why they matter, integrated service delivery, government of New Brunswick. 2024 November 14-15. [Invited speaker, online training]
  • Moshopane D, Jamieson L. Child activism in South Africa (poster presentation). Inaugural International Canadian Child Rights Partnership Conference. 2024 July 8-11; Durham, Canada.
  • Orgill M. Health systems strengthening learning series: how can health systems meaningfully enable behaviour change and performance of health system sectors? FHI360 International. 2024. [Invited speaker, online webinar series]
  • Rizzini I, Collins TM. Exploring conceptualisations and practices of children’s rights internationally. 2024 June 13; University of Ottawa, Canada. [Hybrid]
  • Ruiz-Casares M, Collins TM.  Considering human rights-based and relational approaches to social research, interns associated with McGill University’s Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy Internship Program (DEEP).  2024 February 1; McGill University, Canada. [Online]
  • van Blerk L. Side event to the UN first ministerial conference on ending violence against children. 2024 November. [Organiser and presenter, online]
  • van Blerk L. Invited Plenary Lecture for Children’s Geographies at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference. 2024 August 27-30; Royal Geographical Society, London. [Keynote speaker]
  • van Blerk L. Older people’s social networks international workshop. National University of Singapore. 2024 May 23-24; Singapore. [Guest speaker]
  • van Blerk L.  Invited expert meetings at UN Human Rights. 2024 March 01; UN Headquarters, Geneva.

Presentations (local)

  • Blackwood R, Jamieson L, Rizzini I. ICCRP Policy Working Group. Webinar: Advancing Children’s Rights through Law and Policy: Experiences from Brazil, South Africa and Scotland. 2024 June 11; Cape Town. [Online, panellist]
  • Gwele M, Biersteker L, Orgill M. Unlocking the voices of children through playful activities. South Africa National Conference on Play-Based Learning. Conference theme: Early Learning and Development: Foundations for the Future through Partnerships on Play, Parents, Practice and Policy. 2024 February 21-22; Indaba Conference Centre, Johannesburg.
  • Gwele M, Biersteker L, Orgill M. Children’s perceptions of safety, inclusion and participation in early learning: research with children through creative and play-based methods.  Department of Paediatrics and Child Health (DPCH) Annual Research Day. 2024 October 29-30; University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
  • Jamieson L, Mathews S, Titi N, Vutu S. Responding to the co-victimisation of mother and child in rural South Africa: closing the gaps in integrated services. Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum, CTICC. 2024 October 24; Cape Town.
  • Jamieson L. Resolving consent conundrums with compassion and care. Paediatrics Refresher Course. 2024 February; Vineyard Hotel, Cape Town.
  • Lake L. How can we use children’s rights to health to hold government accountable and bring children’s rights down to earth?  International Conference on Children’s Rights. 2024 September 11; University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town.
  • Lake L. Protecting child health budgets from austerity cuts. Child Health Priorities Association webinar. 2024 May 8; Cape Town. [Webinar]
  • Lake L. Shadow reports to the UN: Tracking progress for children. Department of Paediatrics and Child Health. 2024 January 31; University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
  • Matisonn H, Jamieson L. Ethics in the era of emerging technologies: safeguarding young people's mental health and psychological wellbeing SA-ACAPAP 2024 congress. 2024 March 9; Protea Hotel Stellenbosch, Cape Town. [Invited plenary]
  • Nyathi M. Social grants for children without birth certificates and caregivers without identity documents: the proviso to regulation 13(1) of the social assistance act. online seminar for the NGO Forum. 2024 February 9; Pietermaritzburg.
  • Nyathi M. Navigating the social grants system in South Africa. Saartjie Baartman Centre Workshop for Women Living in Shelters. 2024 October 15; The Children’s Institute (in partnership with ProBono), University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
  • Nyathi M, Proudlock P. Social grants for children without birth certificates and caregivers without identity documents: the proviso to regulation 13(1) of the social assistance act. Centre for Social Science Research, the seminar on referral protocols for research participants in the Hey Baby project. 2024 May 16; University of Cape Town, Cape Town. 
  • Orgill M, Gwele M, Slemming W. Group antenatal care in the first 1000 days. Mowbray Maternity Research committee. 2024 October 1; Cape Town.
  • Orgill M, Slemming W, Gwele M. Stakeholder workshop G-ANC implementation and scaling up of G-ANC with implementers and policy makers. 2024 March 11; Woodstock, Cape Town.
  • Orgill M, Biersteker L, Gwele M, Morrison L. Early learning in communities: safety, inclusion and participation. 2024 September; Constantia, Cape Town.
  • Proudlock P. Kinship care and social grants – shifts in the law. Children in Distress Network, Online Seminar on Supporting Kinship Care. 2024 November 20; (South Africa). [Invited speaker]
  • Slemming W. Placing children at the centre of research, policy and planning for food and nutrition security. Keynote address at the Centre of Excellence in Food Security (CoE-FS) Tenth Anniversary Symposium. 2024 May 22; University of the Western Cape, Cape Town.
  • Slemming W. Enhancing early childhood development: Findings from the South African Child Gauge 2024. 30 Years of Early Childhood Development (ECD) in South Africa. 2024 September 11; Menlyn, Pretoria.
  • Slemming W. South African Child Gauge 2024: Enhancing early childhood development. UCT Department of Paediatrics and Child Health Advocacy Symposium. 2024 October 2; Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town.
  • van Blerk L. Street youth lived resiliencies. 2024 August 1; Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town. [Guest seminar]