The 5th Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators will be held on 2-4 September 2015 at the University of Cape Town. 

The National Association of Child and Youth Care Workers (NACCW) of South Africa will be holding a live webcast of a panel discussion on child and youth care work, July 2, 2015, 2:00-3:30 p.m. in South Africa.

This Doctoral Thesis explores whether children in South Africa who reside with their biological father have better health than children whose fathers live elsewhere.

Family for Every Child is recruiting a Regional Coordinator for a Learning Network on Recovery and Reintegration from Child Sexual Exploitation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This report from Sonke Gender Justice is an adaptation of the global State of the World’s Fathers report, produced by Mencare. The report highlights the research and findings from the State of the World’s Fathers report that are specific to Africa.

In this article, the author, Gilles Virgili, calls for the inclusion of unaccompanied migrant children in the UN Sustainable Development Goals to be adopted by governments across the world in September.

This booklet was developed by Mamelani Projects, a community development organisation in South Africa. The booklet outlines Mamelani’s approach to Youth Development and providing transitional support to young people as they transition out of Child and Youth Care Centres (CYCCs).

The aim of this research was to explore and describe the lived experiences of children living on the streets of Hillbrow, Johannesburg, with a focus on children’s mental health and wellbeing.

In an effort to support practitioners to address some challenges of trying to undertake quality research, a group of child protection networks and organizations - the Community Child Protection Exchange, the CP MERG, the CPC Learning Network, and REPSSI - came together to produce this joint newsletter reflecting upon some groups’ successes and challenges working on child protection research and M&E, including working with a limited budget in low-resource settings.

This video briefly recaps the Africa-Wide Children without Appropriate Care Program Learning Event hosted by Save the Children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 20-23 April 2015.