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Preventing Unnecessary Loss of Parental or Family Care in Brazil, Guyana, India, South Africa, and Russia
Joanna Rogers - Family for Every Child, 01 Apr 2017
… purpose of the report is to highlight areas where more could be done to support children and families and to prevent … parental care arrangements ...36 4.4 Support received that could have helped children to remain in parental care … purpose of the report is to highlight areas where more could be done to support children and families and to prevent …
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Assessment of Capacity to Manage Alternative Care for Children in Southern Africa
Andrew Dunn & John Parry-Williams, 01 Feb 2008
… Article 20(3) of the CRC provides that alternative care could include, inter alia, foster placement, kafala of … put capacity stresses on ministries of social welfare who could take on the task of delivering cash transfers while at … research indicates that all those over 6 weeks of age could benefit from it.21 Although the figures used below are …
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Negotiating the care of children and support for caregivers
Nolwazi Mkhwanazi, Tawanda Makusha, Deidre Blackie, Lenore Manderson, Katharine Hall and Mayke Huijbregts - South African Child Gauge 2018, 20 Nov 2018
… these children themselves to perform care work when elders could not. Today, increased access to antiretrovirals allows … often weighed up against employment opportunities which could bring much needed income into the household. This is … the pregnancy was unplanned and they wished that they could delay motherhood, but late discovery of the pregnancy …
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Reflections on Africa’s Indigenous Knowledge of parenting: Indigenous parenting practices of different communities in Africa
Parenting in Africa Network (PAN), 2014
… was kept by the grandmother or father in a hatchery; this could be used to multiply the child’s investments and as the chicken multiply, they could be exchanged for a goat or sheep then later exchanged for a female calf. These could eventually build up a stock of livestock which could be …
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Reception of Children on the Move in South Africa
Anisa Mahmoudi & Tshegofatso Tracy Mothapo - Kids Empowerment , 01 Nov 2018
… section 22 of the RA7. She, however, was informed that she could not apply for her nephew as he was not her biological … Failure to provide a child the appropriate documentation could result in that child facing detention and deportation … status. It is not inconceivable that a group of children could form part of a “particular social group”, though this …
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Empowerment Outcomes: Evaluation Of A Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Programme For Caregivers Of Children With Disabilities In A South African Township
By Dr. Jean Elphick General Manager: Afrika Tikkun Empowerment Programme, 2017
… focus group, 2015). Caregivers described how they could support fellow m em bers by ‘respecting her’, ‘talking … P, for exam ple, said she felt it w as the one place she could share her ‘deepest dark thoughts’ (case study … arose w ithin the G roup w ere often caused w hen things could not be equally shared am ong all individual m em bers. …
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Why family matters to me: Findings from digital storytelling in eight countries
Emily Delap and Payal Saksena – Family for Every Child, 2016
… and formed another family. The house was left empty and I could Findings “At this time I felt like I was no longer part … to care for me in - 16-year-old girl, India happiness he could.” - 16-year-old girl, India Policy implications … and “My dad continued to cane me each time he was drunk. I could not take it any more and days in the house with nothing …
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South Africa's Progress in Realising Children's Rights: A Law Review
Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, and Save the Children, 2014
… and the recently promulgated 2014 regulations to the Act, could make matters worse for children in the care of extended … but had been unable to do so as she did not have an ID and could not obtain birth certificates for her children. Her own … The DHA official insisted that only the mother could register the child and that the grandmother therefore …
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COVID-19 and Alternative Care in South Africa: Children’s Responses to the Pandemic. A Case Study from a Child and Youth Care Centre in Mogale City
Rika Swanzen and Gert Jonker - Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond, 15 Dec 2020
… valuable during this time, especially when the CYCC could access online educational services. Primary human … the CYCC staff and other residents. Only under Level 2 could other professional services be activated again. Only … in the behaviour of the children during the lockdown could be detected and typified. ● Initially, nobody clearly …
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Girls on the Move in Southern Africa
Save the Children, 02 Jan 2020
… and for providing a room and “safe space” where workshops could be held and offering ongoing support to the girls who … and addresses complexities of both types of relationships could potentially serve migration outcomes for vulnerable … an approach was developed for the primary research that could draw from any variation from existing knowledge in the …
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