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The Children’s Institute has a high output of quality publications, including:
- Policy drafting and guidelines
- Policy and law submissions
- Policy commentary
- Policy summaries
- Research reports
- Working papers
- Workshop reports
- Peer-reviewed journal articles
- Chapters in books
- Training tools
- Fact sheets
- Brochures
- Conference posters
To register to receive these publications on a regular basis, complete the form on the Subscription page. To order any of the publications that you read about below, please contact Charmaine Smith.
Child survival roundtable CD-ROM
Compiled by Abrahams K, May 2006
 This CD-ROM contains the key outcomes of a child survival roundtable hosted by the CI in 2006 to discuss South Africa’s regressive performance related to child survival. It captures all the main communication products linked to the Child Survival Project, such as the roundtable report, PowerPoint™ presentations by participants, the CI working paper that informed the roundtable discussions, two CI-produced fact sheets related to child survival, a legal brief on children’s right to maximum survival and development, as well as reports and opinion-editorials related to the roundtable that appeared in the South African media.
This CD is not available online. Please contact Charmaine Smith to order a copy.
The Ebb and Flow of Child Health Policy Development in South Africa: Three case studies reflecting the role of the CI in shaping child health policy in South Africa
Shung-King M, December 2006
A Children’s Institute Case Study No 2
This publication reflects on the role and contribution of the CI to three government child health policies over a seven-year period. The policies are the National School Health Policy and Implementation Guidelines; the Policy Framework for Non-communicable Chronic Conditions in Children; and the Western Cape Provincial Policy on Screening for Developmental Disabilities in Pre-school Children. The case studies describe the CI’s role, methodologies used, experiences (both explicit and behind the scenes), the strengths and challenges of the Institute’s involvement, and lessons and suggestions on how to improve and strengthen child health policy development processes in general.
Facts about 'Invisible' and Excluded Children (2006)
Matthews T
Children Count – Abantwana Babalulekile Fact Sheet No 4 of 2006
This fact sheet is a joint product of the CI’s Child Survival Project and the Children Count – Abantwana Babalulekile Project. It draws on the United Nations Children’s Fund report, The State of the World’s Children 2006, which highlights the combination of devastating and unprotected conditions many children are faced with. As it is impossible to capture all the factors that cause children to become ‘invisible’ and excluded, the fact sheet presents information particular to the demographics of South Africa’s children, birth registration, and under-weight and severely under-weight children in the country.
Rights in brief: Children’s right to maximum survival and development
Dutschke M & Abrahams K, August 2006
Child survival is inextricably linked to child development. The right to maximum survival and development speaks to a continuum that begins at maximum survival and progresses to an endpoint represented by the optimum development of the child. Children therefore have the right to survive under conditions that enable them to develop to their full potential. The purpose of this rights brief is to analyse child survival from a human rights perspective by drawing on the relevant national and international human rights laws, with the overall aim of identifying the rights, duties, rights-holders and duty-bearers that exist in relation to children’s right to maximum survival and development.
South African Child Gauge 2006
Monson J, Hall K, Smith C & Shung-King M (eds)
This annual publication tracks South Africa’s progress towards realising children’s rights. The 2006 issue focuses on children and poverty, and in particular on the implementation of some of the government’s key policies, laws and programmes aimed at realising children’s socio-economic rights. A special data section presents child-centered statistics aimed at tracking the realisation of children’s socio-economic rights. The publication is accompanied by a pull-out map of South Africa that provides quick provincial references to a few key child-centred socio-economic indicators.
New interactive web site of child-centred data
The Children’s Institute in early 2007 launched an interactive version of its Children Count – Abantwana Babalulekile web site of child-centred data. This project is aimed at monitoring the realisation of children's socio-economic rights in South Africa by presenting and tracking child-centred data over time.
The new web site is organised into domains that reflect key socio-economic rights of South Africa's children. It presents data on basic demographics and care arrangements for children, as well as on health (including HIV/AIDS), nutrition, social assistance, education, housing, water, electricity and sanitation.
Users can search close to 40 indicators by a range of categories – age, sex, or province – and download these in graphic formats such as tables or graphs. Where available, data can be viewed across time periods, which enables the monitoring of the socio-economic situation of South Africa's children. The data is also accompanied by commentary on children’s socio-economic rights and their related indicators by drawing on constitutional and international law.
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