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Children's Institute projects are aimed at research, advocacy, policy development and/or education. Below is a list of our current and completed projects.

  1. Analysing the nature and extent of child-headed households in South Africa
  2. Caring Schools: Schools as nodes of care and support
  3. Child Health Services review
  4. Child rights and child law for health professionals
  5. Child Survival Project
  6. Child-centred analysis of government’s budgets
  7. Children and antiretroviral treatment
  8. Children Count – Abantwana Babalulekile
  9. Children’s Act: Promoting implementation
  10. Children’s Bill Project
  11. Dikwankwetla – Children in Action: Facilitating children's participation in the Children's Bill
  12. Evaluations and case studies of the CI law-reform methodology
  13. Firearms injuries
  14. Foster care in the time of AIDS: Children 'in need of care' or in need of cash
  15. Growing up in a time of AIDS: Abaqophi BakwaZisize Abakhanyayo Children's Radio Project
  16. Health and social services to address the needs of orphans and other vulnerable children in South Africa
  17. Healthy cities
  18. Home truths: Residential care in the context of the AIDS pandemic
  19. Infants and HIV/AIDS in South Africa: The fragility of life
  20. Means to Live: Evaluating the targeting of poverty alleviation for poor children and their households
  21. Media and the representation of children affected by HIV/AIDS
  22. National Child Poverty Monitor
  23. National Children's Forum on HIV/AIDS
  24. National Directory of Services for children and youth infected and affected by HIV/AIDS
  25. National Health Act
  26. National school health services policy
  27. Ordinary Politics: Race and opportunity in contemporary South Africa
  28. Piloting the Care Dependency Grant assessment tool
  29. Project 28: Promoting children's socio-economic rights
  30. Rapid appraisal of primary level health care services for HIV-positive children at public sector clinics in South Africa
  31. Researching and developing systems to facilitate the identification, monitoring and support of vulnerable children
  32. Social Assistance Act and regulations
  33. Social assistance for orphaned children living with relatives
  34. Social Security and Disability
  35. Social security – towards comprehensive protection for children
  36. Social Service Practitioners Advocacy Network
  37. South African Child Gauge
  38. Theorising children’s participation: Learning across countries and across disciplines
  39. Western Cape Developmental Screening Programme

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