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Imali Ye Mwana

Imali Ye Mwana (the children's money) is a child rights budget advocacy network in the SADC region. The Network advocates for effective and efficient allocation and utilization of resources in state budgets to advance the rights of the child in SADC countries through coalition building, capacity building and research.

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Toolkits: Children Participating in Governance - Budget monitoring from a rights-based framework
11 Dec 2007Training manual for budget monitoring from a rights-based framework. Contact Shahieda on shendricks@idasa.org.za to order this book now.

Research Reports: Reflections from - Children’s Participating in Governance project: Budget monitoring within a rights-based framework
04 May 2007IDASA's Children Participating in Governance (CPG) project is about budget monitoring within a rights-based framework. The objectives of the project are : · To create ...

Research Reports: Non-State Actors Role in Realising Children’s Rights
14 Mar 2007By Rogers Dhliwayo IDASA’s research and advocacy has traditionally focused on obligations of the state in fulfilling children’s rights through the government’s performance in designing ...

Research Reports: No. 163 - Budgets for Home-based Care and Vulnerable Children
14 Dec 2006Over the last decade there have been several responses to the fight of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Amongst them are the Life Skills Programme run ...

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What Imali Ye Mwana does

Imali Ye Mwana works towards ensuring these rights for children:

"Every child has the right -
(1) (c) to basic nutrition, shelter, basic health care services and social services;
(d) to be protected from maltreatment, neglect, abuse or degradation;
(3) In this section child means a person under the age of 18 years"
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996; Section 28

"Everyone has the right to have access to -
(1) health care services&
(a) social security, including, if they are unable to support themselves and their dependants, appropriate social assistance
(2) The state must take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to achieve the progressive realisation of each of these rights."
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996; Section 27

"States Parties shall undertake all appropriate legislative, administrative, and other measures for the implementation of the rights recognized in the present Convention. With regard to economic, social and cultural rights, States Parties shall undertake such measures to the maximum extent of their available resources and, where needed, within the framework of international co-operation."
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 4

Imali Ye Mwana links

International Budget Project

International Human Rights Internship Programme

Alliance for Children's Entitlement to Social Security - ACESS

Children's Institute, University of Cape Town

Human Sciences Research Council - HSRC

The Child and Youth Research and Training Programme
Contact cfester@uwc.ac.za

International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - ESCR-Net

Children First

Save the Children Sweden

Norwegian Centre for Human rights

South African Human Rights Commission

Community Law Centre

Centre for Human rights, University of Pretoria

NANGO

Southern Africa Research Poverty Network

CRIN

Drumbeat

Child Justice Alliance

UN NGO Committee on the Rights of the Child

Centre for Victims of Torture (New Tactics for Human Rights)

UNICEF

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Country Work

Featured Book

Seeds for Growth: Financing smallholder farming in southern Africa
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22-Sep-2011Between 250 and 300 million Africans suffer from hunger.
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Contacts

Kutlwanong Democracy Centre

Tel: (012) 392 0500

Fax: (012) 320 2414/5

Idasa Blog

Idasa responds to Land Bank announcement
19 Aug 2011The Public Expenditure and Smallholder Agriculture Project in African democracy institute, Idasa, has welcomed the Land Bank’s commitment to spend 1 billion rands on emerging farmers in the next two years as a move to unlock the long-term potential growth of agriculture as one of the pillars of South Africa’s economic development. Please read attached [...]

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