Resources

• Children Participating in Governance - Budget monitoring from a rights-based framework
  [Kit de Ferramentas]

  11 Dez 2007Training manual for budget monitoring from a rights-based framework. Contact Shahieda on shendricks@idasa.org.za to order this book now.

• Reflections from - Children’s Participating in Governance project: Budget monitoring within a rights-based framework
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  04 Mai 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 ...

• Non-State Actors Role in Realising Children’s Rights
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  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 ...

• No. 163 - Budgets for Home-based Care and Vulnerable Children
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  14 Dez 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 ...

• Children should be seen and not heard… especially not on budget issues
  [Artigos]

  01 Ago 2006“Some of our municipal officials are interested about this project, this will surely break the concrete I assumed was between children and government.” (18 year ...

• Imali ye Mwana (Money for Children)
  [Notícias e Avisos]

  19 Jun 2006To find out more about the Imali ye Mwana, download the brochure found below.   The content contains the following: What do we do? How is ...

• Growing Poverty Affects Children
  [Artigos]

  15 Jun 2006  "Our politicians want everyone to believe that finances, budgets and numbers are too complicated for common people to understand. I am here to prove ...

• Imali Ye Mwana Meeting, 3-5 May 2006
  [Relatórios de Conferência]

  05 Mai 2006The Children's Budget Unit of IDASA is part of the Southern Africa Child Rights Budget Advocacy Network, also known as Imali Ye Mwana, which is ...

• ADOLESCENTE EM AÇÃO, ORÇAMENTO COM PARTICIPAÇÃO
  [Relatórios de Conferência]

  30 Abr 2006EM 1999 O CEDECA-CEARÁ iniciou seu programa de monitoramento do orçamento público da cidade de Fortaleza. O fez por entender que a luta pelos direitos ...

• Children & Governance: South Africa and Brazil
  [Artigos]

  17 Fev 2006By Christina Nomdo    “I felt energized by the fact that the young people are doing so much in the local government level.” Zakithi    ...

• Budget 2006: Monitoring progressive realisation of child socio economic rights
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  16 Fev 2006“South Africa’s economic and social policies flow from democratic values and respect for human dignity enshrined in the Constitution. Through the annual budget, Government seeks ...

• No. 159 Vulnerable Children & Social Assistance Budgeting
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  07 Dez 2005What benefits will centralisation of social assistance budgeting and delivery bring vulnerable children? The social development budgeting and service delivery system, so critical for ensuring ...

• 158: Vulnerable Children and Provincial Budgets
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  28 Nov 2005Provincial budgets for developmental social welfare services over MTEF 2005/06 - A vulnerable child perspective  Factors such as poverty, violence (particularly against women and children), ...

• Summary Report
  [Artigos]

  30 Out 2005As a pilot initiative, the CBU works with children in four partner organisations in order to build the capacity of children to participate in governance ...

• Workshop Reports
  [Artigos]

  29 Out 2005It’s Your Move constituency workshop (9-10 April 2005) The Molo Songololo It’s Your Move constituency workshop, supported by Save the Children Sweden. 12 participants attended ...

• Children's vulnerability exacerbated by HIV/Aids
  [Artigos]

  28 Out 2005Taken from the paper by Judith Streak – Government’s social development response to children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS: Identifying gaps in policy and budgeting South ...

• Impact on Beneficiaries
  [Artigos]

  28 Out 2005The children report on their experience when selected for the project. After the first, peer facilitation workshop, life lessons and value of the project. Setting ...

• MTBPS 2005 - A child rights and well-being perspective
  [Artigos]

  26 Out 2005From the perspective of bringing relief to vulnerable children and making progress in fulfilling resource obligations to children’s constitutional socio-economic rights, there are a number ...

• SADC network / Imali Ye Mwana - October 2005 Meeting
  [Relatórios de Conferência]

  18 Out 2005The Children's Budget Unit of IDASA is part of the Southern Africa Child Rights Budget Advocacy Network, also known as Imali Ye Mwana, which is ...

• Research priorities in the area of the interface between children's well-being and unemployment
  [Relatórios de Conferência]

  14 Out 2005A one-day seminar was held in Cape Town on 14 October 2005, focussing on the interface between unemployment and children’s well-being in South Africa. The event ...

• Progress towards a conceptual framework and data systems for measuring child vulnerability in SA
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  05 Out 2005By: Judith Streak Currently the data available on the situation of children in South Africa is insufficient for effective policy and programme design, budgeting and ...

• Early Childhood Development - The Cinderella of Education
  [Artigos]

  01 Out 2005Early Childhood Development (ECD) services in poor areas have traditionally been run by communities with parents providing the main funds for the care and education ...

• Government's social development response to children made vulnerable by HIV/Aids
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  12 Set 2005This paper analyses the policy and budget action of one government department – social development – in relation to assistance for children made vulnerable by ...

• Educating South African Youth on Government Budgets
  [Artigos]

  28 Jun 2005“I beg your pardon, you’re teaching the South African youth about government budgets?” Enthusiastically, Christina Nomdo, researcher and trainer at IDASA’s Children’s Budget Unit (CBU) ...

• SADC Advocacy Network on Children's Rights and the Budget
  [Relatórios de Conferência]

  20 Abr 2005The Children's Budget Unit of IDASA is part of the Southern Africa Child Rights Budget Advocacy Network, also known as Imali Ye Mwana, which is ...

• Towards Social Welfare Services for All Vulnerable Children in South Africa
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  31 Mar 2005A review of policy development, budgeting and service delivery South Africa has a duty to all its children and most of all, to those who ...

• 151 - Budget 2005 and vulnerable children
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  24 Fev 2005Immediate Response to Budget 2005 Budget 2005 certainly offers a very welcome cluster of new spending initiatives for vulnerable children. It is also very favorable ...

• Budget 2005 and vulnerable children
  [Artigos]

  24 Fev 2005This is the first of our new publication In Brief! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License ShareThisShareThis X   X

• Child Rights Advocacy Network
  [Artigos]

  18 Fev 2005Child Rights Advocacy Network The Southern Africa Child Rights Budget Advocacy Network, also known as Imali Ye Mwana, is a child rights budget advocacy network ...

• SADC Network Workshop
  [Relatórios de Conferência]

  17 Jan 2005The Children's Budget Unit of IDASA is part of the Southern Africa Child Rights Budget Advocacy Network, also known as Imali Ye Mwana, which is ...

• Implementation of Universal Access to the Reception Year (Grade R): How Far Are We?
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  07 Dez 2004By Russell Andrew Wildeman and Christina Nomdo Early childhood development operates in a space where its growth, vibrancy and contribution are dependent on developments in ...

• Realising the rights of disabled children in South Africa
  [Notícias e Avisos]

  03 Dez 2004By Christina Nomdo and Lerato Kgamphe Children's Budget Unit, Idasa An edited version of the article was published in the Cape Times on 3 December ...

• Monitoring child socio-economic rights in South Africa: Achievements and Challenges
  [Relatórios de Conferência]

  01 Dez 2004Workshops held to disseminate the findings of study entitled: “Monitoring child socio-economic rights in South Africa: Achievements and Challenges” Workshops were facilitated in Eastern Cape, ...

• No 148. Government spending on children in MTEF 2004/05: Spotlighting education programmes
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  25 Out 2004By: Christina Nomdo and Nobuntu Mbebetho  The South African Constitution places an obligation on government to advance a set of comprehensive child specific socio-economic rights ...

• No: 146 - Child specific spending on the right to health in MTEF 2004/05
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  07 Out 2004By: Judith Streak The Bill of Rights of South Africa's Constitution entrenches a comprehensive set of qualified and unqualified socio-economic rights for children. This places ...

• Roundtable Discussion on Child Socio-Economic Rights Obligations
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  23 Ago 2004This roundtable was held with the Children's Budget Unit of IDASA and the Socio-Economic Rights Project at the Community Law Centre (University of the Western ...

• 2004 release on budgeting for child rights
  [Artigos]

  16 Ago 2004By: Judith Streak A research study titled Monitoring child socio-economic rights in South Africa: Achievements and challenges , has just been released by the Children’s ...

• Monitoring Government Budgets to Advance Child Rights and Child Poverty Alleviation
  [Relatórios de Conferência]

  07 Jul 2004This global seminar, held in April 2004, brought stakeholders together to consider how far we have come in monitoring Government budgets to advance child rights ...

• Methodology for Assessing Children's Rights Programmes
  [Artigos]

  01 Jul 2004By: Kenneth Creamer Jurisprudential development and discussions on government's obligations with regard to the realisation of constitutionally-entrenched socio-economic rights should provide important guidance to the ...

• No. 144: Monitoring for Child Socio-Economic Rights 2004
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  30 Jun 20042004 release on Monitoring for child socio-economic rights Children’s Budget Unit, Idasa. The research study evaluates government’s programming and budgeting in relation to the unqualified socio-economic ...

• The youth: Disinterested or disempowered?
  [Notícias e Avisos]

  17 Jun 2004Published: June 2004 - This Day By Christina Nomdo (Children' s Budget Unit, Idasa) Busi is 15 and lives in a township outside Pietermaritzburg with ...

• Child rights challenge
  [Notícias e Avisos]

  20 Mai 2004Judith Streak and Christina Nomdo, Children's Budget Unit, Idasa A study on child poverty in relation to constitutional child socio-economic rights has just been completed ...

• Early Childhood development
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  07 Mai 2004A review of public policy & funding: Early Childhood development (ECD) is an umbrella term that applies to the processes by which children from birth ...

• Service Delivery to Children Living with Disabilities
  [Artigos]

  01 Mai 2004Published: Issue 55 May/June 2004  Children First CHRISTINA NOMDO and LERATO KGAMPHE of Idasa's Children's Budget Unit, report on a study to assess service delivery ...

• The government's budgeting for childrens' right to social assistance
  [Artigos]

  01 Mai 2004Published: May 2004 – ESR Review, CLC, UWC Lerato Kgamphe The much-anticipated budget speech of 2004 broadly spoke to the duty of the State to ...

• No. 141: Government spending on children in MTEF 2004/05
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  08 Abr 2004Government spending on children in MTEF 2004/05: Spotlighting social development programmes. By: Judith Streak and Lerato Kgamphe, Children’s Budget Unit Budget Information Service, IDASA. "Government ...

• Children's Budget Unit Using Budgets as a Monitoring Tool
  [Kit de Ferramentas]

  07 Mar 2004Experiential Exercise: This exercise aims to introduce participants in a practical way to budget analysis for child socio-economic rights advancement. It does this by getting ...

• Monitoring government budgets to advance child rights - A guide to NGOs
  [Kit de Ferramentas]

  08 Set 2003This guide is about how to monitor government budgets as a means to advance child rights. It has been written with two categories of readers ...

• New Tactics in Human Rights
  [Kit de Ferramentas]

  01 Mai 2003Early in 2003, the CBU was nominated to participate in the global project ‘New Tactics in Human Rights’ www.newtactics.org co-ordinated by the Centre for Victims ...

• No. 125: Child poverty, child socio-economic rights and Budget 2003
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  14 Mar 2003Child poverty, child socio-economic rights and Budget 2003 - The ‘right thing’ or a small step in the ‘right direction’? By Judith Streak. "The Budget ...

• Workshop Report, Cape Town - 2003
  [Relatórios de Conferência]

  01 Fev 2003REPORT OF THE WORKSHOP HELD IN CAPE TOWN AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CHILD RESEARCH NETWORK The workshop was organised as part of an ongoing ...

• The impact of South Africa's evolving jurisprudence
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  01 Dez 2002By: Kenneth Creamer On children's socio−economic rights on budget analysis Content: The purpose of this report is to develop a more precise understanding of the ...

• No. 118: Research findings of the assessment study of two sexual offences courts
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  01 Nov 2002Research findings of the assessment study of two sexual offences courts, by Lulama Dikweni. "The Department of Justice (DOJ) plays a lead role in implementing ...

• National Training Workshop on Conducting Child Budget Analysis
  [Kit de Ferramentas]

  03 Set 2002The CBU hosted a ‘National Training Workshop on Conducting Child Budget Analysis’ in September 2002. The training workshop targeted researchers, advocacy organisations, policy makers and ...

• Child Poverty Monitor No: 1
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  27 Ago 2002Provincial child poverty rates and numbers based on poverty lines of R400 and R200 and October Household Survey data By Judith Streak. "The aim of ...

• No. 107: Government’s recent performance in budgeting for the child’s right
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  01 Jun 2002Government’s recent performance in budgeting for the child’s right to social assistance in South Africa. By Judith Streak and Lerato Kgamphe, Childrens Budget Unit, Idasa. ...

• No. 101: New results on Child Poverty
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  01 Abr 2002New results on Child Poverty in South Africa, by Judith Streak. "Towards the end of last year, the Childrens Budget Unit commissioned a study of ...

• Child Budget Analysis - Training Manual
  [Kit de Ferramentas]

  07 Mar 2002This manual has been adapted from material presented at the Regional Training Course on Child Budget Analysis, hosted by Idasa's Children's Budget Unit and Save ...

• No. 95: The Child Support Grant and Budget 2002
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  01 Mar 2002The Child Support Grant and Budget 2002: The implications for child poverty relief. March 2002 "Budget 2002 claimed to offer considerable poverty relief and reduction ...

• No. 86: The fourth Children's Budget Book
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  15 Fev 2002The fourth Children's Budget Book: Budgeting for child socio economic rights. 15 February 2002 "The Children’s Budget Unit has recently released its fourth Children’s Budget ...

• Sexual Offences Court in Wynberg & CT -Pilot Assessment
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  07 Jul 2001This study on the Sexual Offences Court (SOC) and related services aims to examine whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) has become more responsive to ...

• No. 68: Are we making progress in realizing the rights of children
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  01 Jun 2001Are we making progress in realizing the rights of children affected by HIV/AIDS? By Judith Streak, Childrens Budget Project, Idasa 1 June , 2001 For ...

• The South African Children's Budget Unit (CBU) of Idasa - presentation
  [Discursos]

  25 Jan 2001Presentation for the Exploratory Dialogue on Applied Budget Analysis for the Advancement of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Outline of the presentation: General context necessary ...