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Browsing by Supervisor "Lombard, A. (Antoinette)"
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The HIV and Aids pandemic and its impact on socio-economic development in South Africa led to the development of the broad National Strategic Plan (NSP 2007-2011) with the aim to guide the country’s response to the pandemic. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Non-formal adult education and training (NFET) in South Africa was adopted in 1990 with the aim to respond to the learning needs of adults who do not have access to formal education; to increase their employment opportunities; ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-10-06)Child poverty remains a global challenge with millions of children living in extreme income poverty in multidimensionally poor households (UNICEF, 2019a:20). This prompted the international call under the Sustainable ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Transition to adulthood is a complex phenomenon, yielding varying outcomes for young people in different environments. Hence, adolescent girls transitioning from institutional care are a heterogeneous group with varying ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)The transition from the previous Child Care Act 74 of 1983 to the new Children’s Act 38 of 2005 has been chaotic. Since the introduction of the Children’s Act 38 of 2005, and its subsequent implementation in April 2012, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)Co-operatives are seen as one of the appropriate strategies for intervention in eradicating poverty in rural communities. During the financial year 2007-2008 the Department of Social Development and Special Programmes ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)In South Africa, foster care placement is the first choice of alternative care for children who are in need of care and protection. The aim of foster care is to protect and nurture foster children by providing a safe, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)South Africa attracts thousands of refugees and is regarded as a key destination for migrants on the African continent (Knowledge, 2013:24). The country has enshrined refugee rights in its Constitution (Republic of South ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)In terms of Section 10 of the Children’s Act 38 of 2005 (Republic of South Africa [RSA], 1996), children who are at an age, maturity and stage of development where they are able to participate in decisions concerning their ...
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Children's agency in reducing poverty and environmental risk : case study of Echo Youth Development (University of Pretoria, 2021)South Africa ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child (UNCRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and the Welfare of the Child (ARCWC) and is therefore bound through international treaties to protect ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The Zambia Statistical Agency (ZSA) estimates the current population of Zambia to be at 17,885,422 (Zambia Statistics Agency, 2020). More than 50 percent (53.4 %) of Zambian population are children under 18 years (UNICEF, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)In 2017, of the 6.4 million boys and girls in Zimbabwe, 4.9 million lived in poverty, including 1.5 million in extreme poverty, and these children mostly come from households where adults are unemployed (ZIMSTAT, 2018). ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Many decisions that are related to children’s well-being are made based on social policies and on the conceptions of adults. However, adult conceptions of child well-being may not be relevant to children. Therefore, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-09)The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development strives towards eradicating poverty in all its forms; it envisions a world where everyone has access to safe drinking water, sanitation, improved hygiene, and food security, where ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Environmental risks and poverty are prevalent and have negative effects on all community members, including children. Children are exposed to health risks such as asthma, airborne diseases and lung diseases caused by ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Over the years, poor communities have been confronted with overlapping challenges like environmental risks and poverty (Hayward, 2012:1). Children are mostly affected by these injustices (Vambe, 2018:651) yet they are not ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-07)Children’s participation in decision making processes was affirmed by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) to be a cornerstone of their human rights (United Nations (UN), 1989). The South African ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)South-Africa’s government has adopted several global, national, and regional developmental agendas to combat systemic inequalities in the country. The developmental agendas should consider the role of children’s agency in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Children are vulnerable and need protection from harm. Children is often only perceived from this view and not recognised that they have agency to participate in matters that concern them which is also their right. Poverty ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Research indicates that adults' views on children's well-being have been used to describe child well-being (Casa & Frönes, 2019:3). Bammer, Michaux, and Sanson (2010:15) emphasise the significance of the subjective well-being ...
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