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PDF 2025
Community Based Inclusive Development Report 2025

This report highlights global community-based inclusive development initiatives, emphasizing disability inclusion, self-help groups, and inclusive education across various African and international contexts.

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PDF 2024
Family Reunification Services to Children in Child and Youth Care Centres in the Cape Metropole: A Social Work Perspective

This master's thesis examines the experiences of social workers involved in family reunification processes for children in alternative care in South Africa. It highlights systemic challenges, coordination barriers, and policy implications relevant to child protection and vulnerable children's welfare.

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Administrator · 2.06 MB 1
PDF 2021
Strengthening Educational Systems for Agency for Sustainable, Inclusive Development

This learning brief examines how education systems in the SADC region can be strengthened to foster child and youth agency, inclusion, and sustainable development. It highlights the Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) framework and the Child and Youth Agency Framework as tools to address post-COVID recovery and vulnerable children's needs.

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Administrator · 0.39 MB 1
PDF 2016
Circles of Support: Supportive Supervision Skills Development Programme

A South African training initiative focused on strengthening community caregiver capacity and supportive supervision to protect vulnerable children.

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Administrator · 11.23 MB 1
PDF 2016
Alternative Child Care and Deinstitutionalisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Findings of a Desk Review

This desk review examines alternative child care systems, child protection, and deinstitutionalization across Sub-Saharan Africa. It provides critical context on vulnerable children, which is closely related to early childhood development and child welfare policies.

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Administrator · 0.58 MB 1
PDF 2009
Mainstreaming Psychosocial Care and Support within the Education Sector

This manual provides practical guidelines for school communities in East and Southern Africa to mainstream psychosocial support into education. It addresses how to support vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS, poverty, and conflict to improve their wellbeing and learning outcomes.

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Administrator · 2.21 MB 1
PDF 2005
Psychosocial Support Training Manual for Communities Supporting Vulnerable Children

A comprehensive training manual designed by the Farm Orphan Support Trust of Zimbabwe to help caregivers and community volunteers provide psychosocial support, address grief, and meet the basic developmental needs of orphaned and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS.

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Administrator · 0.42 MB 1