Scaling Up Early Childhood Development (ECD) (0-4 years) in South Africa: Governance and Budgeting for Implementation with the Spotlight on the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) ECD Initiative
This paper is one of a series developed to inform the Scaling Up ECD Services (0–4 years) Research Project with the aim of improving child development and significant job creation. The spotlight in the study was on the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) part of government’s broader strategy for scaling up ECD. Informed by the…
read more >>Scaling Up Early Childhood Development (ECD) (0-4 years) in South Africa: A Review of Training Qualifications, Training Provision, and Training Delivery in Relation to the Needs of the National Integrated Plan for ECD and the ECD Component of the Expanded Public Works Programme
This paper is one of a series developed to inform the Scaling Up ECD Services (0–4 years) Research Project with the aim of improving child development and significant job creation. The qualifications of teachers and practitioners have been found to be associated with improved child outcomes in a range of countries and contexts, and are…
read more >>Scaling Up Early Childhood Development (ECD) (0-4 years) in South Africa: The Availability of Government Indicator Systems for Monitoring the National Integrated Plan for ECD
This paper is one of a series developed to inform the Scaling Up ECD Services (0–4 years) Research Project with the aim of improving child development and significant job creation. This paper reviews the extent to which input and outcome indicators are currently available in the government’s administrative data system, which can be utilised for…
read more >>Scaling Up Early Childhood Development (ECD) (0-4 years) in South Africa: Child and Caregiver Outcome Indicators for ECD Programme Monitoring
This paper is one of a series developed to inform the Scaling Up ECD Services (0–4 years) Research Project with the aim of improving child development and significant job creation. The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a minimum set of health and psychosocial outcome indicators and measures for children and caregivers that…
read more >>Scaling Up Early Childhood Development (ECD) (0-4 years) in South Africa: Policy, Demographics, Child Outcomes, Service Provision and Targeting
This paper is one of a series developed to inform the Scaling Up ECD Services (0–4 years) Research Project with the aim of improving child development and significant job creation. Biersteker and Streak describe the principal government commitments to children under five, including priority targets set out in the leading policy statements and legislation. They…
read more >>Scaling Up Early Childhood Development (ECD) (0-4 years) in South Africa: Overview of Findings
Biersteker, Dawes and Altman offer an overview of findings from an ambitious research project to support the Scaling Up of ECD Services (0–4 years), with the aim of improving child development and significant job creation.
read more >>Public service employment and job creation in South Africa
The public service is a significant source of employment in South Africa, accounting for about 13% of formal employment. Until recently, it played a diminishing role, dampening employment growth in the economy. What should its role be in employment creation? This is particularly important in the context of high structural unemployment and serious racial bias…
read more >>Housing shortages in South Africa: a discussion of the after-effects of community participation in housing provision in Diepkloof
Community participation is a complex process and its propensity to having unintended negative effects plays a vital role in its outcome. This paper attempts to reconstruct and critique the outcomes of a participatory process that seeks to address housing shortages by using the narratives of local residents in Diepkloof. Heterogeneity of identities tied to “spatiality…
read more >>Administered Prices Study on Economic Inputs: Water Sector
The water services and distribution sector component of the Nedlac Administered Prices Study on Economic Inputs sought to quantify the impact on investment and job creation of the pricing and quality of services set through administered pricing mechanisms. This component of the study covered municipal supplies of water to domestic, commercial and industrial consumers, and…
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