What is the legal and policy framework governing the provision of rights to migrant children in South Africa? What institutional capacity exists for responding to the needs of children who are affected by migration? What level of access to services do child migrants enjoy and what are the barriers to effective access? These questions frame this paper which gives an overview of the situation of children affected by migration into South Africa. It focuses on cross-border migrants who migrate alone, with adult caregivers or who remain behind when their caregivers migrate.

Key Findings, Emerging Issues, and Future Directions from Evaluations of Four Projects in Kenya and Tanzania
by: Florence Nyangara, Tonya R. Thurman, Paul Hutchinson, Walter Obiero
MEASURE Evaluation, Futures Group International, Washington, June 2009

This report provides a summary of key findings from evaluations of four programs, two in Kenya and two in Tanzania, supporting orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC). The aim of these evaluations was to ascertain the extent to which program interventions are effective in improving the well-being of OVC and their families, and the interventions’ cost-effectiveness in achieving key outcomes. 50 pp. 701 kB

Author: Amuzweni Lerato Ngoma - Title: Knowledge Manager
Organisation: Umsobomvu Youth Fund; P O Box 982 Halfway House 1685 - lerato.ngoma@uyf.org.za; +27 011 651 7000, +27729153263; http://www.uyf.org.za

SYNOPSIS

Youth Development organisations in South Africa have variedly adapted a research strategy as a way of gaining knowledge. Monitoring and evaluation methods and systems have also been used to assessing the impact of youth development programmes. Once again, the key distinguishing factor is the manner in which the knowledge gathered through M&E is reapplied into the organisations themselves, and shared with the broader youth development sector for the improvement of programmes and youth impact achievement. This paper therefore discusses the attempts made by three youth development organisations in adopting a knowledge management strategy in a bid to achieve their respective organisational mandates.