by Ilifa Labantwana | Jul 17, 2024 | Blog, ECD News, News, Posts
Young children in South Africa are more likely to live in poverty, suffer from food insecurity and malnutrition, and die before their fifth birthday than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic. This is according to the South African Early Childhood Review 2024,...
by Rorisang Dire | Jun 13, 2024 | Blog, ECD News, News, Posts
Ilifa Labantwana and Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator collaborated on a project to explore the feasibility of catalytic funds to spur sustainable public and private investment and collaboration in early childhood development services in South Africa. The outcome...
by Ilifa Labantwana | Mar 20, 2024 | Blog, ECD News, News, Posts
This campaign is an initiative of the Real Reform for ECD Campaign. It is 30 years after democracy, and the government has yet to properly support and invest in our youngest children and the vital work of those who care for them. The period from 2024 to 2029 is our...
by Svetlana | Feb 22, 2024 | Blog, ECD News, News, Posts
This statement was issued in partnership with the Real Reform for ECD Campaign. Despite the President’s signalling of ECD as a key priority in his State of the Nation Address, the 2024 budget failed to allocate the funds necessary to fulfil all children’s rights to...
by Laura Brooks | Dec 3, 2020 | Blog, ECD News, Ilifa Insights, Lessons from the Field, Projects
The ECD COVID Response Project has always been as much about gathering lessons to feed into long-term systemic change in the ECD sector, as it is about shorter-term relief and support to individual ECD sites and the children they serve during the COVID-19 crisis....
by Svetlana | Apr 23, 2020 | Blog, ECD News
On 18th March, all Early Childhood Development operators were instructed by the Department of Social Development to close in order to prevent the spread and acceleration of Coronavirus infections. These included ECD centres, playgroups, and day mothers. A rapid survey...