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 14, 2021 | Posts
Did you miss the webinar? Ilifa Labantwana hosted a Webinar on our ECD COVID-19 Response Project on 7 December 2021, which was a great success. We were joined by sector partners, practitioners, government, and project donors. If you missed it, you can catch up on...
by Svetlana | Feb 15, 2018 | Blog, Posts
Returning to work following the December break, my colleagues at the Zero-Stunting Initiative and I, began to share stories of how our families view the work we are doing to tackle widespread and chronic undernutrition in SA. Stunted children are short-for-age because...
