by Svetlana | Mar 14, 2014 | Publications, Research and Policy Briefs
The Philani Project aims to improve the health and wellbeing of vulnerable pregnant mothers and infants from low-income households, through a strategy of home visits by specially trained paraprofessional “mentor mothers”. Collaborators: Professor Mark Tomlinson...
by Svetlana | Jan 21, 2014 | ECD News
According to the SA government’s 2013 mid-term Review of the 2011 UN General Assembly Declaration on HIV and AIDS, the country’s effective PMTCT programme has led to an 80% drop in the number of new infections among children aged 0-14 years (from 82,000 in 2005 to an...
by Svetlana | Sep 30, 2013 | ECD News
The Philani Project aims to improve the health and wellbeing of vulnerable pregnant mothers and infants from low-income households, through a strategy of home visits by specially trained “mentor mothers”. The model has been tested in a scientific study implemented in...
by Svetlana | Sep 30, 2013 | ECD News
The non-profit (NPO) sector has played an important role over a period of decades in designing, developing and implementing ECD programmes in South Africa. Ilifa Labantwana recently commissioned a Survey of the ECD NPO sector to determine its capacity to play a...
by Svetlana | Sep 26, 2013 | ECD News
How effective can parenting programmes be in helping to curb family violence? How would one measure this? These are key questions of a recent study that uses the outcome evaluation method to look critically at parenting programmes, and how they can or should be...
