Research Reports

2024

1. CoP research report: Towards the institutionalisation and scaling up of the CoP approach in the Foundation Phase
2. CoP Research: Report Wave 4 – How well are children faring? Findings from a CoP study to strengthen child wellbeing in Moutse, Limpopo province, South Africa in 2023

2023

1. The Effects of COVID-19 on In-school Nutrition
2. The local economic development effects of income transfers in South Africa. The social relief of distress grant
3. Precarious Work and Future Careers: Examining the transitions of young people in China and South Africa
4. CoP Research Report: Wave 3 – How well are our children faring? A longitudinal assessment of child wellbeing in the COVID-19 pandemic in selected Johannesburg schools over three waves from 2020 -2022

2021

1. Factors Determining Voter Choice Between 2017 and 2020
2. The realities of perinatally HIV and aids infected South African adolescents in a residential setting
3. Research report – Findings from Wave 1: Tracking Child Wellbeing of Early Grade Learners and their Families

2022

1.  CoP Research Report: Wave 2 – How well are our children faring? An assessment of child well-being of early grade learners at selected Gauteng schools 2020 – 2021
2. CoP Intervention Report June 2022

2020

1. The national minimum wage in the agriculture and domestic work sectors
2. Wave 1 National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (CRAM)
3. Hunger in South Africa during 2020: Results from Wave 2 of NIDS CRAM

2019

1. Poverty, inequality and social exclusion in South Africa: a systematic assessment of key policies, strategies and flagship programmes
2. Contextualised Social Work Education South African and Canadian Experiences
3. Factors influencing grant continuity and well-being outcomes for child grant beneficiaries
4. Siyakha Youth Assets Study
5. Connecting cash with care for better child well-being An evaluation of a Family and Community Strengthening Programme for beneficiaries of the Child Support Grant
6. Monitoring the influence of socio-economic rights implementation on voter preferences in the run-up to the 2019 National General elections
7. Youth transitions in South African communities

2018

1. Measuring the Impact of the Child Support Grant: Tracking Educational and Health Wellbeing Outcomes for Child Recipients from 2008 to 2014
2. What drives youth unemployment and what interventions help? A systematic overview of the evidence and a theory of change. High level overview report.
3. What drives youth unemployment and what interventions help? A systematic overview of the evidence and a theory of change. Executive Summary. 
4. Reviewing the implementation of the white paper on families: lessons learned for future practice, policy and research

2017

1. Family contexts, child support grants and child well-being in South Africa
2. An Evaluation of the Ntataise Lowveld Practitioner Training Programme for Early Childhood Development in Mzinti, Mpumalanga
3. An Evaluation of Edupeg

2016

1. Investigating the feasibility of a national minimum wage for South Africa

2015

1. Evaluation study of the national school nutrition programme and the Tiger Brands Foundation in-school breakfast feeding programme in the Lady Frere and Qumbu districts of the Eastern Cape

2014

1. Voting Behaviour and the Influence of Social Protection
2. Poverty and disability in South Africa

2013

1. Evaluation of the Tiger Brands Foundation’s Pilot In-School Breakfast Feeding Programme
2. A study of absent fathers in Johannesburg, South Africa
3. VOLUNTEERING IN AFRICA An overview of volunteer effort in Africa and its potential to contribute to development

2012

1. Trends in South African child welfare from 2001-2010