Research 

In August 2001 the Children’s Institute was awarded a tender from the National Department of Health to conduct research to inform an appropriate and coordinated national response to children experiencing orphanhood (i.e. children who had been orphaned or who were living in the care of a terminally ill caregiver). The research was designed as a multi-site qualitative research project, based in 6 sites in 5 Provinces. Information was collected through a combination of child participatory research activities, interviews, and focus group discussions with a range of research participants, including children and their caregivers (from 118 households), service providers and a number of other people identified as playing an important role in children’s lives in the research sites. This paper is an adaptation of the education chapter contained in the full research report (Giese, Meintjes, Croke & Chamberlain, 2003). 

Working paper