South African legislation, as well as international conventions like the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child which have been ratified by South…

The Southern African Migration Project is a collaborative project and this paper is published jointly by IDASA in Cape Town and Queen’s University, Canada. It seeks to establish a background for understanding t…

This report is based on information gathered in participatory workshops held with children who have disabilities around South Africa: in KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, Limpopo, the Western Cape, and the North…

Part of a continent-wide study being carried out by the Governance and AIDS Programme of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), this book brings together the most recent and substantive empirical …

Community-based organisations (CBOs) play an increasingly relevant role in Africa. They provide services at the level of the local community and civil-society and implement important development interventions i…

Despite Mozambique’s relatively high economic growth rate, there has been little absorption of unskilled workers. The urban informal sector has become unattractive to the rural poor, as competition for jobs mak…

The states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have committed themselves to increased regional cooperation and integration. This study collates information on national immigration legislation i…

This overview publication on governance in Africa is the outcome of the collaborative Centre for Governance in Africa, a partnership between IDASA and the Norwegian Fredskorpset (Volunteer Service). Together, t…

Migrant remittances are a focus of attention worldwide, with debates raging on their impact on poverty alleviation. Less well known is that over a third of remittances to underdeveloped countries originate in o…

This publication presents the results of the three principal, and complimentary, research projects: the findings of the pilot project in Zambia in 2003; the key findings of the South African study (2005); and t…

The HIV/AIDS pandemic is increasingly being acknowledged as a growing governance challenge. As HIV/AIDS hinders economic and social growth by draining poor nations of their children, workers and leaders, it put…

This book represents a unique North-South-East-West comparative review of the state of whistle blowing around the world. It looks as American, Australian, British, Japanese and South African approaches, focusin…

The Southern Africa Migration Project (SAPM) launches its new series on migration and development. Migration has been an integral aspect of the labour markets across much of Africa for at least the last century…

In line with common efforts to measure the state of democracy in countries around the world, this study documents the results of a ‘democratic audit’ of South Africa. The survey was carried out by the Institute…

This study evaluates qualitatively the government’s programming and budgeting for children rights to basic nutrition, health services, social services and education thus far, measured against the legal obligati…

This study analyses ten years of South Africa’s government budgets from a gender perspective. It considers the budgets of four government departments – Labour, Social Development, Justice and Constitutional Dev…

This study is the product of a comparative research project examining government transparency and civil participation in nine African countries. The project involved civil society organisations in Botswana, Bur…

This report comprises the findings of a study led by the Institute of Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), in collaboration with civil society organisations in five countries – Argentina, Bulgaria, Mexico, Slov…

The ‘brain drain’, or skills emigration, is a major policy and research issues at national, regional and continental levels in Africa, trends having intensified in the 1980s and 1990s. The prevailing message is…

This multi-country and intercontinental study examines how the governments of four African counties – Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa and Namibia; and five Latin American countries – Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, …