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Children’s agency in reducing poverty and environmental risk: Case study of Islamic Relief South Africa’s Orphan Sponsorship Programme.
Mini Dissertation (MSW (Social Development and Policy))--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/77915 Children’s agency in reducing poverty and environmental risk: Case study of Islamic Relief South Africa’s Orphan Sponsorship Programme. Lombard, A. (Antoinette) a3shadyasa@yahoo.com Bukuru, Hassan Social Development and Policy UCTD Mini Dissertation (MSW (Social Development and Policy))--University of Pretoria, 2020. Children are vulnerable and need protection from harm. Children is often only perceived from this view and not recognised that they have agency to participate in matters that concern them which is also their right. Poverty and environmental risks restrict children’s ‘aspirations and hopefulness’ to ‘creat[e] a more prosperous future’ (SAHR & UNICEF, 2014:7). Children have the right to participate in matters that concern their best interest (Hall, Richter, Mokomane & Lake, 2018:47). The goal of this study was to explore and describe how children’s agency is recognised and respected in programmes aimed at reducing poverty and environmental risks in Islamic Relief South Africa’s Orphan Sponsorship programme A qualitative research approach was adopted for the study. The research design was an instrumental case study and data was collected by means of one-on-one semi-structured interviews. Purposeful sampling was used to select five key informants and five child participants from Islamic Relief South Africa’s Orphan Sponsorship programme. Data was analysed through theme analysis. The findings of the study indicated that child participation is generally restricted to the planning and implementation phases of the programme which is related to how key informants perceive the child concept. Furthermore, to mitigate child poverty and environmental risks, the programme assists children with school fees, transport money, food, clothes and clean water. Furthermore, the children engage in cleaning campaigns and are educated on how to stop pollution. The study concludes that children’s agency is recognised and respected by hearing their views, but excluded from decisions about matters that affect them. The study recommends child consultation and participation from the conception phase of the programme throughout the implementation and evaluation phases of the programme, and continuous training of caregivers on child agency and children’s right to participation. Social Work and Criminology MSW (Social Development and Policy) Unrestricted 2021-01-04T07:10:03Z 2021-01-04T07:10:03Z 2021-04 2020 Mini Dissertation Bukuru, H 2020, Children’s agency in reducing poverty and environmental risk: Case study of Islamic Relief South Africa’s Orphan Sponsorship Programme., MSW (Social Development and Policy) Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/77915> A2021 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/77915 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Social Development and Policy UCTD Children’s agency in reducing poverty and environmental risk: Case study of Islamic Relief South Africa’s Orphan Sponsorship Programme. |
| title | Children’s agency in reducing poverty and environmental risk: Case study of Islamic Relief South Africa’s Orphan Sponsorship Programme. |
| title_full | Children’s agency in reducing poverty and environmental risk: Case study of Islamic Relief South Africa’s Orphan Sponsorship Programme. |
| title_fullStr | Children’s agency in reducing poverty and environmental risk: Case study of Islamic Relief South Africa’s Orphan Sponsorship Programme. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Children’s agency in reducing poverty and environmental risk: Case study of Islamic Relief South Africa’s Orphan Sponsorship Programme. |
| title_short | Children’s agency in reducing poverty and environmental risk: Case study of Islamic Relief South Africa’s Orphan Sponsorship Programme. |
| title_sort | children s agency in reducing poverty and environmental risk case study of islamic relief south africa s orphan sponsorship programme |
| topic | Social Development and Policy UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/77915 |