WHAT WE DO
GCF FAMILY SERVICES
FAMILY RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION
Parenting 4 Life (P4L)
This training is primarily for parents from all walks of life who are caring for a child from the age of 0 – 18 years.
Parenting 4 Life (P4L)
Programme Description
The purpose of the Parenting 4Life programme is to ensure the provision of services and effective support to families needed to provide nurturing care within the Nurturing Care Framework for children, so that they may survive, be protected, develop to their full potential and participate in decisions that affect them.
South Africa – Rest of Africa
The P4L training will be an active experience, designed to expand the knowledge and skills that will be useful to them as parents. It consists of different ways of learning, such as theory, group work, group discussions, role-plays and individual activities.
The training programme can be customised, depending on the need.
The establishment of family support groups will be to further the parents' and caregivers' development and enhances child protection in communities.
These groups are encouraged to become independent proponents of community child protection.
Problem Statement
There is overwhelming, compelling evidence that children’s development requires the realisation of their collective rights and that the primary responsibility to provide these rights (framed as nurturing care) falls on parents and families who should be supported by a range of service providers. The reality is, however, that this critical support is, to a large extent, not available.
Ensuring that all vulnerable children live with caring families that provide the nurturing care they need, together with the early identification and provision of appropriate support to families caring for children at risk are the most cost-effective and efficient interventions for equalising and optimising the care, protection and development rights and opportunities of vulnerable children
Target Group
This training is primarily for parents from all walks of life who are caring for a child from the age of 0 – 18 years
Protective Behaviours (PB)
The programme is provided to adults, children, teenagers and organisations
Protective Behaviours (PB)
Programme Description
Protective Behaviours (PB) is an internationally recognised programme that offers simple, preventative, personal life skills, designed to assist people of all ages, and especially children and young people, in dealing with problems and finding the right kind of help.
It endorses the development of lifelong skills such as assertiveness, self-confidence, problem solving, communication, resilience, and promote psychosocial support networks.
South Africa – Rest of Africa
GCF is available to facilitate the following:
- Practitioners’ Training (Level 1) for Professionals – 12 hours
- Parent Training – 3 hours
- Teenager’s Guide to Personal Safety Session for Professionals – 3 hours
The Level 1 Practitioner is fully equipped to deliver PB lessons to the children. The course introduces the elements of PB process and provides opportunities for practical learning and implementation of the program strategies.
- In-school programme for pre- and primary school children
- Teenager’s Guide to Personal Safety Workshop
Problem Statement
The protection of children has to be prioritised in the execution of the promotion of children’s rights. Young children are at high risk of abuse and neglect, including physical and mental abuse, often from within their own families.
Research has shown that children who participate in PB programmes at school and whose parents participate in information sessions and continue to teach the concepts at home are most likely to give consistently correct answers to questions about keeping safe (Briggs 1991).
Target Group
The programme is delivered by a multi-disciplinary team of professionals including social workers, psychologists, educators, teachers, and emotional intelligence specialists and is provided to adults, children, teenagers and organisations
Justice 4 Children (J4C)
It is aimed at all partners who work to create safer environments for children, allowing for the attitude towards Child Protection to be changed among key persons.
Justice4Children (J4C)
Programme Description
The core goals of the programme are for each participating partner to implement a Child Protection Policy within their organisation and to appoint a Child Protection Officer at the most senior level.
The people in the organisations/structures have a deeper personal knowledge and are equipped with tools that they in turnwill be able to implement in order to protect children from neglect, physical, psychological, emotional and sexual abuse.
South Africa – Rest of Africa
GCF can assist with an understanding of how to implement this through training and further collaboration with partners, such as religious and traditional leaders.
Partners are aware that they have a strong role to play concerning the promotion of children's rights and child protection and have taken concrete action in this direction.
Leaders within partners create and implement clear structures and procedures to deal with all Child Protection matters in their areas of responsibility, and these structures are known by, and available to, children in their areas of responsibility.
Problem Statement
Children’s rights are often misinterpreted and therefore not conformed to in families, schools, organisations and churches.
Rights remain unrealised for many of the most vulnerable children, locking them into negative cycles of poverty, poor development and inter-generational exclusion.
Target Group
It is aimed at all partners who work to create safer environments for children, allowing for the attitude towards Child Protection to be changed among key persons.
The World Needs a Father (TWNAF)
Men of all ages and generations.
The World Needs a Father (TWNAF)
Programme Description
This is a global movement of fathers who are committed to building unbreakable families and healthy communities.
South Africa – Rest of Africa
GCF implements the ‘The World Needs a Father’ course and ‘The Mother Design’course, which were developed in response to an outpouring of desire from the wives of men who had been to a TWNAF training. https://twnaf.com/tmd/
Part of GCF’s goal is to help mothers support their husbands because the TWNAF vision is counter cultural and cannot be accomplished alone. But even closer to our hearts is helping mothers and wives understand the unique keys they hold to building a strong marriage and a firm, loving foundation for the family.
The Mother Design training usually runs concurrently with TWNAF Master Mentor training.
Problem Statement
The biggest problem in the world is fatherlessness!
Research in 21 countries of the world has shown that dysfunctional family life is the biggest problem in our societies, with fatherlessness at the centre of this problem.
Target Group
Men of all ages and generations.
GCF CHILDREN’S SERVICES
Temporary Safety Parents (TSP)
GCF seeks to create a database of assessed, screened and trained Temporary Safety Parents
Churches, women’s groups, schools and clinics are areas that are targeted for recruitment of TSP.
Temporary Safety Parents (TSP)
Programme Description
This programme seeks to address the gap between the “spirit” of the Children’s Act (family-based care) and the institutional reality that exists for children.
Temporary Safe Care (TSC) with screened and trained parents in the community provides an alternative to institutional care in a facility. Children in need of care and protection will immediately be placed with a TSP by a case manager after first having contacted GCF for availability.
All of the children’s medical, therapeutic and care needs are taken care of by the TSP, with the support of the GCF Team.
The TSP needs ongoing support and monitoring, especially in their first years of being a Temporary Safe Care Parent
South Africa – Rest of Africa
Social work professionals in the organisation is responsible for the recruitment of the TSP's.
Recruitment of TSP’s is done by a team of people in the organisation
The Social Worker allocated to this Department is responsible for the assessment/screening and the compulsory five-day-long training of the prospective TSCP who is willing to receive children in need of care and protection.
All TSP have to be cleared against the National Child Protection Register.
Once TSP are approved they are placed on the database, ready to receive children needing emergency care.
A TSP is available 24/7 and once a child is placed with them, the GCF multi-disciplinary team will make home visits and further assessments, such as health, therapy as well as other risk matters.
Children are placed with TSP by a court order, where they can stay up to six months or until home circumstances have improve
Problem Statement
The lives of many children in South Africa are precarious. The country’s substantial resources are not being used efficiently and effectively to realise that their rights are key to their survival, protection and critically their equal and optimal development. This leads to negative cycles of poverty, poor development and inter-generational exclusion.
Children experience high levels of violence, including physical and sexual abuse, neglect, abandonment, safety risks and more.
Avoiding family breakdowns is GCF’s first priority. However, the reality in Ugu District is that there are children who will need urgent placement.
Enabling parents to take on the emergency care of children who require special care, as they have been displaced from, their families of origin prevent the child from entering institutional care, as from there they will either return to the biological family, family of origin or be given a new family via foster care.
“Children Belong in Secure Families”
Target Group
GCF seeks to create a database of assessed, screened and trained Temporary Safe Care Parents (TSP) who can be utilised by case managers in emergency care situations within the UGU district to ensure that children are placed in a secure family-based setting as an option of first choice wherever possible.
Churches, women’s groups, schools and clinics are areas that are targeted for recruitment of TSP.
Foster Care Programme (FC)
Any person over the age of 18 years can apply to be a foster parent.
Foster CareProgramme (FC)
Programme Description
This programme was developed from the organisation’s experiences of children being placed for extended times in GCF’s former shelter for children in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
It was realised that children should grow up in a family environment and not in institutional care, when reunification services with biological parents or relatives were not an option.
South Africa – Rest of Africa
Social work professionals in the organisation’s Child Protection Service Department recruit, screen, train and approve prospective foster parents who are willing to receive vulnerable children into their care at any time.
All are screened according to the National Child Protection Register and have all required documents for court finalisation.
The database is utilised by local case managers in need of foster parents for children.
The Child Protection Services team matches children who are placed at GCF or other child and youth care centres in the area. In cooperation with case managers, an introduction process takes place between children and foster families.
Parents attend post placement support groups after a child is placed in their care.
Problem Statement
Long-term institutional care is shown to be harmful for children in many ways, which not only include that they may experience a lack of life skills and family relations, but also the lack of social and emotional skills, awareness of the rights and opportunities that children growing up in a family would normally have.
In well-screened, trained and supported foster families, children would be given a chance to experience stable, caring and loving family environments leading to a better future for them.
Target Group
Any person over the age of 18 years can apply to be a foster parent.
The training aims, for example, to prepare them for a long-term commitment with lasting and good relationships with their foster children, to give them special skills and knowledge related to foster care and to understand their role, as well as that of other role players and professionals’ in the lives of foster children.
Child and Youth Care Centre (CYCC)
GCF can accommodate 60 children at any given time.
They are between the ages of 0-12 years, considering that some children have slightly older siblings, who would also be admitted so that the siblings can remain together.
Child and Youth Care Centre (CYCC) operating as a Temporary Safe Care Facility
Programme Description
GCF hosts a CYCC, specialising in temporary safe care.
Temporary safe care entails caring for children at a CYCC registered with the Department of Social Development, for a few days to some months where children are kept safe while awaiting a more permanent solution for their lives, and/or work is done with their families to see if they can be returned home
South Africa – Rest of Africa
Children are brought to the CYCC by case managers who work in the community or by police services.
All children are dealt with on an individual basis. A risk assessment is done on each child upon arrival
Every child has a Care Plan (CP) and an Individual Development Plan (IDP) that is updated throughout their placement at the CYCC.
The package of services rendered to the children is child-centred, evidence-based and responsive to the specific needs and opportunities of vulnerable children in the Ugu District.
The children are cared for in a healthy, hygienic and safe environment. They are provided with adequate nutritious meals and sleeping facilities.
Health Care Services are given to all children and therapeutic interventions to all children over the age of three.
The education or development programme is for all children, regardless of age and ability.
Family contact is maintained where allowed.
The residential social worker is responsible for the effective and efficient movement of the children of the centre.
Reunification with the biological family is always the number one priority, which is undertaken where work with the family is done as well as Parenting Skills training is included.
In cases where children cannot move back to their family of origin, they are mostly placed with other caring relatives or in foster care with a secure family on the GCF Foster Care database.
Problem Statement
There has been minimal progress in realising equality and improved outcomes for vulnerable children. As a result, South Africa has made limited progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in an aspect of children’s well-being, which entails surviving and thriving, learning, protection, environment and having a fair chance. It remains one of the most unequal countries in the world, where disparities continue along inter-generational equity fault lines.
Children are being violated in many ways, such as physical and sexual abuse, neglect and abandonment.
The number of child homicides is high and one in every three adolescents, both girls and boys, hasexperienced some form of sexual abuse during their lifetime.
Target Group
GCF can accommodate 60 children at any given time.
They are between the ages of 0-12 years, considering that some children have slightly older siblings, who would also be admitted so that the siblings can remain together.
GCF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
South African National Child Rights Coalition (SANCRC)
The members of the coalition are united in their shared vision of a South Africa where the rights of all children are realised and where no child bears the burden of poverty and inequality.
South African National Child Rights Coalition (SANCRC)
Programme Description
The SANCRC is a civil society coalition of 160 like-minded child rights organisations in South Africa all working towards the goal of realising children’s rights.
The SANCRC advocates to strengthen the national child care and protection system to ensure every child receives the nurturing care they need, not just to survive, but to develop to their full potential.
The SANCRC was constituted and formalised in 2021.
When the coalition was formed as a voluntary association to serve as a collective vehicle to unify, coordinate, pool resources, and mobilise, capacitate, and coordinate a broad base of like-minded Civil Society Organisations (CSO), including children, Give a Child a Family Africa was one of the founding members.
The vision is a South Africa where our collective resources are managed by an effective developmental state to realise the rights of every child to, not only survive, but to develop to their full potential so that they may become active citizens of a sustainably resilient, prosperous, safe, democratic and well-run country systems.
South Africa – Rest of Africa
SANCRC is a platform for civil society to join forces in advocating for change concerning children’s rights.
GCF is instrumental in the advocacy and promotion of children’s rights.
Currently, GCF serves on the steering committee of the SANCRC.
Problem Statement
Civil society has worked in silos on specific issues and rights – such as education, health, protection, and for specific vulnerable groups, such as children with disabilities.
There is enormous pressure on organisations to fill the large service delivery gaps left in the wake of the weak developmental child care and protection system. This means that organisations must direct most of their resources to service delivery, leaving little available for transformational advocacy.
Target Group
The members of the coalition are united in their shared vision of a South Africa where the rights of all children are realised and where no child bears the burden of poverty and inequality.
GCF alongside other members:
- Include a broad base of organisations and individual advocates, activists, researchers and development practitioners.
- Are located across the country in all nine provinces, in rural, urban and peri-urban areas.
- Include NGOs, faith-based organisations, community-based organisations, development institutes, policy think tanks, research institutes, as well as individuals who have committed to advancing the rights of children.
- Include children and child-led organisations.
The goal/target is to ensure compliance with child and human rights treaty obligations.
Ensure that children’s rights are recognised as a national, rights-based development imperative.
Ensure coordinated, state-wide action and accountability for realising the rights of every child, especially the most vulnerable and marginalised, to survive, develop to their full potential, be protected and participate in all decisions that affect them.
Organisational Safeguarding
More and more, there has been an increased focus placed on organisations themselves, not only in so far as the misconduct of staff is concerned, but also child safeguarding has been the focus on the potentially negative impact of organisational activities, programmes, systems and processes that may cause harm to children.
Organisational Safeguarding
Programme Description
Safer environments for children are mainly ensured through organisations meeting the necessary and relevant standards. These standards include developing a child safeguarding policy and code of conduct towards children, training staff and others on these, practising safe recruitment and having reporting procedures in place to deal with any breaches.
South Africa – Rest of Africa
The importance of child safeguarding is still to be fully grasped and understood, either by organisations that do not yet have any measures in place, or by those who may have the basic elements of child safeguarding in place, but have not gone beyond a certain level of implementation.
The goal of Give a Child a Family Africa is to assess and support organisations in Eastern and Southern Africa to improve their capacity, policies and processes around child safeguarding.
Available programmes:
Problem Statement
The risks to children from aid and development activities were brought into sharp focus by some notable scandals involving abuse and exploitation by staff and associates of agencies established to care for and protect children.
Target Group
More and more, there has been an increased focus placed on organisations themselves, not only in so far as the misconduct of staff is concerned, but also child safeguarding has been the focus on the potentially negative impact of organisational activities, programmes, systems and processes that may cause harm to children.
Help Desk
The Help Desk services residents of the the Ugu District. It is provided by social workers to the most vulnerable children, youth, and families.
Help Desk
Programme Description
This intervention aims to link and refer those in need to appropriate services and help.
South Africa – Rest of Africa
The Help Desk offers telephonic guidance and, if necessary, conducts home visits to better understand home situations. Referrals are undertaken and follow-up contacts ensure that the best interest of the individual has been met.
The programme is sustainable because of the kind gestures of donors and individuals who help with the basic needs of the individuals who request it.
Problem Statement
GCF has seen an increase in the number of people requiring help to cope. The lack of security, joblessness and current state of financial affairs, Covid-19, looting and floods has become a significant contributing factor in families' increased distressed situations.
Due to the Covid pandemic, vulnerable families have suffered job losses and an increase in mental health issues.
Target Group
The Help Desk services residents of the the Ugu District. It is provided by social workers to the most vulnerable children, youth, and families.
Civil Society Organisational (CSO) Capacity
GCF wants to assist other like-minded organisations to realise their development goals and achieve measurable and sustainable results through enhancing their capacity.
Civil Society Organisational (CSO) Capacity
Programme Description
GCF believes in the potential and the value of African organisations and seeks to partner with them so that they can realise and fulfil their potential and passion.
GCF also has a deep desire to impart the passion of the value of a child and individual, this is the GCF Philosophy - so the material is “not just taught, it is caught”.
South Africa – Rest of Africa
GCF conducts an in-house organisational audit with governing boards and management of non-governmental, community-based and faith-based organisations, to establish their functioning and assist to identify gaps for development.
GCF can do training at all various venues, as per requirement of organisation, even outside of South African borders
Available trainings:
Problem Statement
The 2017 Civil Society Organisation (CSO) study in Africa by USAID indicates that CSOs in approximately 50% of the countries on the continent are in need of organisational capacity building of one sort or another. Most have challenges around governance and financial management, with even those that have funding struggling with low project management skills at staff level, which translates to the ineffective use of resources.
Target Group
GCF wants to assist other like-minded organisations to realise their development goals and achieve measurable and sustainable results through enhancing their capacity GCF is active in this area of assistance to organisations to help themselves empower them with what they already know but need strengthening .
SPECIALISED SERVICES
Deinstitutionalisation (DI)
The aim is for a greater number of children at risk and in need of alternative care in the Ugu District to be identified and placed with families rather than in child and youth care centres or other centre-based alternative care facilities.
Deinstitutionalisation (DI)
Programme Description
DI is the process of reforming child care systems and closing down orphanages/ children's institutions/child and youth care centers, finding new placements for children and setting up replacement services to support vulnerable families in non-institutional ways.
South Africa – Rest of Africa
Families caring for children at risk will be supported by a systemic, evidence- and community-based family strengthening programme that creates the conditions necessary for the provision by families of nurturing care to the children in their households.
This pilot will make use of GCF’s membership of the Steering Committee of Transform Alliance Africa(TAA), with members from Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda, who seek to advocate for an end to institutional care in Africa. The platform welcomes further dissemination and sharing of experiences.
Problem Statement
Research evidence demonstrates harmful effects of institutionalisation on children’s development, health, mental health and social skills.
In the African context, progress has been slow, partly because of a lack of resources, but also because most institutional care is provided privately, with little government oversight. As a result, the system is very decentralised and there are many different actors who need to be sensitised to the damage of institutional care.
Many families struggle in providing food, housing, medicine and access to education for their children. The high levels of domestic violence, alcoholism and drug abuse that are frequently associated with poverty can also be a threat to a child’s safety and lead to children running away, often to live on the streets. Children’s Homes (orphanages as understood by many) provide a perception of safety and access to basic services for children. Consequently, they are often used as an easy and one-size-fits-all solution to much deeper societal problems.
Target Group
The aim is for a greater number of children at risk and in need of alternative care in the Ugu District to be identified and placed with families rather than in child and youth care centres or other centre-based alternative care facilities.
The process would be to implement community based temporary safe care placements instead of residential temporary safe care placements. This model can be replicated.
Integrated Child Safeguarding Services (ICSS)
We believe that together with the statutory duty bearers, engaging with the moral duty bearers presents us with the best chance of making real and sustainable change in the communities that we serve and that this change is ultimately what creates the foundation for nurturing care for children.
Integrated Child Safeguarding Services (ICSS)
Programme Description
Give a Child a Family Africa has developed a scalable and evidence-based process, whose objective is to address the underlying structural and systemic weaknesses that create barriers in the provision of nurturing care by families. Rather than seeking to advocate for new or different services, we believe that we have to first facilitate access to those that already exist, and that to some extent are already functional. Only once this is clarified, can we be in a position to assess what is still required.
South Africa – Rest of Africa
We believe that a multi-level approach is required, with advocacy at National Level for new services only being carried out when it is proven that these are indeed lacking. The bulk of our approach takes place at the level of the primary caregivers (understanding the barriers they face and creating awareness related to required services) and the Duty bearers at the district or local level who need to be aware of these challenges and need to be part of creating the solution.
GCF does so by facilitating trainings and dialogues, capacity building with stakeholders.
Problem Statement
There is currently overwhelming, compelling evidence that children’s development requires the realisation of their collective rights and that the primary responsibility to provide these rights (framed as nurturing care) falls on parents and families who, in turn, require the support of a range of service providers (both community- and government-based)
What must be noted is that while the current narrative tends to revolve around the non-existence of services in our communities, we believe (and this is supported by our own data gathered in the Ugu District of
KwaZulu Natal) that it is the inability to access these services, rather than their lack of existence, that forms the largest barrier faced by caregivers and families. This inability to access services must also take into account the fact that some of the caregivers do not yet know that the services exist or that they should access these services for the benefit of their children and thus the "Lack of Service Delivery" narrative is perpetuated.
Target Group
A point of concern has been the exclusion of moral duty bearers (faith-based and traditional leadership structures) from this discourse. Both of these structures are extremely relevant in informing change or creating awareness that is needed on the ground through their reach and the power that they have to create an impact. We believe that together with the statutory duty bearers, engaging with the moral duty bearers presents us with the best chance of making real and sustainable change in the communities that we serve and that this change is ultimately what creates the foundation for nurturing care for children.
Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
This protocol outlines the requirements of the UN, when working with implementing partners, to ensure adequate safeguards and appropriate action related to sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA).
Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Programme Description
This programme seeks to assist partners in aligning themselves and their processes with the protocol requirements of the United Nations, including its funds and programmes (collectively, the United Nations (UN), when working with implementing partners, to ensure adequate safeguards and appropriate action related to sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA).
South Africa – Rest of Africa
The goal of Give a Child a Family Africa is to assess and support organisations in Eastern and Southern Africa within the AU to improve their capacity, policies and processes around safeguarding in order to align them with current UN requirements.
Problem Statement
Sexual exploitation and sexual abuse violate universally recognised international legal norms and standards.
To protect the most vulnerable populations, especially women and children, specific standards that reiterate existing general obligations are promulgated. The failure of entities or individuals to take preventive measures against sexual exploitation or sexual abuse, to investigate allegations thereof, or to take corrective action when sexual exploitation or sexual abuse has occurred, shall constitute grounds for termination of any cooperative arrangement with the Unted Nations (UN). This is to be translated and developed for the African Union (AU)
Target Group
This protocol outlines the requirements of the UN, when working with implementing partners, to ensure adequate safeguards and appropriate action related to sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA).
GCF TRANSFORMATIONAL CARE
GCF has launched a pilot project to drive the agenda locally for South Africa as family-based care is proven to save governments money and is to the benefit of children. Even so, this matter appears to fall on deaf ears, as these models are identified to be from “other countries.” It is important to prove this process is also more cost effective in South Africa.
GCF Transformational Care
Programme Description
GCF is embarking on a fully-fledged Transformational Care Programme expanding residential care services for children into the communities. It is complex and multi-faceted and moving children towards systems based on the prevention of family breakdown and a range of quality family and community-based alternatives are challenging but one GCF is prepared for, in “the best interest of children”.
South Africa – Rest of Africa
GCF’s Strategic Plan of 2018 – 2030 speaks to transforming care and deinstitutionalisation, and we will start reforming care in the UGU District.
The GCF Foster Care Programme was developed and contextualised for Africa, in 2000. GCF has trained organisations and governmental departments in several countries in Africa and has run two conferences together with partners; Kenya in 2009 and South Africa in 2015.
Temporary Safe Care Parents have been recruited, screened and trained and are used to care for children from 0-5 years of age in their homes in the communities.
Ongoing preventative work is crucial to make a change in the lives of children.
Problem Statement
GCF believes that the organisation’s CYCC has been an oasis for children in their time of need, but we have also realised that they stay far too long. Despite the quality of care that is provided, the organisation has also seen that this is not the ideal for children who have to be removed from their parents, as we observed the clearly negative effect that institutionalisation had on them.
Worldwide, studies have shown that up to 80% of children in the care of orphanages/children’s homes have at least one living parent. Poverty and lack of access to services in the community are common reasons for admission.
Over 80 years of evidence has shown that institutional care is damaging, unnecessary and a poor investment for children, communities and the African continent.
Target Group
GCF has launched a pilot project to drive the agenda locally for South Africa as family-based care is proven to save governments money and is to the benefit of children. Even so, this matter appears to fall on deaf ears, as these models are identified to be from “other countries.” It is important to prove this process is also more cost effective in South Africa.
Programme Analysis
This is targeted at all of the programmes that GCF has run and continues to run and identifies the strengths and weaknesses of each of them to guide how GCF will position itself in the future.
Programme Analysis
Programme Description
GCF has proactive programmes, but it has little evidence compiled in the form of learning briefs, profiles or scientific evidence-based studies on the programmes, methodologies and why they work well.
South Africa – Rest of Africa
GCF is, and is recognised as a credible, legitimate and valuable regional, provincial, district and local partner and advocate in strengthening the national child care and protection system, as well as driving national development.
Problem Statement
As part of GCF’s organisational strategic planning, it is evident that future research is to be conducted into the GCF philosophy, methodology, programmes, material and services rendered in South Africa and other African countries.
Target Group
This is targeted at all of the programmes that GCF has run and continues to run and identifies the strengths and weaknesses of each of them to guide how GCF will position itself in the future.
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