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Child maltreatment prevention readiness in South Africa
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24 May 2012
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| HSRC Seminar Series |
Increasingly, research identifies child abuse and neglect by parents and caregivers as a social and public health problem. The consequences include injury, risky sexual behaviour, adolescent pregnancy, chronic diseases, mental illness, suicide and homicide. |
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Evidence Based Policy Making: Systematic reviews and other research synthesis methodologies
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15 May 2012
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| HSRC Seminar Series |
This seminar is about seeking a balance in research between the pressures of maintaining rigour, with the importance of delivering timely and useful information to decision-makers. Dr Ruth Stewart will discuss the evidence-based approach to informing policy making, and talk specifically about systematic reviews, including what systematic reviews in development look like and how they differ from systematic reviews in health care where the approach originates. |
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The Traditional Courts Bill: Reconciling the irreconcilable?
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08 May 2012
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| HSRC Seminar Series |
The South African government has sometimes been accused of continuously attempting to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable demands of traditional leaders and opponents to traditional institutions of governance. |
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Emancipating the African voice: PAC/APLA Military veterans speak
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25 April 2012
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| HSRC Seminar Series |
| African Knowledge Producers Series: Contributions, experiences and sacrifices: Post-liberation knowledge production and nation building by military veterans,“Emancipating the African voice: PAC/APLA Military veterans speak. |
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Household food access in rural South Africa: Lessons for emerging food security policy
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24 April 2012
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| HSRC Seminar Series |
| The right to food is entrenched in South Africa’s 1996 Constitution but appropriate interventions to give real-life effect to this overarching socio-economic right must still be implemented. What kinds of socio-economic actions are needed to ensure that all households have access to adequate food? |
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Organisational Innovation approaches in SA
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19 April 2012
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| HSRC Seminar Series |
| The presentation will give feedback on a recent opinion poll about organisational innovation management approaches adopted by South African organisations. |
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Old Enough to Know: Consulting children about sex and AIDS education in Africa
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16 April 2012
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| VCC centres in Cape Town, Durban, and Pretoria |
| HSRC Seminar Series |
You are cordially invited to join us at the launch of the recently published book ‘Old Enough to Know: Consulting children about sex and AIDS education in Africa’ (HSRC Press). The book launch will take the form of a seminar with the authors speaking followed by responses from experts in education, children’s rights and HIV and AIDS. |
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Why are the first 1000 days of life so important for health and human development? Lessons from cohorts followed to young adulthood
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03 April 2012
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| HSRC Seminar Series |
Dr Linda Adair’s seminar will address the importance of “the first 1000 days” … from conception until 2 years of age….for later health and developmental outcomes in low and middle income country populations |
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Climate change and resource-poor small farmers- village evidence from Limpopo
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27 March 2012
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This presentation explores the interactions of climate change and primary agriculture drawing on evidence collected from resource-poor small farmers, community leaders and the non-farm unemployed in rural Limpopo, South Africa. |
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New HIV prevention technologies: challenges and implications for social science
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22 March 2012
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| HSRC Seminar Series |
The last two years have produced unprecedented results in the HIV biomedical prevention field (e.g. HIV treatment as prevention and oral pre-exposure prophylaxis –PrEP— for discordant couples). |
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POSTPONED: Africa, cradle of writing and its imperiled manuscript treasures
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13 March 2012
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| HSRC Seminar Series |
African scholars across various branches of knowledge have undertaken to challenge the myth that Africa never produced writing systems worthy of attention and that it has rather produced an oral civilisation. |
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The Economics of Job Creation Interventions in South Africa
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07 March 2012
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| HSRC Seminar Series |
At the centre of government strategy to address various dimensions of poverty in the South African context is the creation of economic opportunities. The 2010 budget allocated an additional R3.7 billion to nationally drive of employment creation initiatives. |
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Awareness of Water Pollution as a Problem and the Decision to Treat Drinking Water Among Rural African Households with Unclean Drinking Water: South Africa 2005
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01 March 2012
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| HSRC Seminar Series |
| Professors Anderson and Romani are currently Honorary Research Fellows at the HSRC. They have worked with the HSRC since 1998, spending the 2001-02 academic year at the HSRC. They have collaborated with HSRC researchers and given many presentations in the past. They have published extensively on issues of health, environment and population in South Africa. |
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Child Protection through Social Development
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23 February 2012
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| HSRC Seminar Series |
All nations, save two, have ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet the advancement of the rights, needs and protection of children is slow, uneven and piecemeal. At the same time social development is a priority focus for virtually all nations. |
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Climate change and pro-poor energy policy in South Africa
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23 February 2012
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| HSRC Seminar Series |
| Energy provision – the balance between economic development and climate protection, Prof. Dr Klaus Töpfer, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)... |
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Re-emergence of Leading Astronomy in Africa
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21 February 2012
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| HSRC Seminar Series |
| It is no secret that Ancient Africans were proficient Star-Gazers, and knowledge of the stellar systems formed part of their cosmology and worldview. |
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Argentina and South Africa´s National Systems of Innovation in comparative perspective: path dependencies and public policies
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20 February 2012
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| Venues in Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town (Videoconferencing facilities: see below) |
| HSRC Seminar Series |
The comparison of science, technology and innovation policies in middle-income economies from Latin America and Africa is very relevant because these regions face similar development challenges. However, language and cultural barriers have prevented an extensive comparative literature from developing, particularly in the field of science, technology and innovation studies. Argentina and South Africa are two countries with strong contrasts. |
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The Role of Science in Political Decision Making: "How Germany Decided to Give up Nuclear Energy"
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01 February 2012
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| HSRC Seminar Series |
The aim of this seminar is to get people to talk about Fukushima and Germany’s position on nuclear power with the hope that South Africans will reflect on nuclear power. |
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Feats of Family Functioning in a Public Sector Anti-Retroviral Treatment Programme in Free State province
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30 January 2012
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| HSRC Seminar Series |
Support within family networks is a well-recognized strength in assisting individuals and families cope with challenges of ill health, particularly in the case of chronic, life-long diseases. In the era of anti-retroviral treatment (ART), the scale-up of which continues at pace, including in South Africa, which has the world’s largest treatment programme, HIV/AIDS has been transformed into a chronic condition for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). |
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Evaluation as a key source of evidence for policy-making
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26 January 2012
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| HSRC Seminar Series |
Cabinet approved the National Evaluation Policy Framework on 23 November 2011. For the first time South Africa has a national framework for the systematic use of evaluation to learn and improve government performance, to improve accountability and decision-making. |
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