Research

Engaged scholarship is at the heart of our work as we collaborate with government, policy makers and civil society. Our work is intent on better understanding care, inequality, and justice in society.

We focus our work on understanding how key social changes within Southern African societies impact our everyday family and intimate lives. To do this, we adopt diverse and relevant methodological approaches to better understand care in society.

Our Publications

Visit our ZivaHub document repository to access all research papers and reports, many of which are offered in several languages.

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Projects

Family Caregiving Programme

The five year Wellcome Trust research project is a multiple-case qualitative longitudinal study of family care of older persons across four countries in Southern Africa.

Transforming Elder Care

The three year IDRC project, entitled Transforming Elder Care through Collective Policy Action in Southern Africa, is to support policymakers throughout the region in developing evidence-based action plans for family-based care of older persons, guiding the development of policies and programmes and budgeting.

GIS-CARE

This project uses community resource mapping to identify and document the existing services, organisations, and community resources that support older persons, shifting the focus from needs to local strengths.

Accessing Social Grants

These research projects examine specific social grant administration in real life across South Africa at different levels of social assistance service delivery. This ongoing research is in part funded by The University of Cape Town’s Vice Chancellor’s Social Responsiveness Award.