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Department of Home Affairs all of which are critical tools for gainful employment and engaging in commercial life, both for children once they leave school and for their families. Overarching policy responses to the importance of enabling documents The fundamental importance of enabling documents, especially birth certificates, for vulnerable children is recognised in three of the most important overarching policy frameworks designed to address the needs of vulnerable children in South Africa. HIV and AIDS and STI National Strategic Plan, 2007–2011 (NSP) The NSP recognises enabling documents as critical to ‘mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS and create an enabling environment for care, treatment and support’ (Goal 8), specifically in the context of orphaned and vulnerable children (OVCs). Goal 8.1 of the NSP is to strengthen the implementation of OVC policy and programmes, and it identifies a core intervention in this regard as the need to ‘increase the proportion of children obtaining vital documents such as birth and death registration’. Not surprisingly, this intervention is complemented by the need to ‘increase the proportion of vulnerable children accessing social grants (child support, foster care and care dependency), benefits and services’ (DoH 2007a: 83). Policy Framework on Orphans and Other Children Made Vulnerable by HIV and AIDS South Africa, 2005 The OVC policy framework recognises the DoHA as one of the many critical role-players that must work as part of a coordinated effort to realise the rights of orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS, their caregivers, families and communities through the promotion, facilitation and provision of birth, death, marriage and identity documents and by providing mobile units to ensure greater accessibility of these services to targeted vulnerable communities. National Integrated Plan for Early Childhood Development in South Africa, 2005–2010 (‘the NIP for ECD’) The NIP for ECD, like the previous two frameworks, provides guidance as to the essential services that are necessary to ensure the holistic well-being of young children. It recognises that the well-being and optimal development of young children depends on early and easy access to birth registration and birth certificates. Key policies ● Policy Framework on Orphans and other Children Made Vulnerable by HIV and AIDS South Africa, 2005 ● The National Action Plan for Orphans and Other Children Made Vulnerable by HIV and AIDS, 2009–2012 ● The National Integrated Plan for Early Childhood Development in South Africa, 2005–2010 ● The HIV and AIDS and STI National Strategic Plan, 2007–2011 ● Department of Home Affairs Strategic Plan 2010–2013 7
Government-funded programmes and services for vulnerable children in SA Key legislation ● ● ● ● ● ● ● The Births and Deaths Registration Act 11 (No. 51 of 1992), amended by Act No. 67 of 1997 and Act No. 43 of 1998 and Regulations promulgated in terms of the Act The Marriage Act (No. 25 of 1961) and Regulations promulgated in terms of the Act Recognition of Customary Marriages Act (No. 120 of 1998) and Regulations promulgated in terms of the Act Identification Amendment Act (No. 47 of 1995) and accompanying Regulations The South African Citizenship Act 12 (No. 88 of 1995) as amended and accompanying Regulations The Refugees Act (No. 130 of 1998) and accompanying Regulations The Immigration Act (No. 13 of 2002) and accompanying Regulations Programmes and services provided ● ● ● ● ● Birth registration and birth certificates Issuing of identity documents Registering deaths and issuing death certificates Registering marriages and issuing marriage certificates Processing applications for refugee status 11 The minister of home affairs tabled a Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Bill, B18–2010 before Parliament in July 2010. This Bill seeks to amend certain provisions relating to the registration of the birth of a child. The proposed revisions are discussed in more detail later in this chapter. 12 The minister of home affairs tabled a South African Citizenship Amendment Bill, B17–2010 before Parliament in July 2010. This Bill seeks to amend certain provisions relating to the acquisition of citizenship by birth and descent. The proposed revisions are discussed in more detail later in this chapter. 8
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<strong>Government</strong>-<strong>funded</strong> <strong>programmes</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>services</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>vulnerable</strong> children in SA<br />
Key legislation<br />
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The Births <strong>and</strong> Deaths Registration Act 11 (No. 51 of 1992), amended by Act No. 67 of<br />
1997 <strong>and</strong> Act No. 43 of 1998 <strong>and</strong> Regulations promulgated in terms of the Act<br />
The Marriage Act (No. 25 of 1961) <strong>and</strong> Regulations promulgated in terms of the Act<br />
Recognition of Customary Marriages Act (No. 120 of 1998) <strong>and</strong> Regulations<br />
promulgated in terms of the Act<br />
Identification Amendment Act (No. 47 of 1995) <strong>and</strong> accompanying Regulations<br />
The South African Citizenship Act 12 (No. 88 of 1995) as amended <strong>and</strong> accompanying<br />
Regulations<br />
The Refugees Act (No. 130 of 1998) <strong>and</strong> accompanying Regulations<br />
The Immigration Act (No. 13 of 2002) <strong>and</strong> accompanying Regulations<br />
Programmes <strong>and</strong> <strong>services</strong> provided<br />
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Birth registration <strong>and</strong> birth certificates<br />
Issuing of identity documents<br />
Registering deaths <strong>and</strong> issuing death certificates<br />
Registering marriages <strong>and</strong> issuing marriage certificates<br />
Processing applications <strong>for</strong> refugee status<br />
11 The minister of home affairs tabled a Births <strong>and</strong> Deaths Registration Amendment Bill, B18–2010 be<strong>for</strong>e Parliament in<br />
July 2010. This Bill seeks to amend certain provisions relating to the registration of the birth of a child. The proposed<br />
revisions are discussed in more detail later in this chapter.<br />
12 The minister of home affairs tabled a South African Citizenship Amendment Bill, B17–2010 be<strong>for</strong>e Parliament in July<br />
2010. This Bill seeks to amend certain provisions relating to the acquisition of citizenship by birth <strong>and</strong> descent. The<br />
proposed revisions are discussed in more detail later in this chapter.<br />
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