Street Action - Committed to street children through action and partnership

Street Action seeks to give a voice to existing and former street children and aims to increase the visibility of the challenges street children face through advocacy and research.

We’re committed to increasing the visibility of the challenges street children face through facilitating and supporting the development of research and advocacy. We seek to address the underlying causes of the street children phenomenon, tackling injustice against this marginalized group, and empowerment among street children, former street children and those serving their needs, and raising general public awareness around the issues concerned. Areas that we are currently focused on include:

• Publishing an evidence-based report - Including Street Children: A Situational Analysis of Street Children in Durban'
• Highlighting the 'evidence gap' and lack of knowledge basis' surrounding street children's experiences
• Developing child-centred partcipatory research as a process of exploring and understanding issues related to street life
• Advocating for policy change - providing research and data analysis to inform international child protection policies, connecting to key campaigns and promoting street children and grassroots practitioners as agents of change

We also seek to:

• Bringing academia and practitioners together,
• Connecting street children and projects to innovative research,
• Developing and brokering good practice amongst grassroots organisations

Street Action works in partnership with the Centre of African Studies based at the School of Oriental and African Studies

Current projects we're involved in

To find out about the Including Street Children research project click here.

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