Contact: The Secretary
Tel: 021 761 0117
Toll-free: 08000 ACESS / 22377
Fax: 021 761 4938
Email: info@acess.org.za
Website: www.acess.org.za

Summary
 

The Alliance for Children's Entitlement to Social Security is made up of 1 223 children's sector organisations drawn from all nine provinces in South Africa. Member organisations include rural and urban-based, community-based, faith-based and non-government organisations, social security service providers, and research institutions. ACESS members are committed to realising a comprehensive social security system which ensures the survival of all our children and a standard of living conducive to their development. ACESS opens doors for children by facilitating coordinated action between the following:

• Different civil society organisations
• Civil society and government
• Civil society and cooperative governance structures
• Different government departments

The Alliance does this in order to see a coordinated, multi-sectoral service delivery and multi-sectoral advocacy initiatives which embrace and promote the full range of the comprehensive package of enabling documents, grants, and services that concern children’s education and development, health, food and nutrition.

What the ACESS does

• Facilitate and pilot models of co-ordinated service delivery, for example, by way of the ACESS and partner-grants’ jamborees and paralegal outreach networks
• Facilitate and implement coordinated advocacy for improving policies, laws and service delivery by collecting evidence and information, consulting with members and affected stakeholders, and consolidating the outcomes. In addition, they advocate ACESS’s positions on behalf of the alliance members, and encourage and equip members to be able to advance these positions through their own structures and initiatives
• Monitor the implementation of laws, policies and service delivery on behalf of the Alliance members
• Identify and pioneer opportunities for furthering their collective vision and objectives

In particular, ACESS advances their vision through the following projects:

• promoting a comprehensive social security framework
• Widening the reach of social assistance
• Challenging barriers to social security
• Promoting access to education and development