Essack, Z., & Ngubane, T. (2026). Sustaining the Walking School Bus as a community-led school safety intervention. Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI).

Abstract

This study – conducted by a research team at the Human Science Research Council with funding from GIZ – explores a community-led Walking School Bus model designed to make the journey to school safer for students in high-risk areas of rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It studies what factors supported or constrained the sustainability of the programme, and how caregivers, volunteers, and children perceived the programme’s value in everyday life.