Rongedzayi Fambasayi

Profile

Rongedzayi is a Child Protection Specialist with experience in child protection programming and systems strengthening working on the African continent. He is a published researcher with the SARChl in Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability, Faculty of Law, North-West University. His research interest is dedicated to a critical legal perspective on the interface of children’s rights and emerging issues such as urbanization (urban law), climate change law and policy. His LLD studies focus on the nexus of children's rights and inclusive cities in South Africa, in light of Sustainable Development Goal 11 and the New Urban Agenda.

He is currently serving as an independent External Expert in the Working Group on Children's Rights and Climate Change of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (2022-2023) - African Union's organ responsible for monitoring children rights in the continent.

Research

Publications

• Fambasayi R ‘Leveraging city-level climate law and policy for the protection of children’ 2021, 29(4) International Journal of Children’s Rights 872-896 
• Fambasayi R and Addaney M ‘Cascading impacts of climate change and the rights of children in Africa: A reflection on the principle of intergenerational equity’ 2021, 21(1) African Human Rights Law Journal 29-51
• Fambasayi R and Okunrobo ‘Children’s rights and COVID-19 responses under the African Union: Recent developments and challenges’ 2021, 54(1) Comparative International Law Journal of Southern Africa 1-30 
• Magaya I and Fambasayi R ‘Giant leaps or baby steps? A preliminary review of the development of children’s rights jurisprudence in Zimbabwe’ 2021, 54(1) De Jure Law Journal 16-34 
• Fambasayi R and Moyo A ‘The best interests of the child offender in the context of detention as a measure of last resort: A comparative analysis of legal developments in South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe’ 2020, 36(1) South African Journal on Human Rights 25-48 
• Fambasayi R ‘The constitutional protection of child witnesses in Zimbabwe’s criminal justice system’ 2019, 32(1) South African Journal of Criminal Justice 52-75 
• Fambasayi R and Koraan R ‘Intermediaries and the international obligation to protect child witnesses in South Africa’ 2018, 21 Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal 1-30 
• Fambasayi R ‘The protection of the environmental rights and interests of children: A South African perspective’ 2021(3): Stellenbosch Law Review
  
  

Expertise