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Communicating in designing an oral repository for rural African villages
(IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2012)We describe designing an asynchronous, oral repository and sharing system that we intend to suit the needs and practices of rural residents in South Africa. We aim to enable users without access to personal computers to ... -
Communication on sexual issues between migrant males and their partners: a study undertaken in rural South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)INTRODUCTION: Women stay alone with their children in rural places while their husbands I partners work away from home for varying periods of time. Such fluctuating migration may cause difficulty in communications and may ... -
Communities' views, attitudes and recommendations on community-based education of undergraduate Health Sciences students in South Africa: A qualitative study
(2013)Background: Medical and Health Sciences students in South Africa undertake community-based education (CBE). Health professionals based at host sites are jointly responsible for training of these students in conjunction ... -
Community and home-based exercise for the prevention and treatment
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Community and marine conservation in South Africa: Are we still missing the mark?
(Frontiers Media, 2022)Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in South Africa have a long history with currently 5% of the mainland’s ocean territory protected. The MPAs are celebrated and appreciated for their representative coverage of several habitat ... -
Community and stakeholders’ engagement in the prevention and management of Type 2 diabetes: a qualitative study in socioeconomically disadvantaged suburbs in region Stockholm
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)Background: Community-based approaches have been identified as an effective strategy to address the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide. However, little is known about community as a concept among ... -
Community as utopia: Reflections on De Waterkant
(Springer, 2008)This paper will reflect on research currently in progress in Cape Town's De Waterkant neighbourhood—an area also known as Cape Town's 'gay village'. This paper engages the literature of utopia as a framework of analysis ... -
Community care workers, poor referral networks and consumption of personal resources in rural South Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Although home-based care (HBC) programs are widely implemented throughout Africa, their success depends on the existence of an enabling environment, including a referral system and supply of essential commodities. The ... -
Community conservancies in Namibia: An effective institutional model for commons management?
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)Common property resources (CPRs) remain of great significance for livelihoods among rural and poor communities of the world. CPRs are particularly important because in many contexts they remain resources of last resort ... -
Community development and engagement with local governance in South Africa
(Elsevier, 2008)The issue of public participation is receiving increasing attention in South Africa, from both government and civil society sectors. We are witnessing acknowledgement from a wide range of public institutions that insufficient ... -
Community development practitioner profiling for occupational professionalisation, skills development and continuous quality assurance
(University of Stellenbosch, 2022)Regardless of the worldwide acknowledgement of the importance of community development, the challenge of professional occupational recognition remains, intensified by the lack of practitioner profile data. Raising practice ... -
Community digital story project: George community needs
(Science Domain, 2015)This study details a Digital Story Community Project undertaken by the Centre for Innovative Education and Communication Technologies of the University of the Western Cape, which took place in George (South Africa) in ... -
Community education and the crisis of biodiversity loss: Reflections from the hall of mirrors of past projects
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)South Africa is one of the most biologically diverse countries on our planet, and many South Africans depend on our biodiversity for their livelihoods. However, we face a rising biodiversity crisis, with many of our ... -
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 3. Programme governance
(BMC, 2021)Background: Community health workers (CHWs) can play a critical role in primary healthcare and are seen widely as important to achieving the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The COVID-19 pandemic ... -
Community healthcare mesh network engineering in white space frequencies
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2019)The transition from analog to digital television has availed new spectrum called white space, which can be used to boost the capacity of wireless networks on an opportunistic basis. One sector in which there is a need to ... -
Community intervention for the emerging epidemic of non-communicable diseases
(MedPharm Publications, 2006)BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) are lay people trained to assist with health care in their communities. This study took place at two sites in Khayelitsha, a township in the Cape Peninsula, from 2000 ... -
Community land formalization and company land acquisition procedures: A review of 33 procedures in 15 countries
(Elsevier, 2020)Indigenous and community lands, crucial for rural livelihoods, are typically held under informal customary tenure arrangements. This can leave the land vulnerable to outside commercial interests, so communities may seek ... -
The community leaders training workshop, Cape Town, 10-11 March
(Sabinet, 2020)This workshop formed part of a series that since 2015 has been looking at issues of housing, health, social security and other constitutional matters. With its emphasis on the social determinants of the right to health, ... -
Community leaders’ perspectives on facilitators and inhibitors of health promotion among the youth in rural South Africa
(Elsevier, 2017)INTRODUCTION: There are a number of factors that influence health promotion activities among the youth. This study sought to gain a comprehensive understanding of the facilitators and inhibitors of health promotion among ... -
Community opportunities in aquaculture, What are the possibilities and limits?
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)Aquaculture now contributes 47% of fish available for human consumption – up from 9% in 1980. This shift to aquaculture offsets the stagnation in the production from capture fisheries (FAO 2012). By 2030, demand for ...
