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Resilience and response-ability: Towards just water service provision the context of climate change
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2010)
Climate change will impact on water service provision, yet it is not integrated into water sector policies and plans. This paper unpacks some of the reasons for this disjuncture: the complex and overwhelming challenge of ...
Challenging the odds of vulnerability and resilience in lone migration: coping strategies of Zimbabwean unaccompanied minors in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
Childhood vulnerability attracts more societal and scholarly attention than child resilience. This article presents experiences of some Zimbabwean Unaccompanied Minors (ZUMs) in South Africa as an example of children who ...
Sosiale weerbaarheid, strukturele kwesbaarheid en instaatstellende geleenthede in Genadendal, Suid-Afrika
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2020)
The town Genadendal or Genaal as it is called by the residents, is situated in the Western Cape, and was founded by the Moravian Church in 1837. The Faculty of Community and Health Sciences at the University of the Western ...
Mission hospital responses to challenges and implications for their future role in India's health system
(Health for All Nations, 2020)
India's health system is currently experiencing rapid change. Achieving India's aspirations for improved population health and universal health coverage will require the contribution of all health providers; public, ...
"Half a loaf is better than nothing": The risks and resilience of day labourers in Cape Town
(Social Work (South Africa), 2019)
According to Worthington and Scherer (2004), resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or other significant sources of stress. The concept of resilience draws upon previous ...
Doing implementation research on health governance: a frontline researcher’s reflexive account of field-level challenges and their management
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Implementation Research (IR) in and around health systems comes with unique challenges for
researchers including implementation, multi-layer governance, and ethical issues. Partnerships between
researchers, ...
Coping, resilience and posttraumatic growth: adverse childhood experiences and social work students
(UNISA Press, 2016)
This qualitative case study explored the perceptions of third-year social work students at a selected university in South Africa regarding the effects of having endured adverse childhood experiences. Findings showed the ...
Depression among health care students in the time of COVID-19: The mediating role of resilience in the hopelessness–depression relationship
(SAGE Publications, 2021)
COVID-19 spread rapidly across the world, and by March 2020, the first case of COVID-19
was identified in South Africa. Lockdown-related measures such as restricted movement and
isolation were implemented to contain the ...
Prospects of improving agricultural and water productivity through unmanned aerial vehicles
(MDPI, 2020)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an alternative to costly and time-consuming traditional methods to improve agricultural water management and crop productivity through the acquisition, processing, and analyses of ...
Towards a gender sensitive vulnerability assessment for climate change: Lambani, Limpopo Province, South Africa
(SAGE, 2019)
Women’s limited access to resources and decisionmaking processes increases their vulnerability to
impacts of climate change. Despite their own vulnerability, women are often responsible for caring for
close relatives, ...