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The moving line between state benevolence and control: Municipal indigent programmes in South Africa
(SAGE, 2018)
free in South Africa. Having registered as municipal indigents, the poor not only gain access to free basic
services but also embark upon a voyage into a bureaucratic underworld where policies are changed and
eligibility ...
The politics of youth participation in social intervention programmes in Ghana: Implications for participatory monitoring and evaluation (pm&e)
(Lifescience Global Canada Inc., 2018)
Participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) in project evaluation has gained impetus in recent literature.
This paper interrogates youth participation in intervention programmes in Ghana with special reference to ...
Keystones affecting sub-Saharan Africa's prospects for achieving foodsecurity through balanced diets
(Elsevier, 2018)
Socio-economic dynamics determine the transition from diets characterized by the risk of famine, to thosecharacterized by the risk of diet-related non-communicable disease (DR-NCD). This transition is of particularconcern ...
The terrain of urbanisation process and policy frameworks: A critical analysis of the Kampala experience
(Cogent OA, 2017)
Kampala is urbanising in an unplanned manner, but without a clear picture of the underlying dynamics. The city is characterised by lack of proper zoning
of economic activities and construction of physical infrastructure ...
Mixed methods research for health policy development in Africa: The case of identifying very poor households for health insurance premium exemptions in Ghana
(SAGE, 2019)
Despite the utility of applying mixed methods research to understand complex phenomenon,
few studies have applied this approach to health policy and in Africa. This article illustrates the
application of mixed methods ...
Towards universal health coverage: Exploring the determinants of household enrolment into National Health Insurance in the Kassena Nankana District, Ghana
(Faculty of Integrated Development Studies, University for Development studies, 2015)
This study investigates the determinants of household participation in National Health
Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in the Kassena-Nankana District in Ghana. In order to achieve this
purpose, a cross-sectional survey was used ...
Gerwel taught us that theory without application is useless
(IOL, 2012)
This tribute to Prof Gerwel has been triggered by a picture on p 2 of the Cape Times, 29 Nov 2012, of a group of students, he addressed in 1977 [not 1973] as I was reading for my Honours degree in Geography. As students ...
Evaluating social housing intervention strategies in a South African municipality
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2013)
According to the Department of Human Settlement Annual Report (2010:5) accelerating the delivery of housing opportunities by 2014 by providing proper basic services and land tenure to households currently living in informal ...
Transformative sensemaking: Development in Whose Image? Keyan Tomaselli and the semiotics of visual representation
(Overseas Publishers Association, 2000)
The defining and distinguishing feature of homo sapiens is its ability to make sense of the world, i.e. to use its intellect to understand and change both itself and the world of which it is an integral part. It is against ...
Citizenship, community participation and social change: The case of area coordinating teams in Cape Town, South Africa
(Wiley, 2004)
Social change does not roll in under the wheels of inevitability On the contrary; we have to organize for it, mobilize for it, struggle for it and indeed, plan for it. This is especially so in a country such as South Africa, ...