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Between supply and demand: the limits to participatory development in South Africa
(SAGE, 2013)
Much of the focus in the literature on participatory development has been on the
demand side and on the extent to which citizens succeed in pressuring the state to
deliver basic services. Less attention has been focused ...
Development policy planning in Ghana: The case of health care provision
(European Scientific Institute, 2014)
This paper examines the historical development of health policy in
Ghana within the framework of financial, geographical accessibility and the
availability of health care. Historically, health policy has been
urban ...
The Everyday at Grassroots level: poverty, protest and social change in post-apartheid South Africa
(CLACSO, 2009)
This paper posits that social change derives from how the everyday is encountered,
analyzed and experienced at the grassroots level. Drawing extensively
from the seminal work of Henri Lefebvre, the paper argues that for ...
Changing people, changing lives through public participation and social transformation: A south African case study of a rural development programme
(Routledge, 2020)
During 2009, in what seemed to be a return to RDP-style thinking, the Comprehensive Rural
Development Programme (CRDP) was adopted nationally to tackle not only
underdevelopment, poverty, unemployment, and other social ...
Evaluating Family as an Instrument for Policy in Human Capabilities
(macrothink Institute, 2021)
The capabilities" approach has overtime offers instructive insights into the improvement of human capabilities in various fields such as behavioural change, social inequalities, poverty, unemployment, and education. To ...
Land for housing: A political resource – reflections from Zimbabwe’s urban areas
(Routledge, 2015)
When the Zimbabwean government launched the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP)
in 1999, an international outcry followed, with Zimbabwe described as an international pariah
state. Zimbabwe entered a prolonged ...
‘This land is not for sale’: Post-1994 resistance art and interventionism in Cape Town’s precarious publics
(Elsevier, 2021)
The control, regulation and commodification of space has been fundamental in reinforcing structural racism and
social identities. In a city such as Cape Town, where colonial architecture and heritage as well as apartheid ...
The role of intergovernmental relations in response to a wicked problem: An analysis of the COVID-19 crisis in the BRICS countries
(Fundacao Getulio Varagas (FGV), 2021)
Globally, policy environments have become increasingly more complex with the growth in the number of
wicked problems, such as that posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In their response to these problems, public
administrations ...
Understanding urban land, politics, and planning: A critical appraisal of Kampala's urban sprawl
(Elsevier, 2020)
This paper seeks to make a contribution to contemporary urban land insights and political debates in relation to
planning in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. It also evaluates how the city authorities engage with communities ...
Local government revenue leakages through corruption during the Covid-19 pandemic in Africa: The case of Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Zimbabwe has over the years experienced rampant corruption in all sectors of the economy. At local government level, there have been several allegations of corruption in areas such as revenue collection, procurement and ...