South Africa and Governance
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- The BLDS governance collection
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- Addressing corruption in the infrastructure sector
- S. Cavill; M. Sohail / Water Engineering and Development Centre, 2007
- This document provides information about the research agenda and methods used to investigate corruption in the infrastructure sector. It presents a combination of qualitative and quantitative research techniques to analyse corruption ...
- Participatory approaches to integrated risk management
- A. Holloway; R. Roomaney / PreventionWeb, 2008
- Residents of informal settlements often bear the brunt of extreme weather and associated flooding. This guide is intended to strengthen participatory risk assessment capabilities for a wide range of municipal and development professio...
- Making politics work to reduce extreme forms of poverty
- Sam Hickey / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
- There is a growing recognition of the importance of politics in shaping poverty reduction efforts in developing countries. But current development thinking and practice may be failing the poorest groups. What forms of politics lead to...
- Assessing governance capacity in water management in SADC region
- A. Earle; G. Lungu; D. Malzbender / Stockholm International Water Institute, 2008
- Enhancing governance in the water sector through improved integrity, accountability, and the application of anti-corruption measures constitute important tools for achieving poverty reduction and improving sustainable management of wa...
- Community based planning and the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) in South Africa
- I. Goldman; S. Chimbuya; K. Muthala / The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), 2005
- Community-based planning (CBP) is a specific form of ward planning involving all people in a ward which has been designed to promote community action and make the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) of a municipal area more people-centr...
- Providing poor people with utilities through public-private partnerships
- D. Hailu; P. Hunt / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
- While access to basic utility services such as water, electricity and sanitation are essential for meeting internationally agreed development goals, many of these services remain unaffordable or unavailable for the world’s poore...
- Excluding corrupt suppliers from public procurement in South Africa
- Sope Williams / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- The South African government has taken steps to ensure its public procurement system for awarding contracts is free of corruption. Central to these efforts are anti-corruption laws that exclude firms guilty of corruption offences from...
- What motivates individuals to become engaged in working for the public good?
- Development in Practice, 2008
- The question of what motivates individuals to become engaged in working for the public good is obviously central to the whole range of activities included in the term ‘development’. Yet the spark that ignites such voluntar...
- Making sense of non-state justice systems in Southern Africa
- W. Schärf / Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2003
- This report investigates non-state justice systems in six southern African countries: South Africa, Malawi, Botswana, Lesotho, Zambia and Mozambique. The report argues that contrary to the generally held view, much of the non-state ju...
- The role of traditional chiefs in development
- D. I. Ray; G. Eizlini / The Traditional Authority Applied Research Network, University of Calgary, 2004
- This paper evaluates the potential and the reality of traditional chiefs in contributing to development, based on a on a newspaper survey. It focuses on three major themes addressing the involvement of chiefs in development: Education...
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