South Africa and Participation
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
Check the most recent online additions, updated daily.
Content from selected partners can be found by following the relevant links in the central panel below - or check out our editor's selection of the best sector specific information from other websites.
- Participatory governance in South Africa
- L. Thompson / African Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, 2007
- Since the drafting of the new South African Constitution, with its strong emphasis on both civil and socio-economic rights, there has been much debate on how these rights translate into policy and, even more critically, how they trans...
- Rapid response study on citizenship, violence and xenophobia in South Africa
- Democracy and Governance Programme Human Sciences Research Council / Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2008
- More than 50 people died and tens of thousands of people were displaced as a result of ‘xenophobic’ violence in South Africa during 2008. A number of urgent questions resulted from these attacks: Why are foreign African mi...
- How can NGOs effectively influence policy agendas?: lessons from FARM-Africa's projects
- A. Bradstock; I. Hovland; H. Altshul / Farm Africa, 2007
- Increasingly, NGOs are becoming active in policy debates, yet a key question emerging from this new focus is whether NGOs can effectively influence the policy agenda. This publication presents four FARM-Africa projects from Ethiopia, ...
- How are conservation policies shaped by neoliberalism?: a collection of critical essays
- J. Igoe (ed); D. Brockington (ed) / Conservation and Society, 2008
- The growing body of work on the 'neoliberalisation of nature' has paid little attention to conservation policy and its impacts. Similarly, studies of conservation have generally overlooked the broader context of neoliberalism. This la...
- Evaluating action learning
- I. Goldman; R. Searle-Mbullu / The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), 2008
- Action learning is about learning from actions and applying what is learnt back into the next experience, an ongoing process. This briefing presents lessons of how to use action learning to improve the development and implementation o...
- Children's participation in transport planning and policy: Ghana, South Africa and India
- M. Mashiri; S. Dube; D. Buiten / Commonwealth Youth and Development, 2007
- Transport plays a significant role in the lives of children and young people, facilitating or constraining their ability to discharge their domestic responsibilities, providing opportunities for earning an income, supporting or inhibi...
- Is South Africa’s democratisation really a success story?
- R. Mattes / Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2007
- South Africa is widely seen as one of the success stories of the so-called "Third Wave of Democracy". Whilst there is an increasingly widespread public perception that South Africa is providing a high level of democracy, the...
- Lessons for civil society groups and donors interested in undertaking applied budget work
- P. de Renzio; W. Krafchik / Overseas Development Institute, 2007
- This study examines the issues of budget accountability and budget policies. Within budget acountability it looks at budget groups’ impact on levels of budget transparency, public literacy and awareness of budget issues, an...
- Listening to what people with HIV have to say
- L Stackpool-Moore / Panos AIDS Programme, 2006
- This report from Panos outlines the findings from research done on the role of communications in social mobilisation around HIV, in South Africa, Namibia and Brazil. Based on oral testimony from members of actions groups campaigning o...
- Re-building the art of conversation in a development context
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2006
- Since the advent of communication technologies, the art of talking has been declining. The developing world has a lot to teach western society regarding the importance of actual conversation in dealing with challenges and creating sol...
We are currently looking for new documents from this country to feature on Eldis. Please contact us if you have any suggestions.
