South Africa and Participation
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- Community Investment Programme (CIP) in South Africa
- N. Reynolds / The People's Agenda, South Africa, 2006
- This paper analyses the work of the Community Investment Programme (CIP) in South Africa. This programme works at providing linkages and opportunities for communities to become active partners of the state. The CIP advocates for the e...
- What is the role for citizen participation in science and technology?
- I. Scoones; M. Leach; K. Cockburn / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
- This IDS Policy Briefing argues that public engagement in scientific debates and policy processes is necessary to address how research agendas are framed and the social purposes they serve, and to ensure that poorer people and communi...
- Moving towards participatory governance systems and public participation mechanisms in South Africa
- E. Tadesse / Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006
- This research paper critically investigates some of South Africa’s post-apartheid policy-making processes, in order to assess the extent to which ordinary citizens have been empowered to understand policies and articulate their o...
- Comparing qualitative and quantitative research on poverty in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa
- M. Adato; F. Lund; P. Mhlongo / Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2005
- The paper presents the methodology used in qualitative research on poverty in KwaZulu- Natal province in South Africa. It focuses on changes in the poverty status of households in the years following South Africa’s democratic tra...
- Need for strong women's organisations in South Africa
- S. Meer / Oxfam, 2005
- This article argues that progress on gender equality made during the transition to democracy in South Africa has not resulted in unambiguous gains for women in the post-apartheid era of development. It describes how, during the negoti...
- A call for a return to women’s activism in South Africa
- A. Gouws / African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2004
- The National Machinery for Women was systematically established in South Africa after the 1994 elections. This was largely as a result of the political pressure generated by the Women's National Coalition. Through tracking one particu...
- Examination of participatory processes leading to the Berg River Dam in South Africa
- L. Thompson / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
- This paper examines the participatory processes which led to the building of the Berg River Dam in South Africa’s western Cape province. The paper examines how local groupings strengthen, or are strengthened by, the nation...
- Using participatory wealth ranking to define poverty lines in the Limpopo Province, South Africa
- J.R. Hargreaves / Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis, 2005
- The authors of this paper argue that participatory wealth ranking (PWR) may be a useful tool to generate a thorough appraisal of poverty on a scale suitable for the generation of statistics that can be used to inform policy. The speci...
- Participatory planning support for land reform groups in South Africa
- A. Bradstock / Farm Africa, 2005
- This paper documents a participatory approach for supporting black South Africans in developing knowledge and skills to use land, acquired under the land reform scheme, more effectively. This approach enables land reform groups to wor...
- Making budgets more accessible to the ordinary citizen
- Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2005
- The findings from this study explore budget transparency from the ordinary citizen's perspective. It sheds some light on information required to engage meaningfully with budgetary and other decisions involving public resources from th...
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