South Africa and Participation
- Capital:
Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- Analysis of experience of Southern Africa TBNRM initiatives
- B. Jones; E. Chonguica / World Conservation Union Regional Office for Southern Africa, 2001
- The authors of this paper intend to help clarify understanding of trans-boundary natural resource management (TBNRM) in southern Africa. This paper focuses specifically on: a description of specific initiative in the re...
- Technical CBNRM planning can exclude communities
- C. Steenkamp; J. Uhr / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2000
- The article investigates the power relations that emerged around a CBNRM programme and a land claim by the Makuleke community of the Northern Transvaal Province of South Africa. The land from which the Makuleke were forcibly removed i...
- Making rights real for poor people in rural areas of Southern Africa
- Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003
- This research in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe looks at the practice of rights claiming on the ground, in the context of 'legal pluralism' and complex, politicised institutional settings. In the southern African context...
- Political realities of decentralisation in Southern Africa
- Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003
- Different forms of decentralisation are occurring in parallel, and often in ways that cause confusion, ambiguity, high transaction costs and conflict, in southern Africa. These case studies in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimba...
- Gender bias and poor targeting in public works programmes in South Africa
- M. Adato; L. Haddad / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001
- This paper examines the performance of seven programs in Western Cape Province at involving community participation and at targeting the poor and women. It analyses the role of government, community-based organisations, trade unions, ...
- Can democracy in South Africa overcome the social categorisations which developed during apartheid?
- A. Zegeye; I. Liebenberg; G. Houston / Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2003
- Given that ethnicity, language and colour have determined membership of state and society in the recently abolished apartheid system, how can formerly excluded communities be recognised without perpetuating apartheid categorisations? ...
- How can public participation add value to the democratic process in South Africa?
- M. Roefs; I. Liebenberg / Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2003
- Participation by citizens at various levels is essential to make democratic societies work. This chapter from "Governance and Democracy Review" (Muthien, Y. Khosa, M.M. and Magubane, B., HSRC, 2003) attempts to assist and encourage po...
- Research on decentralization of natural resources management
- J. Ribot / World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002
- Series of case studies exploring the how natural resource decentralizations have taken place and their measurable social and environmental outcomes. Most of the cases focus on forestry, while a few explore wildlife and water managemen...
- Measuring the impact of participation on the effectiveness of public works interventions in South Africa
- J. Hoddinott; M. Adato; T. Besley; L. Haddad / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001
- This paper examines the relationship between community participation and the efficacy of interventions designed to reduce poverty. It developes some simple analytics that are used to structure a review of the extant literature ...
- Explores objections of local communities in Zimbabwe to the establishment of cross-border Peace Parks
- B. Campbell; B. Sithole; W. Cavendish; P. Frost; B. Mukamuri / Institute of Environmental Studies, Zimbabwe, 1999
- Policy briefing looking at the tensions between conservationist plans to establish Peace Parks - international wildlife areas linking countries - and the priorities of local people. Within Zimbabwe, some of the problems are: ...
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