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Searching with a thematic focus on Governance, Participation in South Africa

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    Development in Practice 8(3)

    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 voluntary engagement often seems to be taken for granted.
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    Community-based worker systems: guidelines for practitioners

    The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), 2007
    Many communities in Africa are largely dependent on services provided by local people rather than by external agencies, including government. Such services include traditional birth attendants, traditional healers, farmer to farmer extension, home-based carers, paralegals and water pump attendants. [adapted from author]
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    Participatory governance? Citizens and the state in South Africa

    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 translate into actual dynamics of participation which are meaningful and empowering to citizens.
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    From grassroots to government: FARM-Africa’s experiences influencing policy in sub-Saharan Africa

    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, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa, describing how they approached influencing national policy in the context of the natural resources sector.
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    Engaging neoliberal conservation

    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 latest edition of Conservation and Society journal explores what can be gained by seeing conservation through a neoliberal lense.
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    Democracy without people political institutions and citizenship in the new South Africa

    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, there is little evidence that this success has resulted in greater public demand for democracy.
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    Budget monitoring and policy influence: lessons from civil society budget analysis and advocacy initiatives

    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, and public engagement with budget processes. Budget policy includes for example investigation into the improvements in budget systems and shifts in allocations.
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    The people shall govern: a research report on public participation in policy processes

    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 opinions, needs and aspirations in relation to these policies.
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    Nine African budget transparency and participation case studies

    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 the ordinary citizen's perspective.
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    Resisting repression: legislative and political obstacles to civic space in southern and eastern Africa

    CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation, 2004
    This study focuses on the legislative frameworks and country practices relating to freedom of association, expression and assembly in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa. The study focuses on the grave and worsening situation in Zimbabwe, as part of an advocacy intervention under the Civil Society Watch Programme.

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