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

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  Local government responses to HIV/AIDS: a handbook

  World Bank, 2003

  This handbook is written for local government authorities (LGA) that are interested in developing or strengthening local responses to HIV/AIDS.
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  An enabling environment for civil society: what does it mean and how does law fit in?

  Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2003

  This paper explores the notion of an ‘enabling environment’ for civil society, a concept that is briefly reviewed.
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  Whose right it is anyway?: equality, culture and conflicts of rights in South Africa

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2003

  South Africa today provides a fertile environment for reflection on questions about rights and multiculturalism, because claims grounded in both are frequent, loud and often quite intractable. Those charged with the responsibility of policy formulation and legislation are thus faced with the difficulty of striking a balance between: liberalism: the rights of individuals.
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  Decentralisations in practice 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 Zimbabwe show how: political authorities with downward accountability to electorates co-exist and sometimes conflict with decentralised service delivery (through line m
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  Rights talk and rights practice: challenges for 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 rights are formulated and claimed in a very unlevel playing field and are highly contested.
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  Targeting poverty through community-based public works programs: a cross-disciplinary assessment of recent experience in South Africa

  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.
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  Public participation in South Africa as we enter the 21st Century

  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.
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  Resisting ethnicity from above: social identities and democracy in South Africa

  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? This chapter from Governance and Democracy Review (Muthien, Y. Khosa, M.M.
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  Democratic decentralization of natural resources: institutionalizing popular participation

  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.
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  Short - term stabilization versus long - term price stability : evaluating Namibia's membership of the Common Monetary Area

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  It was found in this paper that (i) because of the high degree of openness of the Namibian economy and its small size, the use of nominal exchange rate as an instrument of adjustment will have limited effects; (ii) that the costs associated with the loss of monetary autonomy are small; and (iii) that there exists a wide range of instruments to address the effects of asymmetric shocks, irrespective

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