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    Resource book for Ward Committees on community-based planning and the integrated development plan (IDP)

    The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), 2005
    Community-based planning (CBP) is a specific form of ward planning involving all people in a ward which has been designed to promote community action and make the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) of a municipal area more people-centred. The methodology has been developed and tested in South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Ghana for use by municipalities and communities in South Africa.
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    Securing water to enhance local livelihoods: guidelines for implementing a water and livelihoods planning process

    Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2004
    This file, designed for water sector and rural development practitioners, contains detailed guidelines for implementing a water and livelihoods planning process.
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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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    A preliminary assessment of energy and ecosystem resilience in ten African countries

    HELIO International, 2007
    Africa is vulnerable to climate change on two fronts: firstly, because of existing vulnerabilities and secondly, due to capacity limitations for disaster mitigation and inability to adapt to climate change.
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    The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd)

    The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd) is an African centre of expertise on community-driven development and sustainable livelihoods. They are committed to a transf
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    Citizenship, violence and xenophobia in South Africa: perceptions from South African communities

    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 migrants the targets of violence in informal settlements? What is the explanation for the timing, location and scale of the outbreaks?
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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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