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Searching with a thematic focus on Participation in South Africa

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  The politics of state structures: citizenship and the national machinery for women in South Africa

  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 particular piece of legislation – the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act. This paper analyses the effectiveness of the National Machinery for Women in South Africa.
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  Managing mobilisation?: participatory processes and dam building in South Africa, the Berg River project

  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 national environmental movement, and to what extent activism on water resource management in local contexts feeds into national and global social movement dynamics.
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  "Hearing the voices of the poor": assigning poverty lines on the basis of local perceptions of poverty; a quantitative analysis of qualitative data from participatory wealth ranking in rural South Africa

  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.
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  Supporting land reform in South Africa: participatory planning experience in the Northern Cape Province

  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.
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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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  Employee ownership in the context of globalisation: a developing country perspective

  National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa, 2002

  This paper attempts to gauge to what extent employee ownership of company shares can support the broader goal of poverty reduction in developing countries.
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  Creating voice and carving space

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2004

  This book is based upon the premise that while politics and power play a central role in decisions governing the lives of many women in developing countries, international development agencies supporting the good governance agenda in the 1990s largely failed to acknowledge this in their approaches.
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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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  Study of selected Fredskorpset exchange projects

  Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2003

  This report evaluates volunteer exchange projects of young people between institutions of Norway and countries of the South, as well as directly between Southern countries.
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  Land theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000

  This paper examines the challenges of institutional, organisational and policy reform around land in Southern Africa. It analyses the land situation in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and identifies key issues for further research in each of these countries. Findings include:

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