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    Farmers' voices: practical perspectives on land reform and agricultural development

    Centre for Development and Enterprise, South Africa, 2008
    This report details the findings of a round table discussion on land reform and agricultural development in South Africa convened by The Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) in October 2007.
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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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    Fear, violence and sexual violence in a Gauteng juvenile correctional centre for males

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2007
    Violence, described as endemic to South African Correctional Centres is generally under-reported and a severe hindrance to the Department of Correctional Services’ current and ambitious vision to reduce re-offending through rehabilitating offenders.
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    The effect of a mainstream approach to economic and corporate governance on development in South Africa

    Global Policy Innovations Program, 2007
    This paper argues that important aspects of corporate governance and economic governance have become confused and conflated in the minds of government policy makers. Focussing on the case of South Africa, it also argues that the mainstream approach to governance, with a focus on corporate governance is antithetical to development.
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    State of the nation: South Africa 2007

    Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2007
    Assembling academics, journalists, researchers and analysts, the State of the Nation: South Africa 2007 volume offers 23 diverse angles on contemporary South Africa in one comprehensive publication.
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    GMO governance in Africa

    The Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Development, The Open University, 2006
    This paper examines issues of legitimation and harmonisation of biosafety systems in GMO governance in Africa. It draws on case studies from emerging regulatory systems in Ethiopia and South Africa, which offer contrasting examples that evolved under different historical and socio-economic conditions.
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    E-governance in Africa: from theory to action - a handbook on ICTs for local governance

    International Development Research Centre, 2007
    This book presents the context, theory and current thinking on the interaction betweeen ICTs and local governance, particularly in Africa. It discusses the shift from ‘government’ to ‘e-governance,’ describes the role of local-level authorities, and presents the benefits and limitations of introducing ICTs in government operations.
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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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    Local ownership underpins success of security sector reforms

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Security sector reforms in any country must be designed, managed and implemented by local people if they are to succeed. But while it is fashionable for policy statements to declare the importance of ‘local ownership’, the concept has proven difficult to apply, with donor governments guilty of frequent breaches.

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