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Resisting repression: legislative and political obstacles to civic space in southern and eastern Africa
CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation, 2004This 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.DocumentWater for all: improving water resource governance in southern Africa
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004Assessing prospects for effective stakeholder participation in water resource management in southern Africa, this paper examines the experience of countries such as South Africa and Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Tanzania, to draw some important lessons.At a theoretical level, the paper concludes that:improved governance, rather than stakeholder participation, should be tDocumentWild resources theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)
Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2001This paper provides background information on access to natural resources in Southern Africa. Case studies are used from Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa, to explore customary rights and de facto access to a wide range of wild resources, in particular those of greatest importance to the rural poor.DocumentWater theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)
Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002The key concern of this paper is with the implications of changes in institutions and policy in the water sector for poor communities, households and individuals. Three case studies are used, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique, to illustrate changes in decentralisation, the involvement of stakeholders in decision making, and the role of the private sector.DocumentThe politics of water: a Southern African example
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003This report examines the political contradictions embedded in water reform processes across different levels in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique. It argues that implementing ideas on water reform often borrowed from extremely different contexts is not an automatic and unproblematic process, but involves complex local political negotiation.DocumentCan decentralisation promote pro-poor development planning systems?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Can development planning close the gap between high level strategic thinking and the local level context? How can national poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs) complement the decentralisation of development functions? Are local government officials sufficiently sensitive to development needs? How can we judge the successes and failures of decentralisation processes?DocumentDecentralisations in practice in Southern Africa
Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003Different 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 mDocumentRights talk and rights practice: challenges for Southern Africa
Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003This 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.DocumentDemocratic decentralization of natural resources: institutionalizing popular participation
World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2002Series of case studies exploring the how natural resource decentralizations have taken place and their measurable social and environmental outcomes.