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Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in South Africa
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2020This paper evaluates structural change, inequality dynamics, and industrial policy in South Africa between 1960 and the present day. We find that South Africa experienced growthenhancing structural transformation until the early 1970s, before entering a period of premature deindustrialization.DocumentLinking participation and economic advancement: Buen Vivir Fund case study
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2019The Buen Vivir Fund is a participatory impact investment fund operating internationally. It was founded in 2018 by Thousand Currents, a non-governmental organisation, following a co-design process to conceptualise the Fund, initiated in late 2016.DocumentTowards citywide participatory planning: emerging community-led practices in three African cities
Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, 2018In this working paper the authors seek to contribute to debates about the scaling up of citizen participation in towns and cities of the Global South through a focus on participatory planning. The contribution is three-fold.DocumentDo more empowered citizens make more accountable states? Power and legitimacy in legal empowerment initiatives in Kenya and South Africa
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017Many marginalised groups face difficulties in accessing essential services, such as housing, health care and water – even though their rights to these services are enshrined in international and often in national laws.DocumentTranslating complex realities through technologies: lessons about participatory accountability from South Africa
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017Accountability is a complex issue in South Africa. The country has high levels of inequality, and marginalised groups struggle to make themselves heard by those in power. Yet the issue is further complicated by an interacting set of factors, including the legacy of apartheid, gender and religious issues, and the lack of access to those in power.DocumentTsima community mobilisation materials
Sonke Gender Justice Network, 2016This three part package of materials comprising of a handbook, workshop manual, and toolkit, are designed to support community mobilisation activities around the issue of treatment as prevention.DocumentFeminist Africa e-spaces:e-politics
African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2013Feminist Africa (FA) is a continental gender studies journal that provides a platform for intellectual and activist research, dialogue and strategy. Currently based in Cape Town, South Africa, FA is guided by a profound commitment to transforming gender hierarchies in Africa, and seeks to redress injustice and inequality in its content and design.DocumentTackling Urban Violence in Mumbai and Cape Town through Citizen Engagement and Community Action
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014Urban violence is an urgent and growing problem in many cities across the world. It comes in a multitude of forms such as gender-based violence, gangs and drug-related violence, police violence, religious riots, vigilante groups, and others.DocumentSouth Africa's emerging black middle class: A harbinger of political change?
Afrobarometer, 2014South Africa has seen a significant increase in the size of its black middle class in the post-apartheid period, but the attitudinal consequences of indicators of the middle class, as of 2011, are inconsistent and modest in size.DocumentParticipatory planning, justice, and climate change in Durban, South Africa
Environment and Planning A, 2010This academic article explores how participatory governance in urban environmental planning was implemented and experience in Durban, a coastal city in South Africa. The author, Aylett, contextualises participatory governance with the literatures on social justice and climate change.Pages