Author: Monica SvenskerudPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Community Participation and Participatory Development in Post-apartheid South Africa
Author: Monica SvenskerudPower, Politics, and Performance
Author: Michelle AdatoPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896291472
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Since 1994, public works programs with community participation have been part of South Africa's efforts to reduce poverty through increasing employment, skills, infrastructure, and local capacities. This report is an analysis of the intended and actual responsibilities of community forums and community-based committees; the value added by community participation in project selection, design, and management, and the problems introduced; the impact of community participation on project performance; and the factors that have constrained the ability of community-based committees to play the role envisioned for them in policy documents. The research provides a window into the developmental changes and challenges faced by South Africa since its transition to democracy in 1994 and reveals the dilemmas and possibilities pertaining to community-driven development projects.
Integrating participation
Author: Participatory Development in South Africa
Author: Ismail DavidsPublisher: Van Schaik Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Participatory development in South Africa: a development management perspective, follows a holistic, multidisciplinary approach in assessing development management principles and strategies in South Africa.
The Participation Paradox
Author: Luke SinwellPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228015731
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The last two decades have ushered in what has become known as a participatory revolution, with consultants, advisors, and non-profits called into communities, classrooms, and corporations alike to listen to ordinary people. With exclusively bureaucratic approaches no longer en vogue, authorities now opt for “open” forums for engagement. In The Participation Paradox Luke Sinwell argues that amplifying the voices of the poor and dispossessed is often a quick fix incapable of delivering concrete and lasting change. The ideology of public consultation and grassroots democracy can be a smokescreen for a cost-effective means by which to implement top-down decisions. As participation has become mainstreamed by governments around the world, so have its radical roots become tamed by neoliberal forces that reinforce existing relationships of power. Drawing from oral testimonies and ethnographic research, Sinwell presents a case study of one of the poorest and most defiant Black informal settlements in Johannesburg, South Africa – Thembelihle, which consists of more than twenty thousand residents – highlighting the promises and pitfalls of participatory approaches to development. Providing a critical lens for understanding grassroots democracy, The Participation Paradox foregrounds alternatives capable of reclaiming participation’s emancipatory potential.
Power, polices, and performance
Author: M. AdotoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : pt-BR
Pages : 73
Book Description
Introduction; Participatory development and the origins of community-base public works in south Africa; Research methods; The impact of participation on project outcomes: evidence from the full sample; Community participation in the wester cape projects; Social, political, and institutional challenges to participation; Conclusions.
Religion and Social Development in Post-apartheid South Africa
Author: Ignatius SwartPublisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN: 1920338314
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
ÿ ?[It] reflects original research and contributes to new developments in the field of theology and religion with regard to its developmental role within a transformation context. The book may easily stand out in future as seminal in the way that it promoted the social development debate of the church and its organisational structures from an interdisciplinary focus.? ? Prof Antoinette Lombard Department of Social Work and Criminology University of Pretoria
Essays on the Evolution of the Post-Apartheid State
Author: Mcebisi NdletyanaPublisher: Real African Publishers
ISBN: 1920655859
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book critically examines the challenges, successes, and failures of the post-1994 South African state against the humane values enshrined in its constitution: nonracial democracy and respect for all generations of human rights—civil, political, social, economic, resources and the environment and gender and communication. The book sheds light on the difficulties faced by the State when trying to bring together a diverse society comprised of traditional South African, Western-based and "other" African (immigrant) cultures into a cohesive nation with a common South African identity. The views of the essays may not be entirely consistent and the issues they raise may be contentious. This merely affirms the truism that the State is a contested terrain. The aim of this book is to deepen the search for an understanding of the theory of the State as it applies to a transforming society such as ours and to trudge the dividing line between theory and practice so they can feed into each other in a progressive spiral towards the desired end-state.
Public Participation in Democratic Governance in South Africa
Author: Gregory F. HoustonPublisher: HSRC Press
ISBN: 9780796919830
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This book examines public participation in democratic governance in South Africa. The South African democracy is fairly new, giving rise to a variety of new channels and processes for public participation. In addition, the overwhelming majority of South Africans have little experience of democratic governance, having only acquired political power for the first time in 1994. However, more than seven years of universal suffrage and access to political power is ample justification for assessing the consolidation of democracy in this country. The book focuses on four case studies of public participation: interest group participation in the National Economic Development and Labour Council; the participation of civil society and the legislatures in the formulation of the budget; public participation in legislative processes; and public participation in the integrated development planning processes of local government. Each case study outlines a number of opportunities for, and constraints to, public participation in the processes of democratic governance.
Theorising the Practice of Community Development
Author: Peter WestobyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317010981
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Based on 25 years of community development practice, six of which have been lived in South Africa, Peter Westoby’s ground-breaking monograph moves away from dominant normative accounts of community development to provide an appreciative and critical analysis of concrete examples of community development theory and practice. By examining community development stories as experienced on the ground, Westoby is able to show how the poor are organising themselves using various forms of community development as well as demonstrating how the state and non-state actors are attempting to organise, engage or accompany the poor through community development. The book also breaks new ground in theorising the practice of community development, drawing inductively from the stories analysed. The diversity of South African contexts and the proliferation of different kinds of community practice, make this a hugely difficult task. Despite this, Westoby argues it is one worth undertaking given the seriousness of the challenges facing the poor and progressive social change agents within South Africa. In this undertaking, Westoby draws upon a unique analytical framework to help illuminate current community development policy and programme challenges, along with practice dilemmas and wisdom.