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Author : Tacita A. O. Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 155238537X
Author : Donald Iain Ray,Quinlan Tim,Keshav Sharma,Tachita A O Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1552384993
This collection of essays examines the relatively new, and frequently overlooked, political phenomenon in post-colonial Africa of chieftaincy "re-inventing" itself. The traditional authority of chiefs has been one of Africa's missing voices who are now bringing new resources to the challenges that AIDS, gender, governance, and development pose to the peoples of Africa. This publication presents new research in Ghana, Botswana and South Africa, providing the broadest geographic African coverage on the topic of African chieftaincy. The nineteen authors, many of them emerging scholars from Africa, are all members of the Traditional Authority Applied Research Network (TAARN). Their essays give critical insight into the transformation processes of chieftaincy from the end of the colonial/apartheid periods to the present. They also examine the realities of male and female traditional leaders in re-inventing their legitimacy and their political offices in the age of great social and political unrest, health issues and governance and development challenges.
Author : Sonia Plaza,Dilip Ratha
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821382585
The diaspora of developing countries can be a potent force for development, through remittances, but more importantly, through promotion of trade, investment, knowledge and technology transfers. The book aims to consolidate research and evidence on these issues with a view to formulating policies in both sending and receiving countries.
Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821384404
The 2011 WDR on Conflict, Security and Development underlines the devastating impact of persistent conflict on a country or region's development prospects - noting that the 1.5 billion people living in conflict-affected areas are twice as likely to be in poverty. Its goal is to contribute concrete, practical suggestions on conflict and fragility.
Author : Paul Kibwika
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789086865895
Universities represent the highest level of education, yet they are notoriously slow in responding to a rapidly changing world. Deeply entrenched elitism and routines, a continued emphasis on reproductive learning, and the continued dominance of disciplinary thinking, have, in many instances, created bastions of educational conservatism, unable to contribute meaningfully to the development of people, businesses and communities within a finite global ecosystem. This book focuses on an African university's efforts to become more innovative and responsive to community needs and the challenges posed by sustainability. A central concept is innovation competence as a pre-requisite for transforming learning, research and consultancy. Making change in society requires innovation competences over and above disciplinary expertise and these competences have to be learnt by both staff and students. Kibwika not only shows that it is imperative that African universities re-orient their programmes to produce graduates capable of enhancing innovation and social change in the community, he also provides a number of solid stepping stones for capacity building and curriculum development that, in time, will result in an innovative university able to contribute to a world that is more sustainable than the one currently in prospect.
Author : Lars Buur,Steffen Jensen,Finn Stepputat
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124077681
The link between security and development has been rediscovered after 9/11 by a broad range of scholars. Focusing on Southern Africa, the Security-Development Nexus shows that the much debated linkage is by no means a recent invention. Rather, the security/development linkage has been an important element of the state policies of colonial as well as post-colonial regimes during the Cold War, and it seems to be prospering in new configurations under the present wave of democratic transitions. Contributors focus on a variety of contexts from South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia, to Zimbabwe and Democratic Congo; they explore the nexus and our understanding of security and development through the prism of peace-keeping interventions, community policing, human rights, gender, land contests, squatters, nation and state-building, social movements, DDR programmes and the different trajectories democratization has taken in different parts of the region.
Author : Pippa Norris
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821382012
What are the ideal roles the mass media should play as an institution to strengthen democratic governance and thus bolster human development? Under what conditions do media systems succeed or fail to meet these objectives? And what strategic reforms would close the gap between the democratic promise and performance of media systems? Working within the notion of the democratic public sphere, 'Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform' emphasizes the institutional or collective roles of the news media as watchdogs over the powerful, as agenda setters calling attention to social needs in natural and human-caused disasters and humanitarian crises, and as gatekeepers incorporating a diverse and balanced range of political perspectives and social actors. Each is vital to making democratic governance work in an effective, transparent, inclusive, and accountable manner. The capacity of media systems and thus individual reporters embedded within those institutions to fulfill these roles is constrained by the broader context of the journalistic profession, the market, and ultimately the state. Successive chapters apply these arguments to countries and regions worldwide. This study brought together a wide range of international experts under the auspices of the Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) at the World Bank and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. The book is designed for policy makers and media professionals working within the international development community, national governments, and grassroots organizations, and for journalists, democratic activists, and scholars engaged in understanding mass communications, democratic governance, and development.
Author : Nicolas Van de Walle,N. Ball,V. Ramachandran
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403981288
As the World Bank famously put it back in 1989, 'underlying the litany of Africa's development problems is a crisis of governance.' This is a collection of authoritative essays bringing together prominent Africanists in political science and public administration to look at the role of governance in African development. The goal of the book is to move beyond the status quo debates about 'structural adjustment' and to look at all the public and civic institutions which are likely to play a critical role if Africa is to overcome its economic crisis.
Author : A. Carl LeVan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107081147
This book argues that the structure of the policy-making process in Nigeria explains variations in government performance better than other commonly cited factors.
Author : Jeltsje Sanne Kemerink-Seyoum
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1138029432
Since the 1980s a major change took place in public policies for water resources management. This interdisciplinary research examines how this water reform process unfolds within four African waterscapes that are historically constituted by natural and social processes. This study analyzes the interplay between public policies designed and implemented by government agencies and the institutions that govern access to and control over water resources among groups of agricultural water users. The findings of this research show that water policy in only a limited extent leads to progressive institutional change concerning agricultural water use.
Author : Devon Curtis,Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821444320
Peacebuilding, Power, and Politics in Africa is a critical reflection on peacebuilding efforts in Africa. The authors expose the tensions and contradictions in different clusters of peacebuilding activities, including peace negotiations; statebuilding; security sector governance; and disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration. Essays also address the institutional framework for peacebuilding in Africa and the ideological underpinnings of key institutions, including the African Union, NEPAD, the African Development Bank, the Pan-African Ministers Conference for Public and Civil Service, the UN Peacebuilding Commission, the World Bank, and the International Criminal Court. The volume includes on-the-ground case study chapters on Sudan, the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the Niger Delta, Southern Africa, and Somalia, analyzing how peacebuilding operates in particular African contexts. The authors adopt a variety of approaches, but they share a conviction that peacebuilding in Africa is not a script that is authored solely in Western capitals and in the corridors of the United Nations. Rather, the writers in this volume focus on the interaction between local and global ideas and practices in the reconstitution of authority and livelihoods after conflict. The book systematically showcases the tensions that occur within and between the many actors involved in the peacebuilding industry, as well as their intended beneficiaries. It looks at the multiple ways in which peacebuilding ideas and initiatives are reinforced, questioned, reappropriated, and redesigned by different African actors. A joint project between the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa, and the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Author : Christo Fabricius
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849772433
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is an approach that offers multiple related benefits: securing rural livelihoods; ensuring careful conservation and management of biodiversity and other resources; and empowering communities to manage these resources sustainably. Recently, however, the CBNRM concept has attracted criticism for failing in its promise of delivering significant local improvements and conserving biodiversity in some contexts. This book identifies the flaws in its application, which often have been swept under the carpet by those involved in the initiatives. The authors analyse them, and propose remedies for specific circumstances based on the lessons learned from CBNRM experience in southern Africa over more than a decade. The result is essential reading for all researchers, observers and practitioners who have focused on CBNRM in sustainable development programmes as a means to overcome poverty and conserve ecosystems in various parts of the globe. It is a vital tool in improving their methods and performance. In addition, academics, students and policy-makers in natural resource management, resource economics, resource governance and rural development will find it a very valuable and instructive resource.
Author : Fred Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415520362
First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : L. Buur,H. Kyed
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230609716
Being critical and empirically grounded, the book explores the complex, often counter-balancing consequences of the involvement of traditional authority in the wave of democratization and liberal-style state-building that has rolled over sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade.
Author : William Hutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10467093