Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Development Studies) by Title
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Analysing South African indigenous knowledge policy and its alignment to government's attempts to promote indigenous vegetables.
(2016)The study was concerned with examining if DST policy on indigenous knowledge is aligned with practice on the ground. It focussed on understanding the formulation process of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) policy enacted ... -
An analysis of Umuganda : the policy and practice of community work in Rwanda.
(2012)This thesis analyses the policy and traditional practice of umuganda, which is a Rwandan word for community work. Many authors have looked at umuganda, mainly focusing on the period from 1973 until the 1994 genocide - ... -
Analyzing accountability in street-level bureaucracy : managing the implementation of national curriculum statements in the mGungundlovu District of South Africa.
(2013)ii ABSTRACT It has become generally accepted among public policy stakeholders, practitioners and scholars that street – level bureaucrats play a vital role in policy implementation. Because of that, street – level ... -
The bitter sweet reality: ‘sugar daddy’ relationships and the construction of traditional African masculinities in the context of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2018)The aim of this study is to explore ‘sugar daddy’ relationships and the construction of traditional amaZulu masculinities in KwaZulu-Natal. The study has four key research objectives. First, the study seeks to ascertain ... -
Building partnerships for HIV and AIDS management in a deep rural community in South Africa.
(2008)The importance of partnerships between marginalised communities and support agencies (from the public sector, private sector and civil society) is a pillar of HIV & AIDS management policy. Such alliances are notoriously ... -
Circular labour migration networks and HIV in Malawi.
(2015)Circular labour migration is a livelihood strategy for many Malawians regardless that migrant workers and their sexual partners are well known groups to be at risk of HIV infection. Many of these migrant workers and their ... -
Citizen, state, and the negotiation of development: the Nacala development corridor and the N13 highway rehabilitation programme.
(2017)For rural citizens in developing countries, the extension of infrastructural networks into previously remote areas is one of the primary ways in which the state comes into view through development. In some countries, ... -
Civil society, dams and underdevelopment of the Democratic Republic of Congo : a study of communities affected by the Inga Hydropower Projects.
(2015)This research examines development aid, development agencies, international financial institutions, successive governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Congolese civil society organisations as well as their ... -
Community-based activism and local content development: the case of platinum mining communities in Zimbabwe.
(2020)Through examination of community-based activism on local content development (LCD), the study considers the applicability of the “double movement” theory of Karl Polanyi (1944) against the ongoing neoliberal agenda favoured ... -
Corporate social responsibility, community participation and development in mining sector of North-Western Tanzania.
(2021)The study on which this thesis is based investigated the practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR), community participation and development in the mining sector of North-western Tanzania and focused on Geita Gold ... -
Decentralisation and municipalities in South Africa : an analysis of the mandate to deliver basic services.
(2009)This thesis investigates the challenges facing local government in South Africa by developing a means of exploring to what extent the problems of providing basic services currently experienced by municipalities are influenced ... -
Developing a poverty index for African economies using the consensual approach : the case of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe.
(2008)This thesis is articles-based submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. It consists of articles that were submitted and published, and others that were submitted and awaiting ... -
Exploring the challenges of implementing the rights-based approach to development : the case of the right to water in peri-urban Zambia.
(2007)Water is an essential element of life. On average, 60 to 70 percent of a human body mass is water . In order to perform its functions properly, it is estimated that a human body needs about 2 to 3 litres of clean water per ... -
The feminisation of poverty and female headship in post-apartheid South Africa, 1997-2006.
(2011)A large and growing body of scholarship has suggested that income poverty has recently decreased in post-apartheid South Africa. Evidence for an overall drop in poverty rates notwithstanding, there has been very little ... -
Gender equality in the higher education arena : a public policy perspective.
(2004)International research has shown conclusively that the struggle for employment equity and gender equality is a major challenge to both the private and the public sectors. In South Africa, with the legacy of colonialism ... -
Governance and service delivery a case-study of sanitation in Inanda, Durban.
(2012)The sanitation crisis is a growing pandemic in most developing countries, globally, including in South Africa. It is exacerbated by increasing urbanization, poverty, lack of political will, poor institutional response ... -
An historical analysis of changes in the population patterns of Indian South Africans : 1860-1991.
(2002)This study examines the quantitative aspects of the demographic characteristics of the Indian population of South Africa over a period of one-hundred-and-thirty years, from 1860 to 1991, within the framework of demographic ... -
Idioms of accumulation : socio-economic development in an African freehold farming area in Rhodesia.
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Inflation in South Africa, 1921 to 2006 : history, measurement and credibility.
(2007)This study reports the development and use of an original methodology to measure inflation credibility, as well as the first results of such measurement in terms of an inflation credibility barometer. The barometer ...