Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Development Studies) by Title
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Male sexual behaviour and protective practices in the context of a generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic : a case study of an urban and rural area in Mozambique.
(2010)This study investigates male sexual behaviour and protective practices in the context of a generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic in Mozambique. It focus on how gender norms, particularly notions of masculinity influence sexual ... -
Measuring and valuing unpaid care work : assessing the gendered implications of South Africa's home-based care policy.
(2010)The objective of this research is to reveal the implications of the choice of home- and community-based care as opposed to other policy choices and, using a gendered lens, to find a plausible way of assessing the social ... -
The persistence of poverty in post-apartheid South Africa : assets, livelihoods and differentiation in KwaZulu-Natal, 1993-2004.
(2008)The situation in South Africa presents unique challenges to achieving sustained poverty reduction. Although it is an upper-middle-income country with a per capita income similar to that of Botswana, Brazil or Malaysia, a ... -
Political economy of crisis, mining and accumulation in Zimbabwe : evidence from the Chegutu Mhondoro Area.
(2013)This thesis has its foundations in a 2007 master’s research on the political economy of “illegal” gold panning in central Zimbabwe. A book chapter (Moore and Mawowa, 2010) and a journal article (Mawowa, 2013) have since ... -
The politics of co-optation and of non-collaboration.
(1991)Since the outbreak of the Soweto uprising in 1976 there has been a noticeable change in the thinking of the South African government. This change has been evident in the departure from classical Verwoerdian apartheid to ... -
Population dynamics and sustainable forest conservation : a case study of the West Matogoro Catchment Area in Songea, Tanzania.
(2010)For decades linkages between population, development and environment have been related to population growth which refers to the increase of population size without consideration of its internal dynamics, i.e. sex composition ... -
A realist explanation of long run development interventions contexts, adaptations and outcomes of dairy improvement in Kenya.
(2014)Despite continued pursuit of development interventions to improve people’s livelihoods and reduce poverty, intended and actual outcomes of developments interventions may differ. Some scholars attribute this variation to ... -
A realistic explanation of long run development interventions contexts, adaptations and outcomes of dairy improvement in Kenya.
(2014)Despite continued pursuit of development interventions to improve people’s livelihoods and reduce poverty, intended and actual outcomes of developments interventions may differ. Some scholars attribute this variation to ... -
The relationship between HIV and AIDS and water scarcity and variability in the Nyamakate area, Zimbabwe : a political ecology approach.
(2014)There is a dearth of knowledge on how water scarcity and variability and HIV and AIDS concurrently impact on rural people’s livelihoods. Hence, this research seeks to understand the experiences, responses to, and interpretation ... -
The role of rural-urban migration in reinforcing inequality : a theoretical model and a case study of Nkosini, South Africa.
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Social exclusion as a barrier to poverty reduction : the case of Basarwa in Botswana.
(2003)In most developing countries the characteristics of the poor go beyond the traditional definition of poverty. Whilst the latter broadly refers to lack of access to material resources, there are other factors that are linked ... -
Sowing the seeds of food sovereignty or cultivating consent? The potential and limitations of Johannesburg’s community gardens.
(2017)This thesis investigates the benefits and challenges of participating in community gardens in Johannesburg. More specifically, it seeks to understand whether and how urban community gardens contribute to food sovereignty, ... -
Sustainable private sector participation in water supply and sanitation : an investigation of the South African experience with international comparative case studies.
(2003)This thesis is a case study investigation of the sustainability of private sector participation in water supply and sanitation in developing countries, with a particular emphasis on South Africa. It is essentially an ... -
Sustaining livelihoods in Norton town after deindustrialization in Zimbabwe
(2019)This thesis explored urban livelihoods in the context of rapid urbanisation and failing economic/industrial growth in Norton town, Zimbabwe. The aim was to explore alternative livelihoods in the town in a constricted ... -
Theorising poverty and inequality in the case of rural women in Mungwi District in Zambia: a grounded theory approach.
(2021)Poverty and inequality are undesirable, and nations strive to reduce them. The government of Zambia continues to try to alleviate poverty and inequality among rural women, but prospects of succeeding are still distant. ... -
Ties that bind : a network analysis of relationships between Nigerian migrants and South Africans in Umhlathuze.
(2015)Xenophobia targeted at African immigrants is a recurring problem that has made post-apartheid South Africa notorious around the world. The dramatic and violent nature of this xenophobia which peaked in May 2008 and April ... -
Too poor to be treated: bottom-up advocacy by HIV+ activists in Khayelitsha and Lusikisiki, South Africa.
(2021)ABSTRACT The attainment of development is often contingent on the promise that those affected can meaningfully participate in policy-making processes and decision making. However, over the past decades, there has been ... -
The transfer of technology to the rural poor : the case of Qamata irrigation scheme in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
(2009)Poverty, unemployment, inequality and food insecurity are common facts of life in rural communities in the former homelands of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa despite decades of massive infusion of irrigation ... -
The transformation of local government in Kwazulu-Natal.
(2000)Many African countries have embarked in the process of decentralising the decision making process to local bodies. Decentralisation is an ambitious and a difficult goal for countries such as African ones, that suffer from ... -
Ubuntu/botho culture : a path to improved performance and socio-economic development in post-apartheid SA : beyond rhetoric.
(2007)While the debate on the indigenous culture of ubuntu/botho in South Africa (SA) goes far back into the history as signified by Ngubane' s (1963 and 1979) works on the role of the ubuntu values in the anti-colonial and ...