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African Journal of Public Affairs Volume 8, Number 3 (2015)
Recent Submissions
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2015)
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Asamoah, Kwame
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2015)
In recent years, the issue of poverty reduction in Ghana has become a central
theme in major policy discourse. Despite the formulation and implementation of
several policies to address poverty issues, poverty continues ...
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Auriacombe, C.J.
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2015)
There is a strong belief that both researchers and practitioners have an important
role to play in changing and bettering human conditions. However, behind the
scenes there are heated debates about how research findings ...
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Basheka, Benon C.; Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2015)
In recent years, governments in Africa have been under increasing pressure to
demonstrate their relevance as citizens demand delivery of better public services.
To respond to the numerous calls for efficiency improvements ...
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Basheka, Benon C.; Byamugisha, Albert K.
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2015)
Since the early 1990s, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) has seen a steep climb within
Africa–in terms of practice, profession and academic study. As a field of practice,
specialised departments housing the practitioners ...
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Chilunjika, Alouis; Uwizeyimana, Dominique E.
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2015)
The article captures the post-colonial developmental path of the Land Reform
Programme in Zimbabwe since 1980, when Zimbabwe got its independence from
Britain. The shifts in the Zimbabwean Land Reform Programme since ...
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Cloete, Fanie
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2015)
The ‘sustainability’ of developmental programmes is one of the most elusive goals of
any government services delivery system. ‘Sustainable development’ is an increasingly
important umbrella concept to integrate various ...
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Maniragena, Joseph Eliabson; Ballard, Harry Herbert
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2015)
Thousands of refugees fleeing from surrounding war-torn and destitute African
countries come to South Africa hoping to live in safety. Refugee service providers
play a major role in providing services to help refugees ...
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Steyn, Jéan
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2015)
Numerous police establishments around the globe, including the South African
Police Service (SAPS), have augmented the quantity of female police officials in
their staffing complement with the resolution of counteracting ...
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Tshukudu, Theophilus Tebetso; Nel, Danielle
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2015)
The main aim of this article is to propose possible strategies to improve training
and development initiatives in the public sector. To address this aim, two objectives
were pursued. Firstly the article outlined critical ...
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Ukwandu, D.C.
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2015)
The Euro-American predominance of understandings and narratives of development
has produced the current global world order, where African-centered solutions and
alternatives to the problems of poverty and underdevelopment ...
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Van der Waldt, Gerrit
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2015)
Governments have moral and legal obligations to intervene in society in order to
direct, regulate, facilitate and act as catalyst for economic prosperity, social justice
and ecological sustainability. The nature and scale ...
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Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha; Kinoti, A.
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2015)
This article reports on the gender-based public procurement practices in Kenia and
South Africa and provides a framework for the post-2015 Millennium Development
Agenda of public works programmes to accommodate Millennium ...