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The role of NANGO
Author : Sam Moyo
Publisher : Sapes Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The role of NANGO
Author : Jeffrey Ira Herbst
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520068186
1. Choice and African politics
Author : Jennifer N. Brass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316721051
Governments throughout the developing world have witnessed a proliferation of non-governmental, non-profit organizations (NGOs) providing services like education, healthcare and piped drinking water in their territory. In Allies or Adversaries, Jennifer N. Brass explains how these NGOs have changed the nature of service provision, governance, and state development in the early twenty-first century. Analyzing original surveys alongside interviews with public officials, NGOs and citizens, Brass traces street-level government-NGO and state-society relations in rural, town and city settings of Kenya. She examines several case studies of NGOs within Africa in order to demonstrate how the boundary between purely state and non-state actors blurs, resulting in a very slow turn toward more accountable and democratic public service administration. Ideal for scholars, international development practitioners, and students interested in global or international affairs, this detailed analysis provides rich data about NGO-government and citizen-state interactions in an accessible and original manner.
Author : Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Coalition governments
ISBN : 1564325326
"Documents how the Zimbabwe African Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), the former sole ruling party, is using its greater political power within the government to obstruct human rights improvements. ZANU-PF supporters continue to commit abuses against perceived Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters with impunity. Police, prosecuting authorities, and court officials aligned to ZANU-PF conduct politically motivated prosecutions of MDC legislators and activists"--Cover, p. [4].
Author : Michael Bratton
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 46,32 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : Sara Rich Dorman
Publisher :
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Non-governmental organizations
ISBN :
Author : Sam Agere
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
Since independence in 1980, Zimbabwe's radical socialist government has struggled to steer the nation into development and prosperity. The engine for that drive has been public administration - but one inherited from a distinctly different, and antagonistic, colonial past. How can the interests of the "keepers of the past" ever coincide with those of the "engineers of change?" Drawing on the specifically Zimbabwean experience of researchers, academics, policy makers and administrators, the book explores the contradictions, constraints and difficulties in pursuing policies for change within a rusting and out-of-date administration system. The work is divided into four parts: Public Administration; Economic Development; Planning and Management; The State and Social Movements and Local Government and non Governmental Organisations.
Author : Lloyd Sachikonye
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1779331940
Zimbabwe occupies a special place in African politics and international relations, and has been the subject of intense debates over the years. At independence in 1980, the country was better endowed than most in Africa, and seemed poised for economic development and political pluralism. The population was relatively well educated, the industrial and agricultural bases were strong, and levels of infrastructure were impressive. However, in less than two decades, Zimbabwe was mired in a deep political and economic crisis. Towards the end of its third decade of independence, the economy had collapsed and the country had been transformed into a repressive state. How can we make sense of this decline? How can we explain the lost decade that followed? Can the explanation be reduced to the authoritarian leadership of Robert Mugabe and role of ZANU-PF? Or was something defective about in the institutions through which the state has exercised its authority? Or was it the result of imperialism, the West and sanctions? Zimbabwes Lost Decade draws on Lloyd Sachikonyes analyses of political developments over the past 25 years. It offers a critique of leadership, systems of governance, and economic strategies, and argues for democratic values and practices, and more broad-based participation in the development process.
Author : Milli Lake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108419372
Offers evidence that opportunity structures created by state weakness can allow NGOs to exert unparalleled influence over local human rights law and practice.
Author : Sam Moyo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 2869782020
This empirically grounded study provides a critical reflection on the land question in Africa, research on which tends to be tangential, conceptually loose and generally inadequate. It argues that the most pressing research concern must be to understand the precise nature of the African land question, its land reforms and their effects on development. To unravel the roots of land conflicts in Africa requires thorough understanding of the complex social and political contradictions which have ensued from colonial and post-colonial land policies, as well as from Africa's 'development' and capital accumulation trajectories, especially with regard to the land rights of the continent's poor. The study thus questions the capacity of emerging neo-liberal economic and political regimes in Africa to deliver land reforms which address growing inequality and poverty. It equally questions the understanding of the nature of popular demands for land reforms by African states, and their ability to address these demands under the current global political and economic structures dictated by neo-liberalism and its narrow regime of ownership. The study invites scholars and policy makers to creatively draw on the specific historical trajectories and contemporary expression of the land and agrarian questions in Africa, to enrich both theory and practice on land in Africa.