Promoting Good Governance and Wider Civil Society Participation in Eastern and Southern Africa
Title | Promoting Good Governance and Wider Civil Society Participation in Eastern and Southern Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Taye Assefa |
Publisher | OSSREA |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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A collection of twenty-four research papers presented at a regional conference convened by OSSREA on good governance and the roles of civil society, higher education, the media and culture, in promoting progressive governments and societies. The papers cover six African countries: Botswana, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The subjects include: plural politics in Botswana; indigenous institutions and good governance in Ethiopia; the contribution of the University of Lesotho to civil society through community service; crises in politics and governance in Sudan; Uganda's 'movementocracy' experiment; and the role of the legal disciplines in promoting good governance in Zimbabwe.
Good Governance and Civil Society Participation in Africa
Title | Good Governance and Civil Society Participation in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa |
Publisher | African Books Collective |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2008-12-31 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN | 999445532X |
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Promoting Good Governance and Wider Civil Society Participation in Eastern and Southern Africa
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Promoting Good Governance and Wider Civil Society Participation in Eastern and Southern Africa
Title | Promoting Good Governance and Wider Civil Society Participation in Eastern and Southern Africa PDF eBook |
Author | R (Rahel); Assefa Mesfin (T (Taye).) |
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Pages | 121 |
Release | 2001 |
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Breaking Barriers, Creating New Hopes
Title | Breaking Barriers, Creating New Hopes PDF eBook |
Author | Abdalla Bujra |
Publisher | OSSREA |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Fiction |
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A study of Africa's current strides towards democracy, good governance and the interposition of the civil society in the process. The authors identify and delineates the phases of these processes and examine key theoretical and methodological issues of the governance project. Also includes analysis of hitherto neglected issues such as gender, pastoralism, ethnicity, constitutionalism, local governance, the economy and the African Union. Reviews six country case studies on progress so far: Botswana, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Zambia and Ethiopia.
Civil Society and Democratic Development in Africa
Title | Civil Society and Democratic Development in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Julius Edo Nyang'oro |
Publisher | Mwengo |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Social Science |
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Public Participation in Democratic Governance in South Africa
Title | Public Participation in Democratic Governance in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory F. Houston |
Publisher | Human Sciences Research |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Political Science |
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This book examines public participation in democratic governance in South Africa. The South African democracy is fairly new, giving rise to a variety of new channels and processes for public participation. In addition, the overwhelming majority of South Africans have little experience of democratic governance, having only acquired political power for the first time in 1994. However, more than seven years of universal suffrage and access to political power is ample justification for assessing the consolidation of democracy in this country. The book focuses on four case studies of public participation: interest group participation in the National Economic Development and Labour Council; the participation of civil society and the legislatures in the formulation of the budget; public participation in legislative processes; and public participation in the integrated development planning processes of local government. Each case study outlines a number of opportunities for, and constraints to, public participation in the processes of democratic governance.