Browsing Institute for Social Development by Author "Conradie, Ina"
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Child Protection Responses and Transformative Social Protection in Kenya and South Africa: Can social grants improve the wellbeing of children affected by violence and neglect?
Nyamu, Irene Katunge (University of the Western Cape, 2023)This research critically explores how children from low income neighbourhoods in Kenya and South Africa experience formal child protection interventions couched within a child rights framework in response to violence and ... -
Expanding Entrepreneurial Capabilities Through Business Incubators: A Case Study Of The iDea Hub Nigeria
Ikebuaku, Kenechukwu MadukaEntrepreneurship has long been offered as the panacea for poor economic growth and high rate of unemployment. Business incubation is considered an effective means for enhancing entrepreneurial actitivities while engendering ... -
Political affiliation, collective agency and structural opportunities for lumley market women in Sierra Leone
Bockarie, Abioseh Maddie (University of the Western Cape, 2023)This thesis examines the interaction between the political affiliations, collective agency and structural opportunities of market women in the Lumley Market, which is in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown (2019). Informal ... -
Social protection policy in promoting human development outcomes: the cash transfer programme for orphans and vulnerable children in Kiambu, Kenya
Marangu, Joyce Njeri (University of the Western Cape, 2014)Cash transfers, integral in social protection, have increasingly been viewed as a viable measure of promoting human development outcomes in low and middle income countries in the face of persistent poverty exacerbated by ... -
The synergy between gender relations, child labour and disability in the post-war Acholi sub-region of Northern Uganda
Nakijoba, Rosemary (University of Western Cape, 2020)After a war of nearly two decades in the Acholi sub-region of northern Uganda many families and communities were physically, socially, economically and psychologically devastated. A myriad of other concomitant effects ... -
The use of information and communication technology by emerging commercial farmers in their development in the Western Cape, South Africa
Smidt, Hermanus Jacobus (University of the Western Cape, 2018)Although many researchers have shown ICT can enable development it remains a great challenge to understand the link between JCT4D projects and the development of emerging commercial agriculture. There is a need to realise ... -
Understanding white Privilege: Perspectives from South Africa’s Western Cape Province
Cleophas, Edwin (University of the Western Cape, 2019)It has been 25 years since the demise of apartheid and yet white dominance still persists. With many significant changes visible as a result of the fall of apartheid, the country sadly remains racially divided. The black ... -
Unemployed youth in Bishop Lavis, Cape Town: Aspirations and capabilities
Camphor, Freda Mary (University of the Western Cape, 2018)This study took place in Bishop Lavis, a small community in Cape Town on the Cape Flats, Republic of South Africa. Stratified random sampling was used to select ten unemployed youths that resided in the area. The problem ... -
The use of information and communication technology by emerging commercial farmers in their development in the Western Cape, South Africa
Smidt, Hermanus Jacobus (University of the Western Cape, 2018)Although many researchers have shown JCT can enable development it remains a great challenge to understand the link between ICT4D projects and the development of emerging commercial agriculture. There is a need to realize ... -
Work-care satisfaction and capabilities: Examining single mother's satisfaction with juggling paid work and childcare in Gugulethu, South Africa
Bockarie, Abioseh Maddie (University of the Western Cape, 2018)Capabilities as espoused by Sen are the realizable opportunities that are open to an individual that enable her to be or do that which she finds reasonably valuable. This study assessed the work-care arrangement capabilities ...