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Local economic development, agriculture and livelihoods
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
A total of 25 million South Africans are living in poverty, the majority of them in rural areas (SPII, 2007) added to this, the percentage of people living in poverty in rural areas more than doubles those living in the ...
Challenges faced by healthcare workers in conducting clinical Research in selected Western Cape sites
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
This study is interested in understanding and describing the everyday reality of clinical
researchers from the perspective of those who operate on the grassroots level –in this case, the field staff working under the ...
Livelihood strategies: analysis of female-headed households in Vrygrond, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This study explored the livelihood activities in female-headed households in Vrygrond, Cape Town. The objective of this study was to identify and analyse livelihood strategies adopted by female-headed households. The ...
Assessing the impact of the livelihood empowerment against poverty (leap) social grant programme on household poverty reduction in rural Ghana: a case study of the Tolon-Kumbungu district in northern Ghana
(2013)
Over the last decade, there has been a marked convergence in thinking regarding the importance of social cash transfers in poverty alleviation. As such, most governments especially in the developing world have began embracing ...
Community-based organisations (cbos) and the child rights-based approach (crba) in implementing services for vulnerable children: a case study of Kuyasa horizon empowerment in Kayamandi, Cape Town, South Africa
(2013)
Vulnerable children in Southern Africa are not receiving adequate services to support their human development. The child rights-based approach (CRBA) has become the globally accepted norm informing the quality and variety ...
Home-based agricultural production as a food security coping strategy for urban households: A case of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Urban food insecurity in Zimbabwe is a serious stumbling block to the attainment of sustainable
urban livelihoods. The casual factors of the urban food crisis in the country include widespread
poverty, an unstable economic ...