School of Government: Recent submissions
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Health Policy and Agenda Setting in Contemporary Zambia: the human resources for health strategic plan (2006-2010)
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)Agenda setting is about how some issues get onto the policy agenda for discussion and action why others do not. Drawing critically on the ―policy windows‖ approach of J.W Kingdon (2003) this dissertation will describe and ... -
Disaster preparedness and administrative capacity of the disaster risk management centre of the city of Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)The occurrence of disasters around the world has in the past few decades increased at an alarming rate, which has necessitated an urgent need for mitigation strategies. As part of its planning and precautionary measures ... -
Public-private partnerships in disaster management: A case-study of the city of cape town
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)Greater capacity for cities to be disaster resilient is needed. Public-private partnership enhances municipal capacity. This study therefore, interrogates the relationship between the City of Cape Town and its disaster ... -
The political economy of aid-oriented foreign policy change: elite perspectives on mercantilism in Korea and Ghana
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)The thesis examines how elite perspectives on foreign aid affect the subsequent path of aid dependence. The focus is on aid-seeking foreign policy change. Two foreign policy change cases are examined for the study, which ... -
A multilevel analysis of learner and school contextual factors associated with educational quality
(2013)The South African schools act, (number 5, 1996), asserts that all learners have a right to access both basic and quality education without discrimination of any sort. Since the implementation of the Millennium Development ... -
A review of the implementation of disaster risk assessments in the city of Cape Town: challenges and prospects
(2013)The problem question of this study is how the City of Cape Town, as a metro municipality went about implementing Disaster Risk Assessments. While the National Disaster Management Centre acknowledges that municipalities are ... -
Effectiveness of the asset register as a management instrument for the electricity distribution infrastructure within the Stellenbosch municipality
(2008)The study seeks to establish the state of infrastructure management system, pertaining to electricity distribution, as an example of policy implementation. -
The implementation of the 1997 white paper for social welfare with specific reference to children in conflict with the law: a case study of the mangaung one stop child justice centre
(2010)Whilst policy formulation has been extensively studied and theorised in the literature, far less attention has been paid until fairly recently to the issue of policy implementation. For a long time it was more or less ... -
An assessment of the strategic planning and management of the University of Namibia
(2007)This study has evaluated the strategic planning and management of the University of Namibia. The crucial objective was to assess the strategic planning process of the University of Namibia to see if the strategic plans ... -
The performance management system in South Africa’s local government: a study of policy implementation
(2007)This study focuses on the Performance Management System in the South African local government with specific emphasis on policy implementation. -
Citizen participation and health service delivery: the case of Itojo hospital Ntungamo district local government, Uganda
(2013)As amended in 1997, the constitution of Uganda local government act devolved power to lower units of government to enhance citizen participation and service delivery. Citizen participation was viewed in this act as an ... -
An evaluation of recruitment policy in the public service of Namibia: a case study of the ministry of environment and tourism
(2013)The primary objective of this study was to evaluate recruitment policies and practices in the MET to determine challenges with the recruitment of competent and qualified candidates, since it is one of the custodians of ... -
Accessibility and use of prenatal facilities in the developing world by young mothers aged from fifteen to nineteen years old
(2013)Background: Professional health assistance is a significant indicator in monitoring progress towards Millennium Development Goal five to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters and child mortality by two-thirds ... -
An examination of policy implementation of water and sanitation services in the city of Cape Town: a case study of the informal settlements in the Khayelitsha area
(2010)The focus of the study is on the implementation of public policies through provision of basic services such as water and sanitation in the City of Cape Town. The case study of the research is the informal settlements of ... -
Local perceptions of the fast track land reform programme (FTLRP) in Umguza resettlement scheme in Zimbabwe
(2009)Fast track land reform in Zimbabwe has caused a raging debate drawing a lot of attention to the re-distribution programme. The invasion of commercial farms had a bearing on agricultural production, food security, security ... -
Linking fiscal decentralization and local financial governance: a case of district level decentralization in the Amhara region, Ethiopia
(University of Western Cape, 2014)The prime aim of this thesis is to examine the link between fiscal decentralization and local financial governance in fiscally empowered woreda administrations (districts) of the Amhara region in Ethiopia. Local financial ... -
The role of e-government in effective service delivery: a case study of Tanzania electric supply company limited (tanesco)
(2009)The essence of e-government is to link government activities with the advanced technology that the world is having today. This technology has already shown a remarkable job in bringing efficiency in private sector through ... -
Assessment of the implementation of business processe-rengineering in the public sector in Ethiopia: the cases of the ministry of trade and industry and the ministry of works and urban development
(University of Western Cape, 2009)The modern public sector and system of administration in Ethiopia began at the time of the imperial period, in the early 1960s. But this sector and the tradition of administration itself, compared with other countries, ...