Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Development Studies)

Service delivery protests and the struggle for urban development in Gugulethu and Khayelitsha, Cape Town

Chiwarawara, Kenny (University of the Western Cape, 2021)

This study assesses the role of service delivery protests (SDPs) in promoting access to services such as water, electricity, and housing in Gugulethu and Khayelitsha, Cape Town. The study was conceptualised within the ...

Community activism and social change of the urban poor in the western cape: Advocating for sustainable sanitation in Cape Town’s informal settlements

Mukiga, Alex Kihehere (University of the Western Cape, 2021)

This research investigates the engagements between community activists and urban authorities in the provision of sustainable sanitation services in the informal settlements of Khayelitsha Cape Town. Since 2008, there have ...

An assessment of the academic literacy (al) modules offered at the University of the Western Cape: Towards an embedded hybrid academic literacies model

Abrahams-Ndesi, Lutasha Ann-Louise (University of the Western Cape, 2021)

This study was about new incoming students’ academic development needs and induction to higher education studies at a historically Black university in the Western Cape Province in South Africa. The overall purpose was ...

Youth agricultural entrepreneurship as a vehicle for employment creation in Nigeria: A capability approach

Ikebuaku, Kenechukwu (University of Western Cape, 2021)

Nigeria is indisputably blessed with both human and material resources. With 74 million hectares of arable land, the country has enormous potential to meet its rising food demand while tackling the challenge of youth ...

An analysis of maternal and child nutritional status in South Africa and its impact on maternal labour supply

Wanka, Fru Awah (University of Western Cape, 2021)

The significance of malnutrition in public health has increasingly gained recognition in South Africa due to its negative effect on the quality of life, both at the individual and societal levels. The most vulnerable groups ...

From state maintenance grants 'to a new child support system: Building a policy for poverty alleviation with special reference to the financial, social, and developmental impacts.

Haarmann, Dirk (University of the Western Cape, 1998)

State social security transfers for families existed in South Africa only in the form of state maintenance grants, which paid up to R700 to single parents. The system was not appropriate in the South African context, being ...

Effects of Microcredit on Beneficiaries’ Livelihood Improvement: A Case Study of Engage Now Africa (ENA) In Ghana

Matanda, Richard (University of the Western Cape, 2021)

In Ghana, the number of people living in extreme poverty has reduced. Yet the poverty rate is currently 24.2 %, which is still high considering that Ghana is a lower middle-income country (Emmanuel, Frempong, Opareh & ...

International migration and social welfare policies: Assessing the effect of government grants on the livelihoods of migrants in Cape Town, South Africa

Nzabamwita, Jonas (University of Western Cape, 2021)

South Africa is paradoxically an interesting case study. On the one hand, it is characterised by widespread and persistent poverty and extra-ordinary levels of unemployment. On the other hand, South Africa is quintessentially ...

The dwelling as a workspace: Urban planning and home-based entrepreneurs in Kampala city slums

Waiswa, Jeremy (University of Western Cape, 2020)

The ubiquitous urban informality that characterises the cityscape of most sub-Saharan cities, has been impacted by states’ rationalised urban planning interventions to make urban spaces, and the activities of citizens more ...

Information and communication technologies for development: Reshaping poverty in South Africa

Diga, Kathleen (University of Western Cape, 2020)

The aim of this thesis is to examine the association between information and communication technologies (ICTs) and poverty reduction in South Africa. ICTs have been argued to be a means to improve household livelihoods ...

Inflation in South Africa: 1921 to 2006. History, measurement and credibility

Rossouw, Johannes Jacobus (University of the Western Cape, 2007)

This study reports the development and use of an original methodology to measure inflation credibility, as well as the first results of such measurement in terms of an inflation credibility barometer. The barometer is ...

An application of synthetic panel data to poverty analysis in South Africa

Mabhena, Rejoice (University of the Western Cape, 2019)

There is a wide-reaching consensus that data required for poverty analysis in developing countries are inadequate. Concerns have been raised on the accuracy and adequacy of household surveys, especially those emanating ...

In the best interest of the child: Food choices and body mass index of adult and children living in urban peripheral townships in Cape Town

Belebema, Michael Ngautem (University of Western Cape, 2020)

The increase in overweight and obesity worldwide is described as a global health epidemic. A great proportion of this epidemic is now found in low- and middle-income countries with higher levels of prevalence, particularly ...

The right to adequate housing in Zimbabwe: A contextual and jurisprudential anatomy of public housing policy implementation; Harare (2000-2018)

Chidhawu, Tinotenda (University of Western Cape, 2020)

Amid notable and ongoing research about housing, structural hurdles crippling state efforts to guarantee the right to adequate housing have been extensively analysed and widely recognised. Albeit study after study demonstrates ...

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 ...

Dynamics of human security and regional social and economic development: A case study of the Lake Chad basin

Badewa, Adeyemi (University of Western Cape, 2020-09-26)

Transboundary river basins (TRBs), and its array of biodiversity, have created a web of complex security, socio-economic and political interdependencies among populations, communities and multiplicity of actors across ...

The role of the local enterprise and skills development programme (LESDEP) in reducing youth unemployment and promoting sustainable livelihoods in the central region of Ghana

Agwani, Kwesi Aloysius (University of Western Cape, 2020)

Unemployment rates in Ghana are high, and the problem persists in developing countries, making it a significant economic problem for these economies. Unemployment generates severe economic and social issues such as poverty, ...