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Browsing African Journal of Public Affairs Volume 9, Number 4 (2016) by Subject "Public administration--Africa"
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Nabaasa, Herbert
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2016)
Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) is one of the emerging economic activities
in Uganda and thousands of local communities are involved in the gold rush. The majority
of artisanal miners have abandoned other ...
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Basheka, Benon C.; Lubega, Jude T.; Baguma, R.
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2016)
The demand for monitoring and evaluation capacity in Africa sharply exceeds
the supply. This has increased pressure on universities to produce the needed
quality of M&E experts. While some commendable progress has been ...
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Mthethwa, R.M.; Jili, N.N.
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2016)
Globally, citizens want better and more services to maintain or improve their
livelihoods. In South Africa, local government is responsible for delivering basic
services (e.g. access to potable water, proper sanitation, ...
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Cloete, Fanie
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2016)
There is a growing concern across the globe that a one-size-fits-all programme
evaluation approach according to the Western evaluation model is not always
appropriate in culturally and developmentally different contexts. ...
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Ukwandu, D.C.; Jarbandhan, Vain
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2016)
Africa remains the poorest continent in the world. Intellectuals from Africa and
the broader international community have advanced many reasons for poverty and
underdevelopment on the continent. Reasons provided include ...
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Osei-Kojo, Alex
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2016)
While privatisation has benefits, it must be approached with caution. Using qualitative
methods, this article presents scenarios for consideration in privatising urban waste
management in sub-Saharan Africa. This study ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2016)
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Arinaitwe, Herbert; Asiimwe, Elizabeth Margret
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2016)
This article analyses the influence of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) on the Justice,
Law and Order sector’s (JLOS) performance as a case study of Sector Wide Approaches
(SWAPs). The research focused on sector performance ...
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Serubanza, Faustin
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2016)
Decentralisation is considered as one of the most effective ways to ensure good
local governance. This is despite the fact that the process has been unsuccessful in a
number of countries. National associations of local ...
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Uwizeyimana, Dominique E.
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2016)
During the past few decades, debate surrounding the role of a firm-hand leadership
style (command-and-control, authoritarian leadership or dictatorship) to bolster
rapid economic growth took place in some East-Asian Tiger ...
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Ukwandu, D.C.
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2016)
This article reviews the historical legacy of the British policy of indirect rule and how
its colonial policy of preserving the local traditions of the people through Quranic
education contributed to the rise of Boko ...
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Van der Waldt, Gerrit
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2016)
The emergence of the so-called networked or knowledge society profoundly
transforms governance approaches on a global scale by introducing new forms
of collaboration and exchange between society and government. ...
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Auriacombe, C.J.
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2016)
This article focuses on specific dimensions and processes when applying unobtrusive
research techniques. In general, unobtrusive research techniques study social
behaviour to eliminate bias and promote conceptual and ...