The aim of this study was to investigate the role of local economic development in urban poverty alleviation in Mbabane town in Eswatini. This was done by interviewing various stakeholders that are involved in LED processes ...

This study focused on social housing in Johannesburg Central Business District (CBD) and programmes under Johannesburg Social Housing Company (JOSHCO). The role of social housing in the value chain of urban regeneration ...

The fire services are a salient contestation which are often overlooked by the Social Science scholars. The Department of Cooperative Governance has ultimately promulgated a White Paper on fire services in May 2020. This ...

The literature revealed that focusing on local economic development (LED) is among many effective and efficient methods that can be used to reduce income poverty, joblessness and improve technical and business skills. ...

Women in different parts of the world, particularly rural women in developing countries continue to face several socio-economic challenges. This qualitative study documents how self help groups are converted as tools to ...

Poverty as it concerns women is often approached in terms of the three contributing factors that have been underscored in the women-in-development and gender-and development (WID/GAD) literature: (1) the growth of ...

The access and availability of water have been South Africa’s challenge for millennia. Cape Town has experienced a severe water crisis, never witnessed since its establishment in 1652. The city’s water problems began in ...

Globally, women have less access to land and own less land than men. Women make up on average less than 20 per cent of the world’s landholders but make up an estimated 43 per cent of the agricultural labour force (Facio ...

Although the term ‘equity’ exudes fairness, what equity really means remains unclear. Framed within the distributive justice framework, the article explored the different meanings and principles of equity within the discourse ...

This research answers the question: “How is the concept of transformational development understood and implemented in specific projects by Christian de-velopment organisations?” Transformational development is a Christian ...