The key objective of this study was to explore the accountability of Non-Governmental
Organisations (NGO) in Malawi. The qualitative study was carried out in Phalombe,
Balaka, Salima and Kasungu districts using interviews ...
Grounded in feminist epistemology, the study focused on the concepts of location, social
position, gender and Affirmative Action to assess the social phenomenon of inequality in the
distribution of public university ...
Information and communication technology (ICT) is ubiquitous and has penetrated various economies and farming included. The advent of ICT has expanded the farming sector evidenced by a whole range of value chains that can ...
Disability studies largely ignored or neglected the experiences of rural women with disabilities (WWD) in the Global South. This qualitative study documents the challenges faced by Zimbabwean rural WWD in the enjoyment of ...
The current study is an African-centred critique of the idea of ‘good governance’; which since the 1990s, has been a prescription of the international development institutions for all development challenges facing developing ...
This thesis investigates the design of a model, methods and guidelines that may assist
government agencies in South Africa to find a balance between the objective of biodiversity
conservation and increased local economic ...
Climate change is increasingly becoming a global challenge and countries are feeling its impacts. Malawi is heavily affected by the impacts of climate change because her economy depends on agriculture which is extremely ...
This study explores the socio-economic development path of the former Trucial State of Dubai, now an economic powerhouse within the Federal State of the United Arab Emirates. This thesis emanated out of the researcher’s ...
In this study the effectiveness of foreign aid on economic development and poverty alleviation in Ethiopia during the period of 2011 to 2020 was analysed. On the one hand, government reports have indicated that the country ...
This study investigated the effects, capacity, and challenges of the food security pack
programme in Mpulungu district, Northern Province, Zambia. The primary sources of data
were farm household surveys, focus group ...
Social protection, including social assistance or safety nets, is considered a proven means of
reducing poverty, promoting livelihood, improving food security and nutrition status of the
poorest households. The Government ...
In recent decades tourism has asserted its importance as the biggest employer
and foreign exchange earner in both the developing and developed countries.
Consequently, there has been increasing attention to tourism ...
This study sought to analyse the role of foreign aid in poverty alleviation and economic development of Ghana from 1957 to 2008. Literature related to the study on foreign aid and economic development was reviewed to get ...
The apartheid Johannesburg was built on spatial divisions, uneven development was undertaken literally to ensure that whites and blacks were to live apart from each other. In the post-apartheid Johannesburg, uneven development ...
This research study aimed to investigate and provide a comprehensive analysis of Zambia’s whole-of-government monitoring and evaluation system (WoGM&ES) in the context of national development plans (NDPs) within the broader ...
The need for an Anthropocentric Development Evaluation stems from the inability of development theory and praxis, which has informed the past Development Decades, to ameliorate abject poverty experienced by most people ...
This study assessed the entrepreneurial opportunities inherent in the Fast-Track Land Reform
Programme (FTLRP) in the Marondera District of Mashonaland East province, Zimbabwe. The
study was energised by the idea that ...
The local structures are crucial component of development and they are intrinsically perceived as the epicentre of development. This is a qualitative social science study which embraces phenomenological observation to ...
During the last few decades the need existed for a new framework to give direction to development and ecological thought in respect of the sustaining of nature in order to place development and ecological thought within ...