For a long time, Africa has 'lagged' behind global advances in transparency, but there are now significant developments on the continent. In a ground-breaking book, Access to Information in Africa... Show moreFor a long time, Africa has 'lagged' behind global advances in transparency, but there are now significant developments on the continent. In a ground-breaking book, Access to Information in Africa brings together for the first time a collection of African academics and practitioners to contribute to the fast-growing body of scholarship that is now accumulating internationally. This is therefore an African account of progress made and setbacks suffered, but also an account of challenges and obstacles that confront both policy-makers and practitioners. These challenges must be overcome if greater public access to information is to make a distinctive, positive contribution to the continent's democratic and socio-economic future. This book offers a necessarily multi-dimensional perspective on the state of ATI in African jurisdictions and the emerging, new praxis - a praxis that will entail a genuine domestication of the right of access to information on the continent. Show less
The history of development cooperation has attracted very little research to date. This volume offers an innovative interpretation by considering the history of SNV Netherlands Development... Show moreThe history of development cooperation has attracted very little research to date. This volume offers an innovative interpretation by considering the history of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, which has been in existence for over forty years now. Through SNV's history, an analysis emerges of the role of the Netherlands in development cooperation and the attitudes of Dutch society towards it over the last fifty years as well as the changing ideas, practices and policies in development work more generally. The views and expectations of (former) SNV staff and those of local participants who were ultimately to benefit from the development activities were the focus of this historical research. This has resulted in a socio-cultural history 'from below' rather than a dry description of the organisation's administrative changes and formal bureaucratic structures. Show less
An introduction is followed by 13 papers, most of them contributions to the seminar, illustrating the variety in research programmes on Swaziland being in operation at present. Attention is paid... Show moreAn introduction is followed by 13 papers, most of them contributions to the seminar, illustrating the variety in research programmes on Swaziland being in operation at present. Attention is paid to the national economy (H. COPPENS, M.POMMEE, A. VREMAN), the quest for Swazi labour (A. BOOTH), the present political crisis (J. DANIEL and J. VILANE), smallholder irrigation schemes (F. de VLETTER), contractfarming and outgrower schemes (M. NEOCOSMOS and J. TESTERINK), spending behaviour of migrant workers (J. BARENDREGT and M.A. BROUWER), small-scale irrigation (D.C. FUNNEL), the urban informal sector (M.S. MATSEBULA), the marginalization of women traders (H. SANDEE and H. WEIJLAND), women's informal savings and credit associations (S. KAPPERS), the position of women in Swazi traditional society (R. ASTUTI), soil conservation (C. REIJ), and the future of the peasant economy (M. RUSSELL). Show less
Dietz, A.J.; Haastrecht, A. van; Schomaker, M.; Lopeyok, S.; Hendrix, H. 1983
