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Khanya-aicdd works with partners to transform development systems to support the livelihoods of poor people in Africa.

 

Making Change Real: transforming the development system to promote sustainable livelihoods

 Making Change Real: transforming the development system to promote Sustainable Livelihoods
Client / Donor:  Southern Africa Trust
Countries Southern and Eastern Africa (including Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa).
Objective: To draw out experiences and lessons from policymakers and development practitioners across Africa on transforming the public and private development systems to address poverty, and exploring implications for policy and practice in the region, and seek to identify workable options for the next decade.
Description: This initiative draws on the experience of invited academics and development practitioners from the public sector, Non-governmental Organisations and the private sector building on partnerships on these topics. Participants will be from across Southern and Eastern Africa (see above).The book will cover:
  • Africa – the changing nature of the developmental state since independence
  • How do we facilitate effective change?
  • What role for the state? from control to enabling
  • Whose voice and whose choice? extending the voice and power of citizens in planning and management of development (include influencing policies)?
  • Services for all: rethinking service delivery paradigms to reach into communities
  • Promoting inclusive growth: supporting livelihoods for the mass of the African population
  • What future for smallholder and household agriculture in Africa? ensuring household food security and incomes, especially in the light of climate change?
  • Reconnecting citizens and the state: ways forward
Services provided:  Learning and Sharing
Partners: Community Development Programme at the University of KwaZulu Natal
Value:  ZAR 720,000
Start Date:  March 2008
End Date:  December 2009
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Contact Person

 Rahel Otieno: rahel@khanya-aicdd.org
Sector Service Areas Programme

 Higher Education

Policy Research & Analysis

  Learning & Sharing

Sustainable Livelihoods

Community-driven Development

 
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