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Books: Where to for Provincial Education?
[2010 August 10]

Reviewing Provincial Education Budgets 2006 to 2012
South Africa’s provincial education departments have been reduced to provincial administrations, for reasons that include the powerful role national government plays in delivering education services...
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Books: Van Zyl Slabbert - Printed Memorial Booklet
[2010 May 30]

Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, one of Idasa's founders, died on 14th May 2010.
Idasa has compiled a series of tributes in recognition of the work of van Zyl Slabbert.
Here you can download the full printed booklet that was distributed...
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Books: Social Accountability in Africa: Practitioners’ Experiences and Lessons
[2010 May 03]

Social Accountability in Africa: Practitioners’ Experiences and Lessons is a collection of case studies from Africa on social accountability. This collection attempts to build a consolidated body of knowledge on social accountability efforts across the continent...
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Books: Idasa's Democracy Index - Testing Democracy: Which Way is South Africa Going?
[2010 March 10]

Edited by Neeta Misra-Dexter and Judith February
This book is an assessment by democracy institute Idasa of the state of democracy in South Africa today.
The book interrogates the relationship between democracy and development and how underdevelopment...
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Books: Oil and Governance Report
[2010 February 16]

A Case Study of Chad, Angola, Gabon, and Sao Tome é Principe
The aim of the report is to describe the context in which political power is exercised in the four countries that are the subject of the study. It will show how policies are shaped...
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Books: Resources and Outcomes in Public Schools
[2010 February 15]

The case of South Africa
By: Russell Wildeman
This study probes the connection between resources and outcomes in South African public schools. It aims to develop a deeper understanding of the effects of socio-economic segregation and inadequate resources on the lives of poor learners...
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Books: Electricity Governance Initiative of South Africa
[2010 February 11]

The Governance of Power - Shedding a light on the electricity sector in South Africa
The EGI-SA assessment report is written against a backdrop of significant national concern over how to meet the growing demand for electricity, Eskom’s request...
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Books: Surviving on the move: Migration, Poverty and Development in Southern Africa,
[2010 February 03]

Eds: Jonathan Crush and Bruce Frayne
Since the collapse of apartheid, there have been major increases in migration flows within, to and from the Southern African region. Cross-border movements are at an all-time high across the region and internal migration is at record levels...
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Books: Governance and AIDS Programme (Idasa-GAP): Five-year strategic plan
[2010 February 01]

This programme is a five-year strategy to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on democratic governance, human development and security in sub-Saharan Africa. It aims to strengthen good governance to counter the effects of HIV/AIDS by instituting evidence-based...
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Books: Civil Society and the Zuma Administration: Opportunities for Engagement
[2009 December 14]

This booklet consist of contributions by Steven Friedman, Raenette Taljaard, Kehla Shubane and Yvette Geyer. It is a collection of presentations made at the roundtable discussion had at Idasa Kutlwanong in August, funded by the IDRC, to talk through...
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