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Our focus in this book is public governance and community
leadership, a broader concept than simple traditional management.
The term management is too formal and limited in its scope. In its
narrow sense it focuses on the formalised administrative tasks of
chief executives and managers within organisational settings.
Although the book utilises the traditional management process as a
point of reference, public management is too complex a subject to
be limited to the classical management model. Public management is
multifaceted. It covers developmental, political, administrative,
cultural, sociological and ecological aspects of concerned
communities, among other related issues.
In this handbook we sensitise the student and development
practitioner (in the public service, civic organisations, local
authorities, community organisations and other community
development institutions) on the challenges HIV poses for all their
development efforts and on the significant role they can play to
reduce the effect of the disease on the people. Public authorities
and other development agencies can take concrete steps today to
ensure that people know about HIV and AIDS and how they affect
society. This handbook is designed to meet a number of specific
learning objectives in the field of public management, governance
and community development. In this handbook we take a human rights
approach to HIV/AIDS that argues for gender equality. We stress the
fact that successful HIV/AIDS prevention will depend on "more equal
gender relations and the empowerment of women."
This is a "how-to" book, intended for community mobilisers who want
to stimulate social change in a community to work towards poverty
eradication, good governance, increased transparency -- in short
community empowerment. This book identifies key steps in the
community mobilisation process; it stresses the role and
responsibility of the community leader or coordinator of an
activity, community networks and other Civil Society groups,
including local citizens. This book examines the theory of group
dynamics, advocacy, social mobilisation and grassroots
communications. The major objective of the book is to enhance
knowledge and skills among students, development workers, managers
and support agencies on the management of Community Based
Organizations (CBO) as basic civil society units for realizing
community transformation and sustainable development.
The current crisis and unending talks between bickering political
parties in Zimbabwe, Africa and other third world countries
prompted us in the Zimbabwe Open University, Masvingo Campus
Academic Research and Publications Coordinating Committee (ZOU MC
ARPCC) to think of researching and writing a text on conflict
management for tertiary curricula. This is the product of the
effort. Our intention is to inculcate new thinking and progressive
ways of dealing with conflict among youth and other stakeholders.
The African political terrain has been characterized by
intolerance, violence, murders and sexual abuse among other inhuman
behaviours. Right from the imposition of colonialism through the
first chimurengas, the armed struggles (second chimurengas),
gukurahwindis, and the imposed economic structural adjustment
programmes (ESAPs) to the current political impasse, it has been
violence through and through. We strongly believe that there is a
better way to deal with our differences. We pray to God that one
day sanity will prevail.
The aim of this research was to determine the causes, impact and
ways of closing the funding gaps in polytechnics in Zimbabwe.The
study focuses on how polytechnics can close their funding gaps.
Almost all polytechnics have been found to be facing challenges
especially in their engineering divisions. While technology has
continued to improve globally, equipment in polytechnics in
Zimbabwe has remained static. Government and institutional heads
have cited lack of financial resources as the major cause of this
situation. Some polytechnics have, with the aid of government,
introduced the concept of production units in their various
departments in an effort to raise funds required for operational
expenditure including consumables and lately, expenditure on staff
retention or staff incentive. To improve the situation government
should be the first to carry the burden of securing funding on
behalf of polytechnics, and polytechnics should set up projects in
farming, guesthouse operation, clothing manufacture and make use of
available staff to conduct workshops in various trades of the
economy
Countries emerging from conflict situations are almost always
plagued by social upheaval, damaged infrastructure, reduced
productive capacity, severe revenue shortfalls, seriously weakened
human resources and greatly diminished security. The challenges are
daunting as post-conflict governments strive to ensure peace and
security, foster social reconciliation and promote development. Yet
recovery is possible if the political leadership and public
administration can earn the trust of the people, effectively
provide services to all and operate in an efficient, effective,
transparent and accountable way. This book is about how countries
can rebuild the foundations and establish the conditions for
self-sustaining, inclusive socio-economic development in the
immediate aftermath of violent conflict. The book emphasizes that
because post-conflict situations are heterogeneous, there are no
'one size fits all' solutions to governance challenges. In each
country, political leadership and public administration reforms
should be tailored to local needs.
High staff turnover is a result of both pull and push factors and
has a negative impact on oganizational performance. Major factors
leading to high staff turnover in Zimbabwean polytechnics include
poor working conditions, macro-economic and political factors,
education and training and better opportunities elsewhere. High
staff turnover has impacted negatively on the quality of
polytechnic education, operations and service delivery. Staff
turnover rate was estimated at between 33% and 40% by the end of
2006. it is thus recommended that government should review salaries
and other conditions of service for staff at polytechnics as a way
of retaining, attracting and motivating staff. The study also
recommends that further research be conducted in vocational
training centers, polytechnics in other regions and in universities
across the country in Zimbabwe to establish the causes and impact
of staff turnover in those institutions in order to come up with a
national document that will help to control this problem, not only
in higher education, but also in other sectors of the economy.
Economics for southern Africa high school students prepares
students for meticulation, advanced level, first year
university/professional business courses examinations in economics
in southern Africa. This book defines economics, traces the
evolutional development of economics, identifies its divisions and
distinguishes between positive and normative economics in simple
terms. Economics is defined as a social science focusing on how
human beings make choices regarding the alternative application of
limited production factors. A distinction is made between
macroeconomics and microeconomics. Each chapter and subsection ends
with some exercises to ensure active learning.
This book presents a series of techniques, practices and processes
to help project managers and project staff to manage information in
a systematic way that will help improve the project interventions.
It is through information management that we can improve decision
making process, learn and create new knowledge. Knowledge derives
from information, as information derives from data. Information
becomes knowledge when people do the work and realize an action
that generates experiences. The creation of valuable knowledge
depends on the adoption of a holistic approach to information
management; an approach that takes into consideration
organizational culture and politics, information economics and
processes, information standards and policies, information
strategies and governance. All this translates to an information
ecosystem that puts people at the centre and technology as an
enabler. Managing a project information system has to do more with
managing human behaviours than managing technology.
Most African governments have attempted improving performance of
their civil service through reforms. All ended up failing meeting
the desired results because of a combination of factors. The
Zimbabwean experience is a typical African reforms effort that
failed because of both internal weaknesses and external pressures.
Since Independence in 1980, Zimbabwe has tried a number of change
programmes to improve performance among civil servants. Some of the
major reform and revitalization of the public service programmes
attempted by the government are blackenisation, performance
management, professionalisation. Yet, as shown by Bologun (2003) on
African attempts at reforms, there is no evidence that the efforts
had any positive significant impact on performance. The Public
Service in Zimbabwe has been associated with poor management,
corruption, nepotism, poor communication, and rude, frustrated and
unsympathetic Civil Servants (Public Service Performance Management
Training Manual, 1998). A Civil Servant has been known to be slow
in responding to demands and in decision-making.
Single mothers in Gweru are among the most vulnerable to poverty
and disease.The GWAPA project is an attempt to rescue them from
this predicament. This study established that most of the GWAPA
projects which started well were suffocating under the current
(2000-2010) economic hardships. Main challenges faced by GWAPA
include the political and economic environment, HIV/AIDS, limited
educational levels among GWAPA members, limited access to
resources, community cultural biases and negative attitudes towards
single mothers and commercial sex workers, government regulation on
financial transactions and work overload among members. The
Zimbabwean government and municipalities are encouraged to invest
more in the small enterprise sector as it has proven to have the
capability to create employment and develop communities by
mobilizing the grassroots. The study also recommends a more
detailed and deeper participatory study, related comparative
studies that show differences and similarities between related
projects in different areas in Zimbabwe, and similar studies on
DNGOs that work with both sexes in different areas in Zimbabwe.
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