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101. Decentralising poverty? reflections on the experience of decentralisation and the capacity to achieve local development in Ghana and South Africa

Author

Etienne Nel, Peter Kyei, Tony Binns, and Gina Porter

Subjects
Government, Grassroots, Economic growth, Politics, Poverty, Local government, Political science, Local Development, Development economics, General Medicine, Decentralization, Indigenous
Abstract

The paper aims to evaluate progress made so far in the decentralisation process in Africa in the light of two case studies, one in a country where decentralisation is well established and government might be expected to be responding to deficiencies observed (Ghana), and the second in a country where decentralisation is relatively recent (South Africa). The focus is on decentralised local government and its potential for poverty alleviation. Consideration is also given to the interactions between local government and other key players in the local development process, notably indigenous and international NGOs and traditional authorities, and the broader grassroots communities they are all supposed to serve. The paper concludes that the limited benefits of decentralisation are mostly being mopped up by urbanbased local elites, whether employed in local government or running local NGOs (including so-called government NGOs). Much energy is also dissipated in the wrangles that characterise interaction between local government and traditional leaders. So long as the political will and commitment needed for fully representative community participation in the development process remain weak, and the mechanisms for defining and regulating the respective duties of local government, NGOs and traditional leaders are absent, it seems unlikely that decentralisation will be able to make a significant contribution to poverty alleviation.

Published
2006
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102. Groups as a means or an end? Social capital and the promotion of cooperation in Ghana

Author

Gina Porter and Fergus Lyon

Subjects
Group cooperation, 050204 development studies, media_common.quotation_subject, Geography, Planning and Development, 0211 other engineering and technologies, Groups, Face (sociological concept), 02 engineering and technology, Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Space (commercial competition), Trust, Ghana, Promotion (rank), Social capital, Blueprint, Culture, 0502 economics and business, Sociology, Social science, media_common, Interpretation (philosophy), 05 social sciences, 021107 urban & regional planning, Political economy, International development
Abstract

In the past two decades there has been a growing emphasis within the international development industry on promoting group activity. In this paper we chart how interpretation of the loose concept of social capital has shaped donor and NGO discourses on, and their preoccupation with, groups. Donors are using blueprints of group cooperation in an asocial and aspatial manner that ignores local specificities of place, space, and cultural context. An empirical case is examined that demonstrates how donor discourse is reinterpreted, translated, and even rejected by players at different spatial scales. The reasons for the continued donor preoccupation with groups in the face of local resistances are explored.

Published
2006

106. Tensions and Transformation in a Tea Enterprise: Transkei, South Africa

Author

Gina Porter and Kevin Phillips-Howard

Subjects
Economy, Restructuring, Geography, Planning and Development, Economics, Wage labour, Context (language use), Contract farming, Earth-Surface Processes
Abstract

This paper examines problems and prospects on two tea estates in Transkei, one of South Africa's former homelands. It firstly focuses on outgrower and wage labour issues in the context of current debates about contract farming in Africa. Additionally, the research considers the specific national and international context of Transkeian tea production and highlights issues which are emerging in the new South Africa. The tea enterprise displays, in microcosm, many of the tensions which must inevitably arise as disparate groups attempt to restructure, or resist restructuring, and at the same time, external forces begin to interpose their own trajectories on a previously separate, protected market.

Published
1996
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107. Outgrower Barley Cultivation on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria: A Case Study of Agricultural Innovation

Author

Gina Porter and Kevin Phillips-Howard

Subjects
Irrigation, Agroforestry, business.industry, Yield (finance), Geography, Planning and Development, Context (language use), engineering.material, Crop, Technical feasibility, Agricultural science, Agriculture, engineering, Business, Fertilizer, Contract farming, Earth-Surface Processes
Abstract

The progress of a new barley outgrower scheme on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria, is examined in the context of recently expressed concerns about the expansion of contract farming in Africa. The scheme was established by Jos International Breweries JIB) to produce barley for brewing after importation of the cereal was banned in 1988. Having confirmed the technical feasibility of producing barley locally with irrigation, JIB began the scheme with 207 contract farmers in 1989. Of these 146 produced a crop. The average yield was low (0.85 t/ha) owing to various problems including religious objections, diversion of fertilizer and inappropriate crop management. In 1990 these problems were tackled and 168 farmers participated. Other problems, including early rains, high temperatures and insect infestations resulted in an even lower average yield (0.72 t/ha). During the 1991/2 and 1992/3 seasons, because of shortage of funds, the scheme was reduced to 19 farmers who grew barley merely to maintain seed stocks. The average yield rose with better growing conditions and improved crop management. Despite the numerous and complex problems affecting the scheme, benefits were evident on both sides. Time will show whether these outweigh the respective costs. In the early stage examined here, the interests ofJIB and the farmers were apparently well balanced.

Published
1994
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108. A Note on Slavery, Seclusion and Agrarian Change in Northern Nigeria

Author

Gina Porter

Subjects
History, education.field_of_study, Anthropology, Population, Indigenous, History of Africa, Agrarian society, Slave raiding, Ethnology, Northern nigeria, education, Settlement (litigation), Seclusion
Abstract

For geographers and others working on contemporary development issues in Africa, the historical perspective is of considerable significance. Such topics as the incidence and form of indigenous slavery and slave-trading in pre-colonial times are particularly pertinent to modern-day studies of population and rural development, and work published by historians is read with interest by researchers outside the discipline. Thus, some years ago, discussion was generated between geographers and historians on the impact of slave raiding in Nigeria's ‘Middle Belt’, initially stimulated by a paper in the Journal of African History. As the subsequent debate illustrated, the relationship between modern population density and settlement patterns and pre-colonial slavery is a fascinating one.

Published
1989
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109. Putting Children First

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Thomas Pogge Keetie Roelen Richard Morgan Yisak Tafere Elizabeth Ngutuku Winnie C Sambu Katharine Hall Somefun Dolapo Oluwaseyi Akinyemi Joshua Odunayo Odimegwu Clifford Tassew Woldehanna Yisak Tafere Stephen Devereux Julian May Coretta Jonah Nicola Hypher Luke Harman Kerina Zvobgo Oluwatosin Akomolafe Billow Hassan Stephen Mutiso Munshi Sulaiman Nikhit D’Sa Sarah Press Anna Du Vent Ahmed Farahat Gina Porter Kate Hampshire Alister Munthali Elsbeth Robson Sita Conklin Nicola Jones Umutoni Marie Francoise Bekele Tefera Ernestina Coast Workneh Yadete Guday Emirie Kassahun Tilahun Isimbi Roberte Marlene Ogawa Shirley Pendlebury Carmel Marock and Thomas Pogge Keetie Roelen Richard Morgan Yisak Tafere Elizabeth Ngutuku Winnie C Sambu Katharine Hall Somefun Dolapo Oluwaseyi Akinyemi Joshua Odunayo Odimegwu Clifford Tassew Woldehanna Yisak Tafere Stephen Devereux Julian May Coretta Jonah Nicola Hypher Luke Harman Kerina Zvobgo Oluwatosin Akomolafe Billow Hassan Stephen Mutiso Munshi Sulaiman Nikhit D’Sa Sarah Press Anna Du Vent Ahmed Farahat Gina Porter Kate Hampshire Alister Munthali Elsbeth Robson Sita Conklin Nicola Jones Umutoni Marie Francoise Bekele Tefera Ernestina Coast Workneh Yadete Guday Emirie Kassahun Tilahun Isimbi Roberte Marlene Ogawa Shirley Pendlebury Carmel Marock

Abstract

Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the past two decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Africa. Poverty in all its dimensions is detrimental for early childhood development and leads to often unreversed damage for the lives of girls and boys, locking children and families into intergenerational poverty. This edited volume contributes to the policy initiatives aiming to reduce child poverty and academic understanding of child poverty and its solutions by bringing together applied research from across the continent. With the Sustainable Development Goals having opened up an important space for the fight against child poverty, not least by broadening its conceptualization to be multidimensional, this collection aims to push the frontiers by challenging existing narratives around child poverty, exploring alternative understandings of the complexities and dynamics underpinning child poverty and, crucially, examining policy options that work to reduce child poverty.

110. Putting Children First

Author

Thomas Pogge Keetie Roelen Richard Morgan Yisak Tafere Elizabeth Ngutuku Winnie C Sambu Katharine Hall Somefun Dolapo Oluwaseyi Akinyemi Joshua Odunayo Odimegwu Clifford Tassew Woldehanna Yisak Tafere Stephen Devereux Julian May Coretta Jonah Nicola Hypher Luke Harman Kerina Zvobgo Oluwatosin Akomolafe Billow Hassan Stephen Mutiso Munshi Sulaiman Nikhit D’Sa Sarah Press Anna Du Vent Ahmed Farahat Gina Porter Kate Hampshire Alister Munthali Elsbeth Robson Sita Conklin Nicola Jones Umutoni Marie Francoise Bekele Tefera Ernestina Coast Workneh Yadete Guday Emirie Kassahun Tilahun Isimbi Roberte Marlene Ogawa Shirley Pendlebury Carmel Marock and Thomas Pogge Keetie Roelen Richard Morgan Yisak Tafere Elizabeth Ngutuku Winnie C Sambu Katharine Hall Somefun Dolapo Oluwaseyi Akinyemi Joshua Odunayo Odimegwu Clifford Tassew Woldehanna Yisak Tafere Stephen Devereux Julian May Coretta Jonah Nicola Hypher Luke Harman Kerina Zvobgo Oluwatosin Akomolafe Billow Hassan Stephen Mutiso Munshi Sulaiman Nikhit D’Sa Sarah Press Anna Du Vent Ahmed Farahat Gina Porter Kate Hampshire Alister Munthali Elsbeth Robson Sita Conklin Nicola Jones Umutoni Marie Francoise Bekele Tefera Ernestina Coast Workneh Yadete Guday Emirie Kassahun Tilahun Isimbi Roberte Marlene Ogawa Shirley Pendlebury Carmel Marock

Abstract

Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the past two decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Africa. Poverty in all its dimensions is detrimental for early childhood development and leads to often unreversed damage for the lives of girls and boys, locking children and families into intergenerational poverty. This edited volume contributes to the policy initiatives aiming to reduce child poverty and academic understanding of child poverty and its solutions by bringing together applied research from across the continent. With the Sustainable Development Goals having opened up an important space for the fight against child poverty, not least by broadening its conceptualization to be multidimensional, this collection aims to push the frontiers by challenging existing narratives around child poverty, exploring alternative understandings of the complexities and dynamics underpinning child poverty and, crucially, examining policy options that work to reduce child poverty.

111. Putting Children First

Author

Thomas Pogge Keetie Roelen Richard Morgan Yisak Tafere Elizabeth Ngutuku Winnie C Sambu Katharine Hall Somefun Dolapo Oluwaseyi Akinyemi Joshua Odunayo Odimegwu Clifford Tassew Woldehanna Yisak Tafere Stephen Devereux Julian May Coretta Jonah Nicola Hypher Luke Harman Kerina Zvobgo Oluwatosin Akomolafe Billow Hassan Stephen Mutiso Munshi Sulaiman Nikhit D’Sa Sarah Press Anna Du Vent Ahmed Farahat Gina Porter Kate Hampshire Alister Munthali Elsbeth Robson Sita Conklin Nicola Jones Umutoni Marie Francoise Bekele Tefera Ernestina Coast Workneh Yadete Guday Emirie Kassahun Tilahun Isimbi Roberte Marlene Ogawa Shirley Pendlebury Carmel Marock and Thomas Pogge Keetie Roelen Richard Morgan Yisak Tafere Elizabeth Ngutuku Winnie C Sambu Katharine Hall Somefun Dolapo Oluwaseyi Akinyemi Joshua Odunayo Odimegwu Clifford Tassew Woldehanna Yisak Tafere Stephen Devereux Julian May Coretta Jonah Nicola Hypher Luke Harman Kerina Zvobgo Oluwatosin Akomolafe Billow Hassan Stephen Mutiso Munshi Sulaiman Nikhit D’Sa Sarah Press Anna Du Vent Ahmed Farahat Gina Porter Kate Hampshire Alister Munthali Elsbeth Robson Sita Conklin Nicola Jones Umutoni Marie Francoise Bekele Tefera Ernestina Coast Workneh Yadete Guday Emirie Kassahun Tilahun Isimbi Roberte Marlene Ogawa Shirley Pendlebury Carmel Marock

Abstract

Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the past two decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Africa. Poverty in all its dimensions is detrimental for early childhood development and leads to often unreversed damage for the lives of girls and boys, locking children and families into intergenerational poverty. This edited volume contributes to the policy initiatives aiming to reduce child poverty and academic understanding of child poverty and its solutions by bringing together applied research from across the continent. With the Sustainable Development Goals having opened up an important space for the fight against child poverty, not least by broadening its conceptualization to be multidimensional, this collection aims to push the frontiers by challenging existing narratives around child poverty, exploring alternative understandings of the complexities and dynamics underpinning child poverty and, crucially, examining policy options that work to reduce child poverty.

112. Putting Children First

Author

Thomas Pogge Keetie Roelen Richard Morgan Yisak Tafere Elizabeth Ngutuku Winnie C Sambu Katharine Hall Somefun Dolapo Oluwaseyi Akinyemi Joshua Odunayo Odimegwu Clifford Tassew Woldehanna Yisak Tafere Stephen Devereux Julian May Coretta Jonah Nicola Hypher Luke Harman Kerina Zvobgo Oluwatosin Akomolafe Billow Hassan Stephen Mutiso Munshi Sulaiman Nikhit D’Sa Sarah Press Anna Du Vent Ahmed Farahat Gina Porter Kate Hampshire Alister Munthali Elsbeth Robson Sita Conklin Nicola Jones Umutoni Marie Francoise Bekele Tefera Ernestina Coast Workneh Yadete Guday Emirie Kassahun Tilahun Isimbi Roberte Marlene Ogawa Shirley Pendlebury Carmel Marock and Thomas Pogge Keetie Roelen Richard Morgan Yisak Tafere Elizabeth Ngutuku Winnie C Sambu Katharine Hall Somefun Dolapo Oluwaseyi Akinyemi Joshua Odunayo Odimegwu Clifford Tassew Woldehanna Yisak Tafere Stephen Devereux Julian May Coretta Jonah Nicola Hypher Luke Harman Kerina Zvobgo Oluwatosin Akomolafe Billow Hassan Stephen Mutiso Munshi Sulaiman Nikhit D’Sa Sarah Press Anna Du Vent Ahmed Farahat Gina Porter Kate Hampshire Alister Munthali Elsbeth Robson Sita Conklin Nicola Jones Umutoni Marie Francoise Bekele Tefera Ernestina Coast Workneh Yadete Guday Emirie Kassahun Tilahun Isimbi Roberte Marlene Ogawa Shirley Pendlebury Carmel Marock

Abstract

Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the past two decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Africa. Poverty in all its dimensions is detrimental for early childhood development and leads to often unreversed damage for the lives of girls and boys, locking children and families into intergenerational poverty. This edited volume contributes to the policy initiatives aiming to reduce child poverty and academic understanding of child poverty and its solutions by bringing together applied research from across the continent. With the Sustainable Development Goals having opened up an important space for the fight against child poverty, not least by broadening its conceptualization to be multidimensional, this collection aims to push the frontiers by challenging existing narratives around child poverty, exploring alternative understandings of the complexities and dynamics underpinning child poverty and, crucially, examining policy options that work to reduce child poverty.

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