This policy brief presents a summary of two shadow reports that focused on shelter policy, funding and practice and ends with a set of recommendations for the improvement of sheltering services for abused women and their children.
This shadow report assesses the provision and funding of shelters by the Western Cape Department of Social Development while considering whether shelters in this province have sufficient resources to meet the legitimate needs of women and children seeking refuge from domestic violence in the home.
Heinrich Böll Foundation and Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre launch a shadow report on shelters for abused women as an advocacy tool to mobilise greater support and resources from government.
What frustrations are causing the youth to turn to the streets? How do they mobilise today? Are conventional politics and parties able to attract young people or do they seek alternative ways to engage? How does their political participation manifest? Have they been successful? Are the youth a political force?
This review of the State of the Nation Address (SONA) for 2013, as delivered by President Jacob Zuma in parliament on 14 February 2013, gauges how government’s priorities for the year will affect the social, political and economic status of women. It also measures the advances made with regards to the five priorities the president set in the 2009 SONA, namely: Decent work, education, crime, health and rural development and agrarian reform.
The central ambition of this paper is to offer a framework for the appropriate climate finance architecture, one that identifies the key elements for a national set of institutional arrangements, and that would in its design serve to foster improved access and efficient, cost-effective, transparent, accountable, and equitable utilisation of climate finance by countries in Africa.
This shadow report assesses the provision and funding of shelters by the Gauteng Department of Social Development while considering whether shelters have sufficient resources to meet the legitimate needs of women and children seeking refuge from domestic violence in the home.
This edition of Perspectives asks, “What are sustainable African cities?”. In so doing, it offers a snapshot of Africa’s urban sustainability challenges, ranging from tensions between heritage and urban renewal.
Climate change is increasingly recognized as a developmental challenge in Africa, however, development planning in many African countries is still done in silos, and without due consideration of climate change. Two case studies from Namibia and Tanzania provide an analysis of the institutional, financial and political barriers to the integration of climate change in development.
The articles in this issue of Perspectives seek to reflect on the extent to which African legislatures have taken steps that mark their shift from being the “weakest link” of government to stronger, independent institutions. In essence, we ask – do African Parliaments really occupy the privileged position accorded to them in representational democracies.
