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Research outputs: LOCAL GOVERNMENT
2020 Public officials' skills and capacity assessment: interim key informant interviews report
Under the 1996 Constitution, South African local government was given a critical mandate to "provide democratic and accountable government f...
Download this report2019 Municipal boundaries demarcations and ward delimitations: impact on service delivery
Ward delimitation is a call that demands interrogation. Issues of ward delimitation and their impact on service delivery are critical. While...
2019 Assessing service delivery: public perception of municipal service delivery in South Africa
Existing research reveals that there has been increasing community impatience related to basic municipal service delivery in developing coun...
2019 A review of spaces of local participation to promote service delivery in South Africa
In many developing countries, there is a continued decline in public participation at the local level which often results in poor service de...