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Addressing rural health and poverty through water sanitation and hygiene: Gender perspectives

Author: Ngorima, E ; Nkuna, Z ; Manase, G Date: Nov 2008 Women play a crucial role in providing care and support, and also in the use and management of the water resources and sanitation at the household level. In addition, voluntary community care work is done mostly by women, rather than men, ... Read more
Gender dimensions of rural employment in agriculture and public works programmes experiences from South Africa: Differentiated pathways out of poverty

Author: Mashiri, M ; Gwarajena, TRD ; Chakwizira, J ; Nhemachena, C Date: Dec 2010 This, chapter investigates the extent to which community-based rural road maintenance and agriculture development projects can be used as tools to empower women, the elderly, children, youth and the unemployed to work towards attaining ... Read more
How the sustainable livelihoods framework can contribute towards sustainable social development: where are we going?

Author: Murambadoro, M Date: Aug 2009 The South African constitution seeks to secure ecological sustainable development and use of natural resources while promoting justifiable economic and social development. It is important to understand how society makes use of natural resources ... Read more
Integrated energy and waste water solutions to solve small town municipal service delivery problems in South Africa

Author: Du Plessis, C ; Waldeck, L ; Willemse, E Date: Feb 2010 Providing municipal services such as electricity and waste water treatment is a major challenge for small towns that often lack the institutional capacity to manage and maintain the necessary infrastructure. High levels of poverty in these ... Read more
Issues on global food security

Author: Chikwamba, Rachel K Date: 29 Sep 2006 The presentation outlines the global status of food security and implications for meeting the Millennium Development Goals targets, with particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa; trends in hunger, food availability, food distribution, consumption; ... Read more
“Rejecting the inevitability of poverty”: Empower women for sustainable rural livelihoods through community-based employment intensive rural infrastructure maintenance projects

Author: Mashiri, M ; Chakwizira, J ; Nhemachena, C Date: Nov 2008 This paper discuses the extent to which employment-intensive rural infrastructure maintenance projects can be used as a tool to empower women to achieve sustainable rural livelihoods using Siyatentela rural road maintenance program in Mpumalanga ... Read more
SEA in Southern Africa

Author: Audouin, Michelle A ; Lochner, Paul A ; Tarr, P Date: Jan 2011 On a continent where the livelihoods of the majority of Africans are closely linked to the health of the natural environment, and where poverty and land degradation has increased in recent decades, there is a critical need for sustainable ... Read more
Sustainable livelihood cost-benefit model to enhance the understanding of the dynamics between low income housing and location

Author: Biermann, SM Date: Dec 2006 To keep pace with increasing urbanisation pressures and a substantial inherited backlog, subsidised low-income housing and services have predominantly been provided on the peripheries of South African cities where land is cheaper and more ... Read more
The bright lights of city regions: Assumptions, realities and implications of changing population dynamics: Zooming in on the Gauteng city region

Author: Pieterse, Amy Date: Oct 2014 It is well known that the city regions attract migrants from across the country because of their roles as economic engines and job baskets in South Africa. To address urbanisation implications it is imperative to better understand some of the ... Read more
Unpacking the relationship between rural healthcare, mobility and access

Author: Mashiri, M ; Maponya, G ; Nkuna, Z ; Dube, S ; Chakwizira, J ; Marrian, B Date: Jul 2008 This paper seeks to unpack the relationship between mobility and accessibility on the one hand, and rural healthcare delivery on the other, within the ambit of the sustainable livelihoods approach using four villagers in the Thaba Chweu ... Read more
Using the integrated rural mobility and access (IRMA) approach in prospering rural South Africa

Author: Chakwizira, J ; Mashiri, M ; Nhemachena, C Date: Nov 2008 This paper presents an examination and analysis of rural development struggles facing contemporary South Africa. An analytical transportation approach is used to tease out current theory, practice and obstacles to rural development sustainability. ... Read more

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