The GGLN co-ordinator will be responsible for undertaking and managing research as well as co-ordinating and supporting the activities of the Good Governance Learning Network (GGLN).This position is based at the Foundation for Contemporary Research (FCR) in Cape Town.
On 15 August Afesis-corplan, in conjunction with the Project for Conflict Resolution and Development (PCRD), hosted a GGLN-sponsored learning event on the theme of improving pro-poor information dissemination by municipalities.
The Local Government Project of the Community Law Centre, in association with LexisNexis, launched the Local Government Law of South Africa, a comprehensive new description and critical analysis of local government law. This loose-leaf publication, to be updated annually, was written by two Project members, Nico Steytler and Jaap de Visser and was launched at the Centre for the Book in Cape Town on 29 May 2008.
Local Government and Economic Development Programme Reviving the Entrepreneurial Spirit Fair Share, a unit of School of Government, at the University of the Western Cape is in the process of accepting applications for the Local Economic Development (LED) Programme for 2009. The LED Programme was designed to strengthen the capacity of various stakeholders in local government and communities in the theory and practice of local economic development.
In 2008, Isandla Institute celebrates its 10th anniversary. In the past ten years, Isandla Institute has rapidly established itself as a leading policy organisation in the field of local government and urban development.
All civil society organisations in Southern Africa working in the field of local governance and citizen participation are invited to apply to attend an upcoming LogoLink Southern Africa Roundtable on 9 & 10th September on the theme: "Civil Society Perspectives on the State of Citizen Participation in Local Governance in Southern Africa."
The Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Bill and Constitution Fifteenth Amendment Bill seek to amend the Constitution of South Africa in order to prohibit floor crossing in National, Provincial Legislatures and Municipal Councils.
Orlando, a township within Greater Soweto in the City of Johannesburg, is the site for Orlando Stadium, earmarked as a practice stadium during the 2010 World Cup event. The major initiatives taking place in Orlando include the upgrading of Orlando stadium, and associated infrastructure improvements, along with a backyard shack upgrading project.
Janine Hicks, former director of the Centre for Public Participation (CPP) and Imraan Buccus, a Research Fellow at CPP, recently contributed to an international conference entitled “How Can We Build Political Will for Participatory Governance?” convened by the international civil society network CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation.
There is a clear need to support the many poor communities who want to participate meaningfully in decisions affecting their lives, and who have something to say about service delivery and the increasing threat to life-sustaining resources. Participation Junction encourages communities to actively hold government to account and also works in support of officials as they adopt new approaches to decision-making, monitoring and service delivery in alignment with the Constitution.
The Built Environment Support Group (BESG) was established unofficially in 1983 by a group of academics from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, who became involved in defence campaigns to protect the rights of people moving into urban areas due to civil violence and/or the search for employment. It established its first staffed office on Howard College campus in 1985, and a second office in Pietermaritzburg in 1991.
On Friday 20 June 2008 representatives of Idasa, Afesis-corplan, GTZ and the GGLN secretariat met to discuss two similar tools aimed at assessing the state of governance at local government level, namely Idasa’s Local Governance Barometer and Afesis-corplan’s Good Governance Survey.
Afesis-corplan and the Project for Conflict Resolution and Development (PCRD) are organising a regional learning event on improving pro-poor information dissemination by municipalities.
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