Woman in White Woman Scorned: The pre emptive type
Our Fairies Are Different: Delilah the Dryad, in “Tree of Evil”. Our Gryphons Are Different: Klone becomes one in “Tree of Evil”. Our Vampires Are Different: The Vampire Men in “The Air Whales of Anchar”. Pin Pulling Teeth: Carpo the Trobbit does this to the stems of Fire Fruit to make them explode, like grenades, […]
Honoring a man’s bravery or military insight is not equivalent
Deadpan Snarker: Fogg gets quite a few of these moments, though Passepartout and many of the people he encounters on his travels fit the bill. Demoted to Extra: Aodha, while a major character in the original novel, is now easily missed on most playthroughs (as she has her own story and life to attend to […]
Working Paper No 5: Being Poor – A STUDY OF THE BASIC NEEDS AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF POVERTY AND DEPRIVATION IN VOSLOOORUS
In a nutshell, current policy literature and analysis is often marked by social distance and is consequently devoid of empathy. This research report of the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) seeks to reverse current policy research trends on poverty by putting the poor, their voice and experience at the centre of the research […]
ESR Review Vol 14 No-1 2 September 2013
Monitoring the progressive realisation of socio-economic rights in South Africa: The case for a comprehensive monitoring tool Barriers to social protection uptake in East Africa: A set of hitherto forgotten factors. Full document ESR Review Vol 14 No-1 2 September 2013
Uppsala Statement final
The Uppsala Statement by Global Civil Society Organisations on the Right to Social Security. Following a two days conference organised by the Church of Sweden in partnership with other organisations1 entitled ‘100 Years of Social Pensions in Sweden: Global poverty challenges and experiences of social protection, 19 Civil Society Organisations from both the global South […]
Graduation Critical Consideration for South African Paper
Central to recent development discourses in the Global South1 is the role of social protection systems in poverty alleviation. Social protection was critical to the recovery post-World War II for countries in Western Europe. These social assistance mechanisms enabled Europe to address immediate challenges faced by the most vulnerable groups of their respective societies. Sixty […]
Dynamics between savings and credit for low-income households
Access to microfinance and microcredit for the poor has sparked critical debates over its ‘acclaimed’ successes and failures. Advocates of the microfinance agenda argue that expanding access to microfinance and microcredit to the poor forms an important constituent of the new developmental agenda. Becker et al (2008) argue that financial ‘exclusion’ is a barrier to […]
Project Monitoring and Evaluation
MONITORING EXERCISE ALLOWS IMPLEMENTING ORGANISATION TO TRACK PARTICIPANTS PROGRESS IT ALSO HELPS IDENTIFY AREAS FOR COURSE CORRECTIONS, INFORMS AND ADAPTATION TO INCREASE CHANCES OF SUCCESS Full document: Project Monitoring and Evaluation
Local Enterprises and Local Economic Development (LED) Case Study Report on Local Enterprises in Evaton
In the absence of economic activities in the formal sector, unskilled, poor and marginalised South Africans rely on the informal economy and government cash transfers for survival. The informal economy due to its easy access provides various economic generating activities for the poor in South Africa. The structure of the economy favours the development of […]
Drought in Angola and Namibia
Angola and Namibia are facing their severest drought in over a quarter of a century.
Some 330,000 people in Namibia are food insecure, 14 percent of the country’s population. Over 600,000 people in the Angolan border provinces of Cunene and Namib do not have enough food or water due to two consecutive years of failed rains. At the national level, more than 1,833,900 people are experiencing severe food insecurity. Malnutrition is on the rise, with a number of deaths among children.
