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Goodbye to Projects? ¿ A livelihoods-grounded audit of the Sexual Health and Rights Programme (SHARP!) in Southern Africa.
Approaches to projects and development have undergone considerable change in the last decade with significant policy shifts on governance, gender, poverty eradication, and environmental issues. Most recently this has led to the adoption and promotion of the sustainable livelihood (SL) approach. The adoption of the SL approach presents challenges to development interventions including: the future of projects and programmes, and sector wide approaches (SWAPs) and direct budgetary support.This paper `A livelihoods-grounded audit of the Sexual Health and Rights Programme (SHARP!) in Southern Africa¿ is the tenth in the series of project working papers.Department for International Developmen
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Goodbye to Projects? ¿ A livelihoods-grounded audit of the Training for Environmental and Agricultural Management (TEAM) project in Lesotho.
Approaches to projects and development have undergone considerable change in the last decade with significant policy shifts on governance, gender, poverty eradication, and environmental issues. Most recently this has led to the adoption and promotion of the sustainable livelihood (SL) approach. The adoption of the SL approach presents challenges to development interventions including: the future of projects and programmes, and sector wide approaches (SWAPs) and direct budgetary support.This paper `A livelihoods-grounded audit of the `Training for Environmental and Agricultural Management (TEAM) project in Lesotho¿ is the eleventh in the series of project working papers.Department for International Developmen
The quality of material care provided by grandparents for their orphaned grandchildren in the context of HIV/AIDS and poverty: a study of Kopanong municipality, Free State
A pervasive argument in the literature on AIDS orphans in South Africa is that grandparents, who often care for their orphaned grandchildren, lack the material means to provide adequate care. This study investigated that claim in an area of ubiquitous poverty and very high unemployment. It is based on the analysis of data obtained from two surveys carried out by the HSRC in the semi-rural municipality of Kopanong in the Free State. The first study was a census which targeted the whole population. The second, smaller survey sampled households which accommodated orphaned and vulnerable children. Based on four proxy indicators for material care: possession of birth certificates, uptake of welfare grants, levels of school attendance, and the number of meals consumed daily, the study revealed that there was very little difference in the quality of care provided by grandparents and other carers, including biological parents. Indeed, since the old age pension is much higher than the child support grant and the foster care grant it may be that grandparents who are pensioners generally have higher incomes than most other adults. In line with the findings of other research, the study found that poverty is a major problem confronting all carers in the area. It concludes that interventions thatprimarily target orphans overlook the material needs of all poor children. It therefore joins the calls of other researchers for greater state support for all poor children, irrespective of whether they are orphans and who their carers are
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Goodbye to Projects? - Briefing Paper 4: Lessons for the community-based planning interventions.
YesThis briefing paper compares two approaches to community-based planning in Tanzania, South Africa and Uganda. Analysing these interventions through an audit of sustainable livelihood `principles¿ (as a proxy for best practice) reveals general lessons about both the practical opportunities and challenges for employing sustainable livelihoods approaches to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development interventions and also about the changing format of development interventions.Department for International Developmen
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Goodbye to Projects? Briefing Paper 1: An Overview: Projects and Principles.
YesThis briefing paper reports on research exploring ten detailed case studies of livelihoods-oriented interventions operating in Tanzania, Lesotho, South Africa and Uganda. Analysing these interventions through an audit of sustainable livelihood `principles¿ (as a proxy for best practice) revealed general lessons both about the practical opportunities and challenges for employing sustainable livelihoods approaches to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development interventions and also about the changing format of development interventions.Department for International Developmen
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Goodbye to Projects? Briefing Paper 2: The Application of the SL Principles.
YesThis briefing paper reports on research exploring ten detailed case studies of livelihoods-oriented interventions operating in Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda and Lesotho. As a proxy for best practice, these interventions were analysed through an audit of sustainable livelihood `principles¿. This revealed general lessons about both the practical opportunities and challenges for employing sustainable livelihoods approaches to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development interventions and also about the changing format of development interventions.Department for International Development
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Goodbye to Projects? - Briefing Paper 3: The changing format of development interventions.
yesThis briefing paper reports on research exploring ten detailed case studies of livelihoods-oriented interventions operating in Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda and Lesotho. As a proxy for best practice, these interventions were analysed through an audit of sustainable livelihood `principles¿. This revealed general lessons about both the practical opportunities and challenges for employing sustainable livelihoods approaches to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development interventions and also about the changing format of development interventions.Department for International Development
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Analysis of services for orphans and vulnerable children in Lesotho: a desktop review
Commissioned by the Government of Lesotho, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, JanuaryThis background document will provide inputs into the drafting of the Situation Analysis of Services for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in Lesotho. It provides a desktop review of the nature and extent of OVC services in Lesotho. The aim of this review is to assess the nature and extent of services provided to OVC in Lesotho, and to identify gaps and challenges. Lessons have also been drawn from regional and international experiences. In the first place, the report provides brief background information on Lesotho. It then highlights the extent of HIV and AIDS and orphan prevalence in Lesotho. Special emphasis is placed on some of the challenges faced by OVC and the response mechanisms of the state and civil society organisations, including non-governmental organisations (NGOs) - international, national and local - as well as faith-based organisations (FBOs), in the third and fourth sections of the report. The policy framework to protect OVC will be analysed in the third section of the report. Section five discusses types of services provided to OVC in Lesotho. This is followed by an analysis of the role of civil society in providing services to OVC in the sixth and final section of the report. As a desktop study, this section of the report is based on the review of existing data obtained through database searches and documents obtained through government and civil society contacts in Lesotho. The search methods used are explained below
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Investigation of the quality of care of orphans provided by grandparents in semi-rural communities of South Africa
Paper presented to the South African Sociological Association's Conference, University of Witwatersrand, 28 June until 2 Jul
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Homelessness and health in Cape Town: formative research
Paper presented at the Stakeholder Workshop, Diep in die Berg, Pretoria, 26 Jul