Browsing Masters Degrees (Development Studies) by Title
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The 'managed' co-operative : a case study into the social and economic benefits of participating in rural co-operatives in KwaZulu-Natal.
(1999)The primary goal of development is to alleviate poverty, and thus improve people's lives. Co-operatives around the world are becoming used more regularly as a vehicle for such development. However, as a result of ... -
Measurement and characteristics of single mothers in South Africa : analysis using the 2002 general household survey.
(2006)A single mother is defined as a mother with one or more children, who is neither married nor living with a partner. The second demographic transition characterized by the decline of marital fertility and an increase in ... -
Meeting rural woodfuel and livelihood requirements through contract farming and community forestry in KwaZulu-Natal, 1960-2000.
(2000)Abstract not available. -
Memory, identity and food production among Zimbabwean migrants in Durban, South Africa.
(2018)This study answered questions about the experiences and factors considered in food identification and choice among Zimbabwean migrants, the value chain of food choices among Zimbabwean migrants and how this food production ... -
Migration into new housing developments : an examination of RDP housing in Northern KwaZulu-Natal.
(2011)Objectives. First, the study aims to explore demographic and socio-economic characteristics of residents who moved into Indlovu village. Second, the study will explore if the housing development attracted the intended ... -
Mining for development? : a socio-ecological study on the Witbank coalfield.
(2011)Coal mining on the Highveld has historically served, and continues to serve as an indissoluble cog in South Africa’s development. The study contends that the inherent speculative character of coal as a finite resource ... -
Mobile cell phones and poverty reduction : technology spending patterns and poverty level change among households in Uganda.
(2007)This paper exammes the spending behaviour of households with mobile phones in rural agricultural Uganda and whether such strategies such as substitutions have affected the well-being of these community members. According ... -
Motherhood, marriage and career : some liberal feminist and some ultra orthodox Jewish views.
(1991)A comparison is made between the manner in which motherhood is perceived from a liberal feminist point of view within the patriarchal framework of modern western society, and the way in which it is viewed in ultra-orthodox ... -
Municipal water in South Africa : the relationship between access, quality and childhood diarrhoea.
(2014)Access to drinking water is a basic human right. Water is also a vehicle for the transmission of a number of communicable diseases. To reduce the risk of disease, water accessed must also be of a good quality, from a ... -
The nature of informal clothing manufacturing in a residential area : the case of Chatsworth.
(2003)No abstract available. -
Negotiating healing : the professionalisation of traditional healers in KwaZulu-Natal between 1985 and 2003.
(2003)No abstract available. -
NEPAD, narrative and African integration.
(2009)The untenable inequalities and suffering experienced by Africans blatantly exposes that a lot more than simple developmental ‘lag’, lack of economic ‘growth’, ‘governance’, or a shaky ‘investment climate’ inhibits Africa’s ... -
NGO's, donors and human development : a case study from Mozambique.
(2008)During 1990s, the 'renaissance' of civil society in the Third World and the birth of thousands ofNGOs provoked a debate about their critical role, linked to the end of the Cold War and the 'triumph' of the Westernized, ... -
NGOs and development in the third world : assessing NGO policy orientation in Angola's post-conflict reconstruction and development process.
(2008)This study explores the role of NGOs in Angola's post-conflict reconstruction and development process. The study was motivated by a perception obtained from a preliminary literature acquaintance and events that pointed to ... -
NGOs and social development : an assessment of the participants' perceptions of the effects of World Changers Academy's life skills education program, eThekwini Municipality.
(2009)In South Africa, young people are faced with many challenges such as HIV/AIDS, unemployment, poverty, and access to secure education and skills. In that context, NGOs involved in youth development, through their social ... -
Not just for the kicks! Football for development : stakeholder perceptions of the WhizzKids United football programme in Durban, South Africa.
(2010)The study attempts to assess the capacity of football development programmes to help bring about development at the individual and societal levels. It is concerned with understanding the needs of underprivileged communities ... -
Notions of place and identity formation amongst recent graduates in South Africa: a case study of Umlazi Township.
(2018)The study sought to explore notions of place and identity formation amongst recent graduates in South Africa. It focused on the meaning graduates ascribed to places and why it is important for identity formation. Primarily, ... -
Now they know we are real : skills development and women in the informal economy.
(2000)The following dissertation examines skills development for women at the poorer ends of the informal economy through a study of members of the Self-Employed Women's Union (SEWU) who were trained in blockmaking in 1996. Since ... -
Nutrition in the era of highly active anti-retroviral therapy : a case of people living with HIV/AIDS in Tsholotsho, Zimbabwe.
(2014)For the past two decades HIV/AIDS has received global attention in developing and developed countries. The findings of HIV/AIDS indicate that the pandemic remains the greatest threat to a better life globally. In Zimbabwe ... -
Older people's perceptions of health services and their health seeking behaviour in the era of HIV/AIDs : a case study of the eThekwini Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2008)In sub-Saharan Africa - the region with some of the world's highest levels of HIV prevalence - AIDS has reached pandemic proportions. At present, the highest rates of infection are in the region where the main route of ...