MPhil & PhD Research
Assignments, papers and published research by participants in the MPhil & PhD programmes
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South Korea - Adi Ansems
South Korea - Adi Ansems
Date added: 08/29/2009
Adi Ansems, Sustainable Cities - Case Study of South Korea. (Assignment: 2009)
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Segametsi Moatlhaping - Indigenous Governance Systems and Sustainable Development
Segametsi Moatlhaping - Indigenous Governance Systems and Sustainable Development
Date added: 03/06/2010
Segametsi Oreeditse S. Moatlhaping - The Role of Indigenous Governace System(s) in Sustainable Development: Case of Moshupa Village, Botswana. Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the Mphil in Sustainable Development Planning and Management, March 2007. In this thesis, the researcher re-examines the indigenous governance systems that exist in Botswana, with special reference to her original home. She examines the principles of these systems and shows how they could contribute to the kinds of governance systems that are required for more sustainable forms of development.
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Schirin Yachkaschi - Towards the Development of an Appropriate Organisational Development Approach
Schirin Yachkaschi - Towards the Development of an Appropriate Organisational Development Approach
Date added: 02/25/2010
Schirin Yachkaschi - Towards the Development of an Appropriate Organisational Development Approach for Optimising the Capacity Building of Community-Based Organisations (CBOs): A Case Study of 3 CBOs in the Western Cape. Phd thesis, December 2008. In this Phd Yachkaschi develops a unique conceptual framework for understanding the application of organisational development approaches to CBOs. CBOs are assumed to be the key to participatory development, but there is very little known about the organisational development of CBOs.
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Schirin Yachkaschi - Drinking from the Poisoned Chalice
Schirin Yachkaschi - Drinking from the Poisoned Chalice
Date added: 10/13/2006
Schirin Yachkaschi is doing her Phd on organisation development in CBOs, supervised by Prof. Mark Swilling. This paper reflects her core thinking that will be elaborated theoretically and empirically in her Phd. Her research is based on work she did with CBOs while working for Community Connections, an NGO that supports CBOs with offices at the Philippi Business Place - an SI project.
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Russel Dlamini - Investigation of Sustainable Indigenous Agricultural Practices
Russel Dlamini - Investigation of Sustainable Indigenous Agricultural Practices
Date added: 04/03/2007
Russel Dlamini, Mphil Thesis, Investigation of Sustainable Indigenous Agricultural Practices: A Systems Approach (2007). This thesis investigates the farming systems and techniques that have been used by African farmers in Swaziland during pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial times and concluses that these farmers knew how to farm sustainably and continue to do so into the present era. Much can be learned from them now that sustainable farming has become a necessity.
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Ricarda McFalls - Testing the Limits of Inclusive Capitalism: A Case Study of HP
Ricarda McFalls - Testing the Limits of Inclusive Capitalism: A Case Study of HP
Date added: 03/14/2010
Ricarda McFalls - Testing the Limits of Inclusive Capitalism: A Case Study of the South Africa HP i-Community. Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of a Mphil in Sustainable Development Planning and Management, March 2005. In this thesis the researcher has used the corporate citizenship literature to develop a critical analysis of Hewlet Packard's agreement with President Thabo Mbeki to set up an "i-community" in the poorest rural area in South Africa based on the assumption that information technology can drive the development process. The project was a failure and this thesis explains why.  
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Ricarda McFalls - Testing the Limits of 'Inclusive Capitalism'
Ricarda McFalls - Testing the Limits of 'Inclusive Capitalism'
Date added: 11/20/2006
Richarda McFalls (2006 intake) presented this paper at a conference in Ghana on Corporate Citizenship in November 2006. The paper is based on her research for her Mphil thesis and her essay for the Corporate Citizenship and Globalisation modules.
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Peter Sinkamba - Structural Adjustment in Zambia
Peter Sinkamba - Structural Adjustment in Zambia
Date added: 02/02/2007
Peter Sinkamba, Structural Adjustment Lending and National Development: Which Development? - A Review of the IMF and World Bank Macro-Economic Regime and and their Poverty Reduction Strategies in Zambia. Peter Sinkamba who is a well known sustainable development practitioner in the Zambia NGO sector. This is his assignment for Applied Economics. 
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