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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Community based organisation"”.
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Because we are kaffirs with short hair : a study of embedded trauma and repetition in a community based organisation
… services to a staff support group in a community-based organisation located in a township. The staff support group consisted of health workers drawn from the local community. At the time I entered the staff support group, the organisation was in a financial crisis and facing an imminent …
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Challenging prejudice through participation: a case study of an anti-xenophobic community based organisation in Khayelitsha site c in the Western Cape, South Africa
… (SACAX) in Khayelitsha was able to mobilise the community, community based organisations, and governance structures alongside national and international Non-Governmental Organisations working with refugees to successfully challenge prejudice towards African immigrants in the period leading to the …
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The narrative accounts of recovering drug users
… addiction. The researcher obtained access to a community-based organisation for recovering addicts and the snowball method of sampling was used to recruit 11 research participants. Participants were interviewed about their experiences of recovery and ethnographic field notes were written about …
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Information and communication techologies and the urban transformation of South African informal settlement communities
… the Social Justice Coalition (SJC), a grassroots community based organisation working with informal settlement communities in Khayelitsha, a largely informal neighbourhood on the south-eastern fringes of Cape Town, South Africa. The study focuses on SJC’s advocacy work in the delivery of ‘decent …
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Analysis of community-based organisations effectiveness in promoting grassroots educational services in Greater Tzaneen Municipality, South Africa
Community-based organisations (CBOs) play an integral role in promoting educational services, particularly to disadvantaged communities in rural areas. However, debatably, their effectiveness in delivering educational services is rarely known. Thus, the current study was undertaken to analyse the …
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Unhoused individuals' experiences of being policed in Cape Town
… the streets of Cape Town and are now housed by community-based organisation, Streetscapes. Participants were asked about experiences of being policed, and their understandings of officers' behaviour. Their responses indicate a range of experiences, from brutal, humiliating and unjust encounters …
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The political ecology of community-based adaptation to flood risk in informal settlements: the case of a local community organisation
… Town can either empower or undermine efforts at community-based adaptation (CBA) to flooding in informal settlements. Drawing on urban political ecology, this thesis assesses the potential for CBA to lead to wider transformation. Using a case study approach, it focuses on the informal settlement …
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Exploring the role of context in emerging adults' experiences of occupational possibilities and occupational choice in a community in the Western Cape: a narrative inquiry
… aim of this study was to explore how living in a community within Bredasdorp, Western Cape, shapes the experience of occupational possibilities and occupational choice of emerging adults aged between 18 and 25 years. Research Design: This qualitative study was informed by the social …
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Enabling a community of practice: participatory practices in building a water-sensitive catchment
… are making progress in establishing formal community participation strategies, the overall engagement undertaken often informs citizens rather than involving them, thus limiting the input from different actors. Literature suggests that by fostering landscapes of communities of practice …
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Community-led study of access to antiretroviral therapy and viral load testing.
… Participatory governance was embedded through a Community and Research Advisory Groups, together forming a Public Scrutiny Panel. Eighteen participants (17 MSM and one TGW), purposively sampled to reflect diversity in age, geography, and service pathways, took part in semi-structured interviews …
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Uyogro Solid Waste Management Project:Temeke, Dar Es Salaam City
… building which will create an impact on the community and thus turn the group to be legally Community Based Organisation working in broad perspective under national policies. The study was guided by five objectives, namely; to examine the legal status of the group, its strength and weakness, …
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Through a glass darkly?': An enquiry into HIV prevalence on Stellenbosch wine farms
… local-level data as well as the presences of organisational constraints. A project offering HIV testing to farm-based communities in Stellenbosch is a case in point. While no prevalence data exists for this sub-population, the assumption was that there may be high levels of infection, …
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The impact of international non-governmental organisations on the response of community-based organisations to the HIV/AIDs related orphan and vulnerable children crisis in Zimbabwe: the case of Batsiranai and Danish Association for international cooperation in Manicaland
… between an international non-governmental organisation (INGO) and a community based organisation (CBO) addressing the HIV/AIDs- related orphan and vulnerable children (OVC) crisis in Zimbabwe. The study engages with how INGOs have emerged as key conduits for development aid, rather than …
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Exploration and harnessing of usable knowledge in interpretive participatory research : a case of women in the Zambian mining community
… action research (PAR) methodology in the mining community of Chingola - Zambia. The inquiry was motivated by argument in the literature for better articulation, conceptualisation and implementation of PAR and other grassroots interpretive participatory research approaches. The study examines how …