Abstract: This study explores the potential of integrating the PAR-Sendai Action Framework (PSAF) with the Model for Collaborative Evaluations (MCE) to enhance organizational resilience for disaster risk reduction (DRR). PSAF provides a structured risk assessment and mitigation framework, while the MCE emphasizes stakeholder involvement in guiding collaborative evaluations. The proposed conceptual fra... PubDate: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +010
Abstract: Zimbabwe is a nation blessed with a diversity of minerals and metals that have necessitated the establishment of a large number of mining companies. However, the mining industry has constantly experienced new developments in terms of new technologies, changing employee demographics, global economic competition and economic shocks related to the instability of both domestic and global financi... PubDate: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +010
Abstract: Despite persuasive heuristics and pragmatic promotion for the use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) to infuse dynamism into public sector infrastructure development, little is known about their progress in Zimbabwes state universities. This study traces the evolution and validation of PPPs as an alternative funding option for the development of educational infrastructure in Zimbabwean st... PubDate: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +010
Abstract: There is no doubt that Aid-for-Trade (AfT) has enhanced trade between Africa and the EU. However, although Africa has benefited, the gains to the EU appear to be much higher. Moreover, the benefits of AfT until now have also accrued disproportionately to more developed African countries. This paper critically assesses the effects of EU-AfT provision to bolster trade-related support in Africa... PubDate: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +010
Abstract: The transformation of the public sector from a moribund to a result-oriented institution has been a subject of academic discourse. This article based on empirical study contributes to this discourse by examining the pockets of effectiveness, the push factors and the challenges to the sustenance of the pockets of productivity using the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority in Ghana as a case... PubDate: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +010
Abstract: In Uganda like many developing countries, financial management units are facing numerous performance challenges as a result of untold pressure, overwhelming deadlines, limited resources, political patronage and limited professional skills among the practioners. To unravel these impediments, drastic mechanisms need to be put in place to ensure a common balance among all stakeholders; financia... PubDate: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +010
Abstract: Considerable concern is being paid to the professionalization of education. Professionalising higher education in a way in many countries is trying to build a bridge between theory and practice. First of all, it is important to know and understand that academics cannot be professionalised. This paper aims to explore a way to professionalise higher education. Data for the study is based on bo... PubDate: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +010
Abstract: This study aims at assessing the extent to which the Ethiopian policies are based on rational policy analysis. Explanatory analysis methods are used to analyze primary and secondary qualitative data. The finding shows that in the policy making process only one policy option was investigated and crafted; the criteria used to evaluate the proposal are not clear; sophisticated solution methods ... PubDate: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +010
Abstract: This paper aims to shed light on the connection between two developments that are increasingly shaping countries all over the world, especially in the western hemisphere: The boost in wicked problems and the rapidly advancing digitization. It also deals with the challenges this poses to politics and public administration. Some fields of action, which are closely related to the current socio-... PubDate: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +010