Research Catalog

Title

Enhancing local government capacity for effective service delivery and poverty reduction in Africa : challenges and opportunities / edited by Takawira Mumvuma, Jackson Wilbard Kombe [and] Michael Ndubiwa.

Publication

Harare : Municipal Development Partnership, Eastern and Southern Africa, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mumvuma, Takawira.
• Kombe, W. Jackson.
• Ndubiwa, M.
• Municipal Development Partnership. Eastern and Southern Africa.

Description

iv, 265 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Human services > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Poor > Services for > Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Poverty > Government policy > Africa, Sub-Saharan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Enhancing local government capacity for effective service delivery and poverty reduction in Africa / Takawira Mumvuma, Jackson Wilbard Kombe, and Michael Ndubiwa -- Viable strategies for achieving value for money towards improving the service delivery capacity of local government systems in Ethiopia : the case of the Kemmissie Municipality and the Dire Dawa council / Shimelis Tsegaye and Tsegaye Gedif -- Public procurement and local economic development in South Africa / Christian M. Rogerson with Pieter Vorster -- Municipal service delivery improvement : the case of sewage disposal by Kadoma City Council / Haven R. Chikumbu, Justus Mika, and Gardner I. Manikai -- Municipal financing and service delivery : the case study of Gaborone City Council, Botswana / Aloysus C. Mosha and Odirile L. Mabaila -- The role of public private partnership in enhancing local government service delivery : the case of solid waste management (swm) in Nairobi / Anne Karanja and Rose Okoth -- Strengthening public-private partnership in decentralized health service delivery systems : the case of Uganda / Agustus Nuwagaba and David Mwesigwa -- Assessing the causes and impact of the HIV and AIDS pandemic on municipalities' capacity to deliver quality service and fighting poverty in Tanzania / Faustin Kamuzora and Carle Lyimo -- Local government capacity in the context of new management arrangements for water supply systems in small towns : cases from two town councils in Uganda / Denis Muhangi and Polly A. Mugisha -- Feasibility of the decentralization thrust of central ministry functions in urban local authorities [Marondera Municipality, Zimbabwe] / Takawira Mubvami and Admore Nhekairo.

ISBN

0797432205

LCCN

^^2007380759

OCLC

• 148751522
• SCSB-11964040

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library