The current crisis and unending talks between bickering political parties in Zimbabwe, Africa and other third world countries prompted us in the Zimbabwe Open University, Masvingo Campus Academic Research and Publications Coordinating Committee (ZOU MC ARPCC) to think of researching and writing a text on conflict management for tertiary curricula....

Countries emerging from conflict situations are almost always plagued by social upheaval, damaged infrastructure, reduced productive capacity, severe revenue shortfalls, seriously weakened human resources and greatly diminished security....

This is a \\\"how-to\\\" book, intended for community mobilisers who want to stimulate social change in a community to work towards poverty eradication, good governance, increased transparency -- in short community empowerment....

This study is a comparative analysis of the development of the IWRM induced public policies/legislation and services relating to potable water supply and their implementation in selected cases in Zimbabwe and South Africa....

This study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of the girlchild affirmative action policy in secondary schools in Zimbabwe....

Single mothers in Gweru are among the most vulnerable to poverty and disease.The GWAPA project is an attempt to rescue them from this predicament. This study established that most of the GWAPA projects which started well were suffocating under the current (2000-2010) economic hardships....

In this handbook we sensitise the student and development practitioner (in the public service, civic organisations, local authorities, community organisations and other community development institutions) on the challenges HIV poses for all their development efforts and on the significant role they can play to reduce the effect of the disease on th...

This book presents a series of techniques, practices and processes to help project managers and project staff to manage information in a systematic way that will help improve the project interventions. It is through information management that we can improve decision making process, learn and create new knowledge....

Our focus in this book is public governance and community leadership, a broader concept than simple traditional management. The term management is too formal and limited in its scope. In its narrow sense it focuses on the formalised administrative tasks of chief executives and managers within organisational settings....