Public Administration Challenges: Cases from Africa

Product Details:
Author(s):
Wessels, JS ,
Potgieter, T and
Naidoo, T
Year Published:
2023
Edition
1st Edition
Type:
Print | Soft Cover
Language:
English
About this publication
Public Administration Challenges: Cases from Africa offers useful knowledge about typical lived realities of public administration in an African context. 
Researched case studies enrich scholarly knowledge and understanding for public officials to better understand and manage the complex public administration challenges that they face. The case studies in this volume serve to integrate contextual knowledge and experience with theory in view of building an ethical, capable and developmental public service.
The case studies in this volume were borne from the partnership between the South African National School for Government (NSG) and European Union (EU). The project involved 25 researchers from five South African universities, the Ghana Institute of Public Management and Administration (GIMPA) and Particip (Germany). 
 
The book’s 15 case studies report on typical challenges in public administration in South Africa and Ghana by looking at:
The Disastrous Gauteng Mental Health Marathon Project
Child Support, School Nutrition And Feeding Programmes In South Africa And Ghana
Governance And Accountability In Securing A Service-Provider To Pay Social Grants
Financial Governance Challenges In South African Municipalities
Problems With Wastewater In Emfuleni And With Providing Public Toilets In Ghana
Access To Higher Education And Sustainable Risk Management At A Technical And Vocational Education And Training (TVET) College In South Africa
Implementing Monitoring And Evaluation Frameworks And Social Innovation In South African Municipalities
Employment Equity In The South African Police Service
Employee Health And Wellness In The Kwazulu-Natal Provincial Administration.
 
Public Administration Challenges: Cases from Africa makes an original contribution to public administration scholarship. It can aid public servants in mastering statecraft and can enhance the skills and expertise needed to serve the public efficiently and professionally. 
 
The book can benefit subject specialists, public officials, students and anyone interested in public administration.
Content
INTRODUCTION
 
Chapter 1: Case studies as an approach to challenges in public administration
PART 1: CARING AND PROTECTING
Chapter 2: The management of a policy implementation project: The disastrous Gauteng Mental Health Marathon Project
Chapter 3: A policy instrument to relieve child poverty: The case of the child support grant in South Africa
Chapter 4:  Implementation of a national school nutrition programme:The case of selected South African schools
Chapter 5: The political-administrative interface and unintended consequences of public policy: The case of the Ghana School Feeding Programme 
PART 2: PROMOTING QUALITY OF LIFE
Chapter 6: Perspectives from below on Emfuleni’s wastewater woes: In search of resolving a wicked problem
Chapter 7: Democratic governance and development: The case of public toilet provision in district communities in Ghana
Chapter 8: A rapid change in public policy: The case of access to higher education in South Africa
Chapter 9: Social innovation to enhance service delivery by local government: The case of the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality
PART 3: ENABLE FOR SUCCESS
Chapter 10: Governance and accountability in public-sector procurement: The case of procuring a service-provider for social grant payments
Chapter 11: Co-operative financial governance: A case study of the distressed Mpofana Local Municipality in South Africa
Chapter 12: Sustained poor audit outcomes: The case of the Amathole District Municipality
Chapter 13: Employment equity and an improved quality of life: The case of a white woman and the South African Police Service
Chapter 14: Supervisor training as antecedent to employee health and wellness programmes: The case of the Provincial Administration of KwaZulu-Natal
Chapter 15: Sustainable risk management in the TVET sector: The case of a typical college
Chapter 16: Implementing monitoring and evaluation at local government level: The case of a South African district municipality 
PART 4: RESEARCH-INFORMED PRACTICE 
Chapter 17: Researched cases: Authentic scenarios as a way of learning for public administrators
Index
Interest / Benefit to
The book can benefit subject specialists, public officials, students and anyone interested in public administration.