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Democracy in Africa Research Unit
Director: Prof Robert Mattes
The Democracy in Africa Research Unit strengthens empirical social science research capacity in Africa by supporting and conducting systematic research on key factors that shape the survival and quality of democracy in South Africa and the rest of the continent. DARU's activities are focused in four broad research areas: public opinion, voting and elections, political Institutions, and the political Consequences of HIV/AIDS. Read more about DARU
ALP Lesotho Research Associates meet in Maseru
ALP Research Associates in MaseruIn October 2009, ALP Lesotho Research Associates met for a five-day ALP Induction and Orientation workshop led by Tim Hughes (ALP Lesotho co-Manager) and Kimberly Smiddy (ALP Senior Research Associate) at the Black Swan Lodge in Maseru, Lesotho. Thabo Mosoeunyane, Setsabi Setsabi, Seroala Tsoeu and Maseqobela Mohale are conducting ALP research in Lesotho with Prof. Sejanamane serving as an advisor. During the ALP workshop, the Lesotho Research Associates discussed their parliament's new committee system and the growing importance of parliament in democratic governance in Lesotho.
Protecting a nation? State transformations and the governance of disaster risks in South Africa since 1994
Lydie Cabane
Room 4.29, Leslie Social Science Building
Lydie Cabane is a PhD student at the Centre for the Sociology of Organisations Sciences Po, Paris
- Refreshments will be served
Political Participation, Race and Resources in Brazil and South Africa: Evidence from Belo Horizonte and Cape Town
Natália Salgado Bueno
Room 4.29 Leslie Social Science Building
- Refreshments will be served
African Legislatures Project website launched
The website for the African Legislatures Project (ALP), co-managed by DARU, has been launched. The purpose of ALP is both simple and grand—to learn everything important there is to know about how African legislatures function. As such, ALP is an exercise that straddles the realms of academic research and practice – in this case, research into the operations of the legislature and what its findings suggest for African parliaments, organisations working in legislative and democratic reform and supportive donor agencies. If you wish to learn more about ALP, visit the new project website.
The impact of Formal Education on Democratic Citizenship Across Continents
Dangalira Mughogho, DARU
Room 4.29 Leslie Social Science Building. Refreshments will be served.
The Future of Democratisationin Sub-Sahara Africa
Prof Robert Mattes
Room 4.29 Leslie Social Science Building
DARU celebrates Africa Day
The Centre for Social Science Research/Democracy in Africa Research Unit (DARU) stand was strategically located facing the entrance to the Robert Leslie Social Sciences Building. The benefit of such good visibility only became apparent as the attention of the few passersby was at a premium: the usual student traffic in and out of Robert Leslie had slowed to a trickle as lectures had ended and students were preparing for examinations.
Large posters illustrated the work done in the three areas of DARU research on the continent. Research findings from the African Legislatures Project, the Afrobarometer and the Aids and Governance Research Project and a large selection of working papers were available for visitors to look at and take away.
Holding Governments Accountable for their Response to AIDS: The AAI Country Scorecard
Per Strand, DARU
Rm 4.29, Leslie Social Science Building
CSSR launches new project with workshop on political leadership in the AIDS response
On 18-20 May the CSSR hosted a workshop on political leadership in response to HIV/AIDS in collaboration with the Swedish/Norwegian HIV/AIDS Team and the UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa (RST-ESA). The workshop was attended by practitioners and researchers from around the region who have an interest in developing political leadership on HIV/AIDS.
The workshop was convened to help shape a research agenda for a new project called What Makes Political Champions on AIDS? The project, a collaboration between the CSSR, the Swedish/Norwegian HIV/AIDS Team and RST-ESA, seeks to analyse which factors determine effective political leadership on HIV prevention in the countries of the ESA region.
UCT Workshop on Political Leadership and HIV/AIDS
Mobilising Elites for HIV Prevention
2008 Annual Report released
The Centre for Social Science Research's annual report for 2008 has been released. It, and earlier reports, can be downloaded on the Annual Reports page.
It includes the annual reports for each of the research units within the CSSR.
