This thesis attempted to examine the enabling conditions of existing South African water law and its implementation by the appropriate authorities. The Cape Town Municipality's management over water supply and services is included in this study. The research attempted to expose any shortcomings that might be prevalent in the new water law. The water allocation mechanism of the transformed water legislation and the water demands within various competing water user sectors of the community, such as those pertaining to agriculture and industry, was also explored.

Esta dissertação tem por objetivo identificar de que modo e sob que circunstâncias os conselhos municipais de habitação afetam a política pública setorial. Essa questão se insere dentro de uma agenda de pesquisa sobre a efetividade das Instituições Participativas no Brasil (IP). A literatura que tratou sobre os efeitos das IPs foi dividida em três momentos, sendo que no terceiro se apresenta o problema de identificar os efeitos que as IPs causam na política pública. Para encontrar respostas sem incorrer em causalidades remotas foi delimitado a investigação entre o output dos conselhos as decisões e o outcome efeitos na política pública. Também se optou por analisar um único tipo de IP, a mais presente no país, conselhos gestores de políticas públicas. Uma vez que a literatura informa haver tipos de conselhos, o recorte empírico ainda delimitou a pesquisa ao tipo de conselho de média presença territorial e indução federal recente. Mais especificamente, optou-se por analisar conselhos municipais de um único setor de política pública: habitação. Os conselhos municipais de habitação surgiram na década de 1990, mas se difundiram a partir de 2005 com a criação do Sistema Nacional de Habitação de Interesse Social (SNHIS). Entretanto, a partir de literatura específica, identificou-se possíveis interferências à efetividade desses conselhos. Interferências de instituições políticas, como o programa federal Minha Casa, Minha Vida (PMCMV); de outras IPs municipais, como o Orçamento Participativo; do sistema político-partidário e; das burocracias, tornaram-se hipóteses para testar a produção de outputs e o alcance de outcomes pelos conselhos. Os dados das decisões dos conselhos, publicados em diários oficiais dos municípios, mostraram baixa produção decisória. Contudo, o número de decisões aumentou ao longo dos sete anos da série analisada e se verifica que o principal tipo de decisão desses conselhos incide sobre a política pública. Por conseguinte, foi possível selecionar algumas dessas decisões e analisar os processos que levariam à sua implementação. Com isso, identificou-se os mecanismos que ligam as decisões dos conselhos municipais de habitação a seus efeitos na política pública. Foram encontrados três mecanismos que operam para uma decisão afetar a política pública, são eles: a concordância jurídico-orçamentária em decisões que envolvem recursos; a discricionariedade local atribuída pelo governo central e; a gestão de problemas por parte da burocracia. Assim, a composição harmônica desses mecanismos possibilita compreender de que modo e sob que circunstâncias os conselhos municipais de habitação afetam a política pública. / This dissertation aims to identify how and when the municipal housing councils affect public policy. This matter fits in a research agenda on the effectiveness of Participatory Institutions in Brazil (PI). The literature that dealt with effects of PIs was divided into three different moments. The third one presents the problem of identifying the effects that PIs cause in public policy. In order to find answers to this problem without incurring hysteresis, this dissertation delimited study the process between the outputs of councils the decisions and its outcomes effects on public policy. In addition, it was decided to analyze a single type of PI: councils of public policies the most widespread in Brazil. Furthermore, the literature reports different kinds of councils. Then, it was necessary to delimit the kind of councils with average territorial presence and recent federal induction. More specifically, it was chosen to analyze municipal councils of a single public policy sector: housing. Municipal housing councils emerged in the 1990s. But they have spread since 2005 because of creation of National System of Social Interest Housing (SNHIS). However, the literature has identified potential interference in the effectiveness of councils. Such as, interference of political institutions (as federal program Minha Casa, Minha Vida), other local PIs (as Participatory Budgeting), the political party system and the bureaucracy. Those interferences have become hypotheses to test the production of outputs by councils and the achievement of outcomes. Data set of councils decisions made of decisions published in the official gazettes of the municipalities has showed low number of decisions. Nevertheless, the number of decisions has increased over the seven years of the time series. Moreover, it revealed that the main type of decision produced by councils aims to affect the public policy. Consequently, it was possible to select some of these decisions and analyze the processes that would lead to implementation. Thus, it enabled the identification of mechanisms linking decisions of municipal housing councils to its effects on the public policy. Three mechanisms were found, they are: the legal and budgetary agreement on decisions involving resources, local discretionary power granted by the central government and management skills of the bureaucracy. Therefore, the harmonic composition of these mechanisms allow understand how and under what circumstances the municipal housing councils affect public policy.

Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1992.

This thesis attempted to examine the enabling conditions of existing South African water law and its implementation by the appropriate authorities. The Cape Town Municipality's management over water supply and services is included in this study. The research attempted to expose any shortcomings that might be prevalent in the new water law. The water allocation mechanism of the transformed water legislation and the water demands within various competing water user sectors of the community, such as those pertaining to agriculture and industry, was also explored.

Esta dissertação tem por objetivo identificar de que modo e sob que circunstâncias os conselhos municipais de habitação afetam a política pública setorial. Essa questão se insere dentro de uma agenda de pesquisa sobre a efetividade das Instituições Participativas no Brasil (IP). A literatura que tratou sobre os efeitos das IPs foi dividida em três momentos, sendo que no terceiro se apresenta o problema de identificar os efeitos que as IPs causam na política pública. Para encontrar respostas sem incorrer em causalidades remotas foi delimitado a investigação entre o output dos conselhos as decisões e o outcome efeitos na política pública. Também se optou por analisar um único tipo de IP, a mais presente no país, conselhos gestores de políticas públicas. Uma vez que a literatura informa haver tipos de conselhos, o recorte empírico ainda delimitou a pesquisa ao tipo de conselho de média presença territorial e indução federal recente. Mais especificamente, optou-se por analisar conselhos municipais de um único setor de política pública: habitação. Os conselhos municipais de habitação surgiram na década de 1990, mas se difundiram a partir de 2005 com a criação do Sistema Nacional de Habitação de Interesse Social (SNHIS). Entretanto, a partir de literatura específica, identificou-se possíveis interferências à efetividade desses conselhos. Interferências de instituições políticas, como o programa federal Minha Casa, Minha Vida (PMCMV); de outras IPs municipais, como o Orçamento Participativo; do sistema político-partidário e; das burocracias, tornaram-se hipóteses para testar a produção de outputs e o alcance de outcomes pelos conselhos. Os dados das decisões dos conselhos, publicados em diários oficiais dos municípios, mostraram baixa produção decisória. Contudo, o número de decisões aumentou ao longo dos sete anos da série analisada e se verifica que o principal tipo de decisão desses conselhos incide sobre a política pública. Por conseguinte, foi possível selecionar algumas dessas decisões e analisar os processos que levariam à sua implementação. Com isso, identificou-se os mecanismos que ligam as decisões dos conselhos municipais de habitação a seus efeitos na política pública. Foram encontrados três mecanismos que operam para uma decisão afetar a política pública, são eles: a concordância jurídico-orçamentária em decisões que envolvem recursos; a discricionariedade local atribuída pelo governo central e; a gestão de problemas por parte da burocracia. Assim, a composição harmônica desses mecanismos possibilita compreender de que modo e sob que circunstâncias os conselhos municipais de habitação afetam a política pública. / This dissertation aims to identify how and when the municipal housing councils affect public policy. This matter fits in a research agenda on the effectiveness of Participatory Institutions in Brazil (PI). The literature that dealt with effects of PIs was divided into three different moments. The third one presents the problem of identifying the effects that PIs cause in public policy. In order to find answers to this problem without incurring hysteresis, this dissertation delimited study the process between the outputs of councils the decisions and its outcomes effects on public policy. In addition, it was decided to analyze a single type of PI: councils of public policies the most widespread in Brazil. Furthermore, the literature reports different kinds of councils. Then, it was necessary to delimit the kind of councils with average territorial presence and recent federal induction. More specifically, it was chosen to analyze municipal councils of a single public policy sector: housing. Municipal housing councils emerged in the 1990s. But they have spread since 2005 because of creation of National System of Social Interest Housing (SNHIS). However, the literature has identified potential interference in the effectiveness of councils. Such as, interference of political institutions (as federal program Minha Casa, Minha Vida), other local PIs (as Participatory Budgeting), the political party system and the bureaucracy. Those interferences have become hypotheses to test the production of outputs by councils and the achievement of outcomes. Data set of councils decisions made of decisions published in the official gazettes of the municipalities has showed low number of decisions. Nevertheless, the number of decisions has increased over the seven years of the time series. Moreover, it revealed that the main type of decision produced by councils aims to affect the public policy. Consequently, it was possible to select some of these decisions and analyze the processes that would lead to implementation. Thus, it enabled the identification of mechanisms linking decisions of municipal housing councils to its effects on the public policy. Three mechanisms were found, they are: the legal and budgetary agreement on decisions involving resources, local discretionary power granted by the central government and management skills of the bureaucracy. Therefore, the harmonic composition of these mechanisms allow understand how and under what circumstances the municipal housing councils affect public policy.

Orientador : Nilson Antonio Modesto Arraes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Agricola / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-03T23:26:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Demantova_GraziellaCristina_M.pdf: 8048916 bytes, checksum: f0f28e40822c256dc8efe40d232943cd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 / Resumo: O processo de descentralização (de atribuições e responsabilidades do governo federal para outras esferas de governo) ocorreu no Brasil simultaneamente com a luta pela democratização, cujos objetivos eram a ampliação da participação popular na gestão pública e da cidadania no país. Por esse motivo, muitos autores e atores envolvidos acreditaram que descentralização era sinônimo de democratização e acabaram associando a eficácia dos Conselhos Gestores de Políticas Públicas às finalidades contidas no projeto de democratização do país. Ou seja, atribuíram o fracasso ou o sucesso dos Conselhos Gestores sob o ponto de vista do cumprimento da missão que estes espaços deveriam exercer dentro do projeto de democratização do país, e não sob o ponto de vista do cumprimento dos objetivos priorizados pelos conselheiros, confundindo, assim, eficácia com efetividade. Este equívoco fez com que muitos autores tivessem suas expectativas frustradas, pois a missão, a finalidade definida pelo projeto democrático para os conselhos gestores não foi alcançada na grande maioria dos casos e por esse motivo atribuíram à eles uma baixa eficácia, quando na verdade tratava-se de uma baixa efetividade (com pouca ou nenhuma transformação da realidade na qual o conselho atual). Quando se pretende analisar a eficácia de uma organização é preciso ter conhecimento dos objetivos que ela tem a perseguir e dos resultados que foram alcançados à luz desses objetivos. Para a análise da eficácia do Conselho Municipal de Desenvolvimento Rural (CMDR) de Campinas os objetivos identificados e analisados não são os que foram definidos pelos movimentos sociais envolvidos na luta pela democratização, e nem pela equipe política que elaborou os programas de descentralização do Estado nas diferentes áreas de políticas públicas (o que seria necessário caso a efetividade das ações do CMDR estivesse sendo analisada), mas sim pelos conselheiros que fazem parte da composição do Conselho na gestão estudada. Sob esta perspectiva, a presente dissertação de mestrado busca avaliar a eficácia do Conselho Municipal de Desenvolvimento Rural de Campinas (CMDR), baseada não em expectativas externas, mas nas metas internas pretendidas. Neste sentido a eficácia é avaliada em relação aos resultados alcançados frente aos objetivos perseguidos pela organização em questão. Para atingir o objetivo proposto para este trabalho, além da revisão bibliográfica, foram aplicados 2 questionários aos conselheiros integrantes do CMDR com o objetivo de identificar quais os recursos humanos (qualificação, parceiros, perfil dos conselheiros, composição e papel que desempenham no CMDR), financeiros (existências de recursos para a realização de trabalhos, contratação de assessorias externas e realização de cursos e seminários) e materiais (infra-estrutura adequada) disponíveis e de que maneira eles são utilizados para a realização dos objetivos, e se os objetivos priorizados na atual gestão foram alcançados. Tendo em vista a análise dos dados obtidos, que refletem a percepção dos conselheiros, pode-se dizer que a atual gestão do Conselho Municipal de Desenvolvimento Rural de Campinas obteve um bom resultado no alcance dos objetivos priorizados. Entre os 4 objetivos priorizados, informalmente, pelos conselheiros, 1 foi plenamente alcançado: Municipalizar a Casa da Agricultura, 2 foram parcialmente alcançados: Implantação do programa Estadual de Microbacias e Melhoria das Estradas Rurais e somente 1 deles estava em fase de implantação: Melhoria da Segurança na área rural do Município / Abstract: The process of descentralization of attributions and responsibilities of the federal Administration to the other spheres of the govemment occurred in Brazil in concomitance with the struggle for democratization, whose objectives were to magnify popular participation in public affairs and in the citizenship of the country. For this reason, many authors and social actors involved in this process had believed that the decentralization was a synonymous of democratization, associating the efficiency of the Managing Council of Public Politics with the ideals of the country's democratization project. In other words, they had attributed the failure or the success of the Managing Council to the fulfilment of their mission in the country's democratization project, and not to the fulfilment of the objectives prioritized by the council members, confusing, thus, effectiveness with efficiency. This mistak.e led the authors to frustrated expectations, because the mission, the purpose defined by the democratic project for the managing Council was not reached in the great majority of the cases. Therefore, they were atributed a low a effeciency, when in the truth it was a low effectiveness (with little or no transfonnation of the reality in which the Council set its works). When one intends to analize the effectiveness of an organization, it is necessary to know the objectives that it has aimed and the results reached, considering theses objectives. On this analizis of the effeciency of the City Council of Rural Development (CMDR) of Campinas, the objectives identified were the ones that had been defined by the council members who formed the board in the studied administration, and not by the social movementes involved in the struggle for democratization or the political groups that had elaborated the state's descentalization policies among its different areas. These objectives would be nedded for an effectivenes analizys, and not for an efficiency study. Under this perspective, the purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the effeciency of the CMDR, based not in expectations. In this sense, the effeciency is evaluated in relation to the results reached considering the objectives pursued by the administration in study. To accomplish the goal of this work, besides the bibliographical revision, 2 questionnaires were made to the council members of the CMDR, with the means to identify which human resources (qualification, partners, profile of the council members, composition and paper that they play in the CMDR), financial resources (existences of resources for the accomplishment of works, act of contract of external assessorships and accomplishment of courses and seminaries) and materials (adequate infrastructure) were available, how they were used to reach the objectives, and if its priorities in the current management have been reached. On the analysis of the gathered data, wich reflected the perception of the council members, it can be said that the current management of the City Council of Agricultural Development of Campinas achieved a good resuIt in its quest for the prioritized objectives. Among four of these, informally, in the conception of the council members, one was fully reached: to tum municipal the House of Agriculture. Two were partially reached: the implantation of the State program of Microbacias and Melhoria of Agricultural Roads. Only one of them remained in its implantation phase: the improvement of the Security in the agricultural area of the City / Mestrado / Planejamento e Desenvolvimento Rural Sustentável / Mestre em Engenharia Agrícola

Thesis (MTech (Human Resource Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011 / This study explored perceptions of twenty managers at the City of Cape Town Municipality regarding the challenges facing talent management. A detailed study of the literature was conducted on variables that are relevant in talent management in organisations. These variables included definitions of talent management, pay satisfaction, job satisfaction, organisational commitment, tenure, motivation, employee engagement, turnover and intention to turnover. This study adopted a qualitative research method as it was found from the literature that managers often prefer face-to-face interviews instead of questionnaires. An interview guide was developed for the twenty managers that were internally chosen by the City of Cape Town management. Data collected from the interviews was subjected to content analysis method with different themes emerging. The results revealed that the City of Cape Town is well on course in implementing talent management with it’s approximately 25 000 employees. The study revealed a plethora of challenges facing talent management at the City of Cape Town. One huge challenge facing this municipality is its size, which makes implementation of a talent management system difficult to implement at the City of Cape Town. The findings support the assumption developed for this study that poor talent management practices in the public sector lead to ever increasing staff turnover rates. The findings of this study contribute to both theory and practice. Theoretically the study contributes to the literature, as it is the first empirical study to use managers in a local government municipality to explore challenges surrounding talent management. Furthermore, local government managers can use the findings of this research to design strategies and policies to enhance talent management in local government municipalities, and subsequently ensure talent retention.

This dissertation analyzes Fort Worth's Mexican community from 1960 to 2000 while considering the idea of citizenship through representation in education and politics. After establishing an introductory chapter that places the research in context with traditional Chicano scholarship while utilizing prominent ideas and theories that exist within Modern Imperial studies, the ensuing chapter looks into the rise of Fort Worth's Mexican population over the last four decades of the twentieth century. Thereafter, this work brings the attention to Mexican education in Fort Worth beginning in the 1960s and going through the end of the twentieth century. This research shows some of the struggles Mexicans encountered as they sought increased representation in the classroom, on the school board, and within other areas of the Fort Worth Independent School District. Meanwhile, Mexicans were in direct competition with African Americans who also sought increased representation while simultaneously pushing for more aggressive integration efforts against the wishes of Mexican leadership. Subsequently, this research moves the attention to political power in Fort Worth, primarily focusing on the Fort Worth city council. Again, this dissertation begins in the 1960s after the Fort Worth opened the election of the mayor to the people of Fort Worth. No Mexican was ever elected to city council prior to the rise of single-member districts despite several efforts by various community leaders. Chapter V thus culminates with the rise of single-member districts in 1977 which transitions the research to chapter VI when Mexicans were finally successful in garnering political representation on the city council. Finally, Chapter VII concludes the twentieth century beginning with the rapid rise and fall of an organization called Hispanic 2000, an organization that sought increased Mexican representation but soon fell apart because of differences of opinion. In concluding the research, the final chapter provides an evaluation of the lack of Mexican representation both in Fort Worth education and in the political realm. Furthermore, the finishing chapter places Fort Worth's Mexican situation within the context of both Chicano history as well as identify some key aspects of the history of modern empire. This investigation poses pertinent questions regarding the lack of Mexican representation while African Americans end the century well-represented on the school board, in education jobs, and on the city council.

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-09-24T15:30:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ANDREWS RAFAEL BRUNO DE ARAÚJO CUNHA - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCS 2013..pdf: 8396455 bytes, checksum: b4db179a99a189853b1525a62a854217 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-24T15:30:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ANDREWS RAFAEL BRUNO DE ARAÚJO CUNHA - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCS 2013..pdf: 8396455 bytes, checksum: b4db179a99a189853b1525a62a854217 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-19 / Durante décadas, no Brasil, foram buscadas estratégias de promoção da participação social nas decisões sociais, políticas e económicas do país. Após anos de um regime autoritário, diversas manifestações da sociedade civil organizada levaram à criação de espaços de debate integrado, onde Estado e sociedade pudessem discutir, conjuntamente, estratégias de desenvolvimento em busca do melhoramento da qualidade de vida da população. Após a Constituição de 1988, estes espaços, chamados de Conselhos, foram criados e difundidos nas mais diversas áreas, tais como saúde, assistência social, educação etc. Para o debate integrado relacionado às condições de vida e produção da população rural do país, foram criados os Conselhos Federal, Estaduais e Municipais de Desenvolvimento Rural Sustentável, os quais foram amplamente difundidos após o Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar - PRONAF. Nesta perspectiva, o objetivo do presente estudo foi analisar o Conselho Municipal de Desenvolvimento Rural Sustentável de Petrolina, Pernambuco, a partir de suas ações para o desenvolvimento local e integrado da população rural do município. Para tanto, nos utilizamos dos debates de Sen, Putnam, Abramovay, Franco e Beduschi Filho sobre desenvolvimento como liberdade, capital social, desenvolvimento local integrado e aprendizagem social, respectivamente, para fundamentar a visão de desenvolvimento aqui assumida. A partir, então, da inversão da lógica capital-economicista atualmente vigente, a qual coloca em foco o desenvolvimento econômico em detrimento do desenvolvimento social, cultural e político, consideramos, a partir dos dados obtidos e observações realizadas, que o CMDRS de Petrolina tem sido uma importante ferramenta para o desenvolvimento da área rural do município, promovendo a participação, o controle e a aprendizagem social e a melhoria da qualidade de vida da população desta área / For decades, strategies to promote social participation in social, economic and policy decisions were pursued in Brazil. After years of an authoritarian regime, various manifestations of civil society led to the creation of spaces for integrated debate, where state and society could discuss, jointly, developing strategies in pursuit of improving the population's quality of life. After the 1988 Constitution, these spaces, called Councils, were created and disseminated in several áreas, such as health, social care, education etc. For the integrated discussion related to the living conditions and production of the rural population in the country, Federal, State and Municipal Councils of Sustainable Rural Development were created and widely disseminated after the National Program for Strengthening Family Agriculture - PRONAF. From this perspective, the objective of this study was to analyze the City Council for Sustainable Rural Development in Petrolina, Pernambuco, through their actions for local and integrated development of rural population of the city. To do so, we used the debates of Sen, Putnam, Abramovay, Franco and Beduschi Filho on development as freedom, social capital, integrated local development and social learning, respectively, to support the development view assumed here. From the inversion of the capital-economicist logic currently in effect, which shifts the focus to economic development at the expense of social, cultural and politicai developments, consider, from the data obtained and observations conducted, the CMDRS Petrolina has been an important tool for the development of the city's rural area, promoting participation, control and social learning and improving the population's quality of life of this area.