Magister Philosophiae - MPhil (LAS) (Land and Agrarian Studies) / Government's decision to devolve irrigation management to farmers was partly influenced by international policy imperatives, which were propounded mainly by institutions associated with the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the inability by the government to continue funding operation and maintenance costs. The central question of the study is to understand the effects of Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) on productivity, operation and maintenance in the Mamina Irrigation Scheme. Interviews with various primary and secondary stakeholders that included the irrigators, local political leadership and locally-based agriculture extension officers were carried out. The interviews were aimed at getting an insight on land tenure, participation and representation of women, water and electricity supply system and pricing, effects of irrigation management arrangements on equity and productivity, understanding the irrigators' food security status, operation and maintenance arrangement after Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT). Findings of this study suggest that the existing governance arrangements have partly led to low crop productivity, increased water and electricity bill arrears, poor water distribution, change to uneconomic plot sizes, unsustainable increase in the number of irrigators, failure to organise for operation and maintenance. The key factors influencing the poor performance include poor collaboration, pumping system that utilised more electricity, inability of the irrigators to replace leaky pipes, failure of the irrigators to contribute towards electricity and water bills, failure of the irrigators to contribute towards operation and maintenance. The study identified nine challenges that affected the success of IMT. The challenges that lay at the heart of Mamina irrigation scheme were mainly caused by the poor irrigation technology design, pricing structure of electricity, water permit system, inequalities in water distribution, low gender participation and representation, non-availability of formal markets for certain crops, food insecurity, plot alloction and land disputes. Poverty analysis has shown that the irrigators' ability to escape from poverty or food insecurity is critically dependent upon their access to assets. Different assets are required to achieve different livelihood outcomes. The cycle of accumulation of utility bill arrears continued even after devolution because the same defective irrigation infrastructure was transferred to the irrigators. In the case of Mamina irrigation scheme, modernisation of the scheme was required to achieve different livelihood outcomes, but because this did not happen the recurrent utility bill arrears, low productivity and food insecurity continued to be a very serious challenge even after IMT.

nÃo hà / Considerando a importÃncia da eficÃcia na gestÃo do OrÃamento PÃblico, objetivou-se verificar o perfil da execuÃÃo orÃamentÃria nas diversas secretarias do governo do Estado do Cearà entre 2008 e 2011, com o intuito de subsidiar os gestores pÃblicos em seu processo de tomada de decisÃo. Dados dos sistemas corporativos da Controladoria e Ouvidoria Geral do Estado, compreendendo os valores autorizados em Lei OrÃamentÃria e empenhados, foram combinados a modelos economÃtricos com dados em painel e quatro diferentes tÃcnicas de estimaÃÃo, para investigar o que se definiu como eficÃcia da execuÃÃo orÃamentÃria de um ÃrgÃo de governo. Os resultados das estimaÃÃes permitem inferir com elevado grau de robustez que: i) a expertise do ÃrgÃo na gestÃo dos recursos determina positivamente a eficÃcia nos exercÃcios subsequentes; ii) o nÃmero de constataÃÃes de auditoria à um obstÃculo à eficÃcia na execuÃÃo dos recursos e iii) a participaÃÃo dos convÃnios nÃo contribui com a elevaÃÃo da eficÃcia na gestÃo dos recursos autorizados Ãs secretarias. Em conjunto, os resultados sugerem que a transferÃncia de tecnologia entre os ÃrgÃos de governo se mostra como a principal estratÃgia a ser seguida pelos gestores pÃblicos estaduais. / Considering the importance of effectiveness management of the public budget, aimed to verify the profile of budget execution in the various departments of the Cearà State Government between 2008 and 2011, in order to subsidize public managers in their decision making process. Data from enterprise systems of the General Comptroller and Ombudsman of Cearà State, including amounts authorized and committed in Budget Law, were combined a econometric models with panel data and four different estimation techniques to investigate what was defined as efficient of budget execution at an organ of government. The estimation results allow us to infer with a high degree of robustness: i) the expertise of the Board in the management of resources positively determines the efficient in subsequent years, ii) the number of audit findings is an obstacle to the efficient enforcement resources and iii) the covenants participation does not contribute to increase the efficient in the management of resources committed to the departments. Together, the results suggest that technology transfer between government bodies shown as the main strategy to be followed by state public managers.

Thesis (MPA.) -- University of Limpopo, 2005 / Refer to the document

Thesis (MPA.) -- University of Limpopo, 2014 / The South African Schools Act (SASA), 1996 (Act No. 84 of 1996) mandates the establishment of School Governing Bodies (SGBs), whose important roles include the management of school funds. This role includes planning, reviewing, controlling and approving the school budget in accordance with the school's needs. The SGB is ultimately required to account to the Department of Education (DoE), parents and the community for the public funds they manage. However, schools fail to execute this legal mandate effectively and efficiently. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods were employed to complement each other in an attempt to investigate the problems experienced by school governing bodies in executing their financial management functions. Questionnaires, focus group interviews and document reviews were used to gather data. It emerged from the findings of the study that school governors in Mogoshi Circuit are also facing serious financial management problems. Financial management and financial accountability - the sine qua none of effective and efficient management of school finances, pose a challenge. The study found, for example, that the majority of governors in rural areas are elderly people, who are mostly either illiterate or semi-illiterate and lack the capacity to execute their governance roles efficiently and effectively. A once-off or hit and run unaccredited training, which is often provided to the elected SGB members, is relatively not helpful. This inhibits financial accountability. To this end, the study proposed substantial recommendations, which, if implemented, could bring a resolve to the problems and challenges posed.

This research was aimed at investigating the management of teacher attrition in Sekgosese East Circuit. Teacher attrition is an on-going problem experienced by various countries, including South Africa. Although teacher attrition was always part of the departmental policy of age retirement, schools suffer as a result of it. In this study, ‘attrition’ refers to the number of teachers leaving the profession due to resignation, retirement, death, medical incapacity and retrenchment for operational reasons. Teacher attrition is regarded as a voluntary, involuntary and a continuous phenomenon. The current study focused on answering questions based on the nature of teacher attrition, the causes of attrition, the effects of attrition on learners, staying teachers and management, how attrition was managed by principals as well as the statutory bodies that may be involved in retaining teachers. The study used the qualitative method to investigate the management of teacher attrition in schools. The qualitative method was selected because it deals with participants in their natural setting, which was exactly what was done in this study. Both convenient and snowball sampling were used to sample six principals in the area under study. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from the participants in their natural setting. The interviews were recorded and later transcribed, analysed and categorised into themes. The findings revealed that teacher attrition in Sekgosese East Circuit occurs in the form of death, retirement and resignation. Teachers resign due to a number of reasons. It was found that resignation occurred as a result of the low salaries they are paid, loans which accumulated into more debts and because teachers seek greener pastures. The findings revealed that attrition was detrimental to learners’ performance. In schools that were affected by teacher attrition, learners spent three to four months without a teacher due to the slow pace of the Department of Education in replacing teachers. Principals revealed that they liaise with the Department of Education for replacement of teachers. Principals also revealed that attrition is not good for them as school managers. They rely on sourcing teachers from elsewhere and overloading remaining teachers who even have to teach those subjects in which they did not specialise. The recommendation was that the Department of Education speed up the replacement of teachers by introducing on-line application for resignation or retirement so that the two processes may run concurrently. / Educational Management and Leadership / M. Ed. (Education Management)

地方自制為民主憲政的基礎，由於民主政治並非一蹴可幾，而是漸進、累 積的結果，地方自治正提供了一個參與與學習的機會。無論是個人民主素 養之培養或國家社會民主化之推動均有賴於地方自治。晚近，復鑑於環保 ，都市、教育及消費者方面爆發嚴重問題，非中央所能獨自解決，更顯示 出地方自治之重要性。我國地方自治深富憲政性，憲法第十章「中央與地 方之權限」及第十一章「地方制度」之規定即係對地方自治之設計。民國 三十六年憲法頒行後，我國地方自治本應依憲法規定實施，唯不久政府即 播遷台灣，國家處於非常時期，所以現行台灣地區地方自治之實施多係以 行政命令為基礎，與憲法規定不符；地方自治法制化的問題事實上自民國 三十九年台灣地區開始實施地方自治起即已存在。隨著時間的遞移，人民 自由權利伸張，對民主層次之要求也日益提高。加以解嚴後，我國社會、 政治、經濟變化極大，地方自治法制化之呼聲遂與時俱增。在這時代的轉 捩點上，地方自治法制化的方向實關係國家政治、社會未來的發展。本研 究乃首先釐清地方自治的意義、探討其特質及功能，繼而介紹我國地方自 治制度發展的沿革，以建立對歷史脈胳的瞭解，接著討論地方自治法制化 問題存在的原因及背景及其所引發的其它相關問題，試圖找出關鍵所在， 進一步對各方所提法制化的途徑（包括政府所採行之方案）予以歸納、整 理分析、評估，並提出作者之建議，冀能為健全地方自治發展奠立良好的 法制基礎，使我國在改革中能轉型成功，為民主政治立下萬年根基。

This dissertation is a study of a relatively new teacher function in nurse education, a teacher function that can be called clinical teacher, link lecturer, link teacher or lecturer involved in practice. The study departs from a constructivist perspective and the aim is to study the introduction, performance and regulation of this teacher function. The material consists of internationally and nationally published research 1978-2009, reports from the authorities, job ads for clinical teachers, job descriptions and contracts, archive material, evaluation studies, professional journals, texts on the Internet and 15 interviews with clinical teachers in Sweden. Using discourse analysis this material is studied in terms of interpretive repertoires, subject positions and ideological dilemmas. The primary focus of this dissertation concerns what problems the new teacher function is supposed to solve, how the problem should be solved, the effects of the chosen solutions and what´s staged, challenged and reproduced. Secondly, this dissertation highlights what categories of teachers are required and in demand for the new teacher function, how the teachers themselves manage their function and how the teacher function is maintained and challenged. The analysis identifies and highlights current interpretive repertoire, teachers possible subject positions and ideological dilemmas and how they are governed and challenged in the teaching function.

Uppsatsen behandlar styrningsverktyg i arbetet mot ett ekologiskt hållbart samhälle, av kommuner nyttjade styrmedel och de boendes uppfattning av dessa. Fokus ligger på de boendes respons på miljömål i uppbyggnaden av den ekologiska stadsdelen Hammarby Sjöstad i Stockholm. Med hjälp av kvalitativ metod och djupintervjuer med 14 boende studeras de styrmedel som används för att påverka och förändra de boendes miljöbeteende, de boendes inställning till dessa samt vilka drivkrafter som finns bland de boende för att agera miljövänligt. De aktuella styrmedlen; regleringar, ekonomiska styrmedel och informativa styrmedel presenteras med hjälp av citat från intervjuerna och redovisas utifrån strukturell, positionell samt individuell nivå. Dessutom redovisas meso-kontextens påverkan samt individens egna drivkrafter för miljöbeteende. Teorier som tas upp och relateras till det empirirska materialet är makt, governmentality samt relevant urban- och miljöforskning. I resultatet framkommer exempelvis att de boende efterfrågar inbyggda lösningar för ett miljövänligare samhälle. I diskussionen resoneras bland annat kring den krock som kan finnas mellan de olika diskurserna; miljövänlighet och senmodernitet.

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