Thesis (MPA.) --University of Limpopo, 2011 / The research report seeks to investigate and analyse the performance of the Vhembe FET College as compared to the national objectives for Human Resources Management and the formulation of a meaningful policy and practice of effective human resources development practice Design/methodology/approach:The research report is based on an in-depth literature of review of human resources development (HRD) and primary sources data.Primary data generated from self-completeing questionaire and interview schedule tools covering small distinct group of fifty employees selected from three campuses and the central office of Vhembe FET College.Findings:Amongst others,it was found that Vhembe FET College indeed has human capacity challenges which manifest by at least four major issues.These pertain to the level of the personnel's awareness and knowledge about the college's human resources development function,selection of personnel for human resources training courses,the relevance of the HRD training courses to the nature of specific job performance,and the quality of post-training support system.Pratical implications:Addressing the human resource capacity challenges has enormous strategic and financial resource implications for policy makers in transition and developing economies,due to their over-reliance on external donors for funding.:Originality/value:The research report provides an answer to the need to develop processes which is linked to a national strategy of training college lectures and ensuring that there is a coherent framework of lecturere development.Of much value is that the results were from the perspective of the selected employees whose day-to-day inputs are critical for efficiency and effectiveness of college management and planning.

This thesis presents a new perspective on the study of past farm success and failure; it builds on the concepts of resilience and vulnerability to construct a theoretical framework which integrates environmental, historical and ethnographical data. The basic framework establishes that the resilience or vulnerability of a social-ecological system is a function of three factors: i) the exposure of the system to external (environmental) stresses, ii) the sensitivity of the system to these stresses and iii) the ability of the human component of the system to respond to them. The research focused on the component of human capacity of response (the sum of coping and adaptive capacity) within this framework. The temporal scale of the study was the 18th century, although reference is made to earlier periods for comparison. The location of the study area was Mývatnssveit, a livestock-based farming community in northern Iceland, while the spatial scale of the study is that of individual farms in the area. The results showed that successful farms had a higher capacity of response than failed farms, and that this was conferred by a greater availability and quality of resources, including human resources, natural resources and productive resources (those directly involved in agriculture). Human resources were assessed by records of number of servants per farm and by evidence of learning/knowledge transfer obtained via micromorphological analyses of home-field soils. Natural resources considered to be of particular importance were fish and eggs. Indicators of productive resources included tax value, land rent, livestock numbers and phosphorus content in home-fields. The latter revealed that the soil condition pre-settlement was linked to its post-settlement quality. An analysis of present day perceptions of historical farm abandonment in the area corresponds with the conclusions reached through the data integration in placing the human factor above the environmental one in influencing success and failure. The thesis concludes by highlighting the individuality of the study farms and the historical resilience of the livestock-based farming system. Additionally, areas of potential for future research are identified.

CAVALCANTE, Valberg Barbosa. Avaliação dos limites e restrições do fundo estadual de combate à pobreza do estado do Ceará – FECOP, um caso particular. 2013. 93f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Avaliação de Políticas Públicas, Fortaleza (CE), 2013. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-10-02T17:31:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-DIS-VBCAVALCANTE.pdf: 825527 bytes, checksum: f34e607381f288f1626c8021658f4e1e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-10-02T17:33:14Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-DIS-VBCAVALCANTE.pdf: 825527 bytes, checksum: f34e607381f288f1626c8021658f4e1e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-10-02T17:33:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-DIS-VBCAVALCANTE.pdf: 825527 bytes, checksum: f34e607381f288f1626c8021658f4e1e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / The design of the proposed study to be described is a theme related to the Fund to Combat Poverty in the State of Ceará – FECOP, which was established by complementary Law No. 37, dated November 26, 2003 and regulated by State Decree 27379, which seeks to support the actions of public policies in overcoming poverty in the State of Ceará, in two-pronged in the structural change and the processes of compensatory policies, that involve all actions of state departments of Ceará in fighting poverty, and the proposed project seeks to put as problematic if this public policy is really reducing poverty in the State of Ceará, and what is its nature of operations in the period from 2004 to 2010, set against the backdrop Neo-Liberal and globalization of financial capitalism, as constituent elements of the expanded reproduction of poverty so widespread throughout developing countries, within an unfair inclusion of capitalist globalization. The main objective of this study is to evaluate, analyze critically and reflectively the implementation, concepts, principles and achievements of FECOP, regarding the behavior of the indices related to extreme poverty and poverty in the aforementioned period, in a differently and more comprehensive than the dominant explanatory variable used and focused only on insufficient income. / Este é um tema relacionado ao Fundo de Combate à Pobreza do Estado do Ceará – FECOP, instituído pela Lei Complementar nº 37, de 26 de novembro de 2003, regulamentado pelo Decreto Estadual nº 27.379, que busca dar suporte para as ações de políticas públicas na superação da pobreza no Estado do Ceará, em duas vertentes na mudança estrutural e nos processos de políticas compensatórias, que envolvem todas as ações das secretarias estaduais do Ceará no combate à pobreza, e o projeto proposto busca situar como problemática se está política pública esta realmente reduzindo a pobreza no Estado cearense, e qual a sua natureza de atuação, no período de 2004 a 2010, no contexto do quadro neoliberal e da mundialização do capitalismo financeiro, como elementos constitutivos da reprodução ampliada da pobreza, de forma generalizada em todos os países em desenvolvimento, dentro de uma inclusão injusta da globalização capitalista. O objetivo principal deste estudo é avaliar, bem como examinar e reflexivamente a implementação, as concepções, os princípios e os resultados alcançados do FECOP, com relação ao comportamento dos índices referentes à pobreza extrema e da pobreza, no período há pouco mencionado, de maneira diferenciada e mais abrangente do que a variável explicativa dominante utilizada e focada apenas na insuficiência de renda.

Secretaria do Planejamento e GestÃo / RESUMO Este à um tema relacionado ao Fundo de Combate à Pobreza do Estado do Cearà â FECOP, instituÃdo pela Lei Complementar n 37, de 26 de novembro de 2003, regulamentado pelo Decreto Estadual n 27.379, que busca dar suporte para as aÃÃes de polÃticas pÃblicas na superaÃÃo da pobreza no Estado do CearÃ, em duas vertentes na mudanÃa estrutural e nos processos de polÃticas compensatÃrias, que envolvem todas as aÃÃes das secretarias estaduais do Cearà no combate à pobreza, e o projeto proposto busca situar como problemÃtica se està polÃtica pÃblica esta realmente reduzindo a pobreza no Estado cearense, e qual a sua natureza de atuaÃÃo, no perÃodo de 2004 a 2010, no contexto do quadro neoliberal e da mundializaÃÃo do capitalismo financeiro, como elementos constitutivos da reproduÃÃo ampliada da pobreza, de forma generalizada em todos os paÃses em desenvolvimento, dentro de uma inclusÃo injusta da globalizaÃÃo capitalista. O objetivo principal deste estudo à avaliar, bem como examinar e reflexivamente a implementaÃÃo, as concepÃÃes, os princÃpios e os resultados alcanÃados do FECOP, com relaÃÃo ao comportamento dos Ãndices referentes à pobreza extrema e da pobreza, no perÃodo hà pouco mencionado, de maneira diferenciada e mais abrangente do que a variÃvel explicativa dominante utilizada e focada apenas na insuficiÃncia de renda. / ABSTRACT The design of the proposed study to be described is a theme related to the Fund to Combat Poverty in the State of Cearà â FECOP, which was established by complementary Law No. 37, dated November 26, 2003 and regulated by State Decree 27379, which seeks to support the actions of public policies in overcoming poverty in the State of CearÃ, in two-pronged in the structural change and the processes of compensatory policies, that involve all actions of state departments of Cearà in fighting poverty, and the proposed project seeks to put as problematic if this public policy is really reducing poverty in the State of CearÃ, and what is its nature of operations in the period from 2004 to 2010, set against the backdrop Neo-Liberal and globalization of financial capitalism, as constituent elements of the expanded reproduction of poverty so widespread throughout developing countries, within an unfair inclusion of capitalist globalization. The main objective of this study is to evaluate, analyze critically and reflectively the implementation, concepts, principles and achievements of FECOP, regarding the behavior of the indices related to extreme poverty and poverty in the aforementioned period, in a differently and more comprehensive than the dominant explanatory variable used and focused only on insufficient income.

Many poor households in South Africa rely on social grants for their survival, forcing the government to spend on the programme, to the detriment of other socioeconomic programmes necessary for poverty alleviation and economy growth. This study investigated the impact of the South African social assistance policies and programmes on the human capacity development of beneficiaries, especially households affected by HIV/AIDS, residing in informal settlements. Following a qualitative approach, exploratory and case study techniques were used to collect and analyse data. In-depth interviews and observations at research sites uncovered rich data elucidated by social capital theory and the capability approach. The thesis commenced with social assistance as implemented in OECD and BRICS countries, including South Africa. The notion of human capacity development, as linked to social assistance, poverty alleviation and economic growth, was presented. Conditional social programmes directed at human capacity development via educational assistance were contrasted with universal social assistance systems. Findings revealed that South Africa, despite its low level of economic growth, has a welldeveloped, selective social assistance system. Social grants assist beneficiaries to meet urgent needs, such as food and transport to hospital and for job seeking. It is insufficient to meet other basic needs, including capacity development. There is a shortage of educational facilities and training programmes in poor communities, which sometimes exclude adult men and youth without Grade 12. There is no guarantee of a job or business opportunities for graduates from skills development centres. Many who have completed their training are placed in entry-level jobs that earn salaries below the social grant exit requirements. Recommendations to increase the array of social grant instruments and to introduce conditional grants for vulnerable adults were made. In particular, the provision of scholarships to needy youths and adults was recommended, augmented by more educational facilities in poor communities, more training programmes, and the establishment of structures that will provide decent job placement and business opportunities for graduates. Urgent provision of decent housing for the poor and improvements in public health infrastructure, roads, water and electricity, in order to facilitate the human development of needy people is further needed. / Development Studies / Ph. D. (Development Studies)