Sustainable Community Development Programmes and Rural Poverty Eradication in the Eastern Cape: The case study of Buffalo Municipality.

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dc.contributor.authorMuleya, Emmison
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-31T06:11:49Z
dc.date.available2016-08-31T06:11:49Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractCommunity development programmes as livelihoods strategies have been central to rural poverty eradication, development thinking and practice in the past decade. But where do such perspectives come from, what are their conceptual roots, and what influences have shaped the way they have emerged? This study offers a historical review of key moments in debates about sustainable community development programmes and rural poverty reduction, identifying the tensions, ambiguities and challenges of such approaches. A number of core challenges are identified in this study, centred on the need to inject a more thorough-going analysis into the centre of livelihoods perspectives. The study was done as a first step to identify, at a local level, evidence of the contribution of such programmes designated to tackle poverty in rural areas in Buffalo Municipality and to establish the challenges faced in providing sustainable livelihood outcomes. This will enhance the capacity of livelihoods perspectives to address key gaps in recent discussions, including questions of knowledge, politics, scale and dynamics. It is of utmost importance to note that funds per see cannot bring the rural poor out of their situation, rather as the study posits, continued support, empowering locals with ongoing training on marketing and how to run business, a culture of savings as well as the development of participatory monitoring and evaluation mechanisms can bring about reduction in poverty through sustainable community development programmes and eventually leading to eradication.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11837/410
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Fort Hareen_ZA
dc.titleSustainable Community Development Programmes and Rural Poverty Eradication in the Eastern Cape: The case study of Buffalo Municipality.en_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA

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