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Title: Cover, publication data, content, errata
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa

Title: Book review : Modernising hunger by Philip Raikes
Creator: Salole, Gerry
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Philip Raikes. Modernising hunger. London: Catholic Institute for International Relations in collaboration with James Curry, 1988

Title: Social development issues
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Advertisement for the journal Social development issues

Title: Book review : Rural communities under stress by Jonathan Barker
Creator: MacGarry, Brian
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Jonathan Barker. Rural communities under stress. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Title: Participatory development : the taxation of the beneficiary?
Creator: Salole, Gerry
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Development practitioners and analysts have become deeply committed to the concept of beneficiary 'participation'. The notion has become synonymous with 'good' development and has become a minimal requisite for donors, but it is increasingly being confused with the notion of beneficiary 'ownership' of a project. Unfortunately much of what passes for 'participation' tends to be perfunctory attendance at inconvenient meetings or physical labour, often sustained only by coaxing or cajoling, or a...
Show moreDevelopment practitioners and analysts have become deeply committed to the concept of beneficiary 'participation'. The notion has become synonymous with 'good' development and has become a minimal requisite for donors, but it is increasingly being confused with the notion of beneficiary 'ownership' of a project. Unfortunately much of what passes for 'participation' tends to be perfunctory attendance at inconvenient meetings or physical labour, often sustained only by coaxing or cajoling, or a vague hint of extortion: the 'taxation' of the beneficiary. The article argues that participation must be distinguished from 'ownership' and that there is need for a truer 'partnership' between development specialists and beneficiaries. The benefits of genuine participation are, in fact, the true 'ownership' of a project by the beneficiaries, which can be achieved by a more perceptive choice of projects coupled with an honest 'selling' of some of the development worker's intentions.
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Title: Achieving self-reliance in food production in Nigeria : maximising the contribution of rural women
Creator: Okojie, Christiana E. E.
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Development policies in Nigeria have emphasised industrialisation leading to the neglect of agriculture. The oil boom of the 1970s worsened the neglect of the agricultural sector, while the oil glut of the 1980s made it mandatory to revamp the economy. The Structural Adjustment Programme was therefore adopted in 1986, and included a package to revamp the agricultural sector as an integral part of the programme. One of the objectives of the agricultural sector is the achievement of...
Show moreDevelopment policies in Nigeria have emphasised industrialisation leading to the neglect of agriculture. The oil boom of the 1970s worsened the neglect of the agricultural sector, while the oil glut of the 1980s made it mandatory to revamp the economy. The Structural Adjustment Programme was therefore adopted in 1986, and included a package to revamp the agricultural sector as an integral part of the programme. One of the objectives of the agricultural sector is the achievement of selfreliance in food production to eliminate food imports. The paper argues that if the objective of selfreliance in food production is to be achieved, rural women who produce and process a substantial part of Nigeria's food crops must become a target group for agricultural policies. They face constraints such as lack of or limited access to education, land, agricultural extension services, agricultural inputs, credit and appropriate technology. Policies b eradicate these constraints should be become an integral part of agricultural development programmes in Nigeria.
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Title: The health problems of the elderly living in institutions and homes in Zimbabwe
Creator: Nyanguru, A. C. (Andrew Chad)
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: This paper is based on a study that showed that European women and African men have more health problems than African women, European men and Coloureds of both sexes. Generally, European women were older than any other group. As a proportion of the population under study, Africans, particularly African women, are under represented. The number, nature and effects of health problems were studied. The major areas studied were mobility, ability to negotiate stairs, and handicaps, particularly...
Show moreThis paper is based on a study that showed that European women and African men have more health problems than African women, European men and Coloureds of both sexes. Generally, European women were older than any other group. As a proportion of the population under study, Africans, particularly African women, are under represented. The number, nature and effects of health problems were studied. The major areas studied were mobility, ability to negotiate stairs, and handicaps, particularly deafness and blindness. African males tended to report more ill health and handicaps at an earlier age than other groups. The residents' assessment of their own health tended to be positively over reported, particularly by European womenas could be expected from studies from other parts of the world. Europeans had better access to good medical facilities. Africans had a greater anxiety about death and dying because they were aware that they were not going to be afforded culturally appropriate burials. The policy implications of the findings are also briefly discussed.
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Title: Book review : War and refugees, the Western Sahara conflict
Creator: Mindel, M. N.
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Richard Lawless and Laila Monahan (eds.). War and refugees, the Western Sahara conflict. London: Frances Pinter, 1987

Title: Book review : The politics of reconciliation by Victor De Waal
Creator: Jackson, Helen (UNFPA Country Technical Advisor)
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Victor De Waal. The politics of reconciliation. Cape Town: David Philip, 1990

Title: Economic Policy, Equity and Health Network
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Advertisement for the Africa Network on Economic Policy, Equity and Health

Title: Book review : Trends in world social development by Richard J. Estes
Creator: Mohan, Brij, 1939-
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Richard J. Estes. Trends in world social development. New York: Praeger, 1988

Title: Company policy on AIDS in Zimbabwe
Creator: Jackson, Helen (UNFPA Country Technical Advisor)
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: This paper examines current and potential AIDS policy, and its orientation, at the workplace in Zimbabwe, and looks at the degree of concern that commercial companies have about AIDS. All 94 companies studied expressed some concern about AIDS, but only one third had developed a specific AIDS policy, and two thirds had begun AIDS education programmes. Major concerns expressed by the companies included the recruitment of skilled labour; rising insurance, health and pension costs; loss of time...
Show moreThis paper examines current and potential AIDS policy, and its orientation, at the workplace in Zimbabwe, and looks at the degree of concern that commercial companies have about AIDS. All 94 companies studied expressed some concern about AIDS, but only one third had developed a specific AIDS policy, and two thirds had begun AIDS education programmes. Major concerns expressed by the companies included the recruitment of skilled labour; rising insurance, health and pension costs; loss of time and productivity; and lowered morale. Twenty two per cent of them had some form of HIV screening in place, and 41% thought preemployment screening was justified. The paper notes current educational initiatives and makes recommendations for supportive and coordinated policy development.
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Title: Social policy and administration
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Advertisement for the journal Social policy and administration

Title: Sociological Abstracts, Inc.
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Advertisement for Sociological abstracts (SA) and Social planning/policy & development abstracts (SOPODA)

Title: Book review : Social security policies in industrial countries by Margaret S. Gordon
Creator: Kaseke, Edwin
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Margaret S. Gordon. Social security policies in industrial countries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988

Title: Book review : Triple jeopardy
Creator: Jackson, Helen (UNFPA Country Technical Advisor)
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Triple jeopardy. London: Panos Institute, 1990

Title: Editorial
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa

Title: The development of training strategies for community organisers in South Africa : an overview of the process
Creator: O'Neil, Margaret Anne
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: This paper describes the development of a training programme for people with no formal training in community work. A programme which would equip them for work in troubled townships and 'homelands' in South Africa. An attempt was made to develop a programme particularly relevant to the needs of South Africa, with emphasis on personal growth and participation, and on a problem posing and problem management approach. Details of some of the actual techniques and strategies used are given, with...
Show moreThis paper describes the development of a training programme for people with no formal training in community work. A programme which would equip them for work in troubled townships and 'homelands' in South Africa. An attempt was made to develop a programme particularly relevant to the needs of South Africa, with emphasis on personal growth and participation, and on a problem posing and problem management approach. Details of some of the actual techniques and strategies used are given, with explanations of the underlying assumptions made by the training designers. The paper ends with a summary of the learning gained from the experience of developing the training programme.
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Title: Advertisements, index to Journal of social development in Africa vol. 5 (1990) and 6 (1991), notes for contributors
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa

Title: Book review : Miracle or menace? by Robert Walgate
Creator: Wilson, John (Of Fambidzanai Training Centre)
Date: 1991
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa
Description: Review of: Robert Walgate. Miracle or menace? London: Panos Institute, 1990

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