2012-05-03Idasa publishes its first Democracy Index for Botswana: ‘Unfinished Business: democracy in Namibia.' It provides an important analysis of the status of Namibia’s democracy based on ...

2012-05-03In an interview with SABC's Interface program of 15 April Idasa Executive Director Paul Graham speaks of the challenges to political leadership in South Africa. ...

2012-05-02Idasa publishes its first Democracy Index for Botswana: ‘A Fine Balance: Assessing the Quality of Governance in Botswana’. It provides an important analysis of the ...

2012-04-20Idasa's Sito project looks at what is happening in Madagascar as the country moves towards inevitbale elections. As a member of SADC, Madagascar was a signatory to ...

2012-03-29The Afrobarometer survey conducted in South Africa towards the end of 2011 provides interesting insights into the charachteristics of protests and protestors in South Africa. ...

2011-04-05By: Sithembile Mbete and Judith February WHILE Parliament has many failings, its committees have always been open to the public. Yet it is easy to ...

2011-03-15Idasa’s Right to Know, Right to Education and Community and Citizens’ Empowerment Programmes have produced this toolkit, which provides basic steps for communities to fully ...

2011-02-24This user-friendly manual is aimed at organisers and facilitators working in and with small-scale farmers’ associations in central, west and southern Africa. Download the full ...

2012-05-03Idasa's Sito project looks at what is happening in Zimbabwe as the country moves towards inevitbale elections. As a member of SADC, Zimbabwe was a ...

2012-04-16Idasa's Sito project looks at what is happening in Zimbabwe as the country moves towards inevitbale elections.   As a member of SADC, Zimbabwe was ...

2012-04-10Idasa issues a statement raising concerns about the continued rebellion in the North of the country and declaring its optimism about the African led drive ...

2012-03-29Idasa's Sito project looks at what is happening in Zimbabwe as the country moves towards inevitbale elections. As a member of SADC, Zimbabwe was a ...

2012-04-17Idasa would like to invite participants from Civil Society organisations in South Africa to a course on Economic Policy Literacy. The course will be held ...

2012-03-29The Afrobarometer survey conducted in South Africa towards the end of 2011 provides interesting insights into the charachteristics of protests and protestors in South Africa. ...

2010-10-25Idasa’s Public Expenditure and Smallholder Agriculture project, which is part of the Economic Governance Programme, held a workshop at Idasa’s Pretoria office in April 2010 ...

2010-09-17Stories from the field by Meleney Tembo Always expect the unexpected when you are working in rural areas - and doesn’t under-estimate the difficult conditions ...

2012-04-17Idasa would like to invite participants from Civil Society organisations in South Africa to a course on Economic Policy Literacy. The course will be held ...

2012-04-12Please find attached Idasa's latest Activity Alert on a GAP and UNESCO collaboration which focussed on enabling journalism educators to support comprehensive governance responses to ...

2012-04-04Idasa's Right to Know, Right to Education project publishes a toolkit for best practicies in school governance. To see the practical toolkit please follow the ...

2012-02-28Idasa's Right to Know, Right to Education Project publishes a Toolkit for School Budgeting and Budgeting Processes.

2012-05-03Idasa's Sito project looks at what is happening in Zimbabwe as the country moves towards inevitbale elections. As a member of SADC, Zimbabwe was a ...

2012-04-20Idasa's Sito project looks at what is happening in Madagascar as the country moves towards inevitbale elections. As a member of SADC, Madagascar was a signatory to ...

2012-04-16Idasa's Sito project looks at what is happening in Zimbabwe as the country moves towards inevitbale elections.   As a member of SADC, Zimbabwe was ...

2012-03-29Idasa's Sito project looks at what is happening in Zimbabwe as the country moves towards inevitbale elections. As a member of SADC, Zimbabwe was a ...

2011-01-21Letter Compiled by the Southern African Faith Communities'Environement Institute (SAFCEI) to the Department of Energy SAFCEI would like to provide some comment on the proposed ...

2010-10-20Electricity regulators in the rapidly growing emerging economies of India, South Africa, Brazil and Mexico face similar challenges. Clean energy options are supporting their efforts ...

2012-04-10Idasa releases a statement to convey its condolences on the passing of the late President wa Mutarika and congratulates Malawi with its swift transition to ...

2011-11-23Idasa’s Economic Governance Programme reports on its September 2011 training workshops.

2011-08-23THE Land Bank's commitment to spend about R1 billion on emerging farmers over the next two years could unlock agriculture's long-term potential growth, the Institute ...

2011-03-17Idasa’s Agriculture project within our Economic Governance Programme has develop a toolkit that provides basic steps on how to mobilise a community – to put ...

2010-05-07People often say that relationships between men and women are too difficult to understand! Gender is one way of trying to understand them better. Gender ...

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2008-03-03Women and men experience and respond to peace, conflict and post-conflict situations in different ways. SSR that fully integrates gender issues is a crucial element ...

2007-08-30Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Council contracted Idasa to provide a specialised capacity building programme based on Gender Mainstreaming. The training programme sought to develop a common and ...

2012-05-14The purpose of the 2012 South African Budget Guide and Dictionary is to provide an accurate description of the South African budget system so as ...

2012-05-03Idasa publishes its first Democracy Index for Botswana: ‘Unfinished Business: democracy in Namibia.' It provides an important analysis of the status of Namibia’s democracy based on ...

2012-05-02Idasa publishes its first Democracy Index for Botswana: ‘A Fine Balance: Assessing the Quality of Governance in Botswana’. It provides an important analysis of the ...

2012-04-17Idasa would like to invite participants from Civil Society organisations in South Africa to a course on Economic Policy Literacy. The course will be held ...

2012-04-12Please find attached Idasa's latest Activity Alert on a GAP and UNESCO collaboration which focussed on enabling journalism educators to support comprehensive governance responses to ...

2010-10-06The AIDS Budget Unit (ABU) of Idasa’s Governance and AIDS Programme (GAP), in partnership with The Eastern Africa National Networks of AIDS Service Organisations (EANNASO), ...

2010-09-02Idasa’s Governance and AIDS Programme (Idasa-GAP), in partnership with UNESCO, held a workshop in Cape Town Sept. 2-3 to assist teachers of journalism to revise ...

2010-07-21Here are the presentations made by Idasa staff at the international AIDS conference in Vienna on 18 July. Governance and AIDS Programme (GAP) director Kondwani ...

2012-04-10Idasa issues a statement raising concerns about the continued rebellion in the North of the country and declaring its optimism about the African led drive ...

2010-07-12Idasa deplores the bombing of people gathered to watch the football world cup in Uganda and extends its condolences to the families of those who ...

2008-11-24The final report of the National Poverty Hearings (held in different parts of the country in August and September), entitled "The People Have Spoken: Where ...

2009-06-05By Shameela Seedat Discuss this on our blog here. When the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) meets later this year to consider who will replace four ...

2008-07-24By Shameela Seedat When the Constitutional Court was formed in 1994, it was celebrated not only as an important player in the creation of shared ...

2007-07-20By Shameela Seedat and Judith February News of a potential conflict of interest involving Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe and the Oasis Group first ...

2006-10-26By Shameela Seedat ON THE surface, the recent public debate over the judiciary appears to pit two opposing interpretations against each other: the first, that ...

2012-05-03Idasa publishes its first Democracy Index for Botswana: ‘Unfinished Business: democracy in Namibia.' It provides an important analysis of the status of Namibia’s democracy based on ...

2012-05-03In an interview with SABC's Interface program of 15 April Idasa Executive Director Paul Graham speaks of the challenges to political leadership in South Africa. ...

2012-02-28Idasa's Right to Know, Right to Education Project publishes a Toolkit for School Budgeting and Budgeting Processes.

2012-02-01Idasa’s Economic Governance Programme (EGP) has examined South Africa’s Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) in the light of calls to amend it but finds that ...

2011-03-14Idasa's Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) has been approached by the South African Department of Home Affairs for assistance in the process of rethinking that ...

2009-07-27Idasa’s SAMP was in Bangkok in early June for a meeting that brought together people from major regional consultative processes on Migration throughout the world ...

2009-06-27Idasa’s SAMP co-hosted a workshop on “Promoting Health and Development: Migration Health in Southern Africa” in June in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania with the International ...

2007-09-10Kate Lefko-Everett Last week, Minister of Home Affairs Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nkaqula was reported as having acknowledged the need for new strategies to cope with the numbers ...

2011-02-28Idasa’s submission to February’s National Climate Change Response Green Paper, on behalf of the Electricity Governance Initiative of South Africa (EGI-SA) which it co-ordinates, points ...

2005-08-17This article appeared in the Business Day on the 17th August 2005. The dust has almost managed to settle after the report by the Public ...

2005-06-28Idasa attended two events dealing with transparency in extractive industries in the region of the Gulf of Guinea. Both events were organised by the Congolese ...

2004-11-13Budget Learning Initiative between Intermon Oxfam and Idasa November 2004 N'Djamena, Chad With the construction of the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline project and associated petroleum developments, ...

2010-06-08There are many problems and challenges in the world today, including in South Africa, such as poverty, unemployment and meeting basic human rights such as ...

2009-02-19By: Yvette Geyer Local government is the coalface of service delivery. It is important for community-based organisations (CBOs) to understand how local government works. There ...

2005-06-07This is the participant's manual used in Idasa's Advocacy Training.  It includes participative work in how to run campaigns, lobby decision makers and use advocacy tools ...

2004-10-25This is a copy of Idasa's Training Manual on How Local Government Works, for attendees at our Training Course.

2012-03-29The Afrobarometer survey conducted in South Africa towards the end of 2011 provides interesting insights into the charachteristics of protests and protestors in South Africa. ...

2012-02-28Idasa's Right to Know, Right to Education Project publishes a Toolkit for School Budgeting and Budgeting Processes.

2008-08-13Participatory budgeting is a decision-making process through which citizens deliberate and negotiate over the distribution of public resources. Participatory budgeting programs are implemented at behest ...

2006-07-18Most government budgets present a range of large figures. Because programmes, departments and municipalities differ in size, one cannot compare the amounts with one another ...

2012-05-14The purpose of the 2012 South African Budget Guide and Dictionary is to provide an accurate description of the South African budget system so as ...

2012-04-04Idasa's Right to Know, Right to Education project publishes a toolkit for best practicies in school governance. To see the practical toolkit please follow the ...

2012-02-28Idasa's Right to Know, Right to Education Project publishes a Toolkit for School Budgeting and Budgeting Processes.

2010-07-21African democracy institute Idasa warns that the proposed Protection of Information Bill, up for debate in parliament, may weaken the existing transparency framework which protects ...

2012-04-10Idasa issues a statement raising concerns about the continued rebellion in the North of the country and declaring its optimism about the African led drive ...

2012-04-10Idasa releases a statement to convey its condolences on the passing of the late President wa Mutarika and congratulates Malawi with its swift transition to ...

2012-03-29The Afrobarometer survey conducted in South Africa towards the end of 2011 provides interesting insights into the charachteristics of protests and protestors in South Africa. ...

2012-03-26Idasa releases a statement condemning the military coup in Mali and calling for the return to office of democratic leadership.

2012-05-14The purpose of the 2012 South African Budget Guide and Dictionary is to provide an accurate description of the South African budget system so as ...

2012-05-03In an interview with SABC's Interface program of 15 April Idasa Executive Director Paul Graham speaks of the challenges to political leadership in South Africa. ...

2012-03-29The Afrobarometer survey conducted in South Africa towards the end of 2011 provides interesting insights into the charachteristics of protests and protestors in South Africa. ...

2010-02-25Idasa's project on citizen report cards is underway in South Africa. Field workers from Mpumalanga and the North West have recently been trained and have ...

2012-05-02Idasa publishes its first Democracy Index for Botswana: ‘A Fine Balance: Assessing the Quality of Governance in Botswana’. It provides an important analysis of the ...

2012-04-23Idasa launches its Democracy Index for Namibia and Botswana on 25 and 26 April 2012. The Namibia launch will be held on the 25th in ...

2012-04-04Idasa's Right to Know, Right to Education project publishes a toolkit for best practicies in school governance. To see the practical toolkit please follow the ...

2006-10-18By: Yvette Geyer The purpose of this notebook is to give you an overview the various processes to put integrated development planning (IDP) in place ...