Community facilities in previously disadvantaged areas of South Africa

Denoon-Stevens, Stuart Paul; Ramaila, Emma

doi:10.1080/0376835x.2018.1456906

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“…Their study performed a general review on CbFM and identified five areas in which FM had the potential to make contributions in a community-based setting, namely, service management, social inclusion, strategic development and environmental and economic sustainability. Denoon-Stevens and Ramaila (2018) focused on community facilities in a township in South Africa, by concentrating on sporting, educational, cultural and recreational amenities. The study found that social enterprise benefits from the amenities included fostering social ties, learning and empowerment, safety, security and health.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Organizing a community social enterprise requires persistence, leadership, culture, careful planning, knowledge of formal procedures and mostly financial resources (von der Weppen and Cochrane, 2012). To function properly, a consideration of the challenges to the success of service provision is needed, including how to continue providing these services once funders discontinue funding of initiatives for managing services after provision (Denoon-Stevens and Ramaila, 2018).…”

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A scoping review of community-based facilities management for public services through social enterprises in developing communities

Adewunmi,

Nelson,

Chigbu

et al. 2023

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Purpose This study aims to ascertain the forms of social enterprises created for public services and the dimensions of community-based management of public facilities. It seeks to understand how community-based facilities management (CbFM) can apply to the management of public services created by social enterprises in developing communities. Design/methodology/approach The study examines research studies on CbFM through a scoping review of papers published between 1997 and 2022. Findings The scoping review revealed that there are five dimensions of CbFM for developing communities: CbFM, urban facilities management, sustainable CbFM, urban infrastructure management and management of community hubs. It also revealed that social enterprises have been used to manage services, and for social inclusion, and to increase the efficiency of tangible infrastructure in communities. Research limitations/implications The scoping review included literature from 1997 to 2022 to understand the development trends in CbFM in developing communities. It is possible that literature from a broader timeframe could have produced more in-depth understanding of the subject investigated. Practical implications The paper articulates a framework of CbFM models for public services in developing communities and developed a database of the relevant studies, which can further guide future researchers, stakeholders and policymakers in this area. Originality/value The comprehensive review produced a framework for community management of public services. It also identified that there is a paucity of literature on social infrastructure. It highlighted the need for skillsets to support community-based enterprises. There are limited studies that touch on the development of performance indicators for developing communities.

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A scoping review of community-based facilities management for public services through social enterprises in developing communities

Adewunmi,

Nelson,

Chigbu

et al. 2023

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“…This approach recognizes the invaluable insights and contributions of stakeholders, particularly end-users and communities, in optimizing facility performance, including security measures. Denoon-Stevens and Ramaila (2018) emphasize the positive impact of participatory planning in CbFM, resulting in cost-effective solutions, enhanced user satisfaction and an overall improvement in S&S, particularly in previously disadvantaged areas.…”

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Assessing the influence of technological innovations and community-based facilities management on the safety and security of universities. A case study of an open campus

Moghayedi,

Michell,

Le Jeune

et al. 2024

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Purpose Safety and security (S&S) are critical concerns in South Africa, especially in Cape Town, one of the country’s most crime-ridden cities. The University of Cape Town (UCT), situated on a large, open campus, has experienced increased malefaction. Facilities management (FM) services at universities bear the primary responsibility for providing S&S to their communities. To comprehensively understand and address the community’s demands regarding S&S, the current study was conducted to investigate the challenges specific to open universities. This study aims to determine whether implementing community-based FM (CbFM) principles and using technological innovations could offer a more effective and sustainable solution. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted interpretivist overarching case study methodology, which is ontologically based. A mixed-method approach was used to incorporate the strengths and limitations of the weaknesses of both methods. The data collection took the form of an online survey of the university community and semi-structured interviews with university executive management to obtain data from the single case study of UCT. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the quantitative data, and thematic analysis was used to identify emergent themes from the qualitative data. Findings The study presents an overall view of the provision of S&S at UCT, the unique challenges faced by management and the main S&S issues affecting the community. Moreover, the study reveals that UCT has implemented community participation processes in the past with limited success. This is because the strategies implemented constitute a narrow perspective of community participation. Therefore, a much smarter and more inclusive perspective using technological innovation is required for successful community participation to occur and to be successfully used in providing S&S toward achieving future-proofing facilities. Originality/value This research has demonstrated the influence of CbFM and innovative technologies on the S&S of the open campus. Hence, future-proof facilities can be achieved when FM actively engages university communities in managing campuses through technological innovation.

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“…Here the scarcity of public open space and social infrastructure can be understood as a direct legacy of apartheid planning and as a means to control the gathering potential of non-white groups during the time (City of Tshwane, 2005). In the post-apartheid period, the housing shortfall in townships has seen a focus on subsidised state housing; the resultant limited focus on non-housing services has led to a lack of maintenance or development of public open spaces and recreation facilities (McConnachie & Shackleton, 2010;Denoon-Stevens & Ramaila, 2018). Where state or NGO-developed social infrastructures have been implemented they often stand as monofunctional giants following the established segregated grain of the region, disconnected from community dynamics.…”

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Connecting cities across infrastructural divides

Devenish

2022

ESSD

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This paper investigates opportunities to connect divided cities by analysing ways in which occupation practices operate alongside, subvert and potentially transform historic, and presently developing urban infrastructure divisions in Tshwane’s eastern urban region. Through a critical theory lens existing and perpetuating conditions of infrastructural segregation are examined in order to understand scenarios through which built environments, as assemblages, maintain conditions of extreme inequality and power. In this respect, urban spatial research projects, analysing formal and informal settlement patterns are presented. The projects form part of an architecture design lead research studio that focuses on discovering alternative scenarios for urban environments by examining existing infrastructure barriers, and unpacking methods for the transformation of segregative systemic forms. Extracts of the projects are presented as case studies with a focus on areas around Mamelodi east and Moreleta Park in rapidly growing parts of Tshwane. These projects demonstrate conditions through which urban divisions of scarcity are established and constructed along infrastructure development zones in the region. They also raise key spatial questions pertaining to inequality and the role of capital investment in its perpetuation. The second part of the project involves socio-spatial methods of mapping self-build situations occurring alongside hard infrastructure zones in the region. The studies focus on the composition of building fabrics that actively attempt to circumvent issues of scarcity and unequal access to material and social infrastructures. Through the establishment of physical interfaces, people form modes of operation despite extreme resource limitations. The project aims to identify alternative ways of reading territorialised urban infrastructure assemblages by examining critical zones of urban occupation. While the examples expose many of the volatile situations that the urban majority experience on a perpetual basis, the primary aim is to reveal - from the everyday – urban spatial emergence and methods of coding and mapping these emergences towards an adaptive, reparative and transformative approach to divided cities.

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Community facilities in previously disadvantaged areas of South Africa

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

A scoping review of community-based facilities management for public services through social enterprises in developing communities

A scoping review of community-based facilities management for public services through social enterprises in developing communities

Assessing the influence of technological innovations and community-based facilities management on the safety and security of universities. A case study of an open campus

Connecting cities across infrastructural divides

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