Decentralisation: unshared vision and political contestation in the City of Harare, Zimbabwe

Masvaure, Steven

doi:10.1080/2158379x.2018.1477375

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“…The urban Councils Act obliges councils to advertise notices for participation. Masvaure (2016: 154) states that under Circular 3 of 2012, the Ministry of Local Government requires that all local councils hold consultations among the residents prior to their crafting and development of the budgets. Furthermore, in Section 288 of the Urban Councils Act (Chapter 29:15) and Section 121 of the Rural District Councils Act (Chapter 29:13), it is required that the local government authority’s Finance Committee shall draw up budget estimates of the income and expenditure (Marango et al, 2018).…”

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Factors Affecting Citizen Participation in Local Development Planning in Murewa District, Zimbabwe

Nyama

Mukwada

2022

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Local governments are the bedrock for sound public administration because of their role in promoting bottom-up socio-economic development. Although Zimbabwe has made strides in ensuring citizens’ participation in local government processes, local authorities and other stakeholders still rely on the top-down approaches, marginalising the needs of the local citizens. The purpose of this paper is to determine the factors that affect the active participation of citizens in local governance in the Murewa District in Zimbabwe. Based on a multistage sampling approach, involving purposive sampling and stratified random sampling, interviews were conducted with 30 local government officials, while a questionnaire survey was administered to 396 citizens in four wards within the district. Complementary data were collected through focus group discussions and field observations. Thematic analysis was employed on data generated from interviews, focus group discussions and field observations, while the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (Version 16) was used to analyse quantitative data from the questionnaire survey. The results show that more than 50% of the residents in the district felt that local government leadership side lined them in development planning. Some citizens reported that officials used development planning meetings to further their political agendas. The study recommends enhancement of citizen participation through citizen empowerment programmes such as educational and political leadership training programmes that transform the marginalised communities into autonomous communities that are capable of determining their own destiny.

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Factors Affecting Citizen Participation in Local Development Planning in Murewa District, Zimbabwe

Nyama

Mukwada

2022

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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“…Such events shape how external sources of evidence view parliament and also shape how they relate to parliament when it comes to evidence use and generation. In some cases, the parliamentary oversight role is curtailed in situations where the executive is too powerful or in cases where the executive and the parliament are controlled by the same political party (Masvaure, 2018).…”

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A Systems Thinking Perspective on Evidence Use in Parliaments

Masvaure¹,

Kiwekete²,

Engel³

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African Parliaments Volume 1: Evidence Systems for Governance and Development

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“…The executive dominates through the executive presidency and parliament's subservience to the executive continues barring the minor outcries of dissent from opposition political parties (Rotberg, 2014). The history and current practices have also shown that citizens' voices and agency in Zimbabwe are muted through legal and illegal provisions which limit their participation in parliamentary affairs (Masvaure, 2018). As will be shown in the subsequent sections of this chapter, critical gaps exist in the parliamentary institutional arrangements and governance and these gaps limit its power to scrutinise and hold the executive arm accountable and/or to make laws.…”

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