item: #1 of 40 id: jolgri-101 author: None title: jolgri-101 date: None words: 7190 flesch: 34 summary: With regard to the second factor (implementation of municipal credit management policy), this factor consisted of four items with an eigenvalue of (1.875) and a percentage of variance explained of 18.747%. The items contained in this factor assist the researcher to determine the implementation of municipal credit management policy. keywords: accounts; addition; affordability; africa; analysis; article; best; billing; case; collection; credit management; customer; data; debt; delivery; department; descriptive; development; different; district; district municipality; economic; effectiveness; eigenvalue; enwereji; factor; fees; financial; findings; government; impact; implementation; income; infrastructure; items; journal; local; local government; management policy; measure; money; municipal; municipal credit; municipal services; municipalities; municipality; national; non; number; participants; payment; percentage; policies; policy; poor; population; potential; pretoria; printer; property; public; quality; questions; rates; relationship; republic; research; residents; responsiveness; results; revenue; rsa; section; sedibeng; service; service delivery; social; south; south africa; study; system; table; taxes; test; treasury; university; use; vaal; variables; variance; water cache: jolgri-101.htm plain text: jolgri-101.txt item: #2 of 40 id: jolgri-110 author: Office, Editorial title: Acknowledgement to reviewers date: 2022-12-15 words: 461 flesch: 32 summary: It is good practice as a reviewer to update your personal details regularly to ensure contact with you throughout your professional term as reviewer to the Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation. Page 1 of 1 Reviewer Acknowledgement https://jolgri.org Open Access Acknowledgement to reviewers In an effort to facilitate the selection of appropriate peer reviewers for the Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation, we ask that you take a moment to update your electronic portfolio on https://jolgri.org for our files, allowing us better access to your areas of interest and expertise, in order to match reviewers with submitted manuscripts. keywords: access; acknowledgement; details; government; https://jolgri.org; innovation; journal; local; order; peer; publication; research; reviewer; user; website cache: jolgri-110.pdf plain text: jolgri-110.txt item: #3 of 40 id: jolgri-122 author: None title: jolgri-122 date: None words: 250 flesch: 27 summary: Note: DOI of original article published: https://doi.org/10.4102/jolgri.v3i0.83. Correction Corrigendum: Communication and governance in a linguistically diverse human settlement in South Africa Sandiso Ngcobo, Bongekile Y.C. Mvuyana Published: In the published article, Ngcobo, S. & Mvuyana, B.Y.C., 2022, ‘Communication and governance in a linguistically diverse human settlement in South Africa’, Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation 3(0), a83. keywords: africa; mangosuthu; south; technology; university cache: jolgri-122.htm plain text: jolgri-122.txt item: #4 of 40 id: jolgri-125 author: Office, Editorial title: Table of Contents Vol 3 (2022) date: 2022-12-31 words: 595 flesch: 2 summary: An empirical analysis of the Limpopo Province Pandelani H. Munzhedzi, Kedibone Phago, Betty Mubangizi Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 3 | a77 | 31 October 2022 Original Research Communication and governance in a linguistically diverse human settlement in South Africa Sandiso Ngcobo, Bongekile Y.C. Mvuyana Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 3 | a83 |30 November 2022 Original Research Barriers to effective supply chain management: The case of a metropolitan municipality in the Eastern Cape Beauty Zindi, Modeni M. Sibanda Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 3 | a54 | 12 December 2022 Original Research The impact of rural–urban migration in South Africa: A case of KwaDukuza municipality Douglas B. Mthiyane, Henry Wissink, Nyashadzashe Chiwawa Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 3 | a56 | 15 December 2022 Original Research The spending of municipal infrustructure grant at Ba-Phalaborwa municipality Tshepo E. Rangwato, Ricky Mukonza, John Molepo Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 3 | a88 | 19 December 2022 Reviewer Acknowledgement Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 3 | a110 | 15 December 2022 52 68 82 93 101 keywords: africa; cape; december; eastern; government; government research; innovation; journal; local; local government; municipalities; municipality; original; original research; research; south; vol cache: jolgri-125.pdf plain text: jolgri-125.txt item: #5 of 40 id: jolgri-14 author: None title: jolgri-14 date: None words: 6914 flesch: 38 summary: This will strengthen the link between benefits and costs of local services, making local officials more accountable to taxpayers and more fiscally responsible. This will strengthen the link between benefits and costs of local services, making local officials more accountable to taxpayers and more fiscally responsible. keywords: act; amendment; analysis; authorities; base; capacity; capital; central; chisamba; city; collection; cost; council; data; delivery; economic; effects; efficiency; equalisation; equalisation funds; expenditure; fees; finance; financial; fiscal; functions; funds; government; government equalisation; groups; help; horizontal; house; income; level; local; local authorities; local government; luangwa; luanshya; lusaka; maintenance; methods; municipal; number; payment; policy; population; prescribed; property; provision; public; research; residents; revenue; self; service; service delivery; service provision; study; table; tax; terms; theory; total; town; transfers; university; use; user; volunteers; water; year; zambia cache: jolgri-14.htm plain text: jolgri-14.txt item: #6 of 40 id: jolgri-15 author: None title: jolgri-15 date: None words: 7742 flesch: 41 summary: The researcher was expected to review the literature on the subject in order to better understand the issue of capable state and how it influenced service delivery in South Africa. In certain cases, the focus put on the notion of capable state by the ruling party, according to Qobo, emphasises a more teleological thrust articulated in a certain state of completeness and generally in relation to the typology of East Asian nations. keywords: act; administration; africa; analysis; appointments; article; building; bureaucratic; capability; capable; capable state; capacity; capital; career; civil; clear; commission; constitution; data; decisions; delivery; development; developmental state; economic; effective; employees; existing; financial; fitzgerald; focus; framework; functions; goals; good; governance; government; human; institutions; issue; key; lack; leaders; legislation; literature; local; local government; making; management; national; ndp; needs; new; order; people; performance; plan; policy; political; poor; power; practice; president; printers; professional; provincial; psc; public; public service; qobo; quality; ramaphosa; recruitment; republic; research; resource; responsible; results; review; role; sector; senior; servants; service; service delivery; set; skills; social; society; south; south africa; spheres; state; strong; structure; study; terms; theory; transformation; vision; weber; work cache: jolgri-15.htm plain text: jolgri-15.txt item: #7 of 40 id: jolgri-17 author: None title: jolgri-17 date: None words: 6921 flesch: 36 summary: Status of Chitungwiza water supply The water supply in Chitungwiza was observed to be highly variable across the 26 major suburbs, ranging from 20 min to 3 days in a week. Conclusion and recommendations Chitungwiza municipality water supply services are failing to meet the benchmark of all the performance indicators investigated that are key for water services delivery. keywords: adams; africa; article; boreholes; cases; challenges; chitungwiza; chitungwiza municipality; cities; city; connections; consistent; current; data; day; days; delivery; department; development; distribution; drinking; dry; evaluation; figure; governance; harare; households; illegal; indicators; infrastructure; international; interviews; issues; journal; key; lack; leakages; local; main; management; meters; municipal; municipal water; municipality; new; non; nrw; past; performance; poor; population; potable; problems; provision; quality; reliable; report; research; residential; residents; resources; respondents; results; revenue; services; situation; sources; south; study; suburbs; supply; supply services; sustainable; system; table; urban; urban water; water; water quality; water services; water supply; wells; zimbabwe; zones cache: jolgri-17.htm plain text: jolgri-17.txt item: #8 of 40 id: jolgri-18 author: None title: jolgri-18 date: None words: 7536 flesch: 41 summary: Servant leadership in the South African context South African researchers have identified similar important servant leadership characteristics which are critical to the field of servant leadership. Servant leadership, for one, had never been assessed; therefore, it was important to conduct this study to do an assessment on servant leadership in the power utility and determine the perception of servant leadership amongst employees and management. keywords: 35–54; accountability; african; age; age group; analysis; assessment; authenticity; bartlett; business; characteristics; comparisons; courage; data; development; differences; diversity; effect; eigenvalue; employees; empowerment; environment; factor; findings; forgiveness; gender; groups; higher; humility; important; internal; journal; kmo; leadership; literature; loadings; male; management; manager; mccallaghan; mean; medium; observations; old; opinions; order; organisation; people; performance; power; power utility; practical; regards; reliability; research; respondents; results; sciences; section; servant; servant leadership; service; significant; south; specific; spherecity; statistical; stewardship; study; style; success; table; terms; test; understanding; unit; utility; values; variable; variance; work; years cache: jolgri-18.htm plain text: jolgri-18.txt item: #9 of 40 id: jolgri-22 author: None title: jolgri-22 date: None words: 5428 flesch: 35 summary: Local government union council budgeting Within the system perspective of the public budgeting process, central governments or national governments seem to be a system, whilst subnational or local governments appear to be as a subsystem. Appendix 2: Legal basis of UP budgeting TABLE 1-A2: Legal basis of local government union council budgeting. keywords: accountability; analysis; appendix; approach; article; author; autonomy; bangladesh; base; budget; budget theories; budgetary; budgeting; budgeting process; case; classical; community; concerned; councils; data; decentralisation; decisions; development; expenditure; fact; fenno; figure; fiscal; governance; government; government budgeting; government union; implications; incrementalism; information; level; local; local government; making; management; methods; national; normative; ownership; parishads; planning; policy; political; politics; process; public; public budgeting; research; resources; revenue; review; rubin; sample; stage; statement; strategic; study; subnational; talukdar; tax; theories; theory; transfers; union; union councils; ups; wildavsky; year cache: jolgri-22.htm plain text: jolgri-22.txt item: #10 of 40 id: jolgri-25 author: None title: jolgri-25 date: None words: 5099 flesch: 41 summary: These citizens were engaged by security agents (enforcing the lockdown) and were harassed and killed. Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; FBOs; insecurity; security agents; Nigeria; corruption. keywords: aba; aba north; abuse; afikpo; agencies; agency; agents; april; areas; article; bbc; brutality; cases; centre; citizens; civil; community; coronavirus; corruption; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; data; disease; distribution; engagement; faith; fbos; federal; food; forces; government; health; human; idemili; indigenous; international; kaduna; lack; lgas; local; lockdown; march; members; ncdc; nigeria; nigerians; north; organisations; palliatives; pandemic; people; personnel; police; population; research; rights; security; security agents; social; south; state; study; training; uyo; warri cache: jolgri-25.htm plain text: jolgri-25.txt item: #11 of 40 id: jolgri-26 author: None title: jolgri-26 date: None words: 8252 flesch: 32 summary: These principles have significance for public trust, as they heighten the expectation of participatory governance in local government service delivery. (2019:10) describe meaningful participation as ‘participation that builds trust and assures interactional and informational justice as important elements of community experiences of treatment in local government participation spaces’. keywords: access; administration; administrators; africa; african local; article; aspect; authority; case; challenges; citizen; citizen participation; communication; communities; community; community participation; community trust; concept; context; country; data; decisions; delivery; delivery protests; democracy; democratic; development; elements; engagement; evidence; factors; fairness; governance; government; government context; hemson; idp; imperative; implementation; influence; information; institutions; interactional; journal; justice; key; lack; levels; local; local government; making; meaningful; meaningful participation; mechanisms; municipal; municipalities; municipality; new; nzewi; officials; outcomes; participation; participatory; perceptions; planning; political; power; principles; procedural; processes; protests; public; public participation; public trust; regard; relationship; rendering; research; resources; reutener; role; service; service delivery; social; south; south africa; studies; study; system; table; transparency; trust; university; ward cache: jolgri-26.htm plain text: jolgri-26.txt item: #12 of 40 id: jolgri-27 author: Office, Editorial title: Acknowledgement to reviewers date: 2020-12-20 words: 368 flesch: 33 summary: It is good practice as a reviewer to update your personal details regularly to ensure contact with you throughout your professional term as reviewer to the Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation. Page 1 of 1 Reviewer Acknowledgement https://jolgri.org Open Access Acknowledgement to reviewers In an effort to facilitate the selection of appropriate peer reviewers for the Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation, we ask that you take a moment to update your electronic portfolio on https://jolgri.org for our files, allowing us better access to your areas of interest and expertise, in order to match reviewers with submitted manuscripts. keywords: access; details; government; https://jolgri.org; innovation; journal; local; peer; research; reviewer cache: jolgri-27.pdf plain text: jolgri-27.txt item: #13 of 40 id: jolgri-29 author: Office, Editorial title: Table of Contents Vol 1 (2020) date: 2020-12-23 words: 321 flesch: -20 summary: JOLGRI 1_2020_Contents.indd https://jolgri.org Open Access Table of Contents Original Research An assessment of servant leadership at a business unit of a South African power utility Marita Heyns, Sean McCallaghan, Derisha Newton Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 1 | a18 | 09 December 2020 Review Article An analysis of the effects of equalisation funds on service delivery in selected local authorities in Zambia Hanson Chishimba, Eustarckio Kazonga, Evaristo Nsenduluka Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 1 | a14 | 30 October 2020 Review Article Building a capable state through proper human resource management Thozamile R. Mle, Xolisile G. Ngumbela Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 1 | a15 | 07 December 2020 Reviewer Acknowledgement Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 1 | a27 | 20 December 2020 36 46 55 64 Page i of i Table of Contents Editorial Re-envisioning local government studies, research and practice for the future Ogochukwu I. Nzewi Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 1 | a6 | 27 January 2020 Original Research Ward councillors’ leadership characteristics and their impact on service delivery: Case of eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa, in 2018 Zamokuhle Mbandlwa, Syden Mishi Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 1 | a5 | 03 February 2020 Original Research Performance evaluation of water supply services in Chitungwiza: How water supply services mirrors poor governance and lack of management Luckson Zvobgo Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 1 | a17 | 22 October 2020 Original Research Examining the implications of classical budget theories in the local government budgeting process: Union Councils in Bangladesh Mohammad R.I. Talukdar Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 1 | a22 | 08 December 2020 1 3 16 27 Vol 1 (2020) ISSN: n/a (online)Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation keywords: december; government; innovation; journal; local; local government; original; research; vol cache: jolgri-29.pdf plain text: jolgri-29.txt item: #14 of 40 id: jolgri-35 author: None title: jolgri-35 date: None words: 237 flesch: 27 summary: https://doi.org/10.4102/jolgri.v2i0.35 Note: DOI of original article published: https://doi.org/10.4102/jolgri.v1i0.14 Correction Erratum: An analysis of the effects of equalisation funds on service delivery in selected local authorities in Zambia Hanson Chishimba, Eustarckio Kazonga, Everisto Nsenduluka Published: 03 May 2021 Copyright: © 2021. ‘Erratum: An analysis of the effects of equalisation funds on service delivery in selected local authorities in Zambia’, Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation 2(0), a35. keywords: kazonga; local; lusaka; zambia cache: jolgri-35.htm plain text: jolgri-35.txt item: #15 of 40 id: jolgri-36 author: None title: jolgri-36 date: None words: 7049 flesch: 39 summary: South Africa is an attractive destination for people escaping their home countries in the pursuit of a more dignifying and humane survival because of its commitment towards upholding human rights and the rights of foreign migrants. South Africa is also considered to be the easy mediator and stepping stone for migration to Europe and America, hence most foreign migrants will opt to relocate to SA first en route to countries abroad. keywords: africa; africans; analysis; article; attitudes; beitbridge; border; cda; challenges; citizens; comments; conditions; congestion; countries; country; covid-19; critical; december; different; discourse; discrimination; diverse; drivers; economic; economy; employment; february; festive; focus; foreign; foreign migrants; foreigners; garba; global; government; group; hate; human; ilo; individuals; international; issues; labour; local; migrants; migration; mukumbang; nationals; negative; news; people; population; positive; post; prejudice; public; refugees; regard; report; result; rights; role; sabc; sabc news; schippers; season; social; south; south africa; statement; stephan; stereotyping; studies; theory; threat; travel; workers; working cache: jolgri-36.htm plain text: jolgri-36.txt item: #16 of 40 id: jolgri-37 author: None title: jolgri-37 date: None words: 8185 flesch: 36 summary: Sibanda, P., 2017, ‘Challenges of local authorities service delivery a case of Bulawayo City Council’, Unpublished Master’s dissertation, MSU library, viewed 15 February 2021, from http://hd/handle.net/11408/3014. From the literature reviewed, citizen engagement and involvement are important factors in improved service delivery as they are the ones directly affected by the decisions made by the municipality (Eigeman 2007; Makanyeza et al. 2013; Whitaker 1980). keywords: administration; africa; areas; arrangements; article; authorities; authors; bandauko; basic; bcc; benefit; bobo; bowser; building; bulawayo; bulawayo city; business; capacity; case; centre; challenges; chilunjika; cities; citizens; city; city council; city twinning; collection; community; concept; cooperation; corruption; council; countries; data; delivery; developed; development; dube; economic; employees; environment; ethekwini; exchange; expertise; financial; governance; government; health; ideas; impact; improved; information; infrastructure; institutional; international; johannesburg; journal; limited; literature; local; local authorities; main; management; municipalities; municipality; new; north; numerous; operations; partnerships; people; phase; policy; political; progress; project; provision; public; quality; regional; relationships; report; research; residents; resources; result; review; sanitation; sector; service; service delivery; sister; social; south; strategies; studies; study; supply; sustainable; systems; technical; time; town; twinning; university; urban; water; zimbabwe cache: jolgri-37.htm plain text: jolgri-37.txt item: #17 of 40 id: jolgri-41 author: None title: jolgri-41 date: None words: 292 flesch: 31 summary: https://doi.org/10.4102/jolgri.v2i0.41 Note: DOI of original article published: https://doi.org/10.4102/jolgri.v1i0.22 Correction Corrigendum: Examining the implications of classical budget theories in the local government budgeting process: Union councils in Bangladesh Mohammad R.I. Talukdar Published: 06 Dec. 2021 Copyright: © 2021. Examining the implications of classical budget theories in the local government budgeting process: Union councils in Bangladesh’, Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation 2(0), a41. keywords: bangladesh; classical; government; local; talukdar cache: jolgri-41.htm plain text: jolgri-41.txt item: #18 of 40 id: jolgri-42 author: None title: jolgri-42 date: None words: 5261 flesch: 34 summary: The Eastern Cape Provincial Government leadership led by the former Premier, Mr Pumulo Masaulle in his State of the Province Address (2017) committed to improve government service delivery by the interventions through IGR. The questionnaire analysis included theoretical propositions that incorporated the efficiency of the provincial MuniMEC IGR structures, the legal IGR framework, and the participatory approach in MuniMEC IGR structures by stakeholders. keywords: act; africa; approach; cape; challenges; commission; communities; constitution; coordination; data; delivery; department; development; different; eastern; eastern cape; economic; effectiveness; efficiency; executive; findings; framework; governance; government; government service; igr; igr structure; infrastructure; intergovernmental; interventions; level; local; local government; methods; municipalities; munimec; munimec igr; n.d; national; needs; plan; principles; province; provincial; provincial government; provincial munimec; provision; public; relations; republic; research; respondents; review; rsa; service; service delivery; shared; social; socio; south; south africa; spheres; state; structure; study; system; table; tafeni; terms; time; university cache: jolgri-42.htm plain text: jolgri-42.txt item: #19 of 40 id: jolgri-43 author: None title: jolgri-43 date: None words: 7654 flesch: 27 summary: Emalahleni Local Municipality (Mpumalanga, local municipality which falls under the Nkangala District Municipality). Emfuleni Local Municipality (Gauteng, local municipality which falls under the Sedibeng District Municipality). keywords: act; administration; africa; analysis; approach; capacity; challenges; communities; community; community participation; councils; data; democracy; design; development; development needs; development planning; different; district; economic; engagement; findings; framework; governance; government; idp; idp process; idps; information; integrated; level; local; local government; local municipality; management; managers; mechanisms; metropolitan; municipalities; municipality; national; needs; participants; participation; participatory; particular; performance; phase; planning; plans; praxis; pretoria; printers; process; processes; provincial; public; quality; question; recommendations; republic; research; responses; results; rsa; rural; sampled; section; senior; service; significant; south; south africa; spatial; specific; stakeholders; status; strategies; support; survey; systems; table; university; urban; use; van cache: jolgri-43.htm plain text: jolgri-43.txt item: #20 of 40 id: jolgri-44 author: None title: jolgri-44 date: None words: 15469 flesch: 34 summary: Conceptualising and theorising public participation power dynamics Public participation is community engagement at the grass-roots level (Christensen & McQuestin 2019:456; Koens & Gunawardana 2021:464; Masuku & Macheka 2020:8; Nikku & Rafique 2019:880–888). Abstract Introduction Conceptualising and theorising public participation power dynamics Structuration theory and power dynamics Governmentality and power dynamics Methodology Results and discussion Satisfaction with participation in municipality’s strategic development planning Capability as power in public participation platforms and spaces Public participation power dynamics and resource capital Accessing public participation spaces Perceptions of domination and networking in public participation spaces Community commitment and trust in the integrated development plan process and outcomes Public participation as tokenistic Community knowledge in municipal strategic development planning Representations versus marginalisation and powerlessness Conclusion and implications for local governance Acknowledgements References About the Author(s) Modeni M. Sibanda Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management and Commerce, University of Fort Hare, Bisho, South Africa Liezel Lues Department of Public Administration and Management, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa Citation Sibanda, M.M. & Lues, L., 2021, ‘Public participation power dynamics in strategic development planning in a metropolitan municipality: Eastern Cape Province’, Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation 2(0), a44. keywords: access; accountability; actions; actors; administration; africa; agency; agents; article; beliefs; capabilities; capability; capacity; capital; case; change; citizen; coelho; committee; communities; community; community stakeholder; community voice; consciousness; control; councillor; critical; data; decision; deliberative; democracy; democratic; development; development planning; discourse; discussions; dynamics; edn; education; elite; empowerment; engagement; et al; exclusion; exercise; experiences; extent; findings; focus; forum; foucault; giddens; governance; government; governmentality; group; human; idp; impact; inclusive; individuals; inequalities; influence; institutions; integrated; interests; international; issues; journal; justice; knowledge; lack; legitimacy; local; local governance; london; lues; making; management; maree; marginalised; means; meetings; member; methods; metropolitan; municipal; municipal strategic; municipality; needs; networks; new; notion; outcomes; participants; participation platforms; participation power; participatory; people; planning; planning processes; platforms; policy; political; politics; power; power dynamics; power relations; power resources; powerful; practices; press; processes; public administration; public participation; public value; qualitative; relations; representative; research; researchers; residents; resources; results; review; sample; satisfaction; self; shape; social; society; south; spaces; sphere; stakeholders; strategic; strategic development; structuration; structures; studies; study; systems; theory; time; tokenistic; trust; university; value; van; views; voice; ward cache: jolgri-44.htm plain text: jolgri-44.txt item: #21 of 40 id: jolgri-45 author: None title: jolgri-45 date: None words: 6910 flesch: 30 summary: Venter (Van der Waldt 2014:88) is of the view that public service delivery can be realised when there is active participation by all actors in decision-making regarding service delivery. Masuku, M. & Jili, N., 2019, ‘Public service delivery in South Africa: keywords: africa; approach; area; article; business; case; communities; community; constitution; councillors; data; decision; delivery; democracy; democratic; development; edumbe; edumbe municipality; engagement; environment; factors; figure; financial; goals; governance; government; human; idp; information; interests; internal; involvement; issues; journal; kwazulu; lack; leaders; leadership; local; local government; making; management; managers; members; municipalities; municipality; natal; national; needs; new; non; officials; organisations; participants; participation; participatory; people; planning; policy; political; process; provision; public; public participation; research; residents; resources; respondents; responsible; revenue; service; service delivery; service provision; society; south; stakeholders; statement; strategies; study; support; sustainability; system; university; van; waldt; ward; zwane cache: jolgri-45.htm plain text: jolgri-45.txt item: #22 of 40 id: jolgri-46 author: None title: jolgri-46 date: None words: 1447 flesch: 37 summary: References About the Author(s) Ogochukwu I. Nzewi Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management and Commerce, University of Fort Hare, East London, South Africa Citation Nzewi, O.I., 2021, ‘Transformative networks and public participation in local government in the post-COVID era’, Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation 2(0), a46. https://doi.org/10.4102/jolgri.v2i0.46 Editorial Transformative networks and public participation in local government in the post-COVID era Ogochukwu I. Nzewi Copyright: © 2021. keywords: africa; articles; citizens; community; covid-19; crisis; government; human; issue; local; municipalities; networks; nzewi; pandemic; participation; participatory; particular; people; post; power; practice; public; research; rural; south; spaces; world cache: jolgri-46.htm plain text: jolgri-46.txt item: #23 of 40 id: jolgri-5 author: None title: jolgri-5 date: None words: 10003 flesch: 36 summary: Making things happen – Community leadership involves more than having a sense of direction. James, S. & Cox, E., 2007, Ward councillors and community leadership: A future perspective, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, New York. keywords: africa; analysis; article; average; case; challenges; citizens; communities; community; community members; councillors; countries; data; delivery protests; development; different; economic; education; effective; effective leadership; ethekwini; ethekwini municipality; expected; experience; family; gender; good; government; government leadership; hand; high; impact; important; individual; information; journal; july; june; key; lack; leadership; leadership characteristics; level; local; local government; local leadership; majority; maximum; members; metropolitan; metropolitan municipality; minimum; municipality; national; needs; party; people; performance; policy; political; population; power; problems; programmes; protests; public; questions; rate; rating; relationship; research; resources; response; responsibility; results; role; sample; score; service; service delivery; significant; skills; society; south; south africa; statistics; study; system; table; terms; theory; total; training; understanding; variables; ward councillors; wards; work cache: jolgri-5.htm plain text: jolgri-5.txt item: #24 of 40 id: jolgri-52 author: Office, Editorial title: Acknowledgement to reviewers date: 2021-12-21 words: 353 flesch: 32 summary: It is good practice as a reviewer to update your personal details regularly to ensure contact with you throughout your professional term as reviewer to the Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation. Page 1 of 1 Reviewer Acknowledgement https://jolgri.org Open Access Acknowledgement to reviewers In an effort to facilitate the selection of appropriate peer reviewers for the Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation, we ask that you take a moment to update your electronic portfolio on https://jolgri.org for our files, allowing us better access to your areas of interest and expertise, in order to match reviewers with submitted manuscripts. keywords: access; government; https://jolgri.org; innovation; journal; local; research; reviewer cache: jolgri-52.pdf plain text: jolgri-52.txt item: #25 of 40 id: jolgri-53 author: Office, Editorial title: Table of Contents Vol 2 (2021) date: 2021-12-30 words: 423 flesch: -28 summary: JOLGRI 2_2020_Contents.indd https://jolgri.org Open Access Table of Contents Original Research Participative integrated development planning praxis in local government: The case of selected South African municipalities David J. Fourie, Gerrit van der Waldt Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 2 | a43 | 30 November 2021 Original Research Public participation power dynamics in strategic development planning in a metropolitan municipality: Eastern Cape Province Modeni M. Sibanda, Liezel Lues Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 2 | a44 | 17 December 2021 Review Article Attitudes towards migrant workers in South Africa: A critical discourse analysis Vongai S. Ruzungunde, Sindiso Zhou Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 2 | a36 | 10 December 2021 23 34 52 Correction Corrigendum: Examining the implications of classical budget theories in the local government budgeting process: Union councils in Bangladesh Mohammad R.I. Talukdar Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 2 | a41 | 06 December 2021 Reviewer Acknowledgement Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 2 | a52 | 21 December 2021 69 70 Page i of i Table of Contents Editorial Transformative networks and public participation in local government in the post-COVID era Ogochukwu Nzewi Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 2 | a46 | 17 December 2021 Original Research A proposed citizen participation–public trust model in the context of service delivery protests in South African local government Pumlani Msenge, Ogochukwu I. Nzewi Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 2 | a26 | 16 July 2021 Original Research Twinning arrangements and service delivery in Zimbabwe’s local authorities: The case of Bulawayo City Council (Zimbabwe) and eThekwini Municipality (South Africa) Alouis Chilunjika, Sharon RT Chilunjika Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 2 | a37 | 30 November 2021 1 3 13 Review Article Human rights abuses in local government areas in Nigeria during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: Faith-based organisations as agents of transformation Favour C. Uroko, Chinyere T. Nwaoga Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 2 | a25 | 30 April 2021 Correction Erratum: An analysis of the effects of equalisation funds on service delivery in selected local authorities in Zambia Hanson Chishimbam, Eustarckio Kazonga, Everisto Nsenduluka Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation | Vol 2 | a35 | 03 May 2021 61 68 Vol 2 (2021) ISSN: 2788-919X (online)Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation Vol 2 (2021) keywords: december; government; government research; innovation; journal; local; original; participation; public; research; south; vol cache: jolgri-53.pdf plain text: jolgri-53.txt item: #26 of 40 id: jolgri-54 author: None title: jolgri-54 date: None words: 9459 flesch: 27 summary: A significant number of interviewed municipal officials reiterated that the municipality was being impacted by lack of knowledge and experience on SCM risk management. Indications were that without proper training, experience and knowledge on SCM risk management, officials would always be hesitant and fearful to implement decisions. keywords: accountability; accounting; activities; administration; africa; article; audit; auditor; barriers; better; cape; capital; case; chain; chain management; conduct; conflict; control; corruption; culture; data; decisions; delivery; difficult; eastern; effective; effective scm; environment; ethics; expenditure; financial; financial management; findings; flow; fraud; general; goods; governance; government; human; implementation; information; interest; interference; internal; international; irregular; journal; key; lack; laws; leadership; local; making; male; management; managers; mechanisms; metropolitan; metropolitan municipality; mfma; money; monitoring; mpac; municipalities; municipality; need; new; noncompliance; officials; operations; organisations; outcomes; oversight; participants; performance; point; policies; policy; political; politics; poor; practices; processes; procurement; provincial; public; public administration; public sector; quality; regulations; relationships; report; research; resources; results; review; risk; risk management; scm; scm system; scrm; section; sector; senior; service; sibanda; skills; social; south; south africa; strategies; study; supply; supply chain; systems; tenders; theory; training; unethical; weak cache: jolgri-54.htm plain text: jolgri-54.txt item: #27 of 40 id: jolgri-56 author: None title: jolgri-56 date: None words: 7713 flesch: 36 summary: Abstract Background: The influx of people to urban areas has strained government resources, increased population-growth and increased housing infrastructure challenges. This study is premised on the push–pull theoretical framework because of the theory’s ideological argument that the possibility of migration from rural areas to urban areas is based on specific socio-economic factors. keywords: activities; africa; agricultural; areas; basic; better; causes; centres; challenges; changes; cities; collection; context; data; delivery; development; district; economic; effects; electricity; environmental; factors; findings; following; governance; government; growth; health; historical; housing; ilembe; impact; income; increase; influx; informal; infrastructure; integrated; international; job; journal; kwadukuza; kwadukuza municipality; kwazulu; labour; lack; land; living; local; market; meso; methods; migrants; migration; municipalities; municipality; natal; nations; need; negative; new; number; opportunities; participants; people; plan; policy; poor; population; poverty; provision; public; regions; research; result; rise; rural; rural areas; rural development; sanitation; services; settlement; significant; social; socio; south; south africa; strain; studies; study; terms; towns; unemployment; united; urban; urban areas; urban migration; urban population; urbanisation; water; world cache: jolgri-56.htm plain text: jolgri-56.txt item: #28 of 40 id: jolgri-58 author: None title: jolgri-58 date: None words: 8891 flesch: 33 summary: The third section focuses on resilience in water services provision in African countries during COVID-19, followed by a discussion in the fourth section on COVID-19 water supply measures and the attainment of SDG 6 in South African municipalities. To cope with water insecurity problems amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, as Donnenfeld, Crooke and Hedde (2018) suggest, the use of technologies to realign water supply and demand whilst maintaining water security for future generations became important. keywords: access; accountability; africa; african municipalities; analysis; areas; article; attainment; basic; cape; challenges; citizens; city; clean water; communities; coronavirus; countries; country; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; data; delivery; demand; department; development; diseases; distribution; district; drinking; dws; eastern; economic; effects; efforts; facilities; gauteng; goals; government; health; hrba; human; hygiene; informal; international; johannesburg; journal; june; lack; limited; local; local municipalities; management; measures; municipalities; municipality; nations; outbreak; pandemic; participation; people; political; poor; population; programmes; projects; province; provision; public; rapid; report; republic; research; residents; response; review; rights; rural; safe; sanitation; sdg; sdgs; section; services; settlements; shava; shows; social; south; south africa; spread; strategies; study; supply; sustainable; table; tankers; tanks; town; united; university; urban; use; water; water projects; water services; water supply; water tanks; world cache: jolgri-58.htm plain text: jolgri-58.txt item: #29 of 40 id: jolgri-6 author: None title: jolgri-6 date: None words: 1247 flesch: 27 summary: The podcast will feature authors of high impact and interesting articles published in the journals, as well as important actors in local government research and practice in South Africa, Africa and across the globe. Podcasts The journal also develops podcasts on important areas of local government practice and research (e.g. local government budgeting, service delivery challenges and responses, managing local government human resources and so on). keywords: administration; africa; alternative; basic; change; cities; crisis; delivery; disciplinary; globe; government; innovation; journal; knowledge; local; local government; models; municipalities; practice; public; research; service; social; south; united cache: jolgri-6.htm plain text: jolgri-6.txt item: #30 of 40 id: jolgri-64 author: None title: jolgri-64 date: None words: 6300 flesch: 38 summary: Human settlement developments should be incorporated into the SDF. The findings indicate that housing projects do not follow spatial plans but are driven by developments in a particular direction. keywords: access; africa; aims; approach; areas; article; authors; beneficiaries; cities; city; communities; community; cornubia; data; delivery; department; development; economic; environment; ethekwini; ethekwini municipality; facilities; findings; framework; government; growth; household; houses; housing; human; human settlements; informal; infrastructure; integrated; integration; international; interviews; journal; kwazulu; land; large; life; living; management; megaprojects; members; municipalities; municipality; mvuyana; natal; new; objectives; opportunities; participants; people; planning; plans; policy; poor; pretoria; public; quality; representation; research; result; scale; services; settlements; social; south; spatial; study; sustainable; sustainable human; time; transport; urban cache: jolgri-64.htm plain text: jolgri-64.txt item: #31 of 40 id: jolgri-68 author: None title: jolgri-68 date: None words: 11367 flesch: 30 summary: Keywords: smart cities; public finance management; local economic development; municipality efficiency; decentralization; wasteful expenditure; irregular expenditure; service delivery. Loikkanen et al. (2011) stated that the educational level of the citizens has a positive effect on municipality efficiency, as they require accountability. keywords: accountability; africa; analysis; audit; available; average; basic; benito; budget; budgetary; business; capacity; cape; case; citizens; communities; control; cost; cost efficiency; countries; data; dea; debt; decentralisation; delivery; department; dependent; development; dlomo; eastern; economic; effect; efficiency; efficiency scores; et al; expenditure; factors; finance; financial; financial management; fiscal; fruitless; general; goals; governance; government; government efficiency; government expenditure; growth; gómez; higher; impact; increase; increasing; inefficient; input; internal; irregular; irregular expenditure; journal; key; legislation; level; limited; local; local government; local municipalities; loikkanen; management; managers; mean; mean efficiency; measure; mismanagement; model; municipalities; municipality; municipality efficiency; national; need; output; performance; period; policy; political; poor; province; provincial; provision; public; regression; relationship; report; research; resources; results; returns; revenue; review; scale; scores; service; service delivery; significant; small; south; south africa; state; structure; studies; study; table; terms; theory; theta; tobit; total; total efficiency; unauthorised; university; use; variables; wasteful; years; zafra cache: jolgri-68.htm plain text: jolgri-68.txt item: #32 of 40 id: jolgri-73 author: None title: jolgri-73 date: None words: 9228 flesch: 37 summary: Abongile G. Zweni Department of Public Administration and Governance, Faculty of Business and Management Science, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa Department of Accounting and Economics, School of Economic and Management Sciences, Sol Plaatje University, Kimberly, South Africa Bingwen Yan Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa Corrie Uys Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa Citation Zweni, A.G., Yan, B. & Uys, C., 2022, ‘Modelling budget management for public service in South African Municipalities: A structural equation modelling approach’, Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation 3(0), a73. The results revealed that risk management (RM), cash flow management (CFM) from employee perceptions have a positive impact on budget management; whereas CFM from general compliance with legislative consideration (LC) have a negative impact, budget planning (BP) and revenue and expenditure management (REM) have low impact on budget management for public service. keywords: accountability; accounting; administration; africa; ages; allocation; analysis; annual; budget; budget management; budget planning; budgeting; business; cape; cash; cfm; consideration; correlation; data; delivery; development; effective; effective budget; employees; equation; executive; expenditure; expenditure management; factor; figure; finance; financial; financial management; fit; flow; flow management; following; framework; general; goals; government; hypothesis; impact; implementation; independent; journal; key; lack; legislation; local; management; management model; managers; model; modelling; monitoring; mtef; municipalities; municipality; national; organisation; performance; planning; policies; policy; poor; process; public; question; questionnaire; recommendations; regression; relationship; relevant; report; research; resources; respondents; results; revenue; review; risk; risk management; sample; section; sector; sem; service; significant; social; south; south africa; statements; statistical; strategic; structural; study; table; terms; treasury; university; use; value; variables; years cache: jolgri-73.htm plain text: jolgri-73.txt item: #33 of 40 id: jolgri-77 author: None title: jolgri-77 date: None words: 8443 flesch: 28 summary: Some of the following key contentions serve as challenges that need to be addressed to effect improvement in municipal planning process in no particular order: Municipal capacity While the issue of municipal capacity remains a serious challenge, it is clear that many of the interventions such as Project Consolidate and Local Government Turnaround Strategy (LGTAS) have not yielded the required results to improve municipal performance. Municipal development during the local government transition and beyond’, Journal of the Development Bank of Southern Africa 15(2), 151–163. keywords: act; administration; africa; analysis; approach; article; basic; capacity; case; cdm; communities; community; council; data; departments; designs; development; development planning; district; economic; effective; evaluation; external; features; figure; financial; findings; framework; government; human; idp; idps; implementation; integrated; internal; issues; journal; key; lack; limited; limpopo; local; local government; management; manager; members; monitoring; municipal; municipal planning; municipalities; municipality; munzhedzi; needs; npm; officials; operational; participants; participation; performance; planning; planning process; pretoria; process; processes; province; provincial; provision; public; relevant; required; research; resources; responses; revenue; role; rural; sector; services; south; south africa; sphere; stakeholders; structural; study; van; vdm; waldt cache: jolgri-77.htm plain text: jolgri-77.txt item: #34 of 40 id: jolgri-83 author: None title: jolgri-83 date: None words: 6975 flesch: 36 summary: Hence, the article examines how these local leaders exercise their power with respect to the use of local languages as tools of communication. Conclusion: The dominant use of isiZulu bodes well for the promotion of African languages as they have in the past not been given the official status they deserve. keywords: access; act; africa; apartheid; article; asian; black; citizens; cohen; common; communication; communities; community; context; data; delivery; department; development; diverse; dominant; educational; english; ethekwini; female; framework; governance; government; human; information; integrated; isizulu; journal; kzn; language; language policy; leaders; levels; linguistic; local; local government; majority; march; meetings; members; multilingualism; municipalities; municipality; national; needs; ngcobo; officials; participants; participation; people; person; policies; policy; political; poor; process; protests; provincial; public; research; rsa; section; service; settlement; social; south; south africa; speaker; structures; study; university; use cache: jolgri-83.htm plain text: jolgri-83.txt item: #35 of 40 id: jolgri-88 author: None title: jolgri-88 date: None words: 8980 flesch: 31 summary: Considering various factors that differentiate municipalities in South Africa such as category, size of the population, spatial arrangement and the amount of MIG funds municipalities receive, as well as individual capacity, municipalities are bound to differ significantly in handling MIG projects. Literature review The literature review is important as it attempts to highlight different methods used by governments across the globe to fund local government infrastructure development. keywords: affairs; africa; article; basic; budget; capacity; cape; case; challenges; communities; community; conditions; context; data; decentralisation; delivery; department; development; different; district; edn; equitable; expenditure; factors; finance; financial; findings; fiscal; framework; functions; funding; funds; governance; government; grant; impediments; implementation; india; infrastructure; intergovernmental; issues; journal; key; limpopo; literature; local; local government; local municipality; male; management; matabane; means; mig; mig funds; municipal infrastructure; municipalities; municipality; national; national government; national treasury; participants; phalaborwa; phalaborwa municipality; planning; political; poor; powers; pretoria; problem; process; programme; projects; provincial; public; relations; report; republic; research; results; revenue; review; rural; section; service; share; shopola; south; south africa; spending; sphere; studies; study; town; traditional; transfers; treasury; university; unrest; van; years cache: jolgri-88.htm plain text: jolgri-88.txt item: #36 of 40 id: jolgri-92 author: None title: jolgri-92 date: None words: 6476 flesch: 34 summary: Abstract Introduction Statement of hypotheses Conceptual framework Theoretical framework Entrepreneurship training and job creation Material and methods Limitation of research methodology Demographic profiles Results Discussion Conclusion Acknowledgements References Footnote About the Author(s) Augustine N. Eneanya Department of Political Science, Faculty of Humanities, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria Citation Eneanya, A.N., 2023, ‘ICT entrepreneurship training and job creation in post-COVID-19 in Ikeja Local government, Lagos State, Nigeria’, Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation 4(0), a92. Aim: The purpose of the study is to interrogate the role of ICT entrepreneurship training on employment generation in post-COVID-19 pandemic in Ikeja Local Government, Lagos State. keywords: access; analysis; area; beneficiaries; business; chi; communication; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; creation; data; development; economic; education; effect; enterprises; entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship training; era; federal; finding; fund; government; hypothesis; ict; ikeja local; information; job; job creation; jobs; journal; key; lagos state; loans; local government; lsetf; msmes; nbs; new; nigeria; opportunities; pandemic; pandemic era; participants; post; programmes; quantitative; questionnaires; rate; reduction; relationship; research; respondents; results; sciences; self; significant; small; social; spss; square; state employment; state government; statistics; studies; study; support; table; technologies; technology; test; training; trust; unemployed; unemployment; vocational; years; youths cache: jolgri-92.htm plain text: jolgri-92.txt item: #37 of 40 id: jolgri-93 author: None title: jolgri-93 date: None words: 5245 flesch: 35 summary: The reforms in the water sector such as the establishment of the National Sanitation Plan, which set out the investment requirements for the water sector; developing water sector policies and guidelines for tariff determination; and the creation of new institutions established at the federal, state and local government levels to improve efficiency in the water sector contributed to this growth (De Oliveira, 2008:1). Significant reforms in the water sector such as the establishment of the National Sanitation Plan, which set out the investment requirements for the water sector; developing water sector policies and guidelines for tariff determination; and the creation of new institutions established at the federal, state and local government levels to improve efficiency in the water sector contributed to the growth of the sector and PPP adoption. keywords: act; administration; africa; analysis; article; bank; benchmarking; brazil; brazilian; business; case; comparative; competition; countries; delivery; development; dws; environment; federal; framework; funding; governance; government; infrastructure; institutions; international; investment; law; laws; lessons; levels; local; management; municipal; municipal water; municipalities; national; new; participation; partnerships; policy; ppp; ppp framework; ppp projects; ppps; practices; pretoria; private; private partnerships; private sector; process; procurement; projects; public; reforms; regulations; regulatory; research; review; sampaio; sanitation; sector; services; set; south; south africa; specific; states; value; water; water sector; world cache: jolgri-93.htm plain text: jolgri-93.txt item: #38 of 40 id: jolgri-94 author: None title: jolgri-94 date: None words: 6618 flesch: 25 summary: For a couple of years now, reports from the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA), have been revealing a downward spiral of local government financial management. Furthermore, in general, this article contributed to literature on local government oversight mechanisms and local government performance in South Africa. keywords: abdulai; accountability; accountable; act; administration; africa; agsa; analysis; approach; article; audit; auditing; auditor; challenges; committees; constitution; control; corruption; council; data; delivery; effective; evaluation; expenditure; factors; financial; findings; fruitless; funds; general; governance; government; implementation; internal; irregular; journal; lack; leadership; local; local government; makwetu; management; managers; matlala; mechanisms; mfma; monitoring; municipalities; national; officials; order; outcomes; oversight; oversight mechanisms; pauw; performance; policy; poor; pretoria; printers; processes; public; qualitative; recommendations; report; reporting; research; review; section; service; skills; south; south africa; staffing; state; study; toxopeüs; treasury; unauthorised; wasteful; year cache: jolgri-94.htm plain text: jolgri-94.txt item: #39 of 40 id: jolgri-95 author: None title: jolgri-95 date: None words: 5864 flesch: 25 summary: Traditional leaders and municipal council members would collaborate in the following areas: The involvement of traditional leaders in the national assembly or in the process of provincial legislature through the national or provincial house of traditional leaders (Mashau et al. 2014). Abstract Background: The power disparity between traditional leaders and councillors is a source of concern for the local government’s developmental focus, as the municipality and traditional leaders do not always agree, even though the service delivery is sorely needed by the people they serve. keywords: act; africa; areas; article; authorities; authority; case; communities; community; constitution; cooperation; councillors; councils; delivery; demarcation; democracy; democratic; development; framework; governance; government; interests; journal; koenane; land; law; leadership; legislative; literature; local; local government; mashau; mawere; municipal; municipal councillors; municipalities; municipality; paper; people; policy; political; power; pretoria; public; recommendations; relationship; research; result; review; role; rsa; rural; service; service delivery; south; south africa; structures; study; system; terms; theory; traditional; traditional leaders; university; white cache: jolgri-95.htm plain text: jolgri-95.txt item: #40 of 40 id: jolgri-97 author: None title: jolgri-97 date: None words: 1478 flesch: 41 summary: The reality of local government in South Africa’, Journal of Local Government Research and Innovation 3(0), a97. The reality of local government in South Africa Tando Rulashe Copyright: © 2022. keywords: africa; audit; basic; continua; decolonisation; delivery; development; district; freedom; governance; government; infrastructure; level; liberation; local; local government; luta; management; municipalities; need; people; republic; research; rulashe; service; south; south africa; strategies; struggle; studies cache: jolgri-97.htm plain text: jolgri-97.txt