Report Citations list

2024

Chilenga-Butao, T. and W. Holland (2024) ‘Transitions: The role of the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy in South Africa’s just energy transition’. A PARI report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

CSWG (2024) ‘A Collective Civil Society Response to the Zondo Commission and the State Capture Report’. A CSWG Report. March 2024. Civil Society Working Group on State Capture.

Ledger, T. (2024a) ‘The Role of the State in a Successful Just Transition: Defining the Transition Effective State’. A PARI report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

Ledger, T. (2024b) ‘Empty Promises: The struggle for equitable access to water in South Africa’. A PARI report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

________ (2024) ‘Public Participation and Municipal Planning in South Africa: A consolidated technical findings report on action research at 12 local municipalities’. A COMPACT Report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

2023

Nzo, T. (2023) ‘ Social Accountability Capacity Building for Local CSOs in Rural Municipalities to Strengthen Local Governance: The Case of Alfred Nzo District Municipality’. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

Klaaren, J., R. Brunette, G. Quinot and R. Watermeyer (2023) ‘A Strategic Public Procurement Paradigm for South Africa: Reflections on the Development of the Public Procurement Bill’. A PARI Report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

Pillay, D and S. Meny-Gibert (2023) ‘State of Parliament and its MPs: Identifying challenges to oversight and proposing solutions’. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

2022

Nyuke, S. Paradza, G and Mjoli, N. (2022) ‘Land Gorvenance in Ekurhuleni Municipality Report’. Johannesburg : Public Affairs Research Institute.

Monama, E. (2022) ‘Land Use Management in Lephalale Local Municipality’. Land Governance Report. Johannesburg : Public Affairs Research Institute.

Ndlovu, T. (2022) ‘The Confluence Of The State, Local Municipality and Traditional Authority In Land Governance: The case of Engcobo, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa’. Land Governance Report. Johannesburg : Public Affairs Research Institute.

2021

INETTT (2021) ‘The Net-Zero Energy Transition: Policy Case Studies from the International Network of Energy Transition Think Tanks’. An INETTT Report. Berlin: Agora Energiewende.

Ledger, T. (2021) ‘Access to Basic Services: Enabling tranformation or entrenching poverty and inequality?’. Local Government Short Report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

Ledger, T. (2021) ‘Broken Promises. Electricity Access For Low Income Households: Good Intentions, Bad Trade-offs and Unintended Consequences’. Energy and Society Working Paper 2. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

Nzo, T. (2021) ‘Whose Power Is It Anyway? Local Government and the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) Emthanjeni Local Municipality in the Northern Cape Province’. A PARI Local Government Report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

_______(2021) ‘Towards an Integrated Land Administration System’. A PLAAS, PARI, SALGA Diagnostic Report. Johannesburg: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, Public Affairs Research Institute and South African Local Government Association.

2020

Ledger, T. (2020) ‘A Just Distribution’. Energy and Society Working Paper 1. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

Ledger, T. and M. Rampedi (2020) ‘End of the Road: A Critical Review of the Local Government Fiscal Framework’. A PARI report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

____ (2020) ‘Report of Proceedings: Envisioning a New Path for State-Owned Enterprises’. A PARI and SDG report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute and  Strategic Dialogue Group.

2019

Ledger, T. and M. Rampedi (2019) ‘Mind The Gap: Section 139 interventions in theory and in practice’. A PARI report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

Pakade, N. (2019) ‘The Eastern Cape Schools Rationalisation Project: Case study of a GTAC intervention’. A PARI and GTAC report. Johannesburg: Government Technical Advisory Committee.

2018

Brunette, R., P. Nqaba and M. Rampedi (2018) ‘3 Cities. The Formation of Metropolitan Local Government in South Africa: Programme, Politicisation and Patronage in Ethekwini, Nelson Mandela Bay and Buffalo City, c. 1977–2016’. A PARI report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute and the National Treasury of South Africa.

Ledger, T. and S. Meny-Gibert (2018) ‘The Challenge of Prioritisation and Alignment in Public Sector Planning and Implementation: Literature Review’. A PARI and Twende Mbele report. Pretoria: Twende Mbele.

Meny-Gibert, S. (2018) ‘The Public Service Human Resource Development Strategic Framework’. Commissioned by PSETA for the Department of Public Service and Administration. Pretoria: Department of Public Service and Administration.

Phadi, M. and J. Pearson (2018) ‘We Are Building a City: Governance and the Struggle for Self-sufficiency in Lephalale Local Municipality’. A PARI report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

Pillay, D., N. Prins and W. Holland (2018) ‘Transnet Inquiry Reference Book’. An SRCP report. Cape Town: State Capacity Research Project.

Soares Guimarães, A., F. Duca and T. Ndlovu (2018) ‘Taxation and State-Society Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa: the cases of Cameroon, Mozambique and South Africa’. A PARI report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

 

2017

Meny-Gibert, S. (2017) ‘Review Report: In Support of the Development of an Updated Public Service Human Resource Development Strategic Framework. Commissioned by PSETA for the Department of Public Service and Administration. Pretoria: Department of Public Service and Administration.

Phadi, M. and J. Pearson (2017) ‘The Mogalakwena Local Municipality in South Africa: An Institutional Case Study’. A PARI report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute, Open Society Foundation South Africa and the Ford Foundation.

Swilling et al. (2017) ‘Betrayal of the Promise: How South Africa is Being Stolen’. An SCRP report. Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Johannesburg: State Capacity Research Project.

Chipkin, I. and M. Le Roux (2017) ‘Government and Constitution’. A PARI report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

Chipkin, I. (2017) ‘Personalising and De-personalising Power: The Appointment of Executive Officers in Key State Institutions’. A PARI and BLSA report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

 

2016

Buthelezi, M. (2016) ‘Black Sash: Organisational Evaluation’. A PARI report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute.

Chipkin, I., C. Runciman and S. Pillay (2016) ‘Confrontational, Complementary, Co-operative or Co-opted? Social Justice Organisations Working with the State’. A PARI report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute and the RAITH Foundation.

Pearson, J. and N. Mpofu (2016) ‘Igniting a Skills Revolution. The Joint Initiative for Priority Skills Acquisition’. A GSDPP report. Cape Town: University of Cape Town, Graduate School of Development, Policy and Practice.

Ledger, T., R. Brunette, F. Duca, I. Makukule and G. Tshimomola (2016) ‘2013/14 Red Zone Municipalities: Municipal Audit Outcomes Unpacked’. A PARI report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute and South African Local Government Association.

Meny-Gibert, S., M. Buthelezi, I. Chipkin and S. Powell (2016) ‘National Anti-Corruption Strategy: Diagnostic Report’. Commissioned by GIZ for the government steering committee established for the National Anti-Corruption Strategy (under the Anti-Corruption Inter-Ministerial Committee (ACIMC), Pretoria.

Meny-Gibert, S., M. Buthelezi and I. Chipkin (2016) ‘Discussion Document: Towards a National Anti-Corruption Strategy’. Commissioned by GIZ for the government steering committee established for the National Anti-Corruption Strategy (under the Anti-Corruption Inter-Ministerial Committee (ACIMC), Pretoria.

Meny-Gibert, S. and R. Brunette (2016) ‘Case Study Report: Reflections on a GTAC Project to Improve Supply Chain Management in a Provincial Education Department (project pn714)’. A GTAC report. Johannesburg: The Government Technical Advisory Centre.

 

2015

Morgan et al. (2015) ‘Hollowing Out the Local State: Managerialism and Skills in the Water Sector’. A PARI report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute and Open Society Foundation South Africa.

Pearson, J., S. Pillay and T. Ledger (2015) ‘Financing the Future: Budget Reform in South Africa: 1994–2004’. Prepared by PARI for GSDPP and GTAC. Cape Town: University of Cape Town, Graduate School of Development, Policy and Practice.

 

2014

Brunette, R., I. Chipkin and G. Tshimomola (2014) ‘The Contract State: Outsourcing and Decentralisation in Contemporary South Africa’. A PARI report. Johannesburg: Public Affairs Research Institute and the Ford Foundation.

Ledger, T., C. Barberton, G. Tshimomola and S. Meny-Gibert (2014) ‘Expenditure and Performance Review: National Language Services’. Commissioned by the National Treasury, Pretoria.

 

2013

Meny-Gibert, S. (2013) ‘Living Together Separately in the New South Africa: the Case of Integrated Housing in Mogale City and Lehae Project’. Prepared by PARI for the Ahmed Kathrada Foudation. Johannesburg: Ahmed Kathrada Foundation.

Meny-Gibert, S. and I. Chipkin (2013) ‘SADC Protocol Tracker Report on Corruption’. A diagnostic/review report. Gaborone: Southern African Development Community Council of Non-governmental Organisations.

Sigamoney, V. (2013) ‘BEE compliance: a ticket to the game or a game changer?

A Perspective on how Black Economic Empowerment is Being Implemented in Momentum Investments’. Centurion: Momentum Investments.

van der Heijden, T. (2013) ‘Why the Lights Went Out: Reform in the South African Energy Sector’. A GSDPP teaching case study. Cape Town: University of Cape Town, Graduate School for Development Policy and Practice.

van der Heijden, T. (2013) ‘Turning the Tide: the Johannesburg Development Agency and its Role in Revitalising the Inner City. A GSDPP teaching case study. Cape Town: University of Cape Town, Graduate School for Development Policy and Practice.

 

2012

van der Heijden, T., I. Chipkin and S. Meny-Gibert (2012) ‘Diagnostic Research Report on Corruption, Non-Compliance and Weak Organisations’. Prepared by PARI for the Technical Assistance Unit. Pretoria: The National Treasury of South Africa.