Civic Protest Barometer 2018 FactSheet #3 - Violence in Protests
The Civic Protest Barometer (CPB) tracks civic protests across South Africa, which are a specific form of protest, directed at municipalities. While nationally the number of civic protests in 2017 reached the lowest level in three years (CPB 2018 Fact Sheet #1 (no. of protes
Civic Protest Barometer 2018 FactSheet #2 - Geographic Spread
The Civic Protest Barometer tracks civic protests across South Africa, which are a specific form of protest, directed at municipalities. While nationally the number of civic protests in 2017 reached the lowest level in three years (CPB 2018 Fact Sheet #1 (no. of protests), there has been a fair degree of fluctuation in the number of protests in each province.
Civic Protest Barometer 2018 Fact Sheet
The Civic Protest Barometer tracks civic protests across South Africa, which are a specific form of protest, directed at municipalities.
Media Statement- ACSL Launches CCI- Capacity Index 2017
Media Release:How do we know a municipality is a capable government? How do we measure the capacity of cities to contribute to building a capable state?
The Capable Cities Index Working (Paper Series) - Two Measuring the Capacity of Cities
The Capable Cities Index (CCI) provides a methodology for measuring and ranking the capability of South Africa’s municipalities on the basis of their consistency in maintaining high levels of capacity, performance and compliance, with a focus on the 27 largest cities. Local government generally, and the major cities in particular, are crucial actors in the country’s development and in building a capable state in line with the National Development Plan (NDP).
Civic Protests and Local Government in South Africa Working Paper Series No. 2
The Civic Protest Barometer (CPB) measures trends in protest action in South Africa's municipalities. The 2016 CPB is an update of the CPB published in 2014 (Working Paper Series No. 1), which covered the period 2007 to 2014. The current CPB (Working Paper Series No. 2) analyses data from January 2007 to July 2016 (inclusive).
Technical Note_Civic Protests Barometer_2016 (2).pdf
This research study presents information on the frequency and the nature of civic (service delivery protests) throughout South Africa. The study as a whole draws on different methods for three periods. The first period dates from the inception of the study in 2007 until the end of 2011. A new method, currently still being used, was adopted for the period after 2011. Once gain the method was changed in 2016. The initial component derived protest records from the media reports of community protests contained in the Community Protest Monitor in the South African Local Government Briefings Report1 and Lexis Nexis online database. Data was collected monthly from 2007 until August 2012 and displayed in a series of barometers that analyze overarching trends and patterns in protest activity over the period. After 2011 the method changed to rely on on-line news aggregators and social media reports rather than Lexis-Nexis and the Local Government Briefings.
09122015 - The Capable Cities Index Performance
The Performance Index (PI) is the last of the three indices that collectively comprise the Capable Cities Index (CCI). The other two components, the Compliance (Coml) and Capacity (CI) Indices, were published earlier this year. The series will be concluded with the publication of an index that combines the three indices into composite index. This Capable Cities Index provides a means to compare the overall sustainability of municipalities in terms of how well they are managed.
The Capable Cities Index: The capacity of cities
The Capable Cities Index (CCI) is a composite index that ranks the 27 largest cities in South Africa on the basis of their consistency in maintaining high levels of capacity, performance and compliance over the period 2010 to 2014. A capable city is one that maintains consistently high scores in all three components of capability.
Municipal Audit Consistency Barometer MAC-B3 (2015 update) 2009/10 to 2013/14: Audit consistency as a measure of resilience in local government
This is the third edition of the MAC-B Audit Consistency Barometer to be published. The first MAC-B was published before the national and provincial elections of May 2014. This iteration (referred to as MAC-B3) is an update to both that version and the update (MAC-B2) published last year. MAC-B2 represented a key milestone in local government development in that the period then reviewed coincided with the term of the national administration appointed after the 2009 national election. Until then the instrumental Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs was under the stewardship of Sicelo Shiceka. After the 2014 election a new administrative cycle under the stewardship of Pravin Gordhan as minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) began.
The Capable Cities Index: Compliance
The Compliance Index (ComI) is one of three indices that together comprise the Capable Cities Index (CCI). The Capacity Index was published in early 2015 and the Performance Index will be published in due course.
Technical Note Civic Protests Barometer 2007-2014
This research study presents information on the frequency and the nature of service delivery protests throughout South Africa. The study as a whole draws on different methods for two periods. The first period dates from the inception of the study in 2007 until the end of 2011. During this phase the barometer was know and the Municipal Service Delivery Protest Barometer.
