Published:
10
Feb
2020
DOI releases three reports on SOE Board appointments and dismissals.
News
African School on Decentralisation 2020: Call for Applications
Published:
12
Dec
2019
The South African Research Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Development at the Dullah Omar Institute of the University of the Western Cape, and the Centre for Federalism and Governance Studies of Addis Ababa University are delighted to announce the inaugural African School on Decentralisation.
news: Local Gov
Published:
06
Dec
2019
The following articles/publications are available in this issue:
news: Local Gov
Measuring transparency, public participation and oversight in the budget processes of South Africa’s metropolitan municipalities
Published:
05
Dec
2019
The Metro Open Budget Survey (Metro OBS) is modelled on the global Open Budget Survey (OBS) initiated by the International Budget Partnership in 2006. The OBS is an independent, comparative assessment of budget accountability: transparency, oversight, and public participation.
news: Local Gov
Dullah Omar Institute Makes a Submission to Parliament on the NHI Bill
Published:
03
Dec
2019
On Friday, 29 November 2019, the Dullah Omar Institute made a submission to the Portfolio Committee on Health on the National Health Insurance Bill. Although the Institute supports the notion of universal health coverage that is aimed at providing South African’s with access to needed health care that is of sufficient quality , our submission highlights concerns about transparency and accountability to members of the public in the governance structures of the NHI Fund.
Don’t let ‘We serve the People’ just be rhetoric
Published:
15
Nov
2019
Activists and scholars this week reminded the Western Cape Provincial Parliament (WCPP), during a roundtable discussion on oversight and public participation, that they will turn up the heat so that legislatures can strengthen its oversight muscle. Too often it is National Parliament that comes under scrutiny whilst provincial legislatures escape the public eye.
Published:
31
Oct
2019
Thursday, 31 October 2019, Cape Town - The Budget Justice Coalition (BJC) is concerned that the 2019 MTBPS proposes a deepening of austerity (cutting expenditure to address debt) in the country.
Seminar upacks local government and the changing urban-rural interplay
Published:
31
Oct
2019
The Dullah Omar Institute held an in-house seminar on 'Local Government and the Changing Urban-Rural Interplay' on Tuesday 29 October 2019. It was facilitated by Prof Jaap de Visser.