Governance and service delivery in Eastern and Southern Africa : issues for debate, directions for research

Meeting: IDRC Workshop on Good Governance, 7-9 Sept. 2000, Ottawa, ON, CAEmpowerment comes primarily through collective self-organisation, strength and savvy (not merely through enhanced individual entrepreneurialism, as was fetishized in many previous development models). Governance associated with the delivery of state services is the focus of this paper, and advocates empowering citizen/worker organisations to self-activate development, and control the provision of services with appropriate state support, functions, and resource transfers. “… For without basic needs being met, the concept of citizenship is a chimera.