Reframing performance management praxis at the Harare city council

An Assessment of City Council Performance in Improving Urban Management and Development Process from Citizen's Perspective: Case Study Tabriz Metropolitan

the purpose of this study is to measure the effectiveness of city council performance in improving the process of sustainable urban management and development from the perspective of citizens in Tabriz metropolis. The present study has been applied in terms of purpose, nature, method, descriptive-analytical and documentary and field studies to gather information. The results showed that the ave...

Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC): State of the Council 2010

Assessment of Knowledge and Performance of the Parents at the Management of Fever in Children

Background When a child’s body temperature rises, most parents become very worried that high fever may harm the child; in this study, knowledge and performance of the parents at the time of fever in children and how they act when encountering children’s fever were studied. Materials and Methods  In this cross-sectional descriptive study, samples (300 parents of children under 10 years) were se...

Reframing expert support for development management

Three critiques of participatory development (PD) and their respective challenges for expert support are discussed – (i) the masking of ideological imperatives behind PD (ii) the depoliticising practice of policy language, and (iii) the restrictive space for enabling responsible support from different fields of expertise including science. Drawing on the experience of two interventions – one Gu...

Redland City Council Fleet Safety Initiative: The road to recovery

Due to the propensity of fleet incidents, poor organisational survey results and a lack of fleet safety systems, it was evident that Redland City Council were underperforming, experiencing a variety of work related road safety issues and possessed a low fleet safety culture. As a result of an audit process, and the identification of gaps in organisational process within the fleet safety area Re...