Zimbabwe mainstreamed SDGs into national development plans, but there is no alignment of policies, structures, and strategies with urban local authorities. National and urban local authority governments are inadequately integrated for purposes of whole-of-government harmony on SDG implementation. This ...
This paper debates the implications of the Urban Councils Act (UCA) on the practice of good corporate governance in Zimbabwean urban local authorities. The study revealed that the act upholds corporate governance in urban councils through providing for: council meetings that are open to the public...
Perspectives of human resource practitioners in two urban local authorities in Zimbabwe CONCEPTUAL modelsEDUCATIONAL financeEMPLOYEE educationOrientation: This study examines the experiences of human resource (HR) practitioners in two urban local ... AC Gumbie,N Dhanpat,RM Joseph - 《South African Journa...
FAW Zimbabwe chief executive Mr Patrick Masocha confirmed that the China-headquartered company, which also has operations in South Africa, had agreed in principle with the Bulawayo City Council to set up a vehicle assembly plant in Bulawayo. “We have since got our offer letter and we are plan...
Zimbabwe is facing a plethora of economic challenges and under such a precarious state of affairs street vending activities are on the rise. The astronomical growth of street entrepreneurs is an addition to multifarious challenges faced by urban local authorities in most developing countries globally. ...
Chapter. Institutionalizing SDGs: Urban Local Authorities in Zimbabwe. In SDGs in Africa and the Middle East Region. Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals–Regional Perspectives; Leal Filho, W., Abubakar, I.R., da Silva, I., Pretorius, R., Tarabieh, K., Eds.; Springer: Cham,...
Zimbabwe struggles to provide clean water during pandemic. VOA https://go.nature.com/3JtM0ul (25 August 2020). Chingono, N. ‘We are drinking sewage water’: Zimbabwe shortages threaten thousands. The Guardian https://go.nature.com/42ni77y (28 October 2020). Taps start to run dry in...
Understanding the relationship between urban outdoor temperatures and indoor air-conditioning energy demand in Zimbabwe. Sustain Cities Soc. 2017;34:97–108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2017.06.007. Article Google Scholar Abdullah S, Adnan MS, Barua D, Murshed MM, Kabir Z, Chowdhury MB,...
Deforestation and woodland degradation are issues of great concern in Zimbabwe. Debate on these issues has identified a number of causes including expansion of arable land, demand for fuel-wood and construction poles, and urban expansion.The main areas under research has been in rural areas where ...
The results of government measures to transfer responsibility for lending to low‐income households from local authorities to the building societies since the mid‐1980s are evaluated. It is concluded that Zimbabwe has an unusually well‐developed financial sector and housing finance system for a ...