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10 March, 2010

Government should address informal settlement housing backlog in the country. Addressing challenges posed by informal settlements will help government to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals such as providing access to basic water and sanitation. Underlying socio-economic causes of informal settlements should be tackled. When addressing challenges posed by informal settlements, government should provide the urban poor with cost effective access to urban environments. Relocating informal settlements is not always a solution; government should provide some form of ‘interim servicing or emergency relief’ including water, sanitation and solid waste removal

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This article looks at how the global economic downturn is making it difficult for companies to contribute to the development of communities through CSI initiatives. The author argues that corporate philanthropy will disappear as companies struggle to emerge from the crisis. Corporate partners can co-donate with their customers and staff to community-based projects implemented by NGOs and other potential beneficiaries. Poverty, inequality and questionable democracy - some of the realities we live with - could be partly addressed through integrated CSI programmes. Apart from CSI, numerous surveys suggest that South African consumers are increasingly influenced by companies’ environmental and social policies when selecting products and services

The newly-appointed Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan presented the 2010/11 National Budget to Parliament on 17 February 2010 in Cape Town. As in the past few years, SANGONeT is pleased to present you with the comments and perspectives of various NGOs in response to the budget.Issues covered by the NGO comments range from general observations about the budget to key development priorities such as education, social services, gender, urbanisation, children and health

Tshikululu Social Investments has prepared a short context document that looks at South Africa's political, socio-economic and company legislative environment (with an emphasis on matters affecting social investors). The report entitled ‘South Africa’s social investment context in 2010’ serves as a short introduction to the year ahead

In this article, Archbishop Njongo Ndungane reflects on the promise made by Malawi president, HE Bingu wa Mutharika to not go around begging for food and how that he has restored faith in Africa by demonstrating that the continent need not become the world’s basket case. He has done so by implementing effective ways to improve agriculture and combat food insecurity, but also shared these methods for the rest of the continent to benefit

Twenty of the world strongest trade countries came together to discuss global matters of trade and finance at the recent G20 meeting. Despite the broad and essential character of these economic matters, women’s ability to contribute to the world economy barely featured in the discussions and decision-making at the summit. Only two out of the 20 leaders who attended were women.

In Seasons of Hunger: Fighting Cycles of Quiet Starvation Among the World’s Rural Poor, published by Action Against Hunger, authors Stephen Devereux, Bapu Vaitla and Samuel Hauenstein Swan offer a timely reminder of a frequently overlooked aspect of hunger in the developing world: seasonality. Tracy Cull and Katharine Vincent explore the book and the possibility of setting up an international judicial mechanism which would compel states to comply with the right to food.

The 2009 budget: WWF (The World Wide Fund for Nature) welcomes tax reforms, but cautions on public investment and finance guarantees.

Creating avenues for civic participation in the political, economic and cultural life of South African society

African Monitor congratulates the Minister of Finance for presenting a sober but very solid budget. We note the global economic context of his speech which indeed acknowledges the fact that the prospect of an economic cataclysm requires bold and innovative budgetary interventions.

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