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Decentralisation and community participation : local development and municipal politics in Cameroon
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/57215 Decentralisation and community participation : local development and municipal politics in Cameroon Sharp, John numviv@gmail.com Numvi Gwaibi, Wallace UCTD Humanities theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2015. This thesis explores how policies of decentralisation and community participation adopted in Cameroon in 1996 have played out on the ground since 2004. These reforms were carried out amid economic crisis, structural adjustment and political upheaval. At the time, popular sentiment was that change on the economic and political fronts was imperative. However, the ruling elite, some of whom had been shuttling around the state apparatus since independence, feared that succumbing to popular demands for change was tantamount to political suicide, as was the case elsewhere on the continent. These elites thwarted opposition demands for a sovereign national conference to discuss constitutional reform. On the other hand, the Francophone-dominated elite fiercely objected to Anglophone demands for the restoration of the Federal state that was dissolved in 1972. Instead, decentralisation was presented as a genuine forum for grassroots autonomy and municipal councils as credible arenas for community participation in local development. This study adopts an interdisciplinary approach to unearth the permutations of decentralisation and community participation in Cameroon and documents how local issues influence and are influenced by national policies and processes. tm2016 Anthropology and Archaeology PhD Unrestricted 2016-10-14T07:32:16Z 2016-10-14T07:32:16Z 2016-08-31 2015 Thesis Numvi Gwaibi, W 2015, Decentralisation and community participation : local development and municipal politics in Cameroon, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/57215> S2016 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/57215 en © 2016 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Humanities theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Decentralisation and community participation : local development and municipal politics in Cameroon |
| title | Decentralisation and community participation : local development and municipal politics in Cameroon |
| title_full | Decentralisation and community participation : local development and municipal politics in Cameroon |
| title_fullStr | Decentralisation and community participation : local development and municipal politics in Cameroon |
| title_full_unstemmed | Decentralisation and community participation : local development and municipal politics in Cameroon |
| title_short | Decentralisation and community participation : local development and municipal politics in Cameroon |
| title_sort | decentralisation and community participation local development and municipal politics in cameroon |
| topic | UCTD Humanities theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/57215 |