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    Decolonising public administration content curriculum in a post-colonial South African university: policy monitoring and evaluation perspective
    (University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2022) Makiva, Msuthukazi; Ile, Isioma; Fagbadebo, Omololu
    One of the major areas of focus in public administration discipline is policy monitoring and evaluation. This paper focuses on how this is understood in selected indigenous communities in South Africa. The current public administration curriculum content taught in Universities hardly recognises and reflects bits of practices and realities of indigenous communities, especially in conducting policy monitoring and evaluation. The paper unearths the origins and current state of public administration content curriculum updates taught in selected higher institutions of learning, with specific reference to policy monitoring and evaluation. The article further sought to understand public administration discipline content curriculum alignment with South Africa’s contextual realities in selected indigenous communities of the Eastern Cape. Using explorative research, the study discovered that the teachings of public administration hardly reflect the realities among the indigenous communities. This presents public administration discipline to be epistemic universal instead of being epistemic diverse. The conclusion is that as much as African scholars learn from their European counterparts, all forms of knowledge ought to be documented and amalgamated into curriculum content. It is critical, therefore, that a hybrid will be suitable for policy monitoring and evaluation. In addition, indigenous policy monitoring and evaluation knowledge should be accredited and included in the curriculum content of public administration discipline.
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    The impact of internal control practices on minimizing fraud in companies
    (2021-12-01) Cavaliere, Luigi Pio Leonardo; Lourens, Melanie Elizabeth; Muda, Iskandar; Kumar, Anil; Chabani, Zakariya; Swadia, Bhavik U.; Rajest, S. Suman; Regin, R.
    Internal control structures are a collection of protocols and regulations that protect an organization's properties, minimizing possibilities for theft and maintaining an organization's potential. For an entity to operate, considerations must be identified to guarantee the organization's smooth functioning like materials, machinery, cash, etc. Certain associations were misled by their members and consumers. This methodology concerns quantitative evidence, as the name implies. There is a range of agreed methodological criteria for the method's feasibility, such as the number of respondents needed for statistically important outcomes. The quantitative method will be implemented to study employees' points of view in the workplace to internal control practices. It will measure the employee’s opinion based on a Likert scale ranging from 1 representing strongly agree to 5 representing strongly disagree. Failure to comply with internal controls is one of the key obstacles to producing good financial performance in companies. While there have been many initiatives in environmental regulation and regulations and internal auditing, a firm's financial success has seen nothing in corporate governance and government policy. Therefore, the relationship between internal control systems and the financial performance of entities must be defined. The research ends with the significant predictors of financial success that involve control setting, internal audit feature, risk reduction, control practices, and corporate governance. The research found that companies that provide effective frameworks for internal control depend on positive financial performance and investment valuation. Failure to respect internal controls is one of the main barriers to successful business success.
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    Imperatives for co-operative governance : a case study of local municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
    (KRE Publishers, 2016) Govender, Ivan Gunass
    Despite the South African government’s effort to enhance co-operative governance, the high rate of service delivery protests confirm that co-operative governance has not fully developed as a mechanism to improve service delivery. The aim of the study was to ascertain factors influencing co-operative governance and the perceptions of local government regarding the effectiveness of both the National and Provincial Governments’ support for co-operative governance. The study used the quantitative research method to investigate the needs and extent of co-operative governance in local municipalities with the KwaZulu-Natal province as a case study. The key issues municipalities consider important for improving intergovernmental relations (IGR) include communication and consultation, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), concurrent function clarity and technical support. The paper recommends the implementation of a participatory monitoring and evaluation (PME) system to enhance communications and alignment of the integrated development plans across the three spheres of government.
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    Monitoring and evaluation of corporate social responsibility programmes in South Africa
    (Virtus Interpress, 2015) Rampersad, Renitha
    The South African corporate sector invests millions to support community development and social programs. One of the more fundamental issues about sustainability in a business context is the fact that directors have a fiduciary duty to take into account interests of those stakeholders other than investors/shareholders. This therefore places major importance on sustainability reporting through reports on governance, economic, social and environmental performance and is increasingly being regarded as a key form of stakeholder engagement, and the most accepted formal way of communicating measured outcomes to all stakeholders. A number of methodologies may exist for the development of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies or “how-to guides” for community engagement and investment, however, it lacks development in the field of CSR Programme Evaluation. Integrated approaches to the measurement thereof are still in expanding stages of development and statistical data and/or empirical evidence is lacking at this point. Trust and relationships take time to build but are valuable assets, therefore a company must show it has listened and acted in response to stakeholder concerns, this means that ongoing communication and reporting back to stakeholders is a very important component in any engagement strategy. It is therefore important for the corporate sector to not only evaluate the effectiveness of their CSR Programmes, but also to measure the impact on both their beneficiary communities and their business and subsequently on the Return on Investment (ROI). This paper will highlight a case of the South African corporate sectors attempts to evaluate its effectiveness and impact on beneficiary communities and how they quantify the impact of the investment through successful CSR interventions.