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    Mentorship as a tool of transformation in the navy
    (2011-10-24) Mnguni, Makhaza George
    This research report focuses on mentorship programme as a tool of transformation in the SA Navy. The first chapter of the paper provides a historical perspective of transformation in the SA Navy. It traces back the process of transformation by making reference to the White Paper on Transformation of the Public Service, 1996, the White Paper on Defence and the process of defence review. It is further outlined that mentorship as a tool for skills transfer has always been embedded in the SA Navy’s culture of force preparation, managed successfully through the divisional system (Chain of command). The failure of mentorship programme in the SA Navy is attributed to various factors as expounded in the problem statement, and there are three dimensions that are identified as the centre of the problem. The first dimension is that mentorship is not conceived as an integral part of leadership and management’s responsibility. The second dimension is that the majority of people in the middle and senior positions of leadership and management are white males, and they appear to be the centre of gravity against transformation. The third dimension is that the Department of Defence’s Human Resource Strategy 2010 has drastic implications on the future employability of a large segment of white males, who in essence are required to drive the strategy. This strategy seeks to address demographic representation within the SANDF (SA Navy). The literature review (Chapters 2 and 3) focuses on discourses around the nature and origin of mentorship, the role of power, human behaviour and organisations as social entities. The concepts of mentorship, power, change and organisation are explored in depth. The linking of these concepts enriches our understanding of how organisations work, how people compete for scarce resources, how power can be used to protect interests or even derail or advance change imperatives. On the other hand that provided the theoretical basis for analysing the impact of power distribution imbalances in organisations, in relation to mentorship in the SA Navy. Chapter 4 focuses on the research methodology and design, and Chapter 5 presents the general perceptions on the implementation of mentorship programme in the SA Navy, by presenting the data collected and the analysis thereof. In this chapter analysis of the data collected through the questionnaires takes place, and the views of protégés that are enrolled in the mentorship programme in the SA Navy are presented. The last chapter provides the findings and the recommendations of this research
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    Terms of Reference for conducting a comparative analysis of diagnostic tools for National Evaluation Systems in Africa
    (2023-10-23) CLEAR-AA
    CLEAR-AA, DEval and WFP are collaborating to strengthen evaluation capacity development across the African Continent. At a kick-off workshop at the Evidence 2023 Conference in September 2023 in Entebbe, Uganda, the three partners agreed on the need for a deeper understanding of the landscape of diagnostic tools and processes, towards improving interventions focused on the strengthening or establishment of national M&E systems, and more specifically to help focus their work in Evaluation Capacity Development [ECD], particularly across the African continent.
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    The role of peace missions in sustaining peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    (2023) Nyuykonge, Wiykiynyuy Charles
    This study examined efforts aimed at ending conflict and restoring order and political stability in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, under the auspices of the United Nations peacekeeping mission. As one of the largest and most extensively funded peace operations across the globe, the UN’s mission in the DRC represents paradoxes and contradictions of the Liberal Peacebuilding approach, from the size of deployment to the scale of its funding, given the failure to end cycles of conflict in the country. In departing from the dominant socio-economic and ethnographic lenses from which the elusiveness of peace in the country have been examined in many studies, this study focused on the institutional guiding frameworks that have informed the succession of UN peacekeeping missions and madates over the years. A significant amount of research on UN peacekeeping missions in the DRC have relied on the Liberal Peacebuilding discourse and how it proposes to deliver peaceful and a prosperous nation. This study therefore interrogated the UN missions’ performance in implementing the Liberal peace framework. It examined if indeed the location of the UN mission within the Liberal Peacebuilding models may help explain its successes and failures, and whether this approach informs its inability to ensure sustainable peace in the country. Furthermore, the study examined the prospects that the transition to Sustaining peace holds for peace and stability in the DRC. To this end, it sought to understand, whether and how the new Sustaining Peace approach could overcome the pitfalls of the Liberal Peacebuilding model; and its potency to resolve this partly conceptual and partly practical quagmire. This study adopted a descriptive method of analysis based on a case study survey design, using both primary and secondary data, and qualitative analysis. Findings from interviews with the UN and other stakeholders indicate that in contrast to clear academic bifurcations on the meaning of these two frames of action, there is not such clarity within the UN, about the conceptual equivalence of it's operational frames. Sustaining peace, the study found, is a muscular conceptual matrix whose operationsalisation is not linear. It recommends conceptual harmony between theory and practice among other measures, as panacea for peace in the DRC. This justified the usefulness of this enquiry in ending the elucivenss of peace in the DRC.