Making It Happen

Asad Alam, Renosi Mokate and Kathrin A. Plangemann

No 23739 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: South Africa has achieved a lot on its path of socio-economic transformation since the end of Apartheid in 1994. While many challenges remain to foster inclusive growth to address the triple challenges of unemployment, poverty, and inequality, some innovative approaches have been used to build more inclusive public institutions. These have helped to expand service delivery, strengthen quality, and improve the lives of millions of South Africans. Although much is known about the motivation and nature of the policies and institutional changes that drove this transformation, very little is known of the manner in which they were executed. With this book, Making It Happen, From Policies to Implementation, we offer a selection of twelve case studies to illustrate how policies and institutions were developed and implemented to improve specific public services. Done through interviews with senior policy makers, the book captures the how to of executing these policies in a variety of areas including increasing budget transparency, developing an intergovernmental fiscal system, strengthening tax administration, developing a modern performance monitoring and evaluation system, expanding HIV/AIDS treatment, reforming the social transfer system, strengthening statistics, creating a modern national identity system, developing a system for the management of biodiversity, modernizing the national road network management, developing the framework for renewable energy, and the formulation of the country’s much lauded constitution.

Keywords: Public Sector Development-Public Sector Management and Reform Public Sector Development-Public Sector Expenditure Policy Governance-National Governance Social Development-Social Analysis Macroeconomics and Economic Growth-Economic Policy; Institutions and Governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4648-0768-8
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