Archival Significance
A collection of academic essays assessing Zimbabwe’s decentralisation policy roughly a decade after independence, produced by a joint research programme based at the University of Zimbabwe specifically established to study rural and regional planning.
Institutional Context
Published by the Joint Programme of Teaching and Research in Rural and Regional Planning, Department of Rural and Urban Planning, University of Zimbabwe.
Content Summary
Presents essays examining the practical limits encountered in decentralising government and planning functions in Zimbabwe during the 1980s.
Research Utility
A primary academic source for researchers of Zimbabwean local governance and decentralisation policy, useful for understanding how the government’s structural reforms were being critically assessed from within Zimbabwean academia itself in the post-independence period.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.