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Chapter 1: Gender Budgeting Response in African Economies: Access and Future Matter -- Chapter 2: Gender Budgeting Responses on Gender-based Violence (GBV) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): Lessons from Selected Countries -- Chapter 3: Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Climate Change Financing: A Panacea for Confronting Climate Change Vulnerability in South Africa?- Chapter 4: The Political Economy of Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Nigeria -- Chapter 5: Parliamentary Female Representation and Party Candidate Selection Methods in Zambia -- Chapter 6: The Role of Legislature in Achieving Gender Responsive Budgeting in Nigeria.-Chapter 7: Gender Pay Gap and Pension Fund for Women in South Africa -- Chapter 8: Financial Inclusion for Women in Nigeria: Much Ado About Access -- Chapter 9: Financial Exclusion, Gender, and the Lure of Boko Haram Vesna Markovic and Sven Botha -- Chapter 10: The Role of Gender-budgeting in Mainstreaming Women in Peacebuilding in Africa -- Chapter 11: Can women put their breasts on a hot paraffin lantern and go to sleep? Interrogating the anguish of financing Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) with microcredits in Nigeria. .

Chapter 1: Gendered Finance: Inclusion and Transformation -- Chapter 2: Informal financial services in the financial inclusion matrix: gendered perspectives from Kenya and Zimbabwe -- Chapter 3: Understanding financial inclusion in Africa from the perspective of saving and borrowing patterns -- Chpater 4: The Political Socioeconomic Fallout of the Mismanagement of COVID-19 Public Funds in South Africa -- Chapter 5: Re-imagining informal settlements as spaces for enhancing women informal entrepreneurship in South Africa: a financial inclusion perspective -- Chapter 6: The Role of Institutions in Promoting Financial Inclusion of MSMEs in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 7: Fintech and Financial inclusion: Closing the gender gap -- Chapter 8: Financing Women and Gender Inclusion in Cote d'Ivoire's Peacebuilding Process -- Chapter 9: Digital Financial Inclusion for Women in Africa: Prospects and Challenges -- Chapter 10: Gender and Digital Financial Inclusion: Assessment of Rural/Urban Dichotomy in Microfinance and Table Banking Operations in ECOWAS -- Chapter 11: Gendered Dimension for Digital Financial Inclusion in Nigeria.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Story of Inclusion, Development, Economy and Women in South Africa -- Chapter 3: Theorising Feminist Political Economy Analysis -- Chapter 4: Gendered Narratives on Financial Inclusion: Global and Continental Context -- Chapter 5: South African Context of Financial Inclusion and Exclusion: Evolution and Lessons -- Chapter 6: South African Government and Digital Financial Inclusion -- Chapter 7: Impact of Financial Inclusion on Women's Empowerment in South Africa: Perspectives and Lessons.

This paper describes a study of South Africans' national perception and alignment to financial inclusion for women. It explains the impact of institutional roles and governance on financial inclusion in South Africa. There is ample evidence of government eff orts on implementing financial inclusion in the country. Still, the significance of how governance and institutions promote access to finance for women has been overlooked in the literature. The main objective of this study is to identify the impact of institutional quality and governance on financial inclusion for women in South Africa. Data for analytical purposes supporting the research has been obtained from primary sources through semi-structured open-ended interviews collected from 2019 to 2020. The research approach employed and coded data from a recent study on 30 women entrepreneurs, five key policymakers on women empowerment and five financial institutions supervisors on financial inclusion for women. The results obtained suggest that there is little institutional quality and governance on financial inclusion for women, and further eff orts must be intensified to achieve equal access to financial services in South Africa. Furthermore, the paper presents recommendations for policymakers that, if implemented, would prove fruitful. Policymakers are expected to facilitate gender-mainstreaming/strategies and working policies, monitoring and evaluation, financial literacy, and transparent legal framework on financial policies addressing women.

Many scholars have written on the challenges of ensuring access to water in South Africa, and much research has been done on the national water policy of the South African Government, yet major challenges facing the water sector persist. This study presents a human rights approach as a theoretical foundation for investigating the basic right to water access, with a specific focus on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the three tiers of governance. Existing literature on the history of water access was explored regarding the global as well as the South African history of water rights. The main focus of this study was SDG no. 6, which is related to issues regarding water access in South Africa. The study concluded that the human right of having access to water is a crucial issue to be treated with caution by the government in order for the poor to have basic infrastructure.

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The paper provides a critical analysis of the South African government's economic response to the COVID-19 crisis and the current roll-out of vaccinations in South Africa. In preparation for the vaccination roll-out, South Africa set up national strategic committees to facilitate the smooth distribution of the vaccination process. However, despite being one of the first African countries to receive the vaccines, the effective roll-out is still ranked low. The paper used qualitative descriptive analysis to discuss the strategies promoting community understanding and limiting vaccination misinformation. The findings project that the government must deliver an effective and protected vaccine to reduce morbidity and mortality from COVID-19. However, the mere accessibility of a vaccine is not enough to secure extensive immunological security; the immunisation must be accepted by all stakeholders and the public in the country. Vaccine uncertainty is a primary impediment to vaccine acceptance and the achievement of people's immunity, which is mandatory to protect the marginalised populations in the country. The paper concludes that various strategic efforts made by the South Africa government to deal with the disease and the roll-out of vaccination in responding to COVID-19 remains a significant challenge. It then recommends that there should be a coordinated approach by both government and stakeholders to ensure effective distribution and reduce the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the country.

Since the emergence of ICT or digitalization in our contemporary world, especially in Africa, the use of Social Media as channels of communication has found expressions in political, economic, social, and business aspects of human dealings and engagements. This development calls for rigorous academic debate regarding the effectiveness of social media platforms as tools that citizens can use to influence government policies and decision making. With reference to the Nigerian youth #EndSARs# peaceful protests, this paper examines the possible outcomes of maximizing social media platforms to influence government policy and agitate for good governance in a democratic society. Drawing critical insights from the efforts of Nigerian youth on the strategic use of social media, this study engages secondary sources to understand and explain strategies and mechanisms to influence government policies and decision making via practical usage of ICT and social media in the age of digitalization. The paper concludes that the style of the #EndSars protest may inspire other youth-led social media protests in other parts of Africa and beyond to pressurize governments for good governance.