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Centre for Policy Studies (CPS)

Full name and acronym: The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS)

Founding date: 1987

Objectives: CPS was formed to inform the transition from apartheid to a democratic South Africa. This black-led research organisation started as a unit at the University of the Witwatersrand but has, for the last nine years, become the leading independent policy research institution in South Africa. Against the background of the transition from apartheid to multi-party democracy, CPS in its formative years focussed its work on democracy and developmental challenges in South Africa. More recently however, its work centered on how to consolidate democracy in South Africa. At the same time, the scope of its work has been broadened to the rest of the African continent. It has consequently established collaborative relationship with number of organisations through the continent.

Main projects: Currently, our focus under the two programmes is as follows:

  • (a) Governance Programme: Local, provincial and national government, including the relations between them; the role of the state, particularly in the African setting; the African Union and the New partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD); poverty and inequality; Resourcing the state (including work on taxation and democracy); and the intersections, complementarities, contradictions between globalisation and governance.
  • (b) Democracy: Civil society, including state/civil society relations and the role of civil society as a countervailing force; Elections and electoral systems; race relations; the consolidation of democracy; democratic participation; service delivery; and citizenship and identity, especially in the era of globalisation.

    Our external partners currently include those in other African countries such as Uganda (Centre for Basic Research), while our overseas partners include the Institute for Development Studies (Sussex University).

    Outputs: Beside these activities CPS host a series of policy-oriented seminars and workshops and conducts policy training for legislators and other policy makers. CPS consciously strives to reflect the makeup of the South African Society in its structure, an important facet, given the country's racial and gender discriminatory background. To this end, we take pride in nurturing talented black researchers, many of whom now hold important positions in government, civil society and the private sector.

    Staff members: It currently has 21 staff members.

    Founding: CPS has received funding from number of national and international donor organisations including the Ford Foundation, Open Society Institute, the Mott Foundation and the Foundation in for Human Rights.

    Street Address: First Floor, No 9 Wellington Road, Parktown 2193, South Africa

    Postal address: P.O. Box 16488 Doornfontein 2028, South Africa

    tel: ++27 (11) 642 9820
    fax: ++27 (11) 643 4654
    website: http://www.cps.org.za/index.html

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