Open for submissions: Special Issue to be published in APSDPR

We invite authors to participate in the Special Issue to be published in Africa’s Public Service Delivery & Performance Review (APSDPR), an open access scholarly journal published by AOSIS.

Title: Advancing Knowledge for Social Economic Transformation in a Dynamic World

Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2023

Expected publication date: 30 November 2023

Introduction

The call for papers for a special issue on Governance and leadership, and sub-themed around ‘Advancing knowledge for Social Transformation in a Dynamic Global World’ is intended to share knowledge and experiences of both academics and practitioners about governance and leadership.

Recommended topics

The following themes and subthemes will be broadly covered in this special issue:

Theme 1: Society, Governance, and the Development Agenda

• Rule of Law, Elections, Democracy, and Human Rights
• Accountability, Participation and Service Delivery
• Public Financial systems and Reforms
• Administration of Justice and Society cohesion
• Governance, leadership, and Administration of Educational Institutions
• Governance, leadership, and administration in Health Contexts
• Corporate Governance and Business Management Best Practices
• Corruption, Public service delivery, and Society
• Public sector Reforms and Administrative Efficiency
• Gender and the Governance Agenda
• Local Governance, Decentralization and Regional Governance
• Land governance and management systems in Africa

Theme 2: Public Procurement Governance

• Public Procurement reforms
• Value for money in public procurement
• Transparency and accountability
• Procurement fraud and corruption
• Professionalization of public procurement

Theme 3: Monitoring and Evaluation Practices in Diverse environments

• Trends in monitoring and evaluation
• Evaluating the progress of SDGs in the African context
• Professionalization of Monitoring and Evaluation
• Evaluation research in diverse contexts
• Monitoring and evaluation of education outcomes
• Monitoring and evaluating healthy delivery and outcomes
• Monitoring and evaluation of agricultural services
• Monitoring and evaluating engineering works and projects
• Monitoring and evaluation in the civil society sector context.

Manuscript Information

Manuscript contributions may consist of the following:

• Manuscript submissions should be in English.
• Original Research articles must fully comply with the APSDPR journal guidelines for manuscripts (maximum 7000 words, 60 or fewer references with limited self-referencing; no more than 7 table/Figures).
• Interested authors must consult the journal’s guidelines for manuscript submissions.

Submission Procedure

To submit your article to the Africa’s Public Service Delivery and Performance Review journal, please visit the journal website at apsdpr.org and select ‘Social Economic Transformation in a Dynamic World’ as the article type. The submission portal will be accessible on apsdpr.org after login in with your personal user credentials. For more details on the submission procedure, go to the journal submission procedure link. All submissions will undergo anonymous review to guarantee high scientific quality and relevance to the subject. The final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers and at the sole discretion of the Editor-in-Chief.

Of course, we will be happy to provide you with any assistance during the submission and application process. Kindly enquire at submissions@apsdpr.org

We would be honoured to receive a positive reply from you and look forward to receiving your article.

All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of the guest editors:

• Dominique E. Uwizeyimana – dominiqueu@uj.ac.za
• Benon Basheka – bbasheka@gmail.com
• Hardlife Zvoushe – zvousheh@sociol.uz.ac.zw

Open for submissions: Special Issue to be published in APSDPR