Author Guidelines - The Journal of Development Administration

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Aim

People centred – The Journal of Development Administration publishes papers that have implications for African and Global South development management or administration. The journal is people centred because we believe in people centric approaches to development administration. This is development with a human face. By putting people at the centre of development, practitioners, governments and agencies have greater chances of taking people out of poverty. This bottom-up approach to understanding poverty, planning against it and implementing poverty reduction strategies is seen as the best recipe for development.

Our definition of development administration is:

The process of implementing development policies, programmes, projects and activities which involves planning, organising, directing, coordinating, and controlling of public, private and voluntary resources and efforts to achieve developmental objectives.

Scope

The Journal considers articles with implications for development administration or management from a wide variety of interest areas and from a wide spectrum of disciplines. The editor works with an editorial team from across the globe derived from development sectors mainly in the social sciences. Specific areas covered include but are not limited to development management; resource mobilisation and fundraising; inclusive development; sustainable development; disability and development; gender and development; poverty; sustainable development; social services and development; human development; HIV/AIDS; child development; counselling; rural development; governance; disaster management; agriculture and livelihoods; and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

Types of manuscripts

The Journal accepts manuscripts in the form of original research reports, research summaries, book reviews, literature review articles including systematic reviews, think pieces, reports of practice and original frameworks. Other forms of papers may be published at the discretion of the Editor.

All manuscripts should show relevance to development administration, for example:

Having development, development administration or management or closely related concepts in the title, abstract and key words.
Having development, development administration or management or related key concepts in the introduction, background and literature.
Having implications, conclusions and recommendations for development, development administration or management.
Using development, development administration or management theories and literature through out.
Authors with development background, affiliations, qualifications and experience should indicate this.

Helpful tips

If your manuscript does not meet these requirements it can be rejected, or the review process will be delayed

Abstract must be 200 words maximum or very close to 200 – no references and subheadings in abstract
Introduction – one paragraph only, no references, the final sentence must inform the reader what the article contains or how it is structured
Using majority African (or Global South) references/authors/sources in the background, literature review, methodology, discussion; implications for social work. Literature from the Global South should be prioritised where African (or Global South) literature is not available.
Prioritizing African philosophy, theories, models and frameworks, and where these are not available, we request you to propose your own to guide your research or create your own after your research. Philosophies, theories, models and frameworks from the Global South should be prioritised where African (or Global South) ones are not available.
If you have done a literature review (scoping or systematic), provide a list of your sources (eg databases, libraries etc) and list of authors with works used in the review. Prioritize African sources.
Your conclusion must be one paragraph, no references.
Length of manuscript must be 5000 words maximum
Follow ASWNet formatting guide for headings, subheadings, citing and references
Ensure that you read your paper more carefully before submission to get rid of minor errors