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Mary Mangai

0000-0002-0879-0911

Senior Lecturer (Commerce, management, tourism and services)

Pretoria, South Africa

Dr Mary Mangai is a Senior lecturer at the School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA), University of Pretoria, South Africa. She obtained her Masters in Econ Devt and Policy Analysis from the University of Nottingham, UK. She proceeded to do her PhD in Management Sciences from the Department of Public Administration, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherland. She has vast experience in research, training, teaching, supervision, publishing, and consultancy in public policy and management, citizen co-production and co-creation of service delivery, social protection, public health, local government and Pan-Africanism. She provides consultancy services to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), African Union (AU), Enterprise UP and the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA). She is a grant recipient of The World Academic of Sciences (TWAS), the German Research Foundation and the NRF. She is an editorial board member of the foremost Public Administration

Publications

  • Case study-co-production of secondary health services in Nigeria and Ghana
  • Co-production as deep engagement: Improving and sustaining access to clean water in Ghana and Nigeria
  • You Just Have to Ask Coproduction of Primary Healthcare in Ghana and Nigeria
  • Assessing service delivery: Public perception of municipal service delivery in South Africa
  • An alternative solution to service delivery problems in developing countries
  • Institutionalising coproduction: A potential service delivery policy change for rural Africa
  • A Comparative Policy for the COVID-19 Emergency Management of Frontline Health Workers in Selected African Countries
  • Factors affecting the performance of South African municipal officials: stakeholders’ perspectives
  • The dynamics of failing service delivery in Nigeria and Ghana
  • A review of classical thoughts on contemporary public administration in developing countries
  • Enhancing coproduction through the lens of policy development: a comparison between two developing countries
  • The Dynamics of Failing Service Delivery in Nigeria and Ghana
  • Stakeholders’ experience of the innovative ways of coproducing neighborhood security in Johannesburg, South Africa
  • An Alternative Solution to Service Delivery Problems in Developing Countries
  • The Police and Citizens as Co-Producers of Crime Prevention in Johannesburg
  • Upward mobility implications on the aspirant middle class in emerging economies
  • Engaging communities as partners: policing strategies in Johannesburg
  • Influences on e‐governance in Africa: A study of economic, political, and infrastructural dynamics
  • The journal and the quest for epistemic justice
  • Hybrid governance and intersectional discrimination: An examination of women's experiences in South Africa
  • Politicising violent gangs in selected Southern African countries: a comparative review of violent crime
  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of human security threats and approaches in South Africa: Policing the known, governing the unknown

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