Abstract:
Sustainable development anchors on meeting societal needs through service
provision and economic development. Social sciences unleash the important
aspects of meeting society’s needs through broad literature and scholarship.
However, there is a scarcity in the literature that conjoins industrial
development and the social sciences. A myriad of ephemeral scholarship exists
on how Zimbabwe fares in service provision and industrialisation. To avoid a
demise in socially sustainable development, the article seeks to coalesce the
aspects of social sciences, industrialisation and service provision in the context
of the Zimbabwean experience. The article explores efforts and challenges to
service provision for the country from the colonial era to the present day to
capture various perspectives that build up on the country’s present situation.
It compares the efficiency of the private sector to the public sector in service
provision and posits recommendable insights that provide a way forward for
the betterment of service provision in the country. It describes the efforts,
challenges and opportunities for local organisations towards fulfilling their
mandate to efficiently provide services to the public.
Description:
The journal is a forum for the discussion of ideas, scholarly opinions and
case studies of community outreach and engagement. Communities are
both defined in terms of people found in a given locale and defined cohorts,
like the children, the youth, the elderly and those living with a disability.
The strongest view is that getting to know each community or
subcommunity is a function of their deliberate participation in matters
affecting them by the community itself. The journal is produced bi annually
