Ronelle Burger
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 232797 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ronelle Burger |
| NOMBRES | Ronelle |
| APELLIDO | Burger |
| FIRMA | BURGER R |
| AFILIACIONES | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2463-5265 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 102 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The mental health impact for adolescents ageing out of South Africa’s child support grant
While the benefits of cash transfers are well documented, little attention has been given to the negative effects of their cessation, particularly on mental health. We examined this question using South African longitudinal survey data comprising 7899 unique adolescents tracked as they age out of the Child Support Grant , the country’s largest cash transfer. We find that loss of the Child Support Grant leads to a decline in mental health equivale…
Priority interventions for reducing stunting in the complementary feeding age group in South Africa
In South Africa, approximately one in four children under the age of five is stunted (NDoH, Stats SA, SAMRC & ICF, 2019) – a rate that has remained persistently high. The enduring social and economic impact of stunting, coupled with rising food prices, underscores the need for interventions that are both effective and affordable. This review synthesises global evidence on strategies for children aged 6–24 months and evaluates their suitability wi…
Does enhanced HIV prevention, diagnosis, and linkage to care reduce hospitalisation in high HIV-burden communities in Zambia and South Africa? findings from the HPTN 071 (PopART) randomised trial
The objective of this study is to explore if a community-based HIV combination prevention intervention reduced inpatient hospitalisations in Zambia and South Africa by diagnosing HIV and TB in earlier stages of disease progression, thereby preventing severe disease and new infections. As part of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 071 trial, hospitalisation data from a cohort of 16 968 consenting randomly sampled adults aged 18–44 years were…
Malaria prophylaxis stock-outs and birth- and maternal outcomes in Zimbabwe
It is crucial to ensure the availability of Sulphadoxine/pyrimethamine drugs at the facility level. We recommend that policymakers invest in pharmaceutical information systems and stock ordering systems to prioritise malaria prevention and ensure frequent availability of malaria prophylaxis in Zimbabwe. On the demand-side, more frequent facility visits can also help to ensure adherence
Longitudinal changes in Covid-19 vaccination intent among South African adults
Willingness to receive a COVID-19 vaccine has increased among adults in South Africa, and those who were entrenched in their reluctance make up a small proportion of the country's population. Younger adults, those in formal housing, and those who trusted COVID-19 information on social media were more likely to be hesitant. Given that stated vaccination intent may not translate into behaviour, our finding that three-quarters of the population were…
The health impact of free access to antiretroviral therapy in South Africa
‘The nurse did not even greet me’
INTRODUCTION: Universal Health Coverage is not only about access to health services but also about access to high-quality care, since poor experiences may deter patients from accessing care. Evidence shows that quality of care drives health outcomes, yet little is known about non-clinical dimensions of care, and patients' experience thereof relative to satisfaction with visits. This paper investigates the role of non-clinical dimensions of care i…
Lockdown-Associated Hunger May Be Affecting Breastfeeding
The impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had, and will continue to have, on food security and child health is especially concerning. A rapid, Short Message Service (SMS) Maternal and Child Health survey was conducted in South Africa in June 2020 ( n = 3140), with a follow-up in July 2020 ( n = 2287). This was a national cross-sectional survey conducted among pregnant women and mothers registered with the MomConnect mhealth platform. Logistic reg…
Testing an Incentive-Based and Community Health Worker Package Intervention to Improve Maternal Health and Nutrition Outcomes
Examining the Relationship Between Resources and the Likelihood to Participate in Formal Volunteering in Post-apartheid South Africa
We examine the relationship between likelihood to volunteer and a range of human capital, social capital, religious capital and ubuntu variables in South Africa seven years after the official end of apartheid. Using the 2001 World Values Survey we find that education is positively associated with volunteering, but employment has a negative association with volunteering when including controls for wealth and income. Religiosity has a strong positi…
Do Better-Performing Nongovernmental Organizations Report More Accurately? Evidence from Financial Accounts in Uganda
We use Benford’s Law to investigate inaccurate financial reports of a representative sample of Ugandan nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). We find that 25% of the sample provided information that did not conform to the Benford distribution, suggesting potential misreporting. NGOs with better ratings from their beneficiaries are more likely to submit credible information. This contradicts the belief that upward accountability demands crowd out s…
Demand-Side Causes and Covariates of Late Antenatal Care Access in Cape Town, South Africa
An Incentive-Based and Community Health Worker Package Intervention to Improve Early Utilization of Antenatal Care
Measuring Quality Gaps in TB Screening in South Africa Using Standardised Patient Analysis
This is the first multi-district Standardised Patient (SP) study in South Africa. It measures the quality of TB screening at primary healthcare (PHC) facilities. We hypothesise that TB screening protocols and best practices are poorly adhered to at the PHC level. The SP method allows researchers to observe how healthcare providers identify, test and advise presumptive TB patients, and whether this aligns with clinical protocols and best practice.…
Global Non-Profit Chains and the Challenges of Development Aid Contracting
This paper employs Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost approach to assess contracting. We find that donor contracting with global non-profit chains is conducive to NPO opportunism due to the asset specificity of the contracts, infrequent contracting, and the uncertainty of outcomes. These risks are further exacerbated by the weak enforcement mechanisms available in many developing countries. Williamson’s framework predicts that these risks would…
Household Social Mobility for Paid Domestic Workers and Other Low-Skilled Women Employed in South Africa
This paper explores the theme of patronage by examining how the social mobility prospects of paid domestic workers differ from other vulnerable low-skilled black and colored women in post-apartheid South Africa. The literature provides contradictory predictions about the effects of a relationship with an affluent employer on a vulnerable employed woman and her household. Using data from the 2002–8 General Household Survey, this study uses propens…
Richer, wiser and in better health? The socioeconomic gradient in hypertension prevalence, unawareness and control in South Africa
The Capability Threshold
We argue that a multi-dimensional approach to categorizing the middle class is more appropriate for a polarized developing country and propose an alternative measurement rooted in the ideas of empowerment and capability. We find that the “empowered middle class” has expanded significantly since 1993 and also constitutes a larger share of vulnerable subgroups such as blacks, female-headed households and rural inhabitants. Differing trends between …
The Long Walk
Availability and acceptability of HIV counselling and testing services. A qualitative study comparing clients’ experiences of accessing HIV testing at public sector primary health care facilities or n…
Realised access to HCT is dependent on availability and acceptability of HCT services. Those who utilised either a NGO mobile service or a public PHC facility perceived both service types as available and acceptable. Mobile NGO services provided an accessible opportunity for those who would otherwise not have tested at that time. Policy makers should consider the perceptions and experiences of those accessing HCT services when increasing access t…
Why Pay Ngo S to Involve the Community
We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to, i.e. subsidizing, NGOs to increase community participation. We show that the introduction of such a ‘participation subsidy’ may reduce beneficiary welfare. Thus, eliminating community participation from the set of conditions for funding an NGO may in fact benefit target communities. We show how our theoretical analysis may be operationalized by applying it to data from the NGO sect…
A Model of Nongovernmental Organization Regulation with an Application to Uganda
We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), where future grants are conditional on prior spending of some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such regulation induces some NGOs to increase current project spending but imposes wasteful costs of compliance verification on all NGOs. Under a large class of parametric configurations, we find that regulation increases t…
Receive Grants or Perish? The Survival Prospects of Ugandan Non-Governmental Organisations
This study examines survival patterns in a large, representative panel of Ugandan non-governmental organisations (NGOs) between 2002 and 2008. It finds no evidence that more effective or more altruistic NGOs have a greater likelihood of survival. The main determinant of survival appears to be access to grants, and NGOs without grants struggle to survive. An investigation of the grant allocation mechanism suggests that effectiveness does not incre…
Reconsidering the Case for Enhancing Accountability Via Regulation
This paper considers dangers and pitfalls associated with a range of oversight options and scenarios, including self-regulation, government regulation, donor monitoring and community participation. The paper outlines the blind spots and sources of potential bias associated with each of these oversight mechanisms. Examining the Ugandan case study we find that perceptions of corruption and ineffectiveness tarnished the reputation of the sector, but…
Promoting Transparency in the NGO Sector
Using an Asset Index to Assess Trends in Poverty in Seven Sub-Saharan African Countries
Promoting Transparency in the NGO Sector
Reconsidering the Case for Enhancing Accountability Via Regulation
This paper considers dangers and pitfalls associated with a range of oversight options and scenarios, including self-regulation, government regulation, donor monitoring and community participation. The paper outlines the blind spots and sources of potential bias associated with each of these oversight mechanisms. Examining the Ugandan case study we find that perceptions of corruption and ineffectiveness tarnished the reputation of the sector, but…
The Long Walk
Examining the Relationship Between Resources and the Likelihood to Participate in Formal Volunteering in Post-apartheid South Africa
We examine the relationship between likelihood to volunteer and a range of human capital, social capital, religious capital and ubuntu variables in South Africa seven years after the official end of apartheid. Using the 2001 World Values Survey we find that education is positively associated with volunteering, but employment has a negative association with volunteering when including controls for wealth and income. Religiosity has a strong positi…
Household Social Mobility for Paid Domestic Workers and Other Low-Skilled Women Employed in South Africa
This paper explores the theme of patronage by examining how the social mobility prospects of paid domestic workers differ from other vulnerable low-skilled black and colored women in post-apartheid South Africa. The literature provides contradictory predictions about the effects of a relationship with an affluent employer on a vulnerable employed woman and her household. Using data from the 2002–8 General Household Survey, this study uses propens…
Global Non-Profit Chains and the Challenges of Development Aid Contracting
This paper employs Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost approach to assess contracting. We find that donor contracting with global non-profit chains is conducive to NPO opportunism due to the asset specificity of the contracts, infrequent contracting, and the uncertainty of outcomes. These risks are further exacerbated by the weak enforcement mechanisms available in many developing countries. Williamson’s framework predicts that these risks would…
Richer, wiser and in better health? The socioeconomic gradient in hypertension prevalence, unawareness and control in South Africa
Why Pay Ngo S to Involve the Community
We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to, i.e. subsidizing, NGOs to increase community participation. We show that the introduction of such a ‘participation subsidy’ may reduce beneficiary welfare. Thus, eliminating community participation from the set of conditions for funding an NGO may in fact benefit target communities. We show how our theoretical analysis may be operationalized by applying it to data from the NGO sect…
A Model of Nongovernmental Organization Regulation with an Application to Uganda
We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), where future grants are conditional on prior spending of some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such regulation induces some NGOs to increase current project spending but imposes wasteful costs of compliance verification on all NGOs. Under a large class of parametric configurations, we find that regulation increases t…
Using an Asset Index to Assess Trends in Poverty in Seven Sub-Saharan African Countries
Promoting Transparency in the NGO Sector
Reconsidering the Case for Enhancing Accountability Via Regulation
This paper considers dangers and pitfalls associated with a range of oversight options and scenarios, including self-regulation, government regulation, donor monitoring and community participation. The paper outlines the blind spots and sources of potential bias associated with each of these oversight mechanisms. Examining the Ugandan case study we find that perceptions of corruption and ineffectiveness tarnished the reputation of the sector, but…
Receive Grants or Perish? The Survival Prospects of Ugandan Non-Governmental Organisations
This study examines survival patterns in a large, representative panel of Ugandan non-governmental organisations (NGOs) between 2002 and 2008. It finds no evidence that more effective or more altruistic NGOs have a greater likelihood of survival. The main determinant of survival appears to be access to grants, and NGOs without grants struggle to survive. An investigation of the grant allocation mechanism suggests that effectiveness does not incre…
Availability and acceptability of HIV counselling and testing services. A qualitative study comparing clients’ experiences of accessing HIV testing at public sector primary health care facilities or n…
Realised access to HCT is dependent on availability and acceptability of HCT services. Those who utilised either a NGO mobile service or a public PHC facility perceived both service types as available and acceptable. Mobile NGO services provided an accessible opportunity for those who would otherwise not have tested at that time. Policy makers should consider the perceptions and experiences of those accessing HCT services when increasing access t…
Why Pay Ngo S to Involve the Community
We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to, i.e. subsidizing, NGOs to increase community participation. We show that the introduction of such a ‘participation subsidy’ may reduce beneficiary welfare. Thus, eliminating community participation from the set of conditions for funding an NGO may in fact benefit target communities. We show how our theoretical analysis may be operationalized by applying it to data from the NGO sect…
A Model of Nongovernmental Organization Regulation with an Application to Uganda
We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), where future grants are conditional on prior spending of some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such regulation induces some NGOs to increase current project spending but imposes wasteful costs of compliance verification on all NGOs. Under a large class of parametric configurations, we find that regulation increases t…
The Capability Threshold
We argue that a multi-dimensional approach to categorizing the middle class is more appropriate for a polarized developing country and propose an alternative measurement rooted in the ideas of empowerment and capability. We find that the “empowered middle class” has expanded significantly since 1993 and also constitutes a larger share of vulnerable subgroups such as blacks, female-headed households and rural inhabitants. Differing trends between …
The Long Walk
Measuring Quality Gaps in TB Screening in South Africa Using Standardised Patient Analysis
This is the first multi-district Standardised Patient (SP) study in South Africa. It measures the quality of TB screening at primary healthcare (PHC) facilities. We hypothesise that TB screening protocols and best practices are poorly adhered to at the PHC level. The SP method allows researchers to observe how healthcare providers identify, test and advise presumptive TB patients, and whether this aligns with clinical protocols and best practice.…
Global Non-Profit Chains and the Challenges of Development Aid Contracting
This paper employs Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost approach to assess contracting. We find that donor contracting with global non-profit chains is conducive to NPO opportunism due to the asset specificity of the contracts, infrequent contracting, and the uncertainty of outcomes. These risks are further exacerbated by the weak enforcement mechanisms available in many developing countries. Williamson’s framework predicts that these risks would…
Household Social Mobility for Paid Domestic Workers and Other Low-Skilled Women Employed in South Africa
This paper explores the theme of patronage by examining how the social mobility prospects of paid domestic workers differ from other vulnerable low-skilled black and colored women in post-apartheid South Africa. The literature provides contradictory predictions about the effects of a relationship with an affluent employer on a vulnerable employed woman and her household. Using data from the 2002–8 General Household Survey, this study uses propens…
Richer, wiser and in better health? The socioeconomic gradient in hypertension prevalence, unawareness and control in South Africa
Demand-Side Causes and Covariates of Late Antenatal Care Access in Cape Town, South Africa
An Incentive-Based and Community Health Worker Package Intervention to Improve Early Utilization of Antenatal Care
‘The nurse did not even greet me’
INTRODUCTION: Universal Health Coverage is not only about access to health services but also about access to high-quality care, since poor experiences may deter patients from accessing care. Evidence shows that quality of care drives health outcomes, yet little is known about non-clinical dimensions of care, and patients' experience thereof relative to satisfaction with visits. This paper investigates the role of non-clinical dimensions of care i…
Lockdown-Associated Hunger May Be Affecting Breastfeeding
The impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had, and will continue to have, on food security and child health is especially concerning. A rapid, Short Message Service (SMS) Maternal and Child Health survey was conducted in South Africa in June 2020 ( n = 3140), with a follow-up in July 2020 ( n = 2287). This was a national cross-sectional survey conducted among pregnant women and mothers registered with the MomConnect mhealth platform. Logistic reg…
Testing an Incentive-Based and Community Health Worker Package Intervention to Improve Maternal Health and Nutrition Outcomes
Examining the Relationship Between Resources and the Likelihood to Participate in Formal Volunteering in Post-apartheid South Africa
We examine the relationship between likelihood to volunteer and a range of human capital, social capital, religious capital and ubuntu variables in South Africa seven years after the official end of apartheid. Using the 2001 World Values Survey we find that education is positively associated with volunteering, but employment has a negative association with volunteering when including controls for wealth and income. Religiosity has a strong positi…
Do Better-Performing Nongovernmental Organizations Report More Accurately? Evidence from Financial Accounts in Uganda
We use Benford’s Law to investigate inaccurate financial reports of a representative sample of Ugandan nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). We find that 25% of the sample provided information that did not conform to the Benford distribution, suggesting potential misreporting. NGOs with better ratings from their beneficiaries are more likely to submit credible information. This contradicts the belief that upward accountability demands crowd out s…
Longitudinal changes in Covid-19 vaccination intent among South African adults
Willingness to receive a COVID-19 vaccine has increased among adults in South Africa, and those who were entrenched in their reluctance make up a small proportion of the country's population. Younger adults, those in formal housing, and those who trusted COVID-19 information on social media were more likely to be hesitant. Given that stated vaccination intent may not translate into behaviour, our finding that three-quarters of the population were…
The health impact of free access to antiretroviral therapy in South Africa
Priority interventions for reducing stunting in the complementary feeding age group in South Africa
In South Africa, approximately one in four children under the age of five is stunted (NDoH, Stats SA, SAMRC & ICF, 2019) – a rate that has remained persistently high. The enduring social and economic impact of stunting, coupled with rising food prices, underscores the need for interventions that are both effective and affordable. This review synthesises global evidence on strategies for children aged 6–24 months and evaluates their suitability wi…
Does enhanced HIV prevention, diagnosis, and linkage to care reduce hospitalisation in high HIV-burden communities in Zambia and South Africa? findings from the HPTN 071 (PopART) randomised trial
The objective of this study is to explore if a community-based HIV combination prevention intervention reduced inpatient hospitalisations in Zambia and South Africa by diagnosing HIV and TB in earlier stages of disease progression, thereby preventing severe disease and new infections. As part of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 071 trial, hospitalisation data from a cohort of 16 968 consenting randomly sampled adults aged 18–44 years were…
Malaria prophylaxis stock-outs and birth- and maternal outcomes in Zimbabwe
It is crucial to ensure the availability of Sulphadoxine/pyrimethamine drugs at the facility level. We recommend that policymakers invest in pharmaceutical information systems and stock ordering systems to prioritise malaria prevention and ensure frequent availability of malaria prophylaxis in Zimbabwe. On the demand-side, more frequent facility visits can also help to ensure adherence
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