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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"African communities"”.
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Designing digital storytelling for rural African communities
… thesis situates digital storytelling in rural African communities to enable rural people to record and share their stories and to express their imaginations digitally. We explore the role of design and the methods and perspectives designers need to take on to design across cultures and to …
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The African communities' experiences of policing in the Netherlands
… of policing from the perspectives of Dutch-Africans resident in the Netherlands, as well as from the perspective of serving Dutch police officers. It seeks to question how these experiences resonate or depart from known studies on the negative experiences of BME populations and policing in …
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Three Essays on Climate Change Adaptation in Rural African Communities
<p>Climate change is one of the defining challenges of the present era, bringing new risks and exacerbating existing vulnerabilities across the world. While there is a broad recognition that solutions around climate change will require coordination and support across borders and governments, a …
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Three Essays On Climate Change Adaptation In Rural African Communities
<p>Climate change is one of the defining challenges of the present era, bringing new risks and exacerbating existing vulnerabilities across the world. While there is a broad recognition that solutions around climate change will require coordination and support across borders and governments, a …
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The impact of the South African Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme on South African communities: A case study
… and inequality and carbon emissions, the South African government introduced the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP). The REIPPPP is a competitive bidding scheme and once independent power producers (IPPs) are appointed as preferred bidders a …
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Evaluation of a nutrition and health education program on components of metabolic health on women from under-resourced South African communities
… developing chronic diseases. Families from poor communities are often forced to eat these harmful foods due to a lack of nutrition education, or because they cannot afford or don't know how to access healthy foods. While poverty is an important barrier to health and education for both men and …
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The nutritive, rheological and sensory quality of selected indigenous complementary foods used for 6 – 24 months infants and young children in African communities
… a major public health problem in low-income African communities, caused by factors including the porridge rheology, poor oral texture quality and low nutritional value of mainly the indigenous/local complementary porridges (CPs), but also some commercially available complementary porridges …
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An examination of the implementation of the World Health Organisation's anti-tuberculosis treatment, the Directly Observed Treatment Short Course (DOTS), in poor South African communities
… World Health Organisation (WHO) in poor South African communities. Research for this dissertation was carried out over a two-year period in one poor community, a tuberculosis (TB) quarantine hospital and several primary care clinics. This dissertation argues that the DOTS programme is …
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Patriarchy, Christianity, and the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Rethinking Christian Marriage in Light of the Experiences of HIV Positive Women in Tanzania
… and girls carry the heaviest burdens of the African HIV/AIDS epidemic, their lived experiences should be the starting point for any pedagogy of prevention. In light of this claim, this dissertation project uses qualitative fieldwork with HIV positive women living in Mwanza, Tanzania to ask …
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Constructing a conception of childhood in Africa
… core conception of childhood in traditional African communities and that this understanding of childhood is different from the image of childhood in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Children‟s Charter. In order to successfully implement children‟s rights in Africa …
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The effects of conflict on the youth of Mfuleni
… dramatically. However, violent conflicts in the communities are at high levels and are of grave concern. This development is far from the expectations of South Africans in the fading days of apartheid. Democracy was embraced as a cure to the conflicts that plagued South African communities in the …
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Attitudes towards polygamy in select African fiction
Polygamy is widely practised in African communities. The African social-realist novel, especially when it is woman-authored, shows female characters as having to play docile, subservient roles and accept demeaning positions in polygamous marriages. Although it has been claimed that traditional …
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Co-designing community-based digital innovations for Maternal and Child Health (MCH)
… community members from various low-income South African communities to ascertain their MCH concerns and prioritize them accordingly. The outcome of this engagement informed the development of a digital intervention aimed at addressing these priorities. This research was carried out in three core …
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FACTORING CULTURE AND DISCOURSE INTO AN APPRAISAL OF THE NEOLIBERAL SYNTHESIS OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
… to decentralize decision-making and encourage African communities to engage in a market for wildlife. Its general failure to live up to these aspirations, however, is due to the wide scale retention of owner and user rights over wildlife at state level and the dominance of the private sector. …
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Queering Ghana: Sexuality, Community, And The Struggle For Cultural Belonging In An African Nation
… to the scant ethnographic literature on queer African communities, while demonstrating the value of priests as research subjects. My ethnographic fieldwork, as well as that of Kathleen O'Mara's (2007, 2011) has shown that indigenous religious priests are often central figures in queer Ghanaian …
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Power gained-power lost: aspects of contemporary African women visualised
… I hope to have portrayed an empowered state of African women that depicts women in wide variety of roles and shows that they are active and equal participants in society. I choose a Pan-Africanist view of African women, because of my interest in cultural diversity . The boundaries between …
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Protecting vulnerable subjects from exploitation in the medical research context: A developing world perspective
… interests of research subjects in developing (African) countries. The thesis is in three parts. The first part defines the concepts of vulnerability and exploitation. In the section on vulnerability special categories of research subjects are discussed, which have high relevance in developing …
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The efficiency of local citizens’ participation in local economic development projects in Mkhondo Local Municipality in Piet-Retief
… colonialism and apartheid resulted in many South African communities being impoverished, having high levels of unemployment and inequality. As a result, municipalities engaged in various programmes and projects to economically empower their communities in response to social and economic …
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