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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Aid workers"”.
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Humanitarian aid workers' transition into retirement: A narrative inquiry
In this research, I have explored the retirement experience of 6 humanitarians who had retired from a humanitarian organization after a career characterised by frequent, global relocation and the need to live and work in physically and emotionally challenging conditions. I used a narrative …
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Holding Both: Witness Aid Workers' Experiences Supporting Intimate Partner Violence Survivors in District Attorney Offices
<p>Social workers and advocates practice in district attorney (DA) offices as witness or victim aid workers providing intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors counseling, advocacy, resources and information as they enter the criminal legal system (CLS). Their experiences, in particular how stress …
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Mutor i det godas tjänst? : Biståndsarbetare i samtal om vardaglig korruption
… on the ways in which Swedish and Danish aid workers describe their experiences of everyday or 'petty' corruption. How do they view their encounters with everyday corruption in developing countries? In what ways are bribes condemned, excused, or justified? While aid workers may feel …
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An exploration into managerial perception and its influence on performance in cross cultural setting. The case of Japan International Cooperation Agency's support for development.
… This first time research explores how Japanese aid workers' perceptions towards the local staff affects their behaviour and performance in cross-cultural project settings. Moreover, this research focuses on the perceptual and behavioural trait differences of successful and unsuccessful aid …
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Effective Utilization of Foreign Aid in Counterinsurgency Operations
… a mixture of both hard and soft power. Foreign aid and its distribution in COIN operations has sparked a major debate amongst scholars, soldiers and aid industry workers as to who should distribute foreign aid and what relationship the military and aid workers should have.I hypothesize that the …
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Planning and practice: factors impacting on the development of initial education in Nepal, with special reference to English language teaching, 1950-1995
… aims of Nepali government planners and foreign aid workers, and the ways in which these plans impact on Nepali classroom practice and conditions, teacher training programs and the teaching of English as a foreign language.
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A Comparative Study of Culture and Cultural Heritage in Humanitarian Aid Efforts: Post-Earthquake Haiti and Post-Tsunami Aceh
… beliefs, and practices affected the humanitarian aid response to disasters in Haiti and Aceh Province, Indonesia. It examines the importance of local knowledge in post-disaster response situations and how aid workers' "expertise" interplays with local knowledge, decision-making structures, and …
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Prevalence of secondary traumatic stress among disaster relief volunteers
… It has been found in doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists, and aid workers. The purpose of this study was to further understand the prevalence of STS in disaster relief volunteers. Thirty-five former and current volunteers for various disaster relief organizations filled out a survey …
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Radical women of Texas during the Great Depression: An overview of communism and labor union activities
… fighting for the conditions and rights of workers. While all three were involved in union organizing, which sought effective workers' rights, only Tenayuca joined the Communist Party to accomplish these aspirations. During the same span of years in Texas, Graham and Taylor organized workers …
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The Politics of Triage: International Aid and AIDS Care in Northern Uganda
Uganda has been considered an AIDS success story since the late 1990s when prevalence rates decreased around the country. Recognizing Uganda’s unique AIDS response, this thesis seeks to analyze HIV/AIDS in Uganda and challenges normative understandings of Uganda’s ‘success’, specifically, in …
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A 'Nine-to-Five' Emergency: A politics of time and power in Azraq refugee camp
… analyzing perspectives of both refugees and aid workers. I call on literature on emergency, bureaucracy, and humanitarian politics in order to examine how these power structures have established a monopoly over time within the camp’s borders. I analyze the role of street-level aid workers …
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Capacity and coverage of mmWave ad hoc networks
… to communicate between soldiers in war zones, aid workers in disaster areas, or consumers in device-to-device (D2D) applications. Ad hoc networks, however, are stilled plagued by interference. Communication with millimeter-wave (mmWave) devices offers hope to ad hoc networks through higher …
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Boycott Toolkit : collaborative research for collective economic action
… meet with human rights advocates, international aid workers, journalists and activists. This field work suggested an appropriate structure in which a better boycott could be developed. After fully developing a tool that addressed these needs and constraints, the tool was broadened to demonstrate …
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The use of data in international humanitarian responses to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti
… and governments donated over US$6 billion of aid to Haiti. However, the international humanitarian response to the earthquake was characterised by western media as a logistical disaster. Years after the earthquake, hundreds of thousands of Haitians still inhabited “temporary” camps where they …
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Liberian Women and Political Resistance: Family Influences and Collective Organizing
… grassroots organizations, market women, legal aid workers, and women’s rights advocates developed spaces to address multilevel consequences from the war, both leading to and after the peace movement. This ethnographic case study documents the narratives of three activists who engaged in …
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Between two worlds: Americans and Soviets after the Bolshevik Revolution
… American values and interests. Russian émigrés, workers, and refugees substantially affected American programs and even core questions about the United States’ role in the world and what it meant to be an American. This research also shows that rather than precursors to the cold war, American …
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Justificational narratives : what is the role of fear in Israeli narratives of war?
… was described by Palestinians and international aid workers as the harshest military assault on the WBGS since the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war. After examining the policy narratives I provide another representation of the 'reality on the ground' experienced by the Palestinian population at the …
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Disaster Diplomacy: The spatial impact of international reconstruction aid in the aftermath of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal
… implications of international reconstruction aid in the aftermath of the 2015 earthquake of Nepal, particularly in the urban municipality of Lalitpur. I explore how emergency reconstruction aid, operationalized as support from international NGOs, bilateral agencies and multilateral …
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New models for homeland security and public safety
… entails an emergency response scenario in which aid workers tour relief centers while accumulating valuable relief supplies destined to serve deprived populations in the wake of a disaster. Situational urgency requires that these target populations be served before deadlines that are subject to …
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When Apsaras smile: women and development in Cambodia 1990-2000, cultural barriers to change
… been available to inform researchers and Western aid workers. To assist in filling this gap, this thesis analyses Western understandings of the application of Women and Development (WID) and Gender and Development (GAD) policies in Cambodia against the backdrop of the reality of Cambodian culture …
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