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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Community mobilization"”.
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The translation of media technology skills to community mobilization in youth programs
… and alternative media is especially valuable for community organizing. Youth media programs can play a great role in the development of media technology as a community-building tool. This study proposes that a key way to bring youth into community mobilization efforts is through their interest in …
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Community mobilization and ecological outcomes in peri-urban Mexico City, 1989-1992
Beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1970s, Mexico City developed swiftly, thus engendering rapid urbanization and a demographic boom. The majority of population growth occurred on peri-urban agricultural and ecological conservation lands and manifested as irregular settlements: …
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A Suburban Case of Community Mobilization for Music Education: Lessons for Arts Education in a Cash-Strapped World
… to examine the organization and management of a community-driven string music program under the direction of a parent-run board. This descriptive single-case study focused on an elementary public school, kindergarten through eighth grade, located in a middle-to-upper-class suburb in a …
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Los Hijos Del Rey Benkos: Afro-Colombian Appropriation of A Historic Palenquero Identity and Its Legacy For Community Mobilization
<p>This is a study of subaltern mobilization. In the latter half of the twentieth century, Afro-Colombians mobilized to defend their human rights on the basis of a palenquero identity. This afro-descendant ethnic identity is based on a collective historical memory of maroon communities, which …
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Prince Albert's Crime/Risk Reduction Approach to Community Safety
… services the Prince Albert Police Service led a mobilization effort to implement a crime/risk reduction strategy called Community Mobilization Prince Albert (CMPA). The study examines the evolution of crime prevention practices from police-based efforts that relied on focused enforcement …
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Disaster risk reduction in Africa: is the institutionalization of traditional leaders key?
… risk reduction, including early warning, community mobilization, and the use of traditional knowledge. The findings suggest that traditional leaders are significantly more trusted, contacted more often, and viewed as more responsive than Members of Parliament. The analysis also shows that …
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'Composite' models of project management : integration of control-oriented and adaptive approaches in rural water supply
… inadequate cooperation amongst technical and community mobilization staff, and widespread political interference, all of which are perceived to be impediments to project success. The IDA project recognized these problems and instituted several important project innovations to overcome them. …
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"Good jobs, not gentrification" : the fight for community centered development in Roxbury
… the potential and limitations of organizing for community control and employment benefits in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood. Following decades of disinvestment, this community is experiencing an upsurge in new commercial and residential construction. Concerns about gentrification and displacement …
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The Contribution of School Heads on Quality of Secondary Education in Mbeya City.
… examine the extent head of schools involves community and teachers in decision making, assess the contribution of head of the school on the provision of teaching and learning facilities and assessing the contribution of school heads on enhancing teachers’ professional development. The study …
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Strengthening Garden Mazingira Group on household waste collection services: A case study of Mwananyamala in Kinondoni municipality, Dar es Salaam
… problems were identified and prioritized by the community and planned for solutions. The problem identified was poor household waste collection services which was contributed by number of factors including weak coordination between key stakeholders involved in waste management due to poor …
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An analysis of management practices of the headteachers in seven selected flood prone primary schools in Mwandi district, Zambia.
… Mwandi district. These strategies used included community mobilization in constructing wooden bridges. The other strategy as an objective used by headteachers to enhance learning was to listen to a flood warning signal which was installed by government through the disaster management and …
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An analysis of management practices of the headteachers in seven selected flood prone primary schools in Mwandi district, Zambia.
… Mwandi district. These strategies used included community mobilization in constructing wooden bridges. The other strategy as an objective used by headteachers to enhance learning was to listen to a flood warning signal which was installed by government through the disaster management and …
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Globalization, land expropriation, and community resistance: a case study in Wanbao community, Miaoli County, Taiwan
… on the land expropriation experience of Wanbao Community, a rural farming community located in the middle-west part of Taiwan that has successfully resisted land expropriation through a grassroots movement. This paper strives to offer the following: a comprehensive understanding of the …
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Playing the (Policy) Fields: The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the Development of the Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Bill
… gay rights and champion for protections to the community at a number of levels. One of the primary challenges that occurred was in relation to relationship recognition. Throughout the 1970s, 80s, and 90s in Canada, the lesbian and gay movement worked to achieve relationship recognition, …
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Identifying barriers and effective community interventions to voluntary medical male circumcision in the Zambezi region
… were to identify barriers and the most effective community interventions in scaling up VMMC in the Zambezi Region. This study utilized a qualitative approach. Since the study dealt with a sensitive cultural topic of male circumcision, the most appropriate research design was ethnography (Adams, …
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Promoting an Equitable Eating-Out Food Environment through the Application of a Food Justice Frame: A Case Study
… and applying a "food justice frame" as a mobilization tool to promote an equitable Eating-out Food Environment (EOFE) in an urban neighborhood of Pittsburgh. A mixed-methods approach was taken to gather material and perception data, culminating in a community action meeting to generate …