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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Community-Driven Development"”.
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Women’s Empowerment and Community-Driven Development: Evidence from the Solomon Islands
<p>The study evaluates the impact to-date of a community-driven development (CDD) program on women’s empowerment in the Solomon Islands. Originally launched in 2008, the CDD program is known as the Rural Development Program (RDP). The RDP aims to foster employment and income growth by focusing on …
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How can critical consciousness influence community driven development as social innovation
… how unsustainable popularised models of development which focuses on funder priorities and current organisational strategy while excluding the community's input in core decision-making regarding funding, development, and resource allocation (Everatt, 2005; Pham, 2018; Wilkinson-Maposa, …
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Why do poor people demand accountability from some participatory programs and not others?
… this void in the literature by comparing two Community Driven Development (CDD) programs in Argentina and asking the question of why beneficiary oversight was higher in one program than in the other and why, within the same program, it was higher in some provinces than in others. The main …
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The Jamaica Now Leadership Council: A Study of Stakeholder Participation in the Revitalization of Downtown Jamaica, Queens
… States has often been characterized by uneven community development, where marginalized communities bear the costs while receiving limited benefits. This dissertation examines how the dynamics of stakeholder participation impacts the practice of Community Economic Development (CED), focusing on …
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Heal the Hood: An Exploration of Community and Organizational Assets in Chicago's Twentieth Ward
… (Rappaport, 1984) by utilizing Asset Based Community Development to better understand what community members and organizations deem as current strengths and needs of Chicago’s twentieth ward. The questions that this dissertation explores are What strengths exist in Chicago's 20th ward that …
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Experiences and perceptions of women involved in food garden projects in Khayelitsha
… garden projects. This was evaluated against the Community Driven Development approach which is a development initiative to empower community groups by giving them control over resources and decision making in their efforts to improve their living conditions. The context in which the seventeen …
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Labor productivity, remittance use, and the impact of the poverty alleviation fund program in Nepal
… of poverty, inequality, migration, and economic development. In this dissertation, I estimate the labor productivity of agricultural household because most of the agricultural households in developing countries work in their own farms, it is not possible to observe wages. The first chapter …
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Participatory development in social funds: a case study of the Peruvian Social Fund
… and institutional characteristics for community participation processes in development projects. The research is based on a case study of the Peruvian Social Fund, FONCODES, and utilizes a qualitative data collection approach. It mainly relies on semi-structured interviews with …
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Empirical essays in development economics: Evidence from Bolivia
… of three independent empirical essays on development economics, with applications to public service reform, policy evaluation, and community-driven development in Bolivia. The first chapter investigates the potential of information technologies to improve public service delivery and …