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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"DFID"”.
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From Development Aid to Development Partnerships – the End of Coloniality? Critical discourse analysis of DFID's development partnership with South Africa
… Department for International Development (DFID) ended their 'traditional' bilateral aid programme to South Africa and implemented a 'development partnership' in its place. DFID's development partnership discourse has previously been criticised for denying mutuality, however, and for …
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From model conflict resolution to post-war reconstruction in failed states: The case of Sierra Leone
… of the Department for International Development (DfID)-funded Community Reintegration Programme (CRP). Considering the Sierra Leone post-war scenarios, the causes and political resolution of the conflict and the situation in 2001 when the conflict officially came to an end, the thesis reviews the …
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A novel Adaptive Filtering approach to Drive File Identification for Service Environment Replication
… data set, which challenge conventional iterative DFID techniques. Further modifications to the algorithm are proposed that uses a completely offline workflow using the estimated dynamics of the plant and an empirical termination criteria to improve performance and ensure stability of the adaptive …
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Changing Contexts of Children and Young People’s Participation in Evaluation: Case Studies in Nepal and the UK
… The rights-based evaluations revisited include: DFID funded Rights through Evaluation research in Nawalparasi in Nepal; evaluation of Phase 1 of the Saying Power scheme, run by Save the Children across the UK; and evaluation of the Croydon Children’s Fund in London. In addition to issues of …
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Essays on the Underlying Capacity of the State and its Effects on Economic Development
… Department for International Development (DFID). Finally, Chapter 3, titled Découpage and Conflict in the DRC also looks at the découpage process in the DRC but searches to find how, if at all, this process affected the levels of conflict that persist in the country. My findings indicate …
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Critical analysis of the contribution of smallholder dairy farming to the livelihoods of households: The case of Nharira, Zimbabwe
… the Nharira dairy scheme as a focal area. The DfiD sustainable livelihood framework was used to build this understanding. Apart from characterizing the farmers, the contribution of smallholder dairy farming towards social, physical, human, natural and financial capitals was investigated. A …
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Climate variability and its implication for water resources and livelihoods in Uganda
… the assets available to the households using the DFID framework. The study therefore has investigated the characteristics of climate in Uganda especially by following up on the responses that arose from the field study. Through their own observations, respondents noticed changes in temperature and …