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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Development Agency"”.
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The role of Ugu South Coast Development Agency in supporting the local communities
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Masters of Management Science Degree at the Durban University of Technology, 2021.
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THE CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY AND THE CANADIAN LABOUR CONGRESS: A DEVELOPING PARTNERSHIP
… or federation, and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which is the government agency that administers the Canadian foreign aid programme. It traces the history of that relationship from 1969 to 1983 and documents the linkages between the two organizations, especially as …
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Negotiating regional futures:the successes and failures of the West Midlands Regional Development Agency Network
The introduction of Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) in the English regions in 1999 presented a new set of collaborative challenges to existing local institutions. The key objectives of the new policy impetus emphasise increased joined-up thinking and holistic regional governance. Partners were …
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Exploring the factors that influence the success of youth-owned MSMEs funded through microfinance funding: the case of the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA)
… microfinance by South Africa's National Youth Development Agency (NYDA). With youth unemployment remaining one of the country's most pressing challenges, the research explores how microfinance and non-financial support, such as mentorship and training, impact the sustainability and growth of …
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Export-led Industrialisation in Zambia: The case for multi-facility Economic Zones
… aimed at accelerating economic growth and development had been passed. However, not much economic development as had been anticipated took place. From 2001, the government embarked on a path of export-led industrialisation through the introduction of the Export Processing Zones (EPZs) and …
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Enforcement practice, development assistance and servicing clients: progressing compliance with wastewater discharge regulations in industrialised north Vietnam
… and Hải Phòng who received Canadian and Japanese development agency assistance, and a control province Vĩnh Phúc. The research involved 65 interviews with officials and development agency consultants; diary keeping by officials to capture evidence of practice; and analysis of provincial government …
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Calibration of and Attitude Error Estimation for a Spaceborne Scatterometer using Measurements Over Land
… August 20, 1996 aboard the National Space Development Agency of Japan's Advanced Earth Observing Spacecraft (ADEOS). NSCAT's primary mission was to measure radar backscatter over the world's oceans. These measurements are used to generate estimates of ocean wind speed and direction. …
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Indigenous Firm Performance in a Small Late Developing State : A Case-study of the Role and Contribution of Public Venture Capital in Ireland.
… de facto national objective. Enterprise policy development for indigenous industry however remains largely emergent and fluid, fifty-four years on from the advent of the national export-oriented industrial policy. In the absence of a deliberately-stated enterprise policy, this emergent …
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Prospects and politics of professional power in England: an exploration of the state of teaching as a profession following the birth of the General Teaching Council for England
… review includes analyses of the Training and Development Agency for Schools, the National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services and the General Teaching Council for England. The empirical component of the study presents data from a series of interviews with a number of …
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Strategies to advance investments in coastal resilience solutions in Boston
… masters thesis for the Boston Planning and Development Agency.
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Big business works with small farmers : the case of the Buabin Oil Palm Outgrower Project
… with the public sector, the private sector and a development agency donor, Unilever Ghana is developing 3,000 hectares of oil palm through an outgrower scheme, in which the farmer beneficiaries maintain ownership of their land. I find that the key actors' experiences in the project - even in this …
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Educational Concerns of Implementing Biosand Water Filters in Rural Uganda
… Davis Branch and a local nongovernmental development agency, Rural Agency for Sustainable Development (RASD). Both quantitative and qualitative data were gathered at 10 sites with 23 water filters to identify the bacteria count before and after BSF use. Users at sites answered questions …
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Orchestrating economic development: exploring interorganizational networks in the Chicago metro area
… trust, network centralization, the competitive development activity of local governments, and whether the leading development agency is a public-private entity. Finally, collaboration was found to be a great resource for building consensus; making the region socio-economically stronger, more …
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An implementation evaluation of a peer education programme
… of Leaders Discovered (GOLD) Peer Education Development Agency developed a model that aims to address these issues. The model consists of a number of services that GOLD offers to implementing organisations (IOs) and enables them to roll out the GOLD Peer Education Programme. The programme is …
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A Whale That Flies: The Evolution of State-Sponsored Texas Tourism to 1973
The purpose of this study was to analyze the evolution of state-sponsored tourism in Texas through 1973 and to examine how the narratives promoted by that advertising compared to, contrasted with, and were influenced by popular culture and accepted myths of state lore. Due to restrictions in the …
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Installation of Sugarcane Juice Processing Machine with Anti-Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Organization for Income Generation at Mtoni Temeke
Development partners in collaboration with other community development stakeholders have taken various initiatives to alleviate problems affecting community members through different interventions at different levels while employing a number of approaches. It is from this reason that I have been …
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Negotiated and prescriptive zoning : a comparison of Boston and Seattle through the lens of Seaport Square
Permitting and executing large scale real estate developments in Boston, Massachusetts is difficult. The process is time and capital intensive due to the nature of an outdated zoning code that exists to induce project-by-project negotiation with the central permitting authority, the Boston Planning …
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The FAO's Use of Fear and Forestry as Tools of Neoliberal Economics
… simultaneously. The FAO is a large international development agency that produces agricultural and environmental information for individual states and other international agencies, such as the World Bank. The FAO's forestry studies pander to Western fears of environmental degradation, assumptions …
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The partnership of peacebuilding: A case study of justice development in Haiti.
… is examined in the context of justice sector development in Haiti. Issues that tended to complicate the peacebuilding process, and impact on the success of the intervention: multilateralism and donor self-interest, the need of systems development, the role of the civil sector, success …
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