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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Implementation gap"”.
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Evaluating Indonesia’s BPNT/Sembako and Village Funds: Targeting Accuracy, Poverty Impacts, and the Design-Implementation Gap
… quality, and institutional capacity shape their implementation and effectiveness. The study adopts a mixed-methods design, combining quantitative analysis, drawing on Susenas data (2018–2022) and district-level Village Funds data (2015–2021) to assess targeting accuracy, allocation patterns, and …
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From national development to local delivery: how neighbourhood policing policy and guidance has informed the understanding of communities and engagement practice at a local level
… understanding of the policy development and implementation journey. The theoretical background of this study is based in Kingdon’s (2011) concepts of policy streams and policy entrepreneurs as well as Lipsky’s (2010) theory of street level bureaucrats. The findings of this research show that …
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Implementation of Sustainable Construction Practices: A Socio-Psychological Micro-Level Analysis in an Emerging Economy
The implementation of sustainable practices in the construction sector of emerging economies is a critical yet underexplored challenge. In light of the behavioural management literature, researchers and policymakers have collaborated to bridge the implementation gap through organisational drivers …
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The Role of Gender in Post-Disaster Recovery and Disaster Risk Governance in Nepal: Examining Links Between Women, Institutions and Capacity-Building
… disaster risk reduction; highlighting a policy-implementation gap created by slippages between policy and practice. Furthermore, my research underscores the gendered barriers that serve to constrain Nepali women and impede their ability to build disaster resilience, thus further entrenching …
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Countering Kidnapping in a Globalised World: a critical analysis of the production, transfer and application of high security knowledge
… can be problematic. The third part identifies an implementation gap, since local practices and processes impede transnational initiatives. I discuss the effects of the specific police sub-culture which hinders the transfer and application of the relevant knowledge. In the final part I review the …
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Disability, social work and social exclusion : new strategies for achieving social inclusion of people with physical disabilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
… and social workers; and Saudi law and policy implementation. CONCLUSION: The findings indicate there still exists a large implementation gap, as there is a disparity between the rights people with disabilities have on paper, and the rights people with disabilities have in practice in the KSA. …
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Community Planning, Community Safety and Policing: a local case study of governance through partnership
… (Goldstein, 1990). This thesis has explored the implementation of community planning and associated community safety policies within a case study area of the former Strathclyde Police. The processes of partnership working and community engagement were found to be central to this approach. Meta- …
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Understanding how academics at The University of Cape Town have responded to the introduction of quality assurance policy as a state steering mechanism in higher education
… on academics at the institution. As an implementation gap of quality assurance policy, academics at UCT argue that too much emphasis is placed on accountability and managerial responsibilities at the expense of improvement of educational outcomes. This study also argues that this policy …
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Needs-driven, utility-oriented, standards-based operationalization of artificial intelligence for clinical decision support: a framework with application to suicide prevention
… AI, and achieve clinically impactful AI implementations. The two key contributions resulting from it are (1) a generalizable framework for the needs-driven operationalization of AI to support healthcare workflows and clinical decision making, and (2) the application of this framework to …
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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITY REGIONAL POLICY: A STUDY OF THE EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND AND THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
… national and regional levels. The complexity of implementation and of the Community's political system offers scope for a significant "implementation gap" between policy objectives and outcomes. This study is therefore about the implementation of EC regional policy. More specifically, it …
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The Human Rights Of Syrian Refugee Women: A Comparative Analysis Of Healthcare Access And Educational Opportunities In Turkey And Greece [before doctoral defense]
… protection. This dissertation investigates the implementation gaps between formal legal entitlements and actual access to healthcare and educational opportunities for Syrian refugee women in Turkey and Greece between 2015 and 2025. The central research puzzle is one of convergence: despite …
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A tangled web: a study of equal opportunities policy implementation within a local authority
The thesis explores the implementation gap between the intention and achievement of equal opportunity polices. It examines the policies and practices of a local authority to establish where, how and why the disjuncture between rhetoric and reality occurs. The study enters the assumptive world of …
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Power Estimation for High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries
… the battery. This thesis addresses two research gaps: an experimental gap and a implementation gap, as presented below. The experimental aspect of this thesis investigates the influence of SOC, temperature, stack pressure, and load history on power deliver. The challenge is that the experiments …
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The outpatient situation in the Cape Peninsula
… realistic solutions in order to overcome the "implementation gap" between research and policy implementation. The focus of the investigation was to be the Day Hospital Organisation and Paediatric Care. This very broad aim was to be met by five specific objectives which were (i) to determine the …
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The global Landscape of ALS: A combined Analysis of Patient Experiences (IMPACT-ALS) and epidemiological Characteristics (LAENALS) in Europe and Latin America
… This doctoral thesis seeks to bridge these gaps by integrating epidemiological, experiential, and professional perspectives through three complementary studies conducted in Europe and Latin America, aiming to promote a more global and person-centered understanding of ALS. The first study, …
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Tertiary colleges: a study of perspectives on organizational innovation
… perspective and the views of members, and an 'implementation gap' (Becher, 1989), between goals as ideals and goals as enacted. There was also evidence of cultural differentiation, rather than the integrationist culture portrayed by the principals. There were considerable subgroup differences …