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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"International aid"”.
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Ethical procurement strategies for international aid non-government organisations
International aid non-governmental organisations (IANGOs) are expected by the public and government institutions funding them to focus upon maximising effectiveness for the delivery of aid and in the process adopt ethical procurement (EP) practices. Concerns have been voiced by governments and …
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The Politics of Triage: International Aid and AIDS Care in Northern Uganda
Uganda has been considered an AIDS success story since the late 1990s when prevalence rates decreased around the country. Recognizing Uganda’s unique AIDS response, this thesis seeks to analyze HIV/AIDS in Uganda and challenges normative understandings of Uganda’s ‘success’, specifically, in …
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International aid and strategic interdependence: how common and conflicting foreign policy goals shape the supply of foreign aid
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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International aid and the geopolitical imagination after the Cold War: A case study of development aims and aid policies for post-Soviet Russia
This thesis explores the extent to which international aid policies are informed by geopolitical imaginations. Based on an analysis of contemporary development programmes for post-Soviet Russia, the study examines two aid organizations working in Russia, and the varying degree to which issues of …
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Forecasting the success of environmental and sustainability activities in international development using language models
International aid and cooperation improve the lives of the poorest in developing countries and help safeguard the environment and promote sustainability. However, international aid activities sometimes fail to achieve their objectives. Few attempts have been made in the literature to create models …
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Rivers of Resistance: Aid, Activism and Energy in Cambodia and Myanmar
… marked the beginning of Myanmar’s decades-long international isolation. In not dissimilar fashion, the Khmer Rouge marched into Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, on 17 April 1975, overthrowing the fledgling Lon Nol government. Rather than stabilise the country, however, it would mark the beginning …
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Disaster Diplomacy: The spatial impact of international reconstruction aid in the aftermath of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal
… aims to investigate the spatial implications of international reconstruction aid in the aftermath of the 2015 earthquake of Nepal, particularly in the urban municipality of Lalitpur. I explore how emergency reconstruction aid, operationalized as support from international NGOs, bilateral agencies …
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The impact of multidisciplinary mobilities on the effectiveness of global health and international development projects
… been growing rapidly over recent decades. The ‘international elective placement’, which was once a preserve of medical student curricula, has now become increasingly common amongst nursing, midwifery and allied health professional students. International volunteering for healthcare professionals …
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Examining HIV diffusion through cultural explanations : a cross-sectional comparison of sub-Saharan Africa
… people are believed to be infected with HIV/AIDS. The majority of these cases are in sub-Saharan Africa. Now that biomedical causes and behavioural risks are firmly established in the literature, social scientists must attempt to understand the underlying cultural foundations that may account …
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Mediating transition in Afghanistan, 2001-2004
This dissertation examines international aid in support of Afghan media from fall 2001 to fall 2004 as a case study to interrogate the notion of “media transition” and its underlying assumptions. It examines how development organizations such as the United Nations, bilateral aid agencies such as …
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Dispositifs de conservation écorégionale et droits indigènes dans l’Amazonie Bolivienne: Les cas des Peuples du Madidi et Pilón Lajas
… in the Amazon basin has been introduced by international conservation NGOs since the beginning of the 90s when the term hotspot was invented to designate the importance of "mega-diversity "of tropical forests for the survival of humanity. The representation of environmental problems in the …
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An asssessment of development aid to Namibia
… of the economic and policy impact of development aid to Namibia since independence 1990. Namibia has been receiving a large amount of economic and humanitarian aid, in the form of financial, technical and material support from both bilateral and multilateral development co-operation partners with …
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The politics and anti-politics of shelter policy in Chennai, India
… into the global economy or interventions from international aid agencies, are directly affecting the governance of municipalities. This paper explores the process by which international influences affect local governance by using the history of a single institution, the Tamil Nadu Slum …
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Insights to the Consequences of Fair Trade from an All-Female Coffee Cooperative
To date, social scientists, international aid organizations, and fair trade organizations have conducted extensive research concerning the experiences of fair trade producers. However, there is relatively little research available regarding producers’ experiences in all-female, fair trade …
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Boycott Toolkit : collaborative research for collective economic action
… West Bank to meet with human rights advocates, international aid workers, journalists and activists. This field work suggested an appropriate structure in which a better boycott could be developed. After fully developing a tool that addressed these needs and constraints, the tool was broadened …
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Development in the shadows : how the World Bank and the Frente Clandestina almost built a new government in Timor-Leste
… so far outweighed the successes. In response, international aid organizations have deepened and broadened their dedication to state-building projects across all aspects of institution-building, to include economic, social and political. I chose to examine the implications of this commitment by …
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Identifying Core Competencies for Remote Team Leadership
… medical, insurance and personal finance, international aid, and academia. Analysis of the data gained through interviews identified five prevalent leadership approaches, two theoretical models, and three core competencies to include in the academic curriculum for future remote team leader …
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A comparative case study of female literacy and development in Guatemala and Bolivia
… to the present. Education reform projects and international aid were provided as development strategies in Latin America to improve gender equality in education and literacy rates during the 1990s. Female literacy was view as an important goal in obtaining human and economic development in the …
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Traveling a hard road: pathways to womanhood among generations of poor females of Haitian descent living in the Dominican Republic
Messages disseminated by the international aid community, which disempower women in developing countries, advocate for delayed first pregnancy and motherhood until after the age of 20 (Barinas & Flores Chang, 2011). This advocacy contrasts starkly with the pathways to womanhood/an adult identity …
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