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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Local ownership"”.
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Local ownership and democratic governance in security sector reform
Local ownership is a major component of what is considered best practice in contemporary peacebuilding. It seeks to reallocate authority between local and international actors in peacebuilding contexts. In its purest form, it requires that the design, implementation and evaluation of reform should …
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(Re)Defining Local Animation: An Exploration Of South African Animation In Terms Of Local Production, Local Relevance And Local Ownership
… environments that shape the dynamics of the local animation industry. This research offers a new framework for discussing animated texts from the lens of the production landscape which departs from the more prevalent textual analysis approach and discussions of narrative, iconography, and …
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Examining the ICC's impact on the rule of law in Côte d'Ivoire and Libya: catalysts, multi-level judicial dialogue and local ownership in prosecuting and judging international crimes
… in practice and considers what this means for local ownership. Secondly, it examines how, and to what extent, the ICC’s engagement in Côte d’Ivoire and Libya and approach to co-operation has affected the rule of law. In particular, it analyses “own side” cases where there are allegations that …
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The economic contribution of farmer cooperatives for the state of Kansas
… employment and wages. Modeling considered both local ownership and single-level taxation, two characteristics of cooperative businesses. Two economic contribution analyses depict industry variation based on degree of local ownership. The sample of cooperative survey respondents confirm a …
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A case for public sanitation with on-site treatment in Ghana
… a standard technical model while creating local ownership of the technology. In addition, I recommend evaluating the status quo to address the needs of vulnerable groups, addressing hygiene needs as standard, and appealing to the local government's business sense.
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Glocalizing Forests: Transnational Networks and the Geography of Global Climate Policy
… control over policy creation. Encouraging local ownership of REDD+policies can help mitigate some of these problems.
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Local Investment and the Relationship Between Prices and Earnings
<p>This paper examines how local stock ownership influences the relationship between stock prices and future earnings. Prior finance literature has found that local investment leads to superior returns and has suggested that these returns are a result of an informational edge for those who invest …
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A Minefield of Possibilities: The viability of Liberal Peace in Somaliland, with particular reference to Mine Action.
… standardised formulaic approaches; disregards local context thus failing to secure local ownership. Attributes that the critics argue have led to the failure and/or limited success of peacebuilding interventions. I therefore contend with the critics and demonstrate how these attributes have …
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A Minefield of Possibilities: The viability of Liberal Peace in Somaliland, with particular reference to Mine Action.
… standardised formulaic approaches; disregards local context thus failing to secure local ownership. Attributes that the critics argue have led to the failure and/or limited success of peacebuilding interventions. I therefore contend with the critics and demonstrate how these attributes have …
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The Influence of Location of Firm Ownership on Consumers
… social performance that has yet to be studied is local ownership as well as its influence on consumers' store perceptions and consumption decisions. As large, national chains increasingly threaten the existence of smaller, locally-owned businesses, some consumers have shown an aversion to these …
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Toward Context-Sensitive Statebuilding for Development: State-Local Complementarity in Rural Guatemala
… government resources. When state actors at the local level coordinate with traditional leaders, and gain the cooperation and support of the mayor – giving meaning to complementarity –local governance allows for measurable gains in human development at the local level. By highlighting stark …
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Conservation and resilience to drought: a social-ecological perspective on conservation areas in Kenya's Southern Maasailand
… to be maximising resources while maintaining local resilience for people, livestock, and wildlife. This research finds that although contestations exist, some of the benefits of conservation areas appear to be reaching poorer households, and that for most households, conservation areas did not …
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Political risk management on international construction projects
… hostile press, delay in permit approvals while local ownership requirements and expatriate labour restrictions are both threat and opportunity risks . It further emerged that qualitative (heuristic) techniques were commonly used in an ad hoc fashion for risk assessment and that the risk …
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Changing narratives? Shifting discursive conceptualisations of post-conflict peace-building
… to peace-building that culminate with the ‘local turn’. The thesis begins by tracing an initial shift towards more invasive forms of peace-building in the late 1990s-early 2000s, before engaging with the emergence of the local turn. The research focuses on the case of Kosovo in order to …
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The EU and civilian crisis management: a case study of EULEX KOSOVO and building multi-ethnic rule of law
… monitoring, mentoring, and advising relevant local authorities in the reconstitution of a justice system conforming to European standards. EULEX personnel are deployed in capacities of policing, forensics, customs, prosecution, and judiciary. Despite 15 years of international assistance in …
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Power from the Grassroots : Strategies and Resilience of Cambodian Land and Environmental Activists
… resource conflicts have intensified, affecting local communities and heightening the need for organized grassroots responses. By analyzing power relations produced by neoliberal, extractivist development under authoritarian rule, and activists’ strategic forms of resistance to them, the study …
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Social exclusion and the role of transport intervention in accessing economic opportunity
… from the research explores the notions of 'localism' and 'parochialism' from the perspective of those experiencing social exclusion and practitioners working in the transport, social and economic fields. This includes the tension between natural tendencies to avoid travelling far afield to …
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Feminist Foreign Policy and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: A Critical Analysis of Canada's Engagement in Zambia
Despite the commitments to local ownership enshrined in the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, donors often prioritize funding global health issues that resonate with their domestic, political, and foreign policy agendas, which do not always align with the priorities of domestic actors in …
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Institutions by imposition : colonial lessons for contemporary state-building
… of native elites to forge institutions with local ownership. The main empirical chapters of the dissertation draw on more than two years of original archival research in fourteen libraries and depositories across Japan, Taiwan, and the United States. In both cases, my analysis focused on the …
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An economic and social review of the preferred bidders under the small projects IPP procurement programme: a cross-case synthesis
… positive direct and indirect benefits for the local economy, especially if the ownership, components, construction, and operation are sourced from local enterprises. The recipients of project expenditure, the location of their employees and to whom the profits accrue are essentially the factors …
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