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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Participatory development"”.
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A critique of participatory development in Pakistan
This study, a critical analysis of participatory development, was empirically conducted within a participatory development NGO in Pakistan, namely the Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP). It critically analysed participatory development in relation to micro and macro level forces, such as …
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Community participation and participatory development in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Bibliography: leaves 65-75.
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Participatory development in social funds: a case study of the Peruvian Social Fund
… for community participation processes in development projects. The research is based on a case study of the Peruvian Social Fund, FONCODES, and utilizes a qualitative data collection approach. It mainly relies on semi-structured interviews with FONCODES' staff and community members, …
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Social sector participatory development in Honduras: a process across institutions, culturesval and continents
… research was conducted to determine whether our participatory process of curriculum development for vocational technical schools in Honduras was successful. This study analyzed program documents and correspondence to answer two questions: a) How did individual stakeholders perceive and negotiate …
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At the Confluence: Participatory Development, State-Society Relations, and Transboundary Water Management in the Kura River Basin
… Incorporating local stakeholders in project development and implementation has been described by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a large multilateral financial mechanism promoting international cooperation on global environmental protection, as critical to the longevity and impact of …
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Towards an Articulation of Architecture as a Verb; Learning from Participatory Development, Subaltern Identities and Textual Values.
… practices and methodologies are drawn from participatory and grass-roots development agency in informal settlements and contexts of economic absence, most notably in the global South. This thesis explores whether such examples can be interpreted as practical realisations of key theoretical …
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Open source geographic information systems: promoting access to health services information through a local and participatory development methodology
… on the premise that the GIS is developed in a participatory manner and focused at the local community level. Three major steps make up the research being presented. The first aimed to determine the status quo of GIS use in South Africa. An online questionnaire was designed for this purpose. The …
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An investigation of factors impacting on facilitator's implementation of a participatory development programme in Orange Farm, South Africa
… affected the implementation of a particular participatory development programme. As such, it is a case study of the Vukani group: a group of facilitators who implemented the participatory development programme of REFLECT in their area of Orange Farm, Johannesburg. The four factors guiding my …
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Gauging perceptions of participation in participatory development : a South African case : the mud schools eradication project at Klapmuts Primary School in the Western Cape
People-centred development places a great deal of emphasis on the participation of the "beneficiaries" (or what I call targets) in the process of their development. The language of participatory development is often used in development programmes in South Africa, but very little is said about how …
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Towards a developmental approach : an evaluation of a participatory action research development process with the NGO, WARMTH
This study is an evaluation of a year-long participatory development intervention with the non-governmental organisation (NGO), WAR on Malnutrition Tuberculosis and Hunger (hereafter WARMTH). It looks at the attempts by the organisation to make the ideological and practical shift from welfare to …
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Participation in a shifting global context? A case study of labor and faith in the American South
… employees. The study utilized an intersectional, participatory (Fraser, 2009) theoretical framework to analyze the justice implications of the Ministry's efforts to address the political, cultural, and economic disparities among the project's participants. The results contribute to studies on …
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Being in the black : the business of development in Northern Australia
This thesis explores how Indigenous development aspirations vary across social settings, and the ways in which Indigenous people approach 'business' as a means of realising partidcular developemnt goals. Six Indigenous enterprises from two regions are presented as case studies ... Participatory …
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Being in the black : the business of development in Northern Australia
This thesis explores how Indigenous development aspirations vary across social settings, and the ways in which Indigenous people approach 'business' as a means of realising partidcular developemnt goals. Six Indigenous enterprises from two regions are presented as case studies ... Participatory …
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Women’s Empowerment and Community-Driven Development: Evidence from the Solomon Islands
… the impact to-date of a community-driven development (CDD) program on women’s empowerment in the Solomon Islands. Originally launched in 2008, the CDD program is known as the Rural Development Program (RDP). The RDP aims to foster employment and income growth by focusing on participatory …
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Engaging the Center: On Being Indonesian Citizens in Lombok, Eastern Indonesia
… ambiguous nor contradictory. They want state development plans which include rather than exclude them, plans which reduce inequalities rather than exacerbate them. From this perspective, understanding the demands of marginalized populations in the periphery, both spatial and economic, should …
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Understanding the unintended consequences of a capacity building program :
Capacity building programmes facilitated by development non-governmental organisations (NGOs) often fail to achieve their expected outcomes, resulting instead in a series of unintented consequences. These unintended consequences become legible when viewed as instrumental elements in the resultant …
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Grave expectations : participatory greywater management in two Western Cape shack settlements
… community-level greywater management through participatory methods in the two shack settlements. The dissertation involves close analyses of participatory methods, the legislation and policy which governs service delivery to shack settlements in South Africa, and ethnographic accounts of shack …
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'THE LOCAL' IN THE HUMANITARIAN PSYCHE: HOW EMOTIONS OF HUMANITARIAN WORKERS MEDIATE THE EVERYDAY PRACTICES OF PARTICIPATION
… of humanitarian workers mediate the practices of participatory approaches in the international humanitarianism system? To answer this, I first present a psychoanalytic theory of emotions in equilibrium, where potential traumas are kept at bay through adequate defense mechanisms. Next, based on …
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Decentralization, Democracy and Development : Examining the potential and limits of subnational empowerment
As the discourse on economic development has expanded its focus to a broader set of interrelated economic, social, and political variables, an important conclusion has been that sustainable and inclusive development requires not only economic and social policies, but also political empowerment to …
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