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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Resource mobilisation"”.
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Resource mobilisation and social entrepreneurship: social bricolage as antecedent and outcome
… player in the modern world. SE faces serious resource challenges, however, in terms of surviving in a market, generating innovation, and achieving established objectives because of its particular combination of having a dual social and economic mission. The aim of this thesis is to contribute …
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Optimising Services through an Effective Financial Resource’ Mobilisation Framework in Vhembe District Municipality
… a titanic challenge of mobilising financial resources for the collective good of service delivery. This study examines the role of financial resource mobilisation in improving service delivery in municipalities, highlighting their constraints and possibilities. The study outlines the role of …
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Collective resource mobilisation for economic survival within the Turkish speaking communities in London
… influenced by Charles Tilly’s (1978) collective resource mobilisation theory. The research objectives are: - to examine the reasons behind the formation of business start-ups for Kurdish and Turkish business owners in the catering and retail sectors; - to identify and investigate the ways in …
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Entrepreneurial Resource Mobilisation Strategies in Uncertain Contexts: the Case of Waste Collection Entrepreneurs in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
… how Sub-Saharan African entrepreneurs access resources in an uncertain context, the types of strategy they apply, and the success or failure this has on their venture. Three papers will try to answer these complex questions by examining the uncertain waste management sector in Ouagadougou, …
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An investigation into strategies for mobilising resources within the adult education directorate in Otjozondjupa region
… Strategic Plan (2012) acknowledge the need for resource mobilisation strategies to help finance adult education. Studies on Namibia resource mobilisation highlight the lack of infrastructural, financial and human resources in adult education but the studies do not mention strategies to mobilise …
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Business orientated resource diversification in smaller social service nonprofits : why some are adopting and others are not
… social service organisations is how to diversify resource mobilisation practices in order to build sustainable organisations that can innovatively achieve social mission. Two approaches to resource mobilisation that are promoted within Australia are social enterprise and partnering with business. …
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Three Essays on Protest and Negotiations
… wisdom suggests that protests mobilising more resources, such as people, money, facilities, and violence, are more likely to achieve their goals, this is now under increasing empirical challenge and needs theoretical refining. This dissertation is structured in three papers, all of which …
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Donor funding and crowding out of public spending: Evidence from low and middle-income countries
In many low-resource settings agricultural output and public spending on agriculture are in decline, raising questions about the effectiveness of agricultural aid. To understand why these trends are occurring, we examined factors that affect the share of government spending on agriculture. Using a …
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Decentralization and quality education in selected community schools in Mufulira and Kitwe districts on the Copper-belt province of Zambia.
… schools were similar. The findings showed that resource mobilisation in community schools was a big challenge because community schools were non-profit making organisations. Resources were mobilised mainly from the following: school fees; donations from cooperating partners especially the United …
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Decentralization and quality education in selected community schools in Mufulira and Kitwe districts on the Copper-belt province of Zambia.
… schools were similar. The findings showed that resource mobilisation in community schools was a big challenge because community schools were non-profit making organisations. Resources were mobilised mainly from the following: school fees; donations from cooperating partners especially the United …
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Conceptualising Social Value: Perspectives of the Public, Private and Third Sectors in the UK
… phases: individual and collaborative responses, resource mobilisation and impact on social value creation. Both the studies complemented each other and provided analytical and valuable insight into the construct of social value that can be helpful in future research and/or practice related to …
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International exchange of information and taxpayers' rights: opposing forces or two sides of the same coin? An analysis of the legislative protection in Kenya of taxpayers' rights to privacy and confidentiality
Domestic Resource Mobilisation (DRM) has since 2015's Addis Ababa Action Agenda come to the fore as one of the critical avenues for developing countries to raise the resources required to fund the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. However, Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) continue …
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A computational framework for modelling post-earthquake building damage, loss of functionality and recovery
… community-level recovery trajectories. Human resource constraints are further examined using a Dynamic Stochastic Queuing (DSQ) model to quantify the influence of mobilisation patterns and repair sequencing on restoration timelines. The resulting framework integrates engineering, …
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Ecosystem Orchestration for Firm Growth: A Longitudinal Case Study
… explains firm growth with the firm’s ecosystem resource base, and empirically examines the managerial process (i.e. ecosystem orchestration, or EO) to achieve the growth. A theoretical analogy is drawn between that a resource can render multiple services and that an ecosystem can support …
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An assessment of how well social movement theory explains the emergence and development of Rape Crisis Cape Town
… social movement theories under consideration: resource mobilisation theory, political process theory and generational theory. The analytical power of each theory is considered. The thesis concludes that the theories considered offer a cogent analysis of Rape Crisis and combining the theories …
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The implementation challenges of the Integrated Early Childhood Development (IECD) approach at early childhood development centers in Windhoek, Namibia
… ECD service delivery regarding infrastructure, resources, and capacitated educarers. Importantly, this has rendered a number of ECD centers potential risky areas of operation for young children as they scarcely receive the Integrated Early Childhood Development benefits. This study explored the …
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From Revolution to Devolution: A Social Movements Analysis of the Contemporary Women's Movement in Ireland
… While the key analytical framework drawn on is resource mobilisation, considerable modifications are made to the model in its application to the Irish Women's Movement. The movement's trajectory cannot adequately be documented without paying attention to the political opportunity structure, the …
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Understanding ethnic entrepreneurship in agricultural settings : qualitative comparative analysis of ethnic groups in New Zealand agriculture
This thesis examines ethnic solidarity and ethnic resource mobilisation within agricultural settings using Qualitative Comparative Analysis of ethnic groups in New Zealand agriculture. The thesis addresses ethnic solidarity through the application of the concept of ethnic entrepreneurship. Major …
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Managing Development Organisations: A Process-Based Assessment of Australian Based Non Governmental Development Organisations
… structures, and (ii) strategies for financial resource mobilisation and service delivery. The external factors selected were (i) the external stakeholders of non-governmental aid agencies (development clients, partner agencies, donors, governments, other aid agencies) and (ii) the macro …
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Land and housing practices in Namibia: cases of access to land rights and production of housing in Windhoek, Oshakati and Gobabis
… stake. Housing becomes a devise for savings and resource mobilisation, as well as an income-generating activity sometimes enabling further livelihoods. My study adds to on-going debates on co-production, and to some extent to those on autogestion. For the first, it expands on earlier observations …
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