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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Social empowerment"”.
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Design and development : social empowerment and two community art programs in Brazil
… to address how program participants from varying social, cultural, and economic backgrounds, are prepared to be responsible world citizens.
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Technological initiatives for social empowerment : design experiments in technology-supported youth participation and local civic engagements
… and analysis of technological initiatives for social empowerment and I apply the framework in the implementation of two initiatives that focus primarily on youth participation and local civic engagement. In the Young Activists Network initiative, I worked with youth technology centers from …
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Social empowerment or social control : an exploration of pupils' prior knowledge of citizenship, and its application to appropriate teaching and learning in a junior school
… citizenship might have more to do with social control than the intended outcome of empowerment. A key finding of the study was that teachers taught social and moral responsibility rather than rights and that responsibility was inextricably linked to pupils’ behaviour. It also found that …
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The impact of micro-finance on poverty alleviation: A case study of Swakopmund youths
… health care, nutrition, non-land asset holdings, social empowerment and housing conditions were among the eight variables used to measure the impact of microfinance on household welfare. Furthermore, three business indicators were utilised to assess the impact of microfinance on firm growth. …
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Women Empowerment Through Self-Selected Groups: The Case of LAPO Microfinance Bank Ltd.
In contemporary times, the concept of women empowerment has become an issue of key importance in the development discourse across the world. Studies on the impact of microfinance on women empowerment has shown conflicting results- with some studies presenting empirical evidence of its positive …
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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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The role played by intermediary organizations in delivering benefits to veld product producers : the case of Kgetsi-ya-Tsie
… also benefited through skills acquisition and social empowerment.
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An Investigation of Transformative Tourism Outcomes and Strategies
… agents of change in their community by fostering social empowerment and taking concrete actions to promote a sustainable way of life. The dissertation takes on a three-manuscript approach, each investigating a facet of transformative tourism in terms of outcomes and strategies. The first article …
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The Fog and the Cloud: The emergence and development of social incubators in cities. An analysis of the urban geography of social innovation
The creation and support of an ecosystem of social incubators has been analysed in organizational research with regards to business models, services provided and financial performances’ evaluation (Giordano et al., 2015). How these ecosystems are created, the peculiarity of third sector as well as …
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Transnational development: Limitations and potentialities of a model for 'Migration and Development' : case study Caxcania
… of development, induced by real participation, social empowerment and by the appropriation of agency for the purpose of achieving participative development, as well as social sustainability, in the process of societal advancement. The existing transnational subjects and their transaction and …
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Regionalist Social Movements in Contemporary Chile: Production of Space, Place, Territory, and Scale Through Collective Action
… the organization of several territorially based social movements in Chile has expressed a significant level of social discomfort about the political and economic system of the country. The central objective of this dissertation is to analyze how motivations, achievements, and failures of these …
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Microfinance and women empowerment in Bangladesh: Impact in economic, social and political dimensions.
… of microfinance services on women’s economic, social and political empowerment in Bangladesh. Microfinance is alternative financial services for poor people, predominantly for women as they are more poverty-stricken and discriminated in Bangladesh. These services are more likely to be flexible …
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[Apart] space valuing community: focused on incidental learning and wayfinding thresholds
… parks designs by the City of Cape Town. To offer social empowerment to the surrounding context, residents by tempting to provide a detailed design which could offer a space of economic generative platforms/facilities within the landscapes. I've tasked the study also with the aim to uplift all age …