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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"United States. Agency for International Development"”.
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ASSESSMENT AND MITIGATION OF WATER RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH IMPACTS IN THE BAGRAMI DISTRICT OF KABUL PROVINCE
… manage in 17 villages in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in spring 2008; and (4) my recommendations on how to improve the effectiveness of water supply and sanitation projects in Bagrami and other areas of Afghanistan based on insights gained from …
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ASSESSMENT AND MITIGATION OF WATER RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH IMPACTS IN THE BAGRAMI DISTRICT OF KABUL PROVINCE
… manage in 17 villages in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in spring 2008; and (4) my recommendations on how to improve the effectiveness of water supply and sanitation projects in Bagrami and other areas of Afghanistan based on insights gained from …
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Lessons learned in a crisis situation : the Joplin Schools' story
… educational institutions across the world (United States Agency for International Development, 2010). This qualitative study was designed using a case-study approach to understand one school district's leadership response to a catastrophic crisis in order to gain lessons learned that could …
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The Effects of International Governmental Donor Agencies on Institution-Building: A Case Study of United States Agency for International Development's Assistance to the North-West Frontier Province Agricultural University, Peshawar
… examined the dynamics of aid-giving behavior by international governmental donor agencies in institution-building and the effects of such aid on recipient institutions. It was done via the case study approach by examining the multi-million dollar assistance offered to the North-West Frontier …
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Debtor's Empowerment: Muhammad Yunus and the Rhetoric of Microfinance
… within a Foucauldian critical framework informed by the rhetorical scholarship of Ronald W. Greene and Joshua Hanan, the argument proceeds by first paying careful attention to Yunus' work as constitutive of a new grid of intelligibility through which to view the poor and then demonstrating …
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Organizational and human behavioral factors on performance of a hospital information system : a case study from a large teaching hospital in the Boston area
Improvement in efficiency of healthcare in the United States is an urgent issue. Information technology is seen as one of key solutions to improve efficiency. As such, hospitals in the United States are rapidly adopting information technology. However, past studies on information technology …
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Gendered Production Roles and Integrated Pest Management in Three Jamaican Farming Communities
… (IPM) as an alternative to pesticides, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Office of International Research and Development (OIRD) at Virginia Tech, and the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) supported my research to uncover the …
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Education and rural community development: a conceptual model and Jamaican case
… focal point of social, economic and political development efforts. These people traditionally have been left out of the developmental process. National leaders have now realized that the citizens of rural areas have the potential to contribute significantly to developmental efforts of their …
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From Our Democracy to Yours
The United States has viewed promoting democracy as a longstanding tenet of its foreign policy. This has manifested itself in many ways, including in its foreign aid projects. This thesis sought to better understand what the U.S. did in promoting democracy through its foreign aid. Specifically, it …
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Paradoxes and Potential of Tourism Development in Nicaragua
… integration and expansion as both a broad human development strategy and a catalyst for local populations to achieve greater economic and social opportunities. The country of Nicaragua serves as the primary case study for such an evaluation due to its relatively recent promotion and expansion of …
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Trends in contraceptive use in Tanzania, 1996-2016
… low in much of Sub-Saharan Africa (Larsson & Stanfors, 2014). In twenty years, Tanzania’s fertility rate has only slightly decreased - from 5.8 in 1996 to 5.0 in 2016 (The World Bank, 2019). One way to reduce high fertility rates is through contraceptive use to limit unwanted pregnancies (Brown et …
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Participatory planning shapes a neighborhood : upgrading of Sokoura in Aboisso, Côte d'Ivoire
From 1985 to 1992, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded a squatter settlement upgrading project in the Sokoura neighborhood of Aboisso in Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa. This thesis examines the neighborhood design results of the Sokoura project in the context of the …
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Forum Theatre as Theatre for Development in East Africa
Theatre for development (TfD) includes a variety of performance practices that aim to communicate or foster dialogue in a development context. Forum Theatre, developed by Brazilian Director Augusto Boal as part of his Theatre of the Oppressed movement has become one of the most widely used forms in …
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The role of context in instructional design: A case study examining the re-purposing of web-based master's degree courses for use in Malawi
… the adaptation of on-line courses created in the United States as they were re-purposed for use in Malawi. The investigation starts and ends within Year Two of a five year project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The grant brings together an instructional …
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Modeling Supply Chains and Markets to Support Humanitarian Response Analysis
In a crisis, information about supply chains and markets for essential commodities can be sparse, yet an understanding of them is critical to delivering effective humanitarian assistance. Humanitarian organizations are looking to improve their processes to assess and analyze supply chains and …
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Self-Reliance and Land-Grant Universities: An Exploration of the Impacts of USAID Policy on Agroecological Possibilities
For land-grant universities (LGUs) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), achieving food security is a longstanding and shared priority. International agricultural development is entangled in competing imaginaries and ideological underpinnings. The coordinated social …
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Enabling, Managing, and Leveraging Organizational Learning for Innovation - A Case Study of the USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research Program Network
… in response. The federal agencies responsible for U.S. foreign policy, including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), have embraced multi-organizational, cross-sector network collaboration as part of their core missions. The strategic transition of USAID to an …
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Reconciling good intentions : the university-USAID partnership
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Higher, Adult, and Life Long Education, 2009
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Decentralization and quality education in selected community schools in Mufulira and Kitwe districts on the Copper-belt province of Zambia.
… Open Community Schools, the Flemish Association for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance, and United States Aid Time To Learn project. The total sample was 195 participants. The statistical package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was engaged to analyze quantitative data. Data were …
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Decentralization and quality education in selected community schools in Mufulira and Kitwe districts on the Copper-belt province of Zambia.
… Open Community Schools, the Flemish Association for Development Cooperation and Technical Assistance, and United States Aid Time To Learn project. The total sample was 195 participants. The statistical package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was engaged to analyze quantitative data. Data were …
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