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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"grassroots level"”.
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Barriers in community participation and rural development.
… programmes that involve people at the grassroots level. In Ghana, the introduction of the decentralization programme in the late 1980s that aimed at promoting effective, comprehensive and rapid development, more especially in the rural areas also adopted participatory approach. The …
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Do surgeons influence the treatment rates for T1 breast cancer patients at the local level of health care?
… medical practice. This study focused on the grassroots level of health care by investigating local treatment protocols, patient/physician beliefs and actual treatments chosen concerning early diagnosis of breast cancer.
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Peacebuilding in the Context of Displacement: Women’s Groups in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Settlements in Kenya
… conflict. The study focuses on four grassroots-level local women’s groups in the Bankala and Mambira eco-villages and an inner-city settlement in the Rift-Valley, Kenya. The study uses the human security approach to peacebuilding to examine the activities and initiatives of the …
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Beauty on the Walls: Graffiti and Street Art as a Social Movement
… for communication and self expression at grassroots level.
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The role of catalyst organizations in the formation of metropolitan coalitions : metropolitics in Baltimore and Chicago
… to target, whether to organize at the elite or grassroots level, and whom to partner with.
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The environmental impacts and wellbeing benefits of sport: Assessing spectator and participant dominated sports in England
… events there is limited research on it at the grassroots level. In addition watching and participating in sport results in wellbeing benefits such as improved self-esteem and mood. This research quantitatively examined both the environmental impacts and wellbeing benefits of sport at the …
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Theophilus and the Centurions: Roman Officials as the “Most Excellent” Proponents of the Gospel in Luke-Acts
… message had already made inroads at the grassroots level of the Roman establishment. Chapter 1 provides an overview of my topic. Chapter 2 discusses Luke’s audience and the identity of Theophilus. Chapter 3 examines every appearance of centurions in Luke-Acts, highlighting their roles as …
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The School Counseling Psychology Program: A Qualitative Study.
… regional perspective that reaffirms the value of grassroots level research. Lastly, the conceptual barriers and recommendations of administering an integrated school counseling and school psychology training program are presented and discussed.
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From Death Sentence to Disappearance: The Invisibility of West Asian LGBTQ Refugees
… of vulnerable populations is one of the highest levels of injustice which places them at higher risks of discrimination. Despite the most visible injustice, why do they remain invisible? I began to seek answers by myself through a critical autoethnography with an analytical approach throughout my …
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Business models for providing education to the poor
… on improving the quality of education at a grassroots level. The first business case is Spark Accreditation - India's first universally available school accreditation service. The second business case is Spark Guru - a comprehensive teaching service for Class 8, 9 and 10 Mathematics that …
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Heritage partnerships : national designation, regional promotion and the role of local preservation organizations
… on historic preservation activities at the grassroots level. NHAs, often termed the "future of our National Parks," have been administered by the National Park Service since the mid-1980s. These projects aim to mobilize local initiatives around a common set of distinct community assets and …
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Management of organisational crises and patient safety: towards a more inclusive approach
… upon understanding the contributory behaviour of grassroots level. Furthermore, whilst theory is empirically based, this has almost exclusively been founded on narratives offered by those who occupy senior management positions at the expense of considering employees who are closer to the crisis …
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Women’s empowerment and community development in Cameroon. A case study of NGOs and women’s organisations in the Northwest Province
… of gaps between policy implementation at the grassroots level which prevents women benefiting fully from the programmes initiated by government at the central level. The research is an empirical study which employs a qualitative approach with a case study design, informed by feminist paradigms …
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Implementation of a developmental approach to social welfare service delivery at Nkandla in Kwazulu–Natal
… really looking at the felt needs. People at the grassroots level do not have knowledge on how government structures function. This makes it difficult for them to have meaningful and effective means of participation. All the undesirable effects outlined above, provide a sound and compelling basis …
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An investigation into the National Water Act No 36 of 1998: Its impact and effectiveness on stakeholders in a Water Users' Association in a rural community in the Western Cape
… the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) at grassroots level. This study, through a research strategy, reached the conclusion that the ANC government has failed to implement the strategies and policies of the National Water Act no.36 of 1998 to implement equitable water sharing. A deductive …
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Love, Rescue, Heal: Managing the Meaning of a Mission to End Human Trafficking
… which exist to alleviate societal ills at the grassroots level, have recently trended toward a transnational status as they operate both at the local level and as part of a global movement requiring them to manage the meaning of their mission with various external stakeholders. The current …
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An Assessment of the Social Impact of Feminist Network Organizing: A Qualitative Study of the First Nepali Women's Global Network (NWGN) Conference
… of Nepali women on a global and national level and the variant experiences of conference participants based on their social locations. Recognizing the complexity of individual social change on a personal level as well as process-based institutional social change challenging social norms, …
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Financial Development and Poverty Reduction in South Africa
South Africa has high levels of financial development yet experiences significant and persistently high levels of poverty. Intrinsically, this research examines the relationship between financial development and the reduction of poverty in South Africa. The research employed the Vector Error …
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Envisioning the role of sport as a tool for community-level peace building in Kisumu, Kenya
… of contexts, from the international to the grassroots level, there is an increasing need to better understand how SDP organizations and programs are impacting communities at the local level. Program accountability and monitoring remain a challenge for SDP researchers and practitioners, and …
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Lending a Megaphone to the Muted: The Merits of Comprehensive Conflict Engagement through Photovoice in Refugee Resettlement Communities
… the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for grassroots-level data on the challenges faced by residents of resettlement communities and for the development of strategies for promoting intercultural understanding.</p> <p>This dissertation delineates the development of the Comprehensive Conflict …
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