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Has income generating activities and social mobilization among rural women led to greater economic independence, development, and improved status? : …
2010
Masteroppgave i development management- Universitetet i Agder 2010 This has been an effort to show if there indeed is anything to gain in engaging in incomegenerating activities (IGA). The study takes us to North-Eastern Uganda in the Sub-Region of Teso where a women’s group was founded by the name of Teso Women’s Peace Activists or TEWPA. A woman engaging in activities to gain income is not new on the continent of Africa. I Uganda, the local NGOs, community based organizations and the civil service have kept the drum of self-help and alternative income to come out of york of poverty. This study looks at the different theories that conceptualise the approaches to women empowerment and women…
Socio-economic impacts of Corporate Social Responsibilitypractices in Sri Lankan domestic manufacturing companies : (with reference to Harischandra M…
2010
Masteroppgave i development management- Universitetet i Agder 2010 The purpose of this study is to explore the socio-economic impacts of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices in Sri Lankan manufacturing companies. The thesis sets out to seek how CSR activities can obtain business benefits as well how it appeals to the socioeconomic issues in the community. To achieve the aim of this study, an investigation of the current practices was performed through a pertinent empirical study. The empirical investigation is based on a case study of Harischandra Mills PLC CSR practices. It shows an increasing concern of the company to participate in social programmes to contribute socio-economi…
Community participation as a tool for development: local community´s participation in primary education development inMorogoro, Tanzania : a case of …
2010
Masteroppgave development management- Universitetet i Agder 2010 The concepts of community participation and development become crucial topic in attaining sustainable development. Development by itself it deals with human development, therefore, the participation of the people in their own development is very essential. Education is very important tool for human liberation and development. Tanzania is one of the developing countries, which strive to achieve Universal Primary Education to meet the target of United Nation through its Development Goals. In order to achieve the target UN demand for government to involve the community/parents to improve the school development and pupils enrolm…
Is self help the best help? : comparing donor funded and locally funded (self help) development projects in view of sustainable development. A compar…
2010
Masteroppgave development management- Universitetet i Agder 2010 Persistent poverty in low developed countries is a concern which has drawn a number of external efforts, the most recent being the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The paradox has and still is that while aid has been provided in large quantities, the debt burden and poverty levels in developing countries, especially Sub Saharan Africa, seem to be on the increase and the ability of aid to solve this is highly questioned (Erixon, 2005; Watkins, 1995 This state of affairs propelled this study to investigate the option of development from withinself help. Using a comparative approach to the study, self help projects and donor …
Bridging the gap between the gold mining industry and the environmental and societal degradation through regulation : a qualitative study for identif…
2012
Master thesis in development management- University of Agder, 2012 This paper provides an identification and analysis of the contractual elements, i.e. requirements, for a hypothetical regulation of the South African gold mining industry. The identification of contractual elements is based on their probability in contributing in reversing trends of environmental and societal degradation deriving from gold mining. Second, this thesis explores the potential for such a regulation to achieve these objectives in South Africa. Except from a few initiatives of variable qualities, the gold mining industry at large is unregulated, and it is as such very much similar to the diamond industry prior to …
Listening to people: local perspectives on mining child labour and community development in Cerro Rico - Bolivia
2012
Master thesis in development management- University of Agder 2012 This study explores community development from below in Cerro Rico mining community taking child labour as a start point for analysis. The investigation aims to generate knowledge about the potential of the community to generate a socially inclusive, equitable, and sustainable process of development from within the community. At the same time, it seeks to refine the understanding of child labour in this context. Development trends have paid more attention to the local cultures and indigenous knowledge in recent decades. Alternative development conceives the social forces as the main drivers for development where the community…
Displaced sexuality : a study of gender relations and sexual genderbased violence in the context of displacement in northern Uganda
2010
Masteroppgave i development management- Universitetet i Agder 2010 There are many barriers to human development; gender inequality is generally acknowledged to be one of these. In the patriarchal and displaced society of the Acholi in Northern Uganda, this inequality has for decades been played out directly on the bodies of girls and women. As females, many have experienced Sexual-Gender Based Violence (SGBV), whether in physically forceful ways such as rape and forced sex by intimate partners, or in structurally forceful ways such as transactional sex for subsistence. This thesis examines SGBV in post-conflict Gulu and Amuru districts in Northern Uganda from an endogenous perspective. Fiel…
Community based management of surface water sources in rural south western Uganda : a study of Mbarara and Kiruhuru districts
2009
Masteroppgave i development management- Universitetet i Agder 2009 Introduction When managed appropriately, water is a precious natural resource, vital for life, development and the environment. Community based management (CBM) is the style of management the Ugandan Ministry of Water and Environment recommends for most water facilities constructed in rural areas. Although community based management of water facilities is recommended, it is largely for government constructed facilities and many people in the two districts of Kiruhura and Mbarara communally use privately constructed surface water sources. The objectives of this study therefore were to establish; What rules and practices are i…
Social movements: development actors in Bolivia? : a case study of how "Cocaleros" movements perceive their role in Bolivian development processes
2010
Masteroppgave development management- Universitetet i Agder 2010 In the last decades the Bolivian social movements started gaining force and raising their voices against the injustices and the inefficiency of the governments to give solution to their problems. During the last 20 years the movements have started to gain control and force, but many of the movements have a longer history. One of them is the cocaleros movement, the coca leaf growers’ movement. They spent more than thirty years fighting for what they considered to be their rights; they practically started form cero and created a strong organization that represents not only their particular interests, but the collective identity …
Participatory resource management and development in developing countries: " do the attributes of the organizing committee for local participation ma…
2011
Master thesis in development management- University of Agder 2011 In the past few decades, local community participation has been viewed as one of the major ways through which sustainable resource management can be attained. Communities have been encouraged to take part in resource management projects in order to attain better results. However, there are still some concerns in academic and practitioner circles on how the participatory approach can be implemented in order to gain the most out of it. Hence, pointing to the need for further research on ways of improving participation especially in community resource conservation and development. In this regard, this research set out to discove…