Background: After five years of programming, the SeriousFun Global Partnership Program (GPP) is looking to evaluate their model for programmatic and financial sustainability: specifically, among camp directors. To date, little is known about the facilitators and barriers camp di…
The Cooperative Extension System (CES) offers some unique challenges when addressing evaluation concerns having developed and grown in educational capacity over the past hundred years. CES is a large educationally focused organization based within the land-grant university syste…
Use of solar photovoltaic (PV) and other renewable sources to meet rising electricity demand by a growing world population has gained traction in many countries in recent years. In rural Sub-Saharan Africa, where 86 percent of the populace has no access to electricity, solar ene…
This thesis explores the conceptual and methodological questions of local capacity building. The issue of capacity building has to do with enhancing the role of local organizations in the development process. It has been argued that strong organizations would create the social a…
When high responsibility is placed on leaders, there is a natural tendency for leaders to make efforts to meet the expectations. When that happens, leaders are more conscious and focus to demonstrate effectiveness in their organizations. Prominent Ethiopia leaders are not differ…
The purpose of this thesis is to determine whether accreditation is effective for developing individual's necessary capacities that improve quality. In the last decade, accreditation shows that is a valuable tool. Accreditation program implementation has also demonstrated a worl…