Despite their widely acknowledged potential, ICT for Education projects often fail to deliver on their promises. This thesis argues that such promises are based on a shared rhetoric, the technological imperative, that veils mismatching premises. It is an ethnographic case study …
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The co-existence of oil and gas development and biodiversity conservation in protected areas is a worldwide challenge because of the risks posed by petroleum development in sensitive ecosystems. This research focuses on the relationship between petroleum development and biodiver…
The concept of participation seems to reflect in most 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 e…
The present thesis is an investigation of sustainable rural community development in the face of the global economy. It aims to develop a framework for capacity building, leading to the empowerment of rural communities in developing countries in response to restructuring and adj…
Many African governments no longer provide many services expected of them, due to political and economic events, resulting in functions being devolved to local governments and civil society groups. Under decentralization, Chadians can capitalize on potentials and avoid the dange…
Nonprofit and voluntary organizations are part of the political economy that add to the services of public and private sectors by addressing civic interests, participation in democracy and providing social programs that improve quality of life. This sector is mostly comprised of…
The objective of this study is to assess the role of mobile technology to promote a communicative city in Indonesia. The focus is on mobile technologies as symbols of the latest information and communication technology (ICT). Communication influences the capacity building of the…
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…