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The purpose of this dissertation research is to examine the process of community participation and community members' perceptions of and preferences for the participatory approaches in Aceh post-tsunami redevelopment. The research questions are: (1) How has the process of commun…
This dissertation interrogates "community participation" as an international, national, and local discourse and diagnoses the consequences of this discourse for the people living in rural Ethiopia. The analysis proceeds in two steps. First, I critically investigate "community pa…
After 32 years of centralized rule under President Soeharto (1966-1998), Indonesia joined the ranks of decentralized nations in 1999 in what is popularly known as the "big bang" approach to decentralization. A broad range of powers were devolved to district and city governments …
This study examines community participation in education in the rural Ethiopia villages of Khisha, Triab, and Shinkah by an NGO, Improvement for Ethiopian Education and Development (IEED). This study used a case study methodology to address a problem that current literature does…
National culture, cultural diversity, and behavior affect project outcome and group performance (Alesina & La Ferrara, 2004; Cox, Lobel, & McLeod, 1991), group productivity, effectiveness, creativity, cohesiveness, among others (Barinaga, 2007; Maznevski & Chudoba, 2000; Thomas,…
Educators have studied community participation as it relates to school efficiency, academic effectiveness, social mobilization, and the accountability of partners involved in the education process. The study of the sustainability or continuity of community participation over tim…
This research explored ways in which urban green space is valued among residents of the ethnically diverse neighborhoods of southeast Nashville, with emphasis on examining the ways in which these values influence motivation to engage with community and environmentally focused op…
Tree plantations that use significant amounts of the government's financial and human resources have been established in Indonesia. Unfortunately, the result has not been satisfactory. One of the primary reasons for this is that the government acted unilaterally in determining t…
Coastal environments are some of the most productive ecosystems in the world. They are rich areas for harvesting food and also serve for transportation, tourism and waste disposal. However, overpopulation, conflicting economic demands and environmental degradation have increased…
Indonesia's national school feeding program (SFP), launched in 1996, represented an innovative approach to school feeding involving Multiple participants and beneficiaries in community-based implementation. In 1997/98 Indonesia was struck by Asia's economic crisis that raised fe…
While evidence from developed countries suggests that communities can bring about changes in schools (Sergiovanni cited in Hargreaves et al., 1998), systematic reviews of such practice in developing countries are scant (Hanson, 1997; Khan, 2001). Research in industrialized count…