The purpose of the study is to: (1) examine the degree to which women borrowers of the Grameen Bank are being empowered to participate in familial decision-making around the management of income and expenditures like food, children’s education, dowry and teenage marriages; and (…
"20" Result
Sort By:
Multinational Corporations (MNC) have well-documented influences over host nations through the implementation of socioeconomic development programs, the provision of employment, and the availability of goods and services to host communities. One method of socioeconomic growth fr…
This thesis examines the primary principles of Japan's development assistance - jijo, meaning self-help. Japan's development assistance is most commonly presented as economic cooperation, and much less is understood about its social and human development programmes at the commun…
This study is based upon ethnographic research conducted in County Donegal, the most northerly county in the Republic of Ireland, between January 1997 and January 1998. It is focused upon three "development communities" in the county: development professionals, voluntary activis…
London 2012 was the 30th Olympiad, and the third time that London had hosted an Olympic Games. The rationale for hosting the Games was to undertake a large-scale regeneration of Stratford and the East London region. The research explored the experiences of community representati…
A major problem in community-company relations in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria is stakeholder involvement and the apparent lack of understanding of the perceptions of community members of their roles in corporate social strategy. Community protests against transnational cor…
The dissertation consists of three essays in applied economics. The first essay, Decentralizing Development. Allocating Public Goods via Competition , analyzes a World Bank attempt to overcome a lack of local accountability in community driven development programs by having Indo…
This case study research focused on exploring the role of human resource development (HRD) in the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslim community in Minnesota. The study included purposive selection of nine participants. The population for the case study included both male and female commun…
Lagos and Benin City are rapidly growing metropolitan areas with urban water markets, where multiple suppliers compete with a state-run water utility. The lack of household access to potable water is a major problem throughout the study area. While the literature on urban servic…
Access to quality water is a constraint and a source of waterborne diseases among the rural population of Uzbekistan. To address the need for quality water the government cooperates with many international financial and development organizations to address this problem. “Enhance…
The empowerment construct has been central in theories and practice interventions across many health and social science disciplines. However, research and evaluation studies measuring empowerment within international community development initiatives are rare due to a lack of va…
This research project examines the extent to which delivery of services provided by grassroots non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can lead to progressive community change. While locally grounded in the socio-political context of Palestine, this research addresses broader ques…
Community development programmes have been initiated to tackle the shared problems of local communities. The nature, volume and tenure of the development programmes depend on the felt needs and available resources. Different nations initiate community development programmes at d…
This study addresses the lack of voices of members of historically marginalized or disenfranchised communities, in shaping dominant cultural narratives by outsiders. Such dominant cultural narratives are often used to justify exclusion of these communities from engagement in dec…
This study covers theological (mind), spiritual (strength), physical (health), sociological (dignity), and economical (support) dimensions of empowerment of holistically transformed individuals within the Christian community who are able to transform the community with the gospe…
Near the midpoint of the nineteenth century, logging enterprises began to emerge across the northern half of Wisconsin at an increasing rate. Though the lumber boom dwindled throughout the first twenty-five years of the twentieth century, hundreds of new communities had been est…
Urban development is a foundational field which has a direct impact on the quality of life for any individual inhabiting the area of development. Globally, there are many factors that are leveraged to weigh what constitutes just and equitable design, sustainability, and provides…
Past local development practices in developing countries have relied heavily on government and external assistance, producing projects that are unsustainable locally and creating a cycle of dependence. Financial crises in the developing world have worsened the situation by limit…
The purpose of this study is to reveal the secrets of success in the Community Based Human Development Projects (PMAK) in the country. Many of the literature has argued that, one of the reasons of success in many community development projects was due to effective leaders in the…