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This thesis is a case study on community-based water management and increased access to water through rainwater harvesting in rural Jordan. It also considers how women gain benefits through rainwater harvesting and their participation in community-based water management. Based on a holistic framework that merges community-based water management and water demand management, we examined Bayoudah vil
I takt med att organisationer växer hanterar de mer och mer information vilket innebär ett behov av en process, även kallad content life-cycle processen, för att samla in, hantera och publicera information på intranätet. Vidare hjälper content life-cycle processen organisationen att anpassa det man har, med det som anställda vill ha, så att organisationen kan leverera rätt information till rätt p
The overwhelming majority of disputes in Cambodia are handled in the informal justice system through mediation. Commune Councils are a vital component of the informal justice system, and their role as mediators is one of their most time-consuming duties. Currently, there is no national mediation program standardizing this function, resulting in Communes throughout the country performing dispute re
The purpose of this micro-ethnographic study was to bring to light the choices and strategies of poor people in reaction to what they imagined housing policies to be in Nicaragua. The analysis used four of Bourdieu’s concepts which are Habitus, Capital, Field, and Agency and his structuralistic constructivism and interpretivism within a mainly phenomenological approach. Both approaches emphasized
The aim of our study was to examine the relationship between creativity and wellbeing. The material for our study has been gathered through a questionnaire with self-assessment at one of Scandinavia's largest companies in the hotel industry. The questionnaire consisted of The organisational questionnaire (GEFA) and The measurement of wellbeing. In the study 90 questionnaires was distributed in
Latin America has throughout the years been home for different regional integration agreements. The two most recent examples of South American integration blocs are the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) and Mercado Común del Sur (Mercosur). This thesis focuses on the static effects of integration which are caused by the future inclusion of Venezuela, a new member to Mercosur. Moreover, Venezuela’s
Background: The literature reviewed in the context of this master’ programme frequently refers to the enormous and increasing flows of people in the global era (Dicken, 2007; Lechner, 2004; Yeates, 2008); consequently, these flows have different directions and motives and represent diverse types of migration and migrants. As a result, the pivotal point here is the specificity of scientific migrati
Uganda previously had the reputation of being Africa’s food basket, which unfortunately no longer is the case. To mitigate the downwards spiral of soil depletion many organisations, both governmental and non-governmental, introduce land-management systems to farmers, with agroforestry being one example. This study aims to elucidate the importance of the dissemination of information in the context
As informal human settlements grow in some major urban centers throughout the developing world, the problem of poverty is being exacerbated by escalating waste generation. Poor sanitation and substandard living conditions in these settlements pose major health risks for millions of marginalized people. Many have resorted to working informally in unhealthy and unsafe conditions to scrounge through
This paper explores the gender differences of remittance sending behaviour of internal migrants in Vietnam. This study emerges from the context of rapid economic growth, feminisation of migration and the real potential of remittances for poverty alleviation. This twofold study investigates the determinants of remittances, and then explores if there are differences in proportions of income remitted
For well over two decades, the European Union (EU) has been an important actor in climate change policy. It has developed a wide range of tools for its external and internal climate policy. This thesis examines the EU’s view on international climate agreements. The EU promotes a relatively stable approach to deal with the problem of climate change which is characterised by efforts to conclude lega
This thesis examines the external energy policy of the European Union in a two-step approach. First, an analysis of the degree of actorness that the EU has achieved in this new policy field is carried out on the basis of the theoretical concept introduced by Bretherton and Vogler. It is argued that the EU only possesses fragmented actorness in all three dimensions examined. Second, this is followe
The aim of this study was to reach a better understanding on how quality education can be applied so that the needs, views and values of local actors are fulfilled at the same time as national principles and perspectives on education are considered. Three research questions guided our study: What patterns can be discerned among local stakeholders in three community schools in Lusaka, Zambia in the
The European Union (EU) has been engaged in Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the early 1970’s. The Union has since then tried to gain a role in the diplomatic process by different means, but without any particularly success to be able to influence the bilateral talks. One has in recent years tried to develop the union towards a more coherent collective foreign policy in order to adopt a stronge
Kenya had a disputed presidential election in late 2007 which erupted into ethnic clashes between supporters of the two candidates. Western media was quick to report back that the sudden violence was due to tribal differences. The goal of my essay was such to explore whether or not a post-colonial discourse could be found in western media. By choosing three international magazines with more analyt
Den svenska integrationspolitiken står inför en strukturomvandling då de delar av flyktingmottagandet som handlar om arbetsmarknadsetablering flyttar från flyktingmottagande kommuners ansvar till den statliga myndigheten Arbetsförmedlingen. Genom en intervjuundersökning med tjänstemän inom integrationsområdet i fyra olika skånska kommuner tittar denna uppsats närmre på hur implementeringsberedskap
Land grabbing är inget nytt fenomen, utan har existerat i flera sekel, men företeelsens form och karaktär har skiftat genom historien. Till följd av den globala matkrisen och den ekonomiska krisen hösten 2008 har antalet fall av land grabbing ökat markant. Orsakerna bakom land grabbing är flera, men det handlar framförallt om att länder vill skydda sig mot matprisfluktuationer och skapa livsmedels
Bristen på kvinnor i näringslivets bolagsstyrelser har länge varit en omdebatterad fråga, men hur ser det ut när politikerna själva utser styrelserna? Uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka könsfördelningen i Malmös kommunala bolagsstyrelser, hur könsfördelningen ser ut, hur den kan förklaras genom teori samt genom politikernas egna upplevelser. För att ge svar på frågeställningarna har vi intervjua
The aim of this thesis is to study allocation of EU funding to the municipalities of Skåne between 2007 and 2009 in order to determine if there are internal factors which are of importance to the allocation of EU funding for the municipalities in Skåne. The objective is to study if a relation between internal factors of the municipalities and the amount of EU funding allocated can be observed and
