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What Motivates Cooperation in the Aid Industry?

It has been argued that harmonization leads to a more effective delivery of aid to recipient countries, and ultimately to the target population and thus cooperation in general would be an adequate means to achieve this goal. However, the implementation of the Paris Agenda has so far progressed slowly. Vietnam is often reported as a case where cooperation between donors is working fine. By making u

Doing Gender, Doing Leadership. A Phenomenological Study of Women in Leadership Positions in Kigali, Rwanda

Rwanda is often used as a showcase for promoting gender equality in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa. As a result of the progressive policies of the Rwandan government, women hold many high positions in the public and private sector and constitute the highest proportion in the world in a national parliament. However, there is evidence that patriarchal tendencies are still endemic in Rwandan socie

Teaching for All

Through a case study of teachers’ reactions to inclusive education in Dar es Salaam, this thesis sought to answer (1) how teachers in Dar es Salaam perceive their ability to deliver inclusive education to their students and (2) how an understanding of their perceptions can be utilized to overcome the challenges of implementing inclusive education in Tanzania’s public schools. Using an abductive ap

Returning to Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan: Approaching Post-Conflict Return from the Perspective of Young Adults

Over two million people have returned from exile to South Sudan since peace was restored in 2005. Among them many young men and women who have mainly grown up in urban areas in Sudan. Northern Bahr el Ghazal state (NBeG) which borders Sudan receives the highest number of returnees. Yet NBeG is ill-prepared to absorb this influx of people. The discourse on postconflict return widely perceives retur

Linking Land and Water Resource Management in Southern Thailand: Viewing Sustainable Resource Solutions Through a Double Lens

Global demands for water continue to rise while at the same time, the availability of reliable water resources are deteriorating. As 70% of the world’s human consumption of water resources is directed towards agricultural production, the need to improve water use efficiency and sustainability in these areas is of utmost importance. In order to tackle these issues, the concept of “Integrated water

Change & Confusion – The outcome of perceptions of change management

Purpose: With this study we seek to reveal and analyse the difficulties and challenges change implementation processes may bring along. Our purpose is to find out how managers and their subordinates perceive change and change management processes, and what impact communication has on the implementation of organisational changes. Methodology: Our research is based on a hermeneutical interpretive p

Optimising Stability

This study discusses the risk-decisions of peasant economy. It draws examples from campesinos in Chile and suggests how these decisions may impact the future of campesinos as a distinct cultural group. Utilising a theoretical discussion, illustrated with empirical field data, some of the risks as perceived by campesinos across a region of Chile’s Central Valley are highlighted. The study first ana

A Voice for the Voiceless: Young Women's Leadership Experiences in Zimbabwe

The purpose of the study has been to gain an understanding of how socio-cultural structures and gender norms affect young women’s leadership possibilities. This has been explored through a qualitative case study focusing on how young women leaders, working with sexual and reproductive health rights issues, experience and pursue leadership in Zimbabwe. A theoretical framework based on contextual an

Up-Rising Out of Poverty: The Role of Self-Determination, Political Attitudes and Legitimacy in the Mapuche Movement

Chile is often portrayed as the paradigmatic case of a smooth transition from dictatorship to democracy, sustained by high rates of economic growth. This picture conceals a more complex reality of social conflict provoked by political reform that favors capitalistic advancement at the expense of resource exploitation and the continual and irreversible reduction and destruction of Mapuche land. As

A BRIC IS SICK. HEALTH PATTERNS IN THE CONTEXT OF ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS IN RUSSIA FROM THE 2000’S

Suspected associations between economic performance and health are contradictory in the literature. The present paper’s purpose was to contribute to this ongoing discussion by analyzing health trends of the 2000’s in the Russian Federation in the context of the economic downturns. Russia is a particularly interesting case study because of its financial instability and the devastated health status

Mixing Methods in Mexico: Youth Gangs and Organized Crime in the “Structurally Maladjusted” areas of Monterrey

The purpose of this investigation was to explore the processes that are perpetuating the proliferation of youth gangs in the poverty polygons of Monterrey, Mexico as well as to establish which specific factors attributable to these marginalized areas explain why some youth males join gangs while why other youth males from the same areas refrain from joining the gang. Furthermore, the investigation

Giving the Environment a Voice? Access to Justice for NGOs in the EU post the Aarhus Convention

I denna uppsats kommer jag att titta på hur miljöorganisationers talerätt har förändrats i EU efter det att EU ratificerade Århuskonventionen. Århuskonventionen ger individer och miljöorganisationer talerätt gällande tillgång till information, rätt att delta i beslutsprocesser, men också gentemot privatpersoner eller myndigheter som strider mot den nationella miljölagstiftningen. EU har införlivatIn this thesis I will look at how access to justice for NGOs has changed in the EU after the Union became a party to the Aarhus Convention. The Aarhus Convention gives individuals and environmental NGOs access to justice regarding access to environmental information, public participation in decision-making, but also in regard to private persons or public authorities in breach of national environme

Högsta domstolens prejudikatbildande roll - Hur har den påverkats av EMR?

Prejudikat är en av de viktigaste rättskällorna i svensk rätt. Det svenska rättssystemet är uppbyggt på så sätt att det, för brott- och tvistemålen, finns en gemensam högsta domstol, som är den instans som kan meddela avgöranden som blir vägledande för framtiden. Prejudikaten är formellt sett inte bindande, men i praktiken efterlevs dem i mycket stor utsträckning av tingsrätterna och hovrätterna. Precedent is one of the most important sources of law in the Swedish legal system. The Swedish Supreme Court is the highest instance in the Swedish legal system and it is also the court that can pronounce judgements that serve as guidance for the lower courts in the future. The precedents are not formally binding; they are however obeyed to a large extent. In November 2008 new regulations, regard

Behind the Red Nose: Identity construction through emotional work - The case of Hospital Clowns

The aim of this thesis is to further explore the impact of emotional work on identity, looking at the case of hospital clowns. From an interpretive angle, we build up on theories of emotional labour, emotional work and multiple identity construction as a point of reference for our abductive interpretations and analysis. Our fieldwork included in-depth interviews and observations of hospital clowns