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Grassroot Empowerment (1975-1990): A Discussion Paper
Banerjee, Narayana K - eSocialSciences - 2010
approach for their mobilization and empowerment. Maximum emphasis has been placed on the empowerment of women at the grassroots …
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Sustainable development in four Swedish communities priorities, responsibility, empowerment
Lindström, Marianne; Küller, Rikard - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 10 (2008) 3, pp. 311-336
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Integrated Community-Based Disaster Management Program in Taiwan: A Case Study of Shang-An Village
Chen, Liang-Chun; Liu, Yi-Chung; Chan, Kuei-Chi - In: Natural Hazards 37 (2006) 1, pp. 209-223
Taiwan has long made efforts to increase community emergency response capability, due to its vulnerability to earthquakes, typhoons, landslides and debris flows. Not until recent major natural disasters, such as the 1999 Chi–Chi Earthquake, Typhoon Toraji and Typhoon Nari, has the government...
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The Pathology of Social Capital in Iran Universities: A Case Study from Sistan and Baluchestan and Zahedan Azad University
Sargolzaie, Alireza - In: International Journal of Academic Research in Business … 4 (2014) 7, pp. 1-9
dimension of social capital such as identity, empowerment, cooperation and public benefit, trust, cooperative management …
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Empowerment, un análisis desde el perfil demográfico
Rendón, Lizbeth Pérez; Barrón, Alejandro Guerrero - In: Panorama Administrativo Journal 6 (2012) 11, pp. 5-18
comunicación se analiza como el perfil demográfico del docente, influye en la formación del empowerment a través de un análisis …
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Playing in Invisible Markets: Innovations in the Market for Toilets to Harness the Economic Power of the Poor
Ramani, Shyama V. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
Sanitation is at the heart of not only environmental security but also food security and health. Today about 41% of the global population or about 2.6 billion people do not have access to toilets and about 42,000 people die every week due to drinking water polluted with faecal matter. The...
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Participatory Methodology and Action Research in the Area of Health
Thiollent, Michel Jean-Marie; Toledo, Renata Ferraz de - In: International Journal of Action Research 8 (2012) 2, pp. 142-158
education, prevention, health promotion and empowerment. It also intends to show how the use of this methodology in the …
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Empowering Women Through Education: Evidence from Sierra Leone
Cannonier, Colin; Mocan, Naci - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2012
We use data from Sierra Leone where a substantial education program provided increased access to education for primary-school age children but did not benefit children who were older. We exploit the variation in access to the program generated by date of birth and the variation in resources...
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Online Privacy in Social Media: A Conceptual Exploration of Empowerment and Vulnerability
PIERSON, Jo - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2012) 88, pp. 99-120
. On the other hand we find that empirical evidence about what user empowerment really consists of is too a large extent … missing and that a risk of denial of the empowerment downside exists. After all if we indeed find opportunities for user … empowerment, also the counterpart of disempowerment is at stake. The latter is particularly visible in the relation between social …
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Semiotics and leadership: making meaning for the young generation
Vasilescu, Ruxandra - In: Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research 6 (2013) 2, pp. 234-239
Any research is actually performed with a view to the future and has a predictive nature. We study the past and the present in order to be prepared for the future. So we study for the generations to come; it is therefore important to know their expectations, worldview, interpretation of reality....
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