Search for dissertations about: "capacity-building"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 35 swedish dissertations containing the word capacity-building.

  2. 21. Framing the Water Challenge : Multilateral donor policies for water supply and sanitation 1960-2005

    Author : Anna Bohman; Lena Andersson-Skog; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Water Supply; Sanitation; Official Development Assistance; Institutional change; Problem Frames; Ghana; Private Sector Participation; Economic history; Ekonomisk historia;

    Abstract : Opinions on what is best way to provide more people in low income countries with adequate water and sanitation services have changed over time. A recent policy paradigm suggests that private companies should be involved in WSS service provision to improve the situation for those in need. READ MORE

  4. 22. Geographical Information Technologies for Road Infrastructure Maintenance in Uganda

    Author : Lydia Mazzi Kayondo-Ndandiko; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Data model; Decision support; Geographical Information Technologies GITs ; Road Maintenance; Uganda;

    Abstract : This thesis is a documentation of research on Geographical Information Technologies (GITs) as decision support tools in Road Infrastructure Maintenance (RIM) in Uganda. The main objective is to develop an operational framework within which the use of geo-information technologies can be enhanced as decision support tools in road infrastructure maintenance works of Uganda. READ MORE

  5. 23. Industrial Symbiosis - A Tool for More Sustainable Regions?

    Author : Murat Mirata; Internationella miljöinstitutet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Technological sciences; Teknik; regional sustainability; distributed economies; Industrial ecology; Industrial symbiosis;

    Abstract : Today's industrial systems are regarded to have unsustainable characteristics. In order to acquire a more sustainable state, fundamental changes are needed in the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the resource flows associated with such systems. READ MORE

  6. 24. Conflicting Logics? : Implementing Capacity and EU Adaptation in a Postcommunist Context

    Author : Ulrika Jerre; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; child protection reform; Romania; East Central Europe; postcommunism; conditionality; EU adaptation; islands of efficiency; implementing capacity; state transformation; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap;

    Abstract : It is generally recognized that the EU accession process has profound effects on state transformation in the postcommunist applicant countries. A key problem of postcommunism has been a weak ability to implement public policy. This study explores how efforts to fulfill EU conditionality may influence implementing capacity. READ MORE

  7. 25. The role of social participation in municipal-level health systems : the case of Palencia, Guatemala

    Author : Ana Lorena Ruano; Miguel San Sebastián; Francoise Barten; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Social participation; community participation; community heath workers; primary health care; Palencia; Guatemala; folkhälsa; Public health;

    Abstract : Background: Social participation has been recognized as an important public health policy since the declaration of Alma-Ata presented it as one of the pillars of primary health care in 1978. Since then, there have been many adaptations to the original policy recommendations, but participation in health is still seen as a means to make the health system more responsive to local health needs, and as a way to bring the health sector and the community closer together. READ MORE