• Green grabbing and the contested nature of belonging in Laikipia, Kenya : a genealogy 

  Bersaglio, Brock (2017)

  Global demand to protect endangered wildlife at any cost has corresponded to increasingly more Large-Scale Land Acquisitions being carried out for conservation purposes. This dissertation focuses on how and why different ...
• Governing social protection in developing countries through community-based targeting mechanisms : a case study of Nigeria’s “In Care of the People” Conditional Cash Transfer Programme 

  Olabanji Akinola (University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, 2017-04)

  In light of the inability of many bureaucracies in developing countries to effectively ensure transparency and accountability in the governance of social protection programmes, the participation of communities in the ...
• Access to healthcare for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in Accra, Ghana : challenges and strategies for improvement 

  Lamptey, De-Lawrence (2017-04)

  This dissertation explored the health needs of children with IDD in Accra, Ghana, experiences of caregivers in accessing healthcare for the children and views of caregivers on how to improve healthcare for the children. ...
• Social enterprises as agents of technological change : case studies from Tanzania 

  Sheikheldin, Gussai (University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, 2017-05)

  This thesis explores the potential role of social enterprises as agents of technological change in developing societies. By ‘agents’ it is meant active participants in processes of conceiving and implementing new technological ...
• Bridging organizations to improve conservation fit in the Coral Triangle 

  Berdej, Samantha (2017)

  This dissertation investigates how bridging organizations influence the processes and outcomes of coastal-marine governance and conservation. Novel ways of governing are crucial in conservation to navigate the ‘messiness’ ...
• Dynamiques résidentielles dans une ville ouest-africaine : déterminants du statut d’occupation du logement à Lomé (Togo) 

  Fiawumor, Senyo (Faculté de l'Aménagement, Université de Montréal, 2016-03)

  La stratégie «Adequate shelter for all and sustainable settlements development in an urbanising world» adoptée au sommet mondial Habitat II d’Istanbul de 1996, traduite dans les Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement ...
• Refugees, environmental resource use and local integration in Ghana 

  Agblorti, Samuel Kofi Miledzi (University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, CA, 2016)

  The world has seen a dramatic upsurge in the number of displaced persons since World War II. As the international community and host governments struggle to cope with the ever increasing number of new refugee inflows, a ...
• Migration of Zimbabweans to South Africa and their working and living conditions, 2000-2010 

  Zhira, Maxwell (University of Alberta, 2016)

  In this dissertation, I focus on the migration of Zimbabweans to South Africa and on their living conditions after they settled there. I cover the years from 2000 to 2010. This migration is important to study for several ...
• Community resilience, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation : learning with coastal communities in central Vietnam 

  Nguyen Huu Trung (Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2016)

  Future climate change is expected to heighten threats to a majority of Vietnam’s population that lives along the coast, projected to be 63 million people and 1.1 million hectares of agricultural land with a sea level rise ...
• Water privatization in Metro Manila : assessing the state of equitable water provision 

  Torio, Philamer Carlos (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CA, 2016-04)

  A key concern is how to properly assess water privatization programs in their ability to address the water needs of the poor. With limited supply options and low bargaining power, unconnected urban poor households in ...
• Principes de responsabilité et de solidarité pour un accès financier équitable aux soins de santé : le cas des travailleurs de l’informel urbain du Cameroun en situation de vulnérabilité 

  Moubé, Moubé (Université de Montréal, 2015-09)

  La question de l’accès financier des personnes socialement défavorisées aux soins de santé est aujourd’hui un enjeu éthique de grande importance dans de nombreux pays à faible revenu ou en voie d’émergence. On peut se ...
• Fortified fish sauce : a novel means of improving thiamin status in rural Cambodia 

  Whitfield, Kyly C. (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CA, 2016-04)

  Poor thiamin status is common among women of childbearing age in rural and urban Cambodia. The Cambodian diet consists largely of thiamin-poor, polished white rice and contains few thiamin-rich foods. Thiamin-fortified ...
• Community-based urban environmental management : a case study of low-income settlements in Delhi, India 

  Sider, David R. (University of Toronto, 2008)

  This thesis investigates community-based approaches to environmental management in a low-income area of Delhi, India. The research site consists of several neighbourhoods within Sultanpuri Resettlement Colony, a sprawling ...
• Ties that bind : connections, patterns, and possibilities for marine protected areas 

  Alexander, Steven Matthew (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, CA, 2015)

  By examining the role of social networks through time in relation to natural resource management and conservation, the role of social networks is identified as one of the research frontiers for policy-relevant Marine ...
• Land-water management and sustainability : an indigenous perspective in Laitu Khyang community, Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Bangladesh 

  Datta, Ranjan (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, CA, 2015-07)

  Research findings reveal that current management practices imposed by both government and non-government agencies have seriously undermined local, traditional land and water management practices. The effects include: a ...
• Construire son future : production de l'habitation et transformation des rapports de genre à Pikine, Sénégal 

  Pinard, Émilie (Université Laval, 2014)

  Cette thèse porte sur la production de l’habitation des quartiers informels et sur sa participation dans le processus d’autonomisation des femmes sénégalaises. Elle documente les acteurs, normes et pratiques impliqués dans ...
• Sustainable development : the story of the Ivory Park EcoCity 

  Carman, Tara (Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2005-09)
• Community member learning in a community-based ecotourism project in Northern Vietnam 

  Linh Thuy Tran (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CA, 2014-12)

  Informed by theoretical concepts in adult learning, environmental adult education, and women's empowerment in community development, this study examines the content, process, and outcomes of community member learning in ...
• Green energies the socialist way : hydropower, energy crops and Handai livelihoods along the Red river, Yunnan province, China 

  Rousseau, Jean-François (Department of Geography, McGill University, Montréal, QC, CA, 2014)

  Since the mid-2000s, international and Chinese development policies have made Honghe Prefecture, located in Yunnan Province, China, a new frontier for renewable energy development in the China-Vietnam borderlands. In ...
• Empowering women entrepreneurs in Africa : investigating information access and use of information and communication technologies by women-owned enterprises in Zambia 

  Mumba, Daniel (School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, CA, 2014)

  This study investigated the information seeking behaviour of Zambian women entrepreneurs, specifically focusing on their information needs, information sources, barriers to information access, and usage of information ...

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