• Post-millennium development goals : analysis of education policies and gender inequity in basic education in Ghana – a case study of Tema 

  Seshie, Abigail Zita (College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, 2019)

  This study focuses on Ghana’s effort to achieve gender equity in basic education after committing to Millennium Development Goals. Drawing on the intersectional framework of Black Feminist Thought, the research explores ...
• Culture et santé infantile chez les Agotimés du Togo : place de la médecine traditionnelle dans le système de santé publique 

  Adedzi, Kodzo Awoenam (2019-05-10)
• Risk and certification to agricultural standards 

  Mohan, Sarah (2017)

  In an economic environment where farmers have little market power yet live close to subsistence, risk mitigation objectives are met through diversification of income streams and strategic crop and marketing choices. Research ...
• Green grabbing and the contested nature of belonging in Laikipia, Kenya : a genealogy 

  Bersaglio, Brock (2017)

  How and why do political reactions of certain rural groups align or depart from those of others? Findings suggest that in settler societies, aspects of green grabbing (or land grabbing) may be understood as acts of “white ...
• 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)

  Governance of social protection programmes in developing countries need to ensure that community members and state institutions have the resources to effectively engage with each other. This dissertation examines how 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)

  Findings of this study reveal that children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in Accra are affected by several health conditions, including sensory, respiratory, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal ...
• Social enterprises as agents of technological change : case studies from Tanzania 

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

  The thesis constructs a concept of “technology localization” towards developing new or modified explanations for technological change processes. Technology localization is described as a main variable in the pursuit of ...
• Bridging organizations to improve conservation fit in the Coral Triangle 

  Berdej, Samantha (2017)

  Identifying how bridging organizations shape narratives, and what actions and consequences flow from these narratives, can contribute to more effective interventions and conservation policy. Based on three case studies ...
• 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)

  This research investigates the implications of environmental resource use conflicts between refugees and their hosts for local integration of refugees in Ghana. Findings show that contrary to popular claims that refugees ...
• Migration of Zimbabweans to South Africa and their working and living conditions, 2000-2010 

  Zhira, Maxwell (University of Alberta, 2016)

  Five million people left Zimbabwe over a period of ten years (2000-2010) with three million migrating to South Africa. This thesis documents positive changes in the lives of migrants and how they contributed to their new ...
• 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)

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