Essays about: "What is UNDP"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words What is UNDP.

  1. 1. Climate Refugees – deserving of protection? : A study on climate refugees and their rights to protection

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Midya Kaplan; [2023]
    Keywords : Climate Refugee; Human Security Approach; Swedish Aliens Act; CEAS; Parliamentary debates;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the growing phenomenon of climate refugees and their right to protection. The aim is to investigate from the Human Security Approach developed by UNDP, if the human insecurities highlighted covers the situation of climate refugees making them eligible for protection. READ MORE

  3. 2. How is gender inequality represented? : A policy study of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)

    Author : Rebecca Hallin; [2021]
    Keywords : international development; gender inequality; WPR -approach; UNDP; gender mainstreaming;

    Abstract : Policies are often seen as a response to existing issues, wheras in this study polices are understood as a productive process, that not only addresses a pre-existing problem, but that construct the problem through how it is represented in the policy (Bacchi, Eveline, 2010: 18). Based on this, the study examines how gender inequality is represented in a number of policies and reports from the UN Development Programme, UNDP, published between 2018 and 2021. READ MORE

  4. 3. A Critical Review of the UNDP Guyana Hinterland Rural and Poor Communities (HRPC) Project

    University essay from KTH/Energisystemanalys

    Author : Gisela Norman; [2019]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The Government of Guyana sees the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) diffusion as critical in quality of life improvement. Together with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) they are conducting a project to provide internet access to Hinterland, Rural and Poor Communities (HRPC) through Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSATs) powered by stand-alone hybrid energy systems including solar Photovoltaics (PV) and Li-Ion batteries. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Institutional Discourse of Development: The postcolonial condition and the case of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Chloé A. RIGELO; [2019]
    Keywords : human development; postolonial condition; CARICOM; Barbados; Haiti; UNDP; discourse;

    Abstract : Using a discourse analysis, the thesis will examine the impact of the postcolonial condition and the desire for integration in the institutional framing of human development reports, policies and programs. Three levels will be used to contextualize the Caribbean expression of human development. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Curious Case of Social Trust - Examining the Impact of Ethnic Heterogeneity and Segregation on Social Trust in Bosnia-Herzegovina

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : David Ljungberg; Axel Lilja; [2016]
    Keywords : Social trust; Ethnic heterogeneity; Segregation;

    Abstract : Social trust is a fundamental part of the grease that ensures the smooth functioning of human society. It is what enables human co-existence in a society largely populated by mutual strangers. This thesis studies social trust in an environment of ethnic heterogeneity and segregation, using Bosnia-Herzegovina as a case study. READ MORE