Essays about: "disadvantaged group"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 37 essays containing the words disadvantaged group.

1. 1. Visual Communication in Driving Social Innovation for Disadvantaged groups in Nami

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Medie- och Informationsteknik; Linköpings universitet/Tekniska fakulteten

   Author : Mufaro Nhundu; [2023]
   Keywords : Social Innovation; Food Security; Visual Communication; Human Centered Design.;

   Abstract : This master’s thesis aims to explore the potential of visual communication as a powerful tool for promoting change and impact in Namibia with a focus on sustainable agriculture and food security. The study analyzes how graphic design and visual communication may effectively explain best practices for sustainable farming and inspire young adults in rural communities to engage with agriculture through empirical research. READ MORE

3. 2. Towards a Geographic Information Systems and Data-Driven Integration Management.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Author : Takura Matswetu; [2023]
   Keywords : Migrant Integration; Geography; Physical Geography; GIS; Network Analysis; Tampere; Accessibility; Data-driven decision making; Holistic Integration Index; Mathematics and Statistics; Social Sciences; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Integration management in Finland and Tampere is broad task including multiple actors and departments. To manage integration, is to coordinate the cross organizational cooperation of multiple service structures that support migrants with different kinds of services. READ MORE

4. 3. Can an intervention increase access to higher education for disadvantaged students? : Quasi-experimental evidence from Peru

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Nationalekonomi

   Author : Gloria Fatima Canales Carballido; [2023]
   Keywords : higher education; access; disadvantaged students; scholarship; Propensity Score Matching; impact evaluation; quasi-experiment;

   Abstract : Heterogeneity in the school education quality plays an important role for those who want to pursue a bachelor's degree in Peru since access to higher education is highly correlated with socioeconomic status. In that sense, an intervention for disadvantaged students took place for the first time in 2022 and was constrained to the assessment of a scholarship called “Beca 18”, the biggest scholarship that the public institution called PRONABEC addresses every year since 2012. READ MORE

5. 4. Exploring learning processes and social capital in community urban agriculture projects in Bogotá, Colombia

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biosystems and Technology (from 130101)

   Author : Lily Begg; [2023]
   Keywords : urban and peri-urban agriculture UPA ; social capital; social learning; knowledge transfer; capacity-building; agroecology; community UPA; Bogotá; huerta;

   Abstract : As the world’s population becomes increasingly urban, the social, economic and environmental living conditions of city-dwellers are under pressure. High levels of pollution, lack of transport links, informal housing, unemployment rates and increasing inequalities are just some of the challenges that rapidly urbanising cities face. READ MORE

6. 5. Gentrifying Practices Affecting Youths’ Habitats

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Hugo Koetsier; [2022]
   Keywords : Gentrification; Lived Experience; Critical Phenomenology; Renoviction; Housing Justice; Habitat; Youths; Järva; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : While Sweden falls short in integrating youths growing up in segregated areas, these disadvantaged neighborhoods are more frequently imposed to profit-driven strategies that result in gentrification. This thesis aims to uncover how gentrification affects the lived experience that youths from disadvantaged areas have of their habitat. READ MORE