Essays about: "Democracy Assistance"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 36 essays containing the words Democracy Assistance.

  1. 6. Aid Strategies of an Asian Democracy: The Formation of Japanese Governance and Democracy Promotion in the Field

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Hugo Ekelund; [2023]
    Keywords : Key words: democracy promotion; development assistance; Japanese foreign policy; street-level bureaucrats; Asian development cooperation.; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This is a study of the promotion of democracy and governance as a part of Japan’s official development cooperation. Despite being one of few Asian democracies among aid donors, Japan’s work with democracy and governance has largely been overlooked in the discussion of its aid programme. READ MORE

  3. 7. Postdevelopment Assistance Made Possible? A Qualitative Analysis of the ICLD’s International Training Programmes in Tanzania from the Local Stakeholders’ Perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Michal Piatkowski; [2023]
    Keywords : development assistance; power relations; international training programmes; postdevelopment; Tanzania; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Development is a contentious concept, praised by some for enabling progress and criticised by others for perpetuating global power imbalances. Development assistance tends to strengthen the donor-recipient dependency, which, according to critics, primarily serves the interests of the Global North while neglecting the needs of the Global South. READ MORE

  4. 8. Silenced Voices in a New Era : How the Swedish Government’s Decision to Limit Sida’s Funds for Communication About Development Raise Concerns in the CSO Community

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Sara Landqvist; [2023]
    Keywords : Communication for development; Sida; civil society; information; Swedish history; official development assistance;

    Abstract : Ever since the 1960s, Sweden has heavily invested in international development cooperation, with a target of devoting 1% of the GNI to the matter. For at least as long, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has had as part of its mission to inform the Swedish public about global development. READ MORE

  5. 9. EUROPEAN OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE – EFFECTIVE OR NOT? - Human development outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa with women’s empowerment as a conditioning effect

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Amna Handzic; [2022-06-27]
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    Abstract : Aid effectiveness is one of the keys to achieving development and approaching sustainable development goals. Considering the limited field of research on the overall development outcomes of aid, this study examines the association between European Official Development Assistance (ODA) and human development in Sub-Saharan Africa. READ MORE

  6. 10. The road to democracy : Understanding the democratization process in Chile and Mozambique

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Alexander Rosenqvist; [2022]
    Keywords : Democracy; democratization; case study; comparative study; most-different design; process-tracing; historical; Chile; Mozambique.;

    Abstract : The topic of this essay is how countries can successfully democratize in different ways. The aim is to demonstrate how two vastly different countries as Chile and Mozambique were capable of democratizing through what at first glance looks like dissimilar ways, while at the same time trying the robustness of a known democratization theory. READ MORE