Essays about: "UN policy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 189 essays containing the words UN policy.

  1. 1. Evaluation of a twinning project between midwife associations in Sweden and Ghana

    University essay from

    Author : Hanna Fjellström; Emelie Sandberg; [2023-02-13]
    Keywords : Twinning; midwife associations; implementation science;

    Abstract : Background: Globally, maternal and newborn health is a priority and progress has been made through the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, in developing countries millions of women and newborn still have inadequate access to antenatal care, safe abortions and to be able to give birth in a health facility. READ MORE

  3. 2. From Policy to Practice : Addressing the Challenges of Women Refugees in the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement, Uganda

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Johan Diez; [2023]
    Keywords : Peace and Conflict Studies; Refugee Policy; UNHCR; UN Women; Peace; and Security Agenda; Bidibidi Refugee Settlement; Yumbe District; Uganda Refugee Policy; Local Action Plan; National Action Plan; Ethnography; Applied Social Sciences; Case Study; Constructivism; Document Analysis; Thematic Analysis; Interviews; Women in Development; Women and Development; Gender and Development; Women in Forced Migration; Decentralization; Negative Peace; Positive Peace; Situational Peace; Cultural Violence; Structural Violence; Direct Violence; Positive Peacebuilding; Feminist Peace Theory;

    Abstract : This applied social sciences case study examines the efficiency of the ‘Yumbe Local Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security’ in addressing the perceived and experienced adversities of women refugees in the Bidibidi refugee settlement, Uganda. This is done by collecting data from the Bidibidi settlement through interviews and discussions with the refugee and host population, as well as with relevant organizations and governmental actors. READ MORE

  4. 3. Customer churn prediction in a slow fashion e-commerce context : An analysis of the effect of static data in customer churn prediction

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Luca Colasanti; [2023]
    Keywords : Survival Analysis; Time To Event prediction; Churn retention; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Customer Clustering; E-commerce; Analisi di sopravvivenza; Previsione del tempo a evento; Ritenzione dall’abbandono dei clienti; Apprendimento automatico; Apprendimento profondo; Segmentazione della clientela; Commercio elettronico; Överlevnadsanalys; Tid till händelseförutsägelse; Churn Prediction; Maskininlärning; Djuplärning; Kundkluster; E-handel;

    Abstract : Survival analysis is a subfield of statistics where the goal is to analyse and model the data where the outcome is the time until the occurrence of an event of interest. Because of the intrinsic temporal nature of the analysis, the employment of more recently developed sequential models (Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM)) has been paired with the use of dynamic temporal features, in contrast with the past reliance on static ones. READ MORE

  5. 4. “What can you offer them here that they don’t have in the bush?”: Exploring the impact of targeted sanctions on conflict-related sexual violence

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Megan Dumas; [2023]
    Keywords : conflict-related sexual violence; wartime sexual violence; targeted sanctions; UN sanctions; the Revolutionary United Front RUF ; the Lord’s Resistance Army LRA ; evidence-based policy;

    Abstract : Targeted sanctions have become increasingly utilized as conflict management tool to safeguard global peace and security. In recent years, there have been a global push to utilize this tool to specifically address conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). READ MORE

  6. 5. Sweden and changing UN operations : A qualitative content analysis of the Swedish government’s and parliament's approach to MINUSMA

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Anna Bernhardsson; [2023]
    Keywords : MINUSMA; Mali; constructivism; UN peace operations; Sweden; parliamentary debates; government propositions.;

    Abstract : In this thesis, I investigate to what extent and how the normative changes in UN peace operations have left an imprint on Swedish foreign policy tradition. Departing from a constructivist point of view, this thesis explores to what extent the changing international norms on UN peace operations translate to the national level. READ MORE