Essays about: "global South"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 516 essays containing the words global South.

1. 16. Decolonizing Aid: A Comparative Analysis of USAID and Sida's gender equality strategies in Guatemala

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Alejandra Perez Towns; [2023]
   Keywords : Decolonizing aid; discourse; colonial markers; USAID; Sida; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The development aid field has been subject to increased questioning regarding power relations between donors and recipients; some studies shed light on the fact that development aid is an extension of colonial practices. Currently, there have been efforts to ‘decolonize aid’. READ MORE

3. 17. “Don’t do it, but do it” : Exploring a legal window of opportunity for safe abortion and the role of healthcare practitioners in implementing the right to health in Ethiopia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Anna Ternström; [2023]
   Keywords : SDG3; SDG4; safe abortion; SRHR; human rights; HRBA; street-level bureaucracy; global health; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Unsafe abortion is a major contributing factor to maternal mortality with 47,000 largely avoidable deaths occurring globally every year, the majority in the global south. Ethiopia has taken a unique approach to addressing maternal mortality impacted by unsafe abortion through a 2005 reform of the abortion legislation in which abortion is illegal but available under a range of exceptions. READ MORE

4. 18. Private Climate Litigation: A Viable Tool for Climate Justice?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : August Carlsson; [2023]
   Keywords : private law; private climate litigation; climate justice; environmental justice; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This essay concerns private climate litigation as a tool through which victims of loss and damage can access climate justice. Anthropogenic climate change is already today causing substantial harm to people and communities all over the world. READ MORE

5. 19. In the Business of Doing Good: A case study on social entrepreneurship within the small-scale rental sector in South African townships

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Ellen Lindén-Urnes; [2023]
   Keywords : backyard rental; small-scale rental; affordable housing; social entrepreneurship; impact; Cape Town; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Housing crises have become a global phenomenon, including in South Africa. Neither the South African government nor the market have been able to sufficiently address the growing housing deficit across the nation, especially not in the affordable rental sector. READ MORE

6. 20. Nature Towards Global Climate Change : The Pertinence of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to Combating Effects of Climate Change on Human Livelihoods on a Global and Country-Specific Context – Zambia as an Example

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

   Author : Dominic Mate Mushashu; [2023]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : As a result of Climate Change (CC) being one of the most urgent problems facing the twenty-first century, the adoption of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) is receiving international attention in the Global Development studies as a sustainable way to mitigate the negative effects of CC. However, there is a lack of grounded information on their effectiveness and efficiency, particularly in the Global South. READ MORE