Essays about: "international aid"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 343 essays containing the words international aid.

1. 21. Disability Discomfort in Development : Unveiling Ableism and Disablism within Swedish Development Cooperation

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

   Author : Erika Hudson; [2023]
   Keywords : Persons with Disabilities; International Development Cooperation; Sweden; Government Agencies; Non-profit Organizations; Organizations of Persons with Disabilities; Ableism; and Disablism; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Persons with disabilities have long been overlooked and forgotten in the context of international development cooperation with less than five percent of official development aid targeting disability-related issues. Too often development agencies and organizations claim to have limited expertise related to disability, lack funds to support disability issues and pivot the responsibility of upholding the rights of persons with disabilities to someone else. READ MORE

3. 22. Faith-based organizations in multilateral humanitarian aid : A closer look at Country-Based Pooled Funds

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Jakob Öberg; [2023]
   Keywords : faith-based organizations; FBO; religion; multilateral aid; humanitarian aid; international aid; localization; United Nations; UN; Country-Based Pooled Funds; CBPF; institutionalism;

   Abstract : Religion has played a central part in human history and is still a foundation in many societies. Faith-based organizations are in some countries the largest providers of social services and were pioneers in the humanitarian aid sector. READ MORE

4. 23. Rule of Flaws : Challenges to Revitalizing the International Legal Protection of Search and Rescue Humanitarian Aid Workers Facing Criminalization in the Mediterranean

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Annachiara Ruzzetta; [2023]
   Keywords : Criminalization; policing humanitarianism; search and rescue; humanitarian aid workers; Mediterranean Sea; legal protection;

   Abstract : In the latest years, European governments have increasingly criminalized providing support to displaced people. Humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGO) carrying out life-saving search and rescue (SAR) activities in the Mediterranean Sea have been facing wide obstacles in aiding newcomers, and in many instances have been subject to criminal proceedings. READ MORE

5. 24. Foreign Aid And Peacekeeping : A quantitative study on peacekeeping contributions between 1990-2019,evaluating the link between ODA and troop contributions

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

   Author : Qadir Malik; [2023]
   Keywords : Foreign Aid; UN Peacekeeping; Troop Allocations; Military Engagement; International Relations;

   Abstract : This thesis considers whether donor countries that contribute with foreign aid to a recipientcountry also contribute with peacekeeping troops. The question is premised on the idea thatforeign aid serves as a proxy for national interest. READ MORE

6. 25. Narratives in Conversation : A Study of Russia’s Strategic Narratives and Internarrativity

   University essay from Försvarshögskolan

   Author : Ludwig Modin; [2023]
   Keywords : Strategic narratives; master narratives; Russia; history; discourses; narrative analysis; international relations; internarrativity;

   Abstract : In general, previous research on Russia’sstrategic narratives has assumed that Russian narratorsinstrumentally refer to other narratives to enhance the strategic narratives’ persuasiveness.Consequently, the implication is that the Russian narrators are unconstrained by their sociocultural situatedness since they are supposedly free to exploit other narratives for reasons of strategic benefit. READ MORE