Essays about: "top-down and bottom-up approaches"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 45 essays containing the words top-down and bottom-up approaches.
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21. Co-ordinating HIV/AIDS strategies: The case of NGO`s and other development actors in Zambia
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : There have been many different efforts done to design coordination models for aid, but less research has been focusing on the efficiency and function of these implementation policies. Both the Paris Declaration and the Sector-Wide Approach has been launched with the purpose to improve countries aid coordination strategies. READ MORE
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22. Urban Redevelopment in Shenzhen, China : Neoliberal Urbanism, Gentrification, and Everyday Life in Baishizhou Urban Village
University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studierAbstract : Urban redevelopment is increasingly used as a policy tool for economic growth by local governments in Chinese cities, which is taking place amid rapid urbanization and in an expanding globalized economy. Along with the spatial transformation, urban redevelopment often entails socioeconomic change in the form of processes of gentrification, which is propelled by the dominance of neoliberal market-oriented policy and practice in the country. READ MORE
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23. Machine Learning for Forecasting Signal Strength in Mobile Networks
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Statistik och maskininlärningAbstract : In this thesis we forecast the future signal strength of base stations in mobile networks. Better forecasts might improve handover of mobile phones between base stations, thus improving overall user experience. Future values are forecast using a series of past sig- nal strength measurements. READ MORE
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24. Fire Risk and Vulnerability in Urban Informal Settlements in Metro Manila
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : Urban fires, particularly in informal settlements in rapidly urbanizing cities in the developing world, are an “everyday disaster” that oftentimes goes unnoticed or under-served in the face of disturbances of the more “lethal reputation”. These disturbances of normal existence are arguably the most debilitating to vulnerable communities and sustainable development, and yet get little attention in disaster literature or in practice. READ MORE
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25. Approaches to political gender equality in Bosnia-Herzegovina
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : How can the low representation of women in politics in Bosnia-Herzegovina be understood and what can a different approach add to already existing approaches to make Bosnia-Herzegovina more gender equal in terms of political representation of the genders? There has been established a Gender Equality Law that demands a 40% gender quota of political representation, but the gender representation has only reached a number of 26% at most. It can fairly be claimed that the top-down approach itself is deficient in this area based on the amount of laws and regulating documents that have been determined by the state to improve the gender inequality issue. READ MORE
