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The purpose of this qualitative case study was to add to the understanding of why intimate partner violence against women perpetrated by a male partner occurs in Kampala, Uganda. The study combined a feminist and a family violence perspective by using an integrative ecological framework which structured the analysis around four levels: societal, community, individual/relationship, and individual l

The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the reasoning behind the prominence of resilience building in Malawi’s development strategies, how resilience building is performed in Malawi, and what the potential and consequences of resilience in Malawi might be. In observations of a resilience building project and interviews with development practitioners, it was found that resilience had become promin

Guatemala holds one of the world’s highest chronic malnutrition rates. The department of Totonicapán in the Western highlands, almost exclusively populated by indigenous people, has the most alarming chronic malnutrition rate of over 80 percent. UNICEF Guatemala launched the chronic malnutrition intervention program ’36 Months Zero Malnutrition’ in 2009. Through the application of the Development

Millions of deaf people around the world live without the possibility of going to school or learning a language and experience a prolonged disconnection from their social environments. The purpose of this study was to explore deaf people’s experiences in Mongolia of a transition from social and psychological isolation towards a process of inclusion. The research was carried out by using mainly n

The paper explored current approaches to legal aid and weather they effectively incorporate legal empowerment strategies for vulnerable women in Uganda. The conception and application of legal empowerment of the poor was analyzed from a capabilities perspective informed by “development as freedom” focusing on women. The study presented an investigation on how one can bring together the theoretical

This is a fieldwork following the daily life during two months of two divorced women in the village Bwiam, Gambia. It is a study focusing on females in a patriarchal society and how they are bound by the social structures to be married, often into polygamous households, how they farm the land by traditional methods, learnt over generations, to support their families and how they sell their produce

Inom svensk sjukvård anbringas årligen över 5 miljoner perifera venkatetrar (PVK). Insättning och skötsel av PVK är således en av sjuksköterskans vanligaste förekommande uppgift. En PVK räddar liv, minskar lidande och bidrar till snabbare tillfrisknande dock har studier visat att risken för infektioner och komplikationer är vanligt samt att kunskaper kring hygien och säkerhet är bristfälliga. Syft

The purpose of this thesis is to highlight the phenomenon of “Sex for Grades” in Liberian universities as an intrinsically relevant category of study by illuminating the relationships between agency and structures; structures that may be enabling or constraining. We do this by analysing how female students use their tactical agency and apply this to the theory of social navigation, a theory that h

This paper explores the opportunities of developing innovative approaches for new types of social policies aimed at the most marginalized and socially excluded communities that live in the North-Eastern Bulgarian Region of Shumen. The study focuses on the processes of transition and the social conditions in post-communist Bulgaria, the reasons for marginalization, and seeks an appropriate model fo

Collective action can be challenging in the governance of common pool resource. While social learning has the potential to facilitate negotiations and communications, power imbalance can still challenge the common pool resource (CPR) governance. In an attempt to study collective action in that context, I undertook a qualitative case study at the Cañete basin, Peru. The primary data was manly colle

This study explores how members of Myanmar’s largest political parties perceive inclusion of its citizen in the democratic process. Through a threefold aim the study has looked at how party members’ understanding of inclusion is externalised within the parties; whether these perceptions implies hindrances to Myanmar’s democratic development; and how the analytical findings can contribute to the th

The Nutritional status of a child reflects their overall health situation. Care behavior during the first five years of children’s life, and actions and decisions that caregivers make for them, define how they grow and how a country progresses. Parents are children’s first gatekeepers and caregivers in regard to their health and nutritional status; therefore, the nutritional growth and development

This study explores the links between good governance and e-readiness within a case study of Kenya’s Laptop Project – a nationwide ICT-in-Education implementation which aims to give one laptop to every Kenyan child entering primary education. Focus is held through two key questions, (1) How e-ready are Kenyan schools for the Laptop Project? and (2) What role has governance played in this? Research

All kinds of disputes arising from a commercial contract do not necessarily have to be brought before a court or an arbitral panel; market practice exhibits a great diversity of alternative ways of dispute resolution. This includes the inspection clause and the valuation clause, which are the dispute resolution methods scrutinized in this essay. Inspection clauses could for instance be found in co

Enligt artikel 267 FEUF har nationella domstolar mot vars avgöranden det inte finns något rättsmedel enligt nationell rätt en skyldighet att begära förhandsavgörande från Europadomstolen, förutsatt att det i det förevarande målet uppkommer fråga om tolkning av fördragen eller tolkning samt giltighet av rättsakt från någon av unionens institutioner, organ eller agenter. Frågans besvarande måste var

Denna uppsats sorterar under konsumenträttens område. Den behandlar övergången mellan distans- och hemförsäljningslagen och lagen om distansavtal och avtal utanför affärslokaler. Det är bestämmelserna om tillämpningsområde, informationskrav och ångerrätt som är i fokus. Regleringens såväl nationella som EU-rättsliga syfte belyses inledningsvis och utgör utgångspunkt för uppsatsen. Bestämmelserna iIn Swedish and European law, the consumer have the right to withdraw during certain conditions and the business have the responsibility to give correct and detailed information. Due to the EU Consumer Rights Directive from 2011 changes are to come for the Swedish market and for the European market as a whole. The changes that will effect the Swedish consumer and business are studied in this thesis

As a response to limitations of the conventional food system, alternative food networks such as community supported agriculture and direct selling box schemes have emerged in Romania, involving close producer-consumer connections and an emphasis on local and organic produce. Through a multi-case study of two such networks in the city of Cluj-Napoca, their contribution to the establishment of a sus

Development, with its links to capitalism and Western conceptions of progress, is both impossible to achieve and restricts possibilities of other socially and ecologically just worlds. Neoliberal development has long been promoted in agriculture, leading to corporate concentration and is perpetuated under food security discourses. In South Africa, this maintains apartheid racial inequalities. Alte

This thesis investigates the relationship between social capital and peacebuilding, and the potential contribution peacebuilding efforts can make in terms of generating social capital in post-conflict countries. Using a qualitative methodological approach, seven local civil society organizations in Guatemala were interviewed with the purpose of understanding in what way the organizations are contr

This is a case study of child marriage in Tanzania aiming to explore how failures to implement laws prohibiting child marriage can be understood in the Tanzanian context. The study is of a qualitative nature and primarily based on interviews with development actors, working on community and national level with the issue of gender based violence and child marriage. A theoretical framework combining