Building Stronger Universities III - GU
Thematic focus areas: 1. Transforming Education 2. Rights, Resources and Gender in Post-war Development
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Total grant
10,000,000
Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark
Informal worker organisation and social protection
This project will investigate emerging collective forms of informal worker organisation in the Global South (focusing on Kenya and Tanzania) and their implications for social protection. Rather than…
Total grant
9,898,063
Hierarchies of Rights: Land and Investments in Africa
The main aim of the research program is to analyse how struggles related to large-scale investments into natural resources affect small-holders’ rights to land in Sub-Saharan Africa. It tests the…
Total grant
9,969,902
Governing economic hubs and flows in Somali East Africa
This research and capacity-building project contributes to a better understanding of key economic and political processes that have shaped state formation in the Somali territories since 1991. The…
Total grant
9,963,719
REDD+, -the forest grab of all times?
Forests play an important role for the livelihoods of poor people in developing countries. Yet, the poor often lack legal rights to the forest resources that they depend on. This renders them highly…
Total grant
8,994,436
Social and Environmental Resilience in Upland Areas of Vietnam. Responses in Land Use and Livelihood Strategies
The proposed PhD-research addresses the issue of vulnerability in relation to climate change in upland areas of Vietnam and views vulnerability and resilience as determinants of adaptive capacity. The…
Total grant
2,505,553
Spatial Distribution and Characteristics of Surface Sampled Plastic Debris in the Southwest Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is considered one of the world marine systems with high levels of plastic pollution emanating from both land- and sea-based activities. As one of the most common and persistent…
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A Comparative Fate Study of the Diesel Associated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Polychaete Worm, Marphysa Macintoshi in Coastal Sediment: Combined Field and Laboratory Experiments.
Abstract: The level and fate of diesel oil-associated pollution in coastal marine sediment was investigated along the coastline of Chake-Chake bay at Wesha, Pemba, in Zanzibar-Tanzania; following a…
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The virtuous spirals of Village Savings and Loaning Associations for poverty alleviation through women empowerment: Case studies from Webuye and Mount Elgon constituencies in Kenya
Abstract: Microfinance institutions in Kenya have been criticized for neglecting the financial needs of the poor populations, and this has questioned their credibility as poverty alleviation tools. In…
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Reassembling the Kenyan Security Sector: The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Security Governance
Abstract: This thesis examines how several Kenyan civil society organizations (CSOs) are involved in the security sector reforms (SSR) process that was initiated after the post-election violence of…
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What Drives Commercial Microfinance Institutions into Bankruptcy in Ghana?
The mountain of criticisms leveled against the microfinance project is largely founded on the claim that microfinance institutions (MFIs) are unethically making egregious profits from the sweats and…
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Minimizing the exclusionary effects of standards. What works?
Private agricultural sustainability standards have been found to have exclusionary effects on Southern women and smallholders. Standards may deny marginalized actors market access or offer access only…
Total grant
2,362,417
Masculinity, sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Zambian prisons
The spread of HIV/AIDS is deeply embedded in socio-economic realities of poverty and inequality. This research aims to shed light on experiences of incarcerated men, a group who are routinely…
Total grant
2,779,864
People Speaking Back? Media, Empowerment and Democracy in East Africa (MEDIeA)
MEDIeA’s analytical challenge is to understand the ways and means in which youth as ordinary citizens engage with civil society driven media and communication platforms and what socio-cultural and…
Total grant
5,544,977
Structures of Stigma: Diagonal AIDS Care and Treatment Abandonment in Mozambique
From a predominantly political standpoint, informed by a multi-sited ethnographical case study in Mozambique, this project aims to provide a clear articulation of the relationship between curative…
Total grant
2,147,963
Chinese drivers for African Development
Development aid alone cannot finance Africa's development. Other external sources are needed. Important among these is foreign direct investment (FDI), which may fill a resource gap in Africa and at…
Total grant
2,221,924
Political process and social contest - A historical analysis of state-chief relations in Kpandai district, Northern Ghana
Recent decentralisation, the demarcation of a new district and the establishing of a district assembly in Kpandai, northern Ghana has given rise to a resurfacing of historically unresolved disputes…
Total grant
1,972,152
Air pollution modelling & Management of Urban air environment in Vietnam Context
On July 16. 2010, Mr. Ngo Tho Hung has submitted his Ph.D. dissertation report for assessment at the Graduate School for Environmental Stress Studies (GESS) in the Doctoral School of the Department of…
Total grant
478,163
Joint Activities for the Enhancement of Social Science Research on Governance in West Africa (JASS in West Africa)
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Total grant
4,749,062
The act of martyrdom: Popular tradition and modern nationalism
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Total grant
1,477,153