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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 26 avhandlingar innehållade orden aid agency.

  1. 1. Matrixing Aid : The Rise and Fall of 'Results Initiatives' in Swedish Development Aid

    Författare :Janet Vähämäki; Maria Mårtensson; Bengt Jacobsson; Anders Forssell; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Accounting; Management Reforms; Results; Development Aid; Donor Practice; Sida; Reform Cycles; Tides of Reforms; Performance Measurement; Performance Management; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Sammanfattning : Reform ideas, such as results measurement and management, tend to come and go in different ‘tides of reforms’. The purpose of this thesis is to increase our understanding of tides of reforms by identifying and discussing mechanisms that drive the rise, as well as the fall, of management reforms. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Aiding science : Swedish research aid policy 1973-2008

    Författare :Veronica Brodén Gyberg; Sven Widmalm; Eva Lövbrand; Rob Hagendijk; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Foreign aid; research; Sarec; Sida; research aid; low-income countries; policy; discourse; boundary organization; sociotechnical imaginaries; Bistånd; forskning; Sarec; Sida; forskningsbistånd; låginkomstländer; policy; diskurs; gränsorganisation;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of research aid is to contribute to development in different ways through the use of research. Sarec (the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries) was one of the pioneers within state research aid, and existed between 1975 and 2008. LÄS MER

  3. 3. En erfarenhet rikare? : En kvalitativ studie av barns strategier och barnfattigdomens villkor i välfärdsstaten

    Författare :Stina Fernqvist; Elisabet Näsman; Harriet Strandell; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; childhood sociology; child position; poverty; welfare state; financial aid; identity; interaction; agency; strategy; stigma; qualitative interviews; participation; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Sammanfattning : In the context of the Swedish welfare state, the issue of child poverty has over the past decade become increasingly prominent within the political agenda. Most research on child poverty has been based on statistics and research on children’s everyday life and their experiences in situations of economic hardship has been in demand in international as well as Swedish research. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Utan given hemvist : Barnperspektiv i den svenska asylprocessen

    Författare :Lisa Ottosson; Ann-Christin Cederborg; Marita Eastmond; Åsa Wettergren; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; agency; asylum; asylum-seeking; child perspective; children; children s perspectives; discretion; legal aid; liminality; participation; personal projects; place; representation; street-level bureaucracy; tactics; Agens; asyl; asylsökande; barn; barnperspektiv; barns perspektiv; deltagande; frontlinjebyråkrati; handlingsutrymme; juridiska ombud; personliga projekt; plats; representation; taktiker; Child and Youth Science; barn- och ungdomsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis examines accompanied asylum-seeking children’s position in Swedish asylum reception management and in the determination of their claims. The three articles of the thesis focus on children’s own experiences of seeking asylum, on the experiences and practices of the civil servants at the Migration Board, as well as those of the legal representatives that assist asylum-seekers in the application process. LÄS MER

  5. 5. The soft time constraint : studies of project extension within an aid agency

    Författare :Anna Krohwinkel Karlsson; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER