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Ahmad, Manzoor, and Rajan K. Sampath. "Irrigation Inequalities in Pakistan 1960-1980: A District-level Analysis." Pakistan Development Review 33, no. 1 (March 1, 1994): 53–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v33i1pp.53-74.

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This study estimates the magnitudes of inequality in the distribution of irrigated areas at three points in time and extends the fmdings of Gill and Sampath (1990) using more disaggregated data. Specifically, it provides estimates of the level of inequality in the distribution of land and irrigation-related attributes among agricultural households across farm-size groups at provincial and district levels. It decomposes the levels of inequality in each province in terms of its two major components, namely, "betweendistricts" and "within-district" inequality, and tests a modified "Kuznet" hypothesis, according to which the relationship between the levels of inequality and the levels of development is an inverted "U". The major findings of the study are: There exists considerable inequality in the distribution of various land area variables across farm-size groups in all the districts of Pakistan, with considerable inter-district variations in their levels and movements over time; between the "within-district" inequality and "betweendistricts" ineqUality. The former represents 91 percent, 76 percent, 75 percent, and 65 percent of total inequalities for Sindh, the Punjab, Balochistan, and the NWFP, respectively. This means that more has to be done in terms of the irrigation distribution policy than in terms of removing the inter-district variations in irrigation development. And, finally, the modified "Kuznet" hypothesis is valid in explaining the inter-district variations in the levels of inequality in the distribution of at least some of the land area variables.

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Mundhe, Nitin, Dhondiram Pawar, and Priyanka Rokade. "Status of Human Development in Maharashtra: A District Level Analysis." Shanlax International Journal of Economics 8, no. 3 (June 1, 2020): 88–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/economics.v8i3.2445.

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The Human Development Index (HDI) is a relative measure of the country’s life expectancy, literacy, education, and living standards. It is a standard measure of wellbeing, especially of child welfare. The present study is an attempt to bring out the inter-district disparities in terms of human development in Maharashtra, applying the human development index method based on the optimal combination of selected human development indicators. Furthermore, to compare the levels of human development between the different districts through choropleth maps. The result shows that two districts are in the less developed category, i.e., Nandurbar and Gadchiroli, and rests of the 33 districts are included in the moderately high and very high human development group.

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Kustiawan, Andri Arif, Bimo Alexander, Hadiono Hadiono, Ahmad Agung Yuwono Putro, and Topo Suhartoyo. "Sport Development Index (Sdi) In Wonogiri District." Jurnal Porkes 5, no. 2 (December 30, 2022): 764–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.29408/porkes.v5i2.6764.

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Purpose of this Researchto: (1) identify the level of participation of the people of Wonogiri Regency in exercising in 2022; (2) identify the level of physical fitness of the Wonogiri Regency community in 2022; (3) identify the level of sports development in Wonogiri Regency in terms of the participation index and the community physical fitness index in 2022. The research is a quantitative research with survey research methods and a descriptive evaluation approach. The research sample is the people of Wonogiri Regency who live in Wonogiri District, Ngadirojo District, and Paranggupito District and are divided into age and gender groups, with a total of 108 people. The sampling technique used followed the guidelines for the method of determining the Sport Development Index sample. Techniques for collecting data were questionnaires (questionnaires) and test techniques. Validity of the instrument.iukuriyesngiused isistandar who haveisetiin the Sport Development Index (SDI). Results research is as follows. (1) Community participation index is 0.477. The Wonogiri Regency Community Participation Index shows that the level of community participation in sports is included in the low category, (2) The Wonogiri Regency Community's physical fitness index is 0.440. The physical fitness index of the Wonogiri Regency community shows that the community's fitness is included in the low category, (3) The level of sports development in Wonogiri Regency in terms of participation and physical fitness of the community is included in the low category with an index of 0.468. In conclusion, the Participation Index, Physical Fitness and Sports Development of the Wonogiri Regency community are in the low category.

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Amalia, Nurisqi, Anisa Nurpita, and Rina Oktavia. "HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX, UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY IN PAPUA PROVINCE, 2010-2015." Jurnal Ekonomi Pembangunan 16, no. 1 (July 1, 2018): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.22219/jep.v16i1.8180.

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Papua Province is one of the poorest provinces in Indonesia. Some of the variables that affect health levels including Human Development Index (HDI) and unemployment rate. This research analyzes Human Development Index and unemployment rate to poverty level in districts/cities in Papua Province during 2010-2015. Research data used in this research is secondary data from Central Bureau of Statistics of district/city in Papua Province. The independent variables used are open unemployment rate and Development Index. While the dependent variable used is poverty level in districts/citis in Papua Province year 2010-2015. The analysis tool used is regression with panel data. The result of this research shows that the average of district/city’s poverty rate in Papua 2010-2015 is 32,34 percent. The highest level is in District Deiyai and the lowest is in District Merauke. The Human Development Index has decreased significantly to the poverty rate of district/city in Papua Province, while the open unemployment rate is positive to the poverty rate of district/city in Papua Province. Human Development Index and open unemployment rate as a whole and together affect poverty level in district/city in Papua Province.

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Said, Farah, Tareena Musaddiq, and Mahreen Mahmud. "Macro level Determinants of Poverty: Investigation Through Poverty Mapping of Districts of Pakistan." Pakistan Development Review 50, no. 4II (December 1, 2011): 895–911. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v50i4iipp.895-911.

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The study explores the spatial patterns of poverty in Pakistan through two dimensions: asset accumulation and basic needs. For this purpose Pakistan Standard of Living Measurement 08-09 is employed to construct an Asset Index and a Basic Needs index, at a district level, through the use of household level indicators. The study finds a clear north south divide, with particular concentration of better off districts in the north east of the country. Additionally, regression analysis is carried out to help identify the macro level factors contributing towards the observed pattern. Results reveal infrastructural and industrial development to be significant factors behind a district‘s well-being. This indicates that public policy directed towards developing deprived districts should be cantered on these factors, specifically expanding road networks, and incentives for industrial development in those districts. JEL classifications: I32, O53 Keywords: Measurement and Analysis of Poverty, District Level Analysis, Pakistan

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Azhar, Annus, and Shahid Adil. "The Effects of Agglomeration on Socio-economic Outcomes: A District Level Panel Study of Punjab." Pakistan Development Review 58, no. 2 (June 1, 2019): 159–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v58i2pp.159-176.

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This paper examines the variation of agglomeration across districts over time in Punjab and analyses the effects of agglomeration on socio-economic outcomes in terms of social inclusion and efficiency of firms at the district level in Punjab. Earlier studies in this regard faced multiple problems since they used cross-sectional data. To bridge the gap, a newly constructed panel data from CMI is used. Factor Analysis technique is used to analyse socialinclusion variable, in addition to some other control variables as well. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with bootstrap technique (performed in R) is used to calculate district-wise firm efficiency. The study argues that agglomeration is a logical consequence of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) through an increase in the economic activity in various districts of the province. The results show that district agglomeration has a positive effect on the average district-wise efficiency of firms and has a positive statistically significant relation with social inclusion. Interesting implications arise from results, setting up clusters in urbanised rather than highly urbanised areas under CPEC can be a game changer for the economy of Pakistan especially Punjab since it has significant potential positive effects on the economy of Punjab. JEL Classification: D62, I38, L52, R13 Keywords: Agglomeration, CPEC, Social Inclusion, Factor Analysis, Data Envelopment Analysis, Efficiency

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Hooda, Ekta, B. K. Hooda, and Veena Manocha. "Dynamics of inter-district developmental disparities in Haryana." Journal of Applied and Natural Science 9, no. 2 (June 1, 2017): 983–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.31018/jans.v9i2.1307.

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The present study deals with the development disparities in districts of Haryana according to their level of development. The study utilized data over three points of time, viz. 1991-92, 2001-02, and 2011-12. Assessment of development in agricultural, industrial, infrastructural and socio-economic sectors has been studied using composite indices based on forty indicators. Out of the forty indicators, 19 were directly concerned with agricultural development, 4, 8 and 9 respectively reflected the progress of development in industrial, infrastructural, and socio-economic sectors. Sector-wise indices were combined to obtain weighted index for the overall development. The study indicated wide disparities in level of development among districts of Haryana in all the periods of study.The district of Mahendragarh lagged behind in almost all the sectors considered for this study. The districts of Faridabad and Gurgaon lagged behind in agriculture while the district of Karnal excelled in agriculture in all the three periods. The districts of Ambala, Faridabad and Gurgaon ranked first in overall development in 1991-92, 2001-02 and 2011-12, respectively, whereas Mahendragarh ranked last in 1991-92 and 2001-02 and the newly formed district Mewat in 2011-12. Spearman’s rank correlation was used to study relationships among sectoral developments. Kruskal Wallis test indicated significant changes in development level of industry and infrastructure sectors over the periods 1991-92, 2001-02 and 2011-12.

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Behera, Ms Annanya. "Overview of rural Development at District Level: Case of Dhalai District, Tripura." INTERANTIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT 07, no. 10 (October 1, 2023): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.55041/ijsrem26159.

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Situated in the North-eastern piece of Tripura, the Locale of Dhalai covers a space of about 2312.29 sq km. Over many years, the land has been known for its reach culture and diversity. A detailed analysis of multiple sectors such as demography, economy, physical and social infrastructure shows that the land has a rich potential to be developed as one of the best land in terms of vital resources. The existing resources and infrastructure need to be fully developed for its people. Many central level as well as the state level policies have been launched for the purpose of uplifting the rural development scenario in the country. Proper implementation and awareness about specific policies will augment the growth scenario in the rural areas. Key Words: rural development, infrastructure, government policy, resource development

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Thieu, Nguyen Manh, and Phung Thanh Loan. "Economic Restructuring at the District Level towards Sustainable Development." Business and Economic Research 13, no. 3 (September 2, 2023): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ber.v13i3.21284.

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Economic restructuring at the district level towards sustainable development is one of the important goals of the Party and the State. Looking back at the development process in recent years, it cannot be denied that Vietnam's economy has made significant progress. Attached to that development is the process of sustainable restructuring at the district level. Through a case study in Hoai Duc district, the author proposes sustainable development solutions for all levels within the district.

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Taghvaei, Masoud, Hamid Reza Varesi, and Masoud Narimani. "An Analysis on Effect of Urban Development Plans on Realization of Sustainable Development of Metropolis of Isfahan." Modern Applied Science 10, no. 3 (January 13, 2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/mas.v10n3p1.

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Spreading cities and increasing urban population scaled up urban problems and challenges. As a metropolis, Isfahan is faced with many challenges, too, which requires effective and qualitative urban development plans in regards of urban sustainable development framework in order to improving itself. The objective of this research is evaluating status of sustainable development of Isfahan and effect of urban development plan on this city. Therefore, the research data is analyzed and evaluated using quantitative model of TOPSIS regarding objectives and hypotheses of the research. In addition, Entropy and coefficient of dispersion, SPSS, EXCEL and TOPSIS SOLVER software are used in order to dada analysis and ARC GIS software is used to draw and provide maps. Results and findings of analyzing and evaluating this research indicated that urban development flow of Isfahan is an unsustainable flow at both levels of "present situation" and "urban development plan"; most districts in Isfahan are much less prosperous, less prosperous or fairly prosperous. Therefore, in "current condition", 33% of urban district in Isfahan are at "less prosperous and much less prosperous" level and 37% of districts are at "fairly prosperous" level; only 30% of urban district in Isfahan are at "prosperous and very prosperous" level. This condition deteriorated more in urban development plan. In urban development plan of Isfahan, 55% of urban district of this city are at "less prosperous and much less prosperous" level and 15% of districts are at "fairly prosperous" level; only 30% of urban districts of Isfahan are at "very prosperous and prosperous" level. According to this fact that indicatives of this analysis are capitations of urban services' applications, we can conclude that capitation of urban services' applications is reduced in urban development plan and is turned to capitation of residential applications (non-service). Therefore, metropolis of Isfahan is not a sustainable and prosperous city and facilities or public services are not distributed sustainably and concordantly in its urban districts.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "District level development"

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Chowdhury, Pritha Roy. "Emerging pattern of district level development administration in Sikkim : a study since 1975." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1454.

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Brutsman, Jane Mary. "District-level professional development the impact on beginning teacher implementation practices /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1216741961&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Sun, Victoria. "Retail development and revitalization at the community level, the Dunbar district, Vancouver." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0020/MQ47660.pdf.

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Das, Rituparna. "Assessment of the level of rural development in Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2020. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4024.

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Deglau, Dena A. "Negotiating individual and district level change a sociocultural journey in teachers' professional development /." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1126181000.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 242 p.; also includes graphics (some col.). Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-201). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

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Barros, Luis, and Luis Barros. "Local Level Development in a Small Native American District: The Complexities of Participation." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/620590.

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This dissertation examines the evolution of development practices in a Native American community by looking at how participation becomes more or less present in local-level decision-making. By using education as a lens to track changes in development practices, I describe the challenges and opportunities that arose for a small-scale development enterprise - referred to as 'the Nonprofit'- as it negotiated program implementation with various different players and stakeholders. I analyze how different strategies were developed and adopted during the first three years of the Nonprofit's operations to show how it gradually became more structured as development programs expanded from the community to the district.

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Lepcha, Neelee kalyanee Chong. "Assessment of the level of urban development in Kurseong Municipality Darjeeling district, West Bengal." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2018. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/2807.

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Akyildiz, Sercan. "Development of New Network-Level Optimization Model for Salem District Pavement Maintenance Programming." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34827.

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Infrastructure systems are critical to sustaining and improving economical growth. Poor condition of infrastructure systems results in lost productivity and reduces the quality of life. Today's global economy forces governments to sustain and renew infrastructure systems already in place in order to remain competitive and productive (GAO, 2008). Therefore, civil engineers and policymakers have been quite interested in the overall quality of the highways and bridges throughout the US (Miller, 2007). Transportation networks are essential parts of the Nation's infrastructure systems. Deterioration due to age and use is the main threat to the level of service observed in surface transportation networks. Thus, highway agencies throughout the United States strive to maintain, repair and renew transportation systems already in place (Miller, 2007). A recent disaster, the collapse of the Minneapolis I-35 W Bridge, once again revealed the importance of infrastructure preservation programs and resulted in debates as to how state departments of transportation (DOTs) should and can preserve the existing infrastructure systems. Therefore, it is essential to establish effective maintenance programs to preserve aging infrastructure systems. The major challenge facing the state highway maintenance managers today is to preserve the road networks at an acceptable level of serviceability subject to the stringent yearly maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) budgets. Maintenance managers must allocate such limited budgets among competing alternatives, which makes the situation even more challenging. Insufficient use of available smart decision-making tools impedes eliciting effective and efficient maintenance programs. Hence, this thesis presents the development and implementation of a network-level pavement maintenance optimization model which can be used by maintenance managers as a decision-making tool to address the maintenance budget allocation issue. The network-level optimization model is established with the application of the Linear Programming algorithm and is subject to budget constraints and the agencies' pavement performance goals in terms of total lane-miles in each pavement condition state. This tool is developed with Microsoft Office Excel. The tool can compute the optimal amount of investment for each pavement treatment type in a given funding period. Thus, the model enables maintenance managers in highway agencies to develop alternative network-level pavement maintenance strategies through an automated and optimized process rather than using what-if analysis.
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Crawford, Pamela Sharp. "A Study of Secondary District-Level Literacy Coaches’ Beliefs about How to Teach Reading." DigitalCommons@USU, 2012. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1175.

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This was a qualitative case study that compared data across six district-level literacy coaches’ epistemological and ontological beliefs about how to teach reading. All six coaches were working as a cohort of literacy coaches on the development and implementation of a secondary reading intervention program for seventh-grade struggling readers. Data were collected over a 6-week period where the coaches responded to questions and vignettes through a think-aloud protocol. The data collection instruments addressed personal, work, and educational experiences that influenced the development of their beliefs about how to teach reading. A survey of their professional library was also taken. The coaches responded to three other instruments and questions to glean epistemological beliefs about knowledge and to address the instructional needs of a struggling reader. There were three major findings. First, the report of the National Reading Panel (NRP) was very influential to the forming or affirming of their beliefs about how to teach reading. The findings of the NRP were privileged in instructional decision making by the coaching cohort, while the adolescent literacy research was ignored or marginalized. Second, self-stated instructional choices were made by the literacy coaches based upon three models that reflected their perspective about how to teach reading. These models were: (a) a skills development model that focused on beginning reading skills, (b) a deficiency model that focused on intervention and remediation, and (c) a proficiency model that focused on social-constructivist learning. Third, the literacy coaches’ epistemological and ontological beliefs about how to teach reading to struggling were either flexible (changing) or rigid (unchanging) as reflected by whether they changed their instructional approaches or choices across grade levels or populations.

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Akudugu, Jonas Ayaribilla [Verfasser]. "Organising and Implementing Local Economic Development Initiatives at the District Level in Ghana / Jonas Ayaribilla Akudugu." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1045859303/34.

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Books on the topic "District level development"

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Siddhu, H. District level development disparities in Karnataka. Dharwad, Karnataka, India: Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Development Research, 2012.

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Indira, A. Development at the district level: Kodagu in the 1990s. Bangalore: Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, 2001.

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Bhalla, G. S. Patterns in Indian agricultural development: A district level study. New Delhi: Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, 1989.

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Centre for Women's Development Studies (New Delhi, India), ed. Gender development indicators: District level analysis for the eastern region. New Delhi: Centre for Women's Development Studies, 2002.

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Singh, Pramod K. Sustainable livelihood security index in Gujarat: A district-level illustration. Anand: Institute of Rural Management, 2008.

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Aḥmad, Nāṣir. Co-ordination mechanism for development administration at district and divisional level. Peshawar: Pakistan Academy for Rural Development, 1990.

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Ahmad, Nasir. Co-ordination mechanism for development administration at district and divisional level. Peshwar: Pakistan Academy for Rural Development, 1990.

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Ahmad, Nasir. Co-ordination mechanism for development administration at district and divisional level. Peshwar: Pakistan Academy for Rural Development, 1990.

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National Institute of Rural Development (India), ed. Stress audit for rural development institutions at district and block level. New Delhi: National Institute of Rural Development, 2011.

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Nasar, Abu. Districts level of development as push and pull factors in inter-district migration in Pakistan. Karachi: Social Policy and Development Centre, 2006.

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Book chapters on the topic "District level development"

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Chatterjee, Sayantani, and Udaya S. Mishra. "Educational Development and Disparities in India: District-Level Analyses." In The Demographic and Development Divide in India, 259–328. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5820-3_5.

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Khan, Pijush Kanti, Kajori Banerjee, and Swarbhanu Nandi. "Primary Healthcare Infrastructure and Reproductive Healthcare in Rural India: A District Level Analysis." In The Demographic and Development Divide in India, 417–66. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5820-3_8.

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Oduro-Ofori, Eric. "Decentralisation and Local Economic Development Promotion at the District Level in Ghana." In Springer Geography, 15–36. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29367-7_2.

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Crocker, John, Sara Whitcomb, April Megginson, and Melissa Pearrow. "District-Level School Mental Health Workforce Development: Lessons Learned from Methuen Public Schools." In Issues in Clinical Child Psychology, 329–42. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20006-9_22.

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Buschke, Falko, Toka Mosikidi, Aliza le Roux, Lefu Mofokeng, and Bram Vanschoenwinkel. "Using Local Spatial Biodiversity Plans to Meet the Sustainable Development Goals." In Sustainable Development Goals Series, 37–51. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15773-8_4.

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AbstractThe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent global development ambitions, but achieving these goals depends on local-level application. Many local governments, especially in countries with emerging economies, lack the capacity and resources to integrate SDGs into municipal planning. The feasibility of local implementation is particularly challenging in areas with rugged topography and international borders, such as the Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality, South Africa, into which the city of Phuthaditjhaba falls. Here we explore the suitability of existing spatial biodiversity plans for local application in the six local municipalities within Thabo Mofutsanyana District. We considered four plans related to biodiversity and ecosystem services, including international maps of (1) Key Biodiversity Areas and (2) Strategic Water Source Areas; a national (3) Protected Area Expansion Strategy; and a provincial map of (4) Critical Biodiversity Areas. Although these plans were not designed specifically to meet the SDGs, we show that they can be repurposed to address seven of the 17 SDGs. Next, we summarised the spatial coverage of each plan across the six local municipalities and evaluated the opportunities and shortcomings of using these plans for local application. Our findings guide local officials on the most efficient way to plan for the SDGs using currently available spatial products.

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Ribalaygua Batalla, Cecilia, and Francisco García Sánchez. "Creating a Sustainable Learning District by Integrating Different Stakeholders’ Needs. Methodology and Results from the University of Cantabria Campus Master Plan." In Engaging Stakeholders in Education for Sustainable Development at University Level, 3–20. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26734-0_1.

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Kizil, Elena V. "Methods for Diagnosing the Level of Regional Innovative Development (on the Example of the Far Eastern Federal District)." In Business 4.0 as a Subject of the Digital Economy, 357–64. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90324-4_58.

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Zamasiya, Byron, Kefasi Nyikahadzoi, and Billy Billiard Mukamuri. "Drivers of Level of Adaptation to Climate Change in Smallholder Farming Systems in Southern Africa: A Multilevel Modeling Approach." In African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, 213–24. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45106-6_52.

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AbstractClimate change is a major development challenge affecting developing countries that rely on rain-fed agricultural production for food and income. Smallholder farmers in these countries are using multiple adaptation practices to manage the effects of climate change. This chapter examines household and community-level factors that influence smallholder farmers’ level of adaptation to climate change in the Hwedza District in Zimbabwe. Data for this study were collected from 400 randomly selected smallholder farmers, using a structured questionnaire, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews. The study used a multilevel modeling approach to examine the factors that influence smallholder farmers’ level of adaptation to climate change. Results from the study show that smallholder farmers’ level of adaptation to climate change is conditioned by access to extension services, access to remittances, family labor, household education (household level factors), and linking capital (community-level factor). This chapter therefore concludes that smallholder farmers that have higher levels of adaptation to climate change are those that are well linked to external organizations and have access to agricultural extension services. The chapter recommends that adaptation to climate change can be enhanced by improving access to agricultural extension services and promoting linkages with external organizations that provide information on agricultural adaptation practices.

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Haase, Matthias, and Thaleia Konstantinou. "Current Business Model Practices in Energy Master Planning for Regions, Cities and Districts." In Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions, 1–14. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39206-1_1.

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AbstractRoughly 97% of the European Union (EU) building stock is not considered energy efficient, and 75–85% of it will still be in use in 2050 (Artola et al., Boosting building renovation: What potential and value for Europe? 2016). Residential buildings account for around two thirds of final energy consumption in European buildings. The rate at which new buildings either replace the old stock or expand the total stock is about 1% per year. Similarly, the current renovation rate of existing buildings in the EU is about 1–2% of the building stock renovated each year. Renovation strategies on building levels need to be derived from a combination of energy efficiency upgrades to buildings and the use of renewable energy to decarbonize the energy supply, on a district or city scale. IEA EBC Annex 75 subtask D2 focuses on promoting cost-effective building renovation at district level combining energy efficiency and renewable energy systems, by focusing on the business models that can make implementation possible. This paper intends to provide an overview of the business model archetypes that can support the development of district demand and/or supply of energy-efficient building renovations and/or renewable energy solutions by targeting various types of stakeholders. It builds upon existing literature to gain insights into the current distributed energy business model landscape. Further, implementation strategies are identified that focus on a holistic evaluation of the expected energy and CO2 performance of the site and optimized infrastructure investment pathways.

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Burns, Cathy, Stephen Flood, and Barry O’Dwyer. "Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Planning and Development: A Case Study in Northern Ireland." In Creating Resilient Futures, 129–47. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80791-7_7.

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AbstractThis study outlines the adaptation planning journey undertaken by Derry City and Strabane District Council (DCSDC) in Northern Ireland and reflects how the prevailing policy context and level of organisational adaptive capacity create the conditions for mainstreaming climate adaptation into planning and development. This chapter explores the potential of local government in Northern Ireland to integrate local authority policy drivers such as disaster risk reduction (DRR), emergency planning, risk and assurance, and community resilience. The ability to communicate risks and solutions was identified as an important consideration when undertaking adaptation planning, particularly when discussing the adaptation planning process and securing input or support from colleagues. Moreover, a significant amount of engagement was required with local government agencies to increase understanding of the relevance of climate change and DRR. Embedding DRR and climate change adaptation (CCA) within local authority policy and planning can enable a greater understanding of specific risks to local governments and act as a catalyst for further action.

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Conference papers on the topic "District level development"

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Popovich, V. V. "Statistical assessment of state and development level of agricultural territories of the Republic of Crimea." In CURRENT STATE, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRARIAN SCIENCE. Federal State Budget Scientific Institution “Research Institute of Agriculture of Crimea”, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.33952/2542-0720-2020-5-9-10-150.

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The current and retrospective analysis of the development of agricultural territories using statistical data makes it possible not only to determine the level of agriculture current state in the regions and country as a whole and also identify existing problems and outline ways to solve them. In addition to economic and social indicators, environmental ones are very important nowadays and reflect the level of environmental protection. So in 2019, the current costs on environmental protection in individual administrative districts differed significantly and amounted to 0.77 rubles/ha in Dzhankoy district, 497.4 rubles/ha in Krasnogvardeisky district, and 138.2 rubles/ha in Saki district, and 114.1 rubles/ha in the Republic of Crimea. In general, in the Russian Federation, this figure was 421 rubles/ha. The data indicate insufficient investment in environmental protection in the Republic of Crimea as a whole and its regions in particular.

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Tumanian, N. G. "REACTION OF RICE VARIETIES PERMITED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH YIELD FORMATION WITH A HIGH GRAIN QUALITY ON LEVEL OF NITROGEN NUTRITION IN AGROLANDSCAPE ZONES OF KRASNODAR REGION." In STATE AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS OF AGRIBUSINESS Volume 2. DSTU-Print, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23947/interagro.2020.2.408-411.

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An increase in the doses of nitrogen fertilizers applied during the cultivation of new rice varieties Nautilus and Yakhont in the old-deltoid and valley agrolandscape zones led to significant changes in grain quality traits. The grain size of the varieties grown in the Krasnoarsmeysky district did not change due to the level of nitrogen fertilizers, for those grown in the Abinsky district, decreased by 0.3 g in variety Nautilus and increased in variety Yakhont with increased dose of applied nitrogen. The vitreousity of grain increased in Nautilus in the Krasnoarmeysky district by 2%, in Abinsky - by 7%; in the variety Yakhont - increased by 2% and practically did not change, respectively. A tendency toward a decrease in grain fracture in the Krasnoarmeysky district and an increase in head rice content in the variety Nautilus in the Krasnoarmeysky and Abinsky districts was noted.

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Kavardakov, V. Y., and I. A. Semenenko. "METHODOLOGY FOR ASSESSING THE LEVEL OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT DAIRY CATTLE." In STATE AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS OF AGRIBUSINESS Volume 2. DSTU-Print, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23947/interagro.2020.2.591-593.

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the paper presents a methodology for assessing the level of technological development of livestock sub-sectors using dairy cattle breeding as an example, and the methodology is tested in the regions of the Southern Federal District.

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Országhová, Dana, and Martina Chlebcová. "The Qualification and Educational Level of Workforce as Employment Factor: Case Study in Nitra Region of Slovakia." In 9th International Scientific Conference ERAZ - Knowledge Based Sustainable Development. Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans, Belgrade, Serbia, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.31410/eraz.2023.119.

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The prosperity of the region and the standard of living of its inhabitants depend on many socioeconomic factors. The main goal of the paper is to evaluate selected factors of the Nitra Region in the Slovak Republic and to compare their level in individual districts with a focus on the mutual relationship between the educational structure of the population and employment. The research sample is composed of available data in the DATAcube, the database of the Statistical Office of Slovakia, and from results of the Population and Housing Census of the Slovak Republic: number of inhabitants, age structure, level of education, unemployment, and others. The data analysis is carried out by descriptive statistics, method of comparison with usage of tabular and graphic presentation of results. Results of the Nitra Region showed that a district with a higher educated population is associated with a lower rate of unemployment.

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Varecha, Lukáš, and Katarína Melichová. "Local Development Actors Classification in the Context of the Slovak Least Developed District Policy." In XXV. mezinárodní kolokvium o regionálních vědách. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p280-0068-2022-27.

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At the end of 2015, a policy of support for the least developed districts was introduced in the conditions of the Slovak Republic. It was conceived as a place-based policy with an emphasis on the involvement of local actors in the processes of its preparation and implementation in the districts. The aim of the paper is to categorize local actors involved in LDD policy on the basis of their attitudes towards selected aspects of the preparation and implementation of LDD policy Action plans in the districts. The local development actors were classified into four clusters, reflecting the polarization of actors to "those whose needs have been met" and critics of LDD policy processes. The attitudes identified in the clusters are mostly not linked to the sectoral affiliation nor the district in which the actor was located. However, they are linked to the status of the actor as a member of the Development board - they are strongly represented in two specific clusters: Satisfied actors and Critics of central level institutions. Most actors have been classified as critics of various aspects of the LDD policy. Specifically, those are overall critics of the LDD policy, critics of the policy reform and critics of the central government level.

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Zhang, Ying, Weilai Huang, and Jing Hu. "Assessment of the Tertiary Industrial Development Level in Lucheng District of Wenzhou." In 2009 First International Workshop on Database Technology and Applications, DBTA. IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/dbta.2009.73.

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Shi, Leigang, Cunjun Li, Haitang Hu, Xiang Sun, Heju Huai, and Huarui Wu. "Evaluation on the Urban Sustainable Development Level of Xicheng District in Beijing." In 2015 International Symposium on Energy Science and Chemical Engineering. Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/isesce-15.2015.65.

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Orekhova, А. A., and V. A. Yakimova. "RANKING THE FAR EASTERN REGIONS OF THE FEDERAL DISTRICT OF RUSSIA BY LEVEL TAX DEBT." In RUSSIA AND CHINA: A VECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT. Amur State University, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.22250/rc.2019.2.50.

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Bozzo, Maximiliano, Francesco Caratozzolo, and Alberto Traverso. "Smart Polygeneration Grid: Control and Optimization System." In ASME Turbo Expo 2012: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2012-68568.

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This study aims at the development of a software tool for supply and demand matching of electrical and thermal energy in an urban district. In particular, the tool has been developed for E-NERDD, the experimental district that TPG-DIMSET is going to build in Savona, Italy. E-NERDD is an acronym for Energy and Efficiency Research Demonstration District. It is one of the districts that will be used within the project to demonstrate how different software tools and algorithms perform in thermodynamic, economic and environmental terms. The software tool originally developed for and implemented in this work, called E-NERDD Control System, is targeted on enabling the operation of the hardware, when connected in a district mode. Supply and demand are matched to reach a thermoeconomic optimum. An optimization algorithm is organized into two different levels of optimization: a first level that resolves a constrained minimization problem in planning power supply for each generator on the basis of day-before forecasting; and a second level that distributes among the different machines the gap between planned and real-time demand. The algorithm developed is demonstrated in four test cases in order to test it in different working conditions.

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Si, Weijie, and Changyong Chen. "Implementation-oriented "1.5-Level " Land Elastic Development Strategy for New Towns — Taking the Starting District of Xicheng District in Zhanjiang as an Example." In Proceedings of The 11th Academic Conference of Geology Resource Management and Sustainable Development. Riverwood, Australia: Aussino Academic Publishing House, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.52202/073371-0211.

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Reports on the topic "District level development"

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Bano, Masooda, and Daniel Dyonisius. Community-Responsive Education Policies and the Question of Optimality: Decentralisation and District-Level Variation in Policy Adoption and Implementation in Indonesia. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), August 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-wp_2022/108.

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Decentralisation, or devolving authority to the third tier of government to prioritise specific policy reforms and manage their implementation, is argued to lead to pro-poor development for a number of reasons: local bureaucrats can better gauge the local needs, be responsive to community demands, and, due to physical proximity, can be more easily held accountable by community members. In the education sector, devolving authority to district government has thus been seen as critical to introducing reforms aimed at increasing access and improving learning outcomes. Based on fieldwork with district-level education bureaucracies, schools, and communities in two districts in the state of West Java in Indonesia, this article shows that decentralisation has indeed led to community-responsive policy-development in Indonesia. The district-level education bureaucracies in both districts did appear to prioritise community preferences when choosing to prioritise specific educational reforms from among many introduced by the national government. However, the optimality of these preferences could be questioned. The prioritised policies are reflective of cultural and religious values or immediate employment considerations of the communities in the two districts, rather than being explicitly focused on improving learning outcomes: the urban district prioritised degree completion, while the rural district prioritised moral education. These preferences might appear sub-optimal if the preference is for education bureaucracies to focus directly on improving literacy and numeracy outcomes. Yet, taking into account the socio-economic context of each district, it becomes easy to see the logic dictating these preferences: the communities and the district government officials are consciously prioritising those education policies for which they foresee direct payoffs. Since improving learning outcomes requires long-term commitment, it appears rational to focus on policies promising more immediate gains, especially when they aim, indirectly and implicitly, to improve actual learning outcomes. Thus, more effective community mobilisation campaigns can be developed if the donor agencies funding them recognise that it is not necessarily the lack of information but the nature of the local incentive structures that shapes communities’ expectations of education. Overall, decentralisation is leading to more context-specific educational policy prioritisation in Indonesia, resulting in the possibility of significant district-level variation in outcomes. Further, looking at the school-level variation in each district, the paper shows that public schools ranked as high performing had students from more privileged socio-economic backgrounds and were catering for communities that had more financial resources to support activities in the school, compared with schools ranked as low performing. Thus, there is a gap to bridge within public schools and not just between public and private schools.

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Lavadenz, Magaly, and Gisela O’Brien. District Administrators' Perspectives on the Impact of The Local Control Funding Formula on English Learners. Loyola Marymount University, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.15365/ceel.policy.6.

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Two years into implementation, this policy brief examines how California’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) and its accompanying Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) meet the needs of English Learners (ELs). Researchers seek to understand district administrator perspectives on the impact of LCFF for ELs through interviews and focus groups with administrators that represent districts from Northern, Central, and Southern California. Findings reveal that although the LCAP serves as a mechanism to increase personnel and PD efforts to address EL needs, it is still largely viewed as a compliance document that requires alignment with other strategic documents and is sensitive to changes in leadership. The following policy recommendations are made as a result of these findings: 1) re-design the LCAP to support districts in specifying EL learning goals, services, assessments and expected outcomes; 2) differentiate support for district administrators; and 3) invest (long-term) in district-level and site-level professional development with a focus on EL success.

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Zambrano, Omar, Denisse Laos, and Marcos Robles. Global boom, local impacts: Mining revenues and subnational outcomes in Peru 2007-2011. Inter-American Development Bank, May 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011633.

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The relationship between the abundance of natural resources and socio-economic performance has been a main object of study in the economic development field since Adam Smith. Dominated by the verification of the so called curse of natural resource, the mainstream literature on the topic has been mostly on the study of cross sectional data at the national level, with limited empirical use of exogenous differences in the abundance of natural resources at the subnational level. We explore the case of Peru, a mining-rich middle income country where -exploiting a unique data set constructed for this purpose- we are able to assess systematic differences in district-level welfare outcomes between mining and non-mining districts. We find evidence that the condition of being mining-abundant district have a significant impact on the pace of reduction of poverty rates and inequality levels. We also estimate a heterogeneous response to the mining-abundant condition, finding stronger responses in lower-poverty, higher-inequality districts. Finally, we find a trend suggesting incremental positive marginal effects of the level of exposure to mining transfer, as proxy for the degree of abundance of mining activities, on the reduction of poverty and inequality.

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Elmore, Richard F., and Deanna Burney. Continuous Improvement in Community District #2, New York City. Inter-American Development Bank, April 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011020.

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Community School District #2, in New York City, has been engaged in a long-term process of system-wide instructional improvement, now in its eleventh year. This process involves, among other things, heavy investments in professional development for teachers and principals that are focused on introducing and supporting specific instructional practices in literacy and mathematics, coupled with system-level and school-level accountability processes designed to assure high quality instruction in all schools and classrooms.

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Harriss-White, Barbara. The Green Revolution and Poverty in Northern Tamil Nadu: a Brief Synthesis of Village-Level Research in the Last Half-Century. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/steps.2020.001.

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Between 1972 and 2014, in Northern Tamil Nadu (NTN), India, the Green Revolution (GR) in agriculture was studied through five rounds of village-level studies (VLS). Over the decades, the number of villages dwindled; from 11, rigorously and randomly selected (together with a ‘Slater’ village first studied in 1916), through to a set of three villages in a rural–urban complex around a market town, to one of the original eleven, in the fifth round. During the reorganisation of districts in 1989, the villages sited on the Coromandel plain shifted administratively from North Arcot, a vanguard GR district, to Tiruvannamalai, described then as relatively backward. A wide range of concepts, disciplines, scales, field methods and analytical approaches were deployed to address i) a common core of questions about the economic and social implications of technological change in agriculture and ii) sets of other timely questions about rural development, which changed as the project lengthened. Among the latter was poverty.

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Kaawa-Mafigiri, David, Megan Schmidt-Sane, and Tabitha Hrynick. Key Considerations for RCCE in the 2022 Ebola Outbreak Response in Greater Kampala, Uganda. Institute of Development Studies, November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2022.037.

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On 20 September 2022, an outbreak of the Sudan strain of Ebola Virus Disease – SVD – was announced as the first laboratory-confirmed patient was identified in a village in Mubende District in central Uganda. Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MoH) activated the National Task Force and developed and deployed a National Response Plan, which includes the activation of District Task Forces. The target areas include the epicentre (Mubende and Kassanda districts) and surrounding areas, as well as Masaka, Jinja and Kampala cities. This is of great concern, as Kampala is the capital city with a high population and linkages to neighbouring districts and international locations (via Entebbe Airport). It is also a serious matter given that there has been no outbreak of Ebola before in the city. This brief details how Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) activities and approaches can be adapted to reach people living in Greater Kampala to increase adoption of preventive behaviours and practices, early recognition of symptoms, care seeking and case reporting. The intended audiences include the National Task Force and District Task Forces in Kampala, Mukono, and Wakiso Districts, and other city-level RCCE practitioners and responders. The insights in this brief were collected from emergent on-the-ground observations from the current outbreak by embedded researchers, consultations with stakeholders, and a rapid review of relevant published and grey literature. This brief, requested by UNICEF Uganda, draws from the authors’ experience conducting social science research on Ebola preparedness and response in Uganda. It was written by David Kaawa-Mafigiri (Makerere University), Megan Schmidt-Sane (Institute of Development Studies (IDS)), and Tabitha Hrynick (IDS), with contributions from the MoH, UNICEF, the Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD), the Uganda Harm Reduction Network (UHRN), Population Council and CLEAR Global/Translators without Borders. It includes some material from a SSHAP brief developed by Anthrologica and the London School of Economics. It was reviewed by the Uganda MoH, University of Waterloo, Anthrologica, IDS and the RCCE Collective Service. This brief is the responsibility of SSHAP.

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Henderson, Heath, Leonardo Corral, and Juan José Miranda. Evidence from a Natural Experiment on the Development Impact of Windfall Gains: The Camisea Fund in Peru. Inter-American Development Bank, March 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011726.

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This document studies the economic effect of windfall gains by examining a Peruvian natural experiment. The Camisea Fund for Socioeconomic Development (FOCAM) is an inter-governmental fiscal transfer scheme that allocates natural gas royalties generated by the Camisea Gas Project to eligible subnational governments. We exploit the rules governing FOCAM allocation to identify the effect of the transfers on municipal accounts, local infrastructure, and economic development. Using a newly constructed district- level dataset for the years 2005 and 2012, we find evidence of positive impacts on municipal capital expenditures and local infrastructure. However, we also find evidence of a negative impact on municipal current expenditures. More specifically, we find that municipalities with low absorptive capacity coped with the increased administrative burden of FOCAM transfers by reallocating administrative effort toward (away from) executing capital (current) expenditures.

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Johnson, Mark, John Wachen, and Steven McGee. Entrepreneurship, Federalism, and Chicago: Setting the Computer Science Agenda at the Local and National Levels. The Learning Partnership, April 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.51420/conf.2020.1.

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From 2012-13 to 2018-19, the number of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) high school students taking an introductory computer science course rose from three thousand per year to twelve thousand per year. Our analysis examines the policy entrepreneurship that helped drive the rapid expansion of computer science education in CPS, within the broader context of the development of computer science at the national level. We describe how actions at the national level (e.g., federal policy action and advocacy work by national organizations) created opportunities in Chicago and, likewise, how actions at the local level (e.g., district policy action and advocacy by local educators and stakeholders) influenced agenda setting at the national level. Data from interviews with prominent computer science advocates are used to document and explain the multidirectional (vertical and horizontal) flow of advocacy efforts and how these efforts influenced policy decisions in the area of computer science. These interviews with subsystem actors––which include district leaders, National Science Foundation program officers, academic researchers, and leaders from advocacy organizations––provide an insider’s perspective on the unfolding of events and highlight how advocates from various organizations worked to achieve their policy objectives.

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Qamer, Faisal M., Sravan Shrestha, Kiran Shakya, Birendra Bajracharya, Shib Nandan Shah, Ram Krishna Regmi, Salik Paudel, et al. Operational in-season rice area estimation through Earth observation data in Nepal - working paper. International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), March 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.53055/icimod.1017.

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In an effort to adopt emerging technologies in food security assessment through a codevelopment approach, the Government of Nepal’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development’s (ICIMOD) SERVIR-HKH Initiative undertook a pilot study in Chitwan District in 2019 to jointly develop methods for satellite remote sensing and machine learning-based in-season crop assessment. MoALD experts and relevant stakeholders thoroughly reviewed the approach before the honourable minister approved it for formal use in the national-level assessment for 2020 and onwards. For wider adoption of the advanced data science methods established in the pilot study, we customised the technology by developing a digital suite of software, including GeoFairy (a mobile app to facilitate field data collection by field extension professionals at the district level) and RiceMapEngine (a simplified platform for machine learning-based crop classification to facilitate crop area map production by MoALD’s GIS Section). In the current federal governance structure of Nepal, high-quality crop maps and yield estimates will not only bridge information needs among the federal and subnational institutions but also provide a means for consistent cross-country crop status assessments and communication.

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Barjum, Daniel. PDIA for Systems Change: Tackling the Learning Crisis in Indonesia. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), September 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-ri_2022/046.

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Indonesia is facing a learning crisis. While schooling has increased dramatically in the last 30 years, the quality of education has remained mediocre (Rosser et al., 2022). Teacher capability is an often cited weakness of the system, along with policies and system governance. Approaches focused primarily on adding resources to education have not yielded expected outcomes of increased quality. “It is a tragedy that in the second decade of the twenty-first century, some children in Indonesia are not completing primary school and are turned out into the workforce as functional illiterates.” (Suryadarma and Jones, 2013; Nihayah et al., 2020). In the early 2000s, Indonesia began a process of decentralising service delivery, including education, to the district level. Many responsibilities were transferred from the central government to districts, but some key authorities, such as hiring of civil service teachers, remained with the central government. The Indonesian system is complex and challenging to manage, with more than 300 ethnic groups and networks of authority spread over more than 500 administrative districts (Suryadarma and Jones, 2013). Niken Rarasati and Daniel Suryadarma researchers at SMERU, an Indonesian think tank and NGO, understood this context well. Their prior experience working in the education sector had shown them that improving the quality of education within the classroom required addressing issues at the systems level (Kleden, 2020). Rarasati noted the difference in knowledge between in-classroom teaching and the systems of education: “There are known-technologies, pedagogical theories, practices, etc. for teaching in the classroom. The context [for systems of education] is different for teacher development, recruitment, and student enrollment. Here, there is less known in the public and education sector.” Looking for ways to bring changes to policy implementation and develop capabilities at the district level, SMERU researchers began to apply a new approach they had learned in a free online course offered by the Building State Capability programme at the Center for International Development at Harvard University titled, “The Practice of PDIA: Building Capability by Delivering Results”. The course offered insights on how to implement public policy in complex settings, focused on using Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA). The researchers were interested in putting PDIA into practice and seeing if it could be an effective approach for their colleagues in government. This case study reviews Rarasati and Suryadarma’s journey and showcases how they used PDIA to foster relationships between local government and stakeholders, and bring positive changes to the education sector.

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