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McLean, Graham Alwin, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "The History of the Geelong Regional Commission." Deakin University. School of History, Heritage and Society, 2005. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051110.105014.
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This thesis is the first systematic history of the Geelong Regional Commission (GRC), and only the second history of a regional development organisation formed as a result of the growth centres policy of the Commonwealth Labor Government in the first half of the 1970s. In particular, the thesis examines the historical performance of the GRC from the time of its establishment in August 1977 to its abolition in May 1993.
The GRC Commissioners were subject to ongoing criticism by some elements of the region's political, business, rural and local government sectors. This criticism focused on the Commissioners' policies on land-use planning, their interventionist stance on industrial land development, major projects and industry protection and their activities in revitalising the Geelong central business district. This thesis examines these criticisms in the light of the Commission's overall performance.
This thesis found that, as a statutory authority of the Victorian Government, the GRC was successful over its lifetime, when measured against the requirements of the Geelong Regional Commission Act, the Commission's corporate planning objectives and performance indicators, the corporate performance standards of private enterprise in the late 1990s, and the performance indicator standards of today's regional economic development organisations in the United States of America, parts of the United Kingdom and Australia.
With the change of Government in Victoria in October 1992 came a new approach to regional development. The new Government enacted legislation to amalgamate six of the nine local government councils of the Geelong region and returned regional planning responsibilities to the newly formed City of Greater Geelong Council. The new Government also made economic development a major objective of local government. As a result, the raison d'etre for the GRC came to an end and the organisation was abolished.
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Butland, Mark James. "The Council of Regional Accrediting Commissions Framework for Competency-Based Education| A Grounded Theory Study." Thesis, National American University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10635635.
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Colleges facing pressures to increase student outcomes while reducing costs have shown an increasing interest in competency-based education (CBE) models. Regional accreditors created a joint policy on CBE evaluation. Two years later, through this grounded theory study, I sought to understand from experts the nature of this policy, its impact, and the possible need for it to be revised. Findings indicate that the Council of Regional Accrediting Commission’s (C-RAC) Framework was helpful as an educational tool but was also a product of its time and may need to be updated. Analysis of survey responses, a focus group discussion, and semi-structured interviews revealed themes centering around a) the value of the Framework, b) its alignment with accreditors and changing times, and c) the need for its revision. A grounded theory of a narrative lifecycle for the Framework details a progression through six stages that is driven by predictable narrative features. Implications of a narrative policy lifecycle view of the Framework underscore the need for revision of the Framework, and the potential usefulness of applying a narrative paradigm to other higher education accreditation work.
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Oliveira, Sueza Abadia de Souza. "A dinâmica de uma Comissão Intergestora Regional (CIR) em Goiás." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2016. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/7581.
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Decentralization, through regionalization, acts as a strategy to expand coverage, access of the population to services and health actions; Promotes the organization of health care at the local level, and broadens the participation of social control. From this perspective, in 2011, Federal Decree 7,508 / 2011 was published, which improved the concept of regionalization, presenting the Inter-Management Committees as negotiating bodies. Notwithstanding the advances of previous instruments, Decree 7,508 / 2011 regulated Law 8.080 / 90, and improved the inter-agency instances of the SUS, conferring legal security in interfederative relationships, greater transparency, and greater social control. At the regional level, inter-managerial commissions (CIR); At the federal level, Tripartite Interagency Committee (IAC); And at the state level by the Bipartite Interactive Commission, the CIB. Considering regionalization, as a strategy to increase access to promote the integrality of health care; As a way of expanding community participation in health management; And as a result, the responsibility of the municipal manager. In this perspective, the present research was constituted with the purpose of understanding the dynamics of the operation of the CIR Oeste II in Goiás, with the analysis of the participation of their respective municipal health secretaries in the meetings of the year 2014, pursuing initiatives that could be attributed as Form of municipal protagonism. It was also made the characterization of the professional and political profile of the respective health secretaries of CIR Oeste II of the same period; And demonstrated the flow of discussions scheduled in 2014. Qualitative method with quantitative aspects; Where documentary analysis was developed, and interview applied through a semi-structured script, composed of open and closed questions. The findings showed that CIR Oeste II, in the year 2014, presented permanent political-scientific support structures, but with discrete initiatives of municipal protagonism. Her municipal health secretaries, in the year 2014 had a varied professional profile, with a majority of women, and with party affiliation. The resolutions produced during this period were not sufficient to characterize regional governance, since they were mostly a reproduction of the CIB-GO's discussions, where "ad referendum" approvals of ordinary meetings were also identified.
A descentralização, por meio da regionalização, atua como estratégia de ampliação de cobertura, de acesso da população aos serviços e às ações de saúde; promove a organização da atenção à saúde, no nível local, e amplia a participação do controle social. Nessa perspectiva, em 2011 foi publicado o Decreto Federal 7.508/2011, que aprimorou o conceito de regionalização, apresentando as Comissões Intergestoras, como instâncias de negociação. Não obstante os avanços dos instrumentos anteriores, o Decreto 7.508/2011 regulamentou a Lei 8.080/90, e aprimorou as instâncias intergestoras do SUS, conferindo segurança jurídica nas relações interfederativas, maior transparência, e maior controle social. No âmbito regional, as comissões intergestoras (CIR); no âmbito federal, Comissão Intergestora Tripartite (CIT); e no âmbito estadual pela Comissão Intergestora Bipartite, a CIB. Considerando a regionalização, como estratégia de ampliação do acesso para promoção da integralidade da atenção à saúde; como forma de ampliação da participação da comunidade na gestão da saúde; e em decorrência, a responsabilização do gestor municipal. Nessa perspectiva, a presente pesquisa foi constituída com a finalidade de compreender a dinâmica do funcionamento da CIR Oeste II em Goiás, com a análise das participações de seus respectivos secretários municipais de saúde nas reuniões do ano de 2014, perseguindo iniciativas que pudessem ser atribuídas como forma de protagonismo municipal. Foi feita ainda, a caracterização do perfil profissional e político dos respectivos secretários de saúde da CIR Oeste II do mesmo período; e demonstrado o fluxo das discussões pautadas no ano de 2014. Método qualitativo com aspectos quantitativos; onde foi desenvolvida análise documental, e entrevista aplicada por meio de um roteiro semiestruturado, composto por perguntas abertas e fechadas. Os achados demonstraram que a CIR Oeste II, no ano de 2014 apresentou estruturas de apoio político-científico permanentes, porém com iniciativas discretas de protagonismo municipal. Seus secretários municipais de saúde, no ano de 2014 apresentavam perfil profissional variado, com maioria do sexo feminino, e com filiação partidária. As resoluções produzidas no referido período não foram suficientes para caracterizar governança regional, visto serem em sua maioria reprodução das discussões da CIB-GO, onde também foi identificada homologações “ad referendum” das reuniões ordinárias.
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Sinkevych, Andrii. "Comparative Analysis of the Activities of the HELCOM and the Black Sea Commissions as Tools in Regional Environmental Cooperation." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-239161.
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Regional cooperation around inland seas plays an important role in environmental protection as it can involve all countries from the catchment area. Two regional organizations, HELCOM in the Baltic Sea and BSC in the Black Sea regions serve as intermediary for joint efforts and have the same tasks in protection of their respective seas. While HELCOM operates in a region recognized as a role model of regional cooperation, the BSC suffers from poorer intergovernmental relations. The task set was to analyze and compare the two commissions with each other so that similar and dissimilar features could be found and suggestions for possible alterations could be made. In order to conduct the analysis a framework was used to compare historical and cultural background, legal and normative rules, structural forms and relations with stakeholders. The research shows that there is little fundamental difference in the structure and mechanisms of functioning between the two organizations, but much more between the context. The findings in this paper can help to understand the conditions of both commissions’ functioning and which steps are needed in order to improve the effectiveness of the BSC work.
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Hurring, Lauren. "Effectiveness of the Appalachian Regional Commission's Distressed Counties Program." Thesis, Boston College, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/560.
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Thesis advisor: Richard TreschThe Appalachia region has long been plagued by economic depression. Poverty is prevalent in this region, along with low income, and high unemployment. The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) was established in 1965 to promote economic development and alleviate poverty the historically lagging region. Until 1983 the ARC functioned under a growth center strategy that channeled funds to Appalachian areas that were more economically stable and appeared promising. In 1983 the ARC undertook a major change in policy with the introduction of the Distressed Counties Program, which shifted the focus and funds to counties in severe economic duress. My thesis uses regression analysis to test the effect of the Distressed Counties Program on poverty rates, unemployment rates, and real per capita income of the distressed counties in Appalachia
Thesis (BS) — Boston College, 2007
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Economics Honors Program
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Mackinnon, Patricia H. N. "EU regional policy : the Commission and sub-national mobilization in Scotland." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400750.
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Guimaray, Mori Erick, and Vásquez Julio Rodríguez. "Collusion for Commission by Omission: The case of Mayors and Regional Presidents." IUS ET VERITAS, 2016. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/122870.
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The business organization of municipal governments allows these entities to be more efficient when performs its role, management and implementation of goods, resources and services for a given community. However, in recent months we have seen various authorities of the district and regional municipalities make use of the business structure of public agencies they belong to commit crimes against the proper functioning of public administration.La organización empresarial de los gobiernos municipales permite que estas entidades puedan ser más eficientes al momento de cumplir con su rol prestacional de gestión y ejecución de los bienes, recursos y servicios en favor de determinada comunidad. Sin embargo, en los últimos meses hemos visto como distintas autoridades de los municipios distritales y regionales se valen de la estructura empresarial de los aparatos públicos a los que pertenecen para cometer hechos delictivos en contra del buen funcionamiento de la administración pública.
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Comeau, Gina Sandra. "From the bottom-up? The Chaleur Regional Development Commission, Inc.: A case study." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq20969.pdf.
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Marazopoulos, Christos. "Constructing the Western Balkans : understanding the European Commission's regional approach from a constructivist perspective." Thesis, University of Bath, 2013. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607143.
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The thesis traces the construction of the Western Balkans since the end of the armed conflict in 1995. The term Western Balkans has become a commonplace in international politics that refers to a recognisable region on the European map – ignoring that it does not constitute a historical formation of European and Balkan politics. Most contemporary analysis focuses on functional aspects of economic cohesiveness and security interdependence. However, this thesis argues that the concept of Western Balkans is better understood as a social construction, externally-driven. The argument is that the Western Balkans is what the European Union makes of it. By taking a macro-historical perspective, we look at the long and special ties that the EU has had from the time of Yugoslavia to the Western Balkans until the mid-2000s. What we uncover is a special and consistent involvement of the European Commission into the regional affairs. The Western Balkans starts as a small organisational department within the institutional structure of the external relations' portfolio to become a regional identity question for the local populations. Also, the thesis points to the Commission’s actions as not just the outcome of micro-calculations but part of a social context of competing world-views; and, finally, this is the reason that the end-product of the Western Balkans resembles more a messy amalgam rather than a rational design.
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Kassi, Brou Olivier Saint-Omer. "Francophonie et justice : contribution de l'organisation internationale de la francophonie à la construction de l'état de droit." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BORD0327/document.
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La justice est un attribut fondamental de l’Etat moderne. Elle assure, dans unesociété démocratique, la sauvegarde de l’édifice normatif ainsi que la protection des droitset libertés. Une justice indépendante et efficace est un symbole de l’Etat de droit. Ellerévèle la réalité de la séparation des pouvoirs et consacre le règne du droit. Maisl’efficacité de tout appareil judiciaire dépend de la nature et de l’ampleur des moyens dontil dispose. Or, dans nombre d’Etats francophones, le système judiciaire connaît denombreuses faiblesses, liées tantôt aux avatars des processus de stabilisationdémocratique, tantôt aux situations plus fragiles de sortie de crise. La question durenforcement des capacités des institutions judiciaires se trouve ainsi posée. Et c’est surcette base que l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) a investi, depuisune trentaine d’années, le champ de la coopération juridique et judiciaire. Ayant inscrit lapromotion de la démocratie au coeur de son action politique, la Francophonie a pris desengagements forts et développé, en s’appuyant sur ses réseaux institutionnels, desprogrammes destinés à accompagner ses Etats membres dans le renforcement descapacités de leurs systèmes de justice. Cet engagement est perceptible dans le corpusnormatif de l’Organisation. Il marque la ferme volonté des Etats francophones d’ancrerleurs relations dans un cadre de coopération, attaché à la protection des droitsfondamentaux et à la régulation des pouvoirs majoritaires. La justice est donc désormaisérigée en priorité dans le champ des préoccupations francophones. Elle y est saisie tantaux niveaux national et international que dans sa dimension transitionnelleJustice is a fundamental attribute of modern States. In a democratic society, itguarantees the safeguard of the standard-setting framework as well as the protection ofrights. An independent and effective justice is a symbol of the rule of law. It illustrates theseparation of powers and establishes the primacy of law. But the efficiency of any judicialsystem depends on the nature and the extent of the resources at its disposal. Yet, inmany Francophone countries, the judicial system faces many weaknesses, sometimesrelated to the avatars of democratic stabilisation processes, sometimes to more fragilepost-crisis situations. So the question of the capacity development of the judicialinstitutions arises. For thirty years, the International Organization of La Francophonie(OIF) has entered the legal and judicial cooperation field on this basis. By including thepromotion of democracy at the heart of its political action, the OIF has indeed made strongcommitments and developed programs aimed at accompanying its member States in thecapacity development of their justice systems, thanks to its institutional networks. Thiscommitment can be seen in several statements of the Organization. It demonstrates thewill of the Francophone States to anchor their relationships in a cooperation framework,dedicated to the protection of fundamental rights and the regulation of majorities’ powers.Today, justice is consequently established as a priority in Francophone concerns. It isentered in both national and international level and in its transitional dimension
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Alarcao, Jonas Carlos Berquo. "Fortalecimento da ouvidoria do SUS a partir da Comissão Intergestores Regional – experiência na região de saúde Rio Vermelho-Goiás." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2014. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6800.
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The SUS Ombudsman is a channel of qualified citizens hearing, capable of guaranteeing them the fundamental right to health, insofar as it presents to the system management instances, the needs or weaknesses identified by citizens or users. For the perfect operation of the SUS Ombudsman, it must be configured on network with software deployment demands management : SUS Ombudsman system. In Goiás state , till the beginning of 2014, the number of municipalities with the implanted system was extremely low. The state network is organized to the level of Regional Health, located in the municipalities of each region headquarters, with the existence of Ombudsman regional dialogues . In Rio Vermelho Health Region , we observed a number of issues regarding the Ombudsman work that were impeding the advance of the network to the municipal level. This study intended to raise awareness of the local health managers in the region, under the Inter-Regional Commission - CIR, on the role of the SUS Ombudsman and its importance and thereby to get achieving maximum response time to citizens, to institute the responsible staff for the Municipal Ombudsman Health and to deploy SUS Ombudman System in 100% of the municipalities in the region. For this, we used an Intervention Project, based on the assumptions of action research. The intervention was structured in the form of an action plan and implemented through strategies developed by the Department of Rio Vermelho Goiás Health Region in partnership with the Management of the Ombudsman, both organs of the State Office of Health. As results, we have obtained: a. pact of maximum response to ombudsman demands directed to municipalities, the setting of the responsible ones by Municipal Ombudsman in 16 municipalities in Rio Vermelho Region and the expansion of the network state Ombudsman with the implementation of SUS Ombudsman system in 15 municipalities. We have noted that in a Health Region, it is fundamental the integration of Regional Health with municipalities under their geographical jurisdiction, in particular, within the CIR space, since this integration when directed to building or strengthening the process regionalization of health always results in advances in the Regional System. Using the space of CIR to discuss the strengthening of the Ombudsman allowed us to comprehend the need for it in a network structure and to include municipalities on network. As the new structure and workflow established in the region, it will be possible to achieve new breakthroughs in the management of the Ombudsman demands such as: to reduce further the response time, to decrease the number of unanswered demands and to use the information in the management system, both in regional and municipal levels
A Ouvidoria do SUS é um canal de escuta qualificada dos cidadãos capaz de garantir a eles o direito fundamental à saúde, na medida em que apresenta às instâncias de gestão do sistema as necessidades ou fraquezas apontadas pelos cidadãos/usuários. Para o perfeito funcionamento da Ouvidoria do SUS ela deve ser configurada em Rede com a implantação do software de gestão das demandas: sistema OuvidorSUS. No Estado de Goiás, até o início de 2014, o número de municípios com o sistema implantado era extremamente reduzido. A rede estadual está organizada até o nível das Regionais de Saúde, localizadas nos municípios sede de cada Região, com a existência de interlocuções regionais de Ouvidoria. Na Região de Saúde Rio Vermelho, observou-se uma série de problemas em torno do trabalho da Ouvidoria do SUS que estavam impedindo o avanço da rede à esfera municipal. O presente trabalho objetivou sensibilizar os gestores municipais de saúde da região, no âmbito da Comissão Intergestores Regional – CIR, quanto ao papel e a importância da Ouvidoria do SUS e com isso conseguir pactuar prazo máximo de resposta aos cidadãos, instituir os responsáveis pela Ouvidoria Municipal de Saúde e implantar o Sistema OuvidorSUS em 100% dos municípios da Região. Para tanto, utilizou-se de um Projeto de Intervenção, fundamentado nos pressupostos da pesquisa-ação. A intervenção foi estruturada em forma de plano de ação e operacionalizada através de estratégias desenvolvidas pela Gerência da Regional de Saúde Rio Vermelho-Goiás em parceria com a Gerência de Ouvidoria, ambos órgãos da Secretaria de Estado da Saúde. Como resultados obteve-se: a pactuação do prazo máximo de resposta às demandas de ouvidoria encaminhadas aos municípios, a configuração dos responsáveis pelas Ouvidorias Municipais de 16 municípios da Região Rio Vermelho e a expansão da rede estadual de Ouvidoria com a implantação do sistema OuvidorSUS em 15 municípios. Notou-se que em uma Região de Saúde é fundamental a integração da Regional de Saúde com os municípios sob sua jurisdição geográfica, em especial, dentro do espaço da CIR, uma vez que essa integração quando orientada no sentido de construção ou fortalecimento do processo de regionalização da saúde sempre resultará em avanços do Sistema Regional. Utilizar o espaço da CIR para a discussão do fortalecimento da Ouvidoria possibilitou a compreensão da necessidade de estrutura-la em rede e incluir os municípios nessa rede. Como a nova estrutura e fluxo de trabalho estabelecido na Região será possível atingir novos avanços na gestão das demandas de Ouvidoria tais como: reduzir ainda mais o prazo de resposta, diminuir o número de demandas não respondidas e utilizar as informações do sistema na gestão do sistema regional e municipal.
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Thorhallsson, Baldur. "The role of smaller states in the decision-making process of the Common Agricultural Policy and the regional policy of the European Union." Thesis, Bangor University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287030.
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Strickland, Marva Yvonne. "The consequences of substate regionalism in a southern metropolis: a case study of The Atlanta Regional Commission." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1988. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1577.
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This research was an update of Tobe Johnson's 1972 study, Metropolitan Government: A Black Analytical Perspective, which identified some of the problems that regional agencies would encounter and present.
Regionalism is the latest currency of urban reformation and its manifestation has occurred along pragmatic lines. Local governments have handled urban problems in terms of liabilities and assets. Political collaboration or regionalism has been conditioned by the perception that the benefits must outweigh the costs that are related to social issues, racial issues and the impact on political autonomy. Therefore, regional planning is defined in political terms.
While regionalism has its unique specificity in the Atlanta region, it is simUltaneously national in scope and interdependent and interrelated at the national, state and local levels of government. The national government has orchestrated a piecemeal and curative effort to help local areas solve problems on an area-wide or regional basis.
The state of Georgia and other southern states used regional planning agencies as a component of the growth strategy to close the economic gap between the nation and the region. The Georgia General Assembly created a regional planning agency in the Atlanta area prior to and without federal incentive or assistance. However, the national government has influenced the focus of regional solutions in the Atlanta area.
The focus on physical solutions for urban problems in Atlanta have also been established by the values and realities of the power distribution pattern and the majoritarian society. While physical solutions are economic stimulants that raise the issue of compatibility in the region, they will not solely solve the comprehensive problems confronting the black community in Atlanta.
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Ali, Abdi Jibril. "The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Regional Economic Communities: the need for co-operation." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/12467.
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Explores the relationship between Regional Economic Communities (REC) and the African Commission on Human and People's Rights. Examines the causes of proliferation of RECs in Africa and the rationale for their
involvement in human rights matters and illustrates the contribution of RECs to the promotion and protection of human rights in
Africa.Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Law University of Pretoria, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Masters of Law (LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa). Prepared under the supervision of EK Quashigah, Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Ghana.
Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa))--University of Pretoria, 2009.
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Carrier, Angela Denise. "Cultural Modification in Rural Appalachia: Changes as Perceived by Persons Living through the Transformations Created by the ARC." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2001. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-1127101-231150/restricted/carriera112901a.pdf.
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Washington, Shakeesha K. Bailey L. Conner. "A comparative case study of regional Councils of Government in Central and East Alabama." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2007%20Fall%20Theses/Washington_Shakeesha_17.pdf.
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Troesch, Emma Linette. "Safety Analysis in Transportation Planning: A Planning and Geographic Information Systems Internship with the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1429606326.
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Wells, Peter. "Searching for cohesion in a Europe of the Regions : the implementation of the European Union's structural funds in the United Kingdom and France (1994-96)." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10226/.
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This thesis explores the following research question: what factors explain the relationship between levels of government over the implementation of European Union regional policy? Debates in political science and economics in the late 1980s and early 1990s considered whether a Europe of the Regions provided a model for the future economic and political order of Europe. Although these debates informed our understanding of European Union policy making, they have now moved on. The theoretical framework for this thesis tests the extent to which European integration can be explained by processes of multi-level governance, and not by the previously dominant systems of intergovernmentalism. Furthermore, much of the previous theoretical work on European integration has drawn from the earlier stages of policy making (on budgetary decisions, and on institutional and regulatory design). This thesis considers instead the neglected area of the implementation of the Structural Funds in two regions (Yorkshire and Humberside, and Lorraine). Using policy networks tools of analysis it tests the explanatory capability of multi-level governance in the following areas: the variation in policy implementation between the United Kingdom and France; the patterns of resource mobilisation in policy implementation; and the formation of regional economic strategies. The main findings of this thesis show that where domestic regional policy frameworks are weak (e.g. in the United Kingdom), the European Commission has been able to effectively mobilise resources at critical phases of policy implementation - such as during the negotiation of economic strategies. However, over the longer term, the direction the Structural Funds have taken is driven by actors and institutions outside those directly involved in the implementation of the Structural Funds. That is, both DG XVI of the European Commission and the regions themselves have limited opportunities to influence the course of European political integration.
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Rothgeb, Ray D. "An exploratory study of community college Assessment-of-Learning Programs in the higher learning commission region." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/679.
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Pernblad, Andreas. "Innovative Milieu, theoretical approach and policy concept : A comparative study surrounding the use of the European Regional Development Fund in Sweden." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för fysisk planering, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-10764.
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The thesis seeks to study through a qualitative text analysis how strategic policy concepts from three different policy documents concerning the use of the European Regional Development Fund can be said to align with two theoretical concepts from the field of regional development. Furthermore this paper aims to analyse how the theoretical- and policy-concepts are operationalized in the project that received funding in accordance with the policy concepts in one of the policy documents.
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Graves, Scott Herbert. "Public participation in bureaucratic policy-making :the case of the U.S.-Mexico Border Environment Cooperation Commission." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3037013.
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Lind, Patrik. "Gemensamma åtgärder i harmoni? : En beskrivande fallstudie av regional miljöpolitisk koordination mellan nationell och internationell nivå." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Social Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-2264.
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The aim and scope of this study is to describe the coordination of joint efforts concerning chemicals and hazardous substances in the Baltic Sea region, between the Swedish Chemicals Agency (KemI) and the land-based pollution group of the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM LAND). Based on the description of the coordination, the second aim is to discuss the consequences for the Swedish Chemicals Agency in its policy shaping work towards a nontoxic environment. A qualitative and descriptive case study method is used for this purpose. Theories of coordination and achievement-inducing criteria for environmental goals are applied to the case. Components and related processes of coordination are applied to the descriptive part of the study, whilst the achievement-inducing criteria are applied in the discussion. The description of the coordination unveils a strong coordination regarding goal selection, goal decomposition and mapping activities to actors. It also confirms an interdependency between the two organisations, based on the fact that they have different institutional leverage, and thus addresses different types of actors. The result of the study shows that the coordination consequences do not lead to an independent Swedish chemicals policy. Due to limited data, the certainty of the conclusions based on the theoretical and empirical evidence found in this study can be discussed, and must therefore be subject to more empirical research.
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Hutcheon, Mary. "Your side, my side, our side, mediating international ecological disputes : the International Joint Commission in the Great Lakes Region." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq26922.pdf.
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Hutcheon, Mary Carleton University Dissertation Political Science. "Your side, my side, our side: Mediating international ecological disputes the International Joint Commission in the Great Lakes Region." Ottawa, 1997.
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Mroz-Barrett, Meaghan. "Utility Scale Solar Projects in California: An Initial Survey." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2015. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1430.
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The lack of a comprehensive database for both concentrating and photovoltaic utility-scale solar power projects, those with a generation capacity of greater than 50 MW, hinders the ability of researchers and policy makers to examine the state of solar development in the state of California. This research project seeks to fill this gap in understanding by creating a database of proposed and developed projects in order to examine trends in proposals, process time, approvals, and construction starts. Existing literature was evaluated to determine potential factors for project success in approval and construction. Upon determination of these factors, the project database was developed through use of publicly available data and extensive Internet searches of planning documents, industry releases, and articles on existing and proposed projects. The completed database, containing eighty projects, was analyzed to provide an initial look at the overall state of solar project development in California. This report details these early findings as well as areas for further research. The analysis indicates that, while California has a high amount of proposed projects and generation capacity, many projects do not reach the end of the public approval process and fewer still enter construction and operation.
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Melo, Carolina de Campos. "Nada além da verdade? a consolidação do direito à verdade e seu exercício por comissões e tribunais." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2012. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5286.
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Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.O trabalho expõe a consolidação do direito à verdade pelo Direito Internacional e a complementaridade entre as comissões da verdade e os tribunais, mecanismos de justiça de transição, como a combinação que melhor lhe confere aplicabilidade. Primeiramente, a tese reivindica que a transição e a consolidação democrática devem se dar por meio da prestação de contas com o passado, o que se torna possível na medida em que se promoveram a partir da 2a Guerra Mundial significativas alterações no Direito Internacional, que se afasta do paradigma vesfaliano de soberania. Aborda-se assim o excepcional desenvolvimento do Direito Internacional dos Direitos Humanos, do Direito Internacional Humanitário e do Direito Penal Internacional, centralizados na ideia de responsabilidade. A tese também abrange o desenvolvimento do direito à verdade no seio da Organização das Nações Unidas e dos sistemas regionais de proteção de direitos humanos, tendo alcançado o status de norma imperativa ou peremptória, sendo explorados os obstáculos ao seu exercício como no caso de anistias e outras medidas similiares como a prescrição, a justiça militar e a coisa julgada. Enfrentam-se, ainda, as potencialidades e limites da verdade que resulta de comissões da verdade e dos tribunais, concebida esta como conhecimento sobre os fatos e o reconhecimento da responsabilidade pelo ocorrido. O trabalho aborda temas como a independência e imparcialidade das comissões de verdade, seus poderes e o alcance de suas conclusões e recomendações. Por sua vez, com vistas a identificar as verdades a serem alcançadas pelos tribunais, privilegia-se o processo criminal, por se entender que a sentença penal pressupõe o exercício mais completo do devido processo. A imperatividade do direito à verdade é também demonstrada pela defesa da participação da vítima no processo criminal e da admissão de culpa por parte do acusado -- ambos consagrados pelo Tratado de Roma. Por fim, a tese analisa alguns cenários para a complementaridade entre estes dois mecanismos de justiça de transição, fazendo o estudo dos casos do Chile, Peru, Serra Leoa e Quênia, casos estes permeados pelo Direito Internacional, seja pela influência da jurisdição universal ou pelo impacto da jurisdição internacional. O caso brasileiro, por certo, não se ajusta a nenhum destes cenários. Sua caracterização como um diálogo em aberto, para efeitos deste trabalho, pressupõe que o Brasil encontra-se em um importante momento de decisão sobre a complementaridade entre comissões da verdade e tribunais - a recente aprovação da Comissão Nacional da Verdade deve conviver com o aparente conflito entre a decisão do Supremo Tribunal Federal, que afirmou a constitucionalidade da Lei de Anistia de 1979, e a decisão da Corte Interamericana no caso Araguaia, que entende nulos os dispositivos da lei que obstaculizam o processamento dos responsáveis, ambas no ano de 2010 - com a oportunidade de demonstrar que a passagem do tempo não arrefece as obrigações a que se comprometeu no cenário internacional.
The dissertation exposes the consolidation of the right to truth by international law and the complementarity of truth commissions and tribunals, both transitional justice mechanisms, as the combination that better confers its aplicability. First, the work claims that transition to and consolidation of democracy should provide accountability for past abuses, what became possible by the changes that have impacted international law after the World War II. The exceptional development of international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law is explored, considered the idea of responsability. The dissertation takes care of the development of the right to truth within the United Nations Organization and the human rights regional systems, and its status of imperative or peremptory norm, as well the obstacles for its exercise in the case of amnesties and other similar measures as statute of limitation, military justice and doble jeopardy (res judicata). The truth that results from truth commissions and tribunais its potentialities and limits are here conceived as knowledge e acknowledgment of what occured. The work also considers aspects as the independence and impartiality of truth commissions, its powers and the reach of its conclusions and recommendations. On the other hand, considering the truth to be obtained by tribunals, the dissertation priviledges the analysis of criminal procedure, in the sense that a criminal veridict implies due process. The imperativity of the right to truth is also demonstrated by the participation of victims in the criminal procedure and the admission of guilty by the accused both celebrated by the Statute of Rome. The dissertation also covers some sceneries of complementarity between truth commissions and tribunals, making use of the case of Chile, Peru, Sierra Leone and Kenya, cases that suffered significant impact by international law, considered the influence of universal jurisdiction or the impact of international jurisdiction. The Brazilian case, at the end, does not fit precisely in any of these sceneries. Its caracterization as an open dialogue assumes that the country has come face to face with the debate of complementarity the recent approval of the National Truth Commission has to live together with the apparent conflict between two decisions held in 2010: the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the 1979 Amnesty Law and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the Araguaia Case that considered null and void the parts of the law that obstacle the criminal persecution of the ones responsible -, and has opportunity to demonstrate that time has not moderated the obligations to which Brasil has compromised with in the international arena.
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Costa, Manuela Gobbi Lopes da. "Análise da governança na saúde: rede de atenção às urgências e emergências da região do médio Paraíba-RJ." Niterói, 2015. https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/4891.
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Prefeitura da Cidade de Barra do Piraí. Secretaria Municipal de Saúde
A governança é fundamental para a implementação das Redes de Atenção à Saúde, pois a sua efetivação é realizada por meio da interação entre atores interdependentes em processos de negociação e tomada de decisão coletiva. O presente estudo analisou a governança na implementação da Rede de Atenção às Urgências e Emergência na região do Médio Paraíba – RUE MP, localizada no estado do Rio de Janeiro. O estudo teve por objetivos: identificar os atores envolvidos, suas interações e suas influências no processo decisório da RUE; analisar o arcabouço legal que norteia o processo decisório da RUE; analisar a dinâmica dos espaços de processo decisório da RUE (Grupo Condutor Estadual da RUE e Comissão Intergestores Regional da Região do Médio Paraíba – CIR-MP); e identificar os dispositivos facilitadores e limitantes para a organização da RUE. Foi realizado estudo de caso em dois espaços de governança para a implementação da RUE, o Grupo Condutor Estadual da RUE e a Comissão Intergestores Regional da região do Médio Paraíba – CIR-MP. As fontes de informação foram as atas, deliberações, resoluções e outros documentos relativos à região, com a complementação de entrevistas semiestruturadas com informantes chave (gestores/representantes) dos dois espaços estudados. Foi feita a análise documental destas fontes tendo como base para análise da governança, o estudo de HUFTY et al (2006) que a sugere por meio de quatro dimensões de análise: os atores, as normas, os pontos nodais e os processos. Foram identificados os principais atores, suas interações e influências no processo de implementação da RUE, além da dinâmica de funcionamento dos espaços de processo decisório. Os resultados indicam que os dois espaços são importantes para a governança da RUE, favorecendo as discussões e a tomada de decisão apoiadas no interesse coletivo, porém o espaço da CIR teve um papel preponderante na implementação da RUE MP, considerando seu desenho regional e sua possibilidade de construção de políticas de saúde de caráter regional. Apesar disso, observou-se que estes espaços estão muito aquém do que os mesmos se propõem, necessitando avançar na cultura de elaborar projetos regionais que realmente considerem as especificidades locais. A falta de novos recursos financeiros foi outro desafio apontado no estudo, dificultando a ampliação da oferta da capacidade instalada para a região
Governance is critical to the implementation of the Health Care Networks, because its effectiveness is accomplished through the interaction between interdependent actors in negotiation and collective decision-making. This study examined governance in implementing the Care Network for Urgent and Emergency in the Middle Paraíba region - RUE MP, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The study aimed to: identify the players involved, their interactions and their influence in the RUE decision making process; analyze the legal framework that guides the decision-making process of RUE; analyze the dynamics of decision-making spaces of RUE (RUE Group of State Driver and Intergestores Regional Commission for the Middle Paraíba Region - CIR-MP); and identify facilitators and limiting devices for the organization of RUE. Case study was conducted in two areas of governance for the implementation of RUE, the State Driver Group of RUE and Intergestores Regional Commission for the Middle Paraíba region - CIR-MP. The sources of information were the meeting transcripts, decisions, resolutions and other documents relating to the region, complemented by semi-structured interviews with key informants (managers / representatives) of the two studied areas. It was made a documentary analysis of these sources. As governance analysis, we used the Hufty’s study et al (2006) that suggests that four dimensions of analysis: the actors, the rules, the nodal points and processes. The main actors were identified, their interactions and influences the implementation process of RUE in addition to the operating dynamics of decision-making spaces. The results indicate that the two spaces are important for the governance of RUE, favoring the discussions and decision making supported by the collective interest, but CIR space played a major role in the implementation of RUE MP, considering its regional design and its possibility of Constructing health policies that are regional in nature. Nevertheless, it was observed that these spaces fall far short of what they propose, requiring advances in the culture of creating regional projects that really consider the local specificities. The lack of new financial resources was another challenge pointed out in the study, making it difficult to increase the supply of capacity to the region
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Dupuy, Arnold C. "Patterns of Regionalism and Security: Energy as a Transformational Influence in the Black Sea Region." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71637.
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One of the more significant regional groupings to have emerged since the collapse of the Soviet Union is the wider Black Sea. Located at the jagged confluence of the Western, Orthodox and Muslim worlds, the region was quite frequently a violent meeting place, and thus instead of a bridge between civilizations, it has been a barrier. Even more compelling is how the presence of oil and gas has thrust the Black Sea into the world's view and contributed to the rush of external interest, and how this has helped develop a unique regional entity. Today, in an interconnected global economy, the region's position as a producer and conduit for fossil fuels makes it impossible to consider in isolation. More importantly, to succinctly define this dissertation's research question, it can be asked how does energy act as a transformational agent in the emergence of a Black Sea region?Ph. D.
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Nuwagaba, Edgar. "An analysis of the approaches of the African Commission to the socio-economic rights provisions of the African Charter : a comparative analysis with European and inter-American regional systems." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4837.
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Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS)This study adopts a comparative approach to analysing the realisation of socioeconomic rights by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights as compared with the European Commission and the Inter-American Commission. It examines the different approaches the Commission has adopted in interpreting the socioeconomic rights provision of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights with a view to assessing its appropriateness or otherwise. In addition, the study discusses some of the major challenges facing the African Commission which sometimes makes it difficult for the Commission to meet its obligations in realising socioeconomic rights guaranteed in the Charter. It then compares the approach of the African Commission with other regional human rights bodies such as the European Courts on Human Rights and the Intern-American Commission on Human Rights. It concludes by noting that the African Commission can learn some lessons from the experiences of the European and Inter-American systems on human rights with regard to the realisation of socioeconomic rights.
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Comer, Jeffrey R. "The Virginia SOL Eighth Grade Writing Test in Relationship to the National Commission on Writing Recommendations, Grade Configuration, Region, and Socioeconomic Status." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2133.
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The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine Virginia Standards of Learning 8th grade writing assessments to determine if there was any association between school passing rates and the recommendations suggested by the 2003 National Commission on Writing to improve writing proficiency. This study further examined the possible differences in school passing rates that may exist due to the grade configuration of a school, the location of a school, the availability of a comprehensive writing plan, and the student percentage on free and reduced-price lunch. Data collection consisted of a self-administered survey sent to all 364 schools in Virginia that administered SOL writing assessments during the 2006-2007 school year./p>
This study showed no significant differences in 8th grade writing passing rates between schools with a comprehensive writing plan and those that do not. However, there was a significant difference in 8th grade teacher support for writing, division-administrative support for writing, and the understanding of writing scoring criteria in those schools with a comprehensive plan. There was little association between SOL writing scores and the implementation level of the 7 dimensions related to the National Commission on Writing recommendations. When controlling for socioeconomic status, there was no significant difference in writing scores.
The addition of 4 multiple-choice questions to the SOL test two years ago without a change in the cut score necessary for a student to pass appears to have had a larger impact on the passing rates of schools than the variables included in this study.
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Jeremia, George Tileinge. "An Assessment of the Public Sector Planning Process of the Implementation of Capital Projects in the Ohangwena Region, Namibia." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2009. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_8338_1278012495.
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This research study focuses on the way the Namibian public sector plans and implements capital projects, mainly in the Ohangwena region, and the Ministry of Health and Social Services in general. The research results show that the planning and project process is not clear and that options need to be considered for the improvement thereof. It is observed that often some of the identified and approved capital projects are not implemented and, if implemented, this is typically done in two or three years. Most parts of Ohangwena are comprised of sandy roads, especially the north-eastern area of Ohangwena which represents a large part of the region. Distances between health facilities and the scarcity of transport make it difficult for the community to easily reach the nearest health facility. The primary objective of this study is to perform an assessment of the planning process in the public sector for the implementation of capital projects and its effectiveness with regard to the planning and implementation of identified capital projects. From the outset, the critical issue is not only implementation, but also how the Ministry plans its capital projects for successful implementation. Interestingly, no research has been done before on this topic in Namibia. Against this background, officials (planners) that are directly involved in capital projects design were interviewed at the district, regional and national levels of the Ministry. The research investigation found that, in general, the planning and project processes in the Ministry are good, but a number of weaknesses were observed in the implementation process. The findings of the study showed that capacity in the Ministry, in terms of skills and technical expertise, are among the main causes of delay in the implementation of capital projects, particularly in the region and in the Ministry in general. The research found that lack of technical expertise in the Ministry and the limited capacity of those responsible for capital projects initiation and implementation, especially at the District and Regional level, have a substantial influence on most of all the weaknesses observed in the system. In this regard, specific recommendations were made regarding the prioritization of the necessary posts and building capacity at the operational level
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Haufiku, Amon. "An investigation of lower primary teachers' content knowledge of mathematics in Ohangwena region in Namibia." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003519.
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The poor performance in mathematics of learners in schools in Namibia, especially in the grades where learners sit for the national examinations, has been a concern of everybody. Since independence, the Ministry of Education in collaboration with several donor agencies has been aware of the poor performance in mathematics in the country. Several international and local studies have been made in an effort to identify the problems that are hindering learners’ performance in mathematics in Namibia. The findings of some studies that were conducted in the country such as the Southern Africa Consortium Monitoring Education Quality (2004), the Presidential Commission on Education, Culture and Training (1999), and the Mathematics and Science Teachers Extension Program (2002) revealed that the inadequate proficiency of primary teachers in mathematics content could be responsible for learners’ poor performance in mathematics. This study, therefore, is aimed at investigating the mathematical proficiency of lower primary (LP) teachers in Namibia. The study used three instruments to collect data namely, a profile questionnaire – to collect teachers’ demographic data, a proficiency test – to test their proficiency level of mathematics using the content of Grade 4 and 5 learners’ mathematics syllabi and a semi-structured interview schedule – to get views about their own mathematics content knowledge, attitudes towards mathematics as well as problems that hinder effective teaching and learning of mathematics at LP phase. The study was conducted with 30 lower primary teachers from five primary and combined schools in the Ohangwena circuit of the Ohangwena region. The study found out that: (1) the mathematical proficiency of LP teachers is below the Grade 7 Mathematics content. Most teachers are not able to solve the content of mathematics at upper primary (UP) phase. (2) LP education is receiving very little support from the Ministry compared to other phases. (3) There are no workshops or training courses organised for LP teachers. They do not receive enough textbooks and materials, their classrooms are overcrowded and teachers cannot pay attention to individual learners. (4) There is a dire need for LP Head of Departments (HODs) who are specialised at LP; most HODs for LP at schools are not specialised in this area. When it comes to views about future content of mathematics that should be given to LP teachers in Namibia, respondents recommended that future LP teachers should have knowledge of mathematics up to at least Grade 10 but preferably up to Grade 12. They do not want to be restricted to LP mathematics, but would like to have a broader knowledge of mathematics content. This would make them more confident in solving their children’s problems in mathematics. Overall, participants recognised the value of mathematics and the role that it plays in society.
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Krouse, Joseph. "An Environmental and Economic Assessment of Future Municipal Solid Waste Disposal: A case study of select high growth regions of Virginia." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1782.
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This research analyzed environmental and economic factors associated with municipal solid waste (MSW) management of select high growth Planning District Commissions (PDCs) of Virginia. Current MSW management scenarios were compared to future hypothetical scenarios utilizing a regional landfill or waste-to-energy (WTE) combustion facility. Life-cycle inventory and full cost accounting methods of the Municipal Solid Waste Decision Support Tool, developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), were utilized to estimate annualized environmental emissions and economic costs. Model results and analysis indicate that a regional landfill would be the least cost intensive MSW management strategy in comparison to current management methods; however present the greatest environmental burden with respect to methane emissions. It was also inferred that a WTE facility would represent the least environmental burden with respect to energy offsets via MSW combustion while being the most cost intensive option. The study supports the anecdotal view that a regional-based approach to MSW management of high-growth PDCs would help reduce costs and potential environmental impacts.
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Johnson, M. E., and n/a. "The application of statistics to the mesoscale study of wind speed and direction in the Canberra region." University of Canberra. Information Sciences, 1986. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060802.154807.
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The temporal and spatial variability in wind speed and
direction was investigated in a study of the mesoscale wind
fields in the Canberra region. The statistical description of
the winds was based on twelve months of three-hourly data at
seventeen sites obtained in a joint program carried out by the
Division of Land Use Research, CSIRO, the National Capital Development Commission, and the Bureau of Meteorology.
The statistical analysis proceeded in stages. The first
two stages were concerned with the determination and
examination of averages and measures of dipersion. Information
on the temporal variability in regional wind, defined as the
average of the winds at the seventeen collection sites,
provided the first insight into the important determinants of
winds in the region. The data were then categorized on the
basis of the information thus obtained, and the averages over
time for each site were analysed in each category. The
variation between sites revealed the extent of the spatial
variability in the region.
For each category, for each site, there were
perturbations around the average state, and in the last stage
of the study, the analysis examined how the perturbations were
related across sites using correlation coefficients.
Generalized Procrustes Analysis was used, followed by the
extensive use of cluster analysis.
Linear modelling techniques were used at all stages of
the study, not only for wind speed, but also for wind direction
which is an angular variate and thus required different
modelling procedures. The models related the variables of
interest to terrain features such as position, elevation and
surface roughness. These models allowed an informed judgement
to be made on the likelihood of accurately estimating the winds
at other locations in the region using interpolation
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Hassan, M. I. B. "What is causing the scramble for West African oil and how can the emerging Gulf of Guinea Commission forge a collective policy to protect the regions interest?" Thesis, University of Dundee, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.505598.
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Evans, Hugo. "De-Basing the San Francisco Bay Area: The Racial, Regional, and Environmental Politics of the 1991-1995 Brac Military Closures." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1383584349.
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Barbhaya, Surabhi Dhaval. "Understanding the Relationships Between Economic & Demographic Variables Using the REMI-EDFS Model: A Case Study of Hamilton County, Ohio." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1123695206.
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Thesis (Master of Community Planning)--University of Cincinnati, 2005.Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Mar. 28, 2006). Includes abstract. Keywords: demographic projection; REMI Model; Hamilton County regional Planning Commission; Economic and Demographic Forcasting Model; Hamilton County; Population; Economic variables; Demographic Variables; Surabhi; Barbhaya; Rainer vom Hofe. Includes bibliographical references.
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Ahin, Marie-Angèle. "Communaute economique de l'afrique de l'ouest-groupe andin : analyse juridique et reflexions pour une revitalisation institutionnelle du processus d'integration regionale." Paris 11, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA111007.
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Depuis plus de trois decennies, les pays du tiers monde, desirant acceder au developpement economique de leur pays ont choisi la voie de l'integration regionale pour y parvenir. S'inspirant fortement et de facon non pertinente du modele europeen en la matiere, ils se sont constitues en blocs regionaux afin de mieux assurer la defense de leurs interets sur la scene internationale. Le groupe andin situe en amerique latine et la ceao en afrique de l'oeust sont deux organisations sous-regionales d'integration economique classees parmi les pays en voie de veloppement. Elles presentent de nombreux traits de similitude. Elles ont connu toutes les deux un plein essor durant les premieres annees de fonctionnement, puis elles ont du affronter des crises institutionnelles qui les ont plongees dans une lethargie fonctionnelle. Nous avons recense l'origine et les causes de ces dysfonctionnements d'ordre juridique et institutionnel. Apres avoir mene notre enquete sur le terrain aupres du personnel confronte quotidiennement aux realites locales et a ces problemes de fonctionnement, nous emettons des propositions en faveur d'une meilleure exploitation des ressources juridiques et institutionnellesdans le but de permettre une redynamisation du processus d'integration regionaleFor more than three decades, third world countries have opted for regional integration as a mean to achieve economic development. Relying strongly, although in an irrelevant way, on the european pattern, they have establis-hed regional groupings so as to be in a better position to defend their interests at the international level. The andean group in latin america and waec in west africa are two subregional economic organizations in the developing world. A lot of similarities exist between these two groups. Both have experienced a rapid development during the years following their creation, then they faced institutional crises which led them into functional lethargy. We have identified the sources and reasons of these legal and institutional dysfunctions. After conducting a field survey among officials coping daily local realities and abovementioned dysfunctions, we submit proposals for a better use of legal and institutional resources so as to give a new impetus to the regional integration process
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Knapp, Sandra V. "Does GRID Alternatives Impact Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Targets in Central Coast Climate Action Plans?" DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2016. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1613.
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As of March 2016, GRID Alternatives’ 179 solar electric system installations on low-income housing contributed 103 metric tons of carbon (MT CO2e) emissions reduction for the climate action plans’ Energy or Renewable Energy climate action measures that pertain to solar electric installations in the cities of: Arroyo Grande, Atascadero, Paso Robles, and San Luis Obispo and San Luis Obispo County.
In 2007, the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District (APCD) created a team of government agencies to design climate action plans (CAP) that met the emission reduction goals set out by AB 32 and the 2008 Climate Change Scoping Plan (Rincon Consultants, 2014, p. 1-2).
Each CAP outlines its greenhouse gas (GHG) baseline emissions and GHG emissions reduction targets in metric tons of carbon (MT CO2e) and identifies climate action measures to reach GHG emissions reduction targets. The climate action measure that pertains to Energy or Renewable Energy, specifically solar electric system installations, is examined in this study.
GRID Alternatives, a non-profit solar installer that implements its Solar Affordable Housing Program, was selected by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) in 2008, to serve as the statewide program manager for the California Solar Initiative’s $108 million incentive program called the Single-family Affordable Solar Homes (SASH) program, which is the country's first dedicated solar rebate program for low-income families (GRID, 2016a, p. 2). In 2010, GRID Alternatives opened its Central Coast office in Atascadero to serve five central coast counties and tracks CO2 emission reductions for each installation.
My objective is to determine the impact that GRID Alternatives’ solar electric installations in the cities of Arroyo Grande, Atascadero, Paso Robles, and San Luis Obispo and in San Luis Obispo County have on their respective CAPs’ GHG emissions reduction targets for the Energy or Renewable Energy climate action measure that pertains to solar electric installations.
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Bortfeld, Mathias. "The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights:." University of Canterbury. Law, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1598.
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This thesis focuses on the establishment and operation of the latest regional Human Rights Court: The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. For the development of human rights protection mechanisms within regional organizations the governments of the member states are of special relevance. They pull the strings to either foster and develop a system or to disrupt it. Therefore, following a brief historical introduction, the first chapter gives an overview of the regional African organization, the former Organization of African Unity (OAU) and today's African Union (AU) which was instrumental in the establishment of the African Human Rights System and has now enhanced it by adding a judicial authority. However, it will become clear that is has taken a long time for the OAU to put human rights violations within the borders of its own member states on its agenda: Not until there was increasing international pressure due to never-ending excrescences of violence in the dictatorial regimes in Africa did the OAU carefully attend to this matter in the late 1970s. Its efforts culminated in the adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (the eponymous Banjul Charter) which entered into force in 1981. The body for the protection created by the Charter was the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights which took up its function in 1987. Since the newly established African Court is not supposed to replace the Commission but rather to strengthen it, the Court operates in concert with the Commission. Therefore the old protection system will still be applicable which deems a portrayal of the system in the following chapter necessary. Here, it will be outlined, that the competences of the Commission remain very limited and that its judicial impact on the State parties involved in its protection procedures has been nearly nil up to this very day. Against this background the next chapter focuses on the Protocol to the Banjul-Charter establishing the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. First, the historical-political background and the protocol's juridical formulation process are examined. Here it will be shown that the end of global bipolarity has had a remarkable impact on the political protagonists in Africa with the effect that the increasing demands for a human rights Court within the OAU no longer remained completely unheard. It will also be outlined that the path towards the adoption of the protocol has been long and difficult. After a short survey of the organisational structure of the Court it will become clear that the protocol follows to a large extend its Inter-American counterpart concerning the institutional embodiment. However, a remarkable and, in international comparison, a unique achievement has also been achieved by the institutional regulations by making gender equality has one of the key issues to encompass when it comes to the nomination and election of judges. The following chapters outline the jurisdiction of the Court and the judicial process before the Court. In this connection the admissibility criteria will be highlighted in which two remarkable regulations stand out: First, it will become clear that in contrast to other regional human rights courts individuals and NGOs alike are entitled to file a complaint with the African Court (even though initially with the help of the Commission, since the protocol makes the complaint authority of individuals and NGOs dependent of a special declaration of acceptance of the State Parties concerned). Moreover, also unique compared to international two-tier human rights procedures, the protocol does not include a provision according to which a complainant would be obliged to go through a prior Commission procedure before filing a complaint with the Court. Individual complainants rather have direct access to the Court once a declaration of acceptance has been submitted by a State Party to the protocol. Following short remarks on the competence of the Court to issue provisional measures which, among other things, reveal that these measures have, in contrast to those of the ECtHR, binding effect the procedural termination of a complaint comes into focus. Here, the possible contents of the rulings and the control mechanisms for their implementation are being contemplated in a detailed fashion. This last aspect most probably will have great influence on the fate of the Court since the Commission for its part had to a large extent no success due to the fact that it had no conventional implementation procedures to rely on. Therefore, in the vast majority of cases the findings of the Commission trailed off without any State Party concerned paying any attention to it. The drafters of the protocol establishing the Court obviously have learned this lesson since the protocol provides for a quite remarkable implementation mechanism that may be able to impose political and legal pressure alike on State Parties if the Court deems that they have not properly complied with a Court's ruling. Even sanctions within the African Union against a recusant State come into question from a legal point of view - a quantum leap regarding the legal situation under the Banjul Charter. The last chapter rehearses the main findings of the thesis and concludes with a positive outlook on the future development of the African human rights system.
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Horáková, Bára. "Podnikatelský plán Klubové testovací komise Veterán car club Strakonice." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-261991.
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This thesis solves the emergence of a new club testing committee of the historic vehicles in Strakonice. The aim of the thesis was to determinate under what real conditions can be the new commission, functional, have enough costumers, successful and profitable. The thesis calculated three possible variants of financial analysis. For a better understanding of the market was used questionnaire survey of the market. Thesis also contains Porter´s Five Forces Analysis and SWOT analysis. Finally, were summarized all the findings, especially what competitive advantage should the commission use to succeed in the market, and in what a number of tests, and financial situation it makes sense to work and when it would terminate its activities.
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DEBAGNA, NACER-EDDINE. "Les organisations regionales paneuropeennes et le developpement du droit international de l'environnement : contribution de l'organisation sur la securite et la cooperation en europe, de la commission economique des nations-unies pour l'europe et du conseil de l'europe." Paris 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA020097.
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Depuis l'acte final d'helsinki en 1975, jusqu'a la reunion de sofia en 1989, un tres vaste programme de protection de l'environnement fut elabore par les etats participants a la csce. Il s'agit de recommandations juridiquement non contraignantes, destinees aux etats participants ainsi qu'aux organisations internationales, et couvrant pratiquement tous les secteurs de l'environnement. Ce programme a donne lieu a une activite normative intense au sein de la cee/onu et du conseil de l'europe, et en depit des risques de chevauchement qu'une telle activite a pu engendrer, ces organisations regionales ont adopte des instruments internationaux de protection de l'environnement, de degre juridique different. Il s'agit, d'une part, d'instruments juridiquement non contraignant (resolutions, recommandations), que la doctrine designe par l'expression "soft law", et, d'autre part, d'instruments conventionnels, aux caracteristiques particulieres, puisque qu'a l'exception de certains d'entre eux, ils contiennent des dispositions de nature "soft". Ainsi, dans le cadre de la cee/onu, furent adoptes des instruments pour la lutte contre la pollution atmospherique a longue distance, les etudes d'impact et les effets des accidents industriels dans un contexte transfrontiere, ainsi que la protection et l'utilisation des cours d'eau transfrontieres et des lacs internationaux. Quand aux activites du conseil de l'europe, elles concernent, entres autres, la protection de la vie sauvage, la cooperation transfrontaliere et la responsabilite civile pour les dommages causes par des activites dangereuses pour l'environnement. Le role de l'ensemble de ces instruments paneuropeens dans le processus de developpement du droit international de l'environnement est double: leur fonction est, soit de confirmer ou de consolider des regles coutumieres internationales preexistantes, soit de contribuer a l'emergence de nouvelles regles coutumieres internationales, au plan universel, mais aussi au plan regional paneuropeen. Ce faisant, ils apportent la preuve de la preeminence de la source conventionnelle, mais aussi de l'importance croissante des instruments de "soft law" dans le developpement du droit international de l'environnement. Enfin, ils confirment le role aujourd'hui determinant des organisations internationales dans la protection de l'environnement.
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Váchová, Radka. "Role zahraničních filmových produkcí při propagaci českého filmového průmyslu a ČR." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-198876.
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The aim of this master thesis is to describe and evaluate the role of incoming foreign productions entering the Czech film industry after 1989. The foreign film productions tend to affect the Czech film culture in a broader context. Specifically, changes occured in governmental support of both Czech and foreign production. The film industry is not kept away from the intensifying conditions on world markets. In the recent years, this factor is leading to a greater competition in terms of attracting foreign productions to domestic locations by the system of fiscal incentives. Having these in mind, this thesis outlines until which range are the foreign productions beneficial for the state, as well as it proposes the possible manner of the Czech republic promotion abroad.
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Lawson, Troy A. "CAL POLY PIER MASTER PLAN." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2020. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/2202.
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The Cal Poly Pier (Pier) Master/Facility Plan (FP) document provides the vision of the future for the Pier, a marine science research facility. The Plan facilitates project development and management of the Pier while meeting university and department research goals. Specifically, the FP document establishes goals and strategies to direct long-term development of the Pier, streamlines agency approval and permit requirements, provides context for pier management, and assists the permitting process for future development as it relates to regulatory permits and programmatic growth on the Cal Poly Pier to help meet goals of the Center for Coastal Marine Sciences (CCMS). The Cal Poly Pier is the marine field station for the California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) CCMS and is one of several facilities that supports research and educational activities. The CCMS is a CSU Campus Center research organization that provides research and education activities as a part of Cal Poly’s overall mission while offering opportunities to interested parties beyond Cal Poly, such as private and public entities. The 3,057-foot long pier provides students, faculty, researchers, and other users unrivaled access to the marine environment of the Central Coast and fosters hands-on learning opportunities to progress marine research and science. The Master Plan name was changed to Facility Plan to streamline the plan approval process and to minimize the potential for errors.
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Ricks, Joi Elizabeth. "Living outside the box: sustaining the lifelong community through universal design." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/34732.
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We all want to live in a healthy community. Each of us has his or her own image of what such a community should look like. That image is shaped, in part, by our reaction to the communities in which we now live or used to live. However we often take for granted the elements of communities that enable and sometimes disable many of us to remain active in a community for a lifetime. For older residents, a lifelong community would include elements that help them to maintain independence and quality of life. The physical characteristics of a community often play a major role in facilitating our personal independence. In order to combat the growing challenges and health concerns facing the American lifestyle this research proposes a set of design guidelines that promote sustainable lifelong communities that are universally designed for people of all ages and levels of physical ability.
The purpose of developing a set of universal design guidelines for lifelong communities is to alleviate many of the physical barriers and challenges that prevent some Americans from active involvement in the community. The methods employed to develop these guidelines were based on literature review and analysis. This research was incorporated into a new body of practical standards that was tested against a real life community in Decatur, Georgia. These standards were edited and revised to appropriately accommodate the necessary adaptations that were discovered during the evaluation phase. The resultant guidelines are presented with the intention of becoming a usable guide for planning agencies such as the Atlanta Regional Commission and other local and national community design facilitators.
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Chytka, Miroslav. "Regionální a strukturální politika EU - ekonomické a právní aspekty." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-225439.
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The aim of my thesis on the topic „Regional and structural EU policy – economic and legislative aspect“ is a description of all important aspects of Regional policy EU and the performance of regional policy in the context of a specific project.
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Koutouan, Atchiman Joséphine Naara. "Contribution à l’étude des droits régionaux de la concurrence en Afrique de l’Ouest : cas de l'union économique et monétaire Ouest-Africaine et de la communauté économique des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BORD0044/document.
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Les États ouest-africains ont fait de l’intégration économique la voie privilégiée pour relever le défi du développement économique dans un contexte international de plus en plus concurrentiel. Ainsi, par le biais d’organisations régionale et sous régionale, la protection du libre jeu de la concurrence est devenue un enjeu communautaire. L’intégration économique régionale ouest-africaine a donc été saisie par le droit de la concurrence. De ce fait, on assiste à l’émergence de droits régionaux de la concurrence au sein de l’Union économique et monétaire ouest africaine (UEMOA) et de la Communauté économique des États de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO). Chacune de ces organisations a donc mis en place un droit de la concurrence dans son espace économique. Il en résulte, vu la composition de l’UEMOA et de la CEDEAO, que ces droits communautaires ont vocation à s’appliquer aux États membres de l’Union qui font également partie de la Communauté. Cette particularité de la coexistence de ces règles communautaires de la concurrence en Afrique de l’Ouest méritait qu’on s’y attarde afin d’évaluer leur application, d’analyser l’effectivité et l’efficacité de ces droits. Cette étude comparative s’est attachée à mettre en exergue ce que renferment ces droits, à relever leurs spécificités, tout en mettant en lumière leurs insuffisances. Il apparaît nécessaire de repenser, voire de réformer certains aspects de ces droits afin d’améliorer leurs applications, gage d’une meilleure protection de la libre concurrence en Afrique de l’OuestWest African states have made economic integration the preferred way to deal with the challenge of economic development in an increasingly competitive international context. Thus, through regional and subregional organizations, the protection of the free movement of competition has become a community issue.West African regional economic integration has therefore been seized by competition law. From this, we note emerging competition rights in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Each of these organizations has therefore put in place a competition law in its economic area. As a result, given the composition of UEMOA and ECOWAS, these Community rights are intended to be applied to the Member States of the Union which are also part of the Community. The features of the coexistence of these Community competition law in West Africa deserved to be examined in order to evaluate their application, to analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of these rights. This comparative study intends to highlight the contain of these rights, reveal their specificities, while showing their lacks. It’s necessary to rethink or even reform some aspects of these rights to improve their applications, basis for a better protection of free competition in West Africa
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Martin, Céline N. C. "Protection(s) régionale(s) des droits humains en Asie : vers une cour asiatique des droits humains ?" Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019AIXM0517.
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La naissance du régionalisme asiatique des droits humains n’est pas un mythe. Il est vrai que l’Asie se distingue par l’absence d’un mécanisme régional officiel. Pourtant, malgré des contextes diversifiés et complexes, émane de la plupart des États asiatiques une reconnaissance au moins formelle des droits humains fondamentaux. Les proclamations dans les constitutions, la création –pas encore généralisée– d’institutions nationales des droits humains en témoignent, ainsi que l’acclimatation à l’examen périodique universel, même si ce dernier semble être préféré aux procédés plus intrusifs des comités onusiens… et même si des violations massives de droits humains ont encore lieu. En fait, les éléments d’un régionalisme des droits humains apparaissent en Asie. À l’intérêt croissant que portent à ces droits les associations d’États à vocation économique, notamment l’ASEAN – dont l’attractivité s’élargit –, s’ajoute la transnationalisation des mouvements de la société civile. L’expérience grandissante de la Commission intergouvernementale de l’ASEAN et l’interaction des facteurs interétatiques avec les facteurs transnationaux de changement créent une dynamique, qui fait que la mise en place d’une cour asiatique des droits humains semble n’être plus aujourd’hui qu’une question de tempsThe birth of human rights regionalism in Asia is not a myth. Although Asia distinguished itself with the absence of a formal regional mechanism for the protection of human rights, its relevance shall not to be questioned. Evolving within various challenging contexts, most Asian States formally recognise fundamental human rights while tolerating domestic and international enforcement mechanisms. Thus, a preference is given to constitutions and their courts, NHRIs and UPR against most intrusive mechanisms such as the UN committees. Nevertheless, elements of a human rights regionalism are rising upon Asia’s economic associations increasing interest in human rights – such as the ASEAN – and the civil society broadening interest for transnational movements. A comparative analysis into the Asian States relationships with these mechanisms will reveal worrying signs of massive human rights violations. However, acknowledging the continuous recognition of human rights as well as the growing experience of the ASEAN Intergovernmental commission, it is believed the enactment of an Asian human rights court is now only a matter of time
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Anvari, Mohammad Ali. "La protection et la promotion des droits de l'homme en Asie du Sud-Est : un système régional inachevé." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019GREAD006.
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Les arrangements régionaux jouent un rôle essentiel dans la protection et la promotion des droits de l’homme. Compte tenu du fait qu’il y a beaucoup de similitudes sociales, politiques, économiques et historiques entre les gens qui vivent dans une région spécifique, la création de mécanismes régionaux de protection des droits de l’homme doit, en principe, être plus facile que celle des mécanismes universels. De même, des mécanismes régionaux sont plus efficaces que ceux universels. Les systèmes de droits de l’homme établis en Europe et en Amérique fournissent des exemples réussis de systèmes régionaux. L’Asie, le plus grand et le plus peuplé continent du monde, est la seule région qui ne dispose pas d’un mécanisme développé et bien établi de droits de l’homme. Cependant, des efforts ont récemment été faits pour créer un mécanisme des droits de l’homme dans le cadre de l’ASEAN. La présente recherche tente d’étudier la situation juridique de la protection régional des droits de l’homme en Asie du Sud et, à cet effet, les matériaux ont été divisés en deux Parties. La première Partie analyse les organes existants relatifs aux droits de l’homme et des instruments dans la région de l’Asie du Sud-Est, et la deuxième Partie examine les raisons pour lesquelles un véritable ménanisme en matière de droits de l’homme n’a pas encore vu le jour dans la régionUndoubtedly, regional arrangements play an essential role in the protection and promotion of human rights. Given the fact that there are many social, political, economic and historical similarities among people who live in a specific region, the creation of regional mechanisms for the protection of human rights should, in principle, be much easier than that of universal mechanisms. By the same token, regional mechanisms are more efficient than universal ones. The human rights systems established in Europe and America provide successful examples of regional systems. Asia, as the world's largest and most populous continent, is the only region which does not have a developed and well-established human rights mechanism. However, efforts have been recently made to create a human rights machinery within the framework of ASEAN. The present study attempts to present a comprehensive picture of legal situation for the regional protection of human rights in the Southeast Asia and, for this purpose, materials have been divided in two Parts. Part I analyse the existing human rights bodies and instruments in the Southeast Asia, and Part II tries to identify the reasons why a developed system has not yet come into existence in the region
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Maier-Knapp, Naila. "EU Actorness with and within Southeast Asia in light of Non-traditional Security Challenges." Thesis, University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8015.
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Nearly four decades of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-European Union (EU) relationship have witnessed the importance of ideas and identity alongside the economic interests in shaping the behaviour of the two sides. The study takes interest in understanding the EU’s actorness and the EU as a normative actor with and within Southeast Asia through a reflectivist lens. The thesis is an attempt to provide a new perspective on a relationship commonly assessed from an economic angle. It outlines the opportunity of non-traditional security (NTS) challenges to enhance EU actorness and normative influence in Southeast Asia.
Against this backdrop, the study explores the dialogue and cooperative initiatives of two regions, which attach relatively little salience to each other. The study employs a NTS lens and draws upon the case of the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-98, the haze in relation to forest governance, the Bali bombings of 2002 and the political conflict in Aceh. The study assumes that these NTS issues can stimulate processes of threat convergence as well as threat ‘othering’. It argues that these processes enhance European engagement in Southeast Asia and contribute to shaping regional stability in Southeast Asia. Furthermore, NTS crises present situations, where norms can become unstable, contested and substituted. This allows us to better examine the EU as a normative actor.
To establish an understanding of the EU’s actorness and the EU as a normative actor, the empirical evidence will focus on the threat perceptions, motivations of action and activities of the EU and its member states. For the purpose of differentiating the EU as a normative actor, the study will also include the discussion of the normative objectives and behaviours of the EU and its member states and apply a reflectivist theoretical framework.
Hypothetically, NTS crises trigger external assistance and normative influence and thus, they offer an opportunity to establish a more nuanced picture of the EU in the region. At the same time, the study acknowledges that there are a variety of constraints and variables that complicate the EU’s actorness. The thesis seeks to identify and discuss these. So far, scholarly publications have failed to apply the NTS perspective systematically. This thesis provides the first monograph-length treatment of the EU in Southeast Asia through a NTS and reflectivist lens.