Dissertations / Theses: 'The mutual aid community'

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Sprigings, N. "Mutual aid compacts : an evaluation of community building through a contract of mutual assistance." Thesis, University of Salford, 2003. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26922/.

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This research project is an evaluation of an attempt to create "community" on a new housing estate in a city in the north of England. In allocating the new housing the housing association landlord introduced the idea of a Mutual Aid Compact where successful applicants would have to demonstrate a willingness to offer help to each other in their new environment. The research seeks an understanding of the aspirations of the landlord, the advisors promoting the scheme, and the residents and the actual impacts of the Mutual Aid framework in order to evaluate success in creating community. In doing this, the research reveals the assumptions made about community by policy makers including the explicit assumption that community can help to tackle social exclusion. The research, based on documentary evidence and stakeholder interviews, indicates that many of the assumptions about place-based communities may be mistaken. Far from being a \\a_v of countering social exclusion there is evidence from the literature and from the research that "community" can consolidate the effects of exclusion in a variety of ways. Community creation also seems to be a hazardous activity for landlord and resident alike as the promotion of community activity also promotes leadership struggles and attempts to impose values that may be at odds with the ideals of community imagined by the initiators. In this case, for example, one resident was subjected to death threats, another was forced from the estate, and yet another ran the risk of being ostracized by residents. Despite this, some practices from the project may be more widely applicable to housing practice.

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Ewart, Sande. "Mutual aid as community development : accessing potable water in rural El Salvador /." Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008.

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Morley, Shaun Philip. "Community, self-help and mutual aid : friendly societies and the parish welfare system in rural Oxfordshire, 1834-1918." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:403cd6ef-0a80-4115-9d2e-9de84fb2b4cd.

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This thesis examines welfare provision in rural Oxfordshire after the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. The county had little industrial development, remained largely agricultural in nature, and the region had been perceived as a backwater of friendly society development. This thesis rectifies that view and places Oxfordshire as an important component of the movement with its independent nature and early rejection of affiliated order branches that emanated from urbanized and industrialized areas. There is no evidence of impetus given to friendly society formation after the implementation of the new poor law with the general increase in societies continuing. However, the relationship with poor law administration changed. A case study of Stonesfield demonstrates how the friendly society became the heart of village life and was integral to self help and support for the poor. A wider view is taken of welfare provision, with detailed assessment of a range of welfare instruments, such as coal and clothing clubs, soup kitchens, and medical clubs, together with an appraisal of their geographical spread. The range of welfare instruments available is compared to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need, a model of human motivation. The case study of Whitchurch provides an in-depth assessment of one parish welfare system where after 1834 at least nine stands of welfare were available at all times to the poor who held a degree of selection in what was an increasingly a consumer market. The thesis is underpinned throughout by the use of extensive primary source material.

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Vasoo, Sushilan. "Residents' organisations in the new towns of Hong Kong and Singapore : a study of social factors influencing neighbourhood leaders' participation in community development /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1985. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12322702.

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White, Richard James. "Understanding the process and complex dynamics of mutual aid." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30413.

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In recent years, there has been a great deal of interest and commitment from both academic and wider policy-making circles in the meso and micro-levels of production and exchange in society. To this end, theoretical and empirical research has led to a more penetrative understanding of the cultural and social embeddedness of economic spaces. By bringing into focus the informal economic sphere, this in turn has placed activities conducted through mutual aid firmly under the academic and policy-making spotlight. From an academic perspective however, it is clear that comparatively little is known about mutual aid, though significant progress has been made on mapping its more quantitative dimensions, such as its extent, character, social embeddedness and the key barriers that obstruct greater participation. This particular focus has exposed many prejudices about exchange in society, not least by providing evidence that mutual aid is far from a marginal or residual realm of daily life in advanced economies, and has resulted in the emergence of mutual aid as both a legitimate and serious focus for research to explore. Through an in-depth case study of two urban areas in Leicester (England), the robustness of contemporary research will be tested by highlighting existing geographies of mutual aid. More fundamentally though, the discussion will depart from this into relatively uncharted territories by embracing the next significant phase of research on mutual aid. This involves engaging with a deeper and more qualitative understanding of the complex dynamics which underpin the geographies of mutual aid, and are themselves engaged through the process of mutual aid. By focusing on the social dynamics of mutual aid; the internal dynamics of mutual aid; the notion of space, place and mutual aid; and the question as to why aid is so pervasive in the advanced economies, a more complicated and dynamic understanding of mutual aid in advanced economies emerges.

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Law, Chaw-lam. "The role and function of a mutual aid committee /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13883914.

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Yasmeen, Gisèle. "Mutual aid networks in two feminist housing co-operatives in Montreal." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60577.

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This thesis deals with the social relations within two feminist-inspired housing co-operatives in Montreal by employing the analytical tool of social network from an interactionist perspective. The housing co-op milieu is a highly suitable terrain for reflections on feminist urban theory. 'Public' and 'private' space, identity and place, and 'community' and community development are central themes addressed in this study.
Members of each co-op were interviewed using a semi-directed interview guide. Social interaction is analysed qualitatively and focuses on the content of exchanges between co-op residents and patterns of socialising. The study concludes with an analysis of spatial micropolitics in terms of conflict and co-operation.

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Ikeokwu, Christian. "The Mathematics of Mutual Aid: Robust Welfare Guarantees for Decentralized Financial Organizations." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1625420687073004.

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Hatzidimitriadou, Eleni. "Self-help/mutual aid groups in mental health : ideology, helping mechanisms and empowerment." Thesis, University of Kent, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.344103.

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Chambless, Cheryl Chesney. "Student aid and persistence in public community colleges." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40101.

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The purpose of this study was to test a conceptual model for assessing the effects of student aid on community college student persistence. A sample consisting of all students who had entered a public community college during the 1980 fall term was drawn from the database of High School and Beyond, 1980 Senior Cohort. Omitting transfer students brought the sample size to 1,364 students. The model of student persistence was based on Tinto's theory of student integration and prior research that suggested student aid may be related to the persistence of community college students. Persistence was defined as the number of terms of enrollment over a two year period (1980-81 and 1981-82). Receipt of aid was associated with lower socioeconomic status, higher tuition charges, above average high school grades, and an ethnic background other than Asian or non-Hispanic white. Aid recipients considered college costs and the availability of aid more important factors in their college choice. A model of student persistence composed of eight exogenous and five endogenous variables was tested through path analysis. It was found that the receipt of student aid did not have significant effects on any of the subsequent variables in the model. Estimation of a reduced path model omitting the aid variable did not result in a significant reduction in explained variance. Degree goals, initial expectation regarding higher education, encouragement to attend college, academic integration, and full-time work were the most important influences on persistence. These findings validated the importance of some of the major constructs in the theory of student integration, but they did not support the research hypothesis that student aid recipients would have a higher rate of persistence than nonrecipients when other factors were held constant. Since encouragement from significant others had a strong and positive association with student persistence, it was suggested that future research consider the role of encouragement on persistence.
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Agafonov, Anton. "Western "Security Community" and Russia: Mutual Construction of Insecurities." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28720.

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Boyce, Melanie J. ""It's a safe space" : the role of self-harm self-help/mutual aid groups." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2016. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/700655/.

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There has been very little research that has explored self-help groups (SHGs) in relation to self-harm. Yet, from the limited research undertaken self-harm SHGs appear to provide a valuable and much needed source of support. This study explores the perspectives of those who attend and support such groups with the aim of building a more comprehensive understanding of the role of these groups. The research is framed within an interpretative paradigm of inquiry and guided by a qualitative case study approach. The first phase involved working with two self-harm SHGs to gain an in-depth understanding of the strengths and challenges specific to these groups. In the second phase, semi-structured interviews were undertaken with four individuals who had experience of supporting self-harm SHGs directly and/or at an organisational level to gain broader insights into the running and development of such groups. A thematic approach to the analysis of the findings illustrated that these groups provide a safe, non-judgmental space where those who self-harm can meet, listen and talk to others who share similar experiences for mutual and reciprocal peer support. Participation in the groups was found to offer direct individual benefits and wider gains, along with external and internal challenges. Despite a current interest in the value of peer support in mental health services, the thesis illustrates that this is largely missing for those who self-harm. Concerns about the risk of peer support for those who self-harm remains a barrier affecting the development of self-harm SHGs, which is further constrained by a privileging of an individualistic approach in mainstream services. The thesis contributes new evidence about the value of collective peer support for those who self-harm. In addition it provides a more nuanced theoretical understanding of the paradoxical meaning of ‘safe space’ in a SHG for those who self-harm.

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Bell, Brenda Jean. "Lifelines, an ethnographic study of identification processes and discursive practices in mutual aid groups." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0019/MQ49147.pdf.

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Bell, Brenda Jean, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Lifelines : an ethnographic study of identification processes and discursive practices in mutual aid groups." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1999, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/105.

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This thesis research is an ethnographic account of how identity and a sense of community are discursively constructed and managed among participants in mutual aid groups. Research findings are based upon interview and observational data collected from two support groups located in a Canadian city. While members' accounts provide a basis for interpreting the meaning of support as experienced, researcher observations focus on discursive identification practices. My interpretation sheds light on the dynamic interplay between notions of community, symbolic boundary and identity. Participant stories grounded in experiential knowledge, serve as critical connecting nodes in the construction and reproduction of community and as legitimate leverage to resist denied agency. These case study findings suggest how support, community and identity are collectively accomplished, in part, by managing symbolic boundaries through positioning practices. An understanding of these micro-processes has practical implications for the development of mutual aid groups to meet health and social needs.
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Istrate, Andrada-Mihaela. "The Making of a Postsocialist Fact : caritas and Mutual-Aid Games, Romania, 1991-1994." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH213.

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En mobilisant une variété d’inscriptions textuelles et graphiques (documents, articles de presse, publicités et petites annonces, transcriptions d'entretiens, travaux scientifiques et ouvrages de fiction), cette thèse se propose de reconstituer la dynamique des jeux d’entraide dans la Roumanie des années 1990. Les jeux d’entraide ont été associés avec les schémas pyramidaux Ponzi et fonctionnaient selon un principe pyramidal et de redistribution – le succès des inscrits dépendait largement de l’extension du réseau par l’intégration de nouveaux participants. Cette recherche est centrée sur la matérialité des jeux d’entraide, afin de montrer le travail des individus, des objets et des technologies pour leur fabriquer du sens. À cet effet, on a suivi deux axes d’argumentation convergents: premièrement, vu la marginalisation de l’étude des jeux d’entraide par l’histoire récente, la thèse gagne à être lue comme une histoire des jeux d’entraide, surtout de Caritas, dans la Roumanie des années 1991- 1995. Les événements sont repris par ordre chronologique, dans une tentative de faire parler autant les adeptes, que les opposants des jeux d’entraide. Toutes les analyses rétrospectives négligent la dimension temporelle de Caritas, ce qui introduit des biais importants dans l’étude de la séquentialité et des acteurs concernés. Secondement, en partant du grand nombre des participants, des montants mis en jeu et de l’exposition dans les médias, je me focalise sur les rapports de confiance et de pouvoir et sur leur fonctionnement à une grande échelle. Cette thèse met en cause l’une des explications courantes, selon laquelle le pouvoir politique et économique sont la matrice causale qui a souvent servi de grille de lecture pour les transformations de la société et de l’économie roumaines. Inspirée par la théorie de l’acteur-réseau, je propose une notion pragmatique du pouvoir, en le situant dans la manière où les inscriptions facilitent et organisent l’expérience du pouvoir. Le pouvoir se façonne en permanence entre les mains des acteurs qui le traduisent selon leurs objectifs. Ainsi, j’envisage Caritas comme un réseau hétérogène, constitué d’humains et de non-humains qui configurent les possibilités d’action. La confiance est établie à travers des tableaux, des listes des gagnants et de leur témoignages, des photographies, des détails comptables, des « immutable mobiles », tout comme des technologies de la confiance, sous la forme de l’expertise mathématique, de la suspension de l’anonymat, la gestion informatique de l’entreprise, les voix déléguées et les controverses concernant la nominalisation et la catégorisation. La perte de la confiance est un résultat des acteurs travaillant à faire passer pour accompli, un fait qui ne s’était pas encore produit (la faillite de Caritas). Ces procédures de facticité reposent sur l’association de l’ambiguïté avec l’illégalité, l’inflation de chiffres et de rhétorique quantitative, ainsi qu’avec la création d’une division entre les gagnants et les perdants des jeux d’entraide, qui finit par introduire de nouvelles catégories de « personne »
Drawing on a wide array of textual and graphic inscriptions (documents, newspapers articles, advertisements and classified ads, interview transcripts, scientific and fictional accounts), this thesis reassembles the rise and fall of mutual-aid games in Romania during the first years of the 1990s. Mutual-aid games are money-multiplication initiatives assimilated to the category of Ponzi and pyramid schemes. I focus on their materiality in order to show the work done by people, objects, and technologies in order to achieve intelligibility. The thesis follows two convergent lines of argumentation. First of all, seeing that mutual-aid games have been dismissed from recent history, it can be read as a history of mutual-aid games in Romania, especially Caritas, 1991 through 1995. I recount chronologically the events of the time, trying to give voice to Caritas and other mutual-aid games supporters and opponents. In all retrospective accounts, the temporality of Caritas is overlooked, which leads to vagueness regarding both its sequentiality and the actors involved. Secondly, seeing the large number of participants, sums of money circulated and mass-media exposure, I place centerfold the notions of trust and power, showing how they are secured on a large scale. The thesis aims to address the explanation at hand that political and economic power are the causal matrix through which many of the transformations in Romanian society and economy have been understood. Inspired by actor-network theory, I propose a pragmatic notion of power, localizing it in the way inscriptions facilitate and organize the experience of trust. Power is an ongoing accomplishment in the hands of actors who translate it according to their projects. I construe Caritas as a heterogeneous network, made up of human and non-human participants who reconfigure the possibilities of action. Trust is established through tables, charts, lists of winners, testimonials, pictures, accounting details and immutable mobiles, as well as technologies of trust assembled as mathematical expertise, suspension of anonymity, computerized firm management, delegated voices and controversies related to naming. The losing of trust is a product of actants working towards construing something that had not yet happened (the collapse of Caritas) so as to make it appear as factual. These procedures of facticity include the equation of ambiguity with illegality, the inflation of numbers and quantification rhetoric, and the enacting of a division between the winners and losers of mutual-aid games, which ultimately produces new categories of person

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Boyce, Melanie J. ""It's a safe space": The role of self-harm self-help/mutual aid groups." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2016. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/700655/1/Boyce2016.pdf.

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There has been very little research that has explored self-help groups (SHGs) in relation to self-harm. Yet, from the limited research undertaken self-harm SHGs appear to provide a valuable and much needed source of support. This study explores the perspectives of those who attend and support such groups with the aim of building a more comprehensive understanding of the role of these groups. The research is framed within an interpretative paradigm of inquiry and guided by a qualitative case study approach. The first phase involved working with two self-harm SHGs to gain an in-depth understanding of the strengths and challenges specific to these groups. In the second phase, semi-structured interviews were undertaken with four individuals who had experience of supporting self-harm SHGs directly and/or at an organisational level to gain broader insights into the running and development of such groups. A thematic approach to the analysis of the findings illustrated that these groups provide a safe, non-judgmental space where those who self-harm can meet, listen and talk to others who share similar experiences for mutual and reciprocal peer support. Participation in the groups was found to offer direct individual benefits and wider gains, along with external and internal challenges. Despite a current interest in the value of peer support in mental health services, the thesis illustrates that this is largely missing for those who self-harm. Concerns about the risk of peer support for those who self-harm remains a barrier affecting the development of self-harm SHGs, which is further constrained by a privileging of an individualistic approach in mainstream services. The thesis contributes new evidence about the value of collective peer support for those who self-harm. In addition it provides a more nuanced theoretical understanding of the paradoxical meaning of ‘safe space’ in a SHG for those who self-harm.

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Gunter, Sabrina. "Everyone Knows I Had an Abortion: Fighting Abortion Stigma Through Narrative Collection and Mutual Aid." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1158.

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According to a 2017 study conducted by the Guttmacher Institute, roughly one in four women will have an abortion in their lifetime. Despite how incredibly common of an experience it is, one almost never hears abortion talked about on an individual basis. This study seeks to find out why people who’ve had abortions do or don’t talk about them, and why, as well as what, if anything, can and needs to be done to change the conversational landscape around abortion. I used qualitative methods to conduct seven participant-led interviews with different people who have had abortions. My findings show that people don’t talk about their abortions for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to: fear of stigma, feeling there’s no non-“awkward” way to bring it up in conversation, and simply not really thinking about it that often. My participants also described a variety of ideas for fighting this stigma, primarily through connecting with, talking with, listening to, and being a source of mutual support for other people who have also had abortions. Because I used a participatory-action model of methods, my participants and I worked to put some of their ideas into action after the conclusion of our interviews.

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Andison, R. Mark. "Community futures : an evaluation of a top-down approach to community economic development." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29894.

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Communities throughout Canada have been faced with economic problems as a result of global restructuring, national and regional recessions, and a reduced demand for primary resource commodities. Over the course of the past decade those communities have begun to utilize various forms of community economic development (CED) strategies to overcome local economic problems. Although CED has been interpreted in various ways, resulting in no single readily identifiable definition of the term, a few concepts seem to prevail throughout most of the interpretations. Generally, CED is a process which involves community members banding together to initiate their own solutions to their common economic problems. There are, however, several impediments to this bottom-up approach to economic development Community Futures, a program sponsored by the federal government, has been designed to promote and facilitate CED by helping to remove some of those impediments. The purpose of this thesis is to determine the extent to which a government program, namely Community Futures, can promote CED. A three part methodology has been used to accomplish this goal. First, a review of the relevant CED literature was performed to determine the goals of this approach to economic development and the impediments which exist. Four goals were identified: self-reliance, local control, institution-building, and equity. Self-reliance can be achieved through policies which decrease the level of economic leakages from the community and by recognizing the significance of the informal economy. Local control is a key element of the CED model. The goal is to increase the broader community's political control over the local economy through increased participation in community affairs. Local control manifests itself in institution-building processes. Community-based institutions allow the community to better control its collective economic destiny and ensure equitable access to resources by all community members, through policies which decrease the level of economic leakages from the community and by recognizing the significance of the informal economy. Local control is a key element of the CED model. The goal is to increase the broader community's political control over the local economy through increased participation in community affairs. Local control manifests itself in institution-building processes. Community-based institutions allow the community to better control its collective economic destiny and ensure equitable access to resources by all community members. The impediments to bottom-up CED are: difficulty accessing financial resources, difficulty accessing information, and underdeveloped human resources. These are the impediments which government programs should attempt to overcome to facilitate the CED process. The second part of the methodolgy consisted of a historic review of Canadian regional and local economic development policy to determine the nature of top-down economic development in Canada. This study found some of the relevant trends which have developed throughout the past decades, thus placing Community Futures into its appropriate historical context. Among the trends which emerged, we witness that policy: has been slow to develop; has lacked significant innovation; has traditionally been firmly controlled by the federal bureaucracy; has been influenced by political disputes at all levels; has been subject to the quantifiable, efficiency indicators which characterize the policy analysis approach to planning; and has regularly failed to meet its prescribed objectives. Having analyzed the relevant theory and practice, the third part of the methodology studied the policy design of Community Futures to determine the program's ability to overcome the impediments to bottom-up CED and thereby facilitate the acheivement of the goals described by CED writers. Eligibility requirements of the program, such as unemployment and minimum levels of economic infrastructure, restrict the ability of the program to operate comprehensively and be universally available. Other eligibility requirements, such as minimum population requirements and ministerial approval requirements tend to be counterproductive to the local control objective of CED. A positive effect of the program is its ability to facilitate institution-building through the use of a community-based Community Futures Committee. However, the ability of that committee to develop a community-based plan is restricted by the limited nature of the program and by the onerous procedural guidelines set by CEIC. Five broad conclusions concerning government involvement in CED programs are drawn from the literature review, the historical review, and the Community Futures case study. First, top-down strategies do, to a degree, have the potential to promote the goals of CED by addressing the impediments to the bottom-up approach. Second, the state's potential ability to promote comprehensive CED is impeded by the scale and national focus of top-down programs. Third, the government's sectoral structure also acts as an impediment to comprehensive top-down CED. Fourth, programs which are considered to be bureaucratic innovations may not be substantially different from those programs which preceded them. And finally, quantitative techniques of analysis and evaluation which characterize the policy analysis approach to planning are not capable of assessing the success of communities in achieving the ‘softer’ goals advocated by CED proponents.
Applied Science, Faculty of
Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
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Law, Chaw-lam, and 羅秋霖. "The role and function of a mutual aid committee: a case study of Lek Yuen Estate." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31977418.

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Keung, Shui-cheung John, and 姜瑞昌. "An assessment of government's role in the creation and evolution of mutual aid and area committees." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1986. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31974740.

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Keung, Shui-cheung John. "An assessment of government's role in the creation and evolution of mutual aid and area committees." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1986. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12323263.

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Munn-Giddings, Carol. "Mutuality and movement : an exploration of self-help/mutual aid groups and their relationship to social policy." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2002. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/6958.

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Since the 1970s all of the available literature suggested that the UK, in common with Europe, North America and Scandinavia, had seen significant growth of single issue self-help/mutual aid groups related to health and social care issues. Yet in the UK there appeared to be no real body of academic interest nor any sustained national policy initiatives. The aim of the study was therefore to enhance an understanding of the relationship of these self-help/mutual aid groups to UK social policy. The study was constructed in two parts. Part One, a historical study critically appraised the way in which the state appeared to have viewed and responded to various manifestations of self help/mutual aid, both pre- and post- the welfare state. Part Two, a case-study of two UK grassroots self-help/mutual aid groups explored members' viewpoints, their reasons for joining, benefits derived and the impact they felt it has had on their lives and their relations with professionals and wider `political' forums. The result of the study suggests a fundamental reframing of the relationship between self-help/mutual aid and the state is required at both a conceptual and practical level by UK policy makers and academics. This would acknowledge: that contemporary self-help/mutual aid groups are part of the broader tradition of voluntary action in the third sector, self-help/mutual aid's unique contribution in terms of social relations, process and knowledge; its difference from philanthropy/formal voluntary sector and therefore distinct characteristics and relations with the-state; and contemporary health and social care groups' potential dual identity with communities of interest and geographic communities and their relationship to and distinction from the contemporary service user and carer movements. 116, findings have implications for policy related to participation (citizen and health), social capital and citizenship.

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Hill, Cheryl. "EMS response to mass casualty incidents the critical importance of automatic statewide mutual aid and MCI training /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2008/Sept/08Sep%5FHill.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2008.
Thesis Advisor(s): Morag, Nadav. "September 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on November 5, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-94). Also available in print.

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Silver, Canady Tisa. "The Relationship between Financial Aid Advising and Community College Student Engagement." Thesis, Morgan State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10642094.

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The rising cost of higher education has positioned federal financial aid as an inescapable part of the college experience for a growing number of incoming students (Baum, 2006). In the 2014–2015 academic year, the U.S. Department of Education allocated more than $150 billion of federal financial aid for eligible college students (Federal Student Aid, 2014). Although billions of dollars in federal student aid have been made available, finances or lack thereof, remain an oft-cited barrier to student success (Long & Riley, 2007; Myers, 2008). Community college student support services such as financial aid advising, contribute to promoting successful student outcomes (Cooper, 2010). More research is needed regarding the role of the campus financial aid adviser as it relates to community college student outcomes (McKinney & Roberts, 2012).

The purpose of this study was to use the theory of student engagement as defined by Kuh et al. (2006) as it relates financial aid advising to the engagement of community college students. Ex post facto data from the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) 2014 Cohort was used to investigate whether a difference in student engagement existed between students who reported use of financial aid advising and those who did not. The researcher also examined the relationship between the frequency of use, satisfaction with, and importance of financial aid advising and student engagement as well as the five CCSSE benchmarks of effective practice.

The results of the study show students who indicated use of financial aid advising reported significantly higher levels of student engagement than those who did not. The researcher found weak to moderate positive relationships between the frequency of use, satisfaction with, and importance of financial aid advising and student engagement. Additionally, each of the financial aid advising variables served as predictors of at least one CCSSE benchmark and student engagement. These findings provide meaningful information regarding the relationship between financial aid advising, particularly student satisfaction with the advising, and student engagement.

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Loy, Taylor. "Anarchy in Critical Dystopias: An Anatomy of Rebellion." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31976.

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This paper is a cross-genre pilot study in Anarchist thought experiments. It is not an attempt to produce an encyclopedic review of the emergence or function of anarchism in critical dystopias. My objective is not so ambitious; my aim is to plot the evolution of each rebellion within its own context. In the end, I hope to broaden an understanding of Anarchy and Anarchism: not an understanding that congeals and grows more rigid, but rather an understanding that expands and flows, nearing a point of superfluidity. The primary focal points of analysis are Ursula K. Le Guin's novel The Dispossessed, the graphic novel V for Vendetta, created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, and the film The Matrix, written and directed by the Wachowski Brothers. These texts and film have been selected for this project because they each present disparate versions of anarchistic rebellions. Drawing from Thomas Hughes' characterization of the evolution of large technological systems, I analyze the responses of the protagonist Anarchists in these works to the oppressive components of their respective technological infrastructures. The aim of this paper is not to conclude definitely what Anarchism is but what it does, how it works within the boundaries of each thought experiment. Ultimately, each of these texts is a performance, an acting out of Anarchistic ideals embodied in each character's response to the demands of their environment.
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Balint, Thomas J. Jr. "Preparing for the Mumbai-style attack: interstate law enforcement mutual aid in the absence of a declared emergency." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/41348.

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This thesis examined whether there is sufficient authority for interstate law enforcement mutual aid to respond to a Mumbai-style attack occurring in the United States. Several existing interstate mutual aid systems were examined to determine if they could be enacted on short notice and provide adequate authority and protections for the responding officers in a no-notice event. This thesis found that the existing systems for natural disasters and planned events were slow to implement and would not provide the authority and protections required for response to a no-notice event. Our conclusion is that the law enforcement community should create a new national compact that will facilitate the quick response of law enforcement across state lines when required for a notice or no-notice event.

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Galindo, Kim Blanca. "Variations in disaster aid acquisitions among ethnic groups in a rural community." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1969.

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Schoeneman, Andrew C. "Community Collaboration in Virginia Legal Aid Programs: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Investigation." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3873.

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Legal aid programs comprise a robust national infrastructure attempting to alleviate and reduce poverty. Since their proliferation as part of the War on Poverty, these organizations have provided individual civil legal assistance and engaged in collective legal and political strategies to advance systemic change. Starting in the 1980s, however, public policies have been enacted to cut funding and restrict the ability of federally funded legal aid programs to engage in collective and systemic advocacy. As a result, the ability of programs to work alongside low-income communities has been compromised. The histories and core commitments of legal aid and social work are linked. As a profession social work is concerned broadly with efforts to address poverty and specifically with the self-determination and empowerment of those experiencing poverty directly. In this study a constructivist grounded theory design was used to examine the process of collaboration between legal aid attorneys and client community members. The sample for the study included 28 attorneys, client community members, and other stakeholders affiliated with three legal aid programs. Based on 28 interviews and two focus groups with these participants, a conceptual framework entitled Collaborating for Justice in a Legal Aid Context was constructed. Findings suggest that both primary stakeholder groups were motivated to act by the unequal access to advantage in the world around them. Once affiliated with legal aid, they were constrained by scarcity of resources but nonetheless acted creatively to collaborate as well as to enhance collaborative capacity. Collaboration occurred in different timeframes, and this temporal element suggested ways that individuals and organizations can extend and deepen collaboration. Collective activities, informal interaction, and boards and advisory groups all played roles in facilitating collaboration between legal aid programs and their client communities. Through these actions, participants and their affiliated organizations were able to move from circumstances of scarcity to circumstances of generativity and development. Implications for education, practice, and policy are discussed.

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Nishimoto, Craig Takeshi. "Duties of Rescue: a Moderate Account." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11197.

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This dissertation clarifies a challenge present in Peter Singer's famine-relief argument and offers a new account of our moral duties of rescue. The challenge, in essence, is to differentiate two classes of idealized rescue scenarios where one faces the opportunity to rescue someone from serious peril, and to differentiate them in way that both avoids a shockingly demanding conclusion and effectively counteracts the suspicion that one is maintaining and merely rationalizing a self-serving position. To meet this challenge I provide an account whereby both the extent and the limits of our rescue duties are determined in ways that are plausibly continuous with moral and practical norms more generally.
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Archibald, Matthew. "The population dynamics of modern self-help/mutual-aid : organizational and institutional change in the civil sector, 1955-2000 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8892.

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Coria, Elizabeth F. "The Board of Governors fee waiver, financial aid, and community college student success." Thesis, California State University, Fullerton, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3577926.

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California established the Board of Governors (BOG) fee waiver in 1984 to maintain educational access after the implementation of the state's first ever unit-based fees for community college attendance. Although it was not designed as an incentive to stimulate higher levels of academic achievement or student success, recent accountability policy enactments have ascribed this purpose to the BOG fee waiver. An example is the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012, which established the first-ever academic satisfactory progress requirements for BOG fee waiver recipients. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships among students' financial aid awards, including the BOG fee waiver, and measures of success for students who were attending Rio Hondo College. Findings showed that students who had the greatest financial need—and therefore the highest financial aid awards—had lower cumulative grade point averages and completed a smaller percentage of units attempted. While the study was unable to control for students' prior academic achievement, it appears that financial aid awards were not sufficient to fully counteract the negative effects of students' need, thus calling to question some of the efficacy of adding academic performance requirements to financial aid awards such as the BOG fee waiver. The paper concludes with a discussion of findings and recommendations for policy, practice, and future research.

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Venezia, Shannon M. "The Relationship Between Financial Aid and Graduation Rates for Rural Community College Students." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1487949882282262.

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Hallman, Jecic Sara. "Mutual trust -Community policing as a trust-building method in a Swedish police context." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-84008.

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Community policing has been developed in the Anglo-American countries and implemented in the Swedish Police Authority during the last years. One of its main goals is to reach a proximity to citizens and thereby increase the level of trust. A qualitative interview study is used to scruti-nize how community policing stands as a trust-building method, by looking closer into the police trust to citizens connected to their approach to community policing and identifying potential dif-ferences in the police organization. The result shows a deviation in the police’s trust in citizens which relates to their approach to community policing. Partially, a difference is reflected in the police perception of the citizens’ perspectives and ability to comprehend the police profession, indicating that the citizen role should rather be of informative than of participating character. To-gether with a review on earlier research of what constitutes trust and demonstrated deficiencies in the implementation of community policing in the Swedish Police Authority, the results imply a weak foundation for police pledges as an effective measure to gain trust.

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Bell, Bethany Duncan. "Texas community college funding structure : closing the gaps while assessing the attitudes and perceptions of community college senior administrators /." View online, 2006. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/200/.

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Miley, Richard P. "An evaluation of the effectiveness of two teaching methods on retention of basic cardiac life support for the lay community /." Connect to online version, 1986. http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/38838.

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Ritter, Christian. "Ethnographic explorations of mutual support : the Irish diaspora community in Munich and the German Lutheran community in Dublin in comparative perspective." Thesis, Ulster University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.592008.

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This investigation examines the relationship between social capital acquisition and personal identity development. It traces the evolution of social capital building in two migrant communities and assesses its consequences for the identity development of their members. Drawing on ethnographic data, the Irish community in Munich and the German community in Dublin are explored. The Munich based organisation Irish-German circle of friends is a vital source of social capital. Social trust created among the core members of the Irish community is the prime driving force of its development. The identity of Irish migrants in Munich who are in close contact with the organisation has mainly been reshaped by numerous performances of Irish culture such as the local St. Patrick's Day Parade. Irish migrants adj ust their identities during cultural and religious rituals. In some cases, their belonging is expressed as hybrid since identification with the local Bavarian setting is combined with an enactment of Irish culrural difference. Social capital acquired by Irish migrants has impacted on their multi·layered identities as identity-affecting riruals are established in dense networks of mutual support. In contrast, the case of the Lutheran congregation in Dublin illustrates another driving force of community development. This faith-based community of local German migrants is bound together by the common Lutheran values. German-born Lutherans in Dublin tend to conserve their initial religious identity during spiritual rituals enacted in German. The social cohesion in the church council makes such identity-shaping rituals a reality. My contribution to community research is the case based description of two driving forces enabling community development. Based on evidence from two migrant communities, I argue that conservation of initial identity layers among migrants depends to a certain degree on the social capital acquired in their local community of origin.

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伊藤, 香純, and Kasumi ITO. "Community Forestry in Nepal : The Efforts of Aid Projects and Their Involvement with NGOs." 名古屋大学農学部付属演習林, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/8612.

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Blomquist, Hanna, and Johanna Möller. "Anomaly detection with Machine learning : Quality assurance of statistical data in the Aid community." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Datalogi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-260380.

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The overall purpose of this study was to find a way to identify incorrect data in Sida’s statistics about their contributions. A contribution is the financial support given by Sida to a project. The goal was to build an algorithm that determines if a contribution has a risk to be inaccurate coded, based on supervised classification methods within the area of Machine Learning. A thorough data analysis process was done in order to train a model to find hidden patterns in the data. Descriptive features containing important information about the contributions were successfully selected and used for this task. These included keywords that were retrieved from descriptions of the contributions. Two Machine learning methods, Adaboost and Support Vector Machines, were tested for ten classification models. Each model got evaluated depending on their accuracy of predicting the target variable into its correct class. A misclassified component was more likely to be incorrectly coded and was also seen as an anomaly. The Adaboost method performed better and more steadily on the majority of the models. Six classification models built with the Adaboost method were combined to one final ensemble classifier. This classifier was verified with new unseen data and an anomaly score was calculated for each component. The higher the score, the higher the risk of being anomalous. The result was a ranked list, where the most anomalous components were prioritized for further investigation of staff at Sida.

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George, Varkey. "Community development through external aid in rural South Africa : Welverdiend Village : a case study." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51656.

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the reasons for failure of community development programmes in rural South Africa. It traces the origin of community development from the end of the Second World War up to the present and states that South Africa has realised that community development is an important tool to bring about a more equitable distribution of wealth. It takes a look at the implementation strategies of development at a broad level, the influence of international aid agencies and traces some of the reasons for the high failure rate of projects. There is a growing trend towards non-governmental organisations becoming more and more involved in the development field. They have evolved from being small grass roots organisations to large structures that provide a service to the community that neither the government nor the private sector can. They plan, raise funds, facilitate, coordinate and implement development projects and they have proved to be highly successful. The focus of study is the need for, effect of and implementation of community development activities in rural South Africa. It also states that development has shifted its focus from purely economic considerations to a more people-centred approach where the fundamental concern is people and their needs. This is a more humane way of looking at development and the underlying thought in most development activity in South Africa today is based on humaneness. It is, however, found that many development initiatives are unsuccessful in achieving its aims completely. It analyses theories on community development and finds that contemporary theories have analysed the reasons for the high failure rate of community development activities and that most theories have recommended implementation strategies by placing people and their needs as priorities. This paper argues that though the people centred approach is most appropriate, certain crucial factors have been missing from these theories. The cause for concern is that there is lack of planning for sustainability and planning for transfer of ownership of projects in such a way that the people involved in the project have a stake in its success. As a result there is lack of motivation on the part of project implementers to carry out projects successfully which is leading to more and more failures of development projects. A thorough study and analysis of certain community development projects initiated at Welverdiend Village in South Africa has been carried out in this study. A background study of the Village is carried out and it is found that the 'liJ.lage is similar in structure to other similar villages. The analysis of projects draws one to the conclusion that there are three crucial factors that improve chances of success of projects. The paper concludes that the key to the success of community development projects are the plans put in place for sustainability, transferring ownership of projects to a group of people or to an individual and ensuring that project participants have a stake in its success or stands to loose something if it fails.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die redes vir mislukking van gemeenskapsontwikkelingsprogramme in landelike Suid Afrika. Die oorsprong van gemeenskapsontwikkeling word bespreek vanaf die einde van die Tweede Wereld Oorlog tot en met die hede, en beweer dat Suid Afrika tot die besef gekom het dat gemeenskapsontwikkeling 'n belangrike meganisme is om 'n meer billike verdeling van welstand te bewerkstellig. Die strategiese uitvoering van ontwikkeling, die invloed van internasionale hulp agentskappe en sommige redes vir die hoë voorval van mislukking van projekte word ondersoek. Daar is 'n groeiende tendens van nie-regeringsorganisasies wat betrokke raak by ontwikkelingsinisiatiewe. Hierdie organisasies (NGOs) het oor 'n kort tydperk ontwikkel vanaf klein, 'grassroots' organisasies tot groot instansies wat massiewe hoeveelhede geld bestuur en bestaan uit duisende lede. Hulle verskaf 'n diens aan die gemeenskap wat nie ge-ewenaar kan word deur die regering of die privaatsektor nie. Hulle doen beplanning, versamel fondse, fasiliteer, ko-ordineer en implementeer ontwikkelingsprojekte. As sulks het NGOs hulself alreeds suksesvol bewys. Die fokus van hierdie studie is die behoefte vir, effek van, en implementasie van gemeenskapsontwikkelingsaktiwiteite in landelike Suid Afrika. Dit beweer ook dat die fokus van ontwikkeling van suiwer ekonomiese oorwegings tot 'n meer mensgesentreerde benadering verskuif het, waar mense en hul behoeftes as fundamenteel beskou word. Dit is 'n meer mensliewende manier om ontwikkeling te beskou en die fundamentele gedagte in meeste van die ontwikkelingsaktiwiteite in Suid Afrika is op hierdie beginsel gebaseer. Daar is tog gevind dat vele ontwikkelingsinisiatiewe onsuksesvol is in die volkome behaling van hul doelwitte. Die tesis ontleed teorieë van gemeenskapsontwikkeling en vind dat hedendaagse teorieë die redes vir die hoë graad van mislukking van gemeenskapsontwikkelingsaktiwiteite aanbeveel het dat mense en hulle behoeftes strategiese prioriteit geniet met die implementering van hierdie aktiwiteite. Hierdie tesis betoog dat alhoewel die mensgsentreerde benadering die mees toepaslike benadering is, daar sekere beslissende faktore afwesig is in hierdie teorieë. Die rede vir kommer is dat daar 'n gebrek aan beplanning wat betref die lewensvatbaarheid en beplanning vir die oorhandiging van eiendomsreg van projekte in so 'n mate dat die mense wat in die projek betrokke is, 'n eie belang in die sukses daarvan het. As gevolg hiervan, is daar 'n gebrek aan motivering aan die kant van die implementeerders van die projek om projekte suksesvol uit te voer, wat tot al hoe meer mislukkings van ontwikkelingsprokekte lei. 'n Deeglike studie en ontleding van sekere gemeenskapsontwikkelingsprojekte wat in Welverdiend Dorp in Suid Afrika ingewy is, is in hierdie studie uitgevoer. 'n Agtergrondstudie van die dorp is uitgevoer en dit is gevind dat die dorp eenders is in struktuur as ander soortgelyke dorpe. Die ontleding van projekte lei 'n mens tot die gevolgtrekking dat daar drie kritieke faktore bestaan wat die kanse van sukses van projekte verbeter. Die sleutel tot die sukses van gemeenskapsontwikkelingsprojekte is in die planne wat lewensvatbaarheid verseker, en wel tot so 'n mate dat wanneer eiendomgsreg van projekte aan 'n groep mense of individue oorgeplaas word, daardie deelnemers aan die projek self ook 'n belang het in die sukses daarvan.

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Seymour, Lisa. "We women matter, feminist co-facilitation of a mutual aid group for survivors of woman abuse within a second stage shelter." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23493.pdf.

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Cosgrove, Oliver. "The state, the churches and education in Northern Ireland : implications for education for mutual understanding." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366680.

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Johnson, Danette E. "Workforce development via targeted industry training grants and Ohio two-year Community Colleges /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2007. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Millner, Timothy L. "Formulating a plan for economic diversification in defense dependent communities : establishing a model for stability, growth and development /." Springfield, Va. : Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA403329.

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Shelver, Amy. "The AIDS of aid?: long-term organisation challenges of a CBO dealing with HIV/AIDS, poverty and donor aid." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1012321.

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The following treatise first frames the role of CBOs in responding to the HIV/Aids crisis in relation to their position in the global health governance system through a literature survey that moves from an analysis of the global structures down to the local. The survey covers the role of international organisations, international NGOs (INGOs), national governments, local NGOs and CBOs and outlines the context in which Masizakhe is working within the global health governance structure. Secondly the research design and methodology are outlined focusing on the longitudinal, case study and participant--‐observation approaches. Hypotheses, conceptualisation, definitions, key variables are described and data collection methods and fieldwork practice extrapolated upon. Following that data capturing, editing and analysis are discussed in conjunction with shortcomings and sources of error. In the fourth chapter the research discusses the history, structure and outlines the research findings by comparing what has changed within the organisation over time, presenting and discussing the results. The outcomes of this research have shown that existing problems in this particular CBO are very difficult to overcome without committed, sustained support from donors, government, community and the organisation’s members. CBOs are often hamstrung by a series of intersecting factors which hamper their ability to problem--‐solve, even when the route to overcoming the problem is clear, particularly when the capacity and will to do so is not always present from both within the organisation and from outside support systems. These challenges then impact on the overall quality of and ability to deliver the services the organisation is structured to deliver. The major challenge for the organisation remains the inconsistent donor cycle and resultant instability thus created within an organisation already working in a highly volatile, unstable situation marked by poverty and disease. Thus the title, The Aids of Aid?, captures the essence of Masizakhe’s struggle with its own syndrome of problems. It summarises a comment made by the project secretary said that: “Sometimes it feels like we are not only fighting for the health of our people – We are fighting for the health of our organisation. We are a sick organisation trying to help sick people. All we need is donors and funding –we can’t live without them, and when they don't give, we get sick” (Stamper, Pers Comm, 2011). The other emergent challenges were a battle internally with ‘founder syndrome’, lack of management transparency and a dysfunctional board.

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Simelane, Batsabile Nokulunga. "Socio-economic impacts of development initiatives led by international aid agencies in the local community of Msunduza." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020818.

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Development is central to the existence of every society including demographic entities that constitute a community of people. Community development is a process designed to create conditions of economic and social progress for the entire community with its active participation and fullest possible reliance on the community development initiatives. The support of either individuals or organisations for the community to realise its full potential is essential, likewise is the role of development agencies in community development a good omen towards the advancement of human development. This research looks at a number of development initiatives presented by aid agencies aimed at improving community life, solving serious problems of quality life, social exclusion, and resources availability. The research explores the socio-economic impacts of development initiatives led by development agencies in local communities, a case study of a peri-urban community of Msunduza, Swaziland. The study was guided by five objectives: i) To evaluate the positive and negative impacts of development initiatives led by development agencies; ii) To establish to what extent the Msunduza community know community development initiatives and how they perceive them; iii) To analyse the sustainability of development initiatives/projects led by the development agencies; iv) To determine what the participatory principles of community development are in the area; v) To draw conclusions and make recommendations that will improve community development through organisational interventions.

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Motsomotso, Lebohang. "Assessing Adler and Barnett's three tier framework of a security community : SADC 2011-2015 emerging as a security community?" Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60399.

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The study assesses Adler and Barnett's (1998) three tier framework with a specific focus on the mature phase of their framework that emphasises mutual trust and collective identity as necessary conditions for establishing a security community. Adler and Barnett's (1998) three tier framework is applied to SADC's efforts of establishing a security community in the Southern African region. The study explores the reasoning behind SADC's creation with a specific focus on regional integration and how it defines its security architecture and political rationale. By focusing on regional integration and defining SADC's security architecture and political rationale the study outlines how the organisation is making efforts of establishing a security community. This is indicated by describing how SADC has attained the nascent and ascendant phase through its various initiatives and programmes such as the RISDP, SIPO I and II and MDP which provide evidence that there is a sense of cooperation and coordination among SADC member states. The study argues that SADC has reached the nascent and ascendant phase although the regional organisation has not yet progressed to the mature phase of establishing itself as a security community. The study critiques Adler and Barnett's (1998) third phase, which stresses the importance of two necessary conditions of mutual trust and collective identity. Mutual trust and collective identity are evaluated and analysed in respect of whether or not they are relatable and recognised within SADC as a possible emerging security community. The main finding of the study is that mutual trust and collective identity are not recognised in SADC in the manner in which Adler and Barnett (1998) describe them in their three tier framework. However SADC does make efforts to strengthen mutual trust, coordinate strategies and policies to develop collective identity, rather its efforts are not sufficient to make it a security community in the manner Adler and Barnett (1998) understand it. SADC continues to uphold a strict adherence to sovereignty, and is also characterised by domestic instability, lack of common norms and interests among member states and these are major problems for the organisation to create a security community.
Mini Dissertation (M Security Studies)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Clifford, Steven B. "Towards a better understanding of effectiveness in European Community law : the example of state aid." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436397.

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Jackson, Jennifer. "An exploration of an Internet discussion forum for Autism Spectrum Disorders in relation to Self-Help/Mutual Aid groups and helping processes." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9914.

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The Literature review examines parenting a child with a developmental disorder focusing on what factors may contribute to parental stress and coping strategies employed to manage it. The review examines how three models of coping and adjustment predominately used in this field (Lazuras and Folkman’s (1984) Process Model of Coping, McCubbin and Patterson’s (1983) Double ABC-X model of Adjustment and Adaptation and Antonovsky’s (1987) model of Sense of Coherence) relate to the findings on how these parents cope. Families found numerous styles of coping and varying resources helpful as long as it was responsive to a particular event or crisis. Ultimately, the paper highlights the need for more services that are tailored to individuals and families needs across the whole life-span and further research into how clinicians can assist parents to develop more coping strategies and resources. The research paper explores an Internet discussion Forum for Autism Spectrum Disorders. 135 message threads were downloaded from an online group and analysed using Template Analysis. The first analysis aimed to investigate how the forum was being utilised and the second analysis explored whether helping processes as identified by Finn (1999) were present. Analysis one showed that the site was used to share personal stores, evoke a sense of community, exchange information as well as provides advice on how to manage professional input. Analysis two showed that helping processes were present and that providing support, catharsis, universality and providing information were key processes within the group. The group appeared to provide a service for carers and may be of benefit to others living with a disorder and could be an adjunct to professional services. The critical appraisal explores some of the methodological considerations that arose during the study of the online forum. [Taken from the thesis overview]

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Hull, Angela M. "Beyond money relating local school taxation to family and community risk /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4678.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 25, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Taherzadeh, Alice Lida. "An Alternative Currency for Education : A Comparative Case Study of Learning Practices within Time Banks." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-158120.

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This study aims to investigate learning practices within Time Banks in Spain. Time Banking is a community currency concerned with the exchange of services between members using time as the currency. Parallels can be drawn with Ivan Illich’s ‘Skills Exchange’ model in Deschooling Society (1971b) and this provides the initial motivation for the study of Time Banks from an educational perspective, which is identified as a gap in the literature. Moving on from Illich, the investigation of Time Banks is considered in relation to the wider context of Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society. The heterogeneity of Time Bank models in Spain motivates a comparative research design based on differing organisational logics, whilst the exploratory nature of investigating Time Banks as spaces of learning motivates a case study methodology in order to gain a contextualised understanding of the problem. The study finds that the Time Banks are built on principles of Mutual Aid (Kropotkin, 1902) and, whilst practices and values resonate somewhat with Illich’s critiques of modernism, a skills exchange model does not best represent the learning that takes place in Time Banks. Furthermore, this research finds that in all three Time Banks, the exchange of services forms only a small part of overall activities. Additional activities provide opportunities for the exchange of skills and knowledge between participants. However, the learning highlighted as more important by TB users is learning to participate. That is, learning solidarity and personal and social skills through active participation in the Time Bank. These findings are then positioned within the context of radical adult education and future lines of inquiry are identified.

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