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Hill, Christopher, and Rawy Abdelrahman Thabet. "Managing international branch campuses." International Journal of Educational Management 32, no. 2 (March 12, 2018): 310–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijem-04-2017-0079.

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Purpose International branch campuses (IBCs) are complex entities and while much has been written about their expansion and development, the literature is largely from an external perspective. There have been few longitudinal studies examining the development of an IBC over time. The purpose of this paper is to review the development of one IBC over an eight-year time period, to identify the key learning points for institutional managers of other IBCs or for institutions intending to establish an IBC. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a culmination of research, conducted during the eight years when the lead author worked at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC). The author was involved in practical management aspects as well as the research and analysis of IBC development. This paper represents a form of ethnographic research where the author conducted interviews, meetings and discussion groups, observed institutional policies, strategies and operations in action and was in an ideal position to identify and discuss their impacts on institutional performance. Findings This paper examines key management issues during the early, developing and evolving stages of an IBC and discusses key issues including communication, curriculum, identity and management. Key challenges, procedural issues, managerial responses and strategy will be presented to highlight foundational concerns for IBC development and areas and topics that must be given priority and support. Originality/value This paper considers the management of an IBC from the reflective standpoint of an author employed in a senior management position, during a period of significant growth of UNMC. The author provides insights and discussion involving practical experience.
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Wilkins, Stephen. "Two decades of international branch campus development, 2000–2020: a review." International Journal of Educational Management 35, no. 1 (November 3, 2020): 311–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijem-08-2020-0409.

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PurposeThe research aims to assess the achievements and challenges of international branch campuses (IBCs) to date and to consider how IBC development may progress in the future.Design/methodology/approachThe article presents a review of the scholarly and grey literatures on IBCs. The commentary and discussion is structured around the objectives, perspectives and experiences of three key stakeholder groups, namely the institutions that own IBCs, students and host countries.FindingsSome IBCs have failed to achieve their student recruitment and financial targets, while others have been successful, often expanding and moving into new, larger, purpose-built campuses. In the last few years, several countries have announced their intention to become a transnational education hub, or at least to allow the establishment of IBCs. It may be reasonable to assume that when there is demand for a product, supply will eventually follow. IBCs will survive and prosper as long as they provide benefits to each of their main stakeholder groups (i.e. students, institutions and governments), and as long as the local demand for higher education places exceeds the total supply.Originality/valueThe article provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of IBC developments and research during the period 2000–2020. The findings and conclusions will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners.
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Sterling, Lynn, Luc van Lonkhuijzen, Job Nyangena, Elkanah Orango, Matthew Strother, Nafthali Busakhala, and Barry Rosen. "Protocol Development for Ovarian Cancer Treatment in Kenya: A Brief Report." International Journal of Gynecologic Cancer 21, no. 2 (January 2011): 424–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/igc.0b013e3182060316.

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Introduction:Ovarian cancer is a leading cause of cancer death for Kenyan women. Most women are diagnosed with an advanced stage of disease. The current North American standard of care includes surgery followed by carboplatin and paclitaxel. Neither drug is available for Kenyan women. We performed a literature search investigating chemotherapy in low-resource countries with the aim to write an evidence-based chemotherapy protocol for women diagnosed with ovarian cancer in Eldoret, Kenya, at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital.Methods:We systematically searched PubMed and EMBASE for articles describing chemotherapy treatment outcomes of ovarian epithelial cancer in low-resource settings. After data analysis, a secondary review was undertaken on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) aligning with chemotherapy availability in Kenya.Results:We identified 1184 articles. Fourteen met our criteria: ovarian epithelial cancer, low resource, chemotherapy use, and survival or response data. No publications were RCTs or had a cohort larger than 100 patients. There was no consistency in drug choice between studies. After this search, we reviewed commonly quoted and relevant RCTs and meta-analyses conducted on ovarian cancer since the 1980s. Although RCTs in the developed world suggest carboplatin and taxol provide optimal survival benefit, these drugs are unavailable in Kenya. Cyclophosphamide and cisplatin provide the next most optimal survival benefit, with acceptable and manageable toxicity. Because these drugs are more available and affordable in Kenya, we have developed a protocol recommending their use, which has been accepted by the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital.Conclusions:Currently, there is a paucity of published RCTs that may guide treatment in low-resource settings. One considerable barrier to establishing and evaluating chemotherapy protocols in low-resource settings may be the cost of chemotherapy drugs. There needs to be an international movement to make cancer chemotherapeutics available at lower prices in low-resource settings.
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Okoloise, Chairman. "“Humanizing” investments in the extractive industries in Africa through the IFC’s sustainability policies." Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy (The) 11, no. 1 (November 10, 2020): 106–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jsdlp.v11i1.6.

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International financial institutions face enormous challenges in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs). They finance infrastructure projects, manage vast investment portfolios, offer advisory services, and contribute to economic development in EMDEs. In the process, they areexposed to huge risks and face reputational damage if they act recklessly or have little or no regard for their projects’ adverse impacts on thirdparties. In the context of natural resource exploitation in Africa, the weak governance of environmental and social risks often results in devastating consequences for communities proximate to investment projects. Promises of infrastructure and social services, job opportunities and economic boom have only often delivered land grabs, forced displacement, cultural infringements, environmental pollution, conflicts, health disasters, misery and sometimes deaths. As calls for greater corporate scrutiny increase, investment project facilitators in the extractive industries like the International Finance Corporation (IFC) must respond appropriately. To preserve its reputation and long-term market access, the IFC needs to apply a higher degree of due diligence and sustainable business conduct that proactively treat risks and limit its exposure. With the rising number of complaints against IFC policy compliance, including projects tainted by scandals and the debarment of companies from accessing international finance, this article demonstrates that merely promoting sustainable investment policies on paper is inadequate. Using a human rights-centred approach to development project financing, the article critically assesses the extent to which the implementation of the IFC’s sustainability framework can practicably protect resource-rich communities, safeguard human rights and ensure sustainable development outcomes in Africa. Keywords: Extractive Industries, Human rights, Project Financing, IFC, Compliance, Sustainable Development.
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Nanni, Marcella, and Stephen Foster. "Groundwater resources: shaping legislation in harmony with real issues and sound concepts." Water Policy 7, no. 5 (October 1, 2005): 543–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wp.2005.0032.

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Groundwater resources are increasingly being put under pressure owing to population growth, technological progress and economic development. Many countries, however, are unable to address groundwater depletion and pollution owing to weak legal and institutional frameworks. This applies both within national contexts and in respect of international or trans-boundary aquifers (or aquifer systems). The issue is being widely debated within international fora, numbers of countries are revising their water legislation in order to include more specific provisions for groundwater, and in parallel the UN International Law Commission (ILC) is studying trans-boundary groundwater resources with a view to a codification of the law in this regard. However, the key characteristics of groundwater are often misunderstood by non-specialists and, unless resource lawyers and groundwater specialists work much more closely together, there is likelihood of erroneous interpretations of the applicable legal regime. This paper aims to highlight basic concepts and pragmatic management needs, so as to provide a framework within which national and international legislation on groundwater management and protection should be shaped.
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Shadian, Jessica. "Remaking Arctic governance: the construction of an Arctic Inuit polity." Polar Record 42, no. 3 (July 2006): 249–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247406005316.

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This article focuses on the construction of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC), the aim being to offer the historical context within which the ICC came to serve as a significant voice for Arctic policy making and as a representative of Inuit peoples in general. It explores the role of the ICC in relation to the domestic, regional, and international political events taking place during its formative years in order to provide the basis through which the ICC came to be a political authority in the Arctic. While the main coalescence of events was around the theme of Arctic resource development, each event significantly helped lay the foundation for, and structures under which, Arctic policy would proceed into the future. This includes a changing Arctic narrative that has transformed the Arctic from a being a region concentrated on resource extraction and Cold War security into a region serving as a symbolic pinnacle for global sustainable development. Through the expanded political agency of the ICC and an international focus on the Arctic, a vision of the Arctic has emerged under which it is defined by its natural environment and by the indigenous peoples who inhabit this space. This is an INDIPO project paper (Tennberg 2006).
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Noverita, Dilla. "An Analysis of Think Globally-Act Locally Strategy Implementation in Developing Relationship of Headquarters and Subsidiaries: Case Study of John Clements Consultants Inc., Philippines & Indonesia." Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business 9, no. 1 (January 12, 2007): 101. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/gamaijb.5601.

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John Clements Consultants Inc. (JCCI) is a long established and the largest consulting company in Philippines. Its main business focuses on human resource development, especially recruitment and training. Headquarters is in Philippines and its business has grown throughout the world, especially in the Asia-Pacific, Middle-East and United States. As a multinational company, JCCI has to maintain and develop the relationship with all subsidiaries efficiently. In this case, using qualitative approach and focusing on the relationship with Indonesian subsidiary, this research assesses how headquarters of JCCI formulates and implements company policies governing the relationship between headquarters and subsidiaries. It explores how the headquarters controls, communicates, makes decisions, plans strategy, and gives authority to the subsidiaries. Moreover, this research analyses how JCCI applies “think globally – act locally” strategy in its global operations and developing relationship with subsidiaries. It brings the issues of all challenges and obstacles the company has in dealing with subsidiaries. Finally, this research recommends alternative strategies to leverage the relationship between headquarters and subsidiaries more efficiently and to minimize the obstacles in cross-cultural management so that the company will be able to strengthen its position in global service market.
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Kostyuchenko, N., and A. Zakorko. "TRANSNATIONAL COMPANIES’ STRATEGIC PLANNING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS." Vìsnik Sumsʹkogo deržavnogo unìversitetu, no. 4 (2019): 114–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/1817-9215.2019.4-15.

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The paper is dedicated to the investigation of the impact of the Global Sustainable Development Goals on the strategic planning of transnational corporations and their competitiveness. The object of the paper is transnational corporations in the sector of fast-moving consumer goods, particularly: Danone S.A., Kraft Heinz, PepsiCo Inc., the Coca Cola company, Unilever PLC, P&G, Johnson& Johnson, Mondelez International, Nestle S.A., Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco. The article focuses on analysis of fast-moving consumer goods’ sector and examines the relevance of the companies’ activities to the Global Sustainable Development Goals. The role of “green” investments for competitiveness of transnational corporations has been identified. The information base of the paper is the United Nations’ information materials, Forbes information resources, the statistical data of NASDAQ, publications of famous audit and consulting companies (Deloitte, KPMG, PwC), transnational companies’ official reports, and scientific papers of Ukrainian and foreign researches. A rank of scientific research methods was applied in the paper: descriptive method - for general analysis of transnational companies’ strategic planning; analytical method and comparative method - for evaluation and analysis of transnational corporations’ stock prices and market capitalization in the fast-moving consumer goods’ sector; system analysis - for identification of the key characteristics of strategic planning of transnational corporations in the context of the Global Sustainable Development Goals. The authors propose recommendations that can be used while creating strategies for the development of international companies, including transnational corporations, as well as while analyzing the compliance of existing companies' strategies with the Global Sustainable Development Goals. Keywords: fast-moving consumer goods’ market, Global Report Initiative, Global Sustainable Development Goals, strategic planning, transnational corporations.
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Sadosky, A., P. Schepman, S. Thakkar, R. Robinson, and C. Beck. "AB0035 A REVIEW OF THE CLINICAL AND ECONOMIC BURDEN OF OSTEOARTHRITIS PAIN BY SEVERITY IN THE UNITED STATES." Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 80, Suppl 1 (May 19, 2021): 1050.2–1051. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-eular.534.

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Background:The development of new therapies to treat symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA) often requires targeting patient subgroups such as mild and/or moderate and/or severe. Multiple assessments for pain are used in clinical and research settings, yet to quantify patient burden with increasing pain severity it is important to understand the potential variability in outcomes based on definitions of severity used1.Objectives:The objective of this study was to examine studies in the published literature that report the burden of OA pain by severity to assess similarities and/or differences across study methodologies and outcomes.Methods:A targeted literature review of PubMed and Google Scholar was conducted January 2021 and included search terms: osteoarthritis, severity, United States (US), burden, quality of life, medication/treatment, and healthcare resource utilization. The search was limited to the English language, full-text articles, and no restriction on publication date. Results included a recent study of the burden of symptomatic OA pain respondents by severity level in the US2,3. Over 100 publication titles were reviewed. Comparison of findings was descriptive in nature.Results:Nine publications were identified representing 7 unique studies, 6 being patient and/or healthcare provider surveys. Two studies focused on OA severity: the remaining 5 stratified patients by pain severity, and all but 2 of the 5 identified and confirmed pain as OA-related. Pain measures included numeric rating scales (generic 0-10, Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index [WOMAC] NRS 3.1), visual analog scales (generic 0-100, Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire Visual Analog Scale [SF-MPQ-VAS]) or Pain Interference with Activities (PIA) scale derived from the 12-Item Short Form Health Survey [SF-12v2] developed for the Medical Outcomes Study, with recall periods varying from 48 hours to 7 days to 4 weeks. Only one study exclusively assessed symptomatic patients only i.e., patients with pain scores of 0 were excluded; the remainder compared cohorts of no/mild pain with increasing severity cohorts. Four of the 7 studies examined pairwise differences among mild, moderate, and severe patients (1 study vs. a non-OA cohort); 2 compared no/mild vs. moderate-to-severe OA pain and 1 study compared mild to moderate-to-severe OA pain. For most outcomes examined like clinical comorbidities, quality of life, and healthcare resource utilization, increasing burden was observed with increasing OA and/or pain severity despite study variability.Conclusion:Pain severity levels represent an important and distinguishing factor that contributes to health outcomes in OA patients in the US. Considerable heterogeneity across studies may impact how OA pain is defined, perceived by patients, and treated. Selecting appropriate OA pain severity assessments, including cut-points, may contribute to the successful monitoring of outcomes or comparisons of therapies to manage symptomatic OA pain, especially those that target specific pain severity subgroups.References:[1]Hawker GA, Mian S, Kendzerska T et al. Arthritis Care and Research. 2011; 63(11):S240-S252.[2]Schepman P, Robinson RL, Thakkar S, et al. International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Virtual Annual Meeting; May 2020.[3]Schepman P, Thakkar S, Robinson RL, et al. PAINWeek 2020 Virtual Meeting; September 2020.Disclosure of Interests:Alesia Sadosky Shareholder of: Own stock in Pfizer Inc, Consultant of: I am an employee with the consulting firm Apperture Health, Employee of: I am retired from Pfizer Inc, Patricia Schepman Shareholder of: Owns shares in Pfizer Inc, Employee of: Employee of Pfizer Inc, Sheena Thakkar Shareholder of: Owns shares of Pfizer Inc, Employee of: Employee of Pfizer Inc, Rebecca Robinson Shareholder of: Owns shares of Eli Lilly and Company, Employee of: Employee of Eli Lilly and Company, Craig Beck Shareholder of: Owns shares of Pfizer Inc, Employee of: Employee of Pfizer Inc
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Priya, Ritu, and Chris M. Kurian. "Regulating Access and Protecting Traditional Health Knowledge through Intellectual Property Rights? Issues from a Holistic Health Systems Perspective." Science, Technology and Society 23, no. 3 (May 2, 2018): 504–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0971721818762937.

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Traditional Health Knowledge (THK) has been a resource for modern pharmacology and the pharma-ceutical industry since its inception. Until the 2000s, there was little obligation to acknowledge the use of THK by the pharmaceutical industry. Now, with the intellectual property regime becoming a prominent mode of regulating use of pharmaceutical inventions and innovations, and attempts by the pharmaceutical industry to patent products based on THK, rights of THK holders are being fore-grounded. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is seeking to protect the rights of THK holders through international legal instruments under the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) framework. This article discusses dilemmas arising from this attempt at bringing together two diverse knowledge frameworks. It draws upon existing literature on the nature of THK and upon the debates of the WIPO’s Inter-Governmental Committee on Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expression (WIPO-IGC), and analyses them from the standpoint of a holistic health systems approach (HHSA) in an era of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The approach leads to the conclusion that deliberations and promulgations of the WIPO-IGC will have long-lasting implications for the survival of diversity and context-specificity in healthcare. Therein lies the significance of thinking through the policy and legal measures to be adopted nationally and internationally.
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Wessling, William T. "Institutional quality, economic development, and natural resource abundance| Towards and interactive model of development." Thesis, Webster University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1525314.

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The study of institutions (i.e., "the rules of the game" in a society) has grown from a small fringe subject in the late 1980s to a massive pillar in the current study of International Political Economy. Two thing has become clear during the course of this growth and the involved research it entails: (1) institutional Quality (especially quality of governance and rule of law) has a determinant effect on the GDP development of a given countries economy and (2) institutional quality has a determinant effect on whether a country is either "cursed" or "blessed" with natural resource abundance (i.e., whether they are growth "winners" or "losers" in terms of GDP development. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the presence of abundant natural resources amplifies this determinant effect when controlled for nonresource abundant states, and if so to what extent. The study ultimately finds amplification of the effect of institutional quality on GDP per capita when controlling for natural resource abundance, ultimately suggesting that resource abundance can be either a "blessing" or a "curse" depending on preexisting institutional quality. Secondary findings indicate the existence of a "slippage" effect in institutional quality once natural resources are introduced to a given state's economy.

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Sharma, Varinder M. (Varinder Mohan). "Development and Testing of a Resource-Based Theory of International Entry Mode Choice." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279389/.

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A firm can deploy a variety of arrangements (entry modes) like wholly owned subsidiaries, joint ventures, contracts, and export modes to implement its product market strategies in foreign countries. Each of these arrangements entails decisions about the location of production facilities and/or marketing operations, and the type of ownership of these operations. The choice of an entry mode is of strategic importance to a firm because it can involve investment of substantial amount of resources and has a strong bearing on the firm's marketing mix. Due to its strategic importance, the entry mode choice phenomenon has been extensively researched. In the past, seven major theories have been proposed but none is able to explain the choice from the complete set of entry modes. Thus, there exists a gap between the theory and practice of entry mode choice. This study provides breakthrough on two fronts. First, it develops a new theory of entry mode choice grounded in the resource-based perspective of the firm. The theory posits that the decision to locate its production and/or marketing operations in a country is related to the actualizability of the firm's competitive advantage in that country. However, the ownership decision is related to the sustainability of that advantage. Second, based on this theory, a model is developed which explains entry mode choices from the complete set of entry modes. Mail survey responses of Presidents/CEOs of 163 American firms with international operations support the model. The proposed framework is an effort to fill the gap between theory and practice of entry mode choice. It is expected to make a substantial contribution toward developing a sound theory of international operations of the firm. The framework is broader in scope than the extant theories because it transcends across industries and nationalities of firms.
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Hu, Desheng. "Water rights in China : an international and comparative study." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2004. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/cd5309dc-320b-4d20-8382-0fd6fb5b91fa.

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China, the world's most populous country, has been experiencing a severe water crisis. This has manifested itself through water shortages, water pollution and natural water disasters, and has been exacerbated by the rapid social and economic development that has taken place in the last two decades. To deal with these problems, an integrated water resources management programme, within which an effective and enforceable water rights system can play a key role, should emerge as soon as possible under the principle of sustainable development. However, there are many problems under the water rights system in the current Chinese water law, involving the property right of water resources, the human right to water, and the environmental right to water. ... this dissertation recommends a well structured water rights system under which the economic, social and environmental values of water resources co-exist equitably in harmony.
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Andrade, Gabriela Giselle. "Mineral Resource Governance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Strategies for Development and Poverty Alleviation." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/417.

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Today, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ranks extremely low in terms of development indicators even by regional standards. Poverty in the country is exacerbated by the DRC's long-embedded culture of political rent-seeking and corruption, which has historically shaped the government's involvement in the mining sector. By the 1990s, the government's mismanagement of the industrial mining sector led to its decreased productivity and near decline. At the same time, the artisanal mining sector has expanded, and now employs a large amount of the country’s poor. However, many issues remain related to the legal structure governing the artisanal mining sector and opportunities for artisanal miners to sell their products. This thesis explores the potential for transforming mining practices and market structures in the DRC to better promote development and poverty alleviation.
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Eid-Sabbagh, Karim-Philipp. "A political economy of water in Lebanon : water resource management, infrastructure production, and the International Development Complex." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2015. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/20365/.

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Taylor, Jennifer E. II. "An Exploratory Literature Review of Efforts to Help the Small-Scale, Resource Poor Farmer in International Agricultural Development." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30345.

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Since the 1979 World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (WCARRD) and the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment Development, which generated the Agenda 21 document, international agaricultural development organizations have been urged to strengthen their focus toward the sustainable development of the small-scale, resource poor farmer. Although approximately 75% of the worlds' farmers are small-scale, resource poor farmers, generally, they have not been the primarly focus of international agricultural development. This study investigated the small-scale, resource poor farmers' *ongoing level of participation *rate of adoption of agricultural technology, and *sustainable benefits within the documents of eleven key international agricultural development organizations to determine if the farmers can positively impact the forecasted food shortage expected early in the 21st Century. The study utilized methods of multi-document analysis including: Light and Pillemer (1984), meta-ethnography, and qualitative computer software. This study represents the findings indicated in 51 (fifty-one) implemented international agricultural research and extension projects located within 38 (thirty-eight) countries. More than one million small-scale farmers were reported as participants of the projects within this study.
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Oge, Ibrahim Kerem. "Transparency Promotion in Resource-Rich Countries: External Remedies to Reverse the Curse in the Caspian." Thesis, Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3711.

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Thesis advisor: David A. Deese
My research builds upon the resource curse and external democracy promotion literatures to assess the prospects of transparency advocacy in non-democratic resource-rich countries. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan are all rich in hydrocarbons; however, in the last two decades, they have shown significant variation in terms of the transparency of oil revenues and expenditures. While Azerbaijan undertook substantial reforms to make its government revenues from oil almost completely transparent, Turkmenistan refrained from disclosing its revenues from natural gas exports. Finally, Kazakhstan, while undertaking some reforms, lagged behind Azerbaijan in pursuing a fully transparent revenue management policy. In authoritarian countries, transparency-related governance reforms are shaped by an interaction between international and domestic factors. Transparency in natural resource revenues is promoted by global actors including states, international financial institutions, and transnational networks as a measure to prevent or minimize corruption and mismanagement of revenues. In all three of my cases, the lack of public accountability and limited civil society activism prevented domestic agents from carrying out successful institutional reforms. In each case, the preferences of the elites have been important determinants of the degree of economic reform. I argue that transparency promotion from outside is expected to lead to institutional reform when it is matched with strong incentives for compliance. These incentives are created mostly by external actors, including states, international organizations, and international companies; yet they are also conditioned by the domestic economic and political landscape. Three cases from the Caspian region fully demonstrate the potential for different institutional outcomes among resource-dependent countries. A comparison of these countries' experiences will not only shed light on our understanding of the resource dependency and institutions, but also explain the institutional variance among the many non-democratic countries
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Political Science
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Gapa, Angela. "Escaping the Resource Curse: The Sources of Institutional Quality in Botswana." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1019.

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Botswana has recently garnered analytic attention as an anomaly of the “resource curse” phenomenon. Worldwide, countries whose economies are highly skewed towards a dependence on the export of non-renewable natural resources such as oil, diamonds and uranium, have been among the most troubled, authoritarian, poverty-stricken and conflict-prone; a phenomenon widely regarded as the “resource curse". The resource curse explains the varying fortunes of countries based on their resource wealth, with resource-rich countries faring much worse than their resource-poor counterparts. However, Botswana, with diamond exports accounting for 50percent of government revenues and 80percent of total exports, has achieved one of the fastest economic growth rates in the developing world in the last 50 years. Furthermore, the Freedom House ranks it as the safest, most stable, least corrupt and most democratic country on sub-Saharan Africa. In attempting to answer why Botswana apparently escaped the “resource curse”, this research assumes that both formal and informal institutions within the state acted as intermediary variables in determining its fortune. This research thus addresses the deeper question of where Botswana obtained its unique institutional quality that facilitated its apparent escape of the resource curse. It traces Botswana’s history through four lenses: legitimacy and historical continuity, political culture, ethnicity and identity management, and external relations; as having explanatory value in understanding the Botswana exception. The research finds most evidence of Botswana’s institutional quality emanating from the country’s political culture which it found more compatible with the institutions of development and democracy that facilitate both positive economic and political outcomes. It also found evidence of legitimacy and historical continuity facilitating the robustness of both formal and informal institutions in Botswana, and identity management through assimilation as having buffered against the effects of ethnically motivated resource plunder. It however, found the least support for the assertion that external relations contributed to institutional quality.
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Ishikawa, Claudia. "The International Human Resource Development Nexus in Japan’s Immigration Paradigm : Policy Considerations and Findings of Survey Interviews in Germany and Australia." 名古屋大学国際教育交流センター, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/20795.

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Maggio, Gregory Francis. "The role of international law in promoting the sustainable development of natural resources : a focus on living resource regimes." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283713.

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Books on the topic "International Resource Development, inc"

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Potoker, Elaine S. International human resource development: A leadership perspective. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Routledge, 2010.

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Thailand) International Conference on Gender in Southeast Asia & Indochina (3rd 2002 Bangkok. Proceedings of International Conference on Gender in Southeast Asia & Indochina: Promoting human and natural resource development. Bangkok]: Women's Action & Resource Initiative, 2002.

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National Colloquium on Role of Women in Water Resource Management (1990 India International Centre). National Colloquium on Role of Women in Water Resource Management, 16-18 August 1990, India International Centre, New Delhi, India: Report. [New Delhi]: Centre for Women's Development Studies, 1992.

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Olson, Craig. Private voluntary organizations and institutional development: Lessons from International Voluntary Services, Inc. and The Institute for International Development, Inc. Washington: Development Alternatives Inc., 1985.

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Marquardt, Michael J. Global human resource development. Engelwood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall, 1993.

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Kakazu, Hiroshi. International resource transfers and development of Pacific Islands. [Honolulu]: HITAHR, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1990.

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Great Britain. Department for International Development. Department for International Development resource accounts 1999-2000. London: Stationery Office, 2001.

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Centre, VUFO-NGO Resource. International NGO partnerships for development. Hanoi: VUFO-NGO Resource Centre, Vietnam, 2009.

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Manchester International Human Resource Development Conference (1988 Manchester, England). The 1989 Manchester International HumanResource Development Conference: Strategies for human resource development. [Manchester]: [University of Manchester, Institute for Development Policy and Management], 1989.

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McIntire, John, and Delia Grace, eds. The impact of the International Livestock Research Institute. Wallingford: CABI, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789241853.0000.

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Abstract This book contains 18 chapters that describes the evolving and multi-faceted roles of ILRI in addressing these and other global challenges in nearly a half century of research. ILRI researchers and partners took leading roles, for example, in the following. This volume can serve as a reference and resource for all interested in the role of livestock in agricultural transformation and sustainable development. It should be useful for distilling, learning from, and building on past work and lessons hopefully to inform and inspire students, researchers and research managers and their investors.
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Kang, Haiying, and Jie Shen. "International Training and Development Policies and Practices." In International Human Resource Management in South Korean Multinational Enterprises, 85–112. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3093-2_4.

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Brunt, Carol. "Exploring the Black Box: Inside the Development Sector in Kenya." In Human Resource Management in International NGOs, 1–33. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57306-3_1.

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La Rovere, Roberto. "The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research approach to evaluation of climate change, environment, and natural resource management." In Evaluating Environment in International Development, 299–313. 2nd ed. 2. | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003094821-18.

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Pearce, Robert. "The Dynamics of Differentiation: The Resource Bases of Development and the Roles of MNE Subsidiaries." In Contemporary Issues in International Business, 153–70. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70220-9_8.

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Poell, Rob F., and Ferd J. Van Der Krogt. "The Role of Human Resource Development in Organizational Change: Professional Development Strategies of Employees, Managers and HRD Practitioners." In International Handbook of Research in Professional and Practice-based Learning, 1043–70. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8902-8_38.

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Piéch, Sylke. "International Talent Development." In Dos and Don’ts in Human Resources Management, 71–73. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43553-3_23.

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Cumming, Lawrence S. "Community Development Resource Association." In International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, 1–3. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99675-2_334-1.

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Franco, Raquel Campos, Lili Wang, Pauric O’Rourke, Beth Breeze, Jan Künzl, Chris Govekar, Chris Govekar, et al. "Community Development Resource Association (CDRA)." In International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, 530–31. New York, NY: Springer US, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93996-4_334.

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Müller, Henriette-Muriel, Alexander Thomas, and Jan-Peter Müller. "Globalising How? The Route Towards International HR Development." In Strategic Human Resource Development, 315–26. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31473-5_18.

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Zhu, Chunyan, and Xiaochen Wang. "The Development and Emerging Trend of Closed-Loop Supply Chain Research in China: Visual Analysis of CSSCI Documents of CNKI." In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Resource Sustainability: Sustainable Urbanisation in the BRI Era (icRS Urbanisation 2020), 391–403. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9605-6_27.

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Koo, Jee-Hee, Tae-Woong Jung, and Mu-Wook Pyeon. "Status of U-city Human Resource Development Business and the Direction for Education Policies." In 2009 Fifth International Joint Conference on INC, IMS and IDC. IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ncm.2009.295.

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Cazenave, Pablo, Ming Gao, Hans Deeb, and Sean Black. "Development of an Industry Test Facility and Qualification Process for ILI Technology Evaluation and Enhancements: Performance Evaluation Phase." In 2018 12th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2018-78635.

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The project “Development of an Industry Test Facility and Qualification Processes for in-line inspection (ILI) technology Evaluation and Enhancements” aims to expand knowledge of ILI technology performance and identify gaps where new technology is needed. Additionally, this project also aims to provide ILI technology developers, researchers and pipeline operators a continuing resource for accessing test samples with a range of pipeline integrity threats and vintages; and inline technology test facilities at the Technology Development Center (TDC) of Pipeline Research Council International, Inc. (PRCI), a PRCI managed facility available for future industry and PHMSA research projects. An ILI pull test facility was designed and constructed as part of this project based on industry state-of-the-art and opportunities for capability improvement. The major ILI technology providers, together with pipeline operator team members, reviewed the TDC sample inventory and developed a series of ILI performance tests illustrating one of multiple possible research objectives, culminating in 16-inch and 24-inch nominal diameter test strings. The ILI technology providers proposed appropriate inspection tools based on the types of the integrity threats in the test strings, a series of pull tests of the provided ILI tools were performed, and the technology providers delivered reports of integrity anomaly location and dimensions for performance evaluation. Quantitative measures of detection and sizing performance were confidentially disclosed to the individual ILI technology providers. For instances where ILI predictions were outside of claimed performance, the vendors were given a limited sample of actual defect data to enable re-analysis, thus demonstrating the potential for improved integrity assessment with validation measurements. In this paper, an evaluation of the ILI data obtained from repeated pull-through testing on the 16 and 24-inch pipeline strings at the TDC is performed. The resulting data was aligned, analyzed, and compared to truth data and the findings of the evaluation are presented.
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Khan, Tasneem, and Rashmi Bade. "Environment resource management and sustainable development." In INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON “MULTIDIMENSIONAL ROLE OF BASIC SCIENCE IN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY” ICMBAT 2018. Author(s), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5100412.

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LaBelle, Robert P. "OCS Resource Management and Sustainable Development." In SPE International Conference on Health, Safety and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production. Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/61236-ms.

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Dhoot, Radhika. "Best Practices in Human Resource Management : Social Media and Human Resources." In Annual International Conference on Human Resource Management and Professional Development in the Digital Age. Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF), 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2251-2349_hrmpd13.29.

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Molamohamadi, Zohreh, Napsiah Ismail, and Norzima Zulkifli. "Sustainable Human Resource Management." In Annual International Conference on Human Resource Management and Professional Development in the Digital Age. Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF), 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2251-2349_hrmpd13.28.

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Zhuang, Miao, and Ali A. Yassine. "Task Scheduling of Parallel Development Projects Using Genetic Algorithms." In ASME 2004 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2004-57159.

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Resources for development projects are often scarce in the real world. Generally, many projects are to be completed that rely on a common pool of resources. Besides resource constraints, there exists data dependency among tasks within each project. A genetic algorithm approach with one-point uniform crossover and a refresh operator is proposed to minimize the overall duration or makespan of multiple projects in a resource constrained multi project scheduling problem (RCMPSP) without violating inter-project resource constraints or intra-project precedence constraints. The proposed GA incorporates stochastic feedback or rework of tasks. It has the capability of capturing the local optimum for each generation and therefore ensuring a global best solution. The proposed Genetic Algorithm, with several variants of GA parameters is tested on sample scheduling problems with and without stochastic feedback. This algorithm demonstrates to provide a quick convergence to a global optimal solution and detect the most likely makespan range for parallel projects of tasks with stochastic feedback.
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Kamkicheva, Olga, Anna Voznaya, Tatyana Mikhailova, and Galya Gribanova. "Resource Approach to the Estimation of International Cooperation in Integrated Development of Calciphyre Deposits." In 8th Russian-Chinese Symposium "Coal in the 21st Century: Mining, Processing, Safety". Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/coal-16.2016.1.

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Desa, S., and Srikanth Kannapan. "The Fast Resource Evaluation Grid." In ASME 1995 Design Engineering Technical Conferences collocated with the ASME 1995 15th International Computers in Engineering Conference and the ASME 1995 9th Annual Engineering Database Symposium. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc1995-0191.

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Abstract The success of product design, development and delivery in a technological enterprise crucially depends on the optimal integration of enterprise resources. The Fast Resource Evaluation Grid permits the comprehension of the strengths and importances of these resources as a rational basis for the allocation of effort to close resource gaps.
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Liu, Wenjian, and Jinghua Li. "Development of Hybrid Genetic Algorithms for the Resource Constrained Multi-Project Scheduling Problem." In ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2005-85721.

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In multi-project environment, multiple projects share and compete for the limited resources to achieve their own goals. Besides resource constraints, there exist precedence constraints among activities within each project. This paper presents a hybrid genetic algorithm to solve the resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem (RCMPSP), which is well known NP-hard problem. Objectives described in this paper are to minimize total project time of multiple projects. The chromosome representation of the problem is based on activity lists. The proposed algorithm was operated in two phases. In the first phase, the feasible schedules are constructed as the initialization of the algorithm by permutation based simulation and priority rules. In the second phase, this feasible schedule was optimized by genetic algorithm, thus a better approximate solution was obtained. Finally, after comparing several different algorithms, the validity of proposed algorithm is shown by a practical example.
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Bridges, Todd, Jeffrey King, Johnathan Simm, Michael Beck, Georganna Collins, Quirijn Lodder, and Ram Mohan. International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/41946.

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To deliver infrastructure that sustain our communities, economy, and environment, we must innovate, modernize, and even revolutionize our approach to infrastructure development. Change takes courage, but as one starts down the path of innovation, what was once novel becomes more familiar, more established. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is walking this path with our partners through the Engineering With Nature (EWN) Initiative, integrating human engineering with natural systems. The International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management are the next step toward revolutionary infrastructure development—a set of real-world guidelines to help familiarize us with what was once novel. USACE and collaborators around the world have been building, learning, and documenting the best practices for constructing Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF) for decades. The consolidation of these lessons into a single guidance document gives decision-makers and practitioners a much-needed resource to pursue, consider, and apply NNBF for flood risk management while expanding value through infrastructure. Relationships and partnerships are vital ingredients for innovation and progress. The NNBF Guidelines was achieved because of the strong relationships in the nature-based engineering community. The magnitude and diversity of contributors to the NNBF Guidelines have resulted in a robust resource that provides value beyond a single agency, sector, or nation. Similarly, the work of incorporating NNBF into projects will require us to strengthen our relationships across organizations, mandates, and missions to achieve resilient communities. I hope you are inspired by the collaborative achievement of the NNBF Guidelines and will draw from this resource to develop innovative solutions to current and future flood risk management challenges. There is a lot we can achieve together along the path of revolutionary infrastructure development.
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Gordon, Eleanor, and Briony Jones. Building Success in Development and Peacebuilding by Caring for Carers: A Guide to Research, Policy and Practice to Ensure Effective, Inclusive and Responsive Interventions. University of Warwick Press, April 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31273/978-1-911675-00-6.

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The experiences and marginalisation of international organisation employees with caring responsibilities has a direct negative impact on the type of security and justice being built in conflict-affected environments. This is in large part because international organisations fail to respond to the needs of those with caring responsibilities, which leads to their early departure from the field, and negatively affects their work while in post. In this toolkit we describe this problem, the exacerbating factors, and challenges to overcoming it. We offer a theory of change demonstrating how caring for carers can both improve the working conditions of employees of international organisations as well as the effectiveness, inclusivity and responsiveness of peace and justice interventions. This is important because it raises awareness among employers in the sector of the severity of the problem and its consequences. We also offer a guide for employers for how to take the caring responsibilities of their employees into account when developing human resource policies and practices, designing working conditions and planning interventions. Finally, we underscore the importance of conducting research on the gendered impacts of the marginalisation of employees with caring responsibilities, not least because of the breadth and depth of resultant individual, organisational and sectoral harms. In this regard, we also draw attention to the way in which gender stereotypes and gender biases not only inform and undermine peacebuilding efforts, but also permeate research in this field. Our toolkit is aimed at international organisation employees, employers and human resources personnel, as well as students and scholars of peacebuilding and international development. We see these communities of knowledge and action as overlapping, with insights to be brought to bear as well as challenges to be overcome in this area. The content of the toolkit is equally relevant across these knowledge communities as well as between different specialisms and disciplines. Peacebuilding and development draw in experts from economics, politics, anthropology, sociology and law, to name but a few. The authors of this toolkit have come together from gender studies, political science, and development studies to develop a theory of change informed by interdisciplinary insights. We hope, therefore, that this toolkit will be useful to an inclusive and interdisciplinary set of knowledge communities. Our core argument - that caring for carers benefits the individual, the sectors, and the intended beneficiaries of interventions - is relevant for students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners alike.
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Pepper, Susan E., and Katherine M. Bachner. International Conference on Human Resource Development for Nuclear Power Programmes: Strategies for Education and Training, Networking and Knowledge Management. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), June 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1148882.

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Tomlinson, Brian. Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD): Game changer or mirage? ActionAid, AidWatch Canada, Oxfam International, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2021.7390.

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Total Official Support for Sustainable Development, or TOSSD, is a new statistical metric that has been in the making for almost 10 years. It is meant to capture a broad range of global flows of public money in support of sustainable development. These include aid, loans on non-concessional terms, and public funds aimed at mobilising private finance for development. Metrics matter. It is essential to track the resources that the international community is allocating to turn the ambitions of Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into reality. Without such data, it is impossible to determine whether there is progress. ActionAid, AidWatch Canada and Oxfam International are publishing this discussion paper to shed light on how TOSSD works in practice as well as on its ambitions, shortcomings and the contending political perspectives on this new metric. The paper emphasizes that TOSSD could significantly shape the future of development finance.
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Aldendifer, Elise, McKenzie Coe, Taylor Faught, Ian Klein, Peter Kuylen, Keeli Lane, Robert Loughran, et al. The Safe and Efficient Development of Offshore Transboundary Hydrocarbons: Best Practices from the North Sea and Their Application to the Gulf of Mexico. Edited by Gabriel Eckstein. Texas A&M University School of Law Program in Energy, Environmental, & Natural Resource Systems, September 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.37419/eenrs.offshoretransboundaryhydrocarbons.

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Offshore hydrocarbon resources have been developed for many decades, and with technology improvements, many fields which were once impossible to develop, are now economically and technologically feasible. This has led to a growing difficulty in determining the legislative and regulatory framework for resources that straddle the recognized borders between two states. In this paper, we examine a successful framework agreement governing the transboundary resources between the United Kingdom (“U.K.”) and Norway in the North Sea, and the agreement between the United States and Mexico governing the Gulf of Mexico. Following the 2013 Energy Reform, the Mexican energy sector has been revitalized, leading to greater exploration, development, and production than ever before. This means that in the near future transboundary resources may be licensed for production, bringing the issues highlighted in this paper to the attention of multiple government and international entities. This paper seeks to recommend improvements to the transboundary framework in the Gulf of Mexico based on the successful framework agreement utilized in the North Sea. This paper begins by introducing international law for offshore resources in Part II. Part III discusses the offshore regulatory regimes in the U.K. and Norway, analyzing how the two states have successfully used bilateral agreements to facilitate cooperation regarding effective exploitation and apportionment of costs from cross-boundary offshore oil and gas projects in the North Sea. Part IV discusses the offshore regulatory regimes in the United States and Mexico and analyzes the current transboundary agreement in place for the Gulf of Mexico. Part V compares the transboundary agreement governing the North Sea and the same governing the Gulf of Mexico. We highlight the major differences in the agreements and suggest changes to the Gulf of Mexico agreement based on the successful North Sea agreement. Finally, this paper concludes and provides key policy recommendations to improve the rules and regulations surrounding the exploitation of transboundary hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Idris, Iffat. Increasing Birth Registration for Children of Marginalised Groups in Pakistan. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.102.

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This review looks at approaches to promote birth registration among marginalised groups, in order to inform programming in Pakistan. It draws on a mixture of academic and grey literature, in particular reports by international development organizations. While there is extensive literature on rates of birth registration and the barriers to this, and consensus on approaches to promote registration, the review found less evidence of measures specifically aimed at marginalised groups. Gender issues are addressed to some extent, particularly in understanding barriers to registration, but the literature was largely disability-blind. The literature notes that birth registration is considered as a fundamental human right, allowing access to services such as healthcare and education; it is the basis for obtaining other identity documents, e.g. driving licenses and passports; it protects children, e.g. from child marriage; and it enables production of vital statistics to support government planning and resource allocation. Registration rates are generally lower than average for vulnerable children, e.g. from minority groups, migrants, refugees, children with disabilities. Discriminatory policies against minorities, restrictions on movement, lack of resources, and lack of trust in government are among the ‘additional’ barriers affecting the most marginalised. Women, especially unmarried women, also face greater challenges in getting births registered. General approaches to promoting birth registration include legal and policy reform, awareness-raising activities, capacity building of registration offices, integration of birth registration with health services/education/social safety nets, and the use of digital technology to increase efficiency and accessibility.
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Devereux, Stephen. Policy Pollination: A Brief History of Social Protection’s Brief History in Africa. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ids.2020.004.

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The relatively recent emergence and sustained rise of social protection as a policy agenda in Africa can be understood as either a nationally owned or ‘donor-driven’ process. While elements of both can be seen in different countries at different times, this paper focuses on the pivotal role of transnational actors, specifically international development agencies, as ‘policy pollinators’ for social protection. These agencies deployed a range of tactics to induce African governments to implement cash transfer programmes and establish social protection systems, including: (1) building the empirical evidence base that cash transfers have positive impacts, for advocacy purposes; (2) financing social protection programmes until governments take over this responsibility; (3) strengthening state capacity to deliver social protection, through technical assistance and training workshops; (4) commissioning and co-authoring national social protection policies; (5) encouraging the domestication of international social protection law into national legislation. Despite these pressures and inducements, some governments have resisted or implemented social protection only partially and reluctantly, either because they are not convinced or because their political interests are not best served by allocating scarce resources to cash transfer programmes. This raises questions about the extent to which the agendas of development agencies are aligned or in conflict with national priorities, and whether social protection programmes and systems would flourish or wither if international support was withdrawn.
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Herbert, Siân. Covid-19, Conflict, and Governance Evidence Summary No.28. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), January 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.008.

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The fortnightly Covid-19, Conflict, and Governance Evidence Summary aim to signpost the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) and other UK government departments to the latest evidence and opinions on Covid-19 (C19), to inform and support their responses. This summary features resources on C19’s unequal impacts and policy responses; responses to build long-term resilience to both conflict and pandemics; responses to support forcibly displaced people in Africa and the Middle East; and the implications of C19 for international development cooperation in 2021. Many of the core C19 themes continue to be covered this week, including C19 increasing gender-based violence; whether regime type shapes effective C19 responses; and whether and how C19 is shaping conflict contexts. The summary uses two main sections – (1) literature: – this includes policy papers, academic articles, and long-form articles that go deeper than the typical blog; and (2) blogs & news articles. It is the result of one day of work and is thus indicative but not comprehensive of all issues or publications.
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Vieira, Gonçalo, Maria Teresa Cabrita, and Ana David. Portuguese Polar Program: Annual Report 2019. Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Universidade de Lisboa, November 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.33787/ceg20200002.

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This Annual Report of the Portuguese Polar Program, PROPOLAR reports the main activities conducted between August 2018 and December 2019 The PROPOLAR is led by the CEG/IGOT University of Lisbon, under a Coordinating Committee that includes members of other 4 Portuguese research institutions CCMAR University of the Algarve, MARE University of Coimbra, CQE University of Lisbon, and CIIMAR University of Oporto The Program is funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia MCTES FCT) as a development of its former Polar Office The activities herein disclosed reflect a very busy and inspiring year The PROPOLAR supported fifteen projects that were successfully carried out in the Arctic and Antarctica Logistics continued to be based on international cooperation and on a Portuguese funded Antarctic flight open to partner programs Logistical support in Antarctica was mainly provided by Spain, Chile and the Republic of Korea, also with strong cooperation in research and facilities with Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Peru, Turkey, United States of America and Uruguay Participation in international meetings and workshops, as well as the organisation of a symposium and an international meeting, and the support provided to the Portuguese Conference on Polar Science, fulfilled and enriched this very active period, also helping to reinforce the credibility and relevance of the program in the international polar arena B ringing together all these efforts and resources will surely attract and mobilise more young researchers into a Polar scientific career, thus ensuring the future of the Portuguese Polar science, and that the program will continue to blossom We are confident that the successes that PROPOLAR has had in 2019 will serve as an impetus for our very dynamic and committed community of polar researchers to move forward in in vesting in the future of the Portuguese P olar science and preparing to seize new opportunities
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Viguri, Sofía, Sandra López Tovar, Mariel Juárez Olvera, and Gloria Visconti. Analysis of External Climate Finance Access and Implementation: CIF, FCPF, GCF and GEF Projects and Programs by the Inter-American Development Bank. Inter-American Development Bank, January 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003008.

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In response to the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the IDB Group Board of Governors endorsed the target of increasing climate-related financing in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) from 15% in 2015 to 30% of the IDB Groups combined total approvals by 2020. Currently, the IDB Group is on track to meet this commitment, as in 2018, it financed nearly US$5 billion in climate-change-related activities benefiting LAC, which accounted for 27% of total IDB Groups annual approvals. In 2019, the overall volume and proportion of climate finance in new IDBG approvals have increased to 29%. As the IDB continues to strive towards this goal by using its funds to ramp-up climate action, it also acknowledges that tackling climate change is an objective shared with the rest of the international community. For the past ten years, strategic partnerships have been forged with external sources of finance that are also looking to invest in low-carbon and climate-resilient development. Doing this has contributed to the Banks objective of mobilizing additional resources for climate action while also strengthening its position as a leading partner to accelerate climate innovation in many fields. From climate-smart technologies and resilient infrastructure to institutional reform and financial mechanisms, IDB's use of external sources of finance is helping countries in LAC advance toward meeting their international climate change commitments. This report collects a series of insights and lessons learned by the IDB in the preparation and implementation of projects with climate finance from four external sources: the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF). It includes a systematic revision of their design and their progress on delivery, an assessment of broader impacts (scale-up, replication, and contributions to transformational change/paradigm shift), and a set of recommendations to optimize the access and use of these funds in future rounds of climate investment. The insights and lessons learned collected in this publication can inform the design of short and medium-term actions that support “green recovery” through the mobilization of investments that promote decarbonization.
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