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Garlitz, Richard P. "Academic Ambassadors in the Middle East: The University Contract Program in Turkey and Iran, 1950-1970." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1224727953.
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Uzunoglu, Nurettin. "American aid to Turkey, 1947-1963." Istanbul : N. Uzunoglu, 2003. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0613/2004635192.html.
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Saygili, Seref. "Technical change efficiency, exports and growth in Turkey." Thesis, University of Kent, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298163.
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Najeeb, Fazeel. "IP-Related Technical Assistance : Lessons for developing countries." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.535546.
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Galindo, Cespedes Jose Fernando. "Technical versus socio-technical : conflict in Bolivian and Dutch academic collaboration in irrigation /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3052172.
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Paul, Haley, Summer Waters, and Jason Kepler. "Technical Assistance Programs for Agricultural Irrigation Improvements in Arizona." College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/246051.
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Blecke, Rebecca Ann. "Land trust training and technical assistance programs : a national assessment /." View online, 2005. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/82/.
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Karaahmet, Alpar. "An appraisal of U.S. security assistance to Turkey between 1950 and 1992." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27992.
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This thesis analyzes U.S. security assistance to Turkey between 1950 and 1992. It describes historical trends in U.S.-Turkey arms transactions by examining statistical expenditure data on seven components of the U.S. security assistance program. The thesis identifies the impact of four key factors on U.S. arms sales to Turkey during this period. These factors are the Korean War, NATO, GreekTurkish relations, and the Gulf War. Three different aspects of arms sales - military, political, and economic - are taken into consideration. The roles played by Congress and the executive branch in influencing U.S. aid to Turkey are examined. The thesis concludes that the Korean War, NATO, and the Gulf War supported closer military ties between Turkey and the United States, while disputes between Greece and Turkey tended to weaken it. U.S. security assistance/ Turkey
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Vutula, Luthando. "The combination of technical assistance with development finance : does it work?" Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/784.
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Thesis (MDF (Business Management))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Tegniese bystand bly steeds ’n aktuele kwessie in die meeste ontwikkelende lande. Tegniese samewerking is vir baie dekades gebruik as ’n werktuig vir die opbou van toenemende kapasiteit en, van groter belang, as ’n manier om projekte te implementeer. Werkskrag is nodig sodat ontwikkeling kan plaasvind. Dit is ’n uitdaging om te bepaal hoe tegniese bystand voorsien moet word, en of sodanige bystand wél aan die ontvanger se behoeftes voldoen. Sommige is van mening dat Westerse lande geneig was om aan ontwikkelende lande voor te skryf watter soort tegniese bystand hulle sou benodig. Dit het daartoe gelei dat die meeste ontvangers nie verantwoordelikheid vir produksie aanvaar het nie. Navorsing verwys na die behoefte vir tegniese bystand asook die sukses wat tot nou toe behaal is op dié terrein, alhoewel dit gering was. Die meeste ontwikkelende finansiële instansies, insluitende die Wêreldbank, lewer bewys van tegniese bystandsprogramme. Hierdie programme dien as ondersteuning vir instansies in die uitbetaling van verdere fondse vir ontwikkeling. Die verslag dui aan dat, alhoewel tegniese bystand en ontwikkelingsfinansiering wél werk, vooruitgang steeds nodig is.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Technical assistance continues to be a topical issue in most developing countries. For many decades, technical cooperation has been used as a vehicle to build capacity building and, more importantly, as a way to implement projects. Capacity is required for development to take place. The challenge is how the technical assistance is provided, and whether such assistance is what the recipient needs. Western countries have tended to prescribe to the developing countries in terms of the kind of technical assistance they need, which has resulted in many recipients not taking responsibility for the output. The research alludes to the need for technical assistance and the successes that have been achieved until now in the field, even though they have been marginal. Most development finance institutions, including the World Bank, are shown to have technical assistance programmes. Such programmes assist the institutions in disbursing more development funds. The Report indicates that, although technical assistance and development finance do work, improvement is still required.
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Demir, Seker Sirma. "The Dynamics Of Poverty In Turkey." Phd thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613400/index.pdf.
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Ulfström, Heléne. "Legal Technical Assistance in Failed States : Successful methods of law and development?" Thesis, Örebro University, Department of Behavioural, Social and Legal Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-4860.
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Ciplak, Bilal. "Democracy Promotion and Turkey." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1439.
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The dissertation documented the degree of Turkey’s involvement in the promotion of democracy in the Arab Middle East (ME). Initially, I investigated why and under what conditions Turkey promotes democracy in the ME, and then I explained strategies through which Turkey promotes democracy in the region. I applied the neo-classical realist theoretical framework and a mixed methodology in the research, and I provided evidence from two sources: face-to-face interviews with the Turkish and foreign officials and common citizens, and the statistical data from institutions, such as the OECD, Turkish Statistical Institute, and World Bank.
My research indicates that Turkey promotes democracy through seven channels. These channels are official development assistance (ODA), mentoring, demonstrative effect, normative pressure, conditionality, military power, enlargement, and civil society organizations. Turkey promotes democracy in the ME for three substantial reasons: first, to advance its security and economic interests; second, to improve the political, social, and economic conditions of people living in the region; and third, to create long-term regional stability, crucial for cooperation in economic and security realms.
I attempted to engage in debates with two distinct, but interrelated fields of comparative politics and international relations. My most important contribution to the field is that I documented Turkey’s case of democracy promotion regarding the degree of Turkey’s involvement in this endeavor, its strategies, specificities, and effectiveness in the region. I also contribute to the field as I explained the difference between democracy promotion policies of a regional power, such as Turkey, and global powers, such as the US. I further engaged in discussions that illuminate some aspects of the interplay between the identity and strategic interests in states’ foreign policy decisions.
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du, Toit Michelle. "Assisting Africa: a critical analysis of technical assistance in low carbon development practice." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30508.
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Climate change mitigation efforts are increasingly forming part of the agendas of African nations, particularly since the inclusion of voluntary targets for these countries within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement of 2015. This focus towards the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, together with the need to achieve development objectives, has become combined in the practice of ‘low carbon development’ within developing countries. Technical assistance programmes have been set up to support the achievement of low carbon development, and these activities typically flow from the global North to Africa. However the power structures and flows of benefit that underlie these practices have not been the subject of much enquiry and are largely occluded within the climate change mitigation community of practice. With the inclusion of climate change mitigation targets for developing countries together with a direct call for increased capacity building within the Paris Agreement, the volume of technical assistance support focused towards Africa is likely to increase. As such the need to consider what effective technical assistance, that is both equitable and appropriate to the African context, might look like becomes a priority. This study engages with these issues. By considering the literature arising from
decolonial studies and development theory together with bringing to the fore the perceptions of African climate change mitigation professionals, it provides a critical analysis of the tacit assumptions that are legitimated within the technical assistance practice in climate change mitigation. The study finds that current modes of technical assistance practice within low carbon development continues to entrench the hegemonic nature of knowledge of the global North, and perpetuates the placement of Africa in a position of extraversion towards the North, assuming African government and climate change practitioners as lacking in knowledge and expertise. The study
advocates for a more equal and bilateral flow of knowledge between the two regions in order for African nations to faster and more effectively reach the twin goals of development and mitigation within Africa. It considers the lack of the critical theories of decolonial studies and development theory in climate change scholarship (particularly the absence of African voices in the debate) and brings these alternative voices and theories into low carbon development technical assistance practice.
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Cronholm, Agnes. "Spilling The Tea On Electoral Violence Prevention : Can technical election assistance prevent electoral violence?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-444402.
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The international community has long sent democracy aid, and technical election assistance (TEA) has become increasingly popular in the last three decades. Despite these investments, little is known about the effects of TEA. This master thesis focuses on how TEA affects violence during elections and asks if and how does technical election assistance prevent electoral violence in some contexts and not in others? I argue the TEA that is provided to both state and non-state actors in combination can reduce electoral violence. I argue that this can make elections credible and that credible elections are less probable to turn violent. By conducting case studies on Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe using Structured Focused Comparison, this thesis finds that the hypothesis when a state receives comprehensive technical election assistance, it will experience a reduction in electoral violence gets limited support. The findings show that TEA can help reduce violence since violence was reduced in all three cases, but only two of them received comprehensive TEA.
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Misrahi, Frederic. "The Europeanisation of Turkish policies and institutions in the areas of technical legislation and antitrust (1996-2010)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.650075.
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The thesis assesses the causes and implications of Turkey's alignment with European Union (EU) policies and institutions in the areas of technical legislation (TL) and antitrust between 1996 and 2010. It argues that EU conditionality, based on the promise of positive rewards such as full membership, largely accounts for Turkey's high record in adopting EU policies and institutions in both areas, in rational-institutionalist fashion. This is because, in welldefined periods, the Turkish government deemed EU conditionality credible enough to walTant major adoption activities. However, regarding TL, EU-related domestic utility considerations (DUCs) played a crucial pali in suppOliing the development of the implementation and to some extent the enforcement dimensions. In antitrust, adoption and enforcement were also crucially suppOlied by non-EU factors, not least the regulatory drive that followed the 2000-2001 financial crises. By contrast, social-constructivist EU-related factors only played a marginal role with regard to adoption, implementation and enforcement. To avoid a bias toward EU explanations, I use counterfactual thought experiments, and compare each positive case with a negative case, where alignment is very low. My negative cases are mutual recognition and state aid. The study reveals the purchase of DUCs in countries where the credibility of EU conditionality is problematic, such as Turkey. It demonstrates that different explanatory models may account for alignment in one policy area, depending on the dimension considered. Turkey's alignment has domestic and external implications. Domestically, although Turkey made important steps towards the idealtype of the EU-style regulatory state in both areas, the transfOlmation was largely reactive, and remained incomplete. Externally, Turkey's alignment scenario, as well as both policy areas' intrinsic characteristics, imply that Mediterranean partner countries' prospects for comprehensive regulatory convergence with the EU are weak. The study relies on primary and secondary sources, non-structured interviews, and extensive fieldwork.
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Artjan, Mukhammad Faisal. "Developing State Capacity in Indonesia: Lessons from Technical Assistance Program in the Ministry of Finance." Gadjah Mada University Press, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/15882.
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Flanigan, Kevin Patrick. "Aid to the gatekeepers : design principles for technical assistance under coastal nonpoint source watershed management." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66357.
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Romya, Kivilcim. "A Comparative Analysis Of The European Union Financial Assistance To Central And Eastern European Countries And Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12609344/index.pdf.
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This thesis makes a comparative analysis of financial assistances provided to Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) and Turkey by the European Union (EU) prior and pursuant to candidacy. Furthermore, the thesis argues results obtained through comparison of financial assistances provided to CEECs and Turkey by the EU within the framework of integration theories and examines the place of Turkey within the enlargement perspective of the EU by addressing arguments that are dominant in the literature in relation to European integration theories.
The major argument of the thesis is that Turkey has not been treated equally with CEECs as regards financial assistance provided by the EU. As a justification for this, it is assumed that ideational factors have an impact on the enlargement perspective of the EU and they are determinant in the stance of EU towards Turkey.
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Triplett, Kimberly Mechelle. "Understanding the impact of technical assistance on early care and education sites in Mississippi rural communities." Diss., Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2009. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-04012009-092951.
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Crane-Engel, Melinda. "The political economy of multilateral technical assistance : a case study of United Nations mineral exploration projects." Thesis, Connect to Dissertations & Theses @ Tufts University, 1987.
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Thesis (Ph.D) -- Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1987.Typescript. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 471-492. Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;
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Fu, Xingguang Verfasser], and Dirk [Akademischer Betreuer] [Söffker. "Individualization-oriented supervision and assistance in human-centered cognitive technical systems / Xingguang Fu ; Betreuer: Dirk Söffker." Duisburg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1176409557/34.
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Wheeler, John J. "A Consultative Model for Providing Technical Assistance to School Personnel in Service to Children with Autism." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/270.
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Fu, Xingguang [Verfasser], and Dirk [Akademischer Betreuer] Söffker. "Individualization-oriented supervision and assistance in human-centered cognitive technical systems / Xingguang Fu ; Betreuer: Dirk Söffker." Duisburg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1176409557/34.
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Byrne, Sandra Miller. "The Value of Human Resource Development to an Organization; Providing Technical Assistance to Small Manufacturing Companies." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26978.
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Modernization of manufacturing means updating capabilities and changing the ways in which companies organize and manage processes, produce their product, and hire, train, and retain their personnel. Often referred to as "high performance," these qualities are characterized by worker training and development, continuous improvement, ongoing information sharing, and worker discretion and autonomy. They are equally applicable to small, medium-sized, and large manufacturing firms. While many barriers exist that challenge small manufacturers to move from their traditional operations to high performance, those that are able to operate in this mode have demonstrated success. In 1988, Congress passed the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act which charged the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to help smaller manufacturers adopt and apply performance-improving technologies as needed to meet the intensifying domestic and global competition in manufacturing. NIST established the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program to create and implement a nationwide system of technical assistance centers, staffed by knowledgeable manufacturing and other business system professionals, to enable small and medium-sized manufacturers reach this goal.
Each of the 78 MEP center's individuality results from its respective charter, which, in turn, reflects the needs and priorities of its stakeholders, location, and client firms. As providers of services that help small manufacturing firms become more productive in all of their functions, MEP centers can influence their client firms' evolution towards high performance, which would include a focus on training and other flexible work practices. Yet, not all of the MEP centers report that they provide technical assistance in human resource-related activities to their client firms. In fact, some of the centers report no assistance in this topic area at all. This study attempted to understand why some MEP centers do not place a high value on training and other flexible work practices as critical components of the services they provide to their client firms.
I conducted qualitative case studies of three MEP centers whose inclusion of training and other flexible work practices to their client firms ranged from none to integration with all services. Applying grounded theory analysis techniques, I identified experiences, training, and organizational policies that have either enabled or discouraged these service providers from offering a comprehensive, holistic range of services to their client firms. The data yielded four constructs that are common to the three centers and explain their involvement with human resource-related activities: (1) control; (2) discrepant values and behaviors; (3) limited definitions of training and development; and (4) experiences. The four constructs formed the basis of the analyses of the three centers. The constructs also contributed to a model for identifying interventions to assist MEP centers and their staffs transition from solely technically-oriented assistance to more holistic approaches.Ph. D.
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Carneiro, ThaÃs Marilane. "Proposta de melhoria no processo de retroalimentaÃÃo dos projetos de sistemas prediais hidrÃulicos sanitÃrios." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2013. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=11051.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel SuperiorOs Sistemas Prediais HidrÃulicos e SanitÃrios (SPHS) vÃm se apresentando como um gerador frequente de problemas apÃs a entrega do imÃvel. Na ConstruÃÃo Civil, com a implantaÃÃo de sistemas da qualidade, o setor de ManutenÃÃo e AssistÃncia TÃcnica se apresenta como facilitador no acÃmulo de registros com esse teor, podendo servir como fonte de aprendizado para os empreendimentos posteriores. Todavia, nem sempre hà o repasse dessas informaÃÃes para o Setor de Projetos de SPHS. Desse modo, a presente pesquisa busca propor um modelo que sirva para a sistematizaÃÃo dessa retroalimentaÃÃo de dados entre o Setor de AssistÃncia TÃcnica da construtora e os escritÃrios de projetos desses sistemas. O trabalho foi dividido em trÃs etapas principais: a primeira consistiu em um estudo preliminar do problema a partir da anÃlise de arquivos em uma construtora cearense, de modo a confirmar o grau da presenÃa de reparos ligados aos SPHS, bem como da existÃncia de sinais de retroalimentaÃÃo. Posteriormente, a partir de observaÃÃes, de anÃlise de documentos e de entrevistas, realizou-se um estudo mais aprofundado na mesma construtora, de forma a descrever o fluxo da informaÃÃo no Setor de AssistÃncia TÃcnica da empresa, e desta para escritÃrio de projetos de SPHS. AlÃm disso, realizou-se uma anÃlise comparativa com outras duas construtoras locais, a fim de se obter um panorama coerente sobre esses processos. Com a identificaÃÃo, na primeira empresa estudada, da presenÃa de situaÃÃes que mostraram aprendizado e indÃcios de retroalimentaÃÃo a partir do Setor de AssistÃncia TÃcnica, analisou-se o grau de utilidade dos dados arquivados neste setor e, entÃo, na terceira etapa, foi proposta uma forma de registro dos reparos ligados aos SPHS, bem como um modelo para retroalimentaÃÃo dos projetos a partir desses dados.
The Hydraulic and Sanitary Building Systems ( SPHS ) often have presented problems after the property i s deliver ed . In Civil Construction, with the implementation of quality systems, the company's Technical Assistance department became a facilitator in managing records of complaints , which may serve as a source of learning to upcoming projects. However, thi s information is not always shared with the SPHS project department . Thus, this research aims at propos ing a model that serves to systematize data feedback between the construction compa ny's Technical Assistance department and the offices in charge of proj ects . Th is study was divided into three main phase s: the first was a primary analysis of files in a construction company from Ceara, Brazil to investigate the occurrence rate of repairs related to SPHS , as well as evidence o f feedback. Later, observations, analysis of documents and interviews took the study of the same construction company to a deeper level. These instruments also described the information flow in the company's Technical Assistance department , and between the company and the SPHS project of fice. Furthermore, a comparative analysis with two other Brazilian construction companies was conducted in order to obtain a coherent overview of these processes. In the first company, situations that point out to evidence of learning from data feedback sh ared by the Technical Assistance department were identified. Subsequently, an analysis of the degree of usefulness of the data archived in this sector was conducted. In the third step of this study, a model was proposed to record repairs related to SPHS, a s well as a model to incorporate feedback data from the construction company‟s Technical Assistance department into projects
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Van, Buren Paul E. "A comparative study of qualifications and motivations of US agricultural scientists accessed by aid for overseas work in 1981 /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487264603217529.
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Jacob, Julie Anne. "Expectations and experiences of students on welfare assistance attending short-term training at community and technical colleges /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7858.
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Skinner, Michael D. "Potential effects of technical assistance foresters on pine planting on non-industrial private forestland in the South." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/74535.
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Over the next few decades, timber harvest levels on the South's non-industrial private forestlands (NIPFs) are projected to increase by 40 percent. These ownerships include 75 percent of the commercial timberland in the South, and account for 64 percent of the timber volume harvested in the region annually. Long-term sustained yield of softwood timber volumes from NIPFs depends on successful reforestation of harvested pine stands and afforestation of marginal agricultural lands. Available technical assistance is regarded as a significant factor in NIPP tree planting accomplishment.
This study compares technical assistance available to NIPFs from various sources and attempts to measure response to technical assistance in terms of acres planted. Four sources of technical assistance are considered: state forestry agencies, consulting foresters, industry landowner assistance departments, and industry procurement staffs. Extensive south-wide surveys of technical assistance available from these four sources were conducted to determine the types and degrees of assistance available. Cross-sectional comparisons were made between 29 sub-state zones in 12 southern states to explore variation in NIPF acres planted attributable to variation in technical assistance.
The surveys located just under 2,000 foresters having some professional involvement with southern landowners in 1985. The number of consulting foresters operating in the South seems to be growing, while the number of landowners enrolled in industry landowner assistance programs (LAPs) is also increasing. Assistance available to NIPF owners from all sources ranges from advice and recommendations to actual performance of site preparation and tree planting. The types and intensities of technical assistance are variable both within and across forester types.
A cross-sectional statistical analysis using multiple linear regression was unable to demonstrate a significant south-wide effect of technical assistance on NIPF tree planting. Within the range of technical assistance presently available, variation in technical assistance did not prove to be a significant predictor of tree planting accomplishment. The results of this study indicate that diversity in the NIPF population, combined with diversity in silvicultural and market potential pine production, prevents quantification of a regional effect of technical assistance. A positive correlation between forester numbers and NIPF tree planting accomplishments was found. But only timber harvest levels and cost share expenditures were significant predictors of acres planted in multiple variable models.Master of Science
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Massey, Elijah. "Technical Assistance and Farming at the Rural-Urban Interface: A Study of Farmer Utilization and Related Attitudes." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2017. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/779.
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The rural-urban interface (RUI) is a complex landscape impacted by a variety of social and economic processes. Substantial U.S. agricultural production occurs at the RUI despite non-farm development pressure. Notably, at a time when U.S. farming is increasingly dominated by a shrinking number of large scale operations, RUI agricultural production occurs primarily on small and medium farms. Importantly, RUI farms exhibit greater diversity in terms of operator demographics, production type, and marketing channels, than their large-scale counterparts.
A critical resource in the persistence of diverse RUI farms is Technical Assistance (TA). While TA is provided by a number of different institutional actors, the focus here is restricted to the Extension Service, United States Department of Agriculture backed Natural Resource Conservation Service and Soil and Water Conservation District programs, and nonprofit sector organizations whose mission is focused on supporting U.S. agriculture. Through an analysis of qualitative and quantitative data collected as part of a multi-state study, the goal of this work is twofold. In the first place, this work seeks to assess the utilization of the different sources of TA by farmers operating at the RUI. Subsequently, the work investigates the resulting attitudes farmers hold about the TA they use. As such, this analysis is intended to examine how TA contributes to the persistence of the diverse agriculture operating at the RUI and to explore possible ways in which these critical resources can be further enhanced in order to support RUI farms and farmers.
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Eddu, Francis Rao. "A case study of third world development projects developed and implemented by the non-governmental organization--Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA)." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2101.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 2001.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 168 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-168).
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Daniels, Nelson T. "An evaluation of the small farmer outreach training and technical assistance program for farmers of color in Texas." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4438.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of the small farmer outreach training and technical assistance programs as related to farmers of color. The items to be evaluated included financial considerations, educational effectiveness, access and acquisition of farm loans, participation in Extension sponsored events and involvement in community activities. The sample population for this study was small scale agricultural producers representing two ethnic groups, African Americans and Hispanics, located in Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr and Willacy counties and enrolled in the Small Farmer Outreach Training and Technical Assistance Program (N=68) between October 1, 2001, and September 30, 2004. Descriptive statistics were used for reporting personal characteristics of the participants, as well as to determine knowledge gained and effectiveness of the Small Farmer Outreach Training and Technical Assistance Program. Statistical Package for the Social Sciencesî (SPSS) was used to calculate frequencies, percentages and variability of the variables. The major findings of the study were as follows: 1. The Small Farmer Outreach Training and Technical Assistance Program is an effective educational program in teaching farm management techniques and assisting with the acquisition of financial resources. 2. Farm size was relatively small with over half of the farms being fewer than 50 acres. 3. The ethnic identity of participants was more likely to be Hispanic than African American. 4. Total household income for a majority of the participants was less than $50,000. 5. The majority of the participants were part-time farmers. 6. The majority of the participants had a farm plan. 7. A majority of the participants had at least a high school education. 8. Program participants were likely to be approved for a loan through the United States Department of Agriculture.
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Kingston, Paul W. T. "Pioneers in development : the British Middle East Development Division and the politics of technical assistance, 1945 to 1961." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306737.
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Gökçen, Tankut Serim Erkal. "Influence of urban geometry on public investment cost of urban technical infrastructure:a case study of sewer system in Aydın, Turkey/." [s.l.]: [s.n.], 2005. http://library.iyte.edu.tr/tezlerengelli/doktora/sehirplanlama/T000359.pdf.
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Thesis (Doctoral)--İzmir Institute Of Technology, İzmir, 2005.Keywords:Infrastructure, city form, sustainable development, sewerage systems, geographical information systems. Includes bibliographical references (leaves. 164-174).
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Bernstein, Autumn Rachel. "Technical Assistance for Disadvantaged Communities Seeking Grant Funding| A Case Study of the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program." Thesis, University of California, Davis, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10681478.
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Disadvantaged communities in California and across the US encounter unique barriers to attracting competitive funding for affordable housing, economic development, sustainability initiatives and other needs. This paper examines an effort underway in California to overcome these barriers by providing subsidized technical assistance to disadvantaged communities that apply for certain cap and trade-funded grant programs. Specifically, we evaluate the effectiveness of California’s technical assistance (TA) pilot run by the California Strategic Growth Council (SGC) for the Affordable Housing & Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Grant Program. We find that applicants who received comprehensive technical assistance, such as the services provided by the SGC TA pilot, enjoyed a strong competitive advantage over those who do not receive assistance. We also find evidence that projects aimed at serving disadvantaged communities see greater benefits from technical assistance than projects in more affluent communities.
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Mpegna, Belmond Nicaise. "Les relations culturelles franco-camerounaises de 1960 a 2000." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030073.
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Le Cameroun accède à l’indépendance le 1er janvier 1960. Le 13 novembre 1960, la France signe avec le Cameroun une série d’accords de coopération qui couvrent divers domaines tant civils que militaire. En observant cette série d’accords de coopération, l’on se rend compte que le volet culturel occupe les ¾ de la coopération franco-camerounaise depuis 1960. Ce sujet ne traite pas de la coopération franco-camerounaise en général, mais des volets culturels, contenus dans la convention culturelle franco-camerounaise, qui est la base juridique de ces relations. Les relations culturelles franco-camerounaises ont évolué en dents de scie ; tantôt denses et chaleureuses [décennie 60 et 90], tantôt froides et tendues [70-80]. Ceci s’explique par les enjeux qui entourent ces relations culturelles. Pour la France, la culture reste l’instrument fondamental de sa politique étrangère. Les objectifs sont la diffusion de la culture française par : la langue française à travers les instruments classiques que sont les centres culturels français et les alliances franco-camerounais., la présence audio-visuelle française dans le monde à travers des médias tels TV5, RFI et CFI. Pendant la guerre froide, l’objectif principal était d’éviter que ne tombent certains Etats de son pré carré sous l’influence de l’un où l’autre bloc. A partir des années 90, la France intensifie son action culturelle au Cameroun, principalement pour faire front à la montée en puissance des anglo-saxons. Elle initie un combat en faveur de l’exception culturelle dans le cadre de la Francophonie. Côté camerounais, l’influence culturelle française a toujours été vue d’un regard méfiant. Tolérée sous Ahidjo pour des besoins de sécurité intérieure, ce dernier prend ses distances dès lors que l’unité et la stabilité du Cameroun sont assurées en 1972. Sous Biya, après des débuts plutôt froids dans la décennie 80, les relations culturelles franco-camerounaises connaissent depuis les années 90 leur apogée. Ceci est dû à la fin de la guerre froide, au retour du Cameroun dans la communauté francophone en 1991, à la crise économique, aux Etats généraux de la culture et de l’éducation nationale et surtout aux pressions américaines pour des questions démocratiques au Cameroun. Les relations culturelles franco-camerounaises touchent des volets divers comme l’assistance technique, l’enseignement supérieur, l’éducation, les activités culturelles. Le Cameroun fait partie de la Zone de solidarité prioritaire [ZSP] et bénéficie dont d’un caractère préférentiel dans la politique culturelle extérieure de la FranceCameroon reaches the independence on January 1st, 1960. On November 13th, 1960, France and Cameroon signed a series of agreements of cooperation which covered diverse domains so civil as military. By observing this series of agreements of cooperation, we realize that the cultural part occupies ¾ some French-Cameroonian cooperation since 1960. This subject does not deal with the French-Cameroonian cooperation generally, but the cultural parts, contained in the French-Cameroonian cultural agreement [convention], which is the legal base of these relations. The French-Cameroonian cultural relations evolved uneven; sometimes dense and warm [decade 60 and 90], sometimes cold and tense [70-80]. This explains by the stakes which surround these cultural relations. For France, the culture remains the fundamental instrument of its foreign policy. The objectives are the diffusion of the French cultural influence by: the French language, through the classic instruments that are the French cultural centers and the French-Cameroonian alliances. The French broadcastin [audivisual] presence in the world through media such as TV5, RFI and CFI. During the cold war, the main objective was to avoid that fall certain africans states squared under the influence of the one or the other block.. In Cameroonian side, the French cultural influence was always seen by a suspicious glance. Tolerated under Ahidjo for needs of internal safety [security], he distances oneself since the unity and the stability of Cameroon was insured in 1972. Under Biya, after debuts rather cold in the decade 80, the French-Cameroonian cultural relations know since the 90s their peak. This is due to the end of the cold war, on the return of Cameroon in the French-speaking community in 1991, the economic crisis, in the general States of the culture and the Education and especially in American pressures for democratic questions in Cameroon. The French-Cameroonian cultural relations touch diverse sectors as the technical support, the higher education, the education, the cultural activities. Cameroon is a part of the Zone of priority solidarity [ ZSP] and benefits from preferential character in the outside cultural policy of France. But these cultural relations have perverse effects in Cameroon, in term of acculturation, in spite of the role played by the general states of the culture and the education. Finally, in spite of some positive points as the linguistic unity which played a role in the national integration in Cameroon, Cameroonians judge badly the intense French culturals activities in Cameroon
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Jociūtė, Milda. "Europos Sąjungos paramos administravimas Turkijos Respublikoje." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20110608_112120-96368.
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Darbe apžvelgiama ir įvertinama Turkijoje veikianti ES paramos administravimo sistema. Pasitelkus neofunkcionalizmo, tarpvyriausybinio bendradarbiavimo ir daugialypio valdymo teorijas bandoma paaiškinti Turkijos integracijos į ES procesus. Turkijos – ES santykių pradžia laikoma 1963 m. sudaryta ES - Turkijos asociacijos sutartis, o šiuo metu Turkijai yra suteiktas šalies kandidatės statusas. Paskelbdama valstybę šalimi kandidate, ES įsipareigojo finansiškai remti Turkijos pasirengimo narystei ES procesą. Europos Sąjungos finansinė parama skiriama šalims kandidatėms ir potencialioms šalims kandidatėms remiant ne ES šalių narių siekį tapti demokratiškesnėmis, gerbiančiomis žmogaus teises ir įstatymo viršenybę valstybėmis, finansine parama taip pat siekiama spręsti šalių socialines-ekonomines problemas, skatinti šalių vystymąsi ir rinkos ekonomikos veikimą.
Parama kandidatėms ir potencialioms šalims kandidatėms skiriama pagal Pasirengimo narystei pagalbos priemonę. Nuo PNPP įsteigimo jos administravimas buvo decentralizuojamas vis daugiau atsakomybės perleidžiant paramą gaunančioms šalims, skatinant jų institucijų administracinius gabumus. Šalys kandidatės ES paramą administruoja decentralizuoto įgyvendinimo metodu. Tik kryptingas, subsidiarumo, partnerystės ir proporcingumo principais paremtas, ES finansinės paramos lėšų panaudojimas, gali būti efektyvus ir užtikrinti, kad užsibrėžti pasirengimo narystei pagalbos priemonės tikslai bus pasiekti.
Siekiant geriau suvokti... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]In this paper it is reviewed and evaluated the implemented EU’ assistance administration system in Turkey Republic. By using neo-functionalism, intergovernmental cooperation and multi-level governance theories is tried to explain Turkey’s integration in EU. The beginning of Turkey – EU relations is 1963, when it was made EU – Turkey association treatment, by now to Turkey is given a candidate country status. After declared Turkey as candidate country, EU engaged to provide a financial assistance to Turkey during preparation to the EU membership process. EU provides financial assistance not only to announced candidate countries, but also to potential candidate countries for supporting non-member states to become member to EU, to become more democratic countries which respect and implement human rights, power of law, by providing financial assistance also is trying to solve social-economic problems, to promote development of countries and promote economic market. The financial assistance to candidate and potential candidate countries is provided under Instrument for pre-accession assistance (IPA). From the IPA establishment, the implementation of instrument was gradually decentralized by delegating more and more responsibilities to beneficial countries in this way promoting institutional capacity building. In the candidate countries the assistance is administrated by decentralized implementation method. Only based on subsidiarity and partnership principles EU assistance source... [to full text]
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Wilson, Rudolph. "An analysis of policies and practices in nonindustrial private forestry: a review of educational and technical assistance in North Carolina." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1986. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/483.
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This study emanates from the view that educational and technical assistance programs are key variables in woodlot owners’, especially farmers’, propensity to engage in systematic forest management practices. The dissertation findings indicate that, based upon the medium and quality of communication, the distribution of educational and technical assistance by forestry—elated agencies have systematically benefitted large-scale landowners over small-scale and minority landowners. Thus, a structure of inequality exists in forestry-related services which tends to perpetuate a system of discrimination based upon the size of landownership and the race of the landowner. “Economies of scale” debates play a great role in determining which class of forestland owners will be targeted for educational and technical assistance. The policy issue is whether small-scale woodlots are inefficient and large-scale woodlots are efficient based upon arguments of “economies of scale.” The policy consequence of these issues will largely determine who will control U.S. nonindustrial private forestry as well as much of U.S. agricultural production. Data were based upon sixty—five face—to—face interviews with woodlot owners who are farmers and fifteen face—to—face interviews with nonfarmers (professionals in agricultural and forestry—related fields). These data, collected during the summer of 1985 in seven selected counties, represent districts where most of Southern Pine forestry production is practiced in the state of North Carolina. Research findings suggest that small-scale woodlot owners/farmers are especially in need of more comprehensive information on systematic forest management and that they believe artificial regeneration provides advantages over natural regeneration regardless of the scale of the farm. Minority farmers largely believed that, although less intensively than in the past, they are continually discriminated against in the provisions of both educational and financial resources to better manage their woodlots, All farmers, regardless of scale of woodlots and racial makeup, prefer a more innovative and comprehensive educational and technical assistance delivery program. They believed that agriculture extension and state forestry are the two primary agencies that should provide more innovative programs but are unlikely to provide such programs in the near future.
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Oguchi, Hikaru. "The bureaucratic sectionalism of Japan's technical cooperation in the legal and judicial field : the case of legal assistance in Laos /." Thesis, May be available electronically:, 2004. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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Thesis (J.S.M.)--Stanford University, 2004.Submitted to the Stanford Program in International Legal Studies at the Stanford Law School, Stanford University. "May 2004." Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.
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Ghassemi, Youssef. "Les compléments de l'invention concédée : savoir faire, perfectionnement et assistance technique." Thesis, Paris 11, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA111003.
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La R&D interne coûte de plus en plus cher et son efficacité en termes de succès commercial est limitée. Lalicence de brevet constitue incontestablement un outil décisif pour maintenir la compétitivité des entreprises,notamment dans les secteurs de haute technologie, telles que les biotechnologies et les nanotechnologies. Lapratique révèle que, pour assurer un réel transfert de technologies, l’invention concédée est le plus souventaccompagnée par des prestations complémentaires portant sur le savoir-faire, les perfectionnements etl’assistance technique. L’interprétation et les modalités d’exécution de ces prestations sont à l’origine denombreuses questions d’importance pratique et théorique. D’une part, l’appréhension des notions de savoir-faire,de perfectionnement et d’assistance technique est délicate. D’autre part, l’étendue des obligations du concédantet du licencié à l’égard des compléments de l’invention concédée est incertaine. La prise en compte del’économie du contrat de licence de brevet s’avère essentielle pour apporter des solutions juridiques et pratiquesappropriées. Il s’agit de déterminer la destination du brevet concédé, telle qu’elle a été convenue par les parties.Celles-ci envisagent-elles une simple autorisation visant l’exécution de l’invention selon la description ?Cherchent-elles, au contraire, un transfert de maîtrise de la technologie brevetée permettant une exploitationoptimale ? En droit américain, en l’absence de clauses portant sur les compléments de l’invention concédée, leconcédant ne doit rien d’autre que la délivrance du brevet à son licencié. En revanche, force est de constaterqu’en droit français, sauf stipulations contraires, le donneur de licence est tenu de délivrer, en cas d’inégalitéd’information entre les parties, tous les compléments indispensables à « l’exploitation effective et sérieuse » del’invention concédéeThe internal R&D is increasingly expensive and its effectiveness in terms of commercialization success islimited. Patent licenses are undoubtedly a powerful tool to maintain business competitiveness, especially in hightechnology sectors such as biotechnology and nanotechnology. The practice shows that, to ensure effectivetechnology transfers, patent licenses are most often accompanied by accessory obligations on know-how,improvements and technical assistance. Interpretation and implementing rules of these obligations are the sourceof many issues of practical and theoretical importance. On the one hand, the notions of know-how, improvementand technical assistance are difficult to define. On the other hand, the extent of the parties’ obligations as to the“complements” of the licensed invention is uncertain. It is crucial to understand the economics of patentlicensing agreements to provide legal solutions and practical measures. This is to determine the legal purpose ofthe license, as it has been agreed by the parties. Do they contemplate a simple authorization for the “execution”of the invention according to the description? Do they seek, instead, a transfer of control of the patentedtechnology allowing optimum “exploitation” of the invention? Under U.S. law, in the absence of an expresscontractual stipulation, rights to know-how, improvements and technical assistance cannot be taken for granted.According to French law, unless otherwise provided in the contract, the licensor is obligated to supply, in case ofinequality of information between the parties, all “complements” which are indispensable for “an effective andserious exploitation” of the licensed invention
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Acar, Onur. "A Critique Of Liberal-conservative Approach To Poverty In Turkey: The Cases Of Deniz Feneri Association And Social Assistance And Solidarity General Directorate." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611048/index.pdf.
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20th century witnessed fundamental changes in capital accumulation regime and mode of regulation. The whole set of advanced capitalist countries and developing countries witnessed these changes in different forms depending on their historical cultural background. These fundamental changes also brought about transformations of the welfare regime of countries which constitutes the important fundamental component of a mode of regulation. This study developed a criticism of rising liberal-conservative approach to poverty in post-1980s by adopting as a structural and historical background the concerning fundamental changes in capital accumulation regime with its imposed constraints and opportunities on welfare
regimes of countries. This study intends to make this criticism of liberal-conservative approach to poverty in the context of Turkey by selecting Deniz Feneri Association and Social Assistance and Solidarity General Directorate as case studies.
Building upon the information acquired from interviews carried out by Deniz Feneri Association and Social Assistance and Solidarity General Directorate, this study identifies the liberal-conservative approach to poverty as the dominant approach to poverty in Turkey after 1980s. Furthermore, depending on the analysis of interviews depoliticization of poverty, rising moral language in poverty, and denial of social rights perspective which are identified to be the major foundational components of liberal-conservative approach to poverty are also identified to a great extent be in a reproduction relation with respect to the requirements of new capital accumulation regimes.
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Mole, Tracey Lawrence Tarrer Arthur R. "The Auburn Engineering Technical Assistance Program investigation of polyvinyl alcohol film developments pertaining to radioactive particle decontamination and industrial waste minimization." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1264.
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Bendaoud, Salah-Eddine. "Transfert international de technologie informatique dans le cadre d'un projet de coopération institutionnelle /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1990. http://theses.uqac.ca.
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Arun, Mustafa Onur. "A Contribution To The Poverty Syudies In Turkey With A Framework Of Capability Approach: The Case Of General Directorate Of Social Assistance And Solidarity." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613401/index.pdf.
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This study aims to contribute to the poverty studies in Turkey in terms of the capability approach introduced to the scientific literature by Nobel Laureate thinker Amartya Sen. The approach is closely connected with the idea of justice and particularly with the Rawls&rsquos model of social justice. This study&rsquo
s perception of justice is based on the idea that justice is the virtue of the institutions, but not that of individuals. Although the Rawls&rsquo
s justice analysis is approved in terms of making institutional analysis, his perception regarding to the rights are criticized since these are perceived as &ldquo
ends&rdquo
but not the &ldquo
means&rdquo
of individuals&rsquo
welfare. Therefore, it is claimed in this study that holding certain sets of rights are not significant by themselves, but how they can be converted into personal wellbeing is crucial as well. In this framework, poverty is considered as capability deprivation and it is claimed that poverty analyses based on commodity ownership are not satisfactory. As the case of this study, General Directorate of Social Assistance and Solidarity organized as the main state institution so as to alleviate the poverty in Turkey has been chosen and the question of whether the relief programs of the institution are designed to alleviate poverty by enhancing individuals&rsquo
capabilities is raised. It has been concluded in this study that (1) income centred poverty perception of the institution does not take into account the variations in needs, (2) the reliefs are designed to increase economic productivity of individuals but not the valuable capabilities and (3) the operational logic of the institution is based on managing poverty, but not alleviating it.
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Pritchard, Pamela J. (Pamela Jayne). "Canadian cooperants in counterpart training : patterns and effectiveness." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59381.
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The study examined the patterns and effectiveness of counterpart training by Canadian cooperants involved in development projects. The traditional one-on-one apprenticeship model of counterpart training was used. Success of the training was analysed by comparing results against the principles of effective training in industry.A group of 40 Canadian cooperants returned from postings in Africa participated in the study. All of the cooperants were participants in a major study on cross cultural effectiveness sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency.
Results of the study indicate that the counterpart training system is not very effective as a means of transferring knowledge and expertise. The problem appeared to lie in the process itself. Training was generally secondary to completion of the project on time and on budget, and tended to evolve as the need arose and as time permitted. Few of the cooperants had any experience in designing training interventions, and so devised their own tools and methods with few identifiable measures of success. There were no formal evaluations of either the cooperant or the counterpart, nor of program success upon completion of the training.
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Retana, Solano German F. "Technology support and demand for cloud infrastructure services: the role of service providers." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/50236.
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Service providers have long recognized that their customers play a vital role in the service delivery process since they are not only recipients but also producers, or co-producers, of the service delivered. Moreover, in the particular context of self-service technology (SST) offerings, it is widely recognized that customers’ knowledge, skills and abilities in co-producing the service are key determinants of the services’ adoption and usage. However, despite the importance of customers’ capabilities, prior research has not yet paid much attention to the mechanisms by which service providers can influence them and, in turn, how the providers’ efforts affect customers’ use of the service.
This dissertation addresses research questions associated with the role of a provider’s technology support and education in influencing customer use of an SST, namely public cloud computing infrastructure services. The unique datasets used to answer these research questions were collected from one of the major global providers in the cloud infrastructure services industry. This research context offers an excellent opportunity to study the role of technology support since, when adapting the standardized and commoditized components of the cloud service to their individual needs, customers may face important co-production costs that can be mitigated by the provider’s assistance. Specifically, customers must configure their computing servers and deploy their software applications on their own, relying on their own capabilities. Moreover, the cloud’s offering of on-demand computing servers through a fully pay-per-use model allows us to directly observe variation in the actual use customers make of the service.
The first study of this dissertation examines how varying levels of technology support, which differ in the level of participation and assistance of the provider in customers’ service co-production process, influence the use that customers make of the service. The study matches and compares 20,179 firms that used the service between March 2009 and August 2012, and who over time accessed one of the two levels of support available: full and basic. Using fixed effects panel data models and a difference-in-difference identification strategy, we find that customers who have access to full support or accessed it in the past use (i.e., consume) more of the service than customers who have only accessed basic support. Moreover, the provider’s involvement in the co-production process is complementary with firm size in the sense that larger firms use more of the service than smaller ones if they upgrade from basic to full support. Finally, the provider’s co-participation through full support also has a positive influence on the effectiveness with which buyers make use of the service. Firms that access full support are more likely to deploy computing architectures that leverage on the cloud’s advanced features.
The second study examines the value of early proactive education, which is defined as any provider-initiated effort to increase its customers’ service co-production related knowledge and skills immediately after service adoption. The study analyzes the outcome of a field experiment executed by the provider between October and November 2011, during which 366 randomly-selected customers out of 2,673 customers that adopted during the field experiment period received early proactive education treatment. The treatment consisted in a short phone call followed up by a support ticket through which the provider offered initial guidance on how to use the basic features of the service. We use survival analysis (i.e., hazard models) to compare the treatment’s effect on customer retention, and find that it reduces by half the number of customers who leave the service offering during the first week. We also use count data models to examine the treatment’s effect on customers’ demand for technology support, and find that the treated customers ask about 19.55% fewer questions during the first week of their lifetimes than the controls.
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Smith, Maurice Devoe Jr. "An Analysis of African American Farmer Participation in Virginia Cooperative Extension: An Emphasis on the Small Farm Outreach and Technical Assistance Program." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19217.
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This research study examined African American farmer participation in Virginia Cooperative Extension as a step toward fully understanding the role participation plays in supporting African American farmers as legitimate learners within the Cooperative Extension system. This study, therefore, focused on exploring participation in African American farmer programs through the single case of Virginia Cooperative Extension\'s Small Farm Outreach and Technical Assistance Program. This program, which is housed at Virginia State University, aims to support minority farmers who have limited access to benefits from USDA programs. Historically, limited resource farmers have been challenged to gain full access to programs offered by Cooperative Extension. Using a qualitative case study design, individual interviews were conducted with African American farmers, extension specialists, small farm agents, and the program administrators. Two focus groups were conducted with the Small Farm Program agents and another with African American farmers that participated in the program. A review of the findings indicated that the Small Farm Outreach and Technical Assistance at Virginia State University provide various educational opportunities to African American farmers. The program provides one-on-one technical assistance, distribution of information, USDA loan application assistance, workshops and conferences, and networking. Participants stated that agents being "hands on" was a great way to talk and effectively provide assistance to them. The findings for the study characterized barriers relaying from challenges in the program to communication between program and farmers. Family motivation, technology, and the USDA were other unknown barriers that were revealed in the study.
The data suggest improvements for the program; first, the involvement of more farmers in the program planning of educational opportunities at Virginia State University would increase participation. Second, the current evaluation of strategies should be continued as a method of usage. However, a pre and post survey should be conducted to analyze and discover farmer\'s usage in modern to traditional communication systems. Third, providing additional technological advancement training to agents, specialists, and director to be more advance in the new age, and lastly at conferences and/or workshops, construct more engaging informative discussions on adult learning and farm family motivation factors.
Master of Science in Life Sciences
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Stoyanova, Youliana. "Key factors that influence the effectiveness of technical assistance in individual workplace learning : a case study of the Afghan public sector (2002-2014)." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/38097.
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At the turn of the century Afghanistan started receiving significant development assistance, becoming the world’s top aid recipient from 2007. A major share of this assistance has been allocated to learning and other interventions aiming to improve the capacities of Afghan government institutions and employees. Such support has been predominantly delivered by externally-funded consultants embedded within host government agencies. Yet the return on this investment has been questionable, with some suggesting that the effectiveness of the national government in this period actually declined. Consequently, this thesis explores the key factors that enabled or inhibited individual workplace learning in Afghanistan’s public sector during the period 2002-2014, the years marking the influx, peak and recent decline of development assistance to the country. It makes use of multiple data sources anchored around 34 qualitative semi-structured interviews with Afghan civil servants and advisors at the forefront of aid delivery. To answer its research question, the study brings into conversation the workplace learning literature with insights from the literature on development. While the features of the aid-dependent Afghan bureaucracy clearly diverge from the typical sites studied in the West, this case study confirms the applicability of workplace theories into the unchartered territory of capacity building practices. Furthermore, by adopting a Bourdieusian theoretical framework, the thesis presents an explanation that includes contextual, subjective and power-related factors influencing learning outcomes. This study concludes that contextual factors sourcing from both the provider and recipient side of development assistance are highly influential modifiers of the effectiveness of learning interventions. It also refutes the assumption characterising most development practice that psychological and interactional factors can be safely ignored. Finally, this thesis indicates that the practice of capacity building can be experienced as a means of reinforcing the unequal power relations of development.
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Noble, Jonathan Philip. "World Vision's partners in participatory development projects : where does the environment fit? /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envn749.pdf.
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FREITAS, Janierk Pereira de. "Análise das vulnerabilidades dos assentamentos rurais e o papel da comissão pastoral da terra/sertão no processo de reforma agrária no município de Cajazeiras/PB." Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, 2017. http://dspace.sti.ufcg.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/riufcg/1680.
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A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar as vulnerabilidades social, econômica, à seca, ambiental, tecnológica, cultural e política dos sete assentamentos rurais do município de Cajazeiras – PB, Santo Antônio, Frei Damião, Frei Beda, Edvaldo Sebastião, Valdecir Santiago, Mãe Rainha e Santa Cecília, como também a história de vida dos assentados que se dispuseram a relatar suas histórias no sentido de rememorá-las. O diálogo entre o passado e o presente dos personagens reconstitui suas experiências cotidianas vividas, levando para uma compreensão detalhada das crenças, atitudes, lembranças e valores dos mesmos. Analisou-se também o papel da Comissão da Pastoral da Terra no processo de Reforma Agrária no Alto Sertão e sua participação no processo de desapropriação dos assentamentos pesquisados e sua contribuição nas práticas materiais de vida, de trabalho que esses agricultores vêm utilizando para a permanência nestes assentamentos rurais, a importância do ambiente e suas formas de proteção. Para a realização da pesquisa utilizou-se da metodologia de História Oral apresentada como fio condutor dos caminhos delineados, permitindo o diálogo entre o passado e o presente dos personagens, assim os mesmos podem reconstituir suas experiências cotidianas vividas. Para analisar os fatores de vulnerabilidades utilizou-se da metodologia aplicada para o Diagnóstico de Vulnerabilidades, uma vez que esta metodologia responde pelo o resultado levantado dos Fatores de Vulnerabilidades (social, econômica, à seca, ambiental, tecnológica, cultural e política) nos assentamentos pesquisados. Quanto à técnica para coleta de dados, utilizou-se o estudo de campo, entrevistas semiestruturadas (temáticas e de história de vida), questionários semiestruturados e observação participante. Para a sistematização dos resultados levantados procedeu-se com uma abordagem quali-quantitativa de forma comparativa, tratando-se de uma aproximação entre a análise qualitativa e quantitativa, e tendo uma abordagem quantitativa na sistematização de parte dos dados, estes sendo compilados em gráficos, tabelas e também discutidos à luz da narrativa descritiva. Os resultados obtidos no estudo atestam a importância da existência de iniciativas e reais mudanças na vida dos moradores dos assentamentos pesquisados. Para às famílias entrevistadas, a Comissão Pastoral da Terra/Sertão foi a entidade principal pelos resultados das conquistas alcançadas por eles, tanto no momento inicial pela desapropriação, como nos anos iniciais de assentamento pelas mudanças significativas no modo de vivência dos assentados. Por outro lado, o estudo das vulnerabilidades aponta que a maioria dos assentamentos apresenta vulnerabilidade alta e muito alta. O alto índice de vulnerabilidade, algo preocupante para política de Reforma Agrária do INCRA, pois atestam que as condições socioeconômicas, ambiental políticas e cultural das comunidades assentadas são precárias. O alto índice de vulnerabilidade é atribuído à escassez de chuvas nos últimos anos, à suspensão da assessoria técnica rural por parte do INCRA e à demora da liberação de empréstimo das linhas de crédito do Pronaf para alguns assentamentos. As linhas de crédito do Pronaf são de suma importância para a manutenção dos assentados nas comunidades rurais, pois criam condições para o alcance, por parte dos agricultores assentados, de uma qualidade de vida digna no campo. A assessoria técnica rural deve interagir e capacitar as famílias assentadas de forma a orientar e facilitar a execução de suas ações, tornando-as mais fortalecidas e enraizadas no lugar.
The present research aims to analyze the social, economic, drought, environmental, technological, cultural and political vulnerabilities of the seven rural settlements of the municipality of Cajazeiras – PB, Santo Antônio, Frei Damião, Frei Beda, Edvaldo Sebastião, Valdecir Santiago, Mãe Rainha and Santa Cecilia, as well as the life history of the settlers who set out to report their stories in order to recall them. The dialogue between the past and the present of the characters reconstitutes their lived daily experiences, leading to a detailed understanding of their beliefs, attitudes, memories and values. The role of the Pastoral Land Commission in the process of Agrarian Reform in Alto Sertão and its participation in the process of expropriation of the settlements surveyed and its contribution to the material life-work practices that these farmers have been using for the permanence in these settlements, the importance of the environment and its forms of protection. In order to carry out the research, Oral History methodology was used as the guiding thread of the outlined paths, allowing the dialogue between the past and the present of the characters, so that they can reconstruct their lived experiences. In order to analyze the vulnerability factors, the methodology used for the Vulnerability Diagnosis was used, since this methodology responds by the result of the Vulnerability Factors (social, economic, drought, environmental, technological, cultural and political) in the settlements researched. As for the technique for data collection, field study, semi-structured interviews (thematic and life history), semi-structured questionnaires and participant observation were used. In order to systematize the results obtained, a qualitative-quantitative approach was carried out in a comparative way, being an approximation between the qualitative and quantitative analysis, and taking a quantitative approach in the systematization of part of the data, being compiled in graphs, tables and also discussed in the light of descriptive narrative. The results obtained in the study attest to the importance of the existence of initiatives and real changes in the life of the inhabitants of the researched settlements. For the interviewed families, the Land/Sertão Pastoral Commission was the main entity because of the results achieved by them, both at the time of expropriation, and in the initial years of settlement due to the significant changes in the way the settlers lived. On the other hand, the study of vulnerabilities indicates that the majority of the settlements present high and very high vulnerability. The high index of vulnerability, something of concern for INCRA's Agrarian Reform policy, because they attest that the socioeconomic, political, and cultural conditions of settled communities are precarious. The high level of vulnerability is attributable to the scarcity of rainfall in recent years, the suspension of rural technical assistance by INCRA and the delay in the loan release of the PRONAF credit lines for some settlements. The PRONAF credit lines are of great importance for the maintenance of the settlers in the rural communities, as they create the conditions for settled farmers to have a decent quality of life in the countryside. The rural technical advisory must interact and train the settled families in order to guide and facilitate the execution of their actions, making them more strengthened and rooted in the place.
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Martins, Ana Karina Santana. "As intervenções técnicas em áreas de reforma agrária no Estado de Sergipe : possibilidades e desafios." Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 2011. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/4334.
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The settlement as a space for living and production not only represents the fulfillment of a dream, but the construction of a new identity for the former landless farmer now seated,
which should be able to turn what was once unproductive in one sustainable unit of production. The development of sustainable farming requires the farmer to become familiar
with the cycles of nature and understanding of what happens with the components of the production system (soil, vegetation, water resources and social relations) in order to find intervention strategies more compatible with reality in partnership with technical assistance. The focus of this study was to analyze the relationship between technical assistance and development of sustainable productive activities in the settlement of Victoria Roque, Cristinápolis SE. The methodology is anchored on a qualitative approach, with the
completion of semi-structured interviews with settlers and technicians in that settlement. In this sense, the lack of service or loss of continuity was appointed as a highly relevant factor for the success of the environmental and productive agrarian reform settlements nevertheless the inconstancy of technical services to the settlement contributed significantly to the failure of Productive activities in the settlements, especially in the initial phase. Currently, services are rendered with greater regularity, but still far from an educational process, being essentially an information overload as the activities of those professionals hinders the planning and
execution of team activities in the settlement, the absence of time limits monitoring individual lots to productive, professional training is still off, but admittedly important because universities and agricultural schools do not prepare for the reality of family farming and agrarian reform. On the positive side, there is the realization of meetings in which professionals from different areas and representatives of the settlements can discuss and develop a more comprehensive analysis of the problems that affect the settlements. Moreover, there is also a clear change in the posture of the professional who has tried to respect the knowledge produced empirically, trying to reconcile it with scientific knowledge to the extent that there is an important step forward in relation to interdisciplinary work and dialogue. However, is necessary to ensure a greater coordination between educational institutions and research, and INCRA technicians to ensure service quality and continuity.O assentamento como espaço de vida e de produção representa não só a concretização de um sonho, mas a construção de uma nova identidade para o ex sem terra. Enquanto agricultor assentado deverá ser capaz de transformar o que era antes improdutivo em uma unidade produtiva sustentável. O desenvolvimento de atividades agrícolas sustentáveis requer do agricultor a familiarização com os ciclos da natureza e a compreensão do que ocorre com os componentes do sistema produtivo (solo, vegetação, recursos hídricos e relações sociais) de modo a encontrar estratégias de intervenção mais compatíveis com a realidade em parceria com a assistência técnica. O foco deste estudo foi analisar a relação entre a assessoria técnica e o desenvolvimento de atividades produtivas sustentáveis no assentamento Vitória de São Roque, Cristinápolis SE. A metodologia utilizada ancora-se na abordagem qualitativa, com a realização de entrevista semi-estruturada com assentados e técnicos no referido assentamento. Neste sentido, a ausência de assistência técnica ou perda de sua continuidade foi apontada como um fator de grande relevância para o êxito produtivo e ambiental dos assentamentos de Reforma Agrária de modo que a inconstância da prestação de serviços técnicos ao assentamento contribuiu significativamente para o insucesso de atividades produtivas desenvolvidas no assentamento, principalmente na fase inicial. Atualmente, os serviços são prestados com maior regularidade, mas ainda distante de um processo educativo, sendo essencialmente informativo uma vez que a sobrecarga de atividades dos referidos profissionais dificulta o planejamento e execução de atividades em equipe no assentamento; a ausência de tempo limita o acompanhamento individualizado aos lotes produtivos; a capacitação do profissional ainda é pontual, mas reconhecidamente importante porque as universidades e escolas agrícolas não preparam para a realidade de agricultura familiar e reforma agrária. Quanto aos aspectos positivos, destaca-se a realização das reuniões, nas quais os profissionais de áreas distintas e representantes dos assentamentos discutem e podem elaborar análises mais abrangentes acerca dos problemas que afetam os assentamentos. Além disto, há também uma nítida modificação da postura do profissional que tem procurado respeitar o conhecimento empiricamente produzido, tentando conciliá-lo com conhecimento científico na medida em que há um importante avanço em relação ao trabalho interdisciplinar e dialógico. Mas, ainda é necessário avançar no sentido de garantir uma maior articulação entre as instituições de ensino e pesquisa, técnicos e o INCRA para garantir a prestação de serviços com qualidade e continuidade.