Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Brun, Cathrine"
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Analyzing post coastal erosion livelihoods after the construction of the Keta sea defence project and the resettlement of costal dwellers in Keta, Ghana
Dogbey, Samuel Yao (Master thesis, 2015)Over the years, coastal erosion has posed a serious threat to many coastal dwellers. Coastal erosion has destroyed the livelihood and properties to affected communities which led them to impoverishment. The effect is largely ... -
Challenges to Refugees' Freedom of Movement in Uganda: A Case of Self-Settled Refugees in Kisenyi, Kampala
Ssemugenyi, Daniel (Master thesis, 2011)The thesis discusses the challenges to refugees’ freedom of movement in Uganda. The main objective of this study was to explore the factors confronted by refugees in a bid to exercise their relative freedom of movement in ... -
Children’s Institutions: A study of Children’s Homes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Dybsland, Nanna (Master thesis, 2011)The issues that children in Ethiopia face are some of the most challenging in the World. The situation for millions of Ethiopian children can only be described as a crisis. As a result many thousands of Ethiopian children ... -
Cooperative or complaint: A study of partnerships between development actors in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Hennum, Anette Ruud (Master thesis, 2011)In today’s aid system, “partnership” has become a guiding principle for the desired relationships between actors working with development. By partnering the assumption is that the organisations can be part of a relationship ... -
Finding a place. Local integration and protracted displacement in Sri Lanka
Brun, Cathrine (Doctoral thesis, 2003)In October 1990, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam expelled the entire Muslim population living in the LTTE-controlled areas of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. Most of the northern Muslims arrived and settled in ... -
Fra bistand til business: Kommersialiseringen av mikrofinanssektoren i Uganda
Landfastøien, Tina (Master thesis, 2011)Mikrokreditt har lenge blitt ansett som en viktig metode for å redusere fattigdom. Etter hvert har man innsett at fattige trenger flere finansielle tjenester enn lån, og man har derfor utvidet begrepet til mikrofinansiering. ... -
Interminably Displaced?: Home-making practises among Georgian IDPs in Collective Centres in the context of privatisation
Thorshaug, Ragne Øwre (Master thesis, 2011)This master thesis explores different forms of home-making among internally displaced persons living in Collective Centres in Tbilisi, Georgia in the context of an ongoing privatisation programme. Following the break-up ... -
International NGOs in development through the promotion of children's right to quality education: The case of Awutu-Senya District of Ghana
Sarfo, Baffour Gyimah Kantanka (Master thesis, 2013)Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in recent times have become prominent in the developmental agenda of most deprived societies across the globe. Through the adoption of rights and participatory mechanisms in their ... -
Livelihood strategies of migrants in the transmigrasi location in Indonesia
Forisa, Hanesty (Master thesis, 2014)This study is about the livelihood strategies of migrant households who are resettled from Wonogiri Regency in Central Java Province to West Sumatera Province, Indonesia, through transmigrasi program called Bedol Desa. The ... -
“Mixed Migration” : looking at Congolese migrants in Kampala, Uganda
Coates, Ruth (Master thesis, 2014)This master‘s thesis explores the concept of ‘mixed migration‘ among the Congolese urban migrant population in Kampala, Uganda. The two labels of forced‘ and voluntary‘ migrants become increasingly blurred as people move ... -
Movement, home and identity: dilemmas of urban internal displacement in Kampala, Uganda
Møllerop, Camilla Våset (Master thesis, 2013)The conflict that ravaged Northern Uganda for two decades led to displacement of nearly two million northern Ugandans. The majority remained within the country borders fleeing into IDP camps, towns and cities. This thesis ... -
Rural-urban migration : causes, migrants' town livelihood activities and social capital in Berehet District, Ethiopia
Abebe, Adefris Tefera (Master thesis, 2014)Ranging from the smallest local to the largest international migration is a substance in the process of globalization which drives the present economic, political, social, cultural and technological engines of individuals ... -
The Rise of Social Enterprises in Low-trust Situations. Non-profit organizations’ survival strategies in post-civil war and disaster-affected villages in Batticaloa District, Sri Lanka
Maheswaran, Sivagnanam (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:296, Doctoral thesis, 2017)Sammendrag av doktorgradsavhandling Sri Lanka blir ofte referert til som halv autoritær stat, da den engasjerer seg i systematiske kampanjer for å begrense rom for sivile samfunnsorganisasjoner (CSOs) etter at borgerkrigen ... -
Voicing Noise: Action research with informal settlement groups and their partners in Malawi
Refstie, Hilde (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:114, Doctoral thesis, 2018)Does participatory planning enable informal settlement groups in Malawi to realize citizenship rights such as housing, services and political voice? Is their participation really transformative? These are some of the ... -
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers : a case study about the stability of a small private children’s home in Ghana
Lundgaard, Lisa Birgitta (Master thesis, 2015)The field of development today is teeming with new actors and philanthropists. Now, small private actors and individuals are contributing with services and aid to the poor living in the Global south. These services used ... -
Women and Land Ownership Rights in Kilimanjaro: A Tension between Women Land Ownership Rights and Culture: A case of Moshi Rural District Tanzania
Asantemungu, Raphael Ernest (Master thesis, 2011)Despite the efforts and strategies geared towards women in realizing property rights in terms of empowerment, participation and decision making in the global context today many African societies are still characterized by ... -
Zambia's housing scheme of the mid 1990s: Have the poor really been empowered?
Basila, Christcola (Master thesis, 2005)Issues of housing are becoming very important as the urban population grows at a very rapid rate, particularly in developing countries. The number of people who are homeless and those living in substandard housing in Zambia ...