Gelet op het principe van het gemeenschappelijk erfgoed van de mensheid en de plicht om activiteiten in het Gebied uit te oefenen ten behoeve van de gehele mensheid, dient er in toenemende mate rekening te worden gehouden met de belangen en noden van ontwikkelingslanden. Verschillende mechanismen werden bedacht om te verzekeren dat ontwikkelingslan...
In developing and emerging (D&E) countries, the large number of poor people, most of whom are female, earn a living based on small-scale self-employed units established in subsistence marketplaces in the large informal sector. With the recent rise of middle-classes in developing and emerging countries, micro-entrepreneurs, can potentially lift them...
Smallholder dairy cattle production systems in Africa are intensifying production through importation of germplasm from breeding programs conducted in temperate regions to improve commercial cow populations. Presence of genotype by environment interaction results in unfavorable correlated responses. The aim this thesis was to develop strategies for...
This thesis examines the extent to what corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies, entrepreneurial and business skills and programmes for training and monitoring improve microbusiness performance and loan repayment rates: ‘To what extent do corporate social responsibility strategies, entrepreneurial and business skills and programmes for tra...
Since the advent of professional forestry in the 17th century, forest monitoring has been part and parcel of forest management, and has been implemented in different forms in many European countries. The practice of forest monitoring was later exported to the European colonies, and has since been taken over and conducted by post-colonial government...
Sanitation planning in developing countries: Added value of resource recovery Worldwide 2.5 billion people lack access to sanitation. This impacts human live, the environment and represents a loss of valuable resources that can be regained from wastewater. This study shows that resource recovery can be a potential driver to accelerate sanitation. A...
Voor het Bachelor Afstudeer Project van groep I is BabyShell ontwikkeld. BabyShell is een draagbaar apparaat dat in staat is om jonge ouders en zwangere vrouwen te helpen om een voorlopige diagnose te stellen van medische problemen van hun kinderen. Ook is BabyShell in staat om temperatuur op te nemen en belangrijke data bij te houden zoals dokters...
In ontwikkelingslanden zijn er nog altijd veel problemen met de gezondheid van zwangere vrouwen en jonge kinderen. Daarom is voor dit Bachelor afstudeerproject BabyShell ontwikkeld: een draagbaar apparaat dat onafhankelijk is van het stroomnet en door middel van een vraag-antwoord proces diagnoses voor medische problemen kan stellen. BabyShell is v...
Key Words: Social Venture Entrepreneurs, Exit, Ownership Social Venture Entrepreneurs invest in local and mostly bottom of pyramid (BoPs), and more so in developing economies. Different understanding and meanings given to the term exit and ownership, by social venture entrepreneurs and local communities with varied cultural business practices, are ...
