Gressel, Christie M Rashed, Tarek Maciuika, Laura Aswati Sheshadri, Srividya Coley, Christopher Kongeseri, Sreeram Bhavani, Rao R
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World development perspectives
•Women's empowerment interventions are not as effective as hoped or intended.•Could be an issue with intervention design and implementation.•Research reveals that there are several limitations to existing women's empowerment approaches.•These include disregard of context, a non-holistic approach, difficulty measuring variables, etc.•Vulnerability m...
Schweik, Charles M Meyer, Carl Chinkondenji, Pempho Smith, Jeremy Mchenga, Promise
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World Librarians is a socio-technical system that strives to solve the information access problem many remote offline schools and libraries have in lesser developed contexts. In this Case Report, we describe the system we have developed over the course of three years, where we first establish solar-powered computer labs in remote schools and librar...
Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie, Michael Abunyewah, Matthew Edusei, Joseph Buernor Alimo, Emmanuel
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Citizen participation in decision-making on water-related initiatives offers a valuable pathway to move towards a more equitable and sustainable water delivery, now and into the future. However, given the acknowledged impacts of active citizen participation in the water governance process, there is an increase institutional search for ideal approac...
Jurjonas, Matthew Aldana, Lesly
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The Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change outline mitigation goals by sector. However, this framing is likely to create climate justice issues as it does not explicitly address the contributions of individuals. High emissions from luxury activities like commercial air travel are addressed with voluntary and b...
