In het praktijkgerichte onderzoek dat we de afgelopen drie jaar vanuit het lectoraat Participatie en Maatschappelijke Ontwikkeling(PMO) van de Hogeschool Utrecht hebben gedaan, heeft de rol van professionals bij het voorkomen van schulden bij jongeren centraal gestaan. Naast overige actoren als ouders, …

Het Landelijk cliëntenforum Jeugdzorg (LCFJ) en MOgroep Jeugdzorg hebben gezamenlijk een projectplan ‘Cliënten op weg in jeugdzorg’ opgesteld om een aantal knelpunten die cliënten ervaren in de jeugdzorg op te lossen. Uitgangspunt is cliënten en medewerkers gezamenlijk te consulteren om tot oplossingen …

In the Netherlands only few women have top positions in business life. The Dutch Constitution has a Law on Equal Opportunity for men and women, nevertheless there is no equality between men and women when it comes to top positions. Fortunately, because of the women organizations, like Woman Capital, …

Throughout the years women in most countries were granted the same political rights as men. Namely, the right to vote and the right to stand for election. However, this did not automatically lead to equal participation in political decision making. It is remarkable to see that this, even though women …

Wilhelmina Drucker and Aletta Jacobs were the main women of the first wave and meant a lot for the position of women nowadays. At the end of the first feminist wave women obtained the right to vote and were able to attend college and universities, and had the right to work outdoors. In the 1950s and …

The following paper presents an evaluation of actions and commitments carried out by the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) in order to achieve gender-sensitive sustainable development. Starting with the introduction explaining the issue of gender inequality and describing the research methods …

The central question of this dissertation is what lessons can be learned from Surinam when it comes to the integration of immigrants. Surinam consists of five main population groups and to assess this process of integration this dissertation is structured by the following questions: What is integration …

BACKGROUND: Paratonia is one of the associated movement disorders characteristic of dementia. The aim of this study was to develop an assessment tool (the Paratonia Assessment Instrument, PAI), based on the new consensus definition of paratonia. An additional aim was to investigate the reliability and …

Dit onderzoek heeft als doel inzicht te bieden in de (ernst) van de problematiek binnen de dagbehandelingsgroepen van De Zevenster. Getracht wordt objectieve gegevens te bieden ten aanzien van de populatie binnen de dagbehandelingsgroepen en de zwaarte van de problematiek, met als doel een bijdrage te …

The scope of this paper is safe and sustainable sanitation in agriculture. Specifically, the idea of the paper is to find out the existing regulations and guidelines concerning a sustainable wastewater management in the European Union (EU), regarding small-scale on-site wastewater management, and particularly …