This paper provides insights into the operational features of community-based financing mechanisms. These include CAF groups, which are self-financed communities where people save and lend money to each other. The implementation of such self-financed communities in the Netherlands is supported by Participatory …

Par-T Events is een festival organisatie die in 2014 haar tien jarig jubileum viert. Een mogelijkheid is dat dit jubileum gevierd wordt met een documentaire over de organisatie. Een documentaire biedt voor de organisatie een kans om zichzelf te onderscheiden in de branche. Het komt nu nog nauwelijks …

Reflecting on the link between religion and religious tradition(s) on the one hand and school and education on the other, and reflecting on the reasoning strategy to make sense of this link, people seem to tend strongly to think, argue and reflect in a deductive mode (this point is elaborated in par. …

De leerkrachten van de groepen 4 t/m 8 van basisschool St. Michiel te Schalkwijk zijn op zoek naar een goede afstemming tussen het onderwijsaanbod van de leerkrachten en onderwijsbehoeften van leerlingen. Ze willen spellingzwakke kinderen een goed onderwijsaanbod kunnen bieden waardoor de resultaten …

Swarm planning is a theory and practical approach to deal with uncertain futures. By anticipating scenarios such as a ‘post-carbon’ world and a ‘pre-adaptive’ landscape, it offers an alternative pathway to prepare for medium-term incremental and step changes. The focus is on the regional scale with a …

Established out of the desire to bring humanitarian relief in man-made human disasters, such as war and other armed conflicts, international humanitarian law (IHL) prescribes the legal obligation of the conflict parties and armed forces to permit ICRC's humanitarian operations. All over the world the …

Established out of the desire to bring humanitarian relief in man-made human disasters, such as war and other armed conflicts, international humanitarian law (IHL) prescribes the legal obligation of the conflict parties and armed forces to permit ICRC's humanitarian operations. All over the world the …

A la différence d'Aristote, d'Hobbes, de Locke et de Rousseau et malgré leurs plaidoyers maternalistes, il y avait quand même des voix critiques mais malheureusement en minorité qui rejettaient toute mention des différences entre les sexes pour approuver l'exclusion des femmes dans les droits civiques. …

In this chapter the autor explores the contours and possible effects of the WMO for the local government level. First she gives a short overview of the main features of the WMO (PAR. 2.5). Then she describes the challenges that local government is confronted with, especially the political decisions that …

Mammalian promoters can be separated into two classes, conserved TATA box-enriched promoters, which initiate at a well-defined site, and more plastic, broad and evolvable CpG-rich promoters. We have sequenced tags corresponding to several hundred thousand transcription start sites (TSSs) in the mouse …