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Social grants, food security and coping strategies: a case study of selected households in Umhlathuze District, KwaZulu-Natal.Mtyingizane, Samela January 2018 (has links)
A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Masters Of Arts in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Zululand, 2018 / The main aim of this study was to establish an association between social grants and access to sufficient food within beneficiary households and how these households cope with food insecurity. A data set of 100 respondents from uMhlathuze city was used to determine the effectiveness of social grants. Firstly, the results of the regression analysis show the relationship between characteristics of the household caregiver such as gender, educational attainment, marital status and employment status, with food (in) security. The intention was to determine whether such features reduce or augment household access to adequate food, and it was discovered that most of these characteristics do not significantly affect food (in) security levels. Households running out of food, the skipping of meals and reasons for skipping meals were used as predictors of food insecurity. Also, other methods were utilised to comprehensively assess the significance of social grants, such as: reviewing how the households utilised the income from the grants, the percentage contribution of the grants to the general household income and what other sources of income the households had. It was evident that grant income was pooled amongst household members to support various household necessities other than food. When households received grants, they spent them on food, education, medical costs, clothes, payment of loans, water bills, starting a small business and building a home, and very few could afford to make savings or investments. The majority of households admitted that they would be incapable of surviving without the grants, as they were a necessary contribution towards food access. It had been fully established that households were food insecure and sometimes hungry; therefore, there was a necessity for assessing the types of adopted coping strategies. Unfortunately, many used mechanisms that were harmful to the households in the long run, such as taking loans, skipping meals and purchasing cheap food. To assess the importance of caregiver characteristics for food security, a simple correlation analysis was used. It was discovered that the progression of food insecurity does not subside or grow within the household on account of caregiver socio-demographic characteristics. They were ineffectual in sufficiently achieving food access. In conclusion, social grant beneficiary households at Umhlathuze are food insecure. This is an unfortunate state of affairs, as access to sufficient food is a basic human right, according to Section 27 of the South African Constitution.
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Lessons Learned: Coordinating Community Outreach Grants for Maximum EffectivenessWallace, Rick L. 01 January 2004 (has links)
Janice Kelly presented the following PowerPoint presentation, followed by other presenters who served as a panel to briefly discuss outreach grants and problems/resolutions that they faced. Janice's presentation is recommended as being helpful for anyone applying for a grant.
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The competition over the Morrill Land Grant funds in Ohio, 1862-1870 /Zam, Gerard Anthony January 1985 (has links)
No description available.
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The impact of chapter two of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act in eight Virginia school districtsWeinheimer, Donald J. January 1984 (has links)
This study investigated the impact of the ECIA Chapter 2 Block Grant program and the extent to which the legislative intent was realized in a sample of eight local education agencies (LEAs) in Virginia. Specifically, three research questions were investigated: Did the implementation of ECIA Chapter 2 affect formerly funded categorical programs in the LEAs?; Did the implementation of ECIA Chapter 2 result in the reduction of administrative costs and paperwork burden for the LEAs?; and, Did the implementation of ECIA Chapter 2 provide increased LEA responsibility for the design and implementation of local education programs?
The study included data collection at eight Virginia LEAs, Amelia, Arlington, Charlottesville City, King George, Powhatan, Rappahannock, Richmond City and Suffolk City. Administrative, programmatic and fiscal effects associated with ECIA Chapter 2 implementation for the 1982-83 school year were examined with the aid of a semi-structured interview guide. Data were analyzed through the use of the constant comparative method developed by Glaser and Strauss. Data were analyzed across study sites and in case study format.
Study findings indicated that the implementation of ECIA Chapter 2 had a detrimental effect on the local programs previously supported with federal categorical program funds. Seventy-six percent of the local programs in study sites were diminished in some way with the implementation of Chapter 2. New local programs supported with Chapter 2 funds in study sites differed from those supported with categorical funds in significant ways. Second, the study found that three study sites experienced reduced administrative costs and paperwork, one experienced no difference, and one-half of the study sites experienced increased administrative costs and paperwork under Chapter 2. Finally, across all study sites, it was found that the implementation of ECIA Chapter 2 did not result in an increase of LEA involvement in program planning and development activities. / Ed. D.
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Do Intergovernmental Grants Boost Elderly Care Spendings? : A case study of the Swedish stimulus grants for increased staffing in elderly carePanas, Ella January 2024 (has links)
This paper examines the response of Swedish local governments to a targeted intergovernmental stimulus grant aimed at increasing staffing levels in elderly care. The focus is on two key outcomes: municipal elderly care personnel costs relative to total municipal costs and the number of full-time employees in elderly care per elderly user. An OLS regression based on panel data between 2011 and 2018 initially estimates the grant’s spending effects. An instrumental variable (IV) model is then employed to address potential endogeneity, utilizing an update in the grant allocation formula. Both the OLS and IV estimates suggest that the stimulus grant has no discernible effect on the ratio of elderly care personnel costs to total municipal spending. Furthermore, the IV results show insignificant short-run effects on full-time employment in elderly care. However, significant increases are observed three years after the allocation formula update. The overall effects confirm standard economic grant theory predicting how non-matching targeted grants only contribute to an income effect.
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The impact of social grants as anti-poverty policy instruments in South Africa : an analysis using household theory to determine intra-household allocation of unearned incomeLekezwa, Bongisa Indira 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MComm)--University of Stellenbosch, 2011. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Social assistance is a large and fiscally costly component of anti-poverty policy in South
Africa and therefore lends to the questions: Are the grants effective tools for reducing
poverty in South Africa and, moreover, how significant is their impact on poverty? As a
measure of reducing poverty and improving the non-social indicators of the poor, the
government has expanded the social grants since the advent of the new democracy. The
country‟s social grant system is advanced and covers a broad range of individuals, as it is
intended to cover vulnerable individuals over their life course from childhood to adulthood
and into old age. Policy discourse surrounding the grants centres on the sustainability of the
system and their implications for development. It is therefore important that their
significance is shown and that their impact is illustrated by highlighting their reach into
severely poor households. As a measure of poverty alleviation on their own, the grants are
not enough and South Africa‟s poverty alleviation strategy has to rest primarily on economic
growth and job creation. In addition, there are significant challenges in the system, such as
the fact that there is no poverty grant targeted specifically at the unemployed; consequently,
too much strain is placed on the resources of grant-receiving households that the whole
household is plunged into poverty. Accordingly, the question this raises is: How can
government solve the problem of the poor clustering around these grants? This dissertation
will systematically show that the use of social security as a poverty-alleviating tool is
effective given the extent of poverty in South Africa and the limitations on resources. It will
also show that the decision-making structures in households influence the way grants affect
the resource allocation needed for achieving lower levels of poverty. The extent to which the
cash transferred to poor households via the grant programmes reduces poverty is likely to be
influenced significantly by the decision-making structures in the grant-receiving households.
There is evidence that grant money is shared in extended households, which suggests that
decision making is broadly unitary or cooperative. However, we can only observe the
outcomes and not the decision-making process in this regard and therefore can only draw
tentative conclusions. Although there is cause for concern regarding the propensity of social
grants to affect people‟s behaviour negatively, there is a case to be made for retaining grants
as an important, though not the only, form of anti-poverty strategy. This highlights the need
for continued research on the labour market and the social grants causal relationship. It also
shows that research into the fertility effects of the grants is wanting, especially if there are speculative concerns that might inform policy on the impact of CSG on fertility. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Sosiale bystand is „n groot en duur fiskale komponent van anti-armoede verligtingsbeleid in
Suid Afrika en lei daarom tot die vrae: Is die toelaes effektiewe instrumente om armoede te
verlig in Suid Afrika, en nog meer, hoe noemenswaardig is hulle impak op armoede? As „n
maatstaf om armoede te verlig en die nie-sosiale armoede- aanwysers te verbeter van die
armes, het die regering die sosiale toelaes vermeerder sedert die aanvang van demokrasie.
Die land se sosiale toelae stelsel is gevorderd en dek „n wye verskeidenheid groepe van
individue, aangesien dit bedoel is om weerlose individue te dek vanaf kind tot volwassene
deurlopend tot die bejaarde. Beleidsdiskoers om die toelaes fokus op die volhoubaarheid van
die stelsel en die implikasies daarvan vir ontwikkeling. Dit is daarom van belang dat die
belangrikheid hiervan uitgewys word en die impak daarvan geillustreer word, deur op hul
trefkrag te fokus in die armste van huishoudings. As „n middel to armoedeverligting op
sigself is toelaes nie voldoende nie, en Suid-Afrika se armoede verligtingstrategie moet
hoofsaaklik lê in werkskepping en ekonomiese groei. Verder is daar belangrike uitdagings in
die stelsel, soos byvoorbeeld die feit dat daar geen armoede toelaes spesifiek gemik op die
werkloses is nie; „n gevolg hiervan is dat daar te veel druk geplaas word op die bronne van
die huishoudings wat toelaes ontvang en dat die hele huishouding in armoede gedompel
word. Gevolglik ontstaan die vraag: Hoe kan die regering die probleem oplos van
konsentrering van die armes rondom die toelaes? Hierdie dissertasie sal sistematies wys dat
die gebruik van sosiale sekuriteit as „n armoede- verligtingsbeleid is effektiek gegewe die
omvangreikheid van armoede in Suid Afrika en die beperkings op bronne. Dit sal ook wys
dat die besluitnemingstrukture in huishoudings beinvloed die manier waarop toelaes die
bron-allokasie beinvloed om laer vlakke van armoede te bereik. Die vlak waartoe die kontant
oordraging na die arm huishoudings via die toelaes die vlak van armoede verlig word in alle
waarskynlikheid tot „n groot mate beinvloed deur die besluitnemingstrukture in sodanige
huishoudings wat toelaes ontvang. Daar is bewyse dat die toelaes gedeel word in uitgebreide
huishoudings, wat daarop aandui dat besluitneming breedweg unitêr geneem word of
gesamentlik. Ons kan egter slegs die uitkomste en nie die besluitnemingsproses in die
verband bespeur nie en kan daarom slegs tot tentatiewe gevolgtrekkings kom. Alhoewel daar
wel rede to kommer is vir die geneigdheid van toelaes om mense se gedrag negatief te
beinvloed, is waar wel „n saak om toelaes te behou, hoewel nie as die enigste, maar wel as „n
belangrike vorm van armoedeverligting. Dit lê die klem op die nodigheid van deurlopende
navorsing op die arbeidsmark en die toelae- oorsaaklikheidsverhouding. Dit wys ook dat navorsing op die vrugbaarheidseffek van die toelaes is nodig, veral as daar spekulatiewe
besorgdheid is wat die beleid op die impak van kindertoelaes op fertiliteit mag beinvloed.
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Re-engineering the solicitation management systemFan, Yao-Long 01 January 2006 (has links)
The scope of this project includes a re-engineering of the internal architecture of the Solicitation Management System (SMS), a web-based application that facilitates the running of grant proposal solicitations for the Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization at California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB). A goal of the project is to increase consistency and efficiency of the code base of the system, making it easier to understand, maintain, and extend. The previous version of SMS was written to rely on the Spring and Hibernate frameworks. The project includes a restructuring of the system to remove reliance on the Spring framework, but maintain reliance on Hibernate. The result is an updated version of the SMS. The system was written using current technologies such as Java, JSP, and CSS.
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Public Funding for the Arts: Welfare for the Wealthy?Soffer, Leah B. 01 January 2014 (has links)
This thesis studies the determinants of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and identifies the key factors that can account for their variation across communities. The analysis examines the target audience for NEA grants, how the NEA chooses to distribute its funds, and whether the grants aimed at low-income communities are effective in targeting communities that do not otherwise have access to the arts. This study concludes that grants from the National Endowment for the Arts tend to be allocated to communities with higher college graduation rates, but not necessarily higher income levels.
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Dotace poskytované obcím ze státního rozpočtu v České republice / State budget grants to municipalities in Czech RepublicZDYCHYNCOVÁ, Barbora January 2008 (has links)
In my thesis I focused on defining the financial flow of the state budget towards the budget of municipalities, classified the variety of state subsidies, and characterized the reasons for providing of such subsidies. Further I focused on defining the conditions for receiving the state subsidies by the municipalities and the conditions of their utilization. For my work I came out from theoretically gained knowledge. My thesis brings economic analyze on the impact of the provision of state subsidy within the Czech Republic. Further I compare the system development and the development of the amount of subsidies and their portion.
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Online solicitation management system for the Office of Technology Transfer and CommercializationWang, Chia-Chi 01 January 2005 (has links)
The Online Solicitation Management System (OSMS) is a web-based system designed for California State University, San Bernardino's Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization (OTTC) to run grant proposal solicitations more efficiently. The system accepts grant proposals, finds the best matched evaluators, calculates evaluation scores, and generated reports. Users in the system are divided into five (5) different roles: system administrator, program officer, staff, evaluator and applicant.
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