The Finnish Development Funding Risk Management Policy in Theory and Practice, explores the theoretical, documented, and practical understanding of risk management between Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and organisations receiving program-based support.

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INDOPED - Modernizing Indonesian Higher Education with Tested European Pedagogical Practices

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Learning from REDD+: An Enchanced Global Comparative Analysis Multilevel governance and carbon management at the landscape scale

David Lawson is an applied development economist who works on issues of extreme and chronic poverty, gender, health and household shocks. He recently completed a term as Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Helsinki, Associate Professor of Development Economics and Public Policy at the University of Manchester, and Visiting Professor at the University of International Business and Economics, Beijing. He has 25 years of applied public policy experience, in sub-Saharan Africa, as a resident advisor for the Governments of Ethiopia, Lesotho, and Uganda and advised extensively for DFID, OECD, UNECA, UNICEF, World Bank, among others. He has published widely with more than 100 publications and reports, including in leading peer-reviewed journals and six books that include the book series - What Works for the Poorest (Practical Action, 2010, 2017. 2020), and Gender, Poverty and Access to Justice: Policy Implementation in sub-Saharan Africa (Routledge, 2020).

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Educated Girls and Women in Tanzania - Socio-cultural Interpretations of the Meaning of Education

MFA: Digitalization and human rights (2019); Ministry of Education: Data protection, privacy and child rights (2018-19); Various publications to the World Bank on climate change mitigation and adaptation (2010-12); LuKe (former RKTL): Consumers' willingness to buy eco-labeled fish (2004) Various articles in HS, Talouselämä and UNICEF blog on corporate responsibility (2015-19)

Teacher Preparation Programme through ODL Mode for Enhancing Quality in Education jamk.fi/Nepal Community power learning process: A substantive theory about adult group learning experiences (PhD - thesis) https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/56980

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Teacher Preparation Programme through ODL Mode for Enhancing Quality in Education

I am researcher in international law and cross-border dispute resolution.

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Towards a novel and sustainable biorefinery concept based on green technologies for main commercial grain crop residues (BIOCODE)