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Mentoring in the young water professionals' training program: Lessons for effective capacity development

World Water Policy, Volume 9, Issue 3, Page 334-348, August 2023., 2023
Abstract Training young water professionals in India and many other countries often focuses primarily on technical skills, leaving them ill‐prepared to deal with complex challenges and changing water management practices of the 21st century. Mentoring programs need to be designed to address the gap in competency development by incorporating ...
Basant Maheshwari, Debbie Atkins, Dharmappa Hagare, Ricky Spencer, Peter Dillon, Sharad Jain, Russell Rollason, Jason Reynolds, Jen Dollin, Okke Batelaan, Roger Packham, Jayanti Bhai Patel, Mihihr Kumar Purkait, Anik Bhaduri, Damodhara Mailapalli, Alaknanda Ashok, Jyothi Prasad   +16 more
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Khalifa versus Prometheus: Green ethics and the struggle for contemporary sustainable urbanism

Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 102-114, Spring 2023., 2023
Abstract In the last decades, contemporary urbanism in the global South has meant large urban transformations, tall architecture landmarks, and fierce city competition. However, cities and their planners are now confronting an ethical dilemma: how to grow and compete while caring for the disastrous impacts on Earth and human health caused by the mass ...
Agatino Rizzo, Attilio Petruccioli
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Providing long‐term care: Options for a better workforce

International Social Security Review, Volume 75, Issue 3-4, Page 121-144, July-December 2022., 2022
Abstract Older people and their care workers have been disproportionately affected by the COVID‐19 pandemic. Many OECD Member countries have taken measures to contain the spread of the infection and improve the care workforce. Yet the health crisis is highlighting and exacerbating pre‐existing structural problems in the long‐term care (LTC) sector.
Ana Llena‐Nozal, Eileen Rocard, Paola Sillitti   +2 more
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Capacidad de investigación en obesidad infantil en Latinoamérica y en las poblaciones latinas de Estados Unidos: estado de la investigación, problemas, oportunidades y líneas de trabajo para el futuro

Obesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021
Resumen La obesidad infantil es un problema grave en Latinoamérica y entre la población latina de EE. UU. Para ser eficaces, las políticas de salud pública tienen que estar guiadas por evidencias contextuales pertinentes, lo cual exige una capacidad de investigación sostenida a través del tiempo.
Deborah Salvo, Diana C. Parra, Alejandra Jáuregui, Eugen Resendiz, Armando Garcia‐Olvera, Daniel Velazquez, Nicolas Aguilar‐Farias, Uriyoán Colón‐Ramos, Adriano A. Hino, Harold W. (Bill) Kohl III, Michael Pratt, Andrea Ramirez Varela, Manuel Ramirez‐Zea, Juan A. Rivera   +13 more
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Come Together, Right Now: Storylines and Social Identities in Coalition Building in a Local Policy Subsystem

Politics &Policy, Volume 49, Issue 5, Page 1216-1247, October 2021., 2021
How do social identities contribute to the formation of coalitions in a policy subsystem? Social identities help to understand the bundling of resources and common strategies for action. Thus, we argue that identification with a group and across groups discursively results in the formulation of shared and competing storylines.
Jasmin Rychlik, Johanna Hornung, Nils C. Bandelow   +2 more
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Proximity across the distant worlds of university–industry collaborations

Papers in Regional Science, Volume 100, Issue 3, Page 689-711, June 2021., 2021
Abstract This paper examines the extent to which firms perceive different dimensions of proximity to be important for the formation of their interactions with universities. Furthermore, it investigates whether the importance of the different types of proximities varies depending on the type of interaction—be it about knowledge exploration, knowledge ...
Utku Ali Rıza Alpaydın, Rune Dahl Fitjar   +1 more
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The journey towards digital systemic competence: Thoughts on training, supervision and competence evaluation

Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 351-371, April 2021., 2021
Our rituals for training, supervision and competence assessment which once relied on in‐person interaction are rapidly becoming influenced by the digital creativity which surrounds them. Our training models have to be diverse and considerate of the multiple contextual shifts with which systemic practitioners are contending, and the current context is ...
Hannah Sherbersky, Jeanne Ziminski, Helen Pote   +2 more
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Las competencias de los docentes de ELE en Croacia

Vestnik za Tuje Jezike, 2020
El contexto laboral contemporáneo requiere que los profesionales posean habilidades complejas que se manifiestan en forma de diversas competencias clave.
Andrea-Beata Jelić, Ana Gabrijela Blažević   +1 more
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Evaluación de las competencias transversales en egresados formados para las industrias culturales y creativas en Bogotá, Colombia

Informador Técnico, 2022
El objetivo de este artículo fue evaluar las competencias transversales de egresados en formación técnica laboral para las industrias culturales y creativas del Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje SENA, Bogotá, Colombia.
José Giovanni Lozano-Bolívar
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Implementación del enfoque de competencias en la formación de profesores de secundaria en Chile:

Revista Ciencias Pedagógicas e Innovación, 2019
En América Latina, y particularmente en Chile, se observa que los currículos de formación profesional docente están siendo formulados según el modelo por competencias.
Alonso Quiroz Meza, Cristina Mayor Ruiz
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