Unfolding international development cooperation in energy efficiency programs

International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability: Disability Inclusive Development and International Development Cooperation

The adoption of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is a historical momentum for disabled persons and their associates, as well as ODA workers in the development cooperation field all over the world. For the last two decades, persons with disabilities, their associates and professionals working in this field have promoted their human rights, equality, nondisc...

Resource Efficiency in Development Cooperation

Application of international energy efficiency standards for energy auditing in a University buildings

This study seeks to provide insights on understanding the contemporary problems of energy efficiency in Ukrainian universities by developing a comprehensive energy efficiency management framework that encompasses its participating subjects, objects and key drivers along with suggesting its implementation mechanism and tools. Emphasis should be given that the current situation of inefficient and...

International Development and Development Cooperation : Challenges Ahead

It is likely that the international aid system will continue to evolve along one major axis in the years to come, with a fragmented, foreign-policy focus at one end, and a more deliberate poverty focus at the other. This follows from the increasing securitisation of aid that, particularly after the events of 9/11, is likely to shift aid distribution away from where it may have the largest impac...

Energy Efficiency of D2D Multi-User Cooperation

The Device-to-Device (D2D) communication system is an important part of heterogeneous networks. It has great potential to improve spectrum efficiency, throughput and energy efficiency cooperation of multiple D2D users with the advantage of direct communication. When cooperating, D2D users expend extraordinary energy to relay data to other D2D users. Hence, the remaining energy of D2D users dete...