Community mobilization and energy as a tool for development [Elektronische Ressource] : impact of rural energy programme in Nepal / Merina Pradhan

Community Mobilization and Energy as a Tool for Development - Impact of Rural Energy Programme in Nepal - submitted by Merina Pradhan, M.Sc. PhD-Thesis submitted as a partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Dr. rer. pol. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Wolfgang Teschner International Institute of Management University of Flensburg, Germany October 2006 Acknowledgement First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere and profound gratitude to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Rehling, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Teschner and Prof. Dr. Olav Hohmeyer for their invaluable support, motivation and untiring guidance during the entire period of my research. I am very obliged to all of them for their faith on my research work. I would also like to acknowledge my special thanks to University of Flensburg for providing me with special research funds for the initial six months to begin my Ph.D. research in the first place. My genuine gratefulness and special appreciation goes to Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung for their generous financial assistance for three years to complete my Ph.D. programme in Germany. I am wholeheartedly indebted to the foundation without whom my dream of completing my doctorate level wouldn’t have been fulfilled. This dissertation is a result of intensive research in remote villages of a very difficult topographical country, Nepal, which was not an easy task by any means.