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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Civil Society Organization"”.
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The perceptions of a civil society organization towards anti-trafficking policy development in the European Union: a case study
… semi-structured interviews of volunteers of a civil society organization (CSO) engaged in anti-trafficking work in Athens, Greece in order to examine the volunteers’ perceptions of how the organization’s work relates to anti-trafficking policy development at the European Union (EU) level. The …
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Can a Civil Society Organization Quietly Affect Political Identity in a War-Torn Nation? The Story of Escuela Nueva in Colombia
The Escuela Nueva is a unique non-governmental organization which has collaborated with the Colombian Ministry of Education, the Federation of Colombian Coffee Growers, and corporate partners to improve access to and quality of education. The Escuela Nueva Foundation enacts policies based on the …
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Civil society's role in health system monitoring and strengthening : evidence from Khayelitsha, South Africa
Introduction: Historically in South Africa, civil society has played a key role within the health system, including advocating for equitable and quality health care services. The purpose of this research is to explore the implementation of a pilot health systems strengthening intervention in …
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Neoliberal Modernizers: The American Friends of the Middle East and Its Subversion of Arab Nationalism, 1951-67
… American Friends of the Middle East (AFME) was a civil society organization that operated various cultural and technical programs in the Middle East. This thesis analyzes its activities and interactions with Arab states, particularly Egypt, during the early Cold War era. The AFME was committed to …
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SACCOS and Sustainable Livelihoods in Rural Areas: A Case Study of Meru District Council
… the sustainability of these Peoples' Based Organization (PBOs) through analyzing their activity and financial performance. The survey was carried out at Meru district- Arusha region in 2012 in collaboration with The Matunda Foundation located in Meru district. It involved 100 respondents 95 …
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Community-led participatory budgeting in Bangalore : learning from successful cases
… outside of the electoral process. In 2001, a civil society organization, Janaagraha, launched a participatory budgeting campaign aimed at improving local governance through engaging citizens in local infrastructure planning. The campaign resulted in citizens' budget priorities being approved …
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Contestational design : innovation for political activism
… independent media system that I developed with a civil society organization in Zimbabwe. It was intended to disseminate activist information, particularly to Zimbabwe's rural poor. Despite limited infrastructure and government restrictions, several prototypes were produced and tested in Zimbabwe. …
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DESENVOLVIMENTO LOCAL NAS COMUNIDADES SITUADAS EM ÁREAS DE INFLUÊNCIA DA PETROBRAS NO ESTADO DO ESPÍRITO SANTO
The model of interaction among companies and society is being widely reconsidered from the perspective of sustainable local development, on the premise that no civil society organization, for profit or not, can survive in an unstable environment and unequal. At the same time, companies have …
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Tracing the Development of East African Community on Peace and Security
… models for strengthening state and East African Civil Society Organization Forum (EACSOF). This thesis concludes that responsive security community in EA requires strong states which combine a focus on traditional notions of security with human/individual security.
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FRAMING RIGHTS-CLAIMS: COLLECTIVE IDENTITY GROUPS IN THE TURKISH PUBLIC SPHERE
… at an Islamic, a women’s rights and an LGBT organization. The main empirical finding of the dissertation is all three organizations endorse a liberal/universalistic frame to be accepted in the Turkish public sphere. The thesis of this dissertation is based on the analysis of the implications, …
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Are Ethnically Heterogeneous Cities More Democratic? Explaining the Sub-national Component of Consociationalism in Post-Conflict Countries.
… level, it stresses the relevance of apolitical civil society organization. Give the current and expected social, demographic, and environmental changes worldwide, in which cities will become more diverse, it is urgent to prepare the local governments to promote effective integration and mutual …
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Bridging Brexit-related societal divisions – Learning from civil society initiatives in Bosnia and Herzegovina
My doctoral project compares civil society interventions aimed at bridging societal divisions in two different contexts: on the one hand, in post-war Bosnia & Herzegovina, and on the other hand, in post-Brexit referendum Dorset. It first explores the possibilities for such a comparison and proceeds …
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Assets or Liabilities? Civil Society Organizations and Peacebuilding in Bawku East Municipality of Ghana
<p>Numerous studies have argued that civil society organizations (CSOs) have positive effects on society, an argument often defended by reference to the work of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in promoting development, labor solidarity, democratic accountability, and post-materialist causes …
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Barriers in community participation and rural development.
The concept of participation seems to reflect in most development programmes that involve people at the grassroots level. In Ghana, the introduction of the decentralization programme in the late 1980s that aimed at promoting effective, comprehensive and rapid development, more especially in the …