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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Inter-agency."”.
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Scottish based money laundering operations: inter-agency cooperation across jusrisdictions
… money laundering has been the subject of international, regional, and national (UK) consternation. This has resulted in the development of an intricate legal framework supporting its policing. This thesis examines, from a socio-legal perspective, how this framework is operationalised by …
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Networks of support: factors contributing to successful inter-agency work with young people
… of young people who fall `through the net' of agency provision. Whatever the situation, the failure to co-operate challenges a democratic society and basic human rights. The problem occurs when individual primary care agencies either: • try to do on their own what can only be achieved by …
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Engaging with perpetrators of intimate partner violence : an exploration of inter-agency collaboration in the Western Cape
… in intimate partner violence. According to international best practices, treatment interventions for batterers are based on psycho-educational and cognitive behavioural principles and provided in community-based group settings. Coordinated community responses are likely to provide favourable …
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Systems thinking in humanitarian response : visualization and analysis of the inter-agency standing committee's architectures for "The Cluster Approach"
… response coordination strategy adopted by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) following the 2005 'Humanitarian Response Review' -- through the lens of systems thinking and develop potential system architecture representations to explore how the coordination mechanism can enhance …
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The synergy of modern abolition : inter-agency cooperation between state agencies, religious communities, faith-based organizations, and NGOs against human trafficking.
Since its reemergence as a popular human rights concern in the late 1990s, the issue of human trafficking has gained an extensive assortment of advocates, many of whom possess differing objectives. This thesis explores the cooperation that occurs between state agencies, religious communities, …
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The theories and practice of inter-agency working across the public sector : A critical overview of implementing collaboration within social services in Wales
Collaboration has been a central feature of Welsh Government policy in respect of delivering effective public services for over a decade yet continues to be difficult to achieve in a meaningful way across sectors, organisations and boundaries. The report of the Commission on Public Service …
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Planning for community economic development in the Near North Side of Chicago : a study for the YMCA Robert E. Brooker Inter-Agency Center
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982.
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Criteria for an effective water resource planning process
… analysis to the compact, the authority and the inter-agency approaches. Upon applying the criteria to these three structures, the following conclusions were reached: 1) the compact would probably be worse than the existing setup, 2) the inter-agency committee has some value and not too many …
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Humanising policy from ‘Warriors to Guardians’: An evaluation of Coordinated Management and Emergency Response Assemblages in Ireland and the US
… and cultures which shape the strength of inter-agency coordination and emergency response. This thesis explores how a variety of actors, actants and technologies involved in emergency management assemble and organise. The methodology adopted is qualitative and uses two case studies to …
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Maternal mortality in high HIV prevalence countries: a critical analysis of the MMEIG methodology for estimating maternal mortality
… used by the Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group (MMEIG) to estimate maternal mortality in countries with high HIV/AIDS prevalence. This study interrogates each of the assumptions (implicit and explicit) in the MMEIG method by reviewing literature/studies that investigated each …
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IWRM-tested national law and policies: towards catchment-based management of water resources during the life cycle of large-scale mining sites
… of adequate engagement by mining companies with interested and affected water resources stakeholders, makes mitigating such impacts difficult. At national scale, the legal regulation of LSM and the legal management and protection planning of water resources in LSM context are accomplished through …
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Assessment of the IGME methods of estimating infant mortality rate and neonatal mortality rate from under-five mortality rate in countries affected by HIV
This study assesses the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) methods of estimating the infant and neonatal mortality rates from the under-five mortality rates in countries affected by HIV/AIDS. It uses Botswana, Malawi and South Africa as case studies. The assessment is made …
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Developing shared understandings of multi-agency working with adults who self-neglect
… is to develop an understanding of how multi-agency working in self-neglect cases can be improved, whilst respecting the autonomy of service users who self-neglect. This research applies the methodology of professionalising action research in a new setting, that of multi-agency working in the …
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Science, law and the administration of justice in Irish criminal process: expectations, role and disconnect
… is on an upward trajectory; yet, concurrently, international scandals have brought the fallibility of forensic science into sharp focus. As such, this thesis explores forensic science’s role in Irish criminal process in the light of expectations thereof. Against a backdrop of academic literature …
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The development of a protocol for the management child abuse and neglect
… To address this problem in the Western Cape, the Intervention Research (IR) methodology (Rothman & Thomas, 1994) was used to develop a Protocol for the Multi- Disciplinary Management of Child Abuse and Neglect. IV The protocol was designed for agencies that intervene in instances of child abuse. …
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Business process re-engineering: application for littoral combat ship mission module acquisition
… business process of PMS-420 and its varied inter-agency relationships. This paper will discuss the efficient business processes of two other acquisition programs within PEO LMW; 1) Naval Special Warfare (PMS-340) and 2) Explosive Ordnance Disposal (PMS-408). While discussing these other …
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The impact of cultural and social factors on the success of e-governance systems in Kuwait.
… in Kuwait. A dual-methods approach integrating interviews (22) and focus group discussions (4) was used. Findings reveal that low levels of public awareness, digital literacy gaps, and institutional mistrust hinder engagement, disproportionately affecting marginalised groups such as older …
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An Assessment of Youth Perceptions of Youth Employment Initiatives and Attachment to Community as Determinants of Migration Decisions Among the Youth in Keta Municipality of Ghana
… participants, 126 non-participants, and 10 agency staff through surveys, as well as interviews with 4 heads of agencies. Quantitative data was analyzed using SPSS 24, and qualitative data was analyzed using QDA Miner. Findings revealed that (1) attachment to community significantly predicts …
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Telling the future together : the potential of collaborative scenario-building in the transformation of urban governance in Portugal
… agencies-and this coordination requires inter-organizational collaboration. In Portugal, the twin challenges of declining urban centers and sprawling suburbs, combined with the absence of a metropolitan planning structure, have heightened the importance of inter-agency collaboration, …
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An ex post facto evaluation of the Philadelphia GunStat model
… mayor. Included was a plan to introduce a multi-agency crime reduction program, which Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey and District Attorney Seth Williams would co-chair, called GunStat. GunStat was described as a collaborative effort to reduce gun violence through (1) identifying …
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