Discover Global SocietyThe COVID-19 pandemic presented unmatched challenges for citizen participation worldwide in local government budgeting processes. Zimbabwe in particular was grappling with the pandemic’s effects and pre-existing governance issues.
Arthur Fidelis Chikerema +2 more
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Community work – the missing link of municipal social policy
SHS Web of Conferences, 2012 Municipal social policy has an important role in dealing with social problems of citizens. On micro level, municipalities spend a substantial amount of their budget solving such problems.
Moors M.
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton +2 more
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Growing Greener Initiative [PDF]
, 2003 Using funds from this grant, the City of Dover Open Lands Committee worked in conjunction with the Planning Department and Conservation Commission to plan, promote and present a series of workshops.
City of Dover, NH
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Patient and citizen participation at the organizational level in health technology assessment: an exploratory study in five jurisdictions. [PDF]
Int J Technol Assess Health Care, 2023 Nabarette H +4 more
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Tomorrow’s World nQuire: young people’s requirements for engaging with inquiry-led, civic engagement technologies [PDF]
, 2018 Citizen inquiry describes the learning benefits to people who engage actively in inquiry-led investigations. The Tomorrow’s world nQuire project, a collaboration between The Open University and the BBC in the UK, utilises the citizen inquiry paradigm to ...
Aristeidou, Maria +1 more
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Learning methodology in the classroom to encourage participation
London Review of Education, 2014 Service learning is a methodology that promotes the participation of citizens in their community. This article presents a brief conceptualization of citizen participation, characteristics of servicelearning methodology, and validation of a programme ...
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Research on Citizen Participation in Government Ecological Environment Governance Based on the Research Perspective of "Dual Carbon Target". [PDF]
J Environ Public Health, 2022 Chen S, Liu N.
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