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Nongovernmental Organizations and African Governments: Seeking an Effective International Legal Framework in a New Era of Heath and Development Aid [PDF]

, 2008
International and domestic nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have multiplied on the African continent as both public and private donors have shifted their funding away from ineffective governments.
Udo, Chandler H
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GOVERNING THE VULNERABLE SELF AT HOME AND ABROAD: PEACE AND JUSTICE IN NORTHERN UGANDA AND "KONY 2012 [PDF]

, 2014
On March 5, 2012, a US-based group called Invisible Children posted a video online, "KONY 2012, " which called for US military support for the Ugandan army so that it could capture the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army to bring him to justice at the ...
Enomoto, Tamara
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‘Giving Back to Our Community’: The Retention of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Workforce in New South Wales, Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn, J. Gilroy, S. Peter, F. Talbot, K. Bulkeley, C. Alcorso, K. Gwynne, B. Rambaldini, A. Haines, M. Lincoln   +9 more
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Youth activism in Poland: Perceptions, participation and diverging perspectives from young people and activists

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent years have seen a growing scholarly interest in youth activism (YA), a phenomenon often viewed as a positive development in response to declining civic and political engagement among young people. However, most of the research focuses on the activists themselves and gives less attention to how YA is perceived by the broader youth ...
Martyna Elerian, Miri Yemini, Katarzyna Jasikowska   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

NGO Presence and Activity in Afghanistan, 2000–2014: A Provincial-Level Dataset

Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2017
This article introduces a new provincial-level dataset on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Afghanistan. The data—which are freely available for download—provide information on the locations and sectors of activity of 891 international and local ...
David F. Mitchell
doaj   +1 more source

Global Pressures: Multinational Corporations, International Unionism, and NGOs [PDF]

, 2015
[Excerpt] The globalization of product, financial, and labor markets has made it easier for companies to produce many of the goods and services they sell wherever in the world the right skills can be found at the lowest cost.
Colvin, Alexander, Katz, Harry C, Kochan, Thomas A.   +2 more
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Engaging Local Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the Response to HIV/AIDS. [PDF]

, 2005
During the past few years, a number of key donor programs have scaled up their global response to the crisis of HIV and AIDS. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint United Nations ...
Cornman, Helen, Grimm, Curt D., Rana, Sujata   +2 more
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Strategies of Sufficiency Under Institutional Complexity: A Study in the German Food Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organizations face increasing institutional complexity as they navigate competing demands from their institutional environment regarding financial performance and environmental responsibility. In our study, we examine how 39 award‐winning organizations in the German food industry frame sufficiency, a sustainability strategy focusing on ...
Lena Leifeld, Simon Oertel
wiley   +1 more source

NGOs, International Donors, and the Postmaterial Disjuncture in Latin America

Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2015
NGOs have proliferated in the developing world, assuming key political roles as intermediary organizations representing public interests. Yet at least in the three Latin American countries examined here, the proportion of the NGO sector focused on ...
Samuel Handlin
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Ménage à trois : la pertinence géographique des relations de lobbying entre les ONG-Bankwatch, l’Etat national et la Banque mondiale à Washington D.C.

L'Espace Politique, 2007
Since the early nineties, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have attracted a great deal of attention from the political and social sciences which have been studying these actors from different empirical and theoretical angles.
Ralf Bläser
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