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Role of non-governmental organisations in operations research in low-resource countries

The Lancet Global Health, 2014
Background: Research partnerships among practitioners, researchers, and affected communities are increasingly seen as important vehicles for translating findings to operational strategies.
Dr. Florence Nyangara, PhD
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Driving continuous improvement of sustainability certification for industrial biobased systems through comprehensive sustainability requirements

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.
Abstract Existing monitoring frameworks for sustainability certification schemes and labels (CSLs) have largely prioritised environmental aspects, while the social and economic pillars of sustainability remain comparatively underdeveloped. Also, dedicated circularity requirements tailored to biobased systems are still largely lacking, despite being ...
Iris Vural Gursel, Heleen Ballemans, Heike Axmann, Lesly Garcia‐Chavez, Marta Rodriguez‐Illera, Laura Väyrynen   +5 more
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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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Defining a comprehensive set of value assessment criteria for funders of drug repurposing initiatives

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims This study aims to develop a structured list of value assessment criteria for drug repurposing (DR) projects designed to support consistent, evidence‐informed decision‐making by funders. The assessment criteria were developed within the REMEDi4ALL project, a multi‐stakeholder Horizon Europe funded initiative to advance DR and were validated ...
Dalma Hosszú, Kristóf Gyöngyösi, András Perényi, Helene G. van der Meer, Dunja Huijbers, Pan Pantziarka, András Inotai, Donald C. Lo, Rick Thompson, Zoltán Kaló, Marcell Csanádi   +10 more
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Validation of the ABL + DT model: An ecosystemic framework for integrating arts and digital technologies in primary education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Primary education teachers face increasing challenges in engaging diverse learners and fostering creativity, digital competence and other transversal skills, often lacking clear, practical guidance for integrating these skills into their classrooms.
Nella Escala, Montse Guitert, Teresa Romeu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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NGOs, Networking, and Problems of Representation. [PDF]

Networking is currently recommended as particularly suitable for NGOs to improve performance and enhance impact. Since many NGOs are small and dispersed, networking is commonly seen as a coat-effective means to share information and spread knowledge ...
Hans Holmén
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“They say we're a rights‐respecting school but nobody knows what that really means”: Children's rights implementation in a Scottish secondary school

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Education has been an enduring feature of international human rights law since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and is the only human right that is compulsory for children. Appearing in all major human rights treaties, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, education is multidimensional and a multiplier of ...
Amy Hanna
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Life as an ethnic minority (EM) university student: Comparing mental health challenges among local and international EM students in Hong Kong

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract University students globally face growing mental health challenges, with ethnic minority (EM) students—both local and international—being particularly vulnerable. Yet, limited research compares their experiences or identifies shared and distinct stressors, especially in non‐Western contexts.
Wang Xinyi, Naubahar Sharif
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Introduction: learning from Kosovo [PDF]

Forced Migration Review, 1999
The Kosovo crisis powerfully illustrates the inextricablelinkage between issues of forced migration and national and international security. No event in recent memory illustrates soclearly how crucial forced migration has become in expanding the ...
Matthew J Gibney
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