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Navigating the Rapids: How Non‐Governmental Organization Managers Develop Strategic Adaptation to Repressive Political Environments

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the management adaptation strategies non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) managers employ in order to operate in repressive political environments. It answers the question: how do NGO managers initiate, manage and sustain internal change when the political/regulatory environment changes?
Charles Kaye‐Essien   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Do Rural Households Cope With Shocks? Evidence from Northeast Thailand [PDF]

open access: yes
Rural households in emerging market economies are often vulnerable to poverty due to negative shocks and limited capacity for effective ex-post coping.
Waibel, Hermann   +2 more
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Considering Intermediaries as Relational Localizers: A Case Study of Localization in the Thai–Southeast Myanmar Border Humanitarian Response

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Two conceptualizations of pathways to moderating power asymmetries in humanitarian practice have emerged in localization discourse—one emphasizing procedural reforms and the other highlighting relational transformation. Dominant Global North‐mediated localization frameworks emphasize procedural approaches with a focus on shifting to a direct ...
Meghan Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Administering an Islamic Public Value by a Non‐Muslim Agency: The UNHCR Refugee Zakat Fund

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The post‐Arab Spring conflicts generated large‐scale displacement across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), producing acute humanitarian needs among predominantly Muslim refugee populations. The United Nations High Commissioner to refugees responded by opening the Refugee Zakat Fund, to be used to mobilize the Islamic philanthropic ...
Abdulfatah Said Mohamed
wiley   +1 more source

Who Holds the Strings? Hybrid Governance in Small States

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governance in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) is reshaped by enduring postcolonial legacies, recurrent crises, and deepening global interdependence. It highlights turbulence, understood as a structural, generative condition of fragmented and recombining authority, as its central analytical contribution ...
Dana‐Marie Ramjit
wiley   +1 more source

The transborder artistic-cultural events : cooperation and solidarity in the border

open access: yes, 2019
This work aims to analyze the transborder artistic-cultural events, their goals and results as integration and solidarity instruments between the border populations of Pacaraima (Brazil) and Santa Elena de Uairén (Venezuela), between the years of 2008 ...
Alencar, Gabriel de Souza
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Unpacking the task of synthesis when weaving knowledge systems for biodiversity assessments

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The pivot towards evidence‐based conservation since 2000 has inspired global environmental assessments to gather evidence across multiple knowledge systems, including through co‐production with Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Knowledge co‐production is highlighted as a strategy for transformative change towards a just future that ...
Maria Tengö   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Savings for unemployment in good or bad times : options for developing countries [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper describes and evaluates unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) a relatively new and not well-known way of providing unemployment benefits. The UISAs reduce work disincentives by allowing recipients to keep their own unused unemployment
Bodor, Andras   +2 more
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