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Local Realities and the Adoption of Piecemeal Planning Practices in Mlandizi and Sirari, Tanzania

Modern Geográfia
Urban planning through local governments is constrained by challenges that place significant burdens on planners. Local realities have a profound influence on planners’ implementation of urban planning policies.
Yamungu, Nestory E., Donaldson, Ronnie, Spocter, Manfred   +2 more
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The Salience of Work from Home Policy in Street-Level Bureaucracy for Managing Immigration Services

International Journal of Qualitative Research
This study examines the implementation of work-from-home (WFH) arrangements in Indonesian immigration public service delivery through the lens of street-level bureaucracy.
Gunawan Ari Nursanto, Besse Hartati, Catur Susaningsih, Rasona Sunara Akbar, Cakra Trinata, Mila Rosmaya   +5 more
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What is the relation between Brazilian Foreign Policy and the implementation of bilateral technical cooperation projects in African Countries? Lessons from a South-South cooperation project implemented by the Brazilian National School of Public Administration - ENAP (2009-2012)

Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional
Based on the "street-level" and the "theory of the bureaucracy" approaches, the article contends that national bureaucracies may play an important role in explaining the relation between Brazilian foreign policy and international technical cooperation ...
Rafael Tavares Schleicher, Ana Flávia Platiau   +1 more
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If digitalization is the answer – what is the problem? An analysis of policy documents related to the digitalization of Norwegian child welfare services

Nordic Social Work Research
In this article, we have analysed policy documents related to the digitalization of the Norwegian child welfare services. The project ‘DigiBarnevern’ is a national initiative intended to develop and improve the digital tools in child welfare services. In
Minela Kvakic, Heidi Aarum Hansen, Mona Jerndahl Fineide   +2 more
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"Claiming" equality and"doing" inequality - Individual action plans for applicants of social assistance

Social Work and Society, 2020
This study investigates how formal equality is"done" in 48 individual action plans for social assistance. We use a street-level perspective to understand how policy is"done" to enhance equality for social assistance applicants. The analysis is based on
Rickard Ulmestig, Verner Denvall, Kettil Nordesjö   +2 more
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Avoiding Burnout with Compassionate Accompaniment: A Novel Approach to Training, Selecting, Managing, and Regulating Frontline Workers

Nonprofit Policy Forum
A significant amount of nonprofit work happens on the “frontlines”—interacting directly with clients and developing relationships with them in unpredictable and complex social service settings.
Oelberger Carrie
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External migration management through information campaigns: street-level views and practices in Senegal

Political Research Exchange
The implementation of European-funded migration policies in Senegal involves diverse street-level bureaucrats. Among them are migrant returnees and local migration policy experts who implement migration information campaigns.
Katerina Glyniadaki, Nora Ratzmann, Julia Stier   +2 more
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Unfolding the Broader Trust Landscape of Institutional Encounters Between Forced Migrants and the Welfare States of Finland and Sweden: The Role of Third-Party Actors

Nordisk Välfärdsforskning
This article investigates the broader landscape of trust in institutional encounters between forced migrants and the welfare state. It foregrounds different actors who are positioned at differing proximities to the actual encounter and have more direct ...
Liselott Sundbäck, Camilla Nordberg
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Un/Doing Ethnicity in Intervening Swiss Street-Level Bureaucracy. A Police Service and a Child Welfare Service – an Ethnographic Perspective

Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2019
The article presents the empirical findings of a multi-site ethnography in two organizations in Swiss street-level bureaucracy. We examined both a municipal child welfare office and the police force of a medium-sized city.
Piñeiro Esteban, Koch Martina, Pasche Nathalie   +2 more
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'We don't worry that much about language': street-level bureaucracy in the context of linguistic diversity. [PDF]

J Ethn Migr Stud, 2020
Holzinger C.
europepmc   +1 more source