Using historic preservation as a para-diplomatic agent in cross-cultural conflict resolution in international border areas: A case study in the Kars province in Turkey
June 2013
The preservation of cultural/historic resources in international border areas can have far reaching consequences beyond the mere preservation of historic sites. They have the potential to act as “olive branches” between countries which have experienced long term conflicts and negative cultural memories. In the case of the Kars Province, in the northeastern portion of Turkey, this area was occupied...
Replaying memories of the past: Reflecting on the South African teachers’ 2010 protest
June 2013
The teachers’ strike against low salaries and poor working conditions in 2010 invoked memories of the 1980s and 1990s popular resistance against the apartheid government. The apartheid government invoked the state of emergency and outlawed any form of protest or demonstrations. The 1996 Constitution of the Republic of South Africa recognises peaceful demonstration as a constitutional right and...
Drug addiction and the awareness regarding its possible treatment and rehabilitation of young drug users in Kashmir
April 2013
The problem of drug addiction among youth in the valley of Kashmir is one of the biggest concerns today. The problem is not confined to the males alone but has started to grapple the female youth also. Nobody can deny the fact that the impact of drug addiction is not confined to the addict alone, but also affects the quality of life of whole family. Additionally, a wide range of dysfunctional behaviours can...
Issues pertaining to families of disabled children in Kashmir
April 2013
Disability is a harsh reality and any person disabled suffers a lot, it becomes more painful when small children face any disability; because of their disability their parents and family member suffer both economically and socially. This study looks at the socio – economic problems and issues faced by families of disabled children in Kashmir. Researchers identified respondents by approaching a special...
Role of microfinance factors on the sustainability of women managed micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Kenya
April 2013
Women play a crucial role in the economic development of communities but certain obstacles such as poverty, unemployment, low household income and societal discriminations mostly in developing countries have hindered their effective performance of that role. As such, most of them embark on entrepreneurial activities to support their families. It is discovered that women entrepreneurship could be an effective...
Network strategic assessment approach for dialogue and capacity development in NGOs
March 2013
As platforms for dialogue non-governmental organizations play an important role in facilitating the inclusion of a diversity of views in the debates and decisions that shape society. However, to successfully influence societal development non-governmental organizations need to develop and mobilize their capacities. This paper argues that organizational capacities can be developed and mobilized with strategic...
Role of KOPAKAMA in promoting socio-economic development of coffee farmers
March 2013
Coffee is the main source of income for a large number of households and provides major foreign currencies for the national economy. Although it covers only 6.3% of cultivated areas, coffee is produced by 500,000 households in Rwanda. Since its introduction in the country in 1904, coffee has always been operated by individual producers. However, after the liberalization of the coffee sector in 1998, the...
Sexual harassment at workplace and in educational institutions: A case study of District Srinagar, Kashmir
March 2013
Women were sexually harassed long before there was a term for it. Women working in homes have long been targets of sexual abuse. Since industrialization, women working in factories and offices have had to endure sexual comments and demands by bosses and coworkers as the price for economic survival. As students, women and girls have been sexual prey to teachers for as long as they have been allowed to be...
Involuntary displacement: An analysis of the role and contribution of non-government organizations to the Narmada Project affected communities in Western India
February 2013
The major objective of the present article is to examine the various activities of the NGOs for the upliftment of the affected tribal people in the context of the resettlement programs in Gujarat state, western India. In order to collect data, the interview schedule was adopted. The primary data were collected through the interview schedule, and formal and informal interactions with respondents and personal...
Small scale industries in Jammu and Kashmir (J & K): Growth, performance and challenges
February 2013
Small scale industries have been considered as the engine of economic growth and promotion of equitable development. The major advantage of the sector is its employment potential at low capital cost. The labour intensity of the small scale industry (SSI) sector is much higher than that of the large enterprises. The role of small industries in the economic and social development of the country is...
Child labour and Bangladesh: To what extent can Bangladesh remove child labour particularly in the Bangladesh Ready-made Garment (RMG) sector?
February 2013
Child labour is a sensitive issue in global business. It is a common problem in workplace in Bangladesh particularly in Ready-made garment (RMG) sector. This paper focuses on child labour and how it affects the Bangladesh RMG sector. In fact the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other international communities consider child labour as abusive and exploitative. To...
Public attitudes toward non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the Republic of Georgia
January 2013
The growth of civil societies depends on many factors; a key component is the development of a robust variety of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to provide programs and services that a government cannot, will not or should not provide. NGOs also hold government and corporations accountable through efforts to increase transparency. But, NGOs can only sustain their efforts and succeed with public support....
Knowledge assessment on the effects of climate change due to keeping livestock in urban and peri-urban areas of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
January 2013
This paper discusses assessment results of the respondents who kept livestock in urban and peri-urban areas in the three municipalities of Kinondoni, Ilala, and Temeke in Dar es Salaam city region, if they had knowledge that their activities had an effect on climate change. Data show that over two thirds of the respondents did not think that the presence of solid waste, liquid waste, and pollution...
Drug addiction and youth of Kashmir
December 2012
Drug addiction is fastest growing problem among youth in developing countries and also in developed countries. This study looks at the impact of conflict and unemployment in increase of drug addiction among youth in Kashmir. A study on youth was conducted using interview schedule method to collect data from respondents so that answer to the objectives can be found. The study results make some interesting...
Impact of turmoil on the handicraft sector of Jammu and Kashmir: An economic analysis
December 2012
The handicrafts of Jammu and Kashmir (J & K), namely, shawls, namdhas, wooden art-ware, papier-mache, crewel embroidery etc. are well known, yet the export from this sector has been of an average of around Rs. 20 crore per annum. However, the handicraft industry occupies an important position in the economy of J & K, which provides a gainful employment to more than 3 lakh people and too has the...
Attitude towards mental illness in Kashmir
November 2012
In most of the societies mental illness carries a substantial stigma or mark of shame. Such stigma may keep families from acknowledging that a family member is ill. Some families may hide or overprotect a member with mental illness-keeping the person from receiving potentially effective care-or they may reject the person from family. When magnified from individuals to a whole society, such attitudes lead to...
Accountability: A lingering dilemma for Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
November 2012
This paper presents part of the findings of an extensive field research undertaken in 2011 on Palestinian non-governmental organizations (PNGOs) governance in the West Bank. To serve this purpose, the research investigated PNGOs’ accountability, specifically the assumption that PNGOs, individually and collectively, are more accountable to their donors and to the Palestinian authority than to their...
Orphans in orphanages of Kashmir “and their Psychological problemsâ€
October 2012
The number of orphans is increasing day by day in India in general and in Jammu and Kashmir in particular. Besides, the trend of institutionalizing them is spreading easily in the society, which had its own traditional mechanism of rehabilitation and care/support. This study thus examined the effect of institutionalization on orphans and aimed to find out the psychological impact on orphans. The methodology...
Cooperatives and financial inclusion in India: Issues and challenges
October 2012
Cooperative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically controlled enterprise. Financial Inclusion is critical for achieving inclusive growth in the country. The Financial Inclusion initiatives will go a long way in not only financially empowering the people but also as an avenue...
Status of non-governmental organizations (NGOS) and their role in developmental activities in Nagaland, India
June 2012
The present study was carried out in the state of Nagaland, India. It has 11 districts and out of which, 6 districts have been selected purposively. In this study, 45 NGOs were selected and from each one higher level of employee was interviewed. In the present investigation, endeavours were mainly confined to explore the genesis, growth, nature; status and involvement of NGOs in different activities. In this...
Climate change, social transition and Nigeria’s economical development
June 2012
This paper examines the issue of climate change, social transition and economical development in Nigeria. Global warming caused by climate change has been regarded by many scholars to be the most serious environmental challenge of our time (Giddens, 2006). The current spate environmentally-induced havoc currently ravaging many parts of the globe has therefore become a source of major concern to...
Indigenous or global knowledge for development: Experiences from two NGOS in Bangladesh
May 2012
There is a crucial debate whether indigenous knowledge (IK) or global knowledge (GK) is more important for a country’s social development. This is widening over time and it is now recognised that IK is much more essential for sustainable development. This paper looks this issue with two communities- blacksmiths and goldsmiths of the two NGOs in Bangladesh. This paper finds that IK in Bangladesh is very...
Community participation in population-based non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus control program: A paradigm
May 2012
Effective control of chronic diseases in developing countries remains a major challenge in developing countries of the world where low levels of literacy, conflicting notions of disease etiology and low belief in self-efficacy operate jointly to render populations at risk of diseases like non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) hopeless. Even as declared by the WHO, the public health challenges of...
Role of HOPCOMS in socio-economic change of farmer members in Mysore City
May 2012
Horticulture plays an important role in the economic development of country and if contribute to 29.5% of over agricultural GDP from 8.5% of area and 10% of total agricultural exports. Fruits and vegetables are important components of the diet as they contribute the much needed vitamins, minerals, fibers and other micro nutrients to the consuming Indian population. It provides food for our people and raw...
The control of Nigerian women over their sexuality in an era of HIV/AIDS: A study of women in Edo State in Nigeria
May 2012
HIV/AIDS remains the world’s most menacing disease of the 20th and 21st century. Two-thirds of an estimated 40.3 affected people world-wide live in sub-Saharan Africa and 77% of these are women. In Nigeria, 57% of people living with HIV/AIDS are, according to a 2005 estimate, women. The increasing vulnerability of women/girls to HIV/AIDS has been attributed to many factors. Among these, women’s...
Measurement of social empowerment of farmers in SHGS: Evidence from India
December 2011
The Self Help Groups are generally formed by promoter agencies as a facilitating mechanism in extending micro finance and have been used to generate income and employment and alleviate poverty, especially in the developing countries. Review of previous literature indicated that they also contributed in other areas of economic development and growth such as poverty eradication, social transformation and...
Wellness crises in Niger Delta: Community demand, federal authority responses, and non - governmental organization contributions
December 2011
The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Several factors that resulted to illness such as genetic, environmental, governmental policy, or something else entirely are caused by individual, community, civil society, authority and non - Governmental organization. This indicated that there...
Genesis and growth of the NGOs: Issues in Bangladesh perspective
November 2011
NGOs (Non-governmental organizations) activities have virtually grown into a movement in Bangladesh and eventually playing a very significant role in the nation’s development process scene. NGOs have not been evolved over time. The NGOs throughout the world have evolved in the specific context of the society. The context of the developed countries and developing countries are certainly different. ...
Human rights NGOs: Imperative or impermissible actors in (post)-conflict societies?
November 2011
Normative questions of what human rights and humanitarian NGOs are permitted and required to do in conflict and post-conflict societies are relatively neglected in the current debates about NGOs. Are they permissible agents? A multi-disciplinary approach is used to dissect this question. It is concluded that on the one hand clear duties for these NGOs can be discerned; they are often the sole...
The impact of ethno-religious conflict on Nigerian federalism
October 2011
Ethno-religious crises are part of issues that are of grave concern in Nigeria. With different development plans by the government targeted towards sustaining the nation, little or no results seem to be forthcoming. Nigeria is the largest black nation however, what exists mostly is mutual suspicion and lack of cordiality among various ethnic components. The issue of how to share the national wealth among the...
Prakasam district farmer’s participation in Non governmental organizations (NGOS) watershed programme
October 2011
Non governmental organizations (NGOs) have played a pioneering role in the field of rural development. Alternatively, they may concentrate on selected rural development activities covering a wide geographical area. They may also stimulate and promote people's participation in governmental programmes like watershed and there by play a supportive role in the fields of rural development. Watershed brings...
Feasibility study on fluoride removal in drinking water in Mehsana, India
October 2011
The problem of fluoride contaminated water has been reported to affect many parts of Gujarat especially in Mehsana District causing severe causes of fluoride related diseases. Although there are varying standards on the acceptable fluoride concentrations around the world; the general consensus is that fluoride above 1.5 mg/L will be detrimental to health. As such, a feasibility study on the drinking water in...
The dilemma of engaging community-wide in development: Has Konko’s (Eastern Region, Ghana) water and sanitation committee taken over decision-making at the community’s will?
September 2011
Local Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have contributed immensely towards providing clean water to rural people, and is partly the reason that much attention has been given to water projects that they either directly or indirectly fund when it comes to understanding the impacts of the projects on the beneficiaries. This study, which assessed a local NGO in the Eastern region of Ghana (that is,...
The widespread challenges of NGOs in developing countries: Case studies from Iran
September 2011
The last decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth in non-governmental organizations (NGO) in all spheres of human activities worldwide, especially in developing countries. NGOs, as an integral part of civil society, concerned with management of a complex and diverse range of activities. They face internal and external management issues. This study provides a critical overview of the major issues...
Role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) interventions on tribal health: Some annotations from grass root level
September 2011
Health is one of the vital indicators reflecting the quality of human life. World Health Organization (WHO) describes health as a state of complete physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being and not merely as absence of diseases or infirmity. Today majority of Indian indigenous (Treble’s) people are facing various communicable and non communicable diseases. It is found that positive correlation...
Role of third sector in development of drought prone region: Insights from Kachchh, Gujarat
August 2011
The multiple, geo-physical, socio-cultural and agro-economic diversities of Kachchh pose a complex mix of opportunities and challenges in determining a livelihood base for the people. The opportunities refer to diverse resource base consisting of large land mass, mineral deposits and long coast line besides an enterprising community and strong social capital built through generations of migratory links...
Institutional donors’ expectation of information from the Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) reporting: A pilot survey
August 2011
It is commonly believed that donors would donate more to charity if they were assured that the funds will be utilised properly and not wasted. Evidence from previous literature also shows that the donors tend to give more support and contribution to the charity if they were equipped with non-profit organizations (NPOs) information. As far as the NPO is concerned, the core competency of the sector is to build...
Teacher’s accountability in Nigerian education system: Perceptions of teachers and administrators in Delta State
July 2011
This study attempts to ascertain teacher’s accountability in Nigerian educational system as perceived by teachers and administrator. Three hundred and forty three teachers from secondary schools in Delta State participated in the study. Simple random sampling technique was used for their selection. The teachers and principals responded to the questionnaire titled “Accountability in Nigerian...
Censorship of information and the Nigerian society
July 2011
Censorship is based on the fact that every society has customs, taboos or laws by which speech, dress, religious observance, and sexual expressions are regulated in order to protect the family, the church and the state. This work therefore discussed censorship; it brought to the fore, its historical development, various conceptions, purpose, various methods by which it may be carried out, challenges,...
Lateness: A major problem confronting school administrators in Delta State, Nigeria
July 2011
This paper is a review on lateness in public schools, which has posed a major problem to school administrators in Delta State, Nigeria, especially at the primary and secondary school levels. The author delimited his focus on students, staff and supporting staff in the school system. The salient point is that lateness to schools plagues school administrators, bringing about inefficiencies at work by way of...
An NGO approach in promoting sustainable community development: A case on RDO at Nilgiris district
June 2011
After independence, the role of NGO’s is commendable in India and other developing countries and this is because of the inability of the government in delivering the services to the targeted people. The non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or voluntary organizations (VOs) have been working for the betterment of the rural poor especially the downtrodden communities namely: SCs and STs. The NGO’s...
Indigenous political ecology approach to social movements in Mexico and Latin America
June 2011
The struggle for the recognition of indigenous rights is one of the most important social movements in Mexico. Before the 1970s, existing peasant organizations did not represent indigenous concerns. Since 1975 there has been a resurgence of indigenous movements and have raised new demands and defense of their cultural values. However, indigenous social mobilization had been laid in local and regional peasant...
Role of rural business incubators in translating micro finance to sustainable micro enterprises
April 2011
Present paper looks at how rural business incubators (RBIs) and enterprise resource centers (ERCs) together with micro finance institutions (MFIs) can contribute to inclusive growth. India’s informal sector has a very powerful presence of brilliant entrepreneurs, who can potentially contribute to India’s fight against poverty and have the potential for much more employment and income generation,...
The empowerment, ongoing limits and consequences in financial services
April 2011
Empowerment may be one of the answers to the growing competition and increasingly demanding customers in the financial retail sector, but the relation between empowerment and profit-oriented behaviour at the service encounter has been only sparsely documented. This article offers a comparative empirical analysis of the conditions and impact of empowerment and related activities in Iranian financial...
Bio-medical wastes disposal and management in some major hospitals of Mysore City, India.
March 2011
The disposal of biomedical wastes have been studied at various hospitals like, Krishnarajendra Hospital, Mission Hospital, J.S.S. Hospital, Basappa Memorial Hospital, Apollo Hospital and Vikram Hospital for the period of six months by analyzing the procurement lists. Various issues like quantities and proportions of different categories of wastes handling, treatment and disposal methods have been examined....
Pilot Project for the Installation of Domestic Biogas in Peri-Urban Zones of the city of Bamako
March 2011
In Mali, approximately 92% of household and small industry energy needs are met with wood and charcoal. In peri-urban regions, where small farmers supply cities with food products, wood resources are especially over-exploited. Bamako, Mali’s capital, has doubled in size in the past 20 years, and has placed a huge strain on the wood resources of this area. Loss of vegetation cover, leading to desertification in a...
The contributions and performances of Grenadian main NGOs after a natural disaster
March 2011
In the times of natural disasters, Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) are usually the first to respond and remain the longest after the occurrence of natural disasters. In 2004, Hurricane Ivan created extensive damage in the Caribbean with total damages in Grenada estimated at US$900 million, more than twice the country's GDP (OECS 2004). This massive level of...
Sharing the micro level experience of project ‘Bharat empowered’ in resilience
March 2011
The international labor organization’s 2009 global employment report forecasts unemployment to rise by over five million this year unless policies are implemented which balance economic and social dimensions, especially in the aftermath of the global turmoil that has quadrupled the vulnerability of the most disadvantaged group of workers like casual, informal and women. Economies world over have failed...
Department of Business Economics and Research Cell, H. R. College, University of Mumbai, India.
March 2011
Shonglap means dialogue. It is a one year program to develop lives and livelihoods of adolescent girls. Shonglapprogram increased education, life skills, and income generation activities of adolescent girls of Ukhiya and Teknaf sub-districts, religiously conservative communities, in Bangladesh. It improved knowledge about personal cleanliness, menstruation management, HIV/AIDS, water-borne diseases...
Tharu community’s perception on climate changes and their adaptive initiations to withstand its impacts in Western Terai of Nepal
February 2011
This paper brings out perceptions and observations of Tharu communities (Rana and Chaudhary), inhabitants of Shakarpur VDC of Kanchanpur and Gadariya VDCs of Kailali on climate change and its impacts on their livelihood strategies over the years. In addition, the paper explores some initiatives taken by the local communities to minimize its effects and impacts. Focus Group Discussions (FGD) were...
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