November 2012

Accountability: A lingering dilemma for Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

  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...

Author(s): Raed Awashra and Majida Awashreh

November 2012

Attitude towards mental illness in Kashmir

  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...

Author(s): Asima Hassan and Aneesa Shafi