Essays about: "Organisational Resilience"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 essays containing the words Organisational Resilience.

1. 1. Changing Tides and Navigating Uncertainty : An ethnographic study of NGO resilience in coastal South India

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Emma Berglund; [2023]
   Keywords : NGO; India; Localisation; Resilience; India; Blue Economy; Community centered practice;

   Abstract : What makes an non-governmental organisation (NGO) agile and resilient towards changes, pressures or uncertainties at community, state or macro-political level? By adopting a single case study based on semi-structured interviews and fieldwork, this thesis will dive into the life-world of a community-based NGO based in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu. Social Needs Education and Human Awareness (SNEHA) has since founding in the 1980s had a strong rights-based identity and evolved through various phases of community organising, disaster relief work, evidence-based advocacy and upholding of fisher communities traditional and customary rights. READ MORE

3. 2. Operational resilience strategies in times of global disruptions : A study of a Swedish national energy company

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

   Author : Gustav Lindstrand; Anna Oldestam; [2023]
   Keywords : operational resilience; procurement strategy; supply chain disruptions.; operational resilience; inköpsstrategi; supply chain disruptions.;

   Abstract : This study investigates strategies for improving the operational resilience, i.e. an organisation’s capacity to minimise, manage, and recover from disruptions quickly, ensuring continuity in its primary business processes. READ MORE

4. 3. Policing Humanitarianism : The Impact of Policing on the Humanitarian Operations of Search and Rescue NGOs in the Aegean Sea between 2015-2022

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Adinde Huizenga; [2023]
   Keywords : Policing; search and rescue; resilience and resistance; NGOs; humanitarian assistance; migration; deviance;

   Abstract : Throughout 2015, the European Union’s response to the large number of migrants crossing the Aegean Sea became increasingly securitised. It translated to the policing of non-governmental search and rescue organisations (SAR NGOs) active in the Aegean Sea. READ MORE

5. 4. African Climate Hazard Assessment - A composite index assessing national vulnerability to climate change

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Miljö- och energisystem

   Author : Josefine Falk; Otto Fjelkner; [2023]
   Keywords : Composite Index; Climate Vulnerability; Assessment; African Nations; Acute Physical Hazards; Chronic Physical Hazards; Systemic Hazards; Exposure; Multidimensional Approach; Sensitivity; Adaptation; Indicators; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : The study is compiled into a composite index for assessing the climate vulnerability of African nations. By employing a multidimensional approach, the index comprises nine distinctive hazards to examine a country’s sensitivity to climate change. READ MORE

6. 5. Enhanced Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments as an organisational learning bridge for resilience building? A case study of Red Cross National Societies in the Caribbean

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

   Author : Gwenaëlle Delcourt; [2023]
   Keywords : Organisational learning; resilience; vulnerability and capacity assessments VCAs ; red cross red crescent; Disaster risk management; MMO; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Adaptive capacity based on organisational learning (OL) is at once a critical imperative facing humanitarian organisations in their mission to save lives and support communities most at risk; and inherently evidenced as an enduring weakness over the past decades. Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments (VCA) are community-based risk assessments established for their utility in supporting communities’ iterative learning. READ MORE