Essays about: "non-profit sector"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 75 essays containing the words non-profit sector.

  1. 1. Disability Discomfort in Development : Unveiling Ableism and Disablism within Swedish Development Cooperation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Erika Hudson; [2023]
    Keywords : Persons with Disabilities; International Development Cooperation; Sweden; Government Agencies; Non-profit Organizations; Organizations of Persons with Disabilities; Ableism; and Disablism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Persons with disabilities have long been overlooked and forgotten in the context of international development cooperation with less than five percent of official development aid targeting disability-related issues. Too often development agencies and organizations claim to have limited expertise related to disability, lack funds to support disability issues and pivot the responsibility of upholding the rights of persons with disabilities to someone else. READ MORE

  2. 2. The Framing of Affordability within Ireland’s Housing Discourse : Analysis of the Negotiated Process of Narrative Struggles within the Framing of Affordability within Housing Discourse

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Neil Dunne; [2023]
    Keywords : Affordability; Affordable Housing; Housing Affordability; Housing Policy; Social Constructionism; Narrative; Housing Regimes; Commodification; Decommodification; Welfare Provision;

    Abstract : After the 2008 Global Financial Crash, Ireland’s neoliberal housing policy turned again to housing financialisation as focus lay upon the attraction of corporate investors in order to revive the housing market. The result was a swift return to housing price rises but this came with ever growing homelessness and housing precarity as REITs and other corporate investors' influence on the housing market grew. READ MORE

  3. 3. Hidden Communities Of Practice : An Exploratory Case Study on the Integration of Immigrant Women in Malmö

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Asmita Dalavi; Isabel Pontes; [2023]
    Keywords : Community of Practice; Mutual Engagement; Joint Enterprise; Shared Repertoire; Immigrant Women; Sweden; Malmö; Situated Learning; Knowledge Sharing;

    Abstract : Integration of immigrants has become a major focus of the EU policy agenda in recent years with Sweden being one of the first EU countries to address the need for immigrant integration. However, in recent times integration outcomes in Sweden have become unfavourable. READ MORE

  4. 4. Everyone wants to collaborate, but not everyone crosses boundaries : A qualitative study of how institutional logics influences intersectoral collaboration for social innovations in Sweden

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Linn Jonnergård Stensson; [2022]
    Keywords : Intersectoral collaboration; Institutional Logic; Boundary Work; Social Innovation;

    Abstract : Previous research has shown that institutional logics are the frame of reference used by individuals to make sense of their everyday life. This thesis aims to understand how such logics are displayed by actors in the public, private and non-profit sector and how they influence the construction of intersectoral collaboration for social innovation in a Swedish context. READ MORE

  5. 5. Alternativa stigar mot nya gemenskaper för delande och bostadsbyggande : en studie av förutsättningarna för att integrera en gemenskapsdriven utveckling i stadens omställningar.

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Victor Pastorino Nyman; [2022]
    Keywords : Byggemenskaper; Transformativ kapacitet; Sege park; Stigberoende; Delning; Hållbar omställning; Stadsomvandling; Gemenskapsdriven utveckling;

    Abstract : Genom att analysera delnings- och byggemenskapers medverkan i den konventionella stadsomvandlingsprocessen avser detta arbete undersöka möjligheterna för alternativa gemenskapsdrivna aktörer att agera som drivkrafter för en hållbar samhällsförnyelse. Detta görs genom en fallstudie där studieobjektet är Malmöstadsdelen Sege Parks omvandlingsprocess. READ MORE