Essays about: "CSO"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 42 essays containing the word CSO.

  1. 1. Experiences and challenges of Collaboration between Civil Society Organizations and the United Nations

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

    Author : Mina Mirzakhani-Moghaddam; [2023-11-17]
    Keywords : Interorganizational collaboration; civil society organization; CSO; United Nations; UN; civil society participation; CSO and the UN collaboration;

    Abstract : Interorganizational collaboration is defined by Phillips, Lawrence and Hardy (2000) as “a co-operative relationship among organizations that relies on neither market nor hierarchical mechanisms of control” (pp. 24). READ MORE

  2. 2. Civil society organizations in a complex institutional landscape : Investigating institutional logics in Swedish civil society organizations work with social impact measurement

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

    Author : Hanna Franziska Fischer; [2023]
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    Abstract : The role of civil society has been discussed frequently as of the last decades, and with growing influence of new public management and related market-oriented reforms in public sector, civil society organizations have become welfare service providers too. As part of this development, social impact measurement has been a way for financers to prove and private actors to invest in social change. READ MORE

  3. 3. The shadow pandemic : a feminist institutional perspective on civil society's work on gender-based violence in post COVID -19 South Africa

    University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för mänskliga rättigheter och demokrati

    Author : Louise Lindfors; [2023]
    Keywords : Gender-based violence; institutional feminism; CSO civil society organizations; grassroot activists; South Africa;

    Abstract : This field study is a thematic and feminist institutionalist analysis on how the civil society and grassroot activists in Gauteng province, South Africa, has been affected and mitigated during and after the COVID -19 pandemic in their work against gender-based violence. The data consist of five semi structured interviews with primary sources, divided in the two sub-groups of activists and formal NGO representatives. READ MORE

  4. 4. From Bystanders to Agents of Change: Examining Men’s Engagement in Policy Addressing GBV in Kosovo

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Leyla Ilter; Maja Grzesiuk; [2023]
    Keywords : Violence against women; gender-based violence; Kosovo; gender norms; NGO; CSO; men’s engagement in violence-prevention; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The issue of domestic violence has been often framed as a women’s issue. Despite men being the majority of perpetrators in Kosovo, the engagement of men in the process of addressing violence against women remains a largely unexplored step in ending it. READ MORE

  5. 5. Effects of the European Commission’s Democracy assistance to CSO’s : A quantitative study

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Emma Påhlson; [2023]
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    Abstract : While the underlying political rationale for democracy support is predicated on its anticipated positive influence on democratization, the effectiveness of such support remains a subject of considerable debate. A less scrutinized dimension pertains to the employment of disaggregated metrics of democracy, with this dissertation placing emphasis on the specific category of aid directed towards civil society organizations. READ MORE