Essays about: "Community centered practice"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words Community centered practice.
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1. Changing Tides and Navigating Uncertainty : An ethnographic study of NGO resilience in coastal South India
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : 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
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2. The Community-Centered Solution to a Pandemic : Risk Communication and Community Engagement for Co-Production of Knowledge in Health Emergencies and Infodemic Context
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : This research explores how community-centered solutions facilitate the success and ownership of the response actions to deal with a public health emergency, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. When an outbreak or a hazard impacts a group of people, there is a strong need for communication in order to be able to access to the right information that takes people to make the correct decision and thus to take a protective action to be safe. READ MORE
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3. LESSONS FROM ROMA FEMINISM IN EUROPE Digital Storytelling Projects with Roma Women Activists from Romania, Spain and Sweden
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaperAbstract : This multi-sited ethnographic research explores Roma feminism through the stories of Roma women activists participating in Digital Storytelling projects in Romania, Spain and Sweden. Drawing from relevant feminist theory and debates (intersectionality and Roma feminist theory, transnational feminism, liberal and cultural/different-centered feminist thought), these stories are understood in dialogue with different theoretical perspectives that both reproduce patterns of conflicts in feminist thought and create new ways of understanding feminism and solidarity based on a transnational context. READ MORE
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4. Investigating the Practice of Disaster Risk Reduction Mainstreaming into Development : the Experience of a Development Organization
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : The understanding of development and disaster nexus has enforced the international community to think and act differently. Disaster risk reduction mainstreaming has been embraced as one of our best approach for sustainable development and has been consistently featured in international discussions. READ MORE
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5. Lav Förening : Service design: lichen study, farm innovation and enterprise framework for re-active rural cultural landscape
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)Abstract : Abstract I start this project as my master degree project which is the last assignment during my graduate education in Sweden. I own the bachelor degree in industrial design which is the beginning I ponder in a designer’s way. READ MORE
