Essays about: "non-governmental organisations"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 118 essays containing the words non-governmental organisations.
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1. Agonistic Peacebuilding Practices, in Practice? A Study of INGOs Programmatic and Advocacy Work With and For Yazidi Survivors in Northern Iraq
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : After the 2014 invasion of contested areas in Iraq by the so-called Islamic State (IS), the Yazidi community has suffered dire consequences. Genocide, sexual enslavement, forced religious conversion and forced displacement were some of these horrendous acts committed by IS against the Yazidi community and other minorities in Iraq and Syria. READ MORE
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2. A Solidarity Model of Foreign Aid? : A case study of the Olof Palme International Center’s projects in South Africa
University essay from Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för ekonomi och itAbstract : This bachelor thesis is a qualitative case study of whether the Olof Palme International Center’s (OPC) model of foreign aid, as a Swedish non-governmental organisation (NGO), is understood by leading figures of the three types of participants involved in the model; the OPC, Swedish member organisations, and, in this case, South African partner organisations, as taking either a solidarity- or charity-approach to foreign aid, in both theory and practise. The theories of Mutual Aid and International Solidarity are used to construct two opposing “solidarity” and “charity” models of foreign aid, against which the OPC model is compared. READ MORE
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3. A Multi-Level Perspective: Construction and Demolition Waste Management System : Case Study: Bengaluru
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för byggd miljö och energiteknik (BET)Abstract : A significant proportion of construction and demolition (C&D) waste is encompassed within the broader category of global waste. The handling of C&D waste is subject to the influence of a tripartite of environmental, social, and economic factors. READ MORE
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4. 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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5. 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 institutionenAbstract : 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
