Sökning: "community-based organisation"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 26 uppsatser innehållade orden community-based organisation.
1. Changing Tides and Navigating Uncertainty : An ethnographic study of NGO resilience in coastal South India
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenSammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
2. Enhanced Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments as an organisational learning bridge for resilience building? A case study of Red Cross National Societies in the Caribbean
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetSammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
3. The Role of Technology in Humanitarian Accountability : Analysis of Social Listening Role During the COVID-19 Response
Magister-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Sammanfattning : During recent public health emergencies, such as COVID-19 pandemic, the spread of over, false and misinformation in social media, resulted in an exponential use of digital social listening methodologies- in summary defined as collection and analysis of voices, concerns and/or perceptions expressed by individuals and communities- as part of the humanitarian response. This raises the question on how those social listening findings are being used and influence emergency responses, while also addressing affected people’s needs and concerns, as part of the Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) mandate- an obligation of every organisation on the ground to place people affected by crisis at the centre of humanitarian action and promote respect for their human rights. LÄS MER
4. The paradox of community seed systems : a case of Lumezi and Chasefu districts
Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentSammanfattning : Availability of quality seeds is very key to production in agrarian societies such as Zambia. However, the focus on cereals like maize, a staple, has negatively affected the availability of quality seed for other crops like legumes which are equally important. This has been one of the reasons the community seed initiatives have been necessitated. LÄS MER
5. Hemsjukvård för barn : Föräldrars behov och erfarenheter av sjukvårdsinsatser i hemmet
Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för omvårdnadSammanfattning : Bakgrund: Vårdandet av barn med akuta och kroniska sjukdomar i hemmet samt vid palliativ vård har ökat under de sista årtiondena. Detta är i enlighet med Barnkonventionen och Nordisk Förening för Sjuka Barns Behov (NOBAB) som förespråkar att barn ska få den bästa möjliga sjukvården samt inte skiljas från sina föräldrar. LÄS MER
