"Shadow reports" by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and national human rights institutions (NHRIs) are commonplace within the international treaty monitoring process. They became so for a simple reason: shadow reports improve reporting process providing useful information. This article contends that from cities would do same. Using example of sent City Berkeley, California, this advocates ...

 Inter-organizational collaboration has been linked to a range of important outcomes for collaborating organizations. The strategy literature emphasizes the way in which collaboration between organizations results in the sharing of critical resources and facilitates knowledge transfer. The learning literature argues that collaboration not only transfers existing knowledge among organiza...

Prior studies show how race, class, and gender matter for worker identities within organizations, but there is an opportunity to focus on nationality class background nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Using evidence from ethnographic fieldwork, in-depth interviews, organizational documents at a small NGO in Kenya, I mediate workers assign accomplish tasks. My results suggest that process of...

Over recent years the issue of free and open source software (FOSS) for development in less developed countries (LDCs) has received increasing attention. In the beginning the benefits of FOSS for lower developed countries was only stressed by small groups of idealists like Richard Stallman. Now, however, it is moving into the hands of large international organizations like the World Bank, Europ...

Twenty-five years since the end of Tajikistan’s civil war in 1997, dreams and aspirations international development cross-border mobility country’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, colloquially called “the Pamirs,” have evaporated. Once mountainous region was envisaged to a prosperous postwar future ahead it, with emerging trade links China Afghanistan, substantial funding from nongovernme...

How can students’ character formation be supported such that their youthful energy become a force for the good? There is burgeoning research on how universities help form people of (Brooks et al. in International Journal Ethics Education 4(2):167–182, 2019; Lamb Moral 1–23, 2021b). Nongovernmental organizations also play role. This article explores leadership program students Philippines cultiv...

We draw on a general model of the governance organizations to analyze dynamics among various actor types given present ubiquity evaluations in and around universities. Regulators demand assess return taxpayers’ money. Market actors, particularly publishers academic journals, promote different metrics, including citation scores impact factors. Scrutinizers, such as media companies, professions, ...