Economic reforms or globalisation in more generalised terms, is dominating the world socio-economic scenario for the last two decades. The process is having significant impacts on India as well. Effectiveness of public sector economic development programs is increasingly being questioned now. Higher accountability and participatory approach are becoming more acceptable means. This paper attempt...

This paper challenges the notion that the incorporation of actors from civil society into hybrid governance arrangements improves outcomes and legitimacy. Multi-stakeholder collaborations are a popular hybrid governance approach to development, including NGOs’ work to integrate smallholder farmers into supermarket supply chains. As a result, NGOs’ service provision role has expanded to include ...

Introduction: Psychosocial theory of mental well-being suggests that coping, socioeconomic status, environmental resources such as perceived and received social support, personal self-efficacy can be related to psychological well-being. The current study aims discuss differences in Turkish women with low middle-income. It also examine the among lower income women’s according receiving non-gover...

In this paper, I offer a unique lens through which to theorize neoliberal governance from the perspective of politics space and everyday surveillance in Akash Sadan, Delhi homeless shelter. Drawing interview data over two years ethnographic research -participant observation -- with children (boys girls), their families, civil society state representatives, bring theories homelessness, surveilla...

Abstract The article observes that women's rights politics in the United Nations are caught full-scale polarization between feminist and conservative non-governmental organizations (NGOs), particularly visible their fights over institutional spaces language. It then sets out to elucidate process by which this came about. first ties it specific reasons for NGOs entered UN; namely, intent halt re...

BACKGROUND There are increasing evidence highlighting the importance of incorporating issues of global health into pre- and post-graduate medical curricula. Medical international cooperation is a fundamental component of strategies to include global health issues in post-graduate medical curricula. METHODS Here we describe a seven-year cooperation between the Non Governmental Organization (NG...

INTRODUCTION An effective international response to a disaster requires cooperation and coordination with the existing infrastructure. In some cases, however, international relief efforts can compete with the local work force and affect the balance of health-care systems already in place. This study seeks to evaluate the impact of the international humanitarian response to the 12 January 2010 e...

Does the labeling of tradable products like carpets which have been produced without child labor contribute to decreased vulnerability of poor households and their children? This paper analyzes which factors determine the probability of a child to work in the carpet industry, and examines the influence of non governmental organizations (NGOs) like Rugmark which are engaged in the social labelin...

I woke up to the sound of morning glory frying as my host mother, Pikoon Phanloed, cooked up breakfast before starting her morning chores on the farm. I was on one of my first home stays during my fall 2011 semester in northeastern Thailand, living with a family involved in the Alternative Agriculture Network (AAN)—a non-governmental organization that promotes sustainable agriculture. The sun w...