This article aims to explain the contribution of international organizations in preserving marine ecosystems order achieve sustainable economic development Indonesia. The problem is focused on case studies World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) how WWF's strategy supports program blue economy includes policy advocacy, multi-stakeholder partnerships, resource management, local community development, a...

Abbreviations: ALNAP = Active Learning Network on Accountability and Performance APCDM = Asia-Pacific Conference on Disaster Medicine CDC = Center for Disease Control and Prevention [U.S.] CIDA = Canada International Development Agency CRED = Centre for Research of the Epidemiology of Disasters GDIN = Global Disaster Information Network HINAP = Health Information System for Advance Planning ICR...

To reduce complexity, we base our system on alliances—a set of agents that agree to share some private information and eventually cooperate. In CPlanT, each agent represents a complex, organized entity—such as a non-governmental organization (NGO), humanitarian organization, or army unit— that plays an active role in mission planning. These agents group themselves in various, temporary coalitio...

This research project is designed to understand the relationship between states and Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs), especially how they influence one another. In this study, I argue that the theoretical relationship between states’ foreign policy behaviors and the behavior of NGO is dynamic and conditional, with the influence of NGOs on states’ behaviors depending on the host states’ regi...

The worldwide costs of dementia are US$315 billion [1]. Monthly costs of Alzheimer’s disease in Spain are 1,426 per month [2]. What is the purpose, value, and usefulness of such statements? The number of Cost of Illness (CoI) studies is steadily increasing. For almost any high resource-consuming disease, there is some kind of CoI estimate available. There is also a kind of ongoing CoI rally. Li...

Abbreviations: A/C: Area in Charges; AFP: Acute Flaccid Paralysis; AFP: Acute Flaccid Paralysis; CNIC: Computerized National Identity Card; cVDPV2: Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Vaccine Virus type 2; DDM: Direct Dis-imbursement Method; DEWS: Disease Early Warning System; DHMT: District Health Management Team; DHMT: District Health Management Team; DHOs: District Health Offices; DPT: Diphthe...

This paper investigates the conditions under which firms are able to develop and implement innovations with sustainable development benefits. In particular, we examine "green chemistry" innovations in the United States. Via interviews with green chemistry leaders from industry, academia, nongovernmental institutions (NGOs), and government, we identified six major categories of challenges common...

Over the past two decades, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have increased in number, size and scope and established themselves in pivotal positions in social, economic and political landscapes across the globe. Their role in the development world specifically has been transformed. Originally situated on the periphery of the development community and often directly opposed to its mainstrea...

 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...