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Stephen, John. "Management of civil society organisations (CSOs) : A case study of selected CSOs in Tanzania." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för management, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-1144.
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Recent research findings have revealed that CSOs play very important hands on role to bring about social and economic change to developing countries like Tanzania. The CSOs are very diverse and unique in terms of set up, mission and mandate, there is therefore no single model on how should CSOs perform their functions in Tanzania. However, there are common held approaches that apply to effective management practices and so bring about good outcomes to the neediest people in Tanzania. This study has evidenced CSOs having a pivotal role to beef up service provision by the government and private sectors to spearhead socioeconomic development by explaining roles CSOs have been having in bringing such developments in Tanzania. This study has confirmed findings from previous studies that number, roles and diversity of CSOs increased significantly from 1980s to 1990s, and consequently involvement of CSOs in service provision has increased dramatically in recent years. Among the CSOs under this study, the ones which have been on board for more than five years have been seen to operate in coordinated multiple fields compared to the CSOs which have been on board for less than five years which operate in fewer fields. This study has evidenced increased annual budgets over time among the studied CSOs in Tanzania and this is an indication that CSOs’ performance capacity to manage projects and finances has improved over time. The current increased performance capacity of CSOs addresses the raised critique regarding managerial competence of CSOs in developing countries like Tanzania. The need for CSOs addressing issues in line with priority areas which are highlighted in the Tanzania’s National Strategy for Growth and Poverty Reduction (NSGRP) for rapid socioeconomic development of Tanzania has come out clearly from the findings of this study. This study recommends a more comprehensive study of CSOs to capture more issues and cover bigger geographical areas than what was done by this study.. This will help identify more areas which need improvement in future to strengthen the CSO sector and benefit ultimate project beneficiaries in Tanzania.+255 754 203386 +255 22 2421019
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Benjamin, Esone Ntoko. "CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS IN CAMEROON " Assessing the role of CSOs in Development"." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-97869.
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With the present level of poverty, growing inequality and the inability to provide public goods, some developing countries to an extent have turned to CSOs as an alternative solution for the much-needed sustenance. This study examines the contribution of CSOs in development and is carried out in Cameroon against the backdrop of inadequate infrastructures, low household income, generalized poverty and tense political atmosphere that could trigger inclusive policies and practices to enable peace and development prevail. In as much as the debate on the legitimacy, representativeness and the shrinking spaces of CSOs remains, this research addresses the role of CSOs in the development process of Cameroon and argues that within the context of poverty alleviation, climate change and democracy promotion CSOs can be active partners in development. For, when the state-centred approach to development fails or becomes inadequate, the acknowledgement that non-state actors can play a vital and indispensable role in the development dispensation of countries becomes an option for consideration. In developing my argument, two theories inherent within the Civil society scholarship, political participation and participatory development were applied to demonstrate how CSOs participate, the kind of relationship existing between CSOs, the state and the private sector for meaningful development to prevail was explored and analysed. Findings indicate, CSOs to an extent, significantly participate in enhancing development despite some constraints. The study was carried out as a qualitative abductive case study using remote qualitative interviews. The raison d’etre for the use of remote interviews was as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and has been explained appropriately in the qualitative design method. However, other sources of data explored for the fulfilment of the thesis included documentation from secondary sources, grey literature, CSOs, government and international organisations documentations. Empirically this study draws from existing literature especially from Cameroon and Peace and development studies.Thesis Presentation
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Khalil, Mostafa Khalil. "The contribution of Islamic-based CSOs to poverty reduction in Egypt : the mechanisms, the politics and the lessons." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-contribution-of-islamicbased-csos-to-poverty-reduction-in-egypt-the-mechanisms-the-politics-and-the-lessons(85b282bf-6129-460a-9a6c-a0ea6083a55e).html.
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This thesis provides a critical analysis of how Islamic-based Civil Society Organisations (IBCSOs) contribute to poverty reduction in Egypt, through a qualitative study of four Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). The thesis closely examines case study IBCSOs’ organisational structures, their activities and the values that shape their conceptualisation of poverty. It reveals the similarities between IBCSOs’ poverty reduction work and official social protection, and discusses how their approaches to poverty reduction can be understood in terms of the various discourses justifying social protection (risks, rights and needs). The thesis also uses these case studies to examine the validity of Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs) as vehicles for poverty reduction and social protection. Finally, it discusses the relationship between these organisations’ poverty reduction activities and political mobilisation through an examination of the role they played in the recent political rise of the Islamist movement in Egypt, as well as the impact of recent political developments on their operations. A key purpose of this critical investigation of IBCSOs' approaches to poverty reduction is to explore more broadly their wider implications for development theory and practice by assessing whether they can contribute to existing knowledge on the means of civil society’s contribution to poverty reduction and development.
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Kansiime, Kiiza Noel. "A Study of State–Civil Society Relationship : The case of Uganda." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-55842.
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The concept of civil society has for so long been complex, elusive and debatable. Time and again it has increasingly dominated both political and academic discourses. For the last two decades, there has been proliferation of civil society organisations especially in developing world whereby the donor community regard them as a universal remedy for underdevelopment and authoritarianism. After failure of several development approaches to do away with poverty, underdevelopment and dictatorial regimes, civil society has been presented as the beacon of freedom, the fountain for the protection of civil rights and of resistance against state repression. It was also regarded as the mobilizing platform of society for the protection and projection of substantive interests, the compelling force for state moderation, the epitome of popular struggles and civil power as well as a centralforce in political and economic reforms. This report presents findings on a study of state-civil society relationship, the case of Uganda. The main objective of this study was to “describe and analyze the reality of civil society in Uganda in relation to the theoretical concept of civil society”, therein comprehending the functions, actors and relationship between state and civil society in Uganda. The study process consisted of a desk study of available documentation on civil society concept. The main findings indicate that civil society organisations in Uganda are more active in the area of service delivery than policy advocacy. Therefore the bilateral function as service deliverers and policy advocates by civil society is far way from being a reality in Uganda. Findings also indicate that the state is less tolerant and uncomfortable with advocacy CSOs but largely cooperates with CSOs dealing in service delivery. The applicability of civil society concept in Uganda’s context is still far away from being achieved due to the fact that the political environment where civil society operates is constrained by the state. It was also revealed that donor funding is the cornerstone for civil society functioning in Uganda.
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Manyuchi, Raymond Freddy. "The role of civil society organisations/non-governmental organisations (CSOs/NGOs) in building human capability : the case of Africa Community Publishing Development Trust (Zimbabwe)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20086.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study represents an analysis of the role of civil society organisations/non‐governmental organisations (CSOs/NGOs) in building human capabilities through knowledge construction. It assesses the effectiveness of community publishing in building human capabilities under challenges they face in the environment they are operating in. The complex environment CSOs/NGOs are operating in is dealt with. It will be demonstrated that CSOs/NGOs give marginalised communities, especially women, children and the disabled, a platform where they can organise themselves and give them an opportunity to influence policy and development of their community. Community development has many interpretations. This study focuses on communities as central agents responsible for their own development. When communities participate in their own development, they are engaging in an educational process which is both formal and informal in nature. The education process helps them to understand their situations better. This type of education called ‘popular education’, is based on the belief that people involved in the process have important knowledge that they have acquired from their experiences in life and the education they receive mainly consists of dialogue between different knowledge sets that they possess. In the process, when people participate actively in the development of their communities, a sense of ownership is developed. For the purpose of designing the study, observation of the direct involvement of staff from local government, Africa Community Publishing Development Trust and partner organisations as well as working with communities from Shamva, Umzingwane and Buhera provided the basis. It is noted that party politics affects the development of a CSO/NGO sector that is capable of building human capabilities. It is, therefore, clear that government should create an enabling environment that is free from violence and rule of law should be respected as this helps CSOs/ NGOs to implement capability building programmes conducive for all communities to participate in the development of their areas.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie ontleed die rol van burgerlike organisasies/nie‐regeringsorganisasies (BOs/NRO's) in die bou van menslike vermoëns deur middel van kennis konstruksie. Die studie beoordeel die effektiwiteit van die gemeenskap uitgewery in die bou van die menslike vermoëns en die uitdagings wat hulle in die gesig staar in die omgewing waar hulle hul bevind. Die komplekse omgewing waarin BOs / NRO’s hul bevind word inmiddels behandel. BOs/NRO's gee gemarginaliseerde gemeenskappe veral vroue, kinders en gestremdes 'n platform waar hulle hul self kan organiseer en gee hulle ' n geleentheid om beleid te beïnvloed en hul gemeenskap te ontwikkel. Ontwikkeling van die gemeenskap het baie interpretasies. Die studie fokus op die gemeenskappe as sentrale agente wat verantwoordelik is vir hul eie ontwikkeling. Wanneer gemeenskappe betrokke is in hul eie ontwikkelings proses, neem hulled deel aan ’ n opvoedkundige proses wat van nature beide formeel en informeel is. Die opvoedkundige proses help hulle om hul situasies beter te verstaan. Hierdie tipe van Onderwys genaamd "gewilde onderwys", is gebaseer op die oortuiging dat mense wat betrokke is in ‘n proses belangrike kennis besit as gevolg van persoonlike lewenservaringe, die opvoeding wat hulle ontvang bestaan hoofsaaklik uit dialoog tussen die verskillende kennis stel dat hulle besit. Wanneer mense aktief deelneem in die ontwikkeling van hul gemeenskappe, word 'n gevoel van eienaarskap ontwikkel. In terme van die ontwikkeling van die studie het die direkte betrokkenheid van die personeel van plaaslike regering, ACPDT en vennoot organisasies asook die werk met die gemeenskappe van Shamva, Umzingwane en Buhera die basis gevorm van die studie. Politieke partye beinvloed die ontwikkeling van die BO/NRO‐sektor en dit stel hulle in staat om menslike vermoëns op te bou. Die regering moet 'n instaatstellende omgewing skep wat vry is van geweld en waar die oppergesag van die reg gerespekteer word. Dit sal BO’s/NRO's help om vermoëns bouende programme te implementeer wat gemeenskappe die geleentheid sal gee om deel te hê aan die ontwikkeling van hul gemeenskap.
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Maseng, Jonathan Oshupeng. "The state, civil society and underdevelopment: the case of Zimbabwe / Jonathan Oshupeng Maseng." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8507.
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This thesis examines the relationship between the state and civil society in Zimbabwe. The relationship between the state and civil society is discussed under the categories of the concepts democratisation, good governance and sustainable development. The nature of the relationship between the state and civil society in Africa is examined to set out parameters for state-civil society debate in Zimbabwe. The discussion of the relationship between the state and civil society in Zimbabwe is synthesised into three parts, the post-independence era, the post-1990s and the post-2000. From these discussions it is argued that the relationship between the state and civil society was peaceful in the first decade of independence and this was because the state maintained dominance and control over all sectors of civil society. However, the 1990s saw a collapse of peaceful relations between the state and civil society in Zimbabwe. The collapse of the peaceful relationship between the state and civil society came as a result of the country’s economic decline and the authoritarian practices in Zimbabwe, which saw the emergence of a confrontational civil society towards the state. In the early 2000s, it is observed that the state became repressive towards civil society through the introduction of repressive laws which include Access to Information and Privacy Act (AIIPA) and the Public Order and Security Act (POSA). For peaceful relations between the state and civil society to exist in a sustainable manner, the state must continuously promote and practice democracy and good governance. In addition, the state should play a pivotal role of enhancing sustainable development in a manner that meets the socio-economic realities of its population.Thesis (M.A. (Political Studies))--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2011
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AlSaid, Herbawi Feras. "Partnership for Poverty Alleviation: A case study of the partnership between government and national civil society organisations in Jordan." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446344.
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Alleviating poverty is central to the Sustainable Development Goals. It is emphasized that strong partnerships are required for achieving this goal. While governments are responsible for reducing the poverty in their countries, the potential of national civil society organisations (CSOs) in solving social problems in the areas they work in allows them to be effective partners in alleviating poverty. Noting that Jordan’s poverty rate Grew between 2010 and 2018. This thesis examines the literature about the multidimensional poverty of the Jordanians and the Syrian refugees in Jordan to access their basic needs of sufficient food and nutrition, water and sanitation, basic healthcare, and basic education. It also analyses the partnership between the Jordanian government and national philanthropic CSOs by interviewing representatives of two Royal CSOs and two non-Royal CSOs that work to help the poor access their needs and improve their income. The study shows that access to basic needs is more challenging for the Syrian refugees than the Jordanian poor in all dimensions, before and during COVID-19. For Jordanians, the income dimension is more challenging than other poverty dimensions, compared with the Syrian refugees. Moreover, the partnership between the national CSOs and the government is not a strategic partnership. National CSOs are the implementers of the partnership’s projects. They are the accountable. They do their own monitoring and evaluation. They do not receive funds from the government. Their communications with the government are not effective for the partnership. Thus, to improve the partnership and facilitate the national CSOs’ work, the study suggests that the partnership’s terms be renegotiated, the communications and interactions are strengthened, and have common and periodic evaluations and monitoring for the different timeframes.
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Nugroho, Yanuar. "Does the Internet transform civil society? : the case of Civil Society Organisations in Indonesia." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2007. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:58115.
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The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), particularly the Internet, has attracted huge attention. Despite the attention paid to research into Internet use in homes, government agencies and business firms, little attention has been paid to other types of organisations such as civil society organisations (CSOs).
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Committee, Advisory. "Structural relationships between government and civil society organisations." Office of the Deputy President, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65958.
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1. BACKGROUND 1.1 The key aspects on which the Committee was charged to advise the Deputy President on were: • the appropriate and functional relationships that could be evolved between government and organs of civil society with respect to the provision of capacity for the implementation of the RDP; • the feasibility of an appropriate funding mechanism that would enable a co-ordinated approach to the funding of civil society organisations, the relationships of such a mechanism with current development funding players and other transitional mechanisms; • a mechanism to promote a sustainable partnership between these organisations with government. KEY FINDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE After careful consideration of all pertinent factors, the Committee established that: 2. 1 In spite of broad support for the RDP, there is no coordinated approach to tackling poverty. Government has been able to attract aid and has not found it easy to use such large funding owing to processes of change management and the processes of setting up local government infrastructures. Concomitant with these issues is the lack of management skills at the Government levels. 2. 2 Organs of civil society involved in development work in South Africa remain a rich inheritance for the Government of National Unity. These institutions, generally referred to as Community Based Organisations (CBOs) or Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) span a wide variety of the development landscape. These organs of Civil Society seek to fuel the development agenda of South Africa through participation in the RDP, but have often found themselves frustrated by the lack of clear policy and connecting points with Government in general. 2. 3 Experience from other countries show that the role of CSOs in development and the sustenance of democracy is a key feature of advanced democracies. Foreign research proved that cooperation between CSOs and various tiers government has often produced positive results. Owing to their affinity, empathy and proximity to the broader populace CSOs have always proved to be effective in meeting the basic needs of the population they serve. 2. 4 The initial energizing force for development which broadly funded the CSO sector has transformed. Local development funding institutions have developed a new focus and business approach. The Kagiso Trust and the IDT are gearing themselves to operate as development implementation institutions as against solely the funding of development and the facilitation of funding for development initiatives. 2. 5 Foreign aid funding, money which was historically marked for CSOs, is largely being directly channeled to Government. This source of funding has progressively declined since the 1994 elections. Indications are that this pattern is likely to continue as erstwhile traditional International Aid donors prefer bilateral funding arrangements with government. Corporate grant funding which in any case has always been limited to the CSO sector will continue to flow to corporate programmes and will remain a significant factor to this sector. 2. 6 Development CSOs operate within a restrictive environment in respect of taxation and registration. 2.7 There is broad and significant support for a positive structural relationship and a coordinated funding mechanism between CSOs and Government to promote the objectives and principles of the RDP. 2.8 The need to establish a channel of communication between CSOs and government. Through this mechanism, government and CSOs would be able to agree on RDP and development.Prepared for the Deputy President the Honorable Mr Thabo Mbeki
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Rulashe, Phumela. "Decision making criteria to fund civil society organisations." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59766.
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Post-1994 civil society in South Africa plays two roles, that of social service delivery and that of social watchdog. The former has civil society organisations providing services government should be delivering but is unable to. In order for civil society organisations to be able to fulfil this role effectively, they require financial resources. These financial resources are sourced from various entities such as government, corporates, foundations and high net worth individuals. Currently this funding environment is considered to be constrained albeit debatable but the civil society organisations requirement for funding has not changed.
The purpose of the research is to gain insight into the decision making criteria organisations use to fund civil society organisations. Government and business are critical sources of funding to civil society that allow the civil society organisation to carry out their activities mainly of service delivery. Like most funding organisations management or a committee conducts budget approvals. To achieve the purpose of the research an exploratory qualitative method of study was used, 13 structured interviews were conducted with heads of Corporate Social Investment departments or foundations in selected corporates and state owned enterprises to establish the decision making criteria they use to allocate funding to civil society organisations.
The data was analysed and common themes were extracted. The findings highlighted the funding strategies, a list of factors as well as influences of decision making styles and processes as the criteria used to make the decisions in funding civil society organisations and how these criteria are applied.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Özgür, Keysan Asuman. "Engendering "civil society"? : discourses of women's organisations in Turkey." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2015. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26046.
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Cengiz, Kurtulus. "Civil Society At The Boundaries Of Public And Private Spheres: The Internal Dynamics Of Three Csos In Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606029/index.pdf.
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This study tries to understand the internal dynamics of the civil society organizations in Turkey on the experiences of three CSOs: the Ankara Branches of KADER, MAZLUMDER and IMO by focusing on the intra&ndashorganizational practices (the decision making processes, elections, general meetings, division of labor, basic conflicts and divergences, the disagreements, the way of deliberation and consensus). It tries to shed light on the transformative potential of the CSO&rsquo
s in public sphere as civil organizations themselves in time both in the sense of their political stances and organizational structure. The research was designed in the form of a case study including both the depth interwiews and participant observations. In this framework, ten depth-interviews were made with members having different qualities for each of these CSOs and participant observations were realized in the general meetings, elections and activities of these organizations. Since the aim of this study is to understand the contribution of the CSOs to the public sphere, the research findings were interpreted and considered basically in the light of the two main theoretical positions: the deliberative (Habermas) and agonistic (Laclau and Mouffe) democracy. The study espoused a post-structuralist conception of democracy combined with a weakened model of deliberation and dialogue pointing out the requirement of the existential publicity of man (Arendt) in the world. In this context, this study tries to discuss the following questions within the framework of the public sphere experience of the three CSOs throughout the thesis. Is the concept of civil society a proper concept for understanding the peculiar experience of Turkey (with reference to the historical context of civil associational life in Turkey and the recent civil resurrection)? Do civil organizations have the capacity to serve for deepening and consolidation of democracy in public sphere? Are these civil organizations democratic and participatory with regard to their intra-organizational structures and decision-making processes? And, more importantly, do they have any capacity to influence the process of democratic transformation in Turkey?
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Hsu, J. "State-society relations in China : a case study of migrant civil society organisations in Beijing and Shanghai." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604688.
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This study examines the relationship between migrant civil society organisations (CSOs) in Beijing and Shanghai and the Chinese state. The research explores how stakeholders interact, and subsequent impact on state-society relations. With the Chinese state gradually withdrawing its support and finances across a number of social sectors, CSOs are appearing to be ever more important in bridging the shortfall. The emergence of migrant CSOs and the general diversification of Chinese society can be understood within China’s economic reforms, leading to unprecedented levels of internal migration. In the case of migrant CSOs, they have surfaced to tackle the diverse challenges migrant workers face, given the failure of central and local states to address their welfare. The state recognises its own shortcomings in the provision of welfare, and has therefore accepted the involvement of CSOs, but with trepidation due to their potential threat to social and political instability. The Beijing and Shanghai case-studies reveal the critical importance of looking at the local level when analysing state-society relationship. Fieldwork consisting of in-depth interviews with migrant CSOs’ project sites, are the foundations for the study. Fieldwork data reveal that the Chinese state is not a single entity, but manifests in various forms of new and old spaces including local and international CSOs, and the government’s mass organisations. Through the study of migrant CSOs, we see state actively co-opting these CSOs to meet its own agenda. However, we also see the CSOs adopting strategies in negotiating with different levels of the state in order to optimise their work.
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Perk, Mert Orhan. "Civil Society As A Driving Force For Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613928/index.pdf.
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This thesis analyses whether the European Union acts as a trigger for Turkey&rsquos democratisation process within the pre-accession period. This study claims that although Turkish civil society has practically been characterised as weak and inactive, the impact of the European Union&rsquo
s politics of civil society on Turkish civil society organisations is a substantial contribution to democratic consolidation in Turkey, where the weakness of democracy has always been an obstacle for the country&rsquo
s integration to the Union. In accordance with this claim, three civil society organisations, which have been previously awarded European Union funded grant, were selected and a printed media screening study covering the period from the Helsinki Summit of 1999, when the European Commission took Turkey&rsquo
s membership application into consideration, to Turkish General Elections of 2011, was carried out. Through this study, the main purpose was to observe to what extent civil society organisations, having been financed under European Union funded grant schemes, provided contribution to Turkey&rsquo
s democratisation process.
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Perdana, Aditya [Verfasser], and Andreas [Akademischer Betreuer] Ufen. "The relationship of civil society organizations (CSOs) and political parties in post-Suharto Indonesia : a women’s CSO perspective / Aditya Perdana ; Betreuer: Andreas Ufen." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1131254627/34.
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Kubitschko, Sebastian. "Media practices of civil society organisations : emerging paths to legitimation and long-term engagement." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2015. http://research.gold.ac.uk/11401/.
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In this thesis I wish to analyse the complex relationship between actors’ media- related practices, legitimacy and long-term engagement. Based on a qualitative approach my research investigates two cases –Citizens for Europe, a civil society organisations involved in issues relating to European citizenship, and the Chaos Computer Club, one of the world’s oldest and largest hacker organisations. More concretely, through face-to-face interviews, participant observation and media analysis I analyse the role media practices play for the two organisations to establish legitimation and to sustain their political engagement over time. Accordingly, my thesis seeks to provide an empirically informed interpretive account of the meaning media-related practices have for actors’ political endeavours. From a more operationalised perspective, I am trying to make a convincing argument that practices circulating around and oriented towards media technologies and infrastructures play a configurative role for actors’ ability to co-determine democratic constellations. Instead of suggesting a straightforward causal chain my thesis conceptualises the entanglements between media practices, legitimation and long-term engagement as interlocking arrangements grounded in relational dynamics. Overall, my thesis aims to compliment existing research on the role media technologies and infrastructures play for the formation of political arrangements by looking at organisation-based engagement. In doing so, my research partially bridges a current research gap concerning the relationship between organisational actors’ media-related practices and their ability to establish legitimacy and to perpetuate political engagement over time.
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Abele, Christine. "Civil society assistance in Central and Eastern Europe." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/15749.
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Die Arbeit stellt sich die Frage, inwieweit es externen Akteuren möglich ist, zivilgesellschaftli-che Strukturen eines in der Transformation befindlichen Staates zu stärken, um damit einen Beitrag zur Konsolidierung nachkommunistischer Gesellschaften zu leisten. Resultiert die externe Förderung tatsächlich in eine „zivilere“ Gesellschaft, welche sich auf mündige und aktive Bürger stützt, oder führt sie zu einem bloßen Transfer von Strukturen in Form von Nicht-Regierungsorganisationen (NRO), welche jedoch keine gesellschaftliche Anbindung haben und bloße Zuarbeiter westlicher Geberorganisationen sind? // Um diese Frage zu beantworten, werden im theoretischen Teil der Arbeit ausgehend vom akteurszentrierten Institutionalismus zwei wesentliche Mechanismen identifiziert, durch wel-che die Aktivitäten der Geber Veränderungen bei den Nehmern erzielen: Ermächtigung und Lernen. Während Ersteres die Einsatzmöglichkeiten und Ressourcen einiger Akteure stärkt und damit vorhandene Akteurskonstellationen ändert, führt Letzteres dazu, dass neue Ideen Eingang in die politische Arena finden. // Die Arbeit stellt die Aktivitäten vier verschiedener Geberländer und –organisationen in Polen und der Slowakei in den 1990er Jahren vor; der Europäischen Union, Deutschlands, der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und dem privaten Netzwerk der Soros Stiftungen; und un-tersucht deren Beitrag zur zivilgesellschaftlichen Entwicklung beider Länder. Hierzu werden lokale NROs in den Blick genommen, welche maßgeblich von westlichen Gebern unterstützt werden und untersucht, inwieweit diese als Träger der Zivilgesellschaft fungieren, welche Legitimität sie bei der Bevölkerung besitzen und ob sie nach Rückzug der Geber weiter exis-tieren. // Die Arbeit kommt zu dem Schluss, dass westliche Zivilgesellschaftsförderung in beiden un-tersuchten Ländern einen positiven Effekt hatte in dem Sinne, dass maßgeblich geförderte NROs tatsächlich als Träger der Zivilgesellschaft fungierten. Sie bemühten sich um die Un-terstützung anderer NROs, erweitern gesellschaftliche Partizipationsmöglichkeiten und sind soweit in nationale Strukturen und in der Gesellschaft verankert, dass auch ein Fortbestand ohne westliche Gelder möglich ist.With the end of the communist bloc and the transformations taking place in Central and Eastern Europe the promotion and protection of democracy from abroad became a major field of assistance. Especially civil society assistance, understood as direct support granted to non-governmental actors of the target state with the explicit aim to promote the consolida-tion of democracy, became a major pillar of democracy aid. The dissertation analyzes civil society assistance and aims to tackle the question whether it is feasible to promote and strengthen civil society from abroad. Does civil society assistance result in more civil society or does it result in nothing more than the establishment of donor driven NGOs which are nei-ther voluntary nor independent but solely function as puppets of donors? // In order to answer this question and following the insights of actor-centered institutionalism, the dissertation identifies to modes of external intervention labeled „empowerment” and “learning. In the first case, donors may increase the action resources of chosen domestic actors, thus altering domestic actor constellations, by providing finances, technical equip-ment, information and know-how. In the latter case, external actors may impact upon the ori-entations, that is, the perceptions and preferences, of domestic actors. // The dissertation analyses the contribution of the activities of four different donors; the Euro-pean Union, the USA, Germany and the private network of Soros Foundations; to the devel-opment of civil society in Poland and Slovakia. In order to pinpoint outcomes of civil society assistance the dissertation focuses on recipients and their activities. The dissertation thus clarifies to what extent main recipient organizations act as carriers of civil society, whether they transmit the interests of their constituency into politics, whether they fulfill a watch-dog function and democratic functions attributed to civil society. It therefore analyzes main recipi-ents, their sustainability, legitimacy and effectiveness as carriers of civil society. // The dissertation jumps to the conclusion that externally driven civil society assistance had positive effects in both countries under investigation as supported NGOs acted as carriers of civil society.
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Ley, Astrid. "Housing as governance interfaces between local government and civil society organisations in Cape Town, South Africa." Berlin Münster Lit, 2009. http://d-nb.info/1000037312/04.
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Fielder, Caroline Louise. "A call to alms : the role of faith based organisations in shaping civil society in China." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.634442.
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This thesis explores the work of Chinese faith based organisations as a lens through which to explore the concept of civil society in China. Whilst there has been much interest in trying to understand both the nature and function of civil society within China (Z. Deng & Jing 1992; Z. Deng 2011; Shieh & G. Deng 2011; Ming 2011) the concept remains highly contested. Within these discussions scant attention has previously been given to the role of faith based organisations (FBOs). This is surprising, given the growing significance of the sector in both rural and urban settings; the unrivalled potential of FBOs to mobilise huge sections of society; and the growing prominence of religion and faith in international development discourse and policy (Clarke, Jennings & Shaw 2007) . . This thesis uses Sztompka's four 'civilizational competencies' as a theoretical framework to explore how FBOs are shaping people's attitudes and providing opportunities for citizens to participate in civil society. This framework specifically looks at the ways in which FBOs have contributed to the building of each of the four competencies - the enterprise culture, the civic culture, the discourse culture, and the everyday culture - as foundation stones for the · building of civil society. Using this framework calls attention to Chinese society's readiness (or lack of preparedness) with regard to its own participation in civil society. This approach helps to elucidate some of the different ways in which civil society is conceived of in modern day China. My analysis of the FBO sector concludes by drawing on the work of Michael Edwards, echoing his question as to whether civil society should be described as ' ... a noun (a part of society), an adjective (a kind of society), an arena for societal deliberation or a mixture of all three?' (M. Edwards 2004 p.4).
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Fedorenko, Irina. "Environmental activism, non-governmental organisations and the new generation of civil society in Russia and China." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9698b035-a314-4f42-aae4-313a093b95b4.
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This dissertation analyses the development paradigms of civil society in Russia and China, using the examples of Environmental Non-Governmental Organisations (ENGOs) and youth grassroots movements in Beijing, Moscow, Vladivostok, and Kunming. Civil society in Russia and China have experienced similar path of development over the last thirty years, and in both countries, ENGOs have been supported by Western donors in hopes of democratisation. This factor has created contention with the national governments, and both countries have recently adopted the laws restricting NGO development and limiting the engagement of foreign donors. This dissertation is situated in the context of transition and change of political landscape and examines the impact of these laws on ENGOs and civil society development in Russia and China, as well as on the future of political activism and youth. Qualitative data gathered from semi-structured interviews and participant observation is used to illustrate the effects of these changes on the first generation of ENGOs and their foreign donors, and the impact on the future of civil society - young environmental activists. Despite the consensus on the devastating state of political freedom and activism in Russia and China, this dissertation sheds light on emerging environmental movements and the new forms of activism that may be transforming the landscape for civil society in both countries. Situated in the literature on environmental movements, youth and environmental activism from geography, political science, and area studies, this dissertation challenges dominant discourses on civil society in authoritarian regimes. The results of this study not only contribute to the literature on countries in postcommunist transition but also contribute to our understanding of alternative forms of environmental activism in constrained political environments.
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Martin, Alexander Peter. "Have Tunisian civil society organisations exhibited the civil political culture required to fulfil a democratic function through the post-2011 transition?" Thesis, Durham University, 2016. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11923/.
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This thesis asks whether the post-2011 transition has allowed Tunisian civil society to fulfil the democratic functions attributed to it by civil society and democratisation theorists. It uses an understanding of civil society as playing a democratising function through Oppositional-Resistance and Liberal-Associative roles, both of which rely on the existence of a civil political culture. The thesis examines the existence of a civil political culture, identified through the presence of the six criteria of Freedom, Equality, Pluralism, Tolerance, Trust, and Transparency. This thesis uses Welch’s theory of political culture, which recognises that political culture manifests as both discourse and practice. In order to understand civil society’s discourse and practice, Welch’s theory is developed into a methodology of three research methods, drawn from both positivist and interpretivist approaches of social science research. The role of civil society in the Tunisian transition is assessed in relation to its counterpart - the state. A triangulation of methods - a quantitative attitude survey, structured interviews, and ethnographic participant observation – examines inter-CSO relations, how CSOs interact with the state, and the internal CSO dynamics in addition to CSO institutional culture. This approach enables the assessment of the discourse and practice of civil society organisation (CSO) members’ political culture. The Tunisian case demonstrates the validity of the argument that the state must allow civil society sufficient public space to accomplish a democratic function. Simultaneously, civil society, in both Oppositional-Resistance and Liberal-Associative understandings, must exhibit civil political culture in order to fulfil a democratic function. It further demonstrates that only through a multifaceted research approach that addresses discourse and practice can political culture accurately be assessed. This thesis concludes that civility is developing in Tunisian civil society as CSO relationships with the state, other CSOs and its own members evolve, which has enabled CSOs to fulfil a democratic function.
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Orjuela, Camilla. "Civil society in civil war : peace work and identity politics in Sri Lanka /." Göteborg : Göteborg university, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb400665147.
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Schwegmann, Martin [Verfasser], and Peter [Akademischer Betreuer] Herrle. "Istanbul and the Grassroots - Civil Society Organisations,Local Politics and Urban Transformation / Martin Schwegmann. Betreuer: Peter Herrle." Berlin : Universitätsbibliothek der Technischen Universität Berlin, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1034134957/34.
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Harman, Sophie. "The World Bank, civil society organisations and HIV/AIDS : a critical assessment of the dynamics of engagement." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506247.
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This thesis critically examines the dynamics of the relationship between the World Bank and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) within the Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP) in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The main aim of the thesis is to explore this relationship as a means of confronting the contention between academic theory and Bank rhetoric on engagement, and practice, and how this contributes to understanding the role of CSOs within global governance.
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Beyene, Tessema. "Laws governing civil society organisations and their impacts on the democratization of a country : Ethiopia in case." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2015. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/2038560/.
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Democratization involves many important actors and institutions including vibrant civil society organisations (‘CSOs’), a free press, well organized and competitive political parties and an independent judiciary. Civil Society sector is one pillar that has contributed to the development and the democratization process of scores of countries by delegitimizing authoritarian regimes, generating social capital, empowering communities, building capacity of democratic institutions, and holding government to account. However at present, there is an on-going backlash against CSOs across the globe. The threats noticeably change from obvious direct repressions of CSOs and activists, to more elusive legal or quasi-legal obstacles that restrict the space in which CSOs operate.1 The legal barriers include barriers to entry to discourage or prevent the formation of CSOs; barriers to operation to restrict or ban advocacy and lobbying activities; and barriers to resources to restrict CSOs’ ability to secure fund required to pursue their purposes of formation.2 The thesis examines such legal impediments that restrict CSOs space of operation and their possible impact in the democratization process of a nation. It argues that any committed effort towards democratization demands an enabling legal framework that ensures freedom of association; facilitates CSOs formation and sustained existence; allows CSOs engagement in wider lawful purposes including the promotion of human rights and democracy; broadens CSOs access to resources; and regulates CSOs accountability. This thesis provides the first comprehensive assessment of the Ethiopian legal framework against such ideally enabling legal conditions. It does so in order to appraise the potential impacts of the legal framework on the democratic functions of CSOs operating in Ethiopia, and to suggest reforms so that those functions be better carried out to the advancement of the democratization process of the country.
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Van, Houten Kirsten. "Translating Interests and Negotiating Hybridity: The Contributions of Local Civil Society Organisations to Peacebuilding in South Kivu." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38538.
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This thesis examines the role of local civil society organisations (CSOs) in representing and addressing local needs in hybridized peacebuilding processes in South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). To do so it examines how local CSOs contribute to peacebuilding efforts, as well as who and what influence those contributions. Further, it considers the potential reach of such interventions at the community, provincial and national levels.
The research for this thesis examines three locally founded and operated civil society organisations in Bukavu, South Kivu, whose efforts directly respond to known local causes of conflict in the region. Its findings demonstrate how they translate the needs and knowledge of community-level actors to external and international partners, from whom they receive funding and knowledge that support their ability to deliver peacebuilding projects that respond to those community-level needs. While their external international partners were found to maintain material power in relation to these peacebuilding interventions, the local CSOs were shown to hold significant discursive power in this role of translators and intermediaries in these processes.
These findings challenge homogenous constructions of the local presented by post-liberal peacebuilding literature. They recognize the diversity of the local including individuals or groups who have been directly impacted by an ongoing violent conflict in a fixed geographical location whose experiences of war are shaped by their identities, and who share long-term interests in potential peace. Understanding the local in this way acknowledges a spectrum of actors contributing to peacebuilding in South Kivu and invites a reconsideration of binary constructions of hybridity. Acknowledging the important role that civil society and other intermediaries play in peacebuilding offers a foundation of understanding hybridity as a process of translation rather than shock.
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da, Silva Lacerda Daniel. "Civil society organisations and the production of socio-geographic space : the organisation of space in Brazilian favelas." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2016. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/83931/.
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Favelas (Brazilian urban slums) are territories riddled with immense contradictions and disputes. They are, often, the only available housing for poor people and are characterized by deprivation of state services. Despite their marginalization and the discourses of criminality associated with them, the poor living in favelas are recipients of many developmental initiatives. Such initiatives are largely mediated by various civil society organisations (CSOs), which have grown in number over time. This study discusses the case of a favela in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), which I call here Mucuripe. Mucuripe is located in a wealthy area of Rio and its population are mainly black working class people, who live in a culturally vibrant yet materially deprived territory, where the interplay of the police, drug dealers, and other CSOs suggest this is a disputed territory. The data for this thesis was collected using participant observation during fieldwork while I worked in two CSOs in Mucuripe for 10 weeks. This thesis interrogates how CSOs’ activities are conditioned by the social context of Mucuripe and how these CSOs are important in shaping this favela. It is informed by the works of Henri Lefebvre and Milton Santos. It contributes to the field of space and organisation which has, in recent decades, explored space beyond the idea of an empty container where artefacts, people and processes can exist. The thesis thus analyses not things in space but space itself (Lefebvre, 1991). Lefebvre has been very influential in organization studies, although the more politically engaged aspects of his theory remain largely under-theorised in the field. This thesis analyses the organization of space beyond the limits of CSOs as workplaces, and explores the historical and political elements of the production of space as central to CSOs’ activities in favelas. The results are presented in two parts. First, the ‘organising space’ is analysed through historical and political processes that affect the construction of material, social and cultural space in favelas. The thesis shows that rather than seeing territoriality as the portion of territory to be considered of exclusive influence, favela should be understood to consist of several overlapping territorialities. The clash between the local space, which is constructed historically, and the interventions hierarchically incorporated from the outside, reveal a selective integration with the formal city producing a contested space. Second, ‘the space of organisations’ is discussed through the different approaches adopted by CSOs in reproducing or resisting the reproduction of abstract space in the favela. It is informed by Santos’ idea of the mediating role of the ‘technique' (2006) in the transformation of space. Two main approaches are identified in the CSOs: they support the appropriation of space by leveraging the cultural skills and initiatives that exist in the territory, but they also fragment the territory by incorporating managerial techniques that favour the commodification and bureaucratization of everyday life. This study contributes to organisation studies in advancing the analysis of the relations between organisations and their surrounding space showing how the historical construction of their territory and contemporary events related to the political economy of organisational space construct the space across organisations. In addition, it shows that the available technical means are a key variable in distinguishing between the hierarchic fragmentation of space and the preservation of the organic social fabric when assessing the actions of CSOs.
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Hervé, Adrienne. "Global activisme and civil society : a study of transnational advocacy networks." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010IEPP0058.
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L’objectif de cette thèse est d’examiner comment coopèrent les organisations non gouvernementales de plaidoyer, puis de déterminer les facteurs qui influent sur leur poids face aux autres acteurs transnationaux comme les gouvernements nationaux et les organisations gouvernementales internationales. La présente étude est une analyse de 436 ONG et d’autres types d’organisations de société civile qui appartenaient à un ou plus des membres d’un ensemble de dix réseaux de plaidoyer. Ces 436 organisations membres de dix réseaux de plaidoyer étaient situées dans un total de 75 pays et du Nord et du Sud. La thèse décrit un système social dont on peut appréhender les composantes à l’aide de quatre concepts qui mettent en évidences les traits principaux du système : (1) le champ organisationnel; (2) le réseau de plaidoyer; (3) l’organisation de plaidoyer; et (4) le super-réseau ou réseau de réseaux. Une contribution de cette étude est l’identification et la description du super-réseau qui liait les dix réseaux de plaidoyer. L’existence de ce super-réseau montrait que les réseaux de plaidoyer ne jouaient pas leur rôle de façon indépendante les uns des autres. Ce super-réseau était constitué d’une communauté où les réseaux coopéraient les uns avec les autres. Douze organisations appartenaient à au moins quatre réseaux de plaidoyer et jouaient un rôle dans l’intégration des réseauxThe goal of the thesis was to understand how advocacy nongovernmental organizations cooperate with one another and to assess the factors that affect their influence in the transnational community. This thesis has examined the relationships between 436 NGOs, located in 75 countries, that belonged to 10 advocacy networks concerned with environmental policy, policy for development, and economic reform. In particular, it has looked at the structure and organization of the advocacy networks and of the hypernetwork created by links between the 10 advocacy networks. The thesis delineates a social system whose components can be understood in terms of four concepts that direct attention to the principal features of the system: (1) organizational field; (2) advocacy network; (3) advocacy organization; and (4) hypernetwork or network of networks. A major contribution of this study is the identification and description of the hypernetwork which linked the 10 advocacy networks. The existence of the hypernetwork showed that advocacy networks do not perform their roles independently of one another. The hypernetwork is a community in which member networks cooperate with one another. Twelve organizations belonged to four or more of the advocacy networks and presumably performed roles in integrating the networks
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Galler, Samuel. "Meeting in the middle : a multi-level analysis of Chinese HIV civil organisations." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6bc52448-aa42-4549-b879-a58be57a2239.
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Civil organisations play a key intermediary role in the middle layer between high- level policies and individual-level outcomes in international development. By triangulating among seven Chinese HIV civil organisations with varying organisational models, I examine intermediary activity that illuminates the mechanisms by which civil organisations operate and extends theory about organisations and civil society. Development studies research can benefit from multi-level analyses of organisational processes, which provide insight into how civil organisations shape institutions and networks. My case studies show several new mechanisms that enable organisations to survive and operate in politically fraught conditions, and they offer insight into the complex interactions that allow civil organisations to operate in such contexts. First, HIV civil organisations manage associative stigma resultant from their core activities. I observe that market relationships can buffer against associative stigma transfer for organisations, with many leaders re-positioning their organisations relative to stigmatised individuals, recasting them as employees, customers, and users rather than constituents. Second, these groups use hybrid organising to better manage political risks and build partnerships through selective coupling of organisational components. Hybrid strategies can provide resilience to threats and improve resource management in institutionally plural environments. Third, HIV civil organisations engage in detached, informal, and interactive collaboration with state actors, enabling greater autonomy and innovation among civil actors and reducing risk for state actors. I trace interactions between these strategic activities at the levels of organisational activities, structures, and networks, finding that reproducing ambiguity can sustain new types of collaborations. These findings suggest a need to reconsider the role civil organisations play in society, calling attention to organisational processes that allow these actors agency in brokering flows of information and shaping formation of networks. By viewing civil organisations as intermediaries, new directions can be identified for development policy and practice.
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Roditi, Ourania. "Assessment of civil society's role in promoting democracy and preventing nationalism : a comparative study of non-governmental organisations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340777.
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This thesis explores whether and to what extent civil society within the framework of post-communist transition, provides a bulwark against the resurgence of exclusivist nationalism, in four countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. In that respect minorities' and especially Roma's rights are extensively examined. Related to these issues is to what extent the third sector has been able to develop a democratic political culture among the populations of the respective countries. During the course of the research, the concept of political culture was perceived relatively strong, considering the short period of post-communist transition. However, it is worth looking into whether civil society has managed to develop attitudes consistent with what a democratic political culture demands. Non-governmental organisations have been selected as agents of civil society, capable of articulating the demands in the new post-communist era. Particular consideration is given to the theoretical relation between civil society, nationalism and democracy both before and after the fall of communism. The same topics are briefly presentedfo r eachc ountry individually. The empirical section examines three different methods of appraising NGOs: firstly NGOs are assessed according to basic criteria namely, founding members, financial resources, co-operation with local authorities etc. Secondly, their direct impact on legislation and institutional development is analysed. Thirdly, their impact on the development of a democratic political culture is examined. Finally, all factors are evaluated and concluding comparative remarks are made
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Fula, Filip. "Symbiosis in the making? Evaluating EU’s engagement with Civil Society Organisations in Colombia. A Civilian Power Europe perspective." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22221.
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In recent years, EU’s development policy has undergone wide-ranging reform with the leading principle of responding to the circumstances and demands of the current world, but also for the sake of alignment to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In line with the reasoning that an empowered civil society can help in the exercise of EU’s development policy and in the pursuit of development policy goals, the organisation has formed a strategy of engagement with CSOs in its external relations. This study’s focus is specifically on EU’s performance in Colombia, a Latin American country encompassed by EU’s development policy. Since Colombian CSOs still face numerous barriers hindering their work, it cannot be simply asserted that EU’s strategy has been effective. Hence, this study’s purpose is to critically evaluate EU’s engagement with Colombian CSOs, by taking into account EU’s capabilities as a civilian power to identify both the limits and potentials of the organisation’s approach. The study concludes that it is not the choice of power instruments, but the way the EU uses them that causes the strategy’s ineffectiveness. Although the Union has managed to increase Colombian CSOs’ capacity, the latter cannot be fully utilised due to the unfavourable framework for such organisations. Nevertheless, considering recent improvements made to EU’s strategy, it is argued that symbiosis between the EU and Colombian CSOs is still a realistic prospect, but one that requires increased efforts from the Union.
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Oliveira, Claudio Soares de Moura e. "Análise das especificidades do terceiro setor e suas influências no desenvolvimento de um planejamento estratégico." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12139/tde-22012015-145830/.
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A presente pesquisa teve como objetivos identificar as principais especificidades das Organizações da Sociedade Civil e conhecer como essas particularidades (pontos que facilitam ou dificultam) influenciam o desenvolvimento de um planejamento estratégico nessas organizações. Para cumprir os propósitos desta pesquisa, a metodologia estruturou-se na natureza exploratório-descritiva com uma abordagem qualitativa. A coleta de dados foi realizada através de um questionário respondido pela Coordenadora da Casa Ronald McDonald de São Paulo, questionários estes que identificavam a instituição conforme a tabela de classificação internacional de organizações sem fins lucrativos (ICNPO), receita anual, número de colaboradores, nível de importância e influência das especificidades na elaboração do plano, dados sobre o planejamento já existente e o quanto este planejamento contribuiu com a organização (se houve ou não melhorias nos pontos estratégicos trabalhados). Observou-se que o planejamento estratégico no que se refere a empenho dos colaboradores é elevado na instituição, desde que não tenha que disputar o tempo de investimento das estratégias com a operação da organização, neste momento ele ficará em um segundo plano. Os efeitos observados são positivos principalmente nos aspectos de gestão. As especificidades influenciaram de acordo com o nível de maturidade da instituição ou o momento pelo qual ela passou, a Casa Ronald McDonald é uma organização que apresenta muito bom nível de maturidade e vem contribuindo de forma significativa nas ações a que esta destinada. As especificidades mais presentes nessas análises foram classificadas em temas: Gestão do Conhecimento; Formação de Parcerias; Gestão de Projetos; Captação de Recursos; Sustentabilidade; Gestão Financeira; Legitimidade; Recursos Humanos; Gerenciamento do Voluntariado. Em seguida buscou-se compreender, por meio da realização de entrevistas, de que forma as especificidades mais frequentes identificadas na coleta de dados influenciavam facilitando ou dificultando o desenvolvimento do planejamento estratégico da instituição. O estudo conclui que as especificidades mais frequentes no desenvolvimento do planejamento estratégico variam de acordo com o momento vivido pela organização, o orçamento existente à época do desenvolvimento e dos projetos que a instituição tem para realizar. Na Casa Ronald McDonald em seu primeiro momento, a legitimidade, manter o apoio das instituições mantenedoras e ter uma gestão financeira impecável foram as mais presentes. Na etapa seguinte o foco do planejamento foi influenciado nos aspectos de gestão de Recurso Humanos e do Voluntariado, pois a instituição apresenta um quadro enxuto de funcionários que necessita de um contínuo desenvolvimento técnico e a demanda por voluntários para a realização dos projetos é ininterrupta. Com a expansão de atividades da instituição, a gestão de projetos foi mapeada para o próximo planejamento como especificidade que mais deve ser levada em consideração, pois a estrutura existente é restrita. Entre os achados da pesquisa, destaca-se no desenvolvimento do planejamento estratégico da instituição, uma gestão financeira austera, uma tendência de desenvolver projetos com a comunidade local e continuar o processo de formação de novas parcerias. Recomendam-se para estudos futuros, trabalhos que considerem a comparação entre OSCs de diferentes portes dentro do mesmo segmento, possibilitando a verificação de possíveis diferenças.This study seeks to identify the main specificities of Civil Society Organizations and how such specificities (aspects that facilitate or difficult) affect the strategic planning process within those organizations. The purpose of the research is exploratory, descriptive, with a qualitative approach. Data were collected through the use of questionnaires answered by the Coordinator of the Ronald McDonald House São Paulo. The questionnaires identified the institution according to the international classification of nonprofit organizations (ICNPO). The matters addressed in the questionnaires included the annual revenue, the number of collaborators, how the identified specificities of nonprofit organizations have influenced the planning process, information on previous planning, and to what extent, if any, the strategic plan implemented contributed to improve any of the institution\'s strategic issues. Collaborators show high willingness to engage in the strategic planning provided that it does not interfere with their daily work; otherwise, the planning process will be put aside. Positive results are attained mostly in respect of management issues. Relevant specificities influenced the planning process according to the institution\'s organizational maturity or due to some specific circumstance. The Ronald McDonald House has a good level of maturity and excellently fulfills its purpose. The main specificities influencing the planning refer to: Knowledge Management, Partnerships; Project Management; Fundraising; Sustainability; Financial Management; Legitimacy; Human Resources; Volunteer Management. Interviews were used to determine how the specificities most referred to during the data collection process influenced (by facilitating or complicating) the development of the institution\'s strategic planning. The study concluded that such specificities vary according to changes in circumstances, projects and budgetary availability at the time of developing the planning documents. The Ronald McDonald House initially focused on Legitimacy, securing financial support from sponsor institutions, and implementing sound financial management. At a subsequent stage, the planning focus was influenced by Human Resources and Volunteer issues, as the institution has an adequate number of employees who need continuous technical training and there is an unending demand for volunteer work for the projects. Upon an increase in the institution\'s activities, the needs of project management have been marked as most important because of the institution\'s limited manpower. A sound financial management, a tendency to develop projects with the local community and to further the process of establishing partnerships stand out from among the key findings of the research. Future studies seeking to compare CSOs of varying size operating within the same segment as the institution are recommended.
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Hinds, Kristina. "The activism and inclusion of civil society organisations in CARICOM on trade negotiating matters : a look at three cases." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2007. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/93/.
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This thesis seeks to understand why civil society organisations (CSOs) in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) began to mobilise in the 1990s and why government overtures to consulting CSOs on trade matters emerged from around the same time. In addition, this thesis examines the ways in which different types of CSOs have mobilised on trade issues and the ways in which governments have included CSOs in trade consultations. To answer the “why” questions, this thesis posits that both material and ideational factors were important for motivating CSOs to conceive of themselves as needing to mobilise on trade matters in the context of the 1990s. The material and ideational factors of note here are: shifts in the direction of neo-liberal policy orientation, towards a focus on globalisation and towards emphasising good governance. These have impacted on actor interests and perceptions. Despite ideational and material factors impacting on CSO interest perceptions and on government approaches to trade matters, these factors cannot account for variations in the types of CSOs that mobilise and that governments consult on trade matters. This is where institutional factors become important. Institutions can help one to understand how different CSOs have mobilized and how CSOs have been included on trade matters at the region level and across three case studies (Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, and St. Lucia). In essence the thesis shows that whilst ideational and material factors help one to understand why CSOs have mobilised and have been included, institutional factors help one to understand how they have been included.
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Dang, Tat Dung. "The participation of civil society organisations in the law-making process in Vietnam with reference to the United Kingdom." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15334/.
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This thesis is designed to study the participation of the civil society organisations (CSOs) in the law-making process in Vietnam with reference to the United Kingdom. Public participation is a factor that can contribute to the process of legal reform and renovate the law-making process in Vietnam. The study is motivated by three research questions: (1) Why the participation of CSOs in the law-making process is important and how this participation may enhance the quality and quantity of laws in Vietnam, (2) Why democracy plays a vital role in the law-making process and (3) What are the appropriate frameworks and supportive factors for CSOs to enable them to participate in the law-making process in Vietnam, with lessons learned from the UK?. Applying diverse research methods including literature review, fieldwork, policy transfer, and case studies, the research has achieved certain significant findings. The thesis has proposed the definition of CSO with its particular features, the concept of CSOs in Vietnam and the UK, analysed the values of legislation and the current context of law-making in two countries. The thesis also investigated the case studies to examine the actual impact of the CSOs in the law-making process before making the proposal for a mechanism to recognise and effectively encourage the participation of CSOs in the law-making process. Accordingly, the role of CSOs is confirmed throughout the whole law-making process, through various activities such as analysis, new evidence provision, lobbying, and petitions. The research also analysed the necessity and the role of the value of democracy in relation to other values of legislation in the law-making process. Social democracy was selected as the main model of democracy to adopt among several models of democracy worldwide. Several proposals were made as to conclude the research: the transparency in the legislative process should be enhanced, the use of information technology to support the activities of the legislator and facilitate the participation of CSOs in the legislative process should attract more attention and investment from the government. In addition, the communication channels between the legislators and CSOs should be improved so that the ‘trust’ can be strengthened. Most fundamental and most difficult, the political culture that encourages people and CSOs to criticise and contribute their opinions to political, legal and social issues need to be encouraged. Otherwise, the values of legislation and the participation of CSOs in the law-making process cannot be maximised or achieved.
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Mutu, Perekeme. "The role of civil society organisations in litigating the right to basic education in South Africa : Lessons for Nigeria." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78559.
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The thesis examined civil society organisations’ use of public interest litigation as a tool to promote and protect the right to basic education of children in South Africa, and considered what learning can be extrapolated for possible application in Nigeria. The thesis undertook a comparative analysis of the constitutional and legal environment that enables or impedes strategic litigation in the selected counties, and determined optimal conditions for such work to be undertaken. It also demonstrated that for public interest litigation to be successful, it needs to be complemented by other strategies such as engaging the media and mobilising stakeholders. The thesis illustrates the effectiveness of civil society activism through strategic litigation in South Africa, and indicates opportunities for its use in Nigeria to advance the struggle for equal access to quality basic education for every child.Thesis (PhD) University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Alexandrov, Timur. "Central Asian civil society : dynamics of associational life in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285175.
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This thesis analyses local forms of civil society practised in contemporary Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and provides a common thread on which to base a Central Asian understanding of civil society. I look to find out factors and constituents, which on the surface might be different from a classical liberal concept of civil society. The thesis applies a wider anthropological framework, which sees civil society as a broad network of social relationships, including traditional forms of associational life that can be relatively independent of the state. The study draws upon a multi-locale ethnography in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan including in-depth and focus group interviews, participant observations, case studies, and archival research. I have investigated associations whose activities are concerned with reciprocal relations within society based on community solidarity, self-help, and mutual trust. These include professional associations, trade unions, ethno-cultural associations, religious organisations, courtyard clubs, the traditional Uzbek neighbourhood institution of mahalla, and informal practices of gap and khashar. While arguing that the meaning of civil society depends on context, the study has found that traditional elements of the preserved social fabric in Central Asian societies are reflected in today's networks of individuals. The thesis has generated knowledge on how local forms of associational life define the civil sphere by shaping social organisation, solidarity and mobilisation. Through empirical understanding of the public space, formal and informal networks that bond people together, we can locate wider ethnographic differences between not only the original and Central Asian concepts of civil society but also between two local cultures of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
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De, La Torre Alexandra. "Women's civil society organisations and the gender dynamics of peacebuilding : collective agency, practice, and strategy in Colombia and Northern Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680172.
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This thesis investigates the complex dynamics embedded in the intersection of gender, peacebuilding, and collective agency. The central purpose of this thesis is to expand the overall analysis and understanding of women's roles in peacebuilding. This research analyses WCSOs' practices and strategies to achieve an inclusive peace. It interrogates the specificity of women's collective actions and agency and assesses WCSOs strategies to generate inclusive gender outcomes within the social, structural, and political dimensions of peacebuilding. By looking at peacebuilding as an ongoing process that can happen before, during, and after the outbreak of an armed conflict and peace process, this research highlights the importance of considering the diffuse and unclear boundaries between conflict and post-conflict. In doing so, this study brings to the fore and 'uncovers WCSOs' bottom-up practices and collective actions aimed at creating infrastructures for conflict transformation and the achievement of an inclusive peace that is meaningful for women. By focusing on the context of armed conflict in Colombia and relative peace in Northern Ireland, this research examines the circumstances in which WCSOs' peacebuilding practices in both regions have taken place since the 1990s, a period during which political processes made significant progress towards ending armed conflict and social unrest that escalated during what was termed as "La Violencia" in one region, and "The Troubles" in the other. The empirical analysis of this thesis is primarily based on women's accounts of the gender dynamics that shape women's organizing, collective actions, and agency. These were collected through a series of semi-structured interviews undertaken with women leaders of WCSOs in various regions of Colombia and locations in Northern Ireland. Drawing on these accounts, the thesis aims to reveal what constitutes the specificity of WCSOs' collective action and agency in peacebuilding
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Mushi, Andrew A. "Civil society in the era of good governance dispensation : Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and the politics of engaging Government in Tanzania." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/2964/.
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The thesis set out to investigate the politics of Non-Governmental Organisation (NGOs) engaging the Government in Tanzania. The aim of the study is to get an understanding of the context, ways and means in which NGOs in Tanzania engage (with) the government to influence its policies and decisions. The thesis also analyses the implications and role of NGOs in bringing about social change in Tanzania. The thesis shows the relationship of subordination that is constituted through the operation of NGOs within the social, economic and political institutions of Tanzanian civil society. It offers an insight into the neo-liberal views that informs the distribution of aid to developing nations, and the affect this has had on state-civil society relationships within the Tanzanian nation state. Theoretically, the thesis uses Gramsci’s notion of hegemony which applies both at national level and international level. The counter hegemony which Gramsci expounds in terms of war of manoeuvre and war of position has been highlighted in relations to works of NGOs and civil society development. The thesis examines the engagement of Tanzanian NGOs to influence the process of NGO Policy and Act making; and monitoring the poverty strategies through the Campaign Against Poverty-Tanzania (GCAP-T). The thesis posit the future of NGOs on how they could side and work with people to create a society based on people needs, vision and aspiration.
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Guitteny, Antoine. "Civil society and civic space. : The meaning of the closure of civic space for liberal and rights-based organisations in Serbia." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-397200.
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Mooketsane, Keneilwe. "An analysis of state-civil society relationships in Botswana : a case of the Women's Affairs Department and women non-governmental organisations." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11074.
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Interactions between the state and Non-governmental Organisations have been heightened globally. This has led to states engaging civil society more than ever before. However, tendencies to control NGOs by the state seem common in African countries. This dissertation seeks to examine relations between the state and NGOs in Botswana. Botswana is a democratic country, which has been hailed as stable and a strong state, however, civil society in Botswana remains weak. This creates a problem of a dominant state and weak civil society. The dissertation employs Najam's theoretical framework in trying to understand the extent of state dominance in the relationship between the state and NGOs in Botswana.
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Chung, Da Woon. "Peace and conflict resolution activities in support of strengthening civil society's democratic capacity in South Korea : case studies on three civil society organisations working on peace and conflict resolution in South Korea." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5488.
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In the last fifteen years, conflict resolution, a collaborative, problem-solving approach to social conflicts, was introduced to new democracies in an attempt to develop civil society's capacity for conflict management (Mayer, 2000). Conflict resolution provides people with an opportunity to advocate effectively for their own interests in a non-violent, constructive manner through systematic educational efforts, skills trainings, dialogue initiatives, and mediation practices (Mayer, 2000). It empowers people to address, manage, and transform difficulties and antagonism into a source of positive social change and, thus, change people's negative psychological responses to conflicts (Bush & Folger, 1994). In this view, conflict resolution in new democracies' civil society provides citizens as well NGO practitioners with the skills and opportunities to practice how to express and resolve differences in a safe and constructive environment (Shonholtz, 1997). In an effort to provide additional information about civil society's conflict resolution practices and their affect in new democracies, this dissertation examines the existing efforts of South Korean civil society organisations to promote conflict resolution methodologies. Specifically, three organisations are examined to understand better South Korean civil society's response to PCR issues. Furthermore, by closely examining these three civil society organisations, this dissertation aims to explore what affect increased awareness and engagement in conflict resolution methodologies have on the democratic quality of civil society.
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Mowell, Barry D. "Degree and Patterns of Formal NGO Participation within the United Nations Economic and Social Committee (ECOSOC): An Appraisal of NGO Consultative Status Relative to Political Pluralism." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3213.
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The United Nations (UN) has invested increasing levels of effort in recent decades to cultivate a more effective, diverse and democratic institutional culture via the inclusion of and interaction among international civil society organizations (CSOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to supplement the traditional role of states as the primary transnational actors. The principle vehicle for the UN-civil society dynamic is the consultative status (CS) program within the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), wherein a diverse range of nearly 5,000 transnational organizations ostensibly participate.
This research examined patterns of participation and the nature/level of CSO/NGO involvement within the UN, with particular focus upon ECOSOC. In examining participation patterns, the research identified patterns related to geographical/proportional representation among developed and developing regions and world regions in general and also as related to policy/issue areas represented. In terms of involvement, the research sought to assess the types and degree of contributions being made by CSOs/NGOs in association with the UN. To address both areas, the research employed a two-prong methodology including (1) a detailed analysis of the UN’s online integrated Civil Society Organizations (iCSO) database and (2) a comprehensive survey questionnaire mailed to a randomly-selected sample of 10% of all organizations holding consultative status with UN-ECOSOC.
The findings challenge the assumption that UN association with international civil society has realized pluralist ideals in that substantial variations were found to exist in the representation of policy/issue areas, with some areas far better represented than others. Perhaps more importantly, the research revealed that only a minority of organizations in the ECOSOC-CS program appear to be actively/regularly engaged with the UN, with a large minority of CS-accredited organizations engaged only periodically or to a more limited extent, and a substantial minority not participating/interacting in any way. Rather than exemplifying pluralism within the constructivist tradition, findings imply support for liberal institutionalist theories in that decades-long expansion of IGO influence has facilitated a corollary expectation of expanding international civil society and an associated expectation of linkages between transnational governance and democratic institutions on the one hand and transnational civil society on the other as a standardized norm.
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Efremov, Serge. "Le tiers secteur et l’État en Russie : les institutions et leur évaluation." Thesis, Toulouse 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019TOU10050.
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Analyser les facteurs et les résultats de soutien public aux ONG, dites orientées vers la société, en Russie en juxtaposant le rôle politique et le rôle économique assumé par ces ONG et en interprétant les phénomènes rencontrés sous les lentilles d'oeuvres classiques en science de gestion et en sciences politiques. Pour ceci faire recours également aux méthodes d'analyse statistique et aux interviews avec gouverneurs. La base de données est unique et seule plus grande base de donnée existant à ce jour en Russie sur le sujet traité. Cette base comprend les données collectées et publiées en russe par le Ministère de l'économie de la Fédération de Russie, l'Agence Fédérale des Initiatives Stratégiques (fondée et présidée par M. V. Poutine depuis 2011 en tant que boîte à idées auprès du Kremlin et du Gouvernement), l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Économiques, université d'état, et l'Université d'état de Moscou LomonossovAnalyse factors and results of public support to so-called « socially oriented NGOs » in Russia, by juxtaposing the balance of political and economic roles assumed by the sector and by interpreting current phenomena through the lense of classical books in public administration and political science. Statistical methods and interviews of regional governors are also used in order to accomplish this task. Data base is a sole, unique and the largest existing in Russia base on issues suggested for this study. This base includes data collected and made public in Russian by the Ministry of the Economy of Russian Federation, Federal Agency for Strategic Initiatives (founded and presided by Mr. V. Putin since 2011 as a think tank for Kremlin and the Russian Government), National Research University Higher School of Economics, and Lomonosov Moscow State University
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Van, Rooyen Garth. "Understanding resilience among non-government organisations in post-apartheid South Africa: a case study of Youth For Christ Cape Town." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4985.
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Magister Administrationis - MAdminMany Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in South Africa are currently under pressure or threat of closure. Although there have been advances in civil society-state relations after the transition from apartheid to democracy, there has also been a steady decline in the number of CSOs in South Africa since 1994. The reasons for this decline are complex and varied. Given the value CSOs make in contributing to a lively democracy, it is important to explore the factors which enhance or undermine resilience in such organisations. This study focuses on understanding resilience among Non-government organisations (as an example of a CSO) in post-apartheid South Africa using Youth For Christ Cape Town as a case study. The site for this study was chosen as YFC Cape Town is arguably one of South Africa's oldest NGOs being formed in 1948. This study aims to, therefore, establish how CSOs in South Africa can ensure resilience and longevity in a complex and evolving political environment by drawing lessons from the selected case study. The elements which have emerged as being important to resilience are (1) Funding; (2) Technical skills; (3) Accessing networks; (4) Adaptation; (5) Core values; (6) Innovation; (7) Leadership. The study found that these factors should not be viewed as isolated elements but rather be seen as integrated developmental framework for ensuring resilience. Another key finding is located around organisational identity. Although adaptation in terms of how the organisation functions are necessary to navigate shifts in the environment, the identity of the organisation should remain the same. Organisations who change their identity amidst shocks and changes within the system are not very resilient while those who don't are.
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Nilsson, Hanna. "The role of civil society organisations in labour market integration of young immigrants in Sweden: An analysis of the organisation Right To Play." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-414794.
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During the year of 2015 and the large migration wave that hit Europe, many unaccompanied young refugees came to Sweden. For this particular group, the challenge is to become integrated to the labour market in order to receive a permanent residency permit in Sweden after they graduate their upper secondary education. Over the past few years, it has become more evident that the state is not able to handle the integration process alone, and that it is time to shed light on contemporary initiatives deriving from other actors, such as civil society organisations. The question is whether these initiatives have been successful in bringing about change, and in what ways. The purpose of this thesis was therefore to analyse the civil society organisation Right To Play that uses sports as a tool for labour market integration, through the theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship by identifying its rationales, resources, and relations that are used to prompt institutional change. Through three semi-structured interviews and one observation, together with secondary data, a narrative analysis of their stories was conducted. The results showed that the organisation manage to mix a set of strong rationales of sports, labour market integration, and youth agency, to transform the youth from being passive receivers of integration to become active agents and important human resources within the organisation, and to connect the youth with other actors in the society through external relations. The study also concluded that the elements of rationales, resources, and relations, that are used to investigate the power of an organisation to prompt institutional change, also helps the organisation to become resilient in times of crises.
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Schroeder, Silvia. "Approaching Female Genital Cutting/s on a Community-Based Level in Sweden : An Analysis of the Agenda-Setting Role of Swedish Civil Society Organisations." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-411698.
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The practice of female genital cutting/s (FGC) has been under national scrutiny in Sweden for decades. Besides strong laws and policies enforced by the Swedish government, civil society organisations have played an important role in addressing the subject of FGC in Sweden. The purpose of this research is to examine what roles and functions civil society organisations assume as they tackle the practice of FGC. Based on semi-structured interviews conducted with employees and volunteers from civil society organisations that address the practice on a daily basis, this study sheds light on the possibilities and challenges civil society organisations face when they approach the question of FGC in Sweden. This research finds that civil society organisations carry a lot of responsibility in terms of tackling FGC in Sweden, as governmental efforts are perceived to be insufficient. Criticism against the Swedish government is first and foremost directed to the lack of knowledge and understanding on FGC within authorities and to the lack of grassroot efforts together with diaspora communities. Thus, this examination shows how civil society organisations engage and provide complementary efforts. First, civil society organisations raise awareness and shed light on the complexity on the practice of FGC within several authorities to secure that knowledge about the practice is maintained. Second, civil society organisations strive to involve, engage and empower individuals on grassroot levels by creating safe and familiar spaces to talk about FGC. Finally, local efforts provided by civil society organisations aim to empower people affected by the practice of FGC to make their voices heard and to represent themselves. In conclusion, this research demonstrates that civil society organisations hold vital complementary roles in relation to the Swedish state in terms of addressing the practice of FGC in Sweden.
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Blume, Richard, Miriam Karell, and Andrew Outhwaite. "Strategic partnerships for transformational change towards a sustainable society." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för maskinteknik, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3705.
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Today, global socio-ecological problems are too complex and urgent for isolated actions, and cross-sector collaboration is increasingly required to generate transformational change towards a sustainable future. Partnerships between businesses and civil society organisations (CSOs) in particular have the potential to achieve the required change for sustainability. However, the ‘backcasting’ approach used in this study highlights a gap between current approaches and what partnerships might look like in a sustainable future. Research draws on literature, eighteen interviews and an action research project with Interface Europe. Results indicate that: 1) in the current paradigm shift, collaboration provides a competitive advantage; 2) individual, organisational and societal benefits of partnering are significant; 3) understanding the art and science of partnering is needed to make them work 4) organisational development and strategy affect partnership type and outcomes; 5) Corporate Social Responsibility efforts initiate cross-sector partnerships, but are responsive and fall short of being strategic; 6) articulation of visions for a sustainable future is rare and; 7) most partnerships are not aligned with core business strategies. In conclusion, dialogue across all sectors is advocated to co-create a sustainable future and The Natural Step Framework is recommended to align business planning and partnership strategies with sustainability.Andrew Outhwaite (arouthwaite@gmail.com) Miriam Karell (jazzminq@gmail.com) Richard Blume (rblume@gmail.com) Website http://partnerships4SSD.blogspot.com
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Chuk, Chumno. "Les contributions des organisations de la société civile au développement soutenable : le cas du tourisme du Cambodge." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LYO22006.
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Depuis la dernière décennie, l’économie du Cambodge a connu un taux de croissance élevé, ce qui a entraîné une amélioration de conditions de vie et du bien-être social. Toutefois, la pauvreté est encore très répandue. La corruption, les abus de pouvoir et les inégalités sociales constituent des défis majeurs pour la croissance économique, ce qui passe par une gouvernance efficiente et une gestion soutenable des ressources naturelles. Par ailleurs, la forte croissance du nombre de touristes représente d'importantes recettes en devises et des possibilités d'emploi au pays. Mais, son développement a eu un coût, en affectant l'environnement et les valeurs sociales et culturelles dans les destinations touristiques. Dans cette mesure, ce travail de thèse se base sur l’hypothèse que les organisations de la société civile produisent des effets favorables à une gouvernance efficiente compatible avec le développement soutenable. Au Cambodge, ces organismes ont réussi à jouer, et continue à jouer un rôle positif, dans certaines limites, pour la gouvernance du développement soutenable. Elles ont contribué principalement à la surveillance et à la limitation de l'exercice du pouvoir du gouvernement, à encourager la responsabilisation, la formation et l'autonomisation des communautés locales ainsi qu’à la fourniture de l’assistance technique et financière nécessaire pour le développement du pays.Des études de terrain et des enquêtes empiriques auprès de 1.860 personnes ont été menées dans trois sites touristiques importants du Cambodge. Les principales conclusions de ces études et enquêtes révèlent que les organisations de la société civile jouent un rôle très important dans l’application du principe du développement soutenable dans les destinations touristiques. Sans leur participation, il est difficile d'imaginer que ces destinations touristiques pourraient être développées de manière soutenable. Le résultat de ces études a également souligné que le principe du développement soutenable pourrait être appliqué dans tout type du tourisme, que ce soit un tourisme de masse ou un tourisme alternatif comme l’écotourisme, même si le niveau de soutenabilité varie d’une destination à l'autre.La conclusion générale fait des recommandations en matière de gouvernance touristique. L’établissement d'un comité national pour le développement soutenable du tourisme, en se basant sur l'approche participative, est considéré comme nécessaire. Le rôle et la responsabilité de chaque membre seront clairement indiquésOver the last decade, Cambodia's economy has experienced a high growth rate, resulting in an improvement in living standard and social welfare. However, poverty is still a major problem. Corruption, abuse of power and social inequality are major challenges for economic growth, which requires effective governance and sustainable management of natural resources. In addition, the growth of tourist number is significant foreign exchange earnings and employment opportunities. But so far, the development had a cost, affecting the environment, social and cultural values in the tourist destinations. In this sense, this thesis is based on the assumption that civil society organizations produce favourable effects for efficient governance compatible with sustainable development. In Cambodia, these organizations were able to play and continue to play a positive role, within certain limits, for the governance of sustainable development. They have mainly contributed to the monitoring and limiting the exercise of government power, encouraged accountability, training and empowerment of local communities as well as providing necessary technical and financial assistance for country development.Field studies and empirical surveys of 1,860 people are pursued in three main tourist destinations of Cambodia. The main findings of these field studies and surveys revealed that civil society organizations play a very important role in implementing the principle of sustainable development in tourist destinations. Without their participation, it is difficult to imagine that these tourist destinations could be developed in a sustainable manner. The results of these studies also point out that the principle of sustainable development could be applied in any type of tourism, regardless of mass or alternative tourism, especially ecotourism, although the level of sustainability varies from one destination to others.The conclusion makes recommendations for tourism governance. The establishment of a national committee for the sustainable development of tourism, based on the participatory approach, is considered necessary. The role and responsibility of each member shall be clearly indicated
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Edgar, Gemma Tamsin Social Sciences & International Studies Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "What does it mean to engage with the state? a comparative case study of two non-government organisations working with marginalised young people." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Social Sciences & International Studies, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44569.
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This thesis is centrally concerned with the question of how non-government organisations (NGOs) can support marginalised young people and the role the state plays in facilitating this. It utilises a comparative case study methodology and examines the circumstances of two NGOs, Twenty10: Gay and Lesbian Youth Support, located in Sydney, Australia and the Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT) which is located in both London and Manchester in the United Kingdom. Twenty10 and AKT share a similar client base: both work with gay, lesbian, bisexual and/or transgendered (GLBT) young people experiencing homelessness or in a housing crisis. Both also engage in advocacy and service provision. At the time of my fieldwork Twenty10 and AKT differed in two key respects. First, AKT operated in a political context that was significantly more open to NGO advocacy than was the case for Twenty10. Second, AKT was supported almost entirely by the work of volunteers and through philanthropic support, whereas Twenty10 received the bulk of its funding from government. These differing factors allow a consideration of how the varying nature of an NGO???s relationship with the state impacts upon their activities within varying political contexts. The theoretical frameworks drawn upon in this thesis are those of citizenship theory and queer theory. Citizenship theory is particularly useful in analysing the objectives of Twenty10 and AKT, which focus on redressing the distributive and recognition based needs of their young people. The strategies employed by these organisations are also both subsumed within the normative framework of citizenship theory ??? while nonetheless being dependent upon how closely each engages with the state. These case studies are situated against the queer critique of citizenship discourses, which emphasise its normalising and de-politicising consequences. As such, this thesis evaluates critiques of forms of activism that involve citizenship-focused issues and engagement with the state, and hence examines the effect a relationship with the state can have upon an NGO???s work.
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Teferi, Desset A. "Role of civil society organisations in the realisation of human rights in Africa and the effect of regulatory mechanisms on their functions : Ethiopia and Ghana perspective." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/16793.
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It is generally acknowledged that development is impossible in the absence of true democracy, respect for human rights, peace and good governance1
Good governance and human rights are mutually reinforcing. In turn, ‘good governance and good public administration are essential aspects of democracy and for achieving democracy a freely functioning, well organised, vibrant and responsible civil society is indispensable.’Democracy presupposes free elections, functioning political parties, independent media and active civil society organisations (CSOs) that can operate freely.4 Human rights are better promoted and protected in a democratic system.5 Accordingly it is submitted that a measure taken by a government which undermines key elements and role players of such a system tends to undermine the protection and promotion of human rights.Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2010.
A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Law University of Pretoria, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Masters of Law (LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa). Prepared under the supervision of Mrs. Christina Dowuona-Hammond at the Faculty of Law, University of Leyon, Ghana. 2010.
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