scholarly journals 600Homelessness in Hamilton, New Zealand: debt as a tipping point?

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jesse Whitehead ◽  
Carole McMinn
Keyword(s):  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Student Loans ◽  
Tipping Point ◽  
Homeless Population ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
The People ◽  
Service Engagement ◽  
Family Breakdown ◽  
Homelessness Prevention

Abstract Background The People’s Project (TPP) in Hamilton, NZ takes a Housing First approach to eliminate homelessness. A recent research collaboration provides epidemiological evidence regarding: the people served through TPP; their service engagement; pathways into homelessness; and lost opportunities for early intervention. Methods Data has been collected from a total of 755 TPP participants, including those from client registrations (July 2015-March 2017; n = 695) and a ‘pathways into homelessness’ questionnaire implemented in 2019. All participants were asked questions regarding their experiences of debt, levels of debt and the specific agencies and debtors involved. Results Common pathways into homelessness included individual factors (e.g. substance dependencies, family breakdown), structural factors (lack of suitable and accessible housing, deinstitutionalisation, service failures), and poverty exacerbated by debt. Of this cohort, 62% described current debt, and $2.8million (NZD) of debt was estimated (average of $10000 per person). Debts to government agencies were common and significant, including to Work and Income NZ, student loans, court costs and Housing NZ. Conclusions Financial difficulty, and particularly debt, is an important tipping point into homelessness. High levels of debt exclude people from permanent housing and challenge policies and practices aiming to end homelessness. Furthermore, debt to government agencies - required to invest in homelessness prevention and support - is a systems and policy failure. Key messages Financial difficulties, specifically debt, and systems failures are important tipping points for vulnerable populations into homelessness Debts owed to government agencies by the homeless population provide an opportunity to reorient the system to support homelessness prevention.

Hunting Hype

Eating Earth ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Kemmerer
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
The United States ◽  
Small Population ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
The People ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Conservation And Management ◽  
Hunting Ground

When faced with the ecological horrors of animal agriculture, some look to hunting as an escape—as the environmentally friendly way to put meat on the table. This chapter explores the environmental effects of hunting, exposing a handful of myths that help to make this sport appear to be environmentally friendly, animal friendly, socially acceptable—even morally exemplary. As noted, this book is written specifically for those who have a choice as to what they eat. This book is not a criticism of those who truly have few dietary options (for example, due to affordability or lack of availability). . . .For millennia men dreamed of acquiring absolute mastery over nature, of converting the cosmos into one immense hunting ground. . . . . . .—HORKHEIMER AND ADORNO 2 4 8 . . . In the United States, wildlife conservation was established by hunters for hunters because of hunters. In the late 19th century, Theodore Roosevelt complained that commercial hunters had decimated wildlife—that a comparatively small population of “market” hunters profited while the nation was stripped of hunter-target species (S. Fox 123). To address these concerns, he founded the Boone and Crockett Club (BCC) in 1897, with the following mission: “[T] o promote the conservation and management of wildlife, especially big game, and its habitat, to preserve and encourage hunting and to maintain the highest ethical standards of fair chase and sportsmanship in North America” (“About the B & C Club”). “Conservation” is a utilitarian, human-centered term promoting the protection of wildlife and wilderness for human use. Accordingly, the BCC promoted laws protecting “every citizen’s freedom to hunt and fish,” and established wildlife as “owned by the people and managed in trust for the people by government agencies” (“About the B & C Club”). As a result of the BCC, the U.S. government was placed in charge of managing wildlife on behalf of hunters.

Social Media Alternative for Health Communication in Nigeria

2022 ◽  
pp. 453-468
Author(s):  
Janet Aver Adikpo ◽  
Patience Ngunan Achakpa-Ikyo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Health Advocacy ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The People ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Global Population

In the changing media and health landscapes, health communication requires more ways to improve and sustain new practices for health advocacy. The same way global population is soaring, people are becoming more urbane, and these vicissitudes are accompanied by the need to access new forms of media to meet information needs. This chapter assesses social media relevance as an alternative tool for health communication and clearly established that social media holds an integral locus in the day-to-day activities of the people, the same way it has for health communication. The growing concern is for stakeholders who are government and non-government agencies actors like traditional rulers, faith-based organisations, and international bodies to adopt the use of social media as an alternative for health communication in Nigeria.

scholarly journals A Critique of Floodplain Planning in the Connecticut River Basin

1975 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-86
Author(s):  
Frederic O. Sargent
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Connecticut River ◽  
The People ◽  
River Basin Planning

It is generally recognized that the goal of achieving acceptable river basin planning in New England has been elusive. This is especially true in regard to the Connecticut River Basin (7). Ten government agencies have spent more than 10 years and over $4 million in inventorying and planning the Connecticut River Basin but have not yet produced a plan acceptable to the people of the Basin.

scholarly journals Without Systems and Complexity Thinking There Is no Progress - or Why Bureaucracy Needs to Become Curious Comment on "What Can Policy-Makers Get out of Systems Thinking? Policy Partners’ Experiences of a Systems-Focused Research Collaboration in Preventive Health"

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim P. Sturmberg
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Autonomous Decision ◽  
Complexity Thinking ◽  
The People ◽  
Adaptive Work ◽  
And Control

The bureaucracy’s goal is to maintain uniformity and control within discrete areas of activity and relies on hierarchical processes and procedural correctness as means to suppress autonomous decision making. That worldview, however, is unsuited for problem solving of real world VUCA (Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) problems. Solving wicked problems in the VUCA world requires curiosity, creativity and collaboration, and a willingness to deeply engage and an ability to painstakingly work through their seemingly contradictory and chaotic pathways. In addition, it necessitates leadership. Leaders require a deep – indeed academic – understanding of the nature of the problems and the veracity of various problem-solving approaches. Leadership after all means "[facilitating] the necessary adaptive work that needs to be done by the people connected to the problem." That are the people at the coalface who understand and have to manage the complexities relating to problems unique to their local environment for which of the shelf solutions never work. Systems and complexity thinking is more than a tool, it is – in a sense – a way of being, namely deeply interested in understanding the highly interconnected and interdependent nature of the issues affecting our life and work. Hence, system and complexity thinking is, contrary to what Haynes and colleagues state in their "summation for the public reader," neither "overwhelming and hard [nor difficult] to use practically." Such a view is as much misleading as selfdefeating.

Social Media Alternative for Health Communication in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-38
Author(s):  
Janet Aver Adikpo ◽  
Patience Ngunan Achakpa-Ikyo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Health Advocacy ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The People ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Global Population

In the changing media and health landscapes, health communication requires more ways to improve and sustain new practices for health advocacy. The same way global population is soaring, people are becoming more urbane, and these vicissitudes are accompanied by the need to access new forms of media to meet information needs. This chapter assesses social media relevance as an alternative tool for health communication and clearly established that social media holds an integral locus in the day-to-day activities of the people, the same way it has for health communication. The growing concern is for stakeholders who are government and non-government agencies actors like traditional rulers, faith-based organisations, and international bodies to adopt the use of social media as an alternative for health communication in Nigeria.

Modeling Transparency in Software Systems for Distributed Work Groups

2013 ◽  
pp. 394-405
Author(s):  
A B Sagar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Issue ◽  
Software Engineer ◽  
Work Groups ◽  
Social Accountability ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Distributed Work ◽  
The People ◽  
Previous Decade

Software systems require ethics. Several systems fail due to lack of ethics built into them. So, every software engineer needs to have an idea on ethics, so that they can build them into the software systems. Ethics requires accountability. Accountability is to the organization, stakeholders, and to the society. This chapter discusses the ethical issue of transparency. In the previous decade, we have seen a very increased use of this term. Transparency is being considered an indispensable ingredient in social accountability and is necessary for preserving and guaranteeing ethical and fair processes. Transparency is related to visibility of information, and without it, the organization and stakeholders will be left in blind states. Ultimately, the lack of transparency leads to unpleasant surprises due to bad decisions, letdown, increasing doubts, uncertainty, failure, and the breakdown of faith and trust. This is bad for the organizations involved, the people investing in them, stakeholders, suppliers, and employees. It is also bad, as we have seen recently, for the economy. This is true for government agencies and functions just as for businesses and communities. The least transparent governments are the most dictatorial and secretive in their decision-making and governance. An informed citizenship is vital for healthy, free societies, just as informed investors are needed for a healthy, strong economy. The degree of transparency in the software systems, then, becomes a barometer for health and vitality in governments, leadership, and business. The growing importance to the requirement of transparency in all these domains was the motivation to the present chapter.

scholarly journals Evaluasi Program - Program Strategis Pemerintah Kota Bandung Di Bidang Ekonomi dalam Upaya Penguatan dan Peningkatan Kemampuan Daya Beli Masyarakat : Suatu Tinjauan Analisis Kebijakan Publik

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bayu Kharisma
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
City Government ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Purchasing Power ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
Strong Position ◽  
The Government ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
The City

This study aims to evaluate and prioritize the various forms of strategic programs at the Bandung City Government in strengthening the economy and increasing purchasing power of the people in the city of Bandung based on public policy analysis. This study is comprehensive covering macro aspects, namely the potential and economic profile as well as the Human Development Index (HDI) and micro aspects, namely the external and internal environmental analysis relating to economic policy on purchasing power. Furthermore, evaluation and economic policy priorities in an effort to increase the purchasing power of the city of Bandung. There are few steps or effort in evaluating various forms of local government strategic program Bandung in economics in order to increase the purchasing power of the city of Bandung, namely: 1) Observing the potential and the problems by SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats). 2) Evaluation and prioritization of programs of economic analysis AHP (analytical hierarchy process) and connect it to the macroeconomic indicators Bandung. In conducting the evaluation and priority, strategic programs are done also based on the study of literature and discussions with experts. The number of respondents in this study is 15 (fifteen) and sampling was done by purposive convenience sampling. Based Matrix EFAS (External Strategic Factors Analysis Summary) shows that the Bandung City Government is in a strong position to exploit the opportunities that exist to minimize the threats that will arise with regard to the external factors that affect the purchasing power of the city of Bandung. The Government of Bandung can utilize the opportunities, which are significant factors, in order to increase the purchasing power of the people. These are plans such as: the Central Government Policies Regarding Rice for the Poor (RASKIN), Health Insurance for the Poor (insurance for the poor), and the School Operational Assistance (BOS), National Program Community Empowerment (PNPM), the People's Business Credit (KUR) with Interest Subsidy to Help Low Income Communities . Furthermore, from the results of Matrix IFAS (Internal Strategic Factor Analysis Summary) shows that the Bandung City Government is in a relatively strong position to use and harness the forces that exist to minimize the shortcomings encountered in efforts to improve the people's purchasing power. Internal factors that significantly influence the increase in purchasing power of the city of Bandung are the strong commitment of the Government of Bandung to increase purchasing power. Meanwhile, the biggest disadvantage factor and should be watched and minimized by the Bandung City Government in improving the purchasing power of the city of Bandung is a "Weak Monitoring and Evaluation Capability Strengthening Program Buy". The estimation results of AHP (analytical hierarchy process) to local agencies regarding the analysis of preference evaluation of Government programs of Bandung in economics in improving and strengthening the purchasing power suggests that external factors are the priority aspects. Meanwhile, based on analysis of the preferences of businesses, communities and government agencies to the actors who play an important role in strengthening the purchasing power of the city of Bandung show that the relevant local government agencies play an important role in influencing people's purchasing power state through a set of policies and programs it has taken.

scholarly journals Young and invisible: a qualitative study of service engagement by people who inject drugs in India

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. e047350
Author(s):  
Lakshmi Ganapathi ◽  
Aylur K Srikrishnan ◽  
Clarissa Martinez ◽  
Gregory M Lucas ◽  
Shruti H Mehta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Opioid Dependence ◽  
People Who Inject Drugs ◽  
Hiv Infections ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Semistructured Interview ◽  
Initiation Phase ◽  
Injection Initiation ◽  
Service Engagement

ObjectivesThe HIV epidemic in India is concentrated in key populations such as people who inject drugs (PWID). New HIV infections are high among young PWID (≤30 years of age), who are hard to engage in services. We assessed perspectives of young PWID to guide development of youth-specific services.SettingWe conducted focus group discussions (FGDs) with PWID and staff at venues offering services to PWID in three Indian cities representing historical and emerging drug use epidemics.ParticipantsPWID were eligible to participate if they were between 18 and 35 years, had initiated injection as adolescents or young adults and knew adolescent PWID in their networks. 43 PWID (81% male, 19% female) and 10 staff members participated in FGDs. A semistructured interview guide was used to elicit participants’ narratives on injection initiation experiences, barriers to seeking harm reduction services, service delivery gaps and recommendations to promote engagement. Thematic analysis was used to develop an explanatory model for service engagement in each temporal stage across the injection continuum.ResultsInjection initiation followed non-injection opioid dependence. Lack of services for non-injection opioid dependence was a key gap in the preinjection initiation phase. Lack of knowledge and reliance on informal sources for injecting equipment were key reasons for non-engagement in the peri-injection phase. Additionally, low-risk perception resulted in low motivation to seek services. Psychosocial and structural factors shaped engagement after established injection. Housing and food insecurity, and stigma disproportionately affected female PWID while lack of confidential adolescent friendly services impeded engagement by adolescent PWID.ConclusionsDevelopment of youth-specific services for young PWID in India will need to address unique vulnerabilities and service gaps along each stage of the injection continuum. Scaling-up of tailored services is needed for young female PWID and adolescents, including interventions that prevent injection initiation and provision of confidential harm reduction services.

scholarly journals Social distancing using IoT approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayuri Diwakar Kulkarni ◽  
Khalid Alfatmi ◽  
Nikhil Sunil Deshmukh
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Target Object ◽  
World Health ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

AbstractIn the coronavirus outbreak pandemic by COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been issuing several guidelines through all government agencies. In line with those guidelines, social distancing in the population has been a major prevention practice, compelled by all government agencies worldwide. Despite strong recommendations to maintain at least one-and-a-half-meter distance between the persons, the guideline is not scrupulously followed. To overcome this situation, an IoT-based technical solution is proposed through this paper. PIR sensor is used for the detection of a target in the vicinity (1.5 m). Upon violation of social distancing norms, the system will trigger an audio alarm after the detection of the target object. The research paper model is prepared by considering the needs of the people. Many researchers are focusing on tracking affected persons, but few are focusing on the social distancing preventive. The suggested portable device will always notify the person who is violating the norm of 1.5 m. The proposed device will minimize the possibility of transmission and reduce the infection rate of COVID-19. The device uses a PIR sensor depending upon the applicability area of the human being.

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