scholarly journals THE USE OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS TOOLS BY LATVIAN ENVIRONMENTAL NGOS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 250-254
Author(s):  
Denis Vasiliev
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Digital Communications ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Diverse Groups

Successful nature conservation requires engagement of diverse groups of stakeholders. Attracting attention of general public and engagement of local communities that underpin sustainable development are between the most important aspects of effective communications by environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs). In the modern world digital tools provide unprecedented opportunities for broadening reach of ENGO communications. In Latvia, many organizations including ENGOs use digital tools as a part of their communications mix. However, it is important to understand to what extent the power of digital strategies is utilised by these organisations. For this purpose, analysis of Latvian ENGO digital strategies was undertaken. The analysis involved evaluation of digital usage by top Latvian ENGOs in comparison to application of online communications tools by similar organizations in Western Europe and in the USA. It was found that while Latvian ENGOs actively use digital communications tools, in comparison with western organizations a range of approaches that make online strategies effective is still underutilised. This may generally reduce reach of the communications and their public appeal. Ultimately, underuse of opportunities provided by digital communication tools may weaken effectiveness of nature conservation at a regional scale. Thus, it is suggested to enhance digital communications taking an example from Western ENGOS by introducing more educational and engaging content in a variety of formats, ranging from audio to video materials. Detailed recommendations based on findings of present review are provided. 

INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS: CONCEPT, TYPES AND ROLE IN MODERN WORLD

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 154-164
Author(s):  
A. N. Gutorova
Keyword(s):  
Internal State ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Global Management ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

Non-state factors begin to play more and more significant role in processes of global management. The international non-governmental organizations are on a special place among them (INGO). In the last decade they are growing noticeably. In this regard it is necessary to study the role and the meaning of international non-governmental organizations in the process of global management. It is a vital need of modern science. Attempts to elaborate definition of the concept "international non-governmental organization" were made repeatedly but all developed concepts have certain shortcomings (don't reflect the legal nature of INGO, membership, activity purposes, etc.). The bulk of non-governmental organizations are created for the solution of specific problems or work within a certain perspective. Today these organizations actively deal with issues connected with humanitarian assistance, protection of human rights and environmental protection, providing peace and safety, participate in educational programs, sports projects. They provide analysis and expert assessment of various problems, including global problems, act as mechanism of "early notification" and promote control of international agreements execution. But, without looking, for rather positive role of MNPO in their activity there are also certain problems. INGO is often accused in internal state affairs. Their activity often has politized character.

scholarly journals Food aid in emergencies: a case for wheat?

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Landman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Food Aid ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Management Ethics ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Total Food ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Pattern Number

As disasters and conflict increase, a higher proportion of total food aid is given as humanitarian aid. Most food aid is in the form of cereals, primarily wheat. The main donors are the USA and the EU, but there is an increase in the numbers of donors, including non-governmental organizations, buying food rather than using surpluses. Alongside the greater diversity and complexity of food aid, there is more controversy about policy and practice. If disasters are development failures, emergency food aid must be a step in the continuum from relief to rehabilitation. Comparisons of the seventeen countries that were major recipients of food aid (> 10 000 t) in 1997, show diversity in social development, dietary pattern, number of refugees, relative food inadequacy and wasting (i.e. % standard weight-for-height > 2 SD). In the absence of information of consistent quality, what influences the scale of emergency aid is unclear and susceptible to politicization, so that need and supply may not be matched. Local considerations seem to be as important as external food aid for the nutrition of the recipients. Challenges for the future include assuring the nutritional quality of rations to solve deficiency problems. The implications for the professional public health nutritionist working on emergency food provision include continuing professional development to enhance the technical expertise necessary to design appropriate feeds or rations. These public health nutritionists, more than others, require a grounding in social science theories that underpin management, ethics of professionalism and the politics of food aid.

Regulatory Organization

2019 ◽  
pp. 718-748
Author(s):  
Brian Preston
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory System ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Regulatory Architecture ◽  
Institutional Organization ◽  
Regulatory Organization

This chapter examines the institutional organization of environmental regulatory systems. It considers traditional regulatory organization in the executive branch of government as well as the roles played by the legislature, the judiciary, and the fourth integrity branch of government in the regulatory system. The chapter first provides a brief overview of regulatory organization in the modern world before explaining how the legislature shapes the institutional regulatory architecture that governs environmental protection and conservation. It then looks at three internationally prevalent types of executive regulator that are entrusted with protecting and conserving the environment: single versus multiple agencies, integrated versus function agencies, and concentrated versus devolved systems. It also describes the regulatory roles of the judicial branch of government, the fourth (integrity) branch of government, ‘third parties as surrogate regulators’ (environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community associations, specialist ‘third party surrogate regulators’), and ‘the regulated as regulator’.

TRANSFORMATION OF LOBBYING INSTRUMENTS FOR ECONOMIC STAKEHOLDERS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
pp. 78-90
Author(s):  
Stanislav SOKUR ◽  
Keyword(s):  
State Level ◽  
International Standards ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Member States ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Total Growth

The article examines current developments of lobbying institutionalization on the state level in European countries from 2014 to 2021, in particular, the definitions of lobbying and lobbyists, their goals, the availability of lobbying registers and the available ways for lobbying by economic stakeholders. Recent legislation on lobbying of Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania and the United Kingdom is analyzed. The dynamics of the adoption of laws on lobbying in European countries in recent years is demonstrated, given the specifics of the legal regimes of these countries. The article also shows examples of lobbying by economic stakeholders and lobbyists' reporting in accordance with the current legislation of the countries concerned. It has been proven that today the field of lobbying is on the rise, since in the last seven years eight countries in Europe have adopted laws regulating lobbying. Thus, the total growth of countries adopted lobbying regulation by European OECD member-states for the period of last 7 years constituted 67% of overall lobbying regulation by OECD member-states for the previous 75 years. These impressive numbers are expected to increase in the coming years, and it is very important that such lobbying rules to be adopted in accordance with international standards for lobbying regulation. The article also shows practical cases of lobbying and demonstrates that the range of lobbying targets in the modern world is incredibly wide. International organizations such as the United Nations, the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, etc. influences transparently policy-making in European countries. Regulation of lobbying legislation allows to influence decision-making to both non-governmental organizations and representatives of the private sector. Thus, there is an articulation and aggregation of interests in societies, which improves the quality of decisions made by public authorities.

Non-governmental organizations and economic sanctionsi

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-224
Author(s):  
Youngwan Kim ◽  
Taehee Whang
Keyword(s):  
Signaling Device ◽  
Target State ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Target States ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Systematic Explanation

How do non-governmental organizations (NGOs) affect sanction policies? Using two datasets of sanctions and NGOs, we study whether and how US-based NGOs working in a target state can influence the threat and implementation of sanctions initiated by the USA. At the threat stage, the sender government tends to perceive NGOs as a signaling device such that NGOs increase the probability of sanction threat. At the imposition stage, the presence of NGOs in a target state also increases the likelihood of a sender state imposing sanctions. In addition, the sender state tends to implement costly sanctions when NGOs have more field operations in target states. This study provides a systematic explanation of the relationship between NGOs and sanction threat and implementation.

scholarly journals Non-governmental organizations social-economic security partnership policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 178-183
Author(s):  
Aleksander Sapiński ◽  
Sabina Sanetra-Półgrabi ◽  
Anna Nastuła
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Subject

The purpose of this article is to present the importance of NGO partnerships within civil society. The idea of partnership has become a megatrend in the modern world, which seems to permeate various areas of social, economic, military and even family life.  There are three main values that form the foundation of NGO partnerships in the field of security: trust, cooperation and reciprocity. Building pro-social concepts in the area of security, which will be embedded in a model based on the above-mentioned values. They are a supported search of the literature and practice of the plane for due development of new concepts, but also a place for open minds. It can therefore be concluded that the NGO acts as a bridge in the structure of the socioeconomic security system. Creating and enabling organizations to connect and enable them to achieve specific tasks and goals also creates new conditions for improving partnership networks. The organization of research work for the following text was based on the analysis of legal acts related to the objectives of sustainable development, the literature on the subject and documents resulting from the practice of economic life

Welchen Beitrag leisten private Organisationen für den Naturschutz im Wald?

2013 ◽  
Vol 164 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
Urs Tester ◽  
Lesly Helbling ◽  
Bärbel Horat
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Rare And Endangered Species ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Conservation Measures ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Political Relationship ◽  
Rare And Endangered ◽  
Specific Conservation

How do non-governmental organizations contribute to forest nature conservation measures? Since the beginning of the 20th century non-governmental organizations are involved in forest nature conservation. They do this by raising public awareness, through political relationship, environmental education and specific conservation measures in the forest. Only the conservation measures are subject of this text. The aims of these measures include research, raising public awareness, support of forest management, allowing natural forest development, conservation of rare and endangered species and forest communities, support of species richness and preservation of traditional forest management systems. Non-governmental organizations contribute only on a small percentage of the surface to forest conservation measures. But they have an effect on and pave the way for conservation measures of public forest owners and the cantons.

When Things Fall Apart

2018 ◽  
pp. 149-165
Author(s):  
Christopher Burr Jones
Keyword(s):  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Futures Studies ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Development Goals

The chapter addresses the challenges facing first responders and public administrators due to accelerated warming, global weirding, and the limits to complexity. Similarly, these same challenges are also likely to have an impact on the ability of governments, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations to implement and realize the sustainable development goals and their 169 targets. The chapter focuses on the state of critical infrastructure, primarily in the USA, and the maintenance and sustainability of the physical systems of energy distribution, transportation, communication, and other basic services that support economic development and social systems. The chapter posits the need to explore these themes through the lens of futures studies and the need to envision and create preferred futures.

The limits of influence: foreign policy think tanks in Britain and the USA

1994 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Higgott ◽  
Diane Stone
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The One

International non–governmental organizations and their influence over policy in international relations have become subjects of scholarly attention in recent years. One sector of the international policy-cum-analytic community that has received little attention, however, is that group of nationally based non-profit independent policy research institutes—popularly known as ‘think tanks’. This is a strange omission. Foreign policy think tanks and institutes of international affairs are of interest to the wider debates in international relations for two reasons. On the one hand, they aspire to be participants—if mostly marginal ones—in the foreign policy making process. On the other hand, notwithstanding the tension between these two roles, some contribute directly to international relationsas a field of study. Yet a common theme prevails. All foreign policy institutes are founded upon a conviction thatideas are important. Researchers and executives of institutes, as well as their corporate, government and foundation supporters, often believe that their intellectual input into policy debates makes a difference. While this can be the case, we suggest that it is less so than many advocates often assume.

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