scholarly journals Public bureaucracy and sustainable development in nigeria: identifying the normative challenges and the way forward

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
Chinyeaka Justine Igbokwe Ibeto ◽  
Osakede O Kehinde
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Eclectic Approach ◽  
Public Bureaucracy ◽  
Marginal Improvement ◽  
Ongoing Project ◽  
Insight Into

Sustainable development and sustainability in Nigeria still remain a project far-fetched. Structural disarticulation of public bureaucracy role in sustainable development vitiates the Nigerian project. Sustainable development and sustainability are all encompassing.Within the framework of statism and over-developed state theories, an eclectic approach, the article examined the role of public bureaucracy in sustainable development and sustainability. To address the issues raised, the article utilized qualitative research approach to gain an insight into the nature and character of the Nigerian state towards sustainable development and sustainability.Subsequently, relevant sources of this research were fairly and professionally scrutinised, understood and tested with the available literature for the purpose of the research. Inter alia, it included scan-reading, comprehensive and critical reading and writing down ideas. Authoritative scholarly sources were reviewed, during a desktop study.This article argues that Nigeria is yet to understand the central concerns of sustainable development. Although, development is an ongoing project, marginal improvement being recorded in various areas of the society need to be sustained and consolidated upon over time. For Nigeria to entrench sustainable development and sustainability, government has to champion development, while corruption in both public and private sectors of the economy needs to be cured. The bureaucracy is the channel through which all these ideas and activities can be coordinated and delivered in Nigeria efficiently and effectively.

scholarly journals Role of Non-government Organizations in Escalation of Educational Projects and Community Development in Balochistan: a Case of Balochistan Rural Development & Research Society

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 567-573
Author(s):  
Saif-ur-Rehman Saif Abbasi ◽  
Ihtram Kakar ◽  
Hassan Raza ◽  
Nazneen Habib
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Research Society ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Government Organizations

Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) have been considered as the key player in the provision of services to address the economic, environmental and socio-cultural developmental issues. United Nations global sustainable development goals (SDGs) focused the role of partnerships between different sectors in addressing sustainable development issues. The study focuses on the role of NGOs especially the local organization called as Balochistan Rural Development & Research Society (BRDRS) in empowering community in Balochistan. We conducted a cross-sectional survey in two districts of Balochistan province to investigate role of NGOs among beneficiaries of BRDRS education projects and programs in focused communities by following the quantitative research approach. By using proportionate random sampling technique, 400 respondents were selected out of the total beneficiaries. The results indicated significant associations between BRDRS educational projects (i.e. Arranging Students Exposure Visits, Conducted Speech Competitions, Arranging Enrollment Campaigns, Renovation of the Schools, and Follow-up Mechanism to Schools) and level of satisfaction among the beneficiaries. The study recommends that government should also be involved to improve the policy and make a supportive and conducive environment through partnerships in the education sector with NGOs for the sustainable community development.

scholarly journals Principal-Agent Relation and Contracting-out for Employment Case Management to Enable Third-Country Nationals’ Transition to Work

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Esien Eddy Bruno
Keyword(s):  
Case Management ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Contracting Out ◽  
Transition To Work ◽  
Private Employment ◽  
The Government ◽  
Employment Agencies

AbstractThis paper analyzes the role of public and private employment-service agencies in contracting-out for employment case management under principal-agency relation to understand young third-country immigrants’ transition to work in Czechia, Poland, and Hungary. Existing research pointed to contracting-out as a major trend in public-service reforms when the government (principal) hires private employment agencies (agents) to perform service delivery, but overall the control of standards and the accountability to the public remains with the authority. Although the principal-agency relation shows human beings as rational and opportunist in corporate governance, there is still little research in CEE countries explaining the role of public and private employment agencies under principal-agency relation in contracting-out for case management to understand young third-country immigrants’ transition to work. Based on a qualitative cross-national case-oriented research approach with fewer-country comparison, documents and scholastic texts are collected and analyzed by means of a document and content analysis technique to fill in this gap. The findings show that open information, regulation, and monitoring administrative devices are a major perceived influence in principal-agency relational governance with a lack of cooperation that may impair the quality and service when looking at issues such as employment-related transition of young third-country immigrants and socio-economically disadvantaged groups in a contracting-out setting. The study demonstrated certain decentralized new public administration governance similarities but dissimilarities from the country’s institutional context. The outcome points to regulatory administrative devices to target agencies’ behavior and young vulnerable people’s need for paid work. This is relevant to performance monitoring in contemporary fluid society targeting benefits and scarce resources that may not only constrain ethnic minorities’ upward mobility, but the economy and the social cohesion process.

Demarketing

2020 ◽  
pp. 94-114
Author(s):  
Pinaz Tiwari ◽  
Snigdha Kainthola ◽  
Nimit Ranjan Chowdhary
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Marketing Mix ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Acceptable Solution ◽  
The World ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Different Parts

Ensuring sustainability at a tourist destination is a challenge which is faced by many nations. The challenge compounds since short term monetary gains often blind the desire for sustainable development. The term overtourism has gained popularity during the last few years as instances of anti-tourism reactions have been reported from several cities like Venice, Shimla, Barcelona, etc. An acceptable solution for countering overtourism has not yet been found because of the subjectivity and complexity of the situation. This chapter focuses on deconstructing the situation of overtourism in different parts of the world and how de-marketing can be used as one of the strategies for sustainable tourism. It shows the demarketing structure in marketing framework by modifying the 5As of tourism. It also shows the marketing mix framework within the domain of demarketing. It provides an insight into the role of de-marketing in striking a balance between the interests of local communities and stakeholders on one hand and enhancing the tourist experience at a destination on the other.

THE ROLE OF SUSTAINABLE FINANCE IN ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS: DOES IT WORK?

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Magdalena Ziolo ◽  
Iwona Bak ◽  
Katarzyna Cheba
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Finance Model ◽  
Sustainable Finance ◽  
Development Goals

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund reported that the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires an escalation of development finance. The report Scaling Finance for the Sustainable Development Goals highlighted the urgency of the efforts to realize SDGs in encouraging financial innovation to move quickly. Even if the role of finance in achieving SDGs is unquestionable, few scientific studies have addressed these issues. We tried to fill the existing research gap. In this study, we examined the link between sustainable finance and SDGs based on European Union countries belonging to the OECD. We present a new and the original research approach. We assumed that the sustainable finance model plays a fundamental role in implementing SDGs (all SDGs were analysed except for SDG 6 and SDG14, due to lack of statistics were not analysed) and ensuring that social and environmental sustainability are reflected in SDGs. The results of this study show that the more sustainable the finance model, the better the achievement of SDGs in the group of analysed countries. We found a strong link between sustainable finance model and social sustainability (SDG1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 16); environmental sustainability (SDG11, 12, 13, 15) and economic sustainability (SDG8, 9, 17).

scholarly journals Role of leasing for sustainable development of the Russian economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 01051
Author(s):  
Vera Gerasimova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Key Indicator ◽  
Proper Order ◽  
Business Support ◽  
Insight Into

This article suggests a deeper insight into the basic trends in Russian economy and national leasing market in view of acute shortage of investment and slumping oil prices. The Russian macroeconomic situation is not favorable for the leasing market development. A key attention is dedicated to leasing market which is a key indicator of the Russian economy. Leasing is looked upon as an effective means of business support and a powerful tool of sustainable development, as well as a way of acquiring credit income and renewing main capital. At this stage of Russian economy development, it is essential to work out the proper order of transactions and the Central Bank suggests that the leasing business should draw amendments to the existing regulations in order to create new control standards for leasing operations. It appears to be critical to enable a lessor to make flexible and effective administrative decisions and enjoy the possibility of managing the risks and profits of leasing transactions. The article also explains the correlations between external and internal economic factors, between financial and operative forms of leasing, between the amount of leasing investments and their contribution to the socio-economic revival of Russia.

scholarly journals ICTs and the Localisation of the Sustainable Development Goals

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
Development Goals

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are universally seen to be global in their nature and reach, but there is a growing acceptance that they have an important local dimension. At the same time, there is an increasing recognition of the need for appropriate Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to support and monitor the SDGs. This article adopts a qualitative inductive research approach in examining a range of public authority and academic source material, and framework analysis is used to record, categorise and critique this material. The findings provide an overview of the role of the SDGs at the local level and an assessment of how the localisation of the SDGs is being addressed in some urban areas within Western Europe. The findings also indicate how ICTs are being deployed to support the localisation process in Western Europe and the wider world. This is followed by a discussion of some emergent issues related to the localisation of the SDGs, including the increasingly important role of ICTs.

scholarly journals Financing Sustainable Development: The Role of the European Union

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 79-86
Author(s):  
Sanja Franc ◽  
Vlatka Bilas
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Private Investors

Objective – Sustainable development is a multidimensional concept and therefore requires a varied, nonetheless integrative approach to decision making, creation of policies and fundraising. The aim of this paper is to bring about the main sources of financing sustainable development, as well as to analyze the role of the European Union in supporting global sustainable development goals. Although the EU has welcomed the new global development agenda, and has an important role as a leading global donor of development aid, in order to meet miscellaneous expectations for development effectiveness, within the region and globally, it will need to further its efforts and make more concrete actions and changes towards the path of sustainability. Methodology/Technique - In investigating possible implication for financing sustainable development, authors refer to previous studies and EU reports. Findings - The findings presented implications that need to be done in order to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. Foremost, it depends on successful development of national policies, their synergy and coherence. Public and private, domestic and international sources have an important role in financing development. While a certain level of government involvement is needed in terms of its strategic role and ensuring appropriate public funds, the existence of a healthy and stable economic and political system in the country is more important for attracting private investors. Novelty - The study provides clear implications to finance sustainable development and role of EU in this. Type of Paper- Review Keywords - Sustainable Development, European Union, Financing Funds.

Netnography

2014 ◽  
pp. 1496-1511
Author(s):  
Guido Lang ◽  
Stanislav Mamonov ◽  
Karl R. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Community ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Community Environments ◽  
New Research ◽  
Insight Into

The advent of the Internet has facilitated many new forms of communication and thus has laid the foundation for new forms of interaction and social organization. The challenges of gaining insight into the social processes that occur in these newly emerging digital spaces require the development of new research approaches and methodologies. Netnography, or Internet ethnography, is one such example. It focuses on gaining cultural insights from virtual community environments and was originally developed for consumer research in the field of marketing, but has since been used in a number of other fields, including urban planning. This chapter examines the philosophical assumptions and specific methods of netnography as a newly emerging research approach. Findings from a qualitative analysis of ten cases of published netnography studies reveal differences in both philosophical assumptions and uses as a research methodology, including the subject of research – community – and the role of the researcher. The chapter closes with some recommendations and a call for future research.

Netnography

2012 ◽  
pp. 233-248
Author(s):  
Guido Lang ◽  
Stanislav Mamonov ◽  
Karl R. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Community ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Community Environments ◽  
New Research ◽  
Insight Into

The advent of the Internet has facilitated many new forms of communication and thus has laid the foundation for new forms of interaction and social organization. The challenges of gaining insight into the social processes that occur in these newly emerging digital spaces require the development of new research approaches and methodologies. Netnography, or Internet ethnography, is one such example. It focuses on gaining cultural insights from virtual community environments and was originally developed for consumer research in the field of marketing, but has since been used in a number of other fields, including urban planning. This chapter examines the philosophical assumptions and specific methods of netnography as a newly emerging research approach. Findings from a qualitative analysis of ten cases of published netnography studies reveal differences in both philosophical assumptions and uses as a research methodology, including the subject of research – community – and the role of the researcher. The chapter closes with some recommendations and a call for future research.

Living on the Edge

2010 ◽  
pp. 102-109
Author(s):  
Nils-Petter Augustsson ◽  
Jonny Holmström
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Rule Sets ◽  
Implementation Context ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter describes the efforts in ensuring research relevance by means of an industrial PhD project. The project is aiming at strengthening the relevance of research and development by educating scientists with an insight into the practical aspects of research and development and by developing networks in which knowledge can be effectively disseminated between industry and university. The project is taking its stand with an empirical and industrial centre with a technical solution called Dynamo, which is delivered by the company Logica. Dynamo, an intelligent portal that seamlessly connects systems, user information, roles and rule sets, and its context will provide a rich and useful empirical source from which to launch the action research process. The project contains two distinct stakeholders–industry and academy–jointly guiding the project and making sure that both worlds get a result that is in line with and contributes to their business. To this end two key stakeholders that have taken on the role as gatekeepers of rigor and relevance respectively. Taking position in the middle of the action is the PhD student who, by living the life of both researcher and consultant, will take on the role of balancing rigor and relevance. The chosen research approach together with the complex implementation context makes it crucial to take on an open minded selection.

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