Intangible Benefits of Self-Help Micro-Credit in Conflict Mitigation and Peace Building

2019 ◽  
pp. 147-196
Author(s):  
Falendra Kumar Sudan
Keyword(s):  
Time Frame ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Credit Programs ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Conflict Mitigation ◽  
Micro Credit

Jammu and Kashmir State of India has been hit the hardest by ongoing violent conflict with its devastating impact on human lives and development. Demobilization and reintegration into society of all people uprooted and affected by violent conflict—ex-combatants, youth, and women—is an important challenge for development policy planners and decision makers. Demobilization and reintegration are fundamentally about the need for new forms of livelihood for ex-combatants, youth, and female that ultimately requires the creation of new jobs and providing them sustainable employment opportunities on micro enterprises through micro-credit programs. The task is all the tougher because youth, women, and ex-combatants often have no job market skills. Successfully incorporating ex-combatants, youth, and women requires economic sustainability, which has a longer time-frame than the political dimension of demobilization and integration.

scholarly journals Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration in Violent Conflict Settings

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Clarissa Augustinus ◽  
Ombretta Tempra
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Conflict Settings ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
Fit For Purpose

According to the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency, there were 79.5 million forcibly displaced people worldwide by the end of 2019. Evictions from homes and land are often linked to protracted violent conflict. Land administration (LA) can be a small part of UN peace-building programs addressing these conflicts. Through the lens of the UN and seven country cases, the problem being addressed is: what are the key features of fit-for-purpose land administration (FFP LA) in violent conflict contexts? FFP LA involves the same LA elements found in conventional LA and FFP LA, and LA in post conflict contexts, as it supports peace building and conflict resolution. However, in the contexts being examined, FFP LA also has novel features as well, such as extra-legal transitional justice mechanisms to protect people and their land rights and to address historical injustices and the politics of exclusion that are the root causes of conflict. In addition, there are land governance and power relations’ implications, as FFP LA is part of larger UN peace-building programs. This impacts the FFP LA design. The cases discussed are from Darfur/Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Honduras, Iraq, Jubaland/Somalia, Peru and South Sudan.

Disrupting Settler-Colonialism or Enforcing the Liberal ‘Peace’? Transitional (In)justice in Palestine-Israel

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Brendan Ciarán Browne
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Liberal Peace ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Liberal Peacebuilding ◽  
Insight Into

The growing interest in ‘During Conflict Justice’ (DCJ) in areas experiencing ongoing, sustained violent ‘conflict’ has further demonstrated the confluence between transitional justice and liberal peacebuilding approaches. Nowhere so is this more evident than in the case of Palestine-Israel where an ongoing process of Israeli settler-colonialism in historic Palestine continues, with the further spotlighting of ‘justice’ issues that are longstanding and unresolved. This article critiques the application of TJ/DCJ in Palestine-Israel and calls for a radicalisation of its application so as to ensure a platforming of conversation around decolonisation. It does so by critiquing the impact of discourse, specifically the framing of the ‘conflict’ and focuses on the nefarious role of a liberal peace building agenda in Palestine-Israel, a process that has embedded a deeply unjust and inequitable status quo. An insight into several ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ strategies of TJ/DCJ in Palestine-Israel is provided, with the conclusion reached that; any TJ/DCJ praxis that does not platform meaningful conversation around decolonisation in the region will ultimately amount to the individualisation of ‘justice’ whilst failing to address root causes.

Community Mobilization in Micro Credit as a Tool of Women Empowerment

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
Nirmal Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Community Mobilization ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Credit Programs ◽  
Local Ngo ◽  
Micro Credit

This article is about community mobilization in microcredit as a tool of women empowerment. It argues that women empowerment is a process and community mobilization is a tool for women empowerment process through micro-credit programs. This article is based on the views of selected key informants’ information through participant observation and a case study at Mahadevsthan Village in Dhading. Three local NGO managers and their three beneficiaries were conveniently selected for the sampling purpose. The main argument of the article shows that most of the females who received microcredit finally got socio-economic empowerment through acquiring access to capital, control over resources, self-esteem, confidence, decision-making power.

Micro-credit programs and off-farm migration in China

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongbin Li ◽  
Scott Rozelle ◽  
Linxiu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Credit Programs ◽  
Micro Credit

The Ucisv-Ver Popular Housing Programme, Mexico

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 48-50
Author(s):  
Cristina Almazán
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
The State ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Construction Methods ◽  
Community Organisation ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Incremental Housing ◽  
And Training ◽  
Housing Programme ◽  
Micro Credit

This incremental housing programme combines resources from participating families with traditional joint savings schemes and micro-credit to help those who have no access to formal credit to build new homes or improve their existing accommodation. Families are involved in the design process of their homes and training is provided in self-help construction methods. The construction process is phased to avoid families becoming financially overstretched. The consolidation of community organisation and solidarity, the empowerment of women and development of savings capacity are important elements of this well-established programme that has to date funded the construction and/or improvement of over 800 homes in the state of Veracruz, Mexico.

scholarly journals Micro-finance and Women Empowerment

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Puspa Raj Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Economic Status ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Credit Programs ◽  
Small Change ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Micro Credit

This paper examines the effects of women’s participation in group-based micro-credit pro-grams on a large set of qualitative responses to questions that characterize women’s autonomy and gender relations within the household. The data come from a special survey carried out in hill and tarai in 2004-2006 of Nepal. The results are consistent with the view that women’s participation in micro-credit programs helps to increase women’s empowerment. Credit program participation leads to women taking a greater role in household decision-making, having greater access to financial and economic resources, having greater social networks, having greater bargaining power compared with their husbands, and having greater freedom of mobility. Female credit also tended to increase spousal communication in general about family planning and parenting concerns. Ecologically, the higher impact on women’s empowerment was noticed in terai. The reason may be relatively lower social and economic status of terai women at the time of program initiation compared to that of hills. As a result, even a small change in their status would get reflected distinctly. The Journal of Nepalese Business Studies Vol. IV, No. 1 (2007) pp. 16-27

scholarly journals Web based Content Extraction and Retrieval in Web Engineering

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 71-80
Keyword(s):  
Time Frame ◽  
High Dispersion ◽  
Web Engineering ◽  
Computer Clusters ◽  
Web Documents ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Data Intensive ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Hadoop Cluster ◽  
The Web

The fast and wide-ranging pervasion of data and information over the web possess a high dispersion of an enormous capacity of normal language textual possessions. Excessive attention has been evolved in the existing scenario for determining, distribution and retrieving of an enormous source of knowledge. For this purpose, processing enormous data capacities in a sensible time frame is an important challenge and a vital necessity in numerous commercial and exploration fields. Computer clusters, distributed systems and parallel computing paradigms are being progressively applied in the current years; subsequently they presented important developments for computing presentation in data-intensive contexts, like Big Data mining and analysis. NLP is one of the significant features which can be utilized for text explanation and first feature extraction from request area with high computational supplies; therefore, these responsibilities can have advantage over similar architectures. This study shows a discrete framework for running NLP tasks in a parallel fashion and crawling web documents. The system was found on Apache Hadoop environment, and on its equivalent programming paradigm, called MapReduce. Authentication is done using the explanation for extracting keywords and critical phrase from the web documents in a multinode Hadoop cluster. The results of the proposed work shows increased storage capacity, increased speed in data processing, reduced user searching time and receives the accurate content from the large dataset stored in HBase.

scholarly journals Correlating Women Empowerment with Micro Finance in a Small Village in Bangladesh by Using Statistical Methodology

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
MST Fatema Akter ◽  
Abdur Rakib Nayeem ◽  
Md. Abir Hossain Didar
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
Absolute Number ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Statistical Methodology ◽  
Property Ownership ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Credit Program ◽  
Credit Programs ◽  
Personal Meeting ◽  
Micro Credit

Women empowerment is the most significant and examining issues in non-industrial nations extraordinarily in Bangladesh. This study investigated the viability and Correlating Women Empowerment with Micro Finance in a Small Village in Bangladesh by Using Statistical Methodology. With absolute number of 220 respondents, where, 100 was experienced micro credit program and another 120 respondent did not have any experience regarding the micro credit program. Stratified random sampling was used from Aatghar Union porishad under Shaltha Upozilla in Faridpur, Bangladesh and information has been gathered through face to face interview and personal meeting by utilizing overview strategy. By investigating five measurements; monetary decision making, household unit dynamic, physical movement freedom, property ownership and finally, responsibility for political and social awareness the women empowerment was estimated. The outcomes demonstrated the positive impacts of micro credit programs on women strengthening inside different measurements and investigation uncovers that the women empowerment is impacted by the improvement of miniature credit programs in Bangladesh through the selected five measurements.

scholarly journals Preliminary findings on structural issues in the Vietnamese financial research landscape from 2008-2020

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tung Manh Ho ◽  
Quoc-Hung Nguyen ◽  
Ngoc-Thang B. Le ◽  
Hung-Long D. Tran
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Ifrs Adoption ◽  
Credit Programs ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Financial Research ◽  
Micro Credit

In this report, we will look at major research findings on foreign direct investment (FDI), SMEs, micro-credit programs, financial inclusion, and IFRS adoption. These topics are of increasing importance, and they have gradually become critical for academia, policymakers, and corporate sectors if they are set to investigate Vietnam’s fast-expanding economy.

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