Non-Governmental Organisations and Culturally-Sensitive Gender Programming

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
David Makwerere ◽  
Rumbidzai Stella Manyika ◽  
Masciline Mutinhima ◽  
Audrey K. Saratiere
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Program Success

This research sought to examine whether NGOs working on gender are culturally sensitive in their programming. NGOs working on gender in Zimbabwe presented that they have an understanding of cultural sensitivity, but there is need to be more comprehensive ensuring stakeholder inclusion in programming. There is a need to create a rapport with all stakeholders both the external and internal to ensure programs' effectiveness. NGO programs should not challenge the existing cultural values, norms, and beliefs in rural communities, but instead, they should be catalysts for development, drawing their programs from cultures that exist in communities to foster development. The study recommends that NGOs should make use of the bottom-up approach to promote community participation and people programs to ensure program success and acceptability.

scholarly journals Hospitals and cultural diversity: social worker experiences and reflections

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Anne Testa
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
Hospital Social Workers ◽  
Culturally Sensitive Practice

INTRODUCTION: Social work accrediting bodies mandate that workers analyse ways in which cultural values and structural forces shape client experiences and opportunities and that workers deconstruct mechanisms of exclusion and asymmetrical power relationships. This article reports the findings of a small-scale qualitative study of frontline hospital social workers’ experiences and understanding of their mandate for culturally sensitive practice.METHODS: The study involved one-hour, semi-structured interviews with 10 frontline hospital social workers. The interviews sought to understand how frontline workers and their organisations understood sensitive practice. Drawing on their own social cultural biographies, workers described organisational policy and practices that supported (or not) culturally sensitive practice. Narrative analysis was used to extract themes.FINDINGS: Data indicate that frontline hospital social workers demonstrated their professional mandate for culturally sensitive practice. Workers were firm in their view that working with the culturally other requires humility as well as a preparedness to value and engage the multiple cultural meanings that evolve in the patient–worker encounter.CONCLUSION: The findings highlight that mandating cultural sensitivity does not necessarily result in such practice. Cultural sensitivity requires an understanding of how cultural and social location may be implicated in sustaining the dominant cultural narrative and signals the need for workers, systems and organisations to facilitate appropriate learning experiences to explore culturally sensitive practice.   

scholarly journals Examination of teachers' perceptions of multicultural education

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatma Başarır ◽  
Mediha Sarı ◽  
Abdullah Çetin
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Primary Advantage

The aim of this study is to determine the multicultural education perceptions of teachers working in secondary and high schools. Participants of this research designed with phenomenological approach, which is one of the qualitative research methods are 12 teachers working in secondary and high schools. Data was collected through the interview method in which a semi-structured interview form was used. Content analyzes were performed on the collected data and congruity ratios were calculated (0.83) between coders for the encodings performed separately by the researchers. Results indicate that the teachers most frequently define multicultural education as "training which is appropriate to different cultural values". When the definitions of multicultural education were examined, it was deduced that teachers focused on race, ethnicity, language, religion or social class dimensions of multiculturalism whereas, they did not think age, gender, disability, sexual orientation dimensions as the scope of the of multiculturalism. The teachers also expressed that they implemented multicultural education by "creating a culturally sensitive classroom environment" and "culturally sensitive teaching". The teachers stated that the primary advantage of multicultural education practices was the students' development of cultural sensitivity while the most important obstacle they faced in multicultural education practices was "undesirable student behaviors". At the end, it was concluded that teachers need to get a comprehensive education on multicultural education.

scholarly journals The Parent Perspective: Informing the Cultural Sensitivity of Parenting Programs in Rural Communities

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Sarno Owens ◽  
Lauren Richerson ◽  
Caroline E. Murphy ◽  
Anna Jagelewski ◽  
Laura Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Parenting Programs ◽  
Parent Perspective

The Parent Perspective: Informing the Cultural Sensitivity of Parenting Programs in Rural Communities

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 179-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Sarno Owens ◽  
Lauren Richerson ◽  
Caroline E. Murphy ◽  
Anna Jageleweski ◽  
Laura Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Parenting Programs ◽  
Parent Perspective

scholarly journals NILAI BUDAYA KEARIFAN LOKAL DALAM MELESTARIKAN LINGKUNGAN DI DESA CIMANGGU KECAMATAN NGAMPRAH BANDUNG BARAT

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Sri Seti Indriani ◽  
Muhammad Zen Al-Faqih
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Shifts

Humans as caliphs in the world must preserve the environment because human survival is very dependent on the environment. In encouraging the preservation of the environment, the community must live up to the values of wisdom that support the maintenance and preservation of the environment. However, in the digital age, this has led to a shift in cultural values of local wisdom. These values are increasingly fading because media exposure is increasingly dominating all human life. As experienced by the community in Cimanggu Village, Ngamprah District, West Bandung. They recognize that there are changes and shifts in cultural values. The focus of this research is to look at the cultural values  of local wisdom that exist in the village and how the meaning of the shift in cultural values  of local wisdom by the media for the local community. This research is qualitative research with a phenomenological study approach. Data collection techniques using observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation studies. The results of the study revealed that the cultural values  of local wisdom in the Cimanggu village were (1) Ngahiras, (2) Nyalin, (3) Tarawangsa, (4) Palak Science, (5) Palakiah, and (6) Kotok Jewer. The meaning of shifting the cultural values of local wisdom by the media for the local community includes: (1) Village communities perceive technological media as making rural communities more consumptive, (2) creating a shift in the professional direction of rice farmers into vegetable growers, and (3) Media exposure has a positive side as well as the negative side.

scholarly journals Systematic Review of Commercially Available Mobile Phone Applications for Prostate Cancer Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 155798831881691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otis L. Owens ◽  
Jenay M. Beer ◽  
Ligia I. Reyes ◽  
Tracey L. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Cancer Screening ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Cancer Education ◽  
Prostate Cancer Screening ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Reading Level ◽  
Keywords Prostate Cancer ◽  
Prostate Cancer Prevention

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed non-skin cancer among all men and the second most common cause of death. To ameliorate the burden of prostate cancer, there is a critical need to identify strategies for providing men with information about prostate cancer screening and the importance of informed decision making. With mobile phones becoming more ubiquitous, many individuals are adopting their phones as sources for health information. The objective of this systematic review is to identify and evaluate commercially available apps for promoting informed prostate cancer screening decisions. Two keywords “prostate cancer screening” and “prostate cancer” were entered into the search engines of Google and iOS app stores in May 2017. Evaluations were conducted on apps’ (a) quality, (b) grade-level readability, (c) cultural sensitivity, and (d) usability heuristics. None of the 14 apps meeting the inclusion criteria contained the full breadth of information covered in the 2016 American Cancer Society’s Prostate Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Guidelines, but over half were inclusive of topics consistent with these guidelines. Most apps’ readability was higher than an eighth-grade reading level. Most apps were also not framed and had a neutral tone. Only four apps met most criteria for being culturally sensitive to African Americans. Usability among apps was variable, but some contained major usability concerns. Recommendations for improving educational apps for prostate cancer screening include: disseminating evidence-based information; using culturally sensitive language; knowing the implications of the one and framing of content; making apps interactive; and following common usability principles.

Issues in rural health and key messages for health and disaster risk reduction education programmes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Ying Yang Chan
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Health Project ◽  
Health Risk Reduction ◽  
Healthy Community

A healthy community should have a safe and hygienic environment, with access to basic well-being maintaining facilities and services. Key messages for education programmes related to water management, indoor environment, waste management, health promoting behaviour, and disaster health risk reduction are presented in this chapter. It also aims to share some common health communication and education that might be useful to improve bottom-up resilience for health and disaster health risk reduction in rural communities. Examples from the Ethnic Minority Health Project will also be employed to illustrate how bottom-up resilience towards health and disaster risk in these rural communities might be established.

scholarly journals The Challenges Facing Bottom up Planning Process in Korogwe Town Council in Tanzania

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Mwakasangula Eliza ◽  
Tefurukwa W. Oscar
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Town Council ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Informal Discussion ◽  
And Training

This paper focuses on the main challenges facing participation in the bottom up planning processes at Korogwe Town Council (KTC). The study used 329 respondents and employed interviews, informal discussion, observation, and documentary reviews to gather data. Mainly narration and content analyses were used to scrutinize all data.The findings show that there were: inadequate community participation in planning at KTC due to lack of motivation and training, shortage of staff, lack of funds, inflexibility, irresponsibility, and lack of council mechanism for participation. Consequently, there was low level of community members participating in bottom up planning process. In order to encourage more people to be part of planning process, among other things, there is need to improve (or introduce) motivation to and training of community members, leaders and officers for effective bottom up participation participate.

Top Down or Bottom Up? A Study of Grassroots NGOs’ Approach

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biswambhar Panda
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Advocacy Activity ◽  
Local Decision ◽  
Local Decision Making ◽  
Government Authority

NGOs deploy multiple approaches to achieve their objectives. These may broadly be classified as bottom up and top down. While a bottom-up approach emphasises local decision making, community participation and grassroots mobilisation/movements, the top-down approach focuses on lobbying and bargaining with the decision-making authorities such as government agencies, building up of pressures through various campaign mechanisms, advocacy activities, etc. This article draws insights from the literature and begins with a discussion on approaches undertaken by grassroots NGOs to meet their objectives. At the outset, the article ponders over a set of questions such as whether grassroots NGOs essentially follow a bottom-up approach. If so, why? Do they also intend to establish rapport with the state officials and thereby have say in the decision-making process? If so, how do they pursue it? This article, however, operationalises the bottom-up approach in terms of an array of indicators such as awareness building efforts of NGOs, people's participation in different phases of projects, and people's involvement in creating people's institutions. Similarly, it defines top-down approach on the basis of indicators such as NGOs’ participation in advocacy activity, obtaining support from government authority and obtaining favourable court verdicts. Despite the rhetoric, this article conclusively finds that no grassroots NGO practices either a bottom-up or top-down approach exclusively.

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