scholarly journals Emerging Pillars for IWRM Implementation In Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ubaydur Rahaman Siddiki ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Arrangement ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Water Projects ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
Enabling Environment ◽  
Multiple Issues ◽  
Day By Day

Since the early 1990s, the IWRM approach has been performing for improving the water sector through minimising the water crisis in Bangladesh. Therefore, Bangladesh has developed three pillars (e.g., enabling environment, institutional arrangement, management instruments, etc.) favouring IWRM to meet the desired goal. Despite the ability to adequately address the cross-cutting and multiple issues of the water sector of Bangladesh, the IWRM approach is getting more complex day by day because the steps taken under the pillars may not work correctly. Given above, an attempt has been made to analyse how the existing contradictions in IWRM pillars (designed by Bangladesh) affect IWRM effectiveness. Using document analysis and semi-structured interviews, this paper provides an understanding of existing inconsistencies of IWRM pillars and the necessity of enhancing IWRM pillars for increasing IWRM implementation effectiveness in Bangladesh. The implementation challenges of the policy networks (policy, plan, strategy etc.) and implementation networks (water projects) made to ensure enabling environment affect IWRM effectiveness. Institutional power and responsibility are not defined in the policy rules and regulations correctly, causing problems in the institutional arrangement, which has affected IWRM effectiveness. Database related issues about the management instruments are also responsible in this regard. Necessary strategies and measures as per network management are recommended to enhance IWRM tools by resolving irregularities and improving IWRM effectiveness in Bangladesh.

scholarly journals ACHIEVING SUSTAINABILITY IN THE WATER SECTOR THROUGH PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN BULGARIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 473-479
Author(s):  
Zornitsa Stoyanova ◽  
Hristina Harizanova-Bartos ◽  
Ivelina Petkova
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Water Projects ◽  
Scientific Research Project ◽  
The University

 Issues related to the water sector and the achievement of an integrated sustainable management of water resources are of interest to many researchers and practitioners. The need for effective solutions for water resources requires the use of project management to achieve sustainability in the sector. The aim of the paper is to assess the possibilities for achieving sustainability through project management in the water sector and on this basis to propose recommendations for sustainable and integrated water resources management.The paper presents a literature review of achieving sustainability in the water sector. The analytical part of the article includes an assessment of the respondents’ opinion for achieving sustainability in the water sector based on structured interviews. On this basis proposals for achieving sustainable and integrated water resource management through projects are made. The results in the paper are related to the determination of the factors for achieving sustainability in the water sector and the benefits from the water projects. On this basis are outlined opportunities for overcoming the constrains in front of the water projects. The paper presents part of the university scientific research project NID NI 1-7/2015 “Project management of sustainable development in water sector”.

scholarly journals From Denmark to Delhi: the multisectoral challenge of regulatingtransfats in India

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 2273-2280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shauna M Downs ◽  
Anne Marie Thow ◽  
Suparna Ghosh-Jerath ◽  
Justin McNab ◽  
K Srinath Reddy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vegetable Oils ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Retail Sector ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Suitable Alternative ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Upper Limit ◽  
Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils

AbstractObjectiveIndia has proposed legislating an upper limit oftransfat in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and mandatingtransfat labelling in an effort to reduce intakes. The objective of the present study was to examine the complexities of regulatingtransfat in India by examining the policy processes involved and the perceived implementation challenges.DesignSemi-structured interviews (n18) were conducted with key informants from various sectors. Interviewees were asked about sources oftransfat in the food supply, existing policies that may influencetransfats and perceived challenges related to the proposedtransfat regulation, in addition to questions tailored to their area of expertise. Interview data were organised based on common themes.SettingInterviews were conducted in India.SubjectsInterviewees were key informants from various sectors including agriculture, trade, industry and health.ResultsSeveral themes were identified related to the complexity of regulatingtransfat in India. A lack oftransfat awareness, the large unorganised retail sector, a need for suitable alternative products that are both acceptable to consumers and affordable, and a need to build capacity were crucial factors affecting India's ability to successfully regulatetransfat. The limited number of food inspectors will create an additional challenge in terms of enforcement oftransfat regulation.ConclusionsAlthough India will face challenges in regulatingtransfat, legislating an upper limit oftransfat in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils will likely be the most effective approach to reducing it in the food supply. Ongoing engagement with industry, agriculture, trade and processing sectors will prove essential in terms of product reformulation.

scholarly journals Living “day-by-day”

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-95
Author(s):  
Anita Džombić ◽  
Jelena Ogresta
Keyword(s):  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Paediatric Cancer ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Disease Trajectory ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Additional Burden ◽  
Parental Protectiveness ◽  
Day By Day ◽  
Insight Into

The aim of this study was to explore the experience of parents whose children are in active treatment for various types of cancer. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 parents. Through interpretative phenomenological analysis, five themes were derived: a) response to the diagnosis, b) parental “navigating” through the new life situation, c) “being in the hospital”, d) sources of additional “burden”, and e) those who made the process of treatment easier. The majority of parents used active coping strategies; for example, they tried to mobilise existing resources, focused on the present and lived a “day-by-day” kind of life. As aggravating circumstances of treatment, they noted inadequate physical conditions, increased costs of living, inadequate support of family members and a prejudicial environment. During the process of medical treatment, parents found the following factors helpful: child's strength, other parents’ support, community members, and the expertise of medical staff. This paper emphasises the complexities and importance of understanding parenting processes that can operate throughout the disease trajectory for families experiencing paediatric cancer. The findings on the experience of parents gives increasing insight into difficulties but also into parental protectiveness, which can contribute to defining the interventions for strengthening their parental role.

scholarly journals Water investment in Mexico City: contradictory elements preventing investment efficiency

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-223
Author(s):  
M. J. Marquez-Dorantes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Multiple Objectives ◽  
Investment Efficiency ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Water Projects ◽  
Development Framework

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The complex connections between environmental and socio-economic variables in the water sector system involve not only ecological changes such as climate change but also a need for changes in socio-economic arenas to reduce the impacts of climate change. It is necessary not only to acknowledge the elements of change but also to understand the constraints preventing change in specific cases. The challenges faced by the water sector in Mexico City, as the world's second largest urban agglomeration with its fast growing population, limited external water sources, depleted aquifers and increased disaster risks, call for urgent measures to resolve the inefficiencies found in the traditional approach to water investment. <br><br> This paper explores how far the multiple objectives of different actors involved in water projects are balanced to attain integrated water management. The <i>Santa Catarina</i> Water Supply Project, which is in a highly contentious area because of the limited availability of drinking water, is presented as a case study. The analysis shows that the multiple objectives of the different actors involved, together with an institutional structure that perpetuates a traditional engineering approach, constrain the effective and efficient delivery of water projects. <br><br> The institutional analysis development framework (Ostrom, 2006) is used to analyse the arena of investment decision-making in water for Mexico City. Following the notion of institutional arrangements as "<i>incentives and deterrents</i>" (Ostrom, 1976), eight contradictory elements are proposed to illustrate the process by which institutional arrangements, implemented by specific actors with the intention of producing specific outcomes, are inefficient in delivering the expected outcomes, and can even produce negative ones when interacting with other existing formal and informal arrangements determined by other actors. These elements explain both the resilience of the system, which has so far prevented its collapse, and the magnitude of a growing problem that demands change.</p>

scholarly journals Atrial fibrillation screening: feasible approaches and implementation challenges across Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
D Engler ◽  
C Hanson ◽  
L Desteghe ◽  
G Boriani ◽  
S Z Diederichsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Opportunistic Screening ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Access To Primary Care ◽  
Public Grant ◽  
Personal Devices

Abstract Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) screening has the potential to increase early detection and possibly reduce complications of AF. Guidelines recommend screening, but the most appropriate approaches are unknown. Purpose We aimed to explore the views of stakeholders across Europe about the opportunities and challenges of implementing four different AF screening scenarios. Method This qualitative study included 21 semi-structured interviews with healthcare professionals and regulators potentially involved in AF screening implementation in nine European countries. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Results Three themes evolved. 1) Current approaches to screening: there are no national AF screening programmes, with most AF detected in symptomatic patients. Patient-led screening exists via personal devices, creating screening inequity by the reach of screening programmes being limited to those who access healthcare services. 2) Feasibility of screening approaches: single time point opportunistic screening in primary care using single lead ECG devices was considered the most feasible approach and AF screening may be possible in previously unexplored settings such as dentists and podiatrists. Software algorithms may aid identification of patients suitable for screening and telehealth services have the potential to support diagnosis. However, there is a need for advocacy to encourage the use of telehealth to aid AF diagnosis, and training for screening familiarisation and troubleshooting. 3) Implementation requirements: sufficient evidence of benefit is required. National rather than pan-European screening processes must be developed due to different payment mechanisms and health service regulations. There is concern that the rapid spread of wearable devices for heart rate monitoring may increase workload due to false positives in low risk populations for AF. Data security and inclusivity for those without access to primary care or personal devices must be addressed. Conclusions There is an overall awareness of AF screening. Opportunistic screening appears to be most feasible across Europe. Challenges that need to be addressed concern health inequalities, identification of best target groups for screening, streamlined processes, the need for evidence of benefit, and a tailored approach adapted to national realities. Funding Acknowledgement Type of funding sources: Public grant(s) – EU funding. Main funding source(s): H2020 Screening Scenarios  Graphical abstract

scholarly journals Psychomedical Interventions with Transgender People in Portugal and Brazil: A Critical Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
Liliana Rodrigues ◽  
Matilde Soares ◽  
Conceição Nogueira
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Study Participants

This study aims to analyze biopsychomedical interventions with transgender people. For this purpose, we carried out 35 semi-structured interviews with people who self-identify as transsexuals and transvestites in Brazil and Portugal. The responses of the study participants were systematized according to a thematic analysis, which led to the emergence of the following three main themes: “institutional power”, “expectations of trans-bodies”, and “experiences in health services”. This study demonstrates how some trans people perform bodily modifications to fight the transphobia they experience throughout their lives. In addition, they believe that, by making their bodies conform to each other, they may become more attractive and desirable. The process of cisnormativity is, furthermore, conveyed by the idea present in the answers of some respondents: that having “integrated” bodies means facing less discrimination and that they will, therefore, obtain more satisfactory ways of personally and socially experiencing their identities. This study contributes to a deepening critical reflection on the experiences/exclusions of trans people, especially in the psychomedical context of “normalization” devices. Hence, just as social structures produce and sustain transphobia, the same structures are responsible for combating it.

Informal Rules and Institutional Balances on the Boards of EU Agencies

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuria Font
Keyword(s):  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Member States ◽  
Institutional Dynamics ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Informal Rules ◽  
Functional Motivations

Recent research has paid increasing attention to the institutional dynamics of EU agencies in post-delegation but has barely explored the conditions under which patterns of informality shifting institutional power balances are likely to emerge on agency boards. Based on documentary analysis and 60 semi-structured interviews covering 22 agencies, this article examines under what conditions boards’ formal configurations in which the Member States hold a majority are informally altered to the advantage of the Commission. The article argues that functional motivations are present in the emergence of informal rules empowering the Commission, but those rationales are conditional to distributional considerations.

scholarly journals La campaña electoral como ritual de acceso al poder | The electoral campaign as a ritual of access to power

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
María De la Serna Ramos
Keyword(s):  
El Paso ◽  
Main Tool ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
Enabling Environment ◽  
Electoral Campaign ◽  
Trabajo En Equipo ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Times ◽  
Previous Step

Las campañas electorales son el paso previo al acceso al poder institucional de los políticos. Durante los quince días previos a las votaciones se llevan a cabo multitud de eventos de diferentes características que buscan presentar al candidato imbuido en su papel de futuro gobernante: son actos de puesta en escena de sus valores, formas y habilidades. No se diseñan sólo para transmitir un programa, sino, que por encima de todo, lo que pretenden es poner al “futurible” en un entorno propicio para emitir un mensaje de poder. La complejidad de aunar en una buena producción, un buen escenario y un buen mensaje personalizado en el candidato requiere del trabajo en equipo de muchos especialistas: asesores de imagen, escenógrafos y técnicos de protocolo son fundamentales para poner en pie una ilusión que lleve al votante a depositar un determinado voto en las urnas. La complejidad de estos actos, sean de la naturaleza que sean, conlleva un trabajo previo y de un desarrollo en el que el protocolo juega un papel fundamental. En el momento que hay un líder, hay un protocolo.____________________Election campaigns are the previous step for politicians to access institutional power.  The numerous events of different kinds held fifteen days prior to voting seek to present the future ruler´s values, manners and skills. Their design is not only meant to present a program, most of the times briefly reviewed before the voters, but to create an enabling environment for sending out a message of power: he is the leader, he has the power and exercises it.The complexity of these acts, which requires a previous teamwork of different specialists like image consultants, set designers and protocol technicians are the main tool to stir up the excitement leading voters to cast ballots in polling stations. In the development of these events, the protocol plays a key role.We´ll discuss a few examples of different events, their production and development, as well as all agents involved in them, from the very first idea to the launch of the event.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting the Successful Implementation of Cloud and IoT - A Study on IT and Business Leaders

2019 ◽  
pp. 366-396
Author(s):  
Jipson George Thoomkuzhy ◽  
Mohammed Nazeh
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Information Integration ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Dynamic Information ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Share Data ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Day By Day

The Internet of Things (IoT) is turning into the following Internet-related transformation. It enables billions of gadgets to be associated and speak with one another to share data that enhances the nature of our day-by-day lives. Then again, Cloud Computing gives on-request, helpful and versatile system get to which makes it conceivable to share computing assets, without a doubt, this, thus, empowers dynamic information integration from different information sources. There are numerous issues hindering the fruitful implementation of both Cloud and IoT. The integration of Cloud Computing with the IoT is the best path on which to defeat these issues. The huge number of assets accessible on the Cloud can be greatly helpful for the IoT, while the Cloud can acquire attention to enhance its impediments with true protests in a more powerful and dispersed way. This paper gives to the various factors that affect the integration of the Cloud into the IoT by featuring the integration advantages and implementation challenges. This paper mainly focus on a study which was conducted on various IT and business leaders.

scholarly journals Techniques and tools of lean production: multiple case studies in brazilian agribusiness units

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Guilherme Satolo ◽  
Laiz Eritiemi de Moura Hiraga ◽  
Lucas Furlani Zoccal ◽  
Gustavo Antiqueira Goes ◽  
Wagner Luiz Lourenzani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Lean Production ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Value Stream Mapping ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Production Flow ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Multiple Case Studies

Abstract The literature regarding Lean Production philosophy is vast depicting historical aspects, implementation challenges, benefits of its adoption and other topics applied to various industries and services. However, the agribusiness segment, one of the major segments of the global economy features a large gap in national and international literature. This article aims to conduct a research through multiple case studies concerning the use of techniques and tools of Lean Production System in agribusiness organizations. Multiple type case studies were conducted in eight agribusiness units from different segments through the application of structured interviews, on site visits and document analysis. The research carried has identified that Lean Production techniques and tools are applicable to agribusiness environments, and that the ones which involve improvements in process control, production flow and logistics have higher emphasis on research units. Techniques and tools such as long-term supplier and customer relationship, production smoothing/heijunka and value stream mapping distinguished themselves by the similarity of use when compared to previous studies in agribusiness environment. It was also identified that there are differences concerning the adoption of the techniques and tools in research units that operate in production environments of the type Make to Order or Make to Stock. Such differences are imposed by specificities that affect agribusiness organizations, which is indicative for future studies.

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