scholarly journals Una aproximación a territorios en situación de conflicto armado: perspectivas desde la Economía Solidaria con un enfoque triangulado en dos municipios del Cauca (Colombia)

2018 ◽  
pp. 179-200
Author(s):  
Malen Yudeli Solís Montenegro ◽  
Miguel Andrés Ibarra Bermúdez ◽  
Fabián Enrique Salazar Villano
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Rural Sector ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
Negotiation Processes ◽  
Conflict Condition ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up

El auge de los procesos de negociación en Colombia entre el Gobierno y grupos insurgentes ha generado un amplio panorama tanto de investigación académica como de acción pública, que conlleva a la reflexión sobre las condiciones necesarias para la construcción de paz territorial en las zonas rurales del país. En tal dirección, en este documento se propone una lectura del conflicto armado desde los fundamentos y prácticas de la Economía Solidaria, y la utilización de una metodología triangulada o mixta, que incorpore las voces de los actores locales con el fin de identificar iniciativas sociales construidas de “Abajo-hacia-Arriba”, para así configurar nuevas agendas temáticas en zonas rurales como las del departamento del Cauca en Colombia, tal como se realiza aquí para dos municipios de referencia.   An approach to territories with armed conflict condition: perspectives since Solidarity Economics and triangulated approach in two municipalities of Cauca (Colombia) Abstract: The height of negotiation processes in Colombia between the Government and insurgent groups has generated a broad outlook for academic research as well as public intervention, which lead to reflect on the needed conditions for territorial peace construction in the rural areas of the country. In this regard, the document proposes an interpretation for the armed conflict since the foundations and practices of Solidarity Economics. In addition, a triangulated methodology is applied (that incorporates voices of local actors in order to identify “Bottom-up” social initiatives), in order to set up new thematic agendas in rural areas such as those of the department of Cauca in Colombia, in the way as it is done here for two reference municipalities. Keywords: Armed Conflict, Solidarity Economics, Territory, Rural Sector.

Creating Effective Rural Policies: Rural Lenses and Their Effectiveness

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Helps
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Relative Lack ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
Canadian Provinces ◽  
The Government

As part of an international trend in regional policy development towards “mainstreaming” rural issues, multiple national and regional governments have created policy lenses designed to ensure that legislation is formed with the needs of rural areas taken into account. Despite a relative lack of academic research on the effectiveness of rural lenses, the idea has been imported to multiple jurisdictions, including several Canadian provinces. This presentation will offer a comparative overview of rural lenses in jurisdictions in Europe and North America in order to achieve a better understanding of their commonalities and divergences in methods, circumstances, and effectiveness. The presentation will make use of a review of the government and academic literature conducted for an upcoming working paper by Louis Helps and Dr. Ryan Gibson. This research is the foundation of a larger project that will seek to understand the feasibility of implementing rural lenses at the provincial level in Canada.

Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Uttar Pradesh Women Power Line 1090

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Neeraj Dwivedi ◽  
Nishant Saxena
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Power Line ◽  
The Third ◽  
Agile Organization ◽  
Cyber Crimes ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Eve Teasing

Women Power Line 1090 was a facility set up by the government of Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state of India, for eradicating the menace of harassment of women in the state. The case briefly presents the genesis of the 1090 project and traces the journey of the project from an idea to the creation of an innovative and agile organization within the normally bureaucratic police force. The case concludes by presenting the challenges faced by the protagonist while analyzing the first seven months performance of his brainchild. The first challenge discussed is how he can extend 1090 to address more severe problems of eve-teasing, domestic violence and cyber crimes related to women. The second challenge he is thinking about is scaling up the operations without losing quality. The third challenge he is looking at is to find ways to create awareness and mobilization in the rural areas, which are home to 77 per cent of the state’s population.

scholarly journals Policy Mixes as a Strategy to Provide More Effective Social and Environmental Benefits: Evidence from Six Rural Areas in Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6632
Author(s):  
Francesco Mantino ◽  
Francesco Vanni
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
Cooperative Action ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Policy Mixes

At the EU level, agricultural and rural development policies are increasingly oriented and targeted to the provision of public goods associated with farming. While most analysis focuses on the efficiency and effectiveness of specific types of interventions, this paper aims at exploring the role of policy mixes in stimulating the provision of environmental and social benefits (ESBs) associated with agriculture. The role of policy mixes in determining the provision of ESBs to farming is a complex matter, since different types of policies may have synergistic, overlapping and/or contrasting effects. On the basis of a comparative analysis of six case studies in different European countries, the analysis shows interesting solutions already being experimented with in the field by local actors working together through some form of cooperative action, highlighting how public intervention is often a combination of different policy instruments that may vary according to the type of socio-economic and institutional settings as well as according to the type of ESB targeted. The effectiveness of policy mixes depends not only on the design and implementation phases, but also on new governance arrangements stimulating alternative mechanisms of public goods provision, including market mechanisms and collective action.

scholarly journals Los investigadores sociales y su relación con los campesinos en Colombia: ¿tacto o indiferencia?

2017 ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
María Teresa Matijasevic ◽  
Alexander Ruiz Silva
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Rural Sector ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Political Commitments ◽  
State Of Affairs

Resumen¿Cuál ha sido el compromiso ético y político de los investigadores sociales en Colombia respecto a los campesinos?, ¿qué discursos han predominado en relación con ellos? El presente artículo aporta algunos elementos de discusión en torno a estos interrogantes, partiendo especialmente de estados del arte realizados por autores colombianos sobre el conocimiento producido en las últimas décadas respecto a los campesinos, el sector rural y los jóvenes de las zonas rurales. Pese a la presencia de importantes investigadores en el país dedicados a esta temática, el análisis de la producción académica en torno a los campesinos permite identificar un interés insuficiente en la problemática de este grupo por parte de la generalidad de investigadores sociales colombianos; así como la tendencia a privilegiar análisis de carácter económico, a los que se ha sumado, en las últimas décadas, un importante número de estudios enfocados en el conflicto armado y en el desplazamiento forzado, dejando de lado –o abordando de manera insuficiente– importantes dimensiones de la vida campesina. Además de la aproximación a los estudios realizados, el artículo llama la atención sobre la necesidad de ampliar los marcos a partir de los cuales se analiza el compromiso ético y político de la investigación social.Palabras clave: campesinos, rural, jóvenes rurales, investigación social, investigación rural.AbstractWhat has been the ethical and political commitments of social researchers to peasants in Colombia? What are the prevailing discourses in this relationship? This article provides some elements to discuss these questions. It starts from the state of affairs of the production of knowledge on peasants, the rural sector and young people living in rural areas as studied by Colombian researchers in the last decades. In spite of the fact that there are important researchers studying this topic, the analysis of their academic production reveals an insufficient interest in the problematic of this social group by Colombian researchers. The study also reveals a tendency towards the economic analysis with emphasis on studies focused on the armed conflict and forced displacement rather than the analysis of fundamental dimensions of the life as a peasant.This article also draws attention to the need to expand the theoretical frameworks for the analysis of the ethical and political commitments of social research.Keywords: peasants; rural, rural young people; social research; rural research.

Libraries as Portal for Knowledge Driven Rural Community Development Cases from Botswana

2011 ◽  
pp. 34-41
Author(s):  
Rebecca Lekoko ◽  
Josephine Modise-Jankie ◽  
Christopher Busang
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Appropriate Technology ◽  
Communication Program ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Telecommunications Services ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up

Realizing that the rural communities lag behind with information that can help improve their lives, the government has set up the Rural Communication Program (RCP) with a goal “to provide telecommunications services to the rural areas in the most cost effective, efficient, logical and transparent manner possible” (Ministry of Communication Science and Technology, 2006, p. 14). Among specific objectives of the Rural Communications Program (RCP) is using appropriate technology to provide services, and in this case, the Internet or computers have been used to augment information found in local libraries. The Botswana Long Term Vision 2016 stipulates as a challenge the need to ensure that all people in Botswana especially those in the rural areas or those who need special assistance, receive the same benefits, and achieve their maximum potential, and RCP is the main foundation on which efforts for availing information that reaches the rural communities are based. Rural here refers to isolated and poorly served communities. These are communities where the government has identified that essential and basic services are required as part of its social obligation and mandate to integrate these areas into economic and social development of the nation. While these communities are of interest in this chapter, the chapter draws some cases from urban places because Internet connectivity in the rural areas of Botswana is still a problem.

scholarly journals Los investigadores sociales y su relación con los campesinos en Colombia: ¿tacto o indiferencia?

2017 ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
María Teresa Matijasevic ◽  
Alexander Ruiz Silva
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Rural Sector ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Political Commitments ◽  
State Of Affairs

Resumen¿Cuál ha sido el compromiso ético y político de los investigadores sociales en Colombia respecto a los campesinos?, ¿qué discursos han predominado en relación con ellos? El presente artículo aporta algunos elementos de discusión en torno a estos interrogantes, partiendo especialmente de estados del arte realizados por autores colombianos sobre el conocimiento producido en las últimas décadas respecto a los campesinos, el sector rural y los jóvenes de las zonas rurales. Pese a la presencia de importantes investigadores en el país dedicados a esta temática, el análisis de la producción académica en torno a los campesinos permite identificar un interés insuficiente en la problemática de este grupo por parte de la generalidad de investigadores sociales colombianos; así como la tendencia a privilegiar análisis de carácter económico, a los que se ha sumado, en las últimas décadas, un importante número de estudios enfocados en el conflicto armado y en el desplazamiento forzado, dejando de lado –o abordando de manera insuficiente– importantes dimensiones de la vida campesina. Además de la aproximación a los estudios realizados, el artículo llama la atención sobre la necesidad de ampliar los marcos a partir de los cuales se analiza el compromiso ético y político de la investigación social.Palabras clave: campesinos, rural, jóvenes rurales, investigación social, investigación rural.AbstractWhat has been the ethical and political commitments of social researchers to peasants in Colombia? What are the prevailing discourses in this relationship? This article provides some elements to discuss these questions. It starts from the state of affairs of the production of knowledge on peasants, the rural sector and young people living in rural areas as studied by Colombian researchers in the last decades. In spite of the fact that there are important researchers studying this topic, the analysis of their academic production reveals an insufficient interest in the problematic of this social group by Colombian researchers. The study also reveals a tendency towards the economic analysis with emphasis on studies focused on the armed conflict and forced displacement rather than the analysis of fundamental dimensions of the life as a peasant.This article also draws attention to the need to expand the theoretical frameworks for the analysis of the ethical and political commitments of social research.Keywords: peasants; rural, rural young people; social research; rural research.

Customary Marriage and The Urban Local Courts in Zambia

1990 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Coldham
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
Criminal Jurisdiction ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
Local Courts ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up ◽  
As If

The local courts of Zambia are the successors to the native courts which the British set up in Northern Rhodesia, as elsewhere in colonial Africa, to administer justice to Africans. However, while the system of native courts originally existed in parallel with the system of English-style magistrates' courts, after independence the native courts (re-named local courts) were integrated into the judicial system, with appeals lying to subordinate courts (i.e. magistrates' courts) of the first or second class. Although it was the ultimate goal of the government to have a fully professionalised judiciary (a policy adopted by Kenya in 1967), it recognised that the local courts still had an important role to play in the administration of justice, particularly in the rural areas. Twenty years later it looks as if their future is secure. If the amount of business transacted by the local courts and the paucity of appeals from their decisions provide an indication of their popularity and effectiveness, they would seem to have proved their worth.Like their predecessors, the local courts have a limited criminal jurisdiction, but the bulk of their business is civil. They have jurisdiction in most civil matters where the claim does not exceed 200 kwacha. Some of these cases are actions for the recovery of a debt, actions for assault or actions for defamation of character (most frequently, accusations of witchcraft), but the majority of the cases could be broadly categorised as “family” cases, including divorce, adultery, seduction and inheritance claims.

PERCEPTIONS OF SOUTH AFRICAN YOUTH OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES: A CASE IN THE LEPELLE-NKUMPI MUNICIPAL AREA

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-89
Author(s):  
Matshidiso Kanjere
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Young People ◽  
South African ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
South Africans ◽  
African Youth ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
The Government

The South African youth faces multiple challenges that range from illiteracy, drug and alcohol abuse, crime and HIV/AIDS, to unemployment. These challenges and many other ills in society have led to interventions by government, and private and other civil societies. The government has established and initiated a number of programmes that aim at building capacity and helping the youth to cope with these multiple challenges. Some of the programmes are aimed at building leadership capacity among the impoverished youth in rural communities. A lot of money is being invested in these programmes, which are meant to develop young South Africans. However, there are some young people who do not participate in these programmes. They are also not in the formal education system, self-employed or employed elsewhere. And they are despondent. The government, private sector and non-governmental organisations are trying hard to bring these youths and others into the developmental arena, so that they can be active participants in the economy of the country in the near future. However, little research has been conducted to assess the broad impact of the various programmes in the country. The contribution that these programmes are making toward improving the livelihoods of young people has to be determined on a larger scale. Nevertheless, this article reports on an investigation that was conducted on a smaller scale, at the Lepelle-Nkumpi Local Municipality. The aim of the research was to explore the perceptions young South Africans have of the leadership development programmes that they have participated in. A mixed research approach was used to collect data and the key findings indicated that knowledge accumulated through participation in the programmes does not always translate into practical applications. However, the programmes were deemed to be valuable in instilling a positive life-view. The study recommends that support systems be established in the rural areas to assist young people with life challenges.

Covid-19 and its financial effects on the dental fraternity and health-care workers: A literature review

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 628-631
Author(s):  
Devangi Agrawal ◽  
Namisha Khara ◽  
Bhushan Mundada ◽  
Nitin Bhola ◽  
Rajiv Borle
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Dental Procedures ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Dental Practices ◽  
Precautionary Measures ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up

In the wake of the current outbreak of novel Covid-19, which is now declared as a 'pandemic' by the WHO, people around the globe have been dealing with a lot of difficulties. This virus had come into light in December 2019 and since then has only grown exponentially. Amongst the most affected are the ones who have been working extremely hard to eradicate it, which includes the hospitals, dental fraternity and the health-care workers. These people are financially burdened due to limited practise. In the case of dentistry, to avoid the spread of the virus, only emergency treatments are being approved, and the rest of the standard procedures have been put on hold. In some cases, as the number of covid cases is rising, many countries are even trying to eliminate the emergency dental procedures to divert the finances towards the treatment of covid suffering patients. What we need to realise is that this is probably not the last time that we are facing such a situation. Instead of going down, we should set up guidelines with appropriate precautionary measures together with the use of standardised PPEs. The government should also establish specific policies to support dental practices and other health-care providers. Together, we can fight this pandemic and come out stronger.

FACTORS INFLUENCING ENTREPRENEURIAL SUCCESS AMONG THE RURAL WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN BANGLADESH

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalowar Hossan
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Entrepreneurial Success ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Proper Training ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
The Government

The aim of this study is to investigate the factors influencing the entrepreneurial success of rural women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. Non-probability sampling specifically convenience sampling is used to draw the sample and data is collected using the self-administered survey. Regression analysis and descriptive statistics are used to analyze the data. The study discloses that motivational factors, government policy and financial support have significant influence on the rural women entrepreneurial success in Bangladesh. Due to lack of suitable training and proper development as well as ICT knowledge, the rural women of Bangladesh could not accomplish the achievement. Half of the total populations of Bangladesh are female and most of them live in rural areas. Therefore, the government and the policymakers in Bangladesh should develop the potential of rural women entrepreneurs by providing development facilities, proper training, and ICT knowledge.

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