scholarly journals Alleviation of Refugees COVID-19 Pandemic Risks- A Framework for Uncertainty Mitigation

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Mohamed Buheji ◽  
Bartola Mavrić ◽  
Godfred Beka ◽  
Tulika Chetia Yein
Keyword(s):  
Intervention Programs ◽  
Social Science History ◽  
International Funding ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
Global Concern ◽  
Multidisciplinary Perspective ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Alternative Solutions ◽  
Total Life

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the refugees has been a global concern where the possibility of its impact on the total life and livelihood is expected to be tremendous; unless drastic intervention programs are deployed in time of disaster.  This paper explores the three largest most vulnerable refugee groups facing the pandemic of COVID-19. The work was approached from a multidisciplinary perspective with the aim of observing the topic from various mindsets such as economy, social science, history, and culture so that a holistic solution can be proposed.  Refugees’ variables of uncertainty are examined during both the literature review and the case study. Then the formula of uncertainty is developed, based on the synthesis of both the cases and literature. The uncertainty is then mitigated and eliminated while talking about the risks of the COVID-19, and its potential spread. Finally, a generic framework is proposed so that the refugees not only are protected, but believe that they can have alternative solutions as they come out of the crisis. The paper brings in lots of implications to the international funding agencies, the refugees hosting countries and the local NGOs in the ground; beside the refugees themselves.

scholarly journals A CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1145-1149
Author(s):  
Juhee Kim , PhD ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Instrumental Case Study ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
University Leaders ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Students Success ◽  
Alternative Solutions

This study was conducted to describe the main issues that the Student Success Center faces when they provide students’ support services, examine alternative solutions, and propose the solution from theoretical and practical perspectives. To critically analyze organizational problems regarding managing the Student Success Center for students, a literature review and evidence from interviewing workers and observation were utilized as a qualitative instrumental case study. Findings indicate that the key problems were reaching high-risk students and combining services with academic departments for effective tutoring. This case study can provide some insight and solutions into the educator, who needs best practices and services for college students as well as the impact that university leaders have on promoting students\\\' success on campus.

PHASING OUT KEROSENE SUBSIDY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES CASE STUDY OF INDIA AND INDONESIA

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Mahpud Sujai
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Energy Subsidies ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Alternative Solutions

Subsidy is one of the main problems that burden the budget in some developing countries. Indonesia and India have similarities in dealing with efforts to reduce energy subsidies, especially kerosene. This study aims to explain the impact of the kerosene subsidy to the state budget of India and Indonesia, to explore and propose the alternative solutions to solve the problems occurred in relation with the implementation of the kerosene subsidy in both countries and to elaborate the strategy made by the government of both countries in reducing kerosene subsidy. This study used qualitative methods to explore ways of collecting information through data analysis in various types of both primary and secondary. The analysis used in this research is descriptive analysis in which researchers performed interpretation of data. From the analysis conducted, both countries succeeded in reducing the burden of subsidies for kerosene with a variety of strategies fit with the characteristics of each country.

scholarly journals The Impact of COVID-19 on Highway Traffic and Management: The Case Study of An Operator Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5320
Author(s):  
Carlos Oliveira Cruz ◽  
Joaquim Miranda Sarmento
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Highway Traffic ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Service Disruption ◽  
Multidisciplinary Perspective ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic created an enormous disruption to the everyday life of the modern society. Among the various urban systems, transportation services were among those that suffered the most significant impacts, particularly severe in the case of highways. This paper addresses the challenges and responses to the pandemic from a private highway operator’s perspective and from a multidisciplinary perspective. Highway operators faced two main challenges: on one hand, the need to cope with the potential disruption caused by the pandemic and a national lockdown for almost three months, the provision of road services, and the requirement to ensure the proper operation and maintenance, and on the other hand, the strong negative impact of the pandemic on levels of traffic. Our case study shows that the operator’s management response in question is essentially characterised by being a first response to short term impacts while balancing for workers health and safety, engineering and management, internal business management, and overall economic impact. Highway operators were hardly prepared for such an event and became more focused on prioritising their employees and clients’ safety to avoid service disruption. Regarding levels of traffic, the pandemic has had severe effects, although to a varying degree, depending on the different types of vehicles (heavy, light, passenger, freight, among other types of vehicles) and the location of highways (coastal vs. interior). The lessons learnt can be valuable in future disruptive events and for other highway concession operators.

scholarly journals Scaling Innovation Hubs: Impact on Knowledge, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Tanzania

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-63
Author(s):  
Kelefa Mwantimwa ◽  
Nora Ndege ◽  
Joanes Atela ◽  
Andrew Hall
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Knowledge Innovation ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
The Government ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
The Impact

This study has explored the impact of innovation hubs on knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems. To gain deeper insights, the study adopted an exploratory case study design along a qualitative approach to conduct an empirical investigation. The study reveals a noticeable contribution of the X-Innovation Hub in empowering youths in aspects of knowledge co-creation and transfer, and promotion of diverse innovations. The findings of the study also disclose that the contribution of the innovation hub in transforming innovations into entrepreneurial opportunities is still unsatisfactory. Furthermore, the findings suggest that not all start-ups emanating from the hub are taking off. This is due to various undermining factors such as financial constraints and unfriendly legal frameworks. For X-Innovation Hub to satisfactorily and sustainably contribute to national innovation systems, deliberate efforts must be made, and strategies put in place by different stakeholders such as the government. Particularly, diversification of funding sources to minimise dependence on international development funding agencies and organisations is important.

scholarly journals Social and Environmental Justice in Foreign Aid: a Case Study of Irrigation Interventions in Western Nepal

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-83
Author(s):  
Floriane Clement ◽  
Govinda Basnet ◽  
Fraser Sugden ◽  
Luna Bharat
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
International Funding ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
Poor Outcomes

Debates over the effectiveness of foreign aid have been recently revived both in the development sector and in the academia. International funding agencies have notably adopted new principles to improve aid delivery. Using the particular case study of a set of irrigation interventions in Western Nepal, we argue that these steps will not radically improve the pro-poor outcomes of aid interventions as long as the latter are framed in an apolitical, technical and managerial vision and discourse of development. We propose to adopt social and environmental justice as an analytical framework and vocabulary for action.

scholarly journals TOURIST DESTINATION DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES AND THE IMPACT ON TOURIST VISITS CASE STUDY: PURA GUNUNG KAWI IN SEBATU VILLAGE, GIANYAR, BALI

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
I Made Sudjana ◽  
I Made Darsana
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
The Development Strategy ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Impact

Pura Gunung Kawi Sebatu is a tourist destination in Bali. The temple is located in Sebatu Village, Tegallalang, Gianyar Regency. However, unlike most tourist destinations in general, Gunung Kawi Temple is infrequently visited by both foreign and domestic tourists, especially when compared with similar destinations, such as Pura Tirta Empul Tampaksiring. The purpose of this study is to determine the development strategy of “Pura Gunung Kawi Sebatu” and the impact of tourist visits on the welfare of community in Sebatu Village. This study used qualitative descriptive approach which aims to describe, record, analyze, and interpret current conditions of Pura Gunung Kawi Sebatu. The results from this study is the development strategies of Pura Gunung Kawi relies on some factors such as: the stability of various levels, such as security, comfort, support facilities and infrastructure; the quality and quantity of human resources; partnerships with funding agencies; the linkage function development of tourism activities; increased community participation in tourism development; and programs implementation for effective promotion on an ongoing basis. These stabilities help increase the number of tourist visits, which leads to community’s welfare in the area surrounding Pura Gunung Kawi Sebatu.

scholarly journals Impact Of Covid-19 on Financing Islamic Bank in Indonesia  

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-155
Author(s):  
Dhaffi Rizwan Azhari ◽  
Muhammad Iqbal Fasa ◽  
Muhammad Rizal Arsyad ◽  
Dedi Junaedi
Keyword(s):  
Learning Design ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Design Case Study ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Alternative Solutions

      Financing is the largest source of income for Islamic banks, but at the same time it is the largest source of business operating risk. Regarding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on financing at Islamic banks, it is not only reducing the income of Islamic banks, but also the economic sector of a country.  This study aims to analyze the impact of Covid-19 on financing in Sharia banks, not only lowering the level of income of Sharia banks, but also referring to the decrease in the level of the economy of a country. This study aims to analyze the impact of Covid-19 on financing in Sharia banks. The method used in this study is qualitative research method with case study design. Case study method is a unit-level learning design of education this method takes the form of an explanation of a particular problem, event or situation, then students are tasked with finding alternative solutions then this method can also be used to develop critical thinking and find new solutions to a topic that is solved. Independent variables impact covid-19. Dependent variables of sharia bank financing

scholarly journals Assessment of the impact of shared data on the scientific literature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Milham ◽  
R. Cameron Craddock ◽  
Michael Fleischmann ◽  
Jake Son ◽  
Jon Clucas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Sharing ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Shared Data ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
Neuroimaging Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Significant Effort

AbstractData sharing is increasingly recommended as a means of accelerating science by facilitating collaboration, transparency, and reproducibility. While few oppose data sharing philosophically, a range of barriers deter most researchers from implementing it in practice (e.g., workforce and infrastructural demands, sociocultural and privacy concerns, lack of standardization). To justify the significant effort required for sharing data (e.g., organization, curation, distribution), funding agencies, institutions, and investigators need clear evidence of benefit. Here, using the International Neuroimaging Data-sharing Initiative, we present a brain imaging case study that provides direct evidence of the impact of open sharing on data use and resulting publications over a seven-year period (2010-2017). We dispel the myth that scientific findings using shared data cannot be published in high-impact journals and demonstrate rapid growth in the publication of such journal articles, scholarly theses, and conference proceedings. In contrast to commonly used ‘pay to play’ models, we demonstrate that openly shared data can increase the scale (i.e., sample size) of scientific studies conducted by data contributors, and can recruit scientists from a broader range of disciplines. These findings suggest the transformative power of data sharing for accelerating science and underscore the need for the scientific ecosystem to embrace the challenge of implementing data sharing universally.

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