scholarly journals Implementation Gap of Social Forestry Policy: The Case of HKm Beringin Jaya and HTR Hajran

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Budi Budi ◽  
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H Kartodihardjo ◽  
B Nugroho ◽  
R Mardiana
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Political System ◽  
Social Forestry ◽  
Forestry Policy ◽  
Implementation Gap ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Field Level ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Regional Governments

The current social forestry policy is considered to accelerate the issuance of social forestry licences, but after the licence is obtained, various difficulties and obstacles are still experienced by licence holder community to achieve the objective of social forestry policy. For this reason, this study questions who is actually stakeholder or party stipulated in social forestry regulation to carry out social forestry and facilitate community to overcome the difficulties and obstacles they experienced. This study aims to analyze the implementation gap of social forestry policy towards those stipulated in social forestry regulation compared with their implementation in the field. This research was conducted at HKm Beringin Jaya and HTR Hajran. The results show that three groups of actors are stipulated in social forestry regulation, namely community with their rights and obligations, central and regional governments with their authorities and related stakeholders to support the implementation of social forestry. In two research locations, implementation gap of social forestry policy toward three groups of actors occurred in the field. The rights that can be obtained and the obligations that must be fulfilled by licence holder communities are mostly facilitated by non-governmental organizations and are influenced by the networking capacity of the community. The authority of the central and local governments to facilitate the community is not functioning adequately at the field level due to the separate political system and authority between the central and regional governments. The involvement of other related stakeholders is considered low because of their interests that must be accommodated and requiring the capacity of the community to access stakeholders.

Analysis and Comparison of the Role of Local Governments With Other Policy Actors in Disaster Relief via Social Media

2019 ◽  
pp. 579-601
Author(s):  
Mete Yildiz ◽  
Kamil Demirhan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Communication And Coordination

This chapter examines the social media use by local governments, and other policy actors (government agencies, non-governmental organizations and citizens) after the 2011 Van Earthquake in Turkey. This study is different from others examining social media use of just one policy actor after a disaster; as it compares and contrasts the performance of different policy actors with that of local governments. To this end, contents of the messages posted on selected Facebook pages after the earthquake are analyzed. The findings include examples of effective social media use for disaster relief and recovery, as well as detailed information about the nature and functioning of “multiple/parallel systems of public service/information delivery”, more than one electronic channel of communication and coordination simultaneously connecting people and organizations. The findings suggest that, if institutional arrangements conducive to collaborations are present, social media platforms can be effective means of disaster relief and recovery, especially for communication among citizens after a disaster.

scholarly journals Participatory Approach to Gap Analysis between Policy and Practice Regarding Air Pollution in Ger Areas of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3309
Author(s):  
Bonjun Koo ◽  
Jong-Il Na ◽  
Throstur Thorsteinsson ◽  
Ana Maria Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Gap Analysis ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Pollution Levels ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Government

Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, suffers from severe air pollution during the long winter months, and its air pollution levels are among the highest in the world. Residents in the ger areas of Ulaanbaatar are unable to take advantage of the laws and policy regulations to reduce air pollution despite years of efforts to address this issue by international and local organizations including the government of Mongolia (GoM). Important challenges and barriers that have limited the success of various governmental policies that tackle air pollution problems were identified through participatory approaches. In order to do this, personal interviews were conducted with various stakeholders such as officials from central and local governments, government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), international organizations, and academia. Moreover, a workshop was conducted to elucidate the views of ger area community members in Ulaanbaatar. Based on the results of these interviews and workshop, the gaps between the policy approaches of the government, the actual conditions, and the desired situations of the residents to improve air quality in Ulaanbaatar were analyzed. The large gaps that were identified between the national and local perspectives on air pollution issues demonstrated that the reduction of air pollution in Ulaanbaatar requires solving fundamental and complex problems based on a better understanding of the specific conditions and needs of the residents of the ger areas. Moreover, active participation and discussion of the residents at the workshop indicated that community-based approaches could be applied in the cultural context of Mongolia with promising results in finding solutions.

scholarly journals Cooperation Between Local Government and Non- Governmental Organizations as a Platform for The Development of Social Dialogue

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Smalec ◽  
Agata Niemczyk ◽  
Renata Seweryn
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Dialogue ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Local Problems ◽  
The One ◽  
Time And Energy

The independence of territorial self-governments in the process of implementing the tasks imposed on them does not mean that they have to implement them independently. Achieving the assumed goals of action often requires skillful cooperation with other entities, including non- governmental organizations. Local government is the closest partner of non-governmental organizations, not only through action in the local community, but above all through a community of purpose, which is to meet the needs of residents. NGOs represent the local community. The basis for the functioning of the state is social dialogue. The guarantee of successful cooperation between partners is cooperation based, on the one hand, on the awareness of local governments of jointly diagnosing and solving local problems, and on the other ‒ on the awareness of non-governmental organizations to jointly implement their goals. It should be emphasized that territorial self-government ‒ fulfilling statutory tasks and non- governmental organizations (voluntary associations of people devoting their time and energy to achieve social goals) are two different types of entities. Dialogue and cooperation between them should aim to integrate and mobilize entities to improve the quality of life in small homelands. The main goal of the article is therefore to draw attention to the importance of cooperation between territorial self-governments and non-governmental organizations in order to achieve positive results. It emphasizes the principles on which such cooperation should be based. The areas of this cooperation were indicated, giving examples of practices. The work mainly uses the desk research method in the form of literature analysis, reports and exploitation of online resources, as well as case analysis.

Solid Waste Management in the Context of Public Policies and Private Sector Participation

2019 ◽  
pp. 229-247
Author(s):  
Gamze Yıldız Şeren
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Important Position

Public policies have undoubtedly a very important position in the economy. The environmental economy is a phenomenon that requires intervention in the market through public policies. This is because environmental problems need to be intervened with public policy tools because they have the characteristics of externalities and are public goods. Accordingly, waste management is a subject of environmental economics, at which point public policies come into play particularly at the level of local governments and gain importance. However, this is not only a matter of public policies but also requires the active involvement of the private sector and social participation. The participation of society and non-governmental organizations, as well as public and private partnerships plays a pivotal role in the effective management of this process because it is difficult to understand the significance of solid waste management for a society that has not completed its intellectual and cultural education.

Taking Care of Companion Animals

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 423-444
Author(s):  
Mark C.J. Stoddart ◽  
Liam Swiss ◽  
Nicole Power ◽  
Lawrence F. Felt
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Companion Animals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Companion Animal ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Interpretive Frameworks

Focusing on local government and non-governmental nonhuman animal welfare organizations, this paper reports survey results on institutional policies, interpretive frameworks, and practices regarding companion animals in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The findings suggested that local governments and animal shelters use different interpretive frameworks of companion animal welfare, with the former taking a human-centric position and the latter focusing on animal well-being. The results showed that most local governments are not well engaged with animal welfare issues. Instead, these issues are more often dealt with by non-governmental organizations that operate on limited budgets and rely heavily on volunteer labor. Whereas federal and provincial governments are responsible for legislating companion animal welfare, practical implementation of animal welfare has been largely the responsibility of non-governmental organizations. Our findings demonstrated that the ways that animal welfare policy is interpreted and enacted at the local level have significant implications for animal well-being more broadly.

scholarly journals Transformation from Below in Bangladesh: Decentralization, local governance, and systemic change

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 1668-1694 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEAN-PAUL FAGUET
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Joint Product ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Government Responsiveness

AbstractI examine decentralization through the lens of the local dynamics it unleashed in Bangladesh. I argue that the national effects of decentralization are largely the sum of its local-level effects. Hence, to understand decentralization, we must first understand how local government works. This implies analysing not only decentralization, but also democracy, from the bottom up. I present a model of local government responsiveness as the product of political openness and substantive competition. The quality of politics, in turn, emerges endogenously as a joint product of the lobbying and political engagement of local firms/interests, and the organizational density and ability of civil society. I then test these ideas using qualitative data from Bangladesh. The evidence shows that civic organizations worked with non-governmental organizations and local governments to effect transformative change from the grass roots upwards—not just to public budgets and outputs, but to the underlying behaviours and ideas that underpin social development. In the aggregate, these effects were powerful. The result, key development indicators show, is Bangladesh leap-frogging past much wealthier India between 1990 and 2015.

scholarly journals Restitution of local government in Poland in the 1990s. Social perception of administrative reforms

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-25
Author(s):  
Piotr Swacha ◽  
Jacek Wojnicki
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Government

One of the most important steps in the transition from the so-called “real socialism” to democracy was the process of administrative decentralization. In less than ten years, after the “round table” agreements, Polish parliament was able to introduce reforms that changed the structure of local governments. It created three tiers of self-governments and provided redistribution of authority, responsibility, tasks and competences between the government (and their institutions) and local governments. The first aim of the article is to present this process and indicate crucial decisions and actions made by Polish parliament. The second part of the article is mainly based on the results of a research made by CBOS and non-governmental organizations. The data shows how the local government has been perceived during the last two decades by Poles, it brings the information about a sense of influence on local affairs, the importance of local elections, trust in local authorities, belief in the influence of local authorities on local development, perception of the role and autonomy of local authorities. The second part of the article also contains secondary analysis of data on voting turnout in Polish local elections.

The reality of human rights in Egypt after the January 2011 revolution A study in reports of international non-governmental organizations

2020 ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Hussam Mamdouh Khero
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Political System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Revolution

The research in our hands seeks to reveal the reality of human rights in Egypt after the January 2011 revolution and has the revolution succeeded in achieving its slogans of (living, freedom, and social justice) as it succeeded in removing former President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak? The research also seeks to solve the problem related to the Egyptian human rights, which links the security of the Egyptian citizen and his rights, as the researcher assumes that the political system that forms on the ruins of Mubarak’s rule put the Egyptian citizen between these two options without the right to enjoy both, so long as security is weak, there is no room to talk about human rights . The researcher has relied on the reports of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as two international non-governmental organizations specializing in human rights and they have experience in this file the big thing, so we examined their reports for the years after the January revolution in study and analysis in our endeavor to prove the hypothesis that the researcher started and which we explained above.

scholarly journals Assessment of Beneficiary Satisfaction with Community Based Solid Waste Management Service. A case of Okoa Maisha Project in Mnarani Village, Kilifi County, Kenya

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
Farida A. Hassan ◽  
Hilda A. Ong’ayo ◽  
Melckzedeck K. Osore ◽  
George N. Morara ◽  
Christopher M. Aura
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Management Service ◽  
Waste Collection ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

Abstract Solid Waste Management Service (SWMS) is an important public good, although most local governments in developing countries have failed to effectively provide it to their populace. Ineffective SWMS has serious environmental and public health ramifications. Consequently, other players such as Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), private companies and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) have to be involved in the delivery of SWMS. This study assessed the level of beneficiary for households’ satisfaction with SWMS as rendered by Okoa Maisha Project (OMP - the Swahili translation for project of saving lives) operating under the auspices of Where Talent Lives (WTL) - a local CBO located in Mnarani Village in Kilifi County in Kenya. The study revealed that majority of the respondents (52.4%, n=152) were very satisfied with the overall SWMS as rendered by OMP. The satisfaction was mostly due to quality variables such as householders’ education on solid waste management (54%, n=157), neatness of waste collection crew (52.4%, n=152) and reliability of waste collection (49.7%, n=144). Relative to other indicators, the respondents ranked low quality variables such as frequency of waste collection from households and the behaviour of the waste collection crew towards the residents. The study concludes by emphasising on the need for assessment of SWMS as provided by CBOs for improved service delivery. The study recommends routine supervision of the SWMS rendered by donor or government sponsored projects for effective and sustainable service delivery to the beneficiary householders and the community

scholarly journals KAPASITAS PEMERINTAHAN DESA DALAM MENGHADAPI IMPLEMENTASI UNDANG-UNDANG NO. 6 TAHUN 2014 TENTANG DESA (di Pemerintahan Desa Tutul, Desa Balung Kulon, dan Desa Balung Lor Kecamatan Balung Kabupaten Jember)

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-227
Author(s):  
Zakia Zakia ◽  
Irfan Ridwan Maksum
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Rural Government ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Village

This research is analyzing about the capacity of rural government and the capacity building strategy in facing the implementation of Act No. 6 of 2014 about village. The research held in three rural governments they are Tutul, Balung Kulon and Balung Lor Sub-district Balung District Jember. This research is using qualitative method with descriptive design. The result of the study suggest that the authority of the village should be reinforced to solve governance related problems, it also needs to review the coaching program because the schemes tend to be elitist along this time, so it does not really fit to the rural government official’s necessary; furthermore, the stakeholders of rural government (local governments) should be involved to help strengthen the capacity of rural government both in terms of policies, resources or technical assistance. In addition, it also needs to involve the universities and non-governmental organizations in order to open and expand the new discourse about the renewal of the village

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