become more urgent. Major Trends & Ten Year Agenda • Trend for an increasing cultural presence of major NGOs; civil society voices will be louder than ever. This is supported by data showing that public trust continues to move to NGOs as the most trustworthy institutions • Accountability, and not just corporate responsibility, is essential and that reporting is a key element of accountability. • Corruption/bribery was widely recognized as a fundamental sustainability issue, affecting as it does the
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AIR 348 RESEARCH ESSAY In what ways have Transnational Advocacy networks (TAN’s) altered the principles and practices of international relations? Discuss in context of Child Labour in India The past century, the century of transformation and changes, which transforms a map of the world. World politics not only alongside with states, many non- state actors work together to form a new world order. Since the World War II, we saw a series of uncertain modification to delimit world order (Pollis,
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Corporate Sustainability and NGO-Activism: The Case of Corporate Watch Description and analysis of the mission, concept and impact of Corpwatch Corpwatch is an independent non-profit organization dealing with environmental, social and other topics. Therefore investigative research and journalism is practiced to inform public about environmental issues and to increase transparency. The organization was founded in 1996 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The project was started by the Tides Center
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funding bodies, from technocratic aid modalities associated with Washington Consensus models towards a ‘new development paradigm’ that accompanies post-Washington Consensus economic prescriptions. This new development paradigm relies increasingly on NGOs for channeling funds, while granting more space for government regulation and emphasizing participatory approaches. The new paradigm has produced a discourse of devolution, participatory development and decentralization. Yet the new development paradigm
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sector is: As we can observe from the above figure the process of policy formulation in Brazilian telecommunication sector is a two phase process that is policy to be formed undergoes both vertical accountability and horizontal accountability. The brief about this is as: • Vertical accountability: it involves direct public participation, which is again done in three ways. Hence before the policy is made a law public opinion about the same is taken into consideration as they are the ones who would
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INTRODUCTION Grassroots-based advocacy movements are not new and continue to be politically contentious. However, since the mid-1990s there has been an increasing interest in advocacy on the part of both NGOs and Northern donor agencies. Firstly, influencing macro-level policy and regulatory frameworks is now seen as essential to increasing opportunities and removing constraints at the micro-level for both enterprise programmes and entrepreneurs themselves. Secondly, multilateral and bilateral donor
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thirdly, requital – try accessing additional resources (e.g. seek loans, seek gift in kind, seek relief). Generally, disaster affected people do not perceive that they have any entitlement. They depend on immediate relief for the emergency period through NGOs, and GO. They are more dependent on the ‘safety net’ programmes of government as most vulnerable groups. CBOs – a community based formal set up, it is civil society non-profits that operate within a single local community. They are essentially a subset
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in Crude, directed by Joe Berlinger, the story of a large group of people effected by the negligent actions of big-money businesses whom have one only one real concern; profit. When the good, moral action is only defined by profits, a lack of accountability is directly related to your number of shareholders and stock price, the health and safety of those physically involved is disregarded. These actions of intrusive globalization can erode and eventually completely eradicate entire civilizations
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POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPER ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) were introduced in 1999 by the World Bank and the IMF as a new framework to enhance domestic accountability for poverty reduction reform efforts (Web.worldbank.org). The initial Structural Adjustment Programme failed, as pointed out by Rapley, 2007, almost every country that has implemented structural adjustment programme has seen its own share of strikes and riots in response to deteriorating living
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Responsibility: A Research Agenda Corporate Governance as Social Responsibility: A Research Agenda By Amiram Gill* In the post-Enron years, corporate governance has shifted from its traditional focus on agency conflicts to address issues of ethics, accountability, transparency,and disclosure. Moreover, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has increasinglyfocused on corporate governance as a vehicle for incorporating social and environmental concerns into the business decision-making process, benefiting
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