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Mészáros, Gergely. "Auditing Community Software Development." YBL Journal of Built Environment 3, no. 1-2 (December 1, 2015): 26–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jbe-2015-0003.
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Abstract In accordance with European efforts related to Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, in Hungary a special department called LRL-IBEK has been formed which is designated under the Disaster Management. While specific security issues of commercial applications are well understood and regulated by widely applied standards, increasing share of information systems are developed partly or entirely in a different way, by the community. In this paper different issues of the open development style will be discussed regarding the high requirements of Critical Information Infrastructures, and possible countermeasures will be suggested for the identified problems.
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Scott, Judith Herbert. "Role of Community College Department Chairs in Faculty Development." Community College Review 18, no. 3 (December 1990): 12–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009155219001800304.
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Shannon, Laura. "Civil service, 2017." Administration 66, no. 1 (February 1, 2018): 9–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/admin-2018-0002.
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Abstract With the election of a new Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, TD, in June 2017, a number of changes were made to government departments. A new Department of Rural and Community Development was established, taking functions from the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (renamed the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht), and from the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (renamed the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government). The employment brief was moved to the Department of Social Protection to create the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. Finally, the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation was renamed the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation.
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Ariawantara, Putu Aditya Ferdian. "Peran Broadband Learning Center dalam community development." Masyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik 30, no. 2 (June 14, 2017): 162. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/mkp.v30i22017.162-173.
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Answering the need of non-formal education or courses that reach all levels of society in the field of information and communication technology (ICT), the Government of Surabaya through the Department of Communications and Information Technology has developed Broadband Learning Center (BLC). BLC plays significant role in community development Surabaya since they provide media for public to choose training program which they can register independently or in groups training for free. This study aims to describe the framework in BLC as the implementation of e-governance performed by Government of Surabaya and to explore the role of BLC in community development process in achieving e-governance. The method used by researcher is qualitative approach with descriptive research type, focusing on Department of Communications and Information Technology, BLC Rumah Bahasa, BLC Taman Prestasi and BLC Taman Flora. This research reveals that BLC is facilitated with openness service to IT and various courses to enhance capacity and capability to utilize computer, and to increase public participation in using IT based program.
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Mathieson, W. E., and T. A. Winters. "COMMUNITY CONSULTATION IN DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS." APPEA Journal 38, no. 2 (1998): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj97086.
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The management of community consultation is a critical step in achieving timely Government approval for projects and laying the foundation for sound long-term relationships between local communities and project developers. The benefits of good relationships with local communities will flow on to Government support for the project, employee relations, service from local suppliers, and supportive neighbours. Both Government and project proponents are increasingly recognising the value of public participation in the environmental assessment of projects-it makes good business sense.The Queensland Government guidelines state that an appropriate public participation program is essential to the full conduct of the impact assessment (Department of Family, Youth and Community Care). This paper considers the issues involved in developing an appropriate community consultation program and looks specifically at the program adopted by BHP for the assessment of a proposed ammonium nitrate plant near Moura in Central Queensland. The BHP program was commended by the Department of Family, Youth and Community Care as a best practise example for other similar industrial projects.There is, however, community consultation and community consultation. The ammonium nitrate project was near a town which had suffered serious population decline and associated loss of services and infrastructure standards over the last decade. The town had also recently experienced major trauma as a result of the Moura underground mine tragedy in 1994.The social environment was in marked contrast to the environment of other projects which BHP had recently been involved in, such as the Minerva gas development project near Port Campbell in Victoria. Where the major focus of Minerva community consultation had been to address community concern about the environmental effects of the project and the impact of industrial development on the inherent lifestyle values of the area; the Moura community consultation program focussed on direct impacts on immediate neighbours and water resources, while the broader community debate was about employment opportunity, rebuilding the resources of the local community, and what can we do to make sure this project goes ahead?Whether the community supports industrial development or otherwise, community consultation is still an essential element of project planning. The issues will vary enormously from community to community-the focus will not always be on green issues. The key is to listen generously to the community and respond in a manner that genuinely recognises and addresses its particular issues.
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Habis, Arie, and Kristine Cieslak. "Development of a QI Program Within a Community Pediatric Emergency Department." Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine 20, no. 3 (September 2019): 100725. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpem.2019.100725.
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Townsend, Elizabeth. "Strategies for Community Occupational Therapy Program Development." Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy 54, no. 2 (April 1987): 65–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000841748705400204.
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Occupational therapists who wish to see services expand in community settings must be prepared to take an active role in program development. The article examines 12 program development strategies which are illustrated using the experience of developing a rural program in a social service system. Community occupational therapy services in Prince Edward Island were initially developed, from 1977 to 1979, by a small group of occupational therapists. The group obtained Federal Welfare Demonstration Grant funding for a pilot project which was administered by the provincial Department of Social Services. In 1979, the Prince Edward Island Provincial Government approved ongoing funding for an Island-wide community occupational therapy service.
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Friedman, Susan Krug. "A community-based strategy for department stores." American Journal of Business 34, no. 3/4 (November 15, 2019): 118–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ajb-05-2018-0025.
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Purpose Over the years, department stores have dealt with unique challenges, including massive changes in city and then suburban landscapes and shopping patterns, shifts in consumer preferences, and, more recently, electronic commerce. The purpose of this paper is to discuss additional community-oriented marketing approaches for department stores. Design/methodology/approach The approach looks at the role of traditional department stores in communities and their economic impact and uses ideas from a variety of community-based mobile services, including medical, food and library outreach. Findings The findings are that the importance of physical retailers such as department stores to a community deserves further consideration by civic and business leaders and that a variety of services and products have been successfully marketed in communities through additional approaches such as mobile units. Social implications The approaches presented could enhance community development. Originality/value While department stores have held distinctive places in many cities, these enterprises lack the type of regional fan base that advocates actively for other kinds of industries. A community-oriented marketing approach for department stores is discussed, with ideas for future research that could build on these stores’ special brand attributes and on their contributions to the viability of an area.
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Niegocki, Kathleen L., Emily M. Mastroianni, Erica J. Hurley, Mathias M. Green, Lawrence H. Gerstein, David R. Richardson, and Damita A. Miller. "Making the Social Justice Connection: Development of a Community Resource Guide." Journal for Social Action in Counseling & Psychology 4, no. 2 (October 1, 2012): 41–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/jsacp.4.2.41-58.
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This article describes a project developed by counseling and counseling psychology students enrolled in a Social Justice in Counseling Psychology course. The purpose of the project, a course assignment, was to integrate knowledge of social justice principles, theories, and strategies into a tangible effort to promote social justice within our community. This project entailed the creation of a community resource guide to be used by our department’s training clinic, which provides low-cost psychological services to community residents. The contexts in which the project was undertaken, including the course, department, and training clinic, are described. The development and implementation of the project are explained with emphasis on how the project was guided by a definition of social justice and by principles of advocacy and empowerment. The current status of the project is also discussed. Finally, the strengths and limitations of the project are presented and general reflections on the process of student engagement in social justice are offered.
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El-Askari, Galen, Julie Freestone, Chicky Irizarry, Karen L. Kraut, Susan T. Mashiyama, Mary Anne Morgan, and Sheryl Walton. "The Healthy Neighborhoods Project: A Local Health Department's Role in Catalyzing Community Development." Health Education & Behavior 25, no. 2 (April 1998): 146–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/109019819802500204.
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Studies show that community development approaches to health education may lead not only to improved social, economic, and health status but also to increased individual participation in health education and preventive health care activities. However, because of categorical funding restraints and philosophical issues, local health departments have rarely given control of defining project outcomes to the community. One such project was in a low-income urban neighborhood in the San Francisco Bay Area. In this Healthy Neighborhoods Project, the health department catalyzed community development and organization in a multiethnic public housing complex. As a result, an empowered community successfully advocated to improve public safety by installing street speed humps and increased street lighting. After project completion, residents initiated several additional health actions, including the removal of a neighborhood tobacco billboard. This article describes the project, which may serve as a model for other urban public health programs to explore their role in community empowerment.
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Yen, Joyce, Eve A. Riskin, Cara Margherio, Jan H. Spyridakis, Coleen M. Carrigan, and Ana Mari Cauce. "Promoting gender diversity in STEM faculty through leadership development." Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 38, no. 3 (April 15, 2019): 382–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/edi-09-2017-0181.
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PurposeThe advancement of equity, diversity and inclusion in higher education is dependent on institutional culture changes in academia. Faculty equity, diversity and inclusion efforts must engage departmental leadership. The purpose of this paper is to describe the growth and expansion of the ADVANCE leadership program at the University of Washington (UW) for department chairs that was designed to provide department chairs the skills, community and information needed to be agents of change within the academy.Design/methodology/approachThe paper chronicles the program’s growth from a campus-based workshop program to national workshops (LEAD) to a web-based toolkit (LiY!) to support institutions in running their own UW ADVANCE-inspired leadership workshops.FindingsThe paper demonstrates the success of each growth stage and the expansion of program impact.Practical implicationsThe paper offers recommendations for growing a model from a local to national scale and adapting the described leadership development model at other institutions.Originality/valueThe paper shares a successful model for equipping department chairs to be advocates of gender equity, diversity and inclusion in STEM and to be change agents in higher education.
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Saurabha US and Purushottam Giri. "COVID-19 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)." International Healthcare Research Journal 4, no. 5 (August 18, 2020): 102–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.26440/ihrj/0405.08001.
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Guest Editorial By Dr. Saurabha US (Consultant Epidemiologist, IDSP Unit, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Delhi, India)and Dr. Purushottam Giri (Professor & Head, Department of Community Medicine, IIMSR Medical College, Badnapur Dist. Jalna, Maharashtra, India)
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Levkoe, Charles Z., Abigail Friendly, and Amrita Daniere. "Community Service-Learning in Graduate Planning Education." Journal of Planning Education and Research 40, no. 1 (January 30, 2018): 92–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739456x18754318.
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Community service-learning (CSL) has gained popularity over the past decades in universities across North America. Although planning programs tend to involve more graduate-level community-engaged learning than other professional disciplines, learning outcomes have not been sufficiently examined. Based on a review of existing literature and analysis from four years of a CSL course at the University of Toronto’s Department of Geography and Planning, this article describes the implications of CSL for graduate planning education. We argue that CSL in graduate planning programs has a series of unique characteristics and thus requires distinctive pedagogical approaches.
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Netley, Jared, William Armstrong, and Sarah Meeks. "Implementation of order sets for opioid alternatives in community hospital emergency departments." American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy 77, no. 15 (June 30, 2020): 1258–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajhp/zxaa166.
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Abstract Purpose The design and implementation of alternatives to opioids (ALTO) order sets for the treatment of acute pain in a community health system’s emergency departments are described. Summary Healthcare institutions nationwide have incorporated policies and procedures to assist prescribers in the safe and effective management of pain. These adopted approaches may be targeted at mitigating opioid prescribing as well as promoting the optimization of nonopioid analgesics. Institutions that enact innovations and track outcomes may be eligible for reimbursement through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Merit-based Incentive Payment System. Emergency departments may monitor implementation progress and outcomes through participation in the American College of Emergency Physician’s Emergency Quality Network. Clinical pharmacists were tasked with assisting an institution’s emergency departments to create and implement two order sets containing ALTO analgesics and supportive medications for atraumatic headache and general acute pain management. Key steps of order set implementation included collaborative development with emergency department providers, implementation with information services, and the development of provider-focused education by project pharmacists. The implementation of ALTO order sets has set the foundation for expansion of pain control protocols and algorithms within our institution. Furthermore, the approach detailed in this article can be adapted and implemented by other healthcare systems to help reduce opioid prescribing. Conclusion The implementation of ALTO order sets within an electronic health record can encourage decreased prescribing of opioids for the treatment of acute pain, promote and optimize dosing of nonopioid analgesics, and may augment reimbursement for services in the emergency department.
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Tan, Kim. "A Professional Development Course in Australian Indigenous ESL Teaching." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 28, no. 1 (December 2000): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s132601110000123x.
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The impetus for developing this course came from a consultancy agreement with the Northern Territory Department of Education in 1998 to develop a program to address the special needs of teachers in Aboriginal community schools.
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Azfahanee, Zakaria, and Kamarudin Ngah. "ROLE OF MOSQUE LEADERS AND ITS IMPACT TOWARDS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: A STUDY IN KEDAH." International Research Journal of Shariah, Muamalat and Islam 2, no. 3 (March 15, 2020): 52–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.35631/irjsmi.23005.
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Leaders are people who influence and direct activities of a group of followers the intended achievement. However, this can only be done if the leaders are aware of and fully understand their role. This study aims to understand the depth of the reader's understanding of their role and its impact on community building. This research adopts a qualitative study where twelve mosque leaders and four officers from the Islamic Religious Department would share their views. The findings of the research would then be used as a guide for the Islamic Religious Department to further be enhanced on the selection process and training which need to be drawn for mosque leaders to build a strong community.
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Behringer, Bruce, Micky Roberts, and Chelsea J. Ridley. "Promoting Statewide Quality Improvement in Tobacco Use Prevention Through Longitudinal Health Promotion Training for Tennessee County Health Departments." Pedagogy in Health Promotion 5, no. 1 (April 23, 2018): 45–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2373379918760636.
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Professional development in health promotion is fundamental to conduct effective multiyear community-based health promotion programs to address tobacco use. Provided with $15 million over 3 years in new resources from the United States’ Master Tobacco Settlement Agreement, the Tennessee Department of Health organized a longitudinal staff development effort for 95 county health departments using an experiential pedagogy. Through statewide WORKshops, standardized plans, electronic reporting, use of logic modeling, social and behavior theory, and public health terminology were introduced and emphasized. A summative county evaluation document, entitled the Community Health Improvement Plan Against Tobacco Use (CHIPATU), was part of the experiential approach. The report was completed by health department officials from these 95 counites. This report documented tobacco use problem statements, county investments of Tobacco Settlement funds, strategy and project descriptions, and local changes in statewide outcome measures in three focused areas: reducing pregnancy smoking, reducing secondhand smoke exposure for young children, and reducing youth tobacco use initiation. The CHIPATU became a capstone evaluation document that reinforced county-based responsibility for assessment, goal setting, intervention planning, implementation, application of continuous improvement tools, and results. A statewide summary of 3 years’ efforts and outcomes from the 95 county CHIPATUs was included in the state Health Commissioner’s annual budget presentation for the Governor and General Assembly. The results documented the efficacy of the Department’s primary prevention programs, supported by staff development in use of health promotion approaches, to address long-standing public health issues.
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Hill, Carole. "Levels of Training and Research: Community Health Development in Costa Rica." Practicing Anthropology 9, no. 2 (April 1, 1987): 4–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.9.2.047q4817p03p1842.
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An international program for research and training was initiated by my department in Costa Rica in 1982. The program's main objectives are: (1) through problem-solving research, to discover health problems in coastal communities in the Limon Province and, (2) through collaboration with health officials to work toward solving these health problems. The original purpose of the program was to provide students with an international applied field experience in the area of applied medical anthropology. Over the past three years, however, it has expanded to provide a training site for graduate students to become involved in community development issues other than health.
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Aragon, Aurora, Rodolfo Pena, Leif Svanström, and Åke Thörn. "Development of a Community Intervention Programme on Miners' Health and Working Environment in Nicaragua." Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine 16, no. 4 (December 1988): 237–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/140349488801600410.
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Since 1983, a broad research and development programme has been carried out with the support of Sweden through the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation in Developing Countries (SAREC). One of the medical research and development projects deals with the environment and state of health of the population of an entire village, and is referred to as the Abdon Vega project. It is pursued by the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of the University of León, Nicaragua, with the support of the Department of Social Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. The project comprises two stages. The first one centres on the state of health of the workers and the mining environment. This article reports on the objectives of the project and the study area. It presents experience from the development work up to now and the difficulties encountered.
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Edelstein, Stefán. "The Development and Structure of the Icelandic Community Music Schools." British Journal of Music Education 4, no. 3 (November 1987): 273–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265051700006136.
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In spite of its small population, scattered over a wide and largely rural area, Iceland has developed an extensive and exciting infrastructure of music education through a large number of local Music Schools. Although such schools have existed for fifty years, it is only within relatively recent times that the system has been able to be developed to its present extent. Expansion has been made possible through the collaboration of state and local authorities which between them cover all tuition costs. However, the scheme is once again threatened by cuts in funding so that, currently, no increase in student enrolment is possible. The author, who is Head of the Department of Music Education at Reykjavik College of Music, describes the history and development of the Music Schools and gives some interesting statistics of the national and regional take-up of this important music-education provision.
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Turner, Richard, and Glenn Roberts. "The Worcester Development Project." British Journal of Psychiatry 160, no. 1 (January 1992): 103–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.160.1.103.
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“The philosophy of Community Care has resulted in the closure of several mental hospitals in this country. The ethos of the Worcester Development Project saw the closure of St Wulstan's and Powick Hospitals, and their replacement by a community-based service. This paper briefly describes the outcome of a three-year retrospective study completed in 1988 following the closure of both hospitals. The findings provide a comparison of the two hospitals, including details of the destination of all the patients. It is suggested that the term ‘hospital replacement’ might be preferable to ‘hospital closure’.”“The Worcester Development Project began in 1968 when the Department of Health and Social Security brought together the Worcester and Kidderminster Hospital Management Committee and the County Council in a co-ordinated joint planning venture. Powick Hospital was chosen as the location for testing the hypothesis that closing a mental hospital and replacing it with general hospital psychiatric units, supported by a variety of community facilities, would provide a more economical and better service. This paper describes the outcome of this unique opportunity to study the problems involved in closing a mental hospital and its replacement with other facilities.”
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Roe, Dilys. "Has biodiversity fallen off the development agenda? A case study of the UK Department for International Development." Oryx 47, no. 1 (January 2013): 113–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0030605312000543.
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AbstractSince the early 2000s increasing attention has been paid to the relationship between biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction and a debate has ensued over various aspects of this relationship. One element of this debate has been concerned with an apparent lack of attention to biodiversity conservation on the international development agenda following the prioritization of poverty reduction. This paper explores whether this lack of attention is real or perceived by reviewing changes in biodiversity policy within the UK Department for International Development (DFID). It is clear that attention to biodiversity within DFID policy has changed significantly over time. There was strong support for wildlife conservation until the 1990s, including technical assistance, funding for integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs), and community-based conservation. By the 2000s, however, the main focus had switched from funding wildlife conservation to mainstreaming biodiversity concerns into development policy. The degree to which the explicit focus on poverty reduction that emerged in the late 1990s drove this change is debatable. Changes in aid architecture, UK politics and clearer differentiations between the roles of DFID and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in addressing biodiversity concerns have also shaped DFID's policy. Meanwhile, the political traction afforded to climate change demonstrates that it is possible for environmental issues to sit alongside poverty reduction in international development policy. However, communicating the societal implications of biodiversity loss has proved to be more challenging than for climate change. Better understanding of the mechanisms by which development assistance is disbursed would help the conservation community identify key opportunities for engagement.
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Quinn, Bríd. "Local government, 2017." Administration 66, no. 1 (February 1, 2018): 17–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/admin-2018-0003.
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Abstract Another year, another minister, another renaming of the department! Changes to the cabinet in June 2017 included the appointment of Eoghan Murphy, TD, as Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, and John Paul Phelan, TD, as Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government with Special Responsibility for Local Government and Electoral Reform. Further functional realignment also took place: community functions were transferred to the newly created Department of Rural and Community Development and, at the end of 2017, responsibility for motor taxation was transferred to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. Thus, the centralisation of functions traditionally associated with local government continues.
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Muniba Nafees, Muhammad Zubair, and Abdullah. "Joint Forest Management Rules: Law and Practice in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa." sjesr 4, no. 1 (March 6, 2021): 268–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.36902/sjesr-vol4-iss1-2021(268-277).
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The study’s main aim was to provide an in-depth insight into the Community Participation (also called Joint Forest Management or JFM) Rules enforced by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in 2004 to reform the KP Environment Department from a “policing model” to a participatory one. It sought to find out; whether the JFM rules are followed in letter and spirit or the environment department of the province is still using age-old policies without involving the local communities in the management of forests. The study has uncovered the departmental and bureaucratic constraints towards the JFM Rules that stop the department from embarking on a journey towards a more participatory, inclusive, transparent, accountable, and sustainable management as well as development of forest resources. A qualitative research design was selected for this study and data was collected from a sample assembled on quota sampling technique with the quotas of respondents: 10 forest owners (people who have ownership rights in forests. 5 were taken from Malakand Division and 5 from Hazara Division of KP), 10 forest users (people who occasionally or permanently live in or near forests and use its resources in an arrangement with the forest owners. 5 were taken from Malakand and 5 from Hazara again), 10 government officials (5 from the environment department and 5 from the legal fraternity) and finally 10 environmental activists (including 5 female activists). Themes were developed after carrying out semi-structured in-depth interviews using interview guides. One of the major findings of the research were the sweeping and discretionary powers of the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) which hinders the progress of JFM as DFO is not only the final authority on registration of a JFM Committee but can influence various other aspects of community participation and JFM like planning, funding and termination. It was also found that the territorial or protection staff (like Ranger, Forester & Guard) were still calling the shots in a top-down approach instead of a bottom-to-top approach by the mobilization and developmental staff (like Community Development Officer or CDO & Female Forest Extensionist or FFE) despite the JFM Rules. It was revealed that there is a great lack of funds and financial independence of the Directorate of CDEGAD (Community Development, Extension, Gender and Development) which is responsible for implementing community participation and JFM. The directorate staff is mostly financially dependent upon the discretion of the DFO. Even after 16 years, the environment department has not internalized JFM Rules. There was a lack of concern by government top management towards addressing this huge environmental problem of the lack of implementation of JFM despite the recent Billion and 10 Billion Trees "Tsunami" Afforestation Projects with the help of the UN under the Bonn Challenge. A very small number of community members reported that they are participating in the forestry and wildlife activities with the environment department. "Rubber stamp" and "token" participation were reported just to give legal cover to the departmental activities and a photo session for the social media instead of truly real incentive participation to achieve sustainable management and development of forest resources. There is a great if not an organized resistance of the majority of forestry staff to JFM Rules and keep these rules hidden under the carpet to carry on the traditional approach which is harmful for the communities, the department, the forests, and the wildlife in the long run. Lack of implementation of JFM Rules also facilitates corruption. Without local support and knowledge, the poverty in the forest-dependent communities cannot be eradicated. Lessons from Nepal's social forestry should be learned and utilized for KP's JFM. Nevertheless, the recent projects by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf led KP and Federal governments have given environmental activists a great glimmer of hope but the long-term positive results of it will depend upon its continuity by the future governments. The positions of CDOs, Female CDOs, and SOs (Social Organizers) need to be strengthened with legal powers regarding JFM. Several environmental policy and regulation needs were also identified in this study, followed by several recommendations for the environment department, provincial government, and civil society for bold and ambitious community-led forestry and wildlife conservation projects.
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Lochner, Jennifer, Robin Lankton, Kirsten Rindfleish, Brian Arndt, and Jennifer Edgoose. "Transforming a Family Medicine Residency Into a Community-Oriented Learning Environment." Family Medicine 50, no. 7 (July 2, 2018): 518–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.22454/fammed.2018.118276.
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Background and Objectives: Improvement in population health has become a key goal of health systems and payers in the United States. Because 80% of health outcomes are driven by social determinants of health beyond medical care and health care access, such improvements require attention to factors outside of the conventional areas of expertise for clinicians. Yet primary care physicians often graduate from training programs with few skills in population and community health. Methods: In 2011, the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine began transformative work to become a Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH). As part of this effort, educators in the department addressed deficiencies in its residency’s community and population health curriculum by implementing curricular change and faculty development. A set of guiding principles, “Three Community Health Responsibilities for Family Doctors,” was developed to provide background and structure to current and future work. Results: An annual program evaluation survey was administered to faculty and residents between 2012 and 2016. Respondents reported a significant increase in their understanding of population and community health over the prior year in each year this was assessed (P<0.001). Conclusions: Community and population health principles have become part of the fabric of the entire residency curriculum in the DFMCH. Faculty development was a key part of this work and will be integral to sustaining improvements.
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Prasetiyo, Ayub. "Studi Penelusuran Kesesuaian Kurikulum Program Studi Sarjana Seni Musik Terhadap Kebutuhan Dunia Kerja." PROMUSIKA 3, no. 2 (November 22, 2015): 94–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.24821/promusika.v3i2.1697.
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In the past thirty one years, the Music Department of ISI Yogyakarta has contributed to the development of music in Indonesia as the agent of change to build the human resources in the field of Western music. However, there has been no attempt to establish a relationship to the alumni of Music Departmentto provide contributions for the development Music Department of ISI Yogyakarta. Therefore, this research aims to search the Alumni of Music Department of ISI Yogyakarta in the period time of 2002 until 2012 in order to get the profile of the alumni and also to get the feedback on the suitability of the curriculum in Music Department to the needs of the workforce. This research uses qualitative method with descriptive statistical approach. The data collected by simple random sampling with 61 respondents from the alumni of Music Department of ISI Yogyakarta which spread all over Indonesia. The result of this research revealed that the learning process in Music Department of ISI Yogyakarta is able to provide supplies competence to compete in workforce. According to the data most of alumni of Music Department of ISI Yogyakarta are music educators. As a suggestion to meet the work forcerequirement as music educators, there should be additional skill for students (soft skills) such as organizational skills, leadership, oral communication and the experience in community empowerment.
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Wang, Tao. "Study on Strategy for Maritime English Teacher Professional Development Based on E-Learning Community." Applied Mechanics and Materials 321-324 (June 2013): 3069–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.321-324.3069.
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Maritime English is one of the most important specialized courses in the maritime colleges and universities. Both the educational department and the maritime administration authority put forward a high requirement for the teachers. However, the Maritime English teacher professional development is relatively weak in China. For this point, this paper tries to introduce the e-learning community into Maritime English teacher professional development, and propose some ideas for the Maritime English teacher e-learning community in China.
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Amakye, Kingsford Gyasi. "Understanding community development in Sekyere Central District, Ghana." Bandung: Journal of the Global South 4, no. 1 (August 15, 2017): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40728-017-0042-9.
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Community development is fundamentally about the development of community involving a sense of common identity, capacity and purpose. It can take the form of unpaid active citizenship with community members organizing themselves and taking on leadership roles. Community development emphasizes empowerment, equality, social justice, participation and representation. This means that community development is fundamentally concerned with decision-making processes affecting users, community-based agencies and services. It is premised on a ‘bottom-up’ approach, which means enhancing the capacity of communities to determine goals and to pursue issues of importance to them, and to make decisions affecting their lives, for example, the direction of services and the allocation of funds. In Ghana, governments under the various regimes, the community members themselves, and NGOs have promoted the CD practice in several ways since independence in 1957. Preceding governments in Ghana through the Department of Community Development have played a central role in the exercise of CD work. Community development has not been thoroughly investigated in SCDA. This paper gives a clear understanding of CD in SCDA. This paper seeks to assess how the local communities take part in the siting, planning and implementation of development projects in their communities. Further it explores community development projects in the district and how projects are financed in the district. Finally, investigates the obstacles that impede the realization of community development process. This paper was carried out using a mixed method approach. Four area councils in SCDA were randomly selected for this work. These were taken from a total of 10 different local communities spread across the four area council. The study reveals that facilities in terms of education, health, potable water, roads rehabilitation, sanitation and rural electrification have improved tremendously (Fieldwork 2015). The study recommends that policies should be geared towards agriculture to improve the lives of the people in the district since the district is agrarian in nature.
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Snider, Carolyn E., Maritt Kirst, Shakira Abubakar, Farah Ahmad, and Avery B. Nathens. "Community-based Participatory Research: Development of an Emergency Department-based Youth Violence Intervention Using Concept Mapping." Academic Emergency Medicine 17, no. 8 (July 29, 2010): 877–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00810.x.
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Adams, John D. "The Berea College Mission to the Mountains: Teacher Training, The Normal Department, and Rural Community Development." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 110, no. 1 (2012): 33–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/khs.2012.0005.
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Beekman, Litha. "Taking hands with a farm-school community in a career development project with a university department." Education as Change 14, sup1 (December 2010): S57—S64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16823206.2010.517925.
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Lim, Czer Anthoney Enriquez, Julie Oh, Erick Eiting, Catherine Coughlin, Yvette Calderon, and Barbara Barnett. "Development of a combined paediatric emergency department and observation unit." BMJ Open Quality 9, no. 1 (January 2020): e000688. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2019-000688.
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BackgroundRecent trends towards more cost-efficient and patient-centred treatment are converging to provide opportunities to improve the care of children. Observation units are hospital areas dedicated to the ongoing evaluation and management of patients for a brief period of time for well-defined conditions. We describe the implementation of a paediatric observation unit (POU) adjacent to a paediatric emergency department (PED) in an urban, academic, community hospital.MethodsStaffing models were designed to provide paediatric services to patients in both the PED and POU. Admission criteria, workflow and transfer guidelines were developed. Quality improvement initiatives were undertaken and evaluated. Unit throughput, patient outcomes and patient satisfaction data were collected and analysed.ResultsOver a 2-year period, there were 24 038 patient visits to the PED. Of these, 1215 (5.1%) patients required admission. Seven hundred and seventy-seven (64.0%) of these children were admitted to the POU. One hundred and nineteen (15.3%) of these patients were subsequently converted to inpatient hospitalisation. The average length of stay (LOS) was 25.7 hours in 2017 and 26.5 hours in 2018. Ten patients returned to the PED within 72 hours of discharge from the POU and four were readmitted. Patient satisfaction scores regarding ‘likelihood to recommend’ improved from the 36th to the 92nd percentile rank over a 1-year period. Close monitoring of patient outcomes allowed for the adjustment of admission guidelines, increased unit census and optimised utilisation.ConclusionA combined PED-POU has been successful at our institution in meeting benchmark goals set for LOS and conversion rates. In addition, quality improvement interventions increased patient census and improved patient satisfaction scores while reducing the inpatient burden on the referring children’s hospital.
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Factor, Stephanie H., Sandro Galea, Lucia Garcia de Duenas Geli, Megan Saynisch, Suzannah Blumenthal, Eric Canales, Michael Poulson, Mary Foley, and David Vlahov. "Development of a “Survival” Guide for Substance Users in Harlem, New York City." Health Education & Behavior 29, no. 3 (June 2002): 312–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/109019810202900304.
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The community advisory board (CAB) of the Harlem Urban Research Center, which includes community service providers, Department of Health workers, and academics, identified substance users’health as an action priority. The CAB initiated the development of a wellness guide to provide informational support for substance users to improve access to community services. Focus groups of current and former users engaged substance users in the guide development process and determined the guide’s content and “look.” Focus group participants recommended calling this a “survival” guide. The guide will include three sections: (a) health information and how to navigate the system to obtain services, (b) a reference list of community services, and (c) relevant “hot-line” numbers. The design will incorporate local street art. Substance users continue to shape the guide through ongoing art workshops. Dissemination and evaluation of the guide will continue to involve substance users, community service providers, and academics.
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Sugianto, Sugianto, Leliya Leliya, and Ubaidillah Ubaidillah. "TATA KELOLA ANGGARAN DESA YANG BERSUMBER APBN DALAM RANGKA MEWUJUDKAN PEMBANGUNAN MASYARAKAT PINGGIRAN BERBASIS PEMERATAAN PEMBANGUNAN PEDESAAN DALAM PERSPEKTIF NAWA CITA (STUDI KASUS DI WILAYAH CIAYUMAJAKUNING)." Yustitia 4, no. 1 (April 20, 2018): 79–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.31943/yustitia.v4i1.28.
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Rural development in an integral part of regional development and national development as an effort to improve the quality of community’s life. The implementation of this rural development program is very important in the context of national development because rural areas occupy the largest portion in the entire country. The purpose of this study was to find out the village budget management sourced from the state budget in order to realize rural community development based on rural development in the perspective of Nawa Cita and the role of the village government in running the Nawa Cita program on peripheral community development on village government budget management based on people’s interest in order to realize equitable development.
This study used a qualitative approach in order to investigate and understand the phenomena such as what happens, why it happens, and how it happens while understanding a social situation, events, and interaction roles. Data collection was carried out by conducting interview with the Head of BPMPD Department of Cirebon Regency, the Head of BPMPD Department of Kuningan Regency, the Head of BPMPD Department of Majalengka Regency and the Head of BPMPD Department of Indramayu Regency and all village heads in Cirebon, Indramayu, Majalengka, and Kuningan Regions. As well as the data were obtained from the documents in regency, disctrict, and village.
The result of this study showed that village as the frontline of the development has strategic role in the success of the Nawa Cita Program. The village budget management is based on the principle of transparency, accountability, participatory, efficient, effective, orderly and budgetary discipline by paying attention to the justice principles, propriety and benefits for the village community. The implementation of activities in the APBD is carried out by the implementing team consisting of the elements from village apparatus and community institutions and supervised by the BPD, at the end of each fiscal year the Village Head has the obligation to submit a village government management report (LPPD) to the regional head through sub-district head and submit information to the LPPD to the BPD.
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Masykuri, Nurul Candrasari. "Peran Public Relation Tak Sekedar Fungsi Teknis." Humaniora 2, no. 1 (April 30, 2011): 353. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/humaniora.v2i1.3024.
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Article explored many functions of Public Relations (PR). It is one department in an organization that is responsible for matters relating to community relations and has responsibility for the company image. PR is also responsible for inter-departmental relationships that exist within the organization. So, not only outward, but inward. PR bridges all the problems that occur between departments. In maintaining and improving the quality of image, PR will create a lot of programs to promote the company to the center of the community. The essence of PR must prepare and obtain more data concerning these trends through surveys, research, and observation in the intensive and continuous. The function of PR is essential in every point of planning and corporate development. PR should know the effects of packaging a product that will be offered to customers which will become regular customers of these products. In fact, a PR should be able to maintain such image what would happen if the packaging is yellow and what effect if replaced by a red color.
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Hassan, Mohammad Mujaheed, and Aldrin Abdullah. "The Barriers and Ideas of Improvement to Community Oriented Policing (COP) Development and Implementation in Malaysia. Case Study: Pulau Pinang, Malaysia." International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention 5, no. 5 (May 25, 2018): 4720–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsshi/v5i5.12.
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Malaysia has adopted a method of policing, which is similar to the British’s Neighborhood Policing Teams (NPTs) called as Community-Oriented Policing (COP) in Malaysia. Community-oriented policing has been introduced to create a safer living environment. This concept is based on a partnership between police department and the communities, in which both parties will share the responsibility to identify, reduce, eliminate and prevent problems concerning community safety and order. Therefore, the spirit of community empowerment, smart ship, and interdependency between all stakeholders, including community, police, NGOs, and other interested parties are very much needed in this country through active and passive ways.
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Riordan, Sharon, Helen Smith, and Martin Humphreys. "Alternative Perceptions of Statutory Community Aftercare: Patient and Responsible Medical Officer Views." International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law, no. 7 (September 8, 2014): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.19164/ijmhcl.v0i7.348.
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The need for more effective means of caring for mentally disordered individuals in the community has been given a prominent place by the Department of Health. The inclusion of user perspectives in mental health care research, to inform and improve the development of services, has also been given a high priority and the necessity of incorporating patients’ and carers’ views has been recognised by the Department of Health in the National Service Framework for Mental Health published in 1999. Studies incorporating both the service user and professional viewpoints of statutory community care have been relatively sparse. This study, looking at the process of conditional discharge of restricted hospital order patients sought the views on the benefits, deficits and recommendations for change from those people providing and receiving statutory community aftercare. The findings may assist in any future review of the Mental Health Act, policy development and in the planning and delivery of psychiatric services to other groups of severely mentally ill people.
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Ahmad, Syarbaini, Khirul Nizam Ab Rahman, Mokmin Basri, and Noor Azli Mohamed Masrup. "Development of Mobile Fatwa Application for the Selangor State of Mufti Department." International Research Journal of Electronics and Computer Engineering 4, no. 1 (March 30, 2018): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.24178/irjece.2018.4.1.07.
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Fatwa is an important reference of Muslims to seek of contemporary explanations regarding the Islamic law on new matters in their life affairs. It is the opinion of the scholars authoritative as mufti or related posts given mandate by the government to proclaim it as a guide to Muslims according to their waqi'. However, it is not widely accessed by the community to be guided in their lives. This e-fatwa application development initiative is intended to help facilitate information on fatwa disseminated to the public. It will be developed based on android mobile operating system since it is very popular and widely used in the current technology. The method of development of this apps is through comparison with other existing applications before provide a new and improve our own apps. Then it will assess the effectiveness of functionality of the apps from the perspective of the end user. The target user of this apps is for Muslims and specifically to Selangor state in Malaysia.
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Holloway, Frank. "Caring for People: a critical review of British Government policy for the community care of the mentally ill." Psychiatric Bulletin 14, no. 11 (November 1990): 641–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.14.11.641.
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The development of ‘community care’ for the elderly, mentally ill, mentally handicapped and physically disabled has been Government policy in Britain since the 1950s. Problems with implementation of this policy led the Audit Commission (1986) to conclude that “the one option that is not tenable is to do nothing about present financial, organisational and staffing arrangements”. Sir Roy Griffiths was commissioned to review “the way funds are used to support community care policy …”. Radical solutions were proposed and subsequently incorporated in the Government White Paper Caring for People (Department of Health, 1989a). However, two very significant measures were not accepted: the ‘ring-fencing’ of community care monies and the creation of a ministerial post within the Department of Health with specific responsibility for community care.
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Seyb, Ron. "Nixon's Administrative Presidency Revisited: Aberration or Watershed?" Journal of Policy History 4, no. 3 (July 1992): 249–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898030600006370.
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On 5 January 1973, one month after his reelection to a second term, Richard Nixon described for Congress a major restructuring of his cabinet and White House staff. Nixon began by emphasizing his determination to “revitalize and streamline the Federal Government in preparation for America's third century,” a reference to his effort of the preceding two years to replace seven domestic executive departments and several agencies with four “superdepartments”: a Department of Natural Resources, a Department of Community Development, a Department of Economic Affairs, and a Department of Human Resources. The failure of Congress to report out of committee any of the four bills Nixon submitted in March 1971 to create these superdepartments was now prompting the president to act unilaterally to “reorder … the timeworn and in many cases obsolete relationships among top staff and line officials” in an effort to realize “the broadening of policy perspectives on the part of top managers and advisers” and improvements in “managerial effectiveness” he had hoped to achieve through comprehensive reorganization of the executive branch.
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Clash, Thomas W., and John B. Delaney. "New York State’s Approach to Asset Management: A Case Study." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1729, no. 1 (January 2000): 35–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1729-05.
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The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) has undertaken an effort to design and implement an asset management system for overseeing the state’s diverse and complex transportation system. The department has built an appropriate organizational and business foundation for the effective use of sound, integrated databases and technical modeling tools. For more than a decade, well before asset management attracted interest from the transportation community, NYSDOT has advanced this concept on four fronts: developing well-defined organizational roles within a highly decentralized department; designing and implementing a formal and disciplined core business procedure (the program update process) to cover both program development and performance monitoring; developing key transportation management systems (pavement, bridge, congestion and mobility, and public transportation), even without a federal mandate; and designing and implementing a state-of-the-art automated program and project management system that serves, in part, to integrate the department’s use of the individual management systems and maintains all essential data for developing and managing the program. New York’s experience strongly suggests that despite the difficulty and time required to carry out the key processes, these four elements represent the heart of an asset management system. When identifying and developing additional technical elements, state departments of transportation should heed the importance of building and maintaining an effective organizational and business foundation.
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Bashir, Siraj, and Nasreen Aslam Shah. "Community Development Programs For Socio-Economic Development In Pakistan." Pakistan Journal of Applied Social Sciences 6, no. 1 (September 8, 2017): 131–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjass.v6i1.314.
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Community development program is defined as the set of programs and policies designed to improve the socio-economic condition and also use the existing resources in better way. It is an organized process where member’s efforts of a community can be joined with the collaboration of government departments and non-governmental organizations to improve and evolve community socially, economically and culturally. In Pakistan, the first community development program was introduced in 1951 with the establishment of pilot project in Karachi, by the federal government. Since 1951 till today various community development programs have been implemented by government and non-government organizations (NGOs) to improve the living standard of people. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the impact and contribution of community development programs for socio-economic development in Pakistan. The research study endeavored to analyze the social and economical impacts of these programs on the communities where the programs were implemented. The study included interviews with government officials, NGOs staff and beneficiaries in the field. The findings of study shows that programs in general have positive impacts and appreciated but a lot of work are needed to be done for the welfare of whole society. The recommendations were made as to the best practices of community development programs for policy makers and NGOs to improve the living standard of people in the country.
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Ahuja, Nirmal, Joanne Sullivan, and Eugene Lengerich. "2285 Patient navigation training: Community-engaged workforce development." Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 2, S1 (June 2018): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cts.2018.295.
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OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: The goal of this initiative was to address this cancer health disparity in the Appalachian counties and help participants develop, implement and evaluate evidence-based “PN” that effectively and positively impacts patient and outcomes of the HealthyWomen Program. Following were the objectives of this training program: (1) To understand the broad range of roles and responsibilities associated with “PN”, including care coordination and case management, in the Pennsylvania HealthyWoman Program in Pennsylvania and the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. (2) To identify and assess local resources and expertise for evidence-based “PN” in the HealthyWoman Program. (3) To utilize “PN” in association with public education and targeted outreach initiatives in the HealthyWoman Program. (4) To implement strategies to manage and evaluate “PN” for the HealthyWoman Program. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: The series of PN training was held at Pittsburgh, Camp-Hill, Wilkes-Barre and Philadelphia during June 2017. In total, 86 participants attended the training program at one of these 4 locations. Attendees represented organizations that provided breast, cervical and colorectal cancer outreach, screening and treatment. The participants of the training were solicited by regional program managers of the HealthyWoman Program of the PA Department of Health. The Harold Freeman model for patient navigation model was used to train the participants on the concepts of patient navigation. The training was built upon the Health Belief Model and Chronic Care Model, which defined the specific program constructs. The curriculum covered 2 important aspects, that is, clinical knowledge related to breast and cervical cancer along with aspects of patient navigation. Participants represented small, and large academic institutions/health care systems, cancer centers, federally qualified health centers, health departments as well as community-based screening programs and organizations. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: A total of 86 participants were trained; 78% had formal education and training in health-related field. In total, 62% of the participants had previous experience of patient navigation; 42% had training in social service related field and 50% had prior experience as community health worker. The demographic details reflected that majority of the participants (94%) were female. Most of the participants (30%) belonged to 50–64 years of age group followed by 30–39 years (23%) and 40–49 years (22%) of age group, respectively. As part of ethnic distribution, 70% of the participants were White Americans followed by Black/African Americans (17%). Furthermore, association of previous training in health and social service field with and without experience as a community health worker (n=84) and Navigator (n=86) was also analyzed. Among the participants, 44% had both community health worker experiences along with a prior training in social service related field whereas 42% of the respondents only had prior social service related training. This association of previous training in social service related field and prior community health worker experience was statistically significant with a p value of <0.05. Additionally, 81% of the participants who had previous experience in health-related training also possessed the prior experience as community health worker. Also, 81% of the participants who had previous training in health-related field also had a prior experience of patient navigation. In all, 38% of the participants who had a previous experience in social service field also had a prior experience of patient navigation. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: The training program established a pool of patient navigators which will contribute towards reducing the cancer health disparity in the Appalachian region of Pennsylvania. The participants reflected a wide diversity in the navigators’ backgrounds and differences across programs in their choices of patient navigators. It is important to consider this diversity when designing curricula materials and the methods of delivery in a patient navigation training program. As PN training programs are developed and implemented, further data is needed to guide practitioners and administrators in their efforts to include separate curriculum and materials for experienced and lay navigators. In addition, it is also important to assess the role and involvement of patient navigators in research and clinical trials. In total, 82% of the participants when asked agreed to be contacted for participation in research studies. Specific curriculum which includes research could be designed for further development of patient navigators. PN training and implementation knowledge is critical to the development of standards and best practices in this emergent area of cancer care.
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Marcos, Luis, M. Rosales, Alexander Rödlach, and John Stone. "Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim and University Researchers: Partnering in Community Health Development." Practicing Anthropology 34, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 37–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.34.1.w8n1x25305v0735l.
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Applied anthropologists value participatory action research (PAR). In 2008, the Society for Applied Anthropology bestowed the 2008 Bronislaw Malinowski Award upon Orlando Fals-Borda, who is best known for developing the theory and methodology of this approach and his leadership in social and political activism on behalf of and with marginalized communities. Fals-Borda argues that PAR encourages value-driven and collaboratively-conducted research that transforms the relationship between marginalized communities and the organizations that serve them so as to improve their socio-political situation (Fals-Borda and Rahman 1991). Comparably, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the US Department of Health and Human Services has recognized the value of community-based participatory research for both researchers and the community being studied (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2004:1). The Agency has emphasized the importance of academic professionals and community members working together in community-based participatory research as equal partners in developing, implementing, and using research findings to improve local health and healthcare. Community-based participatory research and participatory action research share many features.
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Hart, Amy. "“All is Harmony in that Department”." Nova Religio 23, no. 2 (November 1, 2019): 18–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2019.23.2.18.
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Throughout the 1840s, numerous intentional communities based on a cooperative financial model were organized across the United States. Primarily led by social reformers and often based on the writings of French utopian Charles Fourier, these communities acted as a response to social and economic inequity. As part of their challenge to nineteenth-century social conventions, these communities refrained from including any religious test or expectation of religious adherence for members. The result was the development of spaces where new religious movements and diverse religious expressions emerged, sometimes resulting in communal strife. This article argues that diverse religious expressions were cultivated across these communities, if unevenly. The article highlights three case studies in which religious expression proved a central component of communal organization, social harmony, or community discord. These communities include Trumbull Phalanx in Ohio, Northampton Association of Education and Industry in Massachusetts, and Ceresco in Wisconsin.
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Jafari, Nastaran, and Nangkula Utaberta. "Identifying Functional Factor for Developing the Community Centre in Kuala Lumpur." Applied Mechanics and Materials 747 (March 2015): 141–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.747.141.
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Malaysian community centres in city like the developed countries is too bear the responsibility of providing community facilities to the urban mass. Community centre is one of the main social facilities with the purpose of facilitating community interaction and finally, contributing community development in urban areas. The study frames by in-depth interview with the deputy director of urban design, building department and professional expert in urban design project. this study assessed approaches that participations can use to evaluate critical factors for developing the community centres.A city like Kuala Lumpur, wherescarcity of spaces for community gathering and interaction is severe, it is urgent to resolve theproblems and enhance the potentials for ensuring effective and multipurpose uses of thecommunity centres. This research approaches that community centre can be a pole of community development.
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Ariesanti, Alia, Eko Ganis Sukoharsono, Gugus Irianto, and Erwin Erwin Saraswati. "Practice of Sustainability in Higher Education." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 3.25 (August 14, 2018): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.25.17473.
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Higher education have a significant role in supporting the realization of sustainable development, thus forming the concept of the sustainable university. The concept of the sustainable university emphasizes the importance of economic, environmental and social activities conducted by the college. The college is expected to formulate the curriculum, perform research and community service activities with the topic of sustainability. The purpose of this study was to assess the extent of higher education considering the environmental, social and economical in their activities. The respondents of this study are the head of a department in Ahmad Dahlan University, Indonesia. This study uses a mixed method approach. Quantitative data obtained using a questionnaire, then processed by using the compared group statistical test. Qualitative data obtained using interview, then processed by using data reduction, data display and conclusion and verification. The results of this survey suggest that the head of the departments had considered the aspect of sustainability in formulating the curriculum, implementation of research and community service activities. From the three points of the Tridharma, which is learning and curricula, research and community service, the departments give more attention to community service activities.
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Vandergeest, Peter. "Property rights in protected areas: obstacles to community involvement as a solution in Thailand." Environmental Conservation 23, no. 3 (September 1996): 259–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s037689290003887x.
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SummaryConflicts between local people and managers of protected areas (PAs) have often undermined conservation goals in Asia. Since the 1970s, conservation planners have tried to address these problems by incorporating rural development into PA planning. More recently, many conservationists have argued for increasing community involvement in PA management, and for allowing traditional resource uses inside PAs. Based on research in Thailand I make three arguments regarding obstacles to implementing the new approach.In Thailand, laws governing Wildlife Sanctuaries and National Parks enacted in the early 1960s were premised on the idea that human use and nature preservation were incompatible. Rapid expansion of these PAs in recent years has produced endemic conflict with rural people claiming resources inside PAs. To address this problem, the Thai Royal Forestry Department has cooperated with NGOs providing development assistance to rural people living in buffer zones outside of some PAs. I argue that this approach has met limited success because the main source of conflict is not poverty but claims on resources inside PAs.The second argument is that the Forestry Department has resisted changes to laws making local use inside PAs illegal because these laws are important for consolidating the Department's control over territory and in justifying increasing budgetary allocations. In addition, by redefining itself as an organization devoted to strict defence of forests, the Department has obtained the support of many urban environmentalists. The third argument is that the community forest approach taken by a recent draft Community Forest Bill is an important first step in that it implicitly recognizes community property. At the same time, this approach will also fail to address key problems because it is based on a notion of the traditional village, and does not allow for the commercial nature of rural forest use or the household-based nature of forest tenure.I suggest that the new expansion of PAs be halted, that land claimed by rural households be taken out of PAs, and that the government recognize community management rights in areas that remain classified as protected. More generally, the goals of conservation would be better achieved by replacing an approach based on the rapid expansion of PAs with one promoting conservation outside PAs.
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Ni Shuilleabhain, Aoibhinn, and Anthony Cronin. "Maths Sparks: Developing Community and Widening Participation." MSOR Connections 14, no. 1 (September 7, 2015): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.21100/msor.v14i1.250.
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Improving the engagement of university students in wider issues of teaching and learning is now an important driver in higher education. Additionally, widening the participation of those who access higher education is a matter of increasing prominence. In this paper we report on a case study initiative addressing both of these issues in a university mathematics department. Staff and university students collaborated in developing a series of mathematics workshops, called Maths Sparks, for secondary school pupils from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. We report on the development of student-staff community as a result of establishing this programme and discuss the increased engagement and motivation of both university students and secondary pupils participating in the series of activity-based workshops.
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Alnejem, Mohamed, and Mazen Samman. "Ebla Private University –Architecture Department Experience in Reconstruction of Aleppo." Association of Arab Universities Journal of Engineering Sciences 27, no. 3 (September 30, 2020): 48–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.33261/jaaru.2020.27.3.006.
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Based on the principle of activating the role of higher education institutions (HEIs) and their participation in post-crisis reconstruction in Aleppo city, and in response to the recent recommendations of the quality assurance conferences in higher education institutions in terms of adding the third mission of universities which is known as Community Responsibilities (CR), (1.Education, 2.Outputs), which recommends that universities should take their role and assume their responsibilities in providing jobs and community development. Accordingly, the problem lies in the insufficient response of higher education institutions to the needs of current and future communities in various fields for the post-crisis period in the city of Aleppo, and the need to clarify the social responsibility of all concerned bodies, especially, higher education institutions, which require a more effective role for educational institutions in partnership with the local community, through the experience of Ebla private university (EPU) in the reconstruction of Aleppo City. In this frame, Ebla Private University started implementing the strategy of contributing Aleppo reconstruction in the programs that offered by EPU (pharmacy, business administration, informatics, architecture). Focusing was on architecture department as the main concern of the reconstruction process, covering various aspects of the department's educational process (study plans, theoretical research, practical projects, field trips, workshops, graduation projects, specialized seminars....), where EPU contributed to reconstruction in accordance with these axes in varying degrees from 2016 to 2019. By comparing Participation of EPU in reconstruction of different axes before and after the implementation of the reconstruction strategy, we found a remarkable development in an ascending that reflects strong vision of EPU and especially in architecture department to move forward in this way. And showed a clear impact on the various stakeholders involved in the educational process and reconstruction (Students, faculty, decision makers, government institutions, local authorities, municipalities, donors. (.... Finally, a series of results were presented which summarizes the experience of EPU in the studied period, and evaluate it negatively and positively, and put a set of recommendations to the concerned authorities, which is necessary before the start of reconstruction, In the context of emphasizing on the community responsibility of HEIs in partnership with government agencies and other educational institutions working in this field in order to unite efforts and expertise exchange and providing qualified engineers and specialists who will have the main role in implementation of future reconstruction strategies, that linking all stages of reconstruction and various sectors, in parallel with sustainable development, that will help decision-makers and stakeholders to avoid mistakes before, during and after the reconstruction process, this experience will be as practical example and lessons learned, that can be generalized to similar cases at the local, regional or international level in accordance with the specificity of each case