Civil Society Organisations, Governance and the Caribbean Community

Hinds, Kristina

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“…The findings of this research were based on online surveys distributed to policy makers from GOs (i.e., principal departments, agencies and authorities related to fisheries, maritime affairs, water, environment, disaster management, tourism and waste) and NGOs that directly influence and contribute to environmental type or related policies, throughout the five (5) English-Speaking Windward Islands. Government are the primary decision makers in the Caribbean (Hinds, 2019) and NGOs are becoming increasingly influential in Caribbean society (Mohammed, 2021). This extends to their role in policy negotiations, development and decision-making (World Bank, 1996;Bordelais, 2007;Takahashi et al, 2015).…”

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Proposed solutions for marine debris in the Windward Islands- perspectives from key policy makers and policy influencers

Graham

2023

Front. Mar. Sci.

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With the rise of regionalization and globalized approaches to dealing with the associated sources and impacts of marine debris, it is often a challenge to properly capture the unique context and special needs of small island developing states (SIDS) worldwide. In the SIDS context, locals’ perspectives should have a voice in scientific research, as well as in devising potential solutions, at all and different scales. With the view to tailor solutions for the prevention, reduction and mitigation of marine debris, this research explores the professional opinion of local knowledge holders including policy makers from government organizations (GOs) and key policy influencers in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the five English-Speaking Windward Islands of the Eastern Caribbean. To achieve that objective, surveys were conducted with these two groups in Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. On the causes of the debris problem, the survey revealed that the lack of a proper waste management systems on islands, recycling limitations and inappropriate disposal behaviors of the population are generally thought to be the main contributory factors to the accelerating problem of marine debris. Further, phenomena such as Sargassum influxes, sea level rise and extreme weather events exacerbate the problem including most especially tropical storms and hurricanes. On the recommended solutions, over eighty percent of the participants identified monitoring and policing services as a main constraint that prohibits sound coastal and marine litter handling. Ninety-five percent identified establishing feasible recycling systems and sixty-seven percent identified changing social behaviors (including a combination of product and consumer literacy, disposal habits, compliance with laws and regulations) as national priorities for enabling on-the-ground actions for better coastal and marine litter prevention and reduction going forward. These findings reinforce recently published work which indicates the need for effective solid waste management systems in the Eastern Caribbean for cleaner and healthier oceans. An additional recommendation was proposed to address a major source of the marine litter problem- upstream producers. Furthermore, given the natural events component, this research proposes incorporating the Sendai Framework for disaster risk reduction in future proposed mitigation measures with a view to building the resilience of SIDS and local communities in combating the impacts of marine debris.

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Proposed solutions for marine debris in the Windward Islands- perspectives from key policy makers and policy influencers

Graham

2023

Front. Mar. Sci.

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“…On one hand, the CSOs role is analyzed through economical perspective articulating and organizing through their productive, economic interest and material conditions of existence likewise, CSOs act as a group to reform the state in order to achieve political and judicial equality, claiming their rights to take part in the process of forming the laws, making decisions, formulating public policies and in reforming the state within the current situation. Similarly, its role is seen from the political movements that seek to prevent wide-ranging and comprehensive ethical, political and cultural alternatives to transform the individual communities and the structure of the society as a whole (Hinds, 2019). Thus, the structure, the environment, the value and the impacts are considered to analyze the state of civil society.…”

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“…The public governance improvement in the South pins a lot of hope on the capacity of civil society to hold government accountable. Hasan and Onyx (2008) and Hinds (2019) argue that the CSO as an advocacy group was started to install a democratic government due to fear of communist invasion in the 1990s at one hand. On the other hand, CSOs played a vital role to make the government accountable and monitoring government activities.…”

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Community Based Organization Governance in Nepal

Paudel

2023

Prashasan

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Globally diversity of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) applications raises the curiosity to analyze CSOs’ application in Nepal due to uncoerced collective action around shared interest purposes and values. The study focuses on the analysis of the structure, environment, values and impacts of CSOs to illustrate CSO governance. Based on the four types of Nepalese CSOs- Community Forest Users Groups (CFUGs), Cooperatives, Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), Not-profit Making Organizations and Community Organizations due to the availability of their data. The findings reveal that CSOs have wide coverage and networking throughout the country having voluntary in nature and autonomous in working style. However, their performance is conditioned by the availability of donors’ funds, and elite-captured, begging tools in the name of democratic-value addition except not profit-making CSOs due to individualization of the social members.

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“…Sovereignty";veenendaal & Oostindie (2018), "Head versus Heart";Hinds (2019), Civil Society Organisations Isin & Turner (2007),. "Investigating Citizenship";Koning et al (2015), "Citizenship Agendas in and Beyond the Nation-State";Hinds (2019), Civil Society Organisations.van der Pijl & Guadeloupe (2015), "Imagining the Nation in the Classroom." "The SAMOA Pathway."…”

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Caribbean Cultural Heritage And The Nation. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao in a Regional Context

2023

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Centuries of intense migrations have deeply impacted expressions of cultural heritage on the ABC islands: Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. This volume queries how cultural heritage on these Dutch Caribbean islands relates to the work of nation-building and nation-branding. How does the imagining of a shared political “we” relate to images deliberately produced to market these islands to a world of capital? The contributing authors in this volume address this leading question in their essays that describe and analyze the expressions of the ABC islands. In doing so, they compare and contrast nation-building and branding on the ABC islands to similar practices taking place in the wider Caribbean. The expressions of cultural heritage discussed range from the importance of sports, music, literature, and visual arts to those related to the political economy of tourism, the work of museums, the question of reparations, and the politics and policies affecting the Caribbean Diasporas in the North Atlantic. This volume adds to the understanding of the dynamics of nation, culture, and economy in the Caribbean.

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Civil Society Organisations, Governance and the Caribbean Community

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Proposed solutions for marine debris in the Windward Islands- perspectives from key policy makers and policy influencers

Proposed solutions for marine debris in the Windward Islands- perspectives from key policy makers and policy influencers

Community Based Organization Governance in Nepal

Caribbean Cultural Heritage And The Nation. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao in a Regional Context

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