The learning evaluation accompanied the implementation of the research projects funded under the
SEARCH program for a period of two years to generate lessons about what can be achieved by networking among the research ...
The mMOM project implemented an innovative, integrated mHealth program to improve the maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) of ethnic minority women (EMW) in remote and mountainous areas of Thai Nguyen, Vietnam. EMW’s ...
CHESAI (Collaboration for Health Systems Analysis and Innovation), an HPSR hub that engages practitioners and scholars in collegial inquiry and exchange in the Western Cape, across South Africa, across the African continent ...
Les différentes recherches sur la violence et la criminalité ont montré que l’urbanisation galopante, les inégalités, la pauvreté et les exclusions sont des facteurs ayant engendré des formes d’expressions de la violence ...
Au sortir de la Conférence Habitat II en 1996, il avait été reconnu que la sécurité est un service de base qui devrait bénéficier à tous les citadins, sans distinction aucune. La raison fondamentale derrière cette posture ...
At the close of the Habitat II Conference in 1996, security was recognized as a basic service that should benefit all citizens, without distinction. The fundamental reason behind this stance is the rise of incivility, ...
Homicídios e outras formas de violência permanecem elevadas em contextos de baixa renda no Rio de Janeiro. Enquanto esta violência afeta esmagadoramente os homens jovens, pobres e negros, a relação entre esta violência e ...
IMAGES is one of the most comprehensive studies ever on men’s practices and attitudes as they relate to gender norms, attitudes toward gender equality policies, household dynamics including caregiving and men’s involvement ...
Promoting men’s participation in unpaid care work is part of the Programme of Action for the international Conference on Population and Development. However, men’s involvement in care work does not mirror the advances women ...
Homicide and other forms of violence persist at high levels in Rio de Janeiro. This violence overwhelmingly affects low-income, young black men. Past research has rarely examined the relationship of this violence to gender ...
Briceño Leon, Roberto(Publicaciones de la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB), Caracas-Venezuela, 2016-09)
El artículo realiza un análisis de los cambios ocurridos con la organización del delito en Venezuela, y sostiene que se ha dado una transformación de las tradicionales pandillas depredadoras de sus víctimas, hacia las ...
Owusu, George; Wrigley-Asante, Charlotte; Oteng-Ababio, Martin; Yaa Owusu, Adobea(Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, 2015-08)
The unplanned growth of cities and towns and the expansion of urban populations tend to overstretch the resources of the state not only in terms of services and infrastructure but also of policing services.
Consequently, ...
Langa, Malose; Masuku, Themba; Bruce, David; van der Merwe, Hugo(Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, South AfricaCentre of Criminology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2016-03)
This article discusses the contribution of the Community Work Programme (CWP) to social cohesion, a term that is widely used in post-apartheid South Africa. The article is based on a study that examined the contribution ...
This article deals with the perceived impact of the Community Work Programme (CWP) (a state sponsored job creation project) in preventing crime and violence in the townships of Ivory Park and Orange Farm, South Africa. The ...
The Community Work Programme (CWP) is a public employment programme that provides two days of work per week to unemployed and underemployed people in economically marginalised areas. The CWP aims to be an employment safety ...
Masuku, Themba; Langa, Malose; Bruce, David(Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Braamfontein, South Africa, 2016-04)
In 2011 the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation and the Society, Work and Development Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand published a report entitled The Smoke that Calls based on research ...
L’étude objective des sources et des données ethnographiques montre que la culture dominante dans la zone Ouest africaine, se définit en termes de dialogue, de compromis, de coexistence et de paix. Dans cette zone dont ...
Odalonu, Boris Happy; Eronmhonsele, Job(International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention, 2015-08)
The proclamation of Amnesty Programme in 2009 was seen as a bold step to curb militancy, oil theft and other criminal activities in the Niger Delta. However five years after, the issue of oil theft in the region seems to ...
Imongan, Ernest Omokhoa; Ikelegbe, Augustine(International Organization of Scientific Research (IOSR), 2016-04)
The Niger Delta crisis has been a major threat to both socio-economic activities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The amnesty is now six years since it implementation however, this study seeks to capture the impact ...
Persistence of oil theft in the Niger Delta is due to enshrined and official corruption, a high level of youth unemployment, ineffective and corrupt law enforcement agencies, and collaboration with international crime ...