CUSTODIAL AND NON-CUSTODIAL MEASURES The Prison System Criminal justice assessment toolkit 1 UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME Vienna CUSTODIAL AND NON-CUSTODIAL MEASURES The Prison System Criminal Justice Assessment Toolkit UNITED NATIONS New York, 2006 The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations, the Secretariat and Institutions of the
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Chapter One: Introduction 1.1 Introduction A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an organization that is neither a part of a government nor a conventional for-profit business. Usually set up by ordinary citizens, NGOs may be funded by governments, foundations, businesses, or private persons. Some avoid formal funding altogether and are run primarily by volunteers. NGOs are highly diverse groups of organizations engaged in a wide range of activities, and take different forms in different
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Global Business and Management Research: An International Journal Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in India: A Study of Top 500 Companies Richa Gautam and Anju Singh Industrial Safety & Environment Management Group, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), India Abstract Purpose -The purpose of this study is to explore the various definitions and descriptions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); elaborate upon development of CSR in India; study the theoretical concepts
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also – 3 or 4 points on each: Paper P1 Becker Paper P1 BPP • Corporate governance (CG) concepts, underlying • Public sector governance. fundamentals and arrangements. • Integrated reporting. • CG in other organisations (e.g. public sector, NGOs). • Ethical and CSR theories – applied to scenarios. • Types and forms of CG (e.g. rules based, principles based, insider, outsider systems, UK Corporate Governance Code, Paper P1 LSBF SoX). • Governance: • Agency theory, stakeholders, Mendelow
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Bangladesh has one of the most effective SSNPs in South Asia and there has been visible impact on poverty index due to the cohesive implementation of those programmes. Added to those were various programmes undertaken by many non-government organisations (NGO), especially in rural Bangladesh as well as urban slums. However, the absence of comprehensive data makes it difficult to track the expenditure of the SSNPs. World Bank (2006) estimated that during FY1996-97 to FY2004-05 period, on an average, the
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the government will take it into consideration and allocate resources to be used in their next year budget in order to overcome the situation. Transparency and accountability should be constitutional requirements, especially with regard to the national budgetary process. Together with transparency in the entire budgetary process, accountability is at the very
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central government ministries or agencies, semi-autonomous public authorities or corporations, and other authorities such as Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs). Basically decentralisation is the act of distributing power and authority to lower levels of governance. Some of the key aims of decentralisation are; enhanced efficiency and accountability, increased community participation and improved service delivery at lower implementation levels. The need for decentralisation in Africa has been attributed
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Reebok disputes sweatshop claims A News item from Business Respect, Issue Number 85, dated 22 Jul 2005 Reebok has described as 'inaccurate and unfair' accusations by the National Labor Committee that workers at its Honduras factory work in sweatshop condictions. The NLC said that Reebok paid only 19 cents to workers for each $75 jersey produced and suffered other treatment such as required pregnancy testing for women workers, and sought to draw attention to its claims through a demonstration outside
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“Corporate Social Responsibility: A Journey towards sustainability Case Study on Ballarpur Industries Ltd.” in reference to Yamunanagar Plant” *Ms. Shilpa Jain **Mr. Abhishek Tripathi Abstract ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… CSR is not new to India; companies like TATA and BIRLA have been imbibing the case for social good in their operations for decades long before CSR become a popular cause. Inspite of having such life size successful examples, CSR in India is in a
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THE SOLUTION REVOLUTION: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society's Toughest Problems by William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan INTRODUCTION Every single day we experience different problems starting from small scale like traffic congestion in urban cities where we live in or a problem which is of much larger scale like intense rise in temperature due to climate change and global warming. What worries me personally is that a huge number of people express their
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