include charitable and religious associations that mobilize private funds for development, distribute food and family planning services and promote community organization. They also include independent cooperatives, community associations, water-user societies, women’s groups and pastoral associations. Citizen groups that raise awareness and influence policy are also NGOs. It is also defined as an organization established by and for the community without or with little intervention from the government;
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3 Global challenges, need for R&I and economic dimensions of Digital Technology AUTUMN 2013 Copyright © ARTEMIS Industry Association & ITEA Office Association Permission to reproduce any text from this publication for non-commercial purposes is granted, provided that the source is credited. First edition, autumn 2013 www.artemis-ia.eu & www.itea2.org ISBN: 978-90-817213-2-5 5 Preamble This updated document1 is the joint result of the industry represented in the ARTEMIS Industry
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service to graduate from. Many high school students do not know how to have well communication and organization skills, so I think that students have to complete community service hours to graduate, so that they will become responsible members of our society in the future. Community service assignments can teach students to be on time for a service they are providing for. The place that they are doing the service at may be able to teach them a lesson so that they can use it in the future as experiences
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from around the world. With a diverse group of people that brings together different cultures, beliefs, and religion, but what it does not change are the day to day issues that we all deal with. Each community has its fair share of poverty, gangs, drugs and crime. The communities also have people that are wealthy and well off. When looking at the differences one can look at the citizens, poverty level, and the businesses. Some communities are very family oriented and some are college towns where there
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South Asian Studies A Research Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 27, No. 2, July-December 2012, pp.439-458 Role of Civil Society in Empowering Pakistani Women Shehzadi Zamurrad Awan F.C College University ABSTRACT Civil society in Pakistan has been playing its role in social, economic and political empowerment of women. Unfortunately, despite of the emergence of vibrant print/electronic media, wide-spread network of women related non-governmental organizations and the focus of political
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Dreze Griffin Humans in a State of Nature Without an overarching authority, the comfortable life we know today would not be possible. The purpose of government is to protect property rights and to provide for security of its people. In a state of anarchy, this protection and security would be non-existent. This would cause humans to have to provide their own security and protect their own property. The debate on how humans would act under these circumstances was greatly examined by 17th centuries
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公民社会 | CIVIL SOCIETY Design anD social innovation 设计与社会创新 文 Article > 殷雯婷 Yin Wenting 当我们还在纠结于用设计增加商业产品 附加值时， 许多国家已经将设计应用到社 会创新层面来引领社会趋势， 解决社会 问题。 >由 “重要设计” 推出的 “Neonurture” 婴儿保温箱（图片来源： Design that Matters官方网站） 何谓社会创新？ 社会创新（Social Innovation）这一说法， 在 1960年代开始出现， 之后被改革者、 社会学家 等开始讨论。 在21世纪后， 这股风潮已从学术 界吹到了社会， 并开始盛行。 这点我们从政策 决策者的一系列行动中可以看到： 欧盟建立着 重于社会创新的发展策略研究， 美国政府在白 宫建立社会创新办公室。 关 于 社 会 创 新 的 定 义 ，在 欧 洲 委 员 会 （European Commission）的官方网站上将 其定义为 “为更有效地解决社会需求和建立 新的社会关 系或合作的新想法， 这些想法涉 及
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POLITENESS AND INTERACTION I. Introduction As human being, we need to do the interaction with other people. Every interaction will has different sense depend on the people who do it. Particularly, when we talk about linguistic interaction. A linguistics interaction is necessarily a social interaction. Interaction occurs when speaker and listener are active. We will know if there are many factors that relate to social distance and closeness are established prior to an interaction. To get the sense
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brightly in the sky to herald the birth of Jesus Christ. His discovery has caused him to re-examine and to question his own faith. Here are some things to keep in mind as you read. o The main character in this story is a Jesuit monk, a member of the Society of Jesus (a Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534). o Jesuits devote their lives to missionary and educational work and are also known as the intellectuals of the church. o The story makes a reference to a painting by Paul
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LECTURE 2: NGO, Concept and Governance Defining Criteria Size - it started out as small, informal structures in which management issues can be dealt with on an ad hoc (unplanned), informal basis, may rapidly grow in size if they find favour with donor agencies. SIZE: some (e.g. Greenpeace, Oxfam, International Committee of the Red Cross, Medecins sans Frontieres) are large, multinational bodies, with offices in many countries (and often multiple branches within a single country), and large
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