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Prevention is a solution: building the HIVe
This Special Issue of Digital Culture and Education (DCE), Building the HIVe, offers relevant and applicable examples of digital technologies being leveraged, positioned and practiced towards community-based and led HIV prevention as a solution in a digital era. The contributors to this Special Issue, frontline workers, activists, researchers and educators alike, have taken risks as they have explored innovative prevention approaches with and through digital technologies, and documented and analysed their pedagogical innovations in different cultural contexts. Importantly this Special Issue also includes the critical voices and leadership of individuals living with HIV as designers of prevention as a solution. Their timely insights, advice and understandings of HIV prevention as a solution merit close scrutiny as evidence of resourceful, imaginative and critical endeavour; they are offered to share successful interventions and stimulate further discussion
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Conversations on a probable future: interview with Beatrice Fazi
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Working as one: a road map to disaster resilience for Australia
This report offers a roadmap for enhancing Australiaâs disaster resilience, building on the 2011 National Strategy for Disaster Resilience. It includes a snapshot of relevant issues and current resilience efforts in Australia, outlining key challenges and opportunities.
Overview
Natural disasters cause widespread disruption, costing the Australian economy 23 billion by 2050.
With more frequent natural disasters with greater consequences, Australian communities need the ability to prepare and plan for them, absorb and recover from them, and adapt more successfully to their effects.
Enhancing Australian resilience will allow us to better anticipate disasters and assist in planning to reduce losses, rather than just waiting for the next king hit and paying for it afterwards.
This report offers a roadmap for enhancing Australiaâs disaster resilience, building on the 2011 National Strategy for Disaster Resilience. It includes a snapshot of relevant issues and current resilience efforts in Australia, outlining key challenges and opportunities.
The report sets out 11 recommendations to help guide Australia towards increasing national resilience, from individuals and local communities through to state and federal agencies
Managing the Challenges of Women and Youth Empowerment Programmes in Nigeria
This paper on managing the challenges of women and youth empowerment programmes in Nigeria has the following objectives to determine the challenges facing women and youth empowerment programmes in Nigeria and to determine the prospects for youth and women empowerment in Nigeria Mostly secondary data were used in the study Findings reveal that there are so many challenges working against youth and women empowerment in Nigeria namely instability in government policies failed health facilities unplanned strikes Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen menace kidnapping lack of necessary infrastructure and so on Prospects for women and youth empowerment include but not limited to reduction in the rate of unemployment stability in government policies installation of effective efficient and result oriented economic team profitable negotiation land use law reforms improvement in the provision of quality and well-equipped health facilities and basic infrastructur
Participation of women in grassroots development interventions: reflections on the experiences of development projects in Sudan
This paper is based on an empirical study, conducted in 2005/06. It provides reflections on gender and development approaches employed in development projects in Sudan and identifies the challenges that development providers need to address when they plan for future interventions. It argues that addressing gender issues requires an in depth understanding of local values, and womenâs needs and interests
When rhetoric does not translate to reality: hardship, empowerment and the third sector in Austerity Localism
© The Author(s) 2018Austerity localism powerfully explains dynamics of (dis)empowerment at the local level, especially regarding the autonomy and accountability of local authorities and third sector organisations (TSOs) in the UK. Yet these dynamics at institutional level have also a clear impact on individuals, especially the socio-economically vulnerable. This is especially true in a time of cost-containment and welfare retrenchment. This article addresses a gap in the literature by focusing not only on TSOs but also on the experiences of vulnerable individuals under austerity localism. The discussion is centred on two types of TSOs: foodbanks and advice/advocacy organisations. Drawing upon primary qualitative data from three locations in England and Wales, the article argues that the emphatic rhetoric of empowerment within austerity localism, which others have shown to be problematic at the institutional level, does not translate into real-world empowerment for service users and other vulnerable individuals. In making the argument the article contributes to work on expanding the analytical scope of austerity localism, as well as further exploring the roles and prospects of TSOs in the current long period of austerity in the UK.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio
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