A plan for evaluating the Winnipeg Core Area Agreement

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Final Report

This is the Final Report of the project, ‘Advancing Coordination of the Winnipeg Homeless Sector’. Over the last year, there have been efforts in the homeless serving community to map out service gaps and needs, and to discuss HPS funding and how it aligns with community priorities. The current project advances these efforts to integrate more community knowledge, planning, and engagement into the Homelessness Partnering Strategy (HPS) funding process

Complementary currencies for sustainable development in Kenya: the case of the Bangla-Pesa

This paper is a report on the development of a complementary currency system that allows Kenyans in informal settlements to trade goods and services and meets sustainable development objectives. The system in this report, Bangla-Pesa, uses a mutual-credit model through a network of local business, including many whose owners fall under the extreme poverty line. The paper documents the reasons for its creation, how it was launched, the immediate positive benefits upon launch, and some of the difficulties faced. Bangla-Pesa is shown to facilitate exchanges of roughly 50 Euros in value per day among 109 businesses, which should raise living standards in the community primarily through the utilization of excess business capacity. After only a week of circulation – Bangla-Pesa helped community members increase sales an estimated 22% through capacity trading. This system’s implementation and governance model are detailed with the aim of improving upon and replicating the model for future sustainable development programs

British Programme Aid: Changing Orientations

Summaries The British have linked the provision of programme aid to World Bank and IMF economic policy reform conditions since the early 1980s. Since then they have liberalized their procedures in tune with local liberalisation. ODA currently sees programme aid in a budgetary rather than a balance of payments framework for management. It favours a coordinated donor\recipient approach, agreed and consistent public expenditure priorities, and a medium?term scale with efforts to improve budgetary processes. The SPA, where Britain plays a leading role, has currently shifted in this direction

Indictment of Child Labor by the Arts

Indictment of Child Labor by the Arts February 24-26, 2013 Carlos Arejola National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Manila Terrence Coonan Center for Advancement of Human Rights, Florida State University Anton Juan Department of Film, Television and Theatre, University of Notre Dame Paolo Carozza The Center for Civil and Human Rights Notre Dame Law Schoolhttps://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndls_posters/1072/thumbnail.jp

Indictment of Child Labor by the Arts

Indictment of Child Labor by the Arts February 24-26, 2013 Carlos Arejola National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Manila Terrence Coonan Center for Advancement of Human Rights, Florida State University Anton Juan Department of Film, Television and Theatre, University of Notre Dame Paolo Carozza The Center for Civil and Human Rights Notre Dame Law Schoolhttps://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndls_posters/1072/thumbnail.jp

Happy farming programme : an exploratory study from an intergenerational perspective

Background: To extend the successful experience learnt from the Golden Organic Farming Programme in Tsuen Wan organized by Produce Green Foundation in 2004, a new farming programme entitled “Happy Farming” has been launched in Tuen Mun. A plot of land was leased to Good Tiding Church of Christian National’s Evangelism Commission in Lai Wai Tuen Mun (屯門泥圍佳音福音堂) by the Government. APIAS was invited to design and implement the farming programme in January 2005. Nine volunteers were recruited, including five older people and four youngsters to work together on farming activities including land exploitation, trainings, ploughing, weeding and mass activities such as opening day and harvest day so that intergenerational cooperation and communication could be promoted. By the experience where joint effort is needed, it is expected that the intergenerational programme could bring a certain amount of happiness to the participants. Objectives: In order to get a better understanding of the ways farming activities could enhance happiness of the participants and promote intergenerational relationships, an exploratory study on the impacts of farming will be investigated. To make it more specific, the research objectives are addressed as follows: To explore the way(s) of intergenerational cooperations and communications during farming activities; To investigate the association of farming activities towards the increase in happiness of the participants (the old and the young); To identify an effective programme intervention strategy to promote intergenerational support and psychological well-being (happiness) for policy makers

Processing Anti-Asian Violence: A Roundtable Discussion on the Atlanta Shootings

A Roundtable Discussion on the Atlanta Shootings The alarming rise of anti-Asian violence, especially the shooting deaths of six women of Asian descent on March 16 in Atlanta, is prompting conversations about the intersections of racism and misogyny, dispelling stereotypes aboutsex work, and inspiring activism and allyship in support of the AAPIcommunity. In this conversation, Notre Dame professors and PhD students will examine the intersectional nature of anti-Asian violence as well, discuss the roots of systemic racism, and explore the needs of AAPI communities now and in the future. Participants: Jennifer Huynh, Assistant Professor of American Studies Xian Wang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Gender Studies Sharon Yoon, Assistant Professor of Korean Studies Lailatul Fitriyah, PhD student in Theology Grace Song, PhD student in History Flora Tang, PhD student in Peace Studies, Theology, and Gender Studieshttps://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndls_posters/1537/thumbnail.jp

The Moral Resilience of Young People Who Care

This paper draws on findings from a qualitative study of the social wellbeing of young people caring for a close family member. The research makes a novel contribution to the international literature by examining the moral resilience of young adult carers. Focus groups or individual, semi-structured interviews were undertaken with fifteen young people in South-East England during 2018–2019. The paper explores whether young people with a seriously ill or disabled family member define and conduct themselves in moral terms and how they respond to the moral challenges of a caring life. It was found that the participants saw moral value in their caring role and their actions reflected a desire to provide compassionate care. Previous research into young adult carers had indicated that the caring role stimulated their political consciousness, but this study suggests that the role also strengthens their moral consciousness. However, designating girls as carers in early life shifts the moral responsibility to females and compounds gender inequity in caring. Hence, there is a need to address social and gender inequalities in care. In addition, healthcare professionals should recognise when statutory input is necessary to facilitate young people’s broader lifeplans