O presente estudo tem por objetivo identificar de que forma o direito de liberdade de associação vem sendo aplicado com relação às organizações da sociedade civil no Brasil. A partir da análise das diferentes dimensões da liberdade de associação e das normas que tratam das organizações da sociedade civil no Brasil pós Constituição Federal de 1988, apresentamos os principais desafios a serem superados para que as organizações da sociedade civil sejam tratadas de forma a melhor garantir o direito de liberdade de associação e um marco regulatório mais adequado ao seu desenvolvimento. / The present study aims to identify how the right to freedom of association has been applied with respect to civil society organizations in Brazil. From the analysis of the different dimensions of freedom of association and rules dealing with civil society organizations in Brazil, after the Federal Constitution of 1988, we present the main challenges to be overcome so that civil society organizations can be treated to ensure right to freedom of association and a legal framework best suited to their development.

This study tries to understand the internal dynamics of the civil society organizations in Turkey on the experiences of three CSOs: the Ankara Branches of KADER, MAZLUMDER and IMO by focusing on the intra&ndash / organizational practices (the decision making processes, elections, general meetings, division of labor, basic conflicts and divergences, the disagreements, the way of deliberation and consensus). It tries to shed light on the transformative potential of the CSO&rsquo / s in public sphere as civil organizations themselves in time both in the sense of their political stances and organizational structure. The research was designed in the form of a case study including both the depth interwiews and participant observations. In this framework, ten depth-interviews were made with members having different qualities for each of these CSOs and participant observations were realized in the general meetings, elections and activities of these organizations. Since the aim of this study is to understand the contribution of the CSOs to the public sphere, the research findings were interpreted and considered basically in the light of the two main theoretical positions: the deliberative (Habermas) and agonistic (Laclau and Mouffe) democracy. The study espoused a post-structuralist conception of democracy combined with a weakened model of deliberation and dialogue pointing out the requirement of the existential publicity of man (Arendt) in the world. In this context, this study tries to discuss the following questions within the framework of the public sphere experience of the three CSOs throughout the thesis. Is the concept of civil society a proper concept for understanding the peculiar experience of Turkey (with reference to the historical context of civil associational life in Turkey and the recent civil resurrection)? Do civil organizations have the capacity to serve for deepening and consolidation of democracy in public sphere? Are these civil organizations democratic and participatory with regard to their intra-organizational structures and decision-making processes? And, more importantly, do they have any capacity to influence the process of democratic transformation in Turkey?

O presente estudo tem por objetivo identificar de que forma o direito de liberdade de associação vem sendo aplicado com relação às organizações da sociedade civil no Brasil. A partir da análise das diferentes dimensões da liberdade de associação e das normas que tratam das organizações da sociedade civil no Brasil pós Constituição Federal de 1988, apresentamos os principais desafios a serem superados para que as organizações da sociedade civil sejam tratadas de forma a melhor garantir o direito de liberdade de associação e um marco regulatório mais adequado ao seu desenvolvimento. / The present study aims to identify how the right to freedom of association has been applied with respect to civil society organizations in Brazil. From the analysis of the different dimensions of freedom of association and rules dealing with civil society organizations in Brazil, after the Federal Constitution of 1988, we present the main challenges to be overcome so that civil society organizations can be treated to ensure right to freedom of association and a legal framework best suited to their development.

This diploma thesis is dealing with the topic of civil society organization dependency on its environment (on resources taken from the outside). The paper is focusing three areas - understanding and manifestation of this dependency on the resources of the civic society organization, on so called border situation which occurs during the meantime between projects and last but not least on the strategies which the organization proceeds, either willfully or not, on the reaction to its dependency on the resources and to its border situation. This paper is grounded in the resource dependence theory, developed by Jeffrey Pfefffer and Gerald Salancik, and in already executed researches from abroad. The research design used in this work is a single case case study. Data were acquired by the methods of semi-structured interviews and by the analysis of the documents.

The aim of this MA thesis is to identify, describe and summarize the possibilities which seniors have to engage in volunteer activities in their place of residence, in the city district of Prague 8. We want to make it easier for seniors to choose volunteering and support them in their decision-making whether to consider volunteering at all. Information about suitable opportunities can influence their decision-making to start volunteering. The secondary goal is to find out the interests of seniors in participating in volunteer activities. Site preferences, areas of volunteering and communication channels. The purpose of this MA thesis is to make the results usable from a practical point of view. Another aim is to make recommendations for facilitating the involvement of senior volunteers, mainly with an emphasis on communication and publication of information on volunteering, seniors' ideas about volunteering for civil society organizations or directly for the city district. Keywords Senior, volunteer, volunteering, volunteer program, civil society organization, possibilities of involvement, barriers of involvement

This diploma thesis examines the impact of the professionalization project on a selected civil society organization that has joined this grant program. The theoretical part draws on the concept of professionalization and changes in the structure of the organization, its influence leads to the division of labor, transfer of expertise, institutional changes, as well as changes in identity or work procedures needed for the organization. The aim of this work is to understand how the concept of professionalization is understood by the donor, through the grant rules set by him, which should lead to the professionalization of the organization involved. Likewise, the work focuses on understanding the perception of the process of professionalization by the organization, which will examine the reasons and expectations for which it participated in the project. In the empirical part, answers to the research questions will be sought through data obtained from semi-structured interviews and documents related to the grant project. In the end, when evaluating the results through the studied professional literature it was found that there is a different understanding of the concept of professionalization by individual actors. Thanks to this, the managerial procedures implemented in the organization are subsequently...

The thesis focuses on the role of the civil sector in the local action group Podlipansko which operates in eastern part of the Central Bohemian region. Conceptual framework deals with the characteristics of civil society organizations, demarcation of countryside and its actors, further concept of social capital, partnership and local action groups. The method of the case study is applied in the practical part. Methods of data collection are triangulated. Data was collected by analysis of documents, surveys and semi-structured interviews focusing on civil society organizations. It is a case study of the 2014-2020 programming period. The aim of the thesis is to find out the role of civil society organizations in specific local action group. Using qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection it is found out how the cooperation looks like between civil society organizations and local action group from the perspective of involved organizations. The aim is to explore what are the civil society organizations reasons to enter local action group. The research brought more detailed insight to working of local action group and it can serve as one of the sources of information for the development of cooperation between civil, profitable and public sector in the joint setting of priorities or the...

The concept of participation seems to reflect in most development programmes that involve people at the grassroots level. In Ghana, the introduction of the decentralization programme in the late 1980s that aimed at promoting effective, comprehensive and rapid development, more especially in the rural areas also adopted participatory approach. The approach led to the introductory of district assembly system which was to enhance the involvement of people at the grassroots in participatory activities. However, since the introduction of the decentralisation system to promote grassroots level participation, the people are still inactive and the level of involvement in development decision-making still remains weak. To clearly understand these problems, the thesis has aimed at answering the following research questions; how are rural people involved in participatory practice in the development activities in their area; what barriers affect and hinder the active participation of rural people and how could these be addressed? Answers to those questions helped to examine the nature of participation at the grassroots level; understand how the district assembly adopt participatory practice and to ascertain the nature of barriers that hinder effective participatory practice. Using a case study approach for the investigation, an interpretivists and constructivists were the philosophical underpinnings of the investigation. The data was gathered through the use of focus group discussions and one-to-one informal interviews. It was observed that, participation continues to reflect in most rural development programmes, but there are key barriers that still continue to hamper the effectiveness of participatory practice. Power relations, threats, intimidations and more especially the use of juju and witchcraft which never featured in most development literature are among the major barriers that continue to weaken local people readiness to actively participate. Most rural people feel threaten to participate for the fear of being bewitched or killed through the use of juju, witchcraft or black magical powers. Without critically and effectively addressing those bottlenecks and barriers, and put community members at the pivot of decision-making, the use of outsiders¿ knowledge and ideas alone to address the problems of participation with the hope of improving the lives of the rural people will not yield any significant result. / Title page missing

This thesis deals with civil society organizations in the field of cinema in the Czech Republic. Cinematography is part of art and industry, with further influences of technology, culture, social or political situation. As in other areas there creates also civil society in the field of cinematography. The aim of this work is to determine the reasons are civil society organization formed and how they function. Due to the broad approach of the target group the research project work was targeted at those organizations that contribute to the development, support and promotion of Czech cinematography in general, and are the major players with the conceptual and strategic influence to the whole area.

A educação profissional no Brasil esteve marcada, desde os seus primeiros registros, em administrar os efeitos da exclusão por meio da inserção, primeiramente, dos órfãos e desvalidos e, depois, dos menores infratores em instituições disciplinares e correcionais. Processo que forjou subjetividades em um registro da falta e do desvio com aprisionamento de corpos, bem como dos modos de produzir vida. No presente, os agora denominados adolescentes em conflito com a lei também estão inseridos em práticas específicas de educação para o trabalho, dentre as quais aquelas protagonizadas por organizações não governamentais. Esta pesquisa volta-se para essa prática educativa específica, pois objetiva investigar como os cursos de qualificação profissional básica de uma OSCIP habitam o campo de forças da Fundação CASA. Os subsídios teóricos e conceituais que compõem com essa problematização localizam-se nas contribuições de: Foucault, Spinoza, da esquizoanálise e da análise institucional. Subsídios estes que se articulam permitindo pensar o sujeito não como essência e sim como produção, a partir de relações de saber e poder por meio e entre instituições. Forjado pelo encontro com os diferentes campos em jogo (teórico-metodológico, de pesquisa e de forças), este estudo tem como hipótese que a complexidade da realidade, da subjetividade e dos encontros vida a fora produzem uma diversidade de modos de existir, educar e trabalhar não submetida exclusivamente a formas instituídas. Buscou-se, assim, compreender as relações institucionais em jogo e suas repercussões no referido trabalho educativo, a partir da implicação do pesquisador com o campo. Deste modo, foi empreendida uma pesquisa-intervenção com os educadores de qualificação profissional de uma OSCIP por meio da técnica do grupo focal. O encontro com os diferentes campos teceu relações de sentido, o que viabilizou entrever, entre as formas instituídas, modos de educar potentes em desestabilizar aprisionamentos subjetivos. Tal desestabilização, todavia, só ganha força em condições de produção peculiares. Dito de outra forma, esta pesquisa reconheceu que os cursos ora estudados são operados por modos de ser educador, que ganham ou perdem força de agir e compreender a partir das relações produzidas por meio e entre instituições. As conexões tecidas e desencadeadas pelo educador e pela OSCIP são forças que delineiam uma posição política de manutenção ou ruptura de modos de educar para o trabalho adolescentes em conflito com a lei. Nesse campo de forças, as práticas de educação profissional ganham intensidade quando aliadas a uma formação de educadores que os afete, mantendo o campo problemático e intensivo de derivas potentes em desestabilizar modos aprisionados de produzir vida / Professional education in Brazil has been marked, from the beginning, by the intention of dealing with the effects of social exclusion by means of adopting social inclusion, firstly of the orphans and the underprivileged and, later on, of the juvenile lawbreakers from disciplinary and corrective institutions. This process has forged subjectivities into a register of failure and of deviance, with the imprisonment of the bodies and of the ways lives are constructed. At present, the so-called teenagers in conflict with the law are also involved with specific practices of education geared to work, amongst which are those enforced by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO). This research work focus on such educational practices, for it aims at investigating how the beginners professional qualifying courses held by a Public Interest Civil Society Organization (OSCIP, in the initials in Portuguese) inhabit the field of strengths of CASA Foundation. The theoretical and conceptual subsidies which support this problematization are based on the contributions by Foucault, Spinoza, as well as on schizoanalysis and institutional analysis. These subsidies articulate between them to allow thinking about the subject not as essence, but as production, from the perspective of the relations between knowledge and power by means of and between institutions. Undertaken in the coming together with the different fields at play (theoretical-methodological, of research and of strengths), this study offers as hypotheses that the complexity of reality, of subjectivity and of encounters throughout life, creates a diversity of ways of living, educating and working which are not submitted exclusively to institutionalized patterns. One has sought, therefore, to understand the institutional relations at play and their repercussion on the mentioned educational work, from the perspective of the researcher as she is implicated into the field. Thus, an intervention-research was carried out with the application of the focal group technique and which involved the professional qualifying course educators from an OSCIP. Coming in touch with the different fields allowed for the construction of meaning relations, what made possible to understand, amongst the institutionalized patterns, ways of educating with the potential of destabilizing subjective imprisonments. Such destabilizing, however, acquires strength only in unique conditions of production. In other words, it has been recognized that the courses surveyed in this study are operated by ways of being an educator, which acquire or lose strength for acting and comprehend on the basis of relations created by means of or between institutions. The connections woven and unleashed by the educators and by OSCIP are strengths which outline a political stand of either maintenance or rupture of the ways the teenagers in conflict with the law are educated for work. Within this field, the professional educational practices gain intensity when combined with a meaningful teacher formation, one which keeps the field problematic and adrift, powerful in destabilizing imprisoned ways of creating life