O estudo da epidemia da AIDS no Brasil possibilita observar uma somatória das ações e conquistas de diferentes atores que contribuíram para a modificação do atendimento e dos serviços em prol de pessoas vivendo e convivendo com AIDS, onde a experiência positiva do Brasil chama a atenção dentro do cenário mundial. A AIDS, dada a sua importância como evento global, foi assim um elemento fomentador de mudanças que se refletiram também nas organizações, dentre as quais, as ONGs/AIDS, cujo caráter público-privado encontra no Terceiro Setor o seu ambiente de identificação. Na experiência das ONGs/AIDS brasileiras o desenvolvimento organizacional se deu dentro da contingência cultural e sócio-política como uma resposta necessária à demanda da epidemia. Essas organizações buscaram uma profissionalização e o desenvolvimento de ferramentas de gestão próprias que viabilizaram a melhor implementação de sua missão e valores organizacionais junto aos beneficiários, com isso também, ampliando suas relações com outros setores da sociedade, dentre os quais, o governo e o mercado, com vistas ao estabelecimento de parcerias. A atuação organizacional promotora do protagonismo, perceptível pela inclusão do beneficiário nas decisões organizacionais e no redesenho do seu papel nos projetos é uma mostra da mudança proposta como desenvolvimento organizacional. A ONG/AIDS Casa de Assistência Filadélfia - CAF objeto deste estudo é representativa na medida em que buscou modificar-se para responder às necessidades percebidas e referidas pelos beneficiários, contribuindo para um atendimento em HIV humanizado e com equidade. A pesquisa teve como objetivo: Descrever a trajetória de uma ONG/AIDS com relação à evolução da epidemia de AIDS identificando elementos que indiquem desenvolvimento organizacional. Foi utilizada uma metodologia qualitativa com Estudo de Caso sendo a coleta de dados feita através de análise documental e entrevistas semi-estruturadas com informantes chaves referidas pela organização, a saber: beneficiários (responsáveis pelas crianças), voluntários, lideranças, funcionários e parceiros. A pesquisa foi aprovada pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da Faculdade de Saúde Pública. O presente estudo aponta para a necessidade de se modificar a discussão sobre o papel e a importância das ONGs/AIDS, chamando a atenção para a importância do desenvolvimento organizacional como meio de promover organizações saudáveis, auto-sustentáveis e autônomas, que estimulem a solidariedade e o controle social através de idéias inovadoras. / The study of the HIV epidemic in Brazil enables the observation of a group of actions and achievements of different agents that contributed towards the modification of the services for people living and coexisting with AIDS, where the positive experience in Brazil calls attention in the global scenario. AIDS, due to its importance as a global event, has been a fomenting element of changes that have also reflected in the organizations, including the AIDS/NGOs, whose public-private character finds in the Third Sector its identification environment. In the experience of Brazilian AIDS/NGOs the organizational development happened within the cultural and social-political contingence as a necessary answer to the demands of the epidemic. These organizations have searched for professionalism and the development of their own management tools that have enabled better implementation of their mission and the organizations’ values regarding their beneficiaries, and with this they have also enlarged their relationship with other sectors of the society, including the government and the market, with the intension of establishing partnerships. The protagonist organizational action, visible by the inclusion of beneficiaries in organizational decisions and in the rewriting of their roll in projects is an evidence of the change proposed as organizational development. The AIDS NGO Casa de Assistência Filadélfia-CAF object of this study is representative as it changed in order to respond to the needs observed and pointed out by beneficiaries, contributing for a humanized and equalized service for HIV. The objective of the research: to describe the trajectory of an AIDS/NGO in relation to the evolution of the AIDS epidemic identifying elements that indicate organizational development. A qualitative methodology was used and the collection of data was made by documental analyses and semi-structured interviews with key informants appointed by the organization: beneficiaries (person responsible for the children), volunteers, leadership, employees and partners. The research was approved by the Ethics Research Committee of the Public Health College. The present study points out the need of modifying the discussion about the roll and importance of the AIDS/NGOs, calling attention to the importance of organizational development as a means of promoting healthy organizations, self-sustainable and autonomous, that stimulate solidarity and social control through innovating ideas.

Na década de 1990 as organizações não-governamentais (ONGs) começaram a atuar de forma diferente em relação à sua gênese: passaram a trabalhar em parceria com o Estado na execução de políticas públicas. Investigo neste trabalho as bases das transformações da atuação das ONGs e as relações que hoje as organizações não-governamentais que trabalham com meninos(as) de rua no centro de São Paulo estabelecem na parceria com o governo, focalizando a participação nas políticas públicas e a autonomia das organizações diante da administração municipal. Com o objetivo de entender de forma mais clara o trabalho das instituições e a formulação de políticas públicas, apresento um histórico do atendimento às crianças e aos adolescentes em situação de risco no Brasil e descrevo, ainda que de forma sumária, as principais questões relacionadas com os meninos(as) que vivem nas ruas. Para a obtenção dos dados empíricos, utilizei as técnicas do questionário, da entrevista e da observação direta. / During the 1990 decade, the non governmental organizations (NGOs) started working differently from their original proposals: they started working in partnerships with the Government in the execution of public policies. In this essay, I investigate the basis of the transformation in the work of the NGOs, the relation between the NGOs that work with street kids in the centre of Sao Paulo and the Government, focusing the participation in the public policies and the autonomy of these organizations. For a better understanding of the work of these institutions and the establishment of public policies destined to street kids, I present a report of the attendance given to the children and adolescents who live in risk situation in Brazil and describe, in a summary way, the main aspects related to the children who live on the streets. To obtain the empiric data, I made use of questionnaire technics, interviews and direct observation.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:23:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Thiago Cantarim D Oliveira.pdf: 1083223 bytes, checksum: 085279ca3e4e61cf364eb9c2e77a4c32 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-11-10 / This study aims to investigate how the collection of information resources available through the Moodle, such as logs, activity reports, user profile and evaluation questionnaires, can become an instrument for the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives by Benjamin Bloom as described evaluation method, it being one of the references to the analysis of learning gains of participants in distance courses conducted via the web. Moodle describes the navigation data of the users into four categories, View, Add, Update and Cancel. We will understand only some factors here's Taxonomy, studies concerning the functions of evaluation, said as diagnostic, control and classification. In the work taken as diagnostic, formative and summative. Conceptually this study will focus on summative evaluation, made possible by the facilities found in the Moodle web systems that allow full control of user navigation. Constantly used tool in the evaluation in virtual environments are questionnaires that make direct reference to the contents worked. But still emerging studies that discuss the range of evaluation in virtual environments, considering all its stages. The case study research are the courses conducted by the project Itaú-Unicef Award, 2149 professionals attended these courses non-governmental organizations that make some kind of working with children and adolescents 0-18 years. We offered 10 courses distributed in 56 classes. The data obtained in these courses were analyzed using the method of Bloom and its aftermath served as input for management intervention courses at the moment that a certain behavior is identified. At the end we hope to obtain an analytical panel where you can view the successful and critical points of each course, assisting in the decision making of managers in the course changes and changes necessary to further serve the public project / O trabalho se propõe a investigar de que forma os recursos de recolhimento de informações disponibilizados pelo sistema Moodle, como logs, relatório de atividades, perfil de usuário e questionários de avaliação, podem se tornar instrumento da avaliação de aprendizagem à luz da Taxonomia dos Objetivos Educacionais descrita por Benjamin Bloom como referencia para análise dos ganhos de aprendizagem dos alunos de cursos à distância. Serão analisados os dados de navegação dos alunos que são registrados pelo sistema Moodle em quatro categorias, Ver, Acrescentar, Atualizar e Cancelar. O trabalho tratará apenas alguns fatores da Taxonomia, os estudos do autor que dizem respeito às funções da avaliação, ditas como: diagnóstica, controle e classificação, entendidas no estudo como diagnóstica, formativa e somativa. Será destacada a avaliação somativa, possível por meio das ferramentas de controle dos dados de navegação dos usuários do Moodle durante a realização das atividades do curso. Essas ferramentas são constantemente utilizadas na avaliação em ambientes virtuais e fazem referência direta aos conteúdos trabalhados. Nesse estudo apresenta-se uma opção de analise, relacionando os dados aos objetivos educacionais do curso e estruturados a partir da taxonomia desses fatores. O estudo de caso do trabalho são os cursos realizados pelo projeto Prêmio Itaú-Unicef, na formação de dirigentes de organizações não governamentais de todo o Brasil, participaram desses cursos 2149 profissionais que realizam projetos com crianças e adolescentes de 0 a 18 anos. Foram oferecidos 10 cursos distribuídos em 56 turmas. Os dados obtidos nesses cursos serão apresentados e analisados utilizando a metodologia de Bloom e seu resultado servirá como alternativa para a intervenção de moderadores de cursos à distância no processo de ensino e aprendizagem do aluno. No trabalho é proposto um painel analítico exibindo os pontos exitosos e críticos de cada curso, que busca auxiliar na tomada de decisão dos gestores dos cursos nas mudanças e alterações necessárias para qualificar interação do aluno com o curso

O estudo da epidemia da AIDS no Brasil possibilita observar uma somatória das ações e conquistas de diferentes atores que contribuíram para a modificação do atendimento e dos serviços em prol de pessoas vivendo e convivendo com AIDS, onde a experiência positiva do Brasil chama a atenção dentro do cenário mundial. A AIDS, dada a sua importância como evento global, foi assim um elemento fomentador de mudanças que se refletiram também nas organizações, dentre as quais, as ONGs/AIDS, cujo caráter público-privado encontra no Terceiro Setor o seu ambiente de identificação. Na experiência das ONGs/AIDS brasileiras o desenvolvimento organizacional se deu dentro da contingência cultural e sócio-política como uma resposta necessária à demanda da epidemia. Essas organizações buscaram uma profissionalização e o desenvolvimento de ferramentas de gestão próprias que viabilizaram a melhor implementação de sua missão e valores organizacionais junto aos beneficiários, com isso também, ampliando suas relações com outros setores da sociedade, dentre os quais, o governo e o mercado, com vistas ao estabelecimento de parcerias. A atuação organizacional promotora do protagonismo, perceptível pela inclusão do beneficiário nas decisões organizacionais e no redesenho do seu papel nos projetos é uma mostra da mudança proposta como desenvolvimento organizacional. A ONG/AIDS Casa de Assistência Filadélfia - CAF objeto deste estudo é representativa na medida em que buscou modificar-se para responder às necessidades percebidas e referidas pelos beneficiários, contribuindo para um atendimento em HIV humanizado e com equidade. A pesquisa teve como objetivo: Descrever a trajetória de uma ONG/AIDS com relação à evolução da epidemia de AIDS identificando elementos que indiquem desenvolvimento organizacional. Foi utilizada uma metodologia qualitativa com Estudo de Caso sendo a coleta de dados feita através de análise documental e entrevistas semi-estruturadas com informantes chaves referidas pela organização, a saber: beneficiários (responsáveis pelas crianças), voluntários, lideranças, funcionários e parceiros. A pesquisa foi aprovada pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da Faculdade de Saúde Pública. O presente estudo aponta para a necessidade de se modificar a discussão sobre o papel e a importância das ONGs/AIDS, chamando a atenção para a importância do desenvolvimento organizacional como meio de promover organizações saudáveis, auto-sustentáveis e autônomas, que estimulem a solidariedade e o controle social através de idéias inovadoras. / The study of the HIV epidemic in Brazil enables the observation of a group of actions and achievements of different agents that contributed towards the modification of the services for people living and coexisting with AIDS, where the positive experience in Brazil calls attention in the global scenario. AIDS, due to its importance as a global event, has been a fomenting element of changes that have also reflected in the organizations, including the AIDS/NGOs, whose public-private character finds in the Third Sector its identification environment. In the experience of Brazilian AIDS/NGOs the organizational development happened within the cultural and social-political contingence as a necessary answer to the demands of the epidemic. These organizations have searched for professionalism and the development of their own management tools that have enabled better implementation of their mission and the organizations’ values regarding their beneficiaries, and with this they have also enlarged their relationship with other sectors of the society, including the government and the market, with the intension of establishing partnerships. The protagonist organizational action, visible by the inclusion of beneficiaries in organizational decisions and in the rewriting of their roll in projects is an evidence of the change proposed as organizational development. The AIDS NGO Casa de Assistência Filadélfia-CAF object of this study is representative as it changed in order to respond to the needs observed and pointed out by beneficiaries, contributing for a humanized and equalized service for HIV. The objective of the research: to describe the trajectory of an AIDS/NGO in relation to the evolution of the AIDS epidemic identifying elements that indicate organizational development. A qualitative methodology was used and the collection of data was made by documental analyses and semi-structured interviews with key informants appointed by the organization: beneficiaries (person responsible for the children), volunteers, leadership, employees and partners. The research was approved by the Ethics Research Committee of the Public Health College. The present study points out the need of modifying the discussion about the roll and importance of the AIDS/NGOs, calling attention to the importance of organizational development as a means of promoting healthy organizations, self-sustainable and autonomous, that stimulate solidarity and social control through innovating ideas.

In this thesis, I consider the trend of increasing backlash against civil society around the world. I focus on Ecuador and Peru, both democratic countries that have placed restrictions on NGOs receiving foreign funding. I examine both countries in terms of changes over time in the regulatory environment for NGOs. I ask: What factors motivated these changes? I analyze the countries with respect to three possible explanations: defending sovereignty against foreign powers, stifling internal dissent, and seeking rents. In answering this question, I draw upon the laws in question, press releases, and news reports as well as interviews with NGO personnel and government regulators, among other sources. I conclude that while there is evidence for the stifling dissent explanation in both countries, there is no evidence for the defending sovereignty explanation in Peru and only circumstantial evidence for it in Ecuador. In Ecuador, there is contradictory evidence for the rent-seeking explanation while there is clearer evidence for it in Peru.

This thesis examines the industry of non-profit educational filmmaking in Sub-Saharan Africa, from the 1930's to the present, with particular attention on the contemporary period of video production from the late 1980's to approximately 2010. This thesis, first, identifies that there is a consistent industrial infrastructure around non-profit educational filmmaking in Sub-Saharan Africa, which has not previously been articulated. Second, it describes the industry's historical origins and contemporary manifestation, delineating the pathways for funding, systems for production, and avenues of distribution and exhibition, as well as the ideological underpinnings of each. Finally, this thesis proscribes alternative industrial practices for the imagination and execution of non-profit educational videos that alleviate some of the otherwise deeply engrained hierarchical features of the industry by drawing on several examples of recent innovations in the industry. This thesis claims that the standard procedures by which non-profit educational films and videos in Sub-Saharan Africa come to be are problematic in the way that they maintain colonial hierarchies between Western philanthropic funders, cosmopolitan humanitarian professionals acting as producers, African casts and crews, and audiences that are necessarily objectified in order to be studied quantitatively. This structure has profound effects on content, most recently evident in neoliberal ideas that valorize the privatization of solutions to public health problems and quaint stories designed to encourage audiences to emulate ideal behavior based on Western gender norms as a primary solution to complex social problems, such as HIV/AIDS. Drawing on examples from recent innovations in the industry, this thesis finally proposes that changes in the balance of decision-making power in the African educational film and video industry - changes such as sourcing audiences for stories addressing HIV/AIDS, integrating with existing media markets, or more loosely providing international support to existing local initiatives that pinpoint local concerns - are necessary in order to better realize the potential of cinema to effectively address the myriad of social, environmental, political, economic, and medical challenges faced by real and distinct Sub-Saharan audiences.

Background: Local and international non-governmental organizations play a pivotal role in a relief operation. However, as the number of disasters and their complexity is increasing, the challenges these organizations face during a relief operation are also growing exponentially. It is crucial for relief organizations to not only understand but also to prioritize the factors, which can make their supply chain work better. Therefore, this research aims at understanding the relationship between the key success factors, which can dramatically enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the relief operation. Moreover, this study also highlights how LNGOs and INGOs differentiate between these KSFs and how they rank them. Methods: To address the objective of this study, the Likert scale style questionnaire was developed and distributed online to all such NGOs (worldwide), which take part in the relief operation. The collected data was then tested for its empirical significance on SPSS using Spearman's Rho, Pearson Chisquare, to understand the relationship and importance of these factors. Whereas, the odds ratio was calculated to rank each KSF. Results: The results of the study indicate that there exist strong correlation among all selected factors and all KSFs affect INGOs supply chain at least twice as much as they do of LNGOs. Conclusion: According to our findings and in the light of literature discussed in this research, a successful relief supply chain depends not only on greater and stronger coordination & collaboration but also on sharing information and resources among LNGOs and INGOs.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork undertaken in Bolivia’s coca-growing Yungas region, this thesis is concerned with how, on the most practical level, development projects might hold more relevance to the lives of their target groups than they have hitherto tended to do, as well as how the power imbalances that characterise the relationships between development organisations and local people may be understood and addressed. Beginning with the concept of ‘communicative ecology’ (Tacchi et al 2003) as a framework for exploring the multifariousness of communicative avenues and the interconnectedness of these within a system, I focus my analysis on the ecosystem of coca communications. I argue, however, that the concept of communicative ecology on its own has little meaning without adopting a political economy approach, which incorporates the work of attempting to understand the social and power relations that surround the production, distribution and consumption of resources, both material and cultural. As a way of analysing the strategies and potentials of people within the ecosystem of coca communications, I utilise Bourdieu’s (1990) notions of field, habitus and forms of capital, where the coca field characterises itself by virtue of the fact that all those who are a part of it are linked in some way through the production, exchange and consumption of both the coca leaf, and the values, meanings and discourses that surround it. It is concluded that the ecosystem of coca communications is linked intrinsically to the coca production system, in that individuals and groups have differential access to, inclination to use, and success in influencing the discourse via different communicative media, depending on their situation within the coca field. This refers to land ownership, labour, organisational participation, exchange and consumptive practices, which is translated into a system of capital accumulation and exchange. The thesis argues that development organisations will do well to consider a given locality in these terms in order to facilitate the implementation of ICT projects that are relevant and compatible with local social and communicational systems, and further, that these organisations must reflect upon their own role as ‘introduced organisms’ within local communicative ecologies. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1331441 / Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences, 2008

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The purpose of this essay is to examine what power relations are created or allowed by the structures of two very different development aid organizations. One organization is a Peruvian organization called ASDE, that recieves financial support from other organizations with different nationalities. The other is CARE Peru which is a Peruvian department of the international organization CARE International. It has become increasingly important in the global aid business to emphasize a partnership on equal premises and make sure that the donors do not have too much control over the aid given. This ideology does not only apply to the administrative level of aid but can also be applied to the relationship between the organization workers in the project area and the target group participants. The bottom-up structure ideal can be seen both as a goal in itself but also as a means to achieve efficiency and sustainability in the aid given. The two organizations compared are of very different structure, allowing me to examine and compare the power relations that the structures carry within. The empirical data was collected during a three months field study in Peru in the spring semester of 2010. The results of the study show that the two organizations have power relations embedded in the structures over which they in some cases have and in others do not have power. In addition to systems within the global aid business over which the organizations have no power, the power relations between organization employees and target group participants, as well as the level of participation of target group participants, are dependent on the purpose and strategies of the organization. These in turn depend on the structure of the organization. In this way the bigger structures of the organizations affect the level of participation and ownership on a local level. The study shows that it is more probable to achieve an equal relationship between workers and target group being a smaller, locally created organization. However, it also puts light on the difficulties created by global systems of development aid as well as the practical difficulties, when striving towards the ideals of equality, local ownership and participation.