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Humans of Lusanja. Anthropological study of development cooperation in Uganda.
Havlová, Nikola ; Soukup, Václav (advisor) ; Půtová, Barbora (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on the development cooperation and implementation of projects in local cultures using example of Ugandan community from the Lusanja village. The aim of this thesis is to describe the impact of development cooperation on the community and its expectations, to map the dialogue among the various actors of the project and to provide feedback to the Western non-profit organizations from the local culture. Based on field research conducted using ethnographic methods, the thesis brings an emic perspective of the local community to the Western idea of development cooperation. The emic perspective is mostly omitted from the development discourse, eventhough it could significantly affect the sustainability of implemented projects in developing countries. The thesis also covers the daily life of the Lusanja people. Key words: development cooperation, local community, NGOs, Uganda, sustainable development, ethnographic research
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The Segmentation the Czech Market based on the Donations to Non-Profit Organizations
Slezáková, Pavla ; Supa, Markéta (advisor) ; Koudelková, Petra (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with segmentation of the Czech market on the basis of donating to NGOs. In the last few years NGOs have been facing harsh criticism and part of the public finds their activities worthless, which is one of the reasons the numbers of their contributors continue to decrease. This thesis aims to characterise the contributors segment of the market to help NGOs improve the targeting of their marketing and fundraising activities. The first part of the thesis defines the term of non governmental organisations, their legal and economic basis and some of the particulars of their marketing communication. The theoretic framework and primary approaches of market segmentation are also explicated in the first part. The second part of the thesis consists of a research based on analysing the MML-TGI data. The research aims to compare the groups of contributors and non contributors and discover the differences between them.
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Relationship between the state and selected NGOs in the field of providing paliative care in the Czech Republic
Cihlová, Klára ; Moree, Dana (advisor) ; Šťovíčková Jantulová, Magdaléna (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to describe the role of a sample of NGOs in the process of changing the current situation in the field of palliative care in the Czech Republic. The essence of palliative care is to ensure the highest possible quality of life for the patient and his family. The present state of care is not sufficient for the number of palliative beds or home care service teams to meet the needs of an aging Czech population. Almost the exclusive care provider are NGOs, which also take on the role of initiator of a change in the persistent situation. Based on the data from semi-structured interviews with ten respondents, the thesis method of the case study reveals what is causing the unsatisfactory situation, what proposals its solutions civil society offers and what range of means to achieve change.
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Procedural status of international non-governmental al organisations before international human rights courts
Janků, David ; Honusková, Věra (advisor) ; Lipovský, Milan (referee)
- PROCEDURAL STATUS OF INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS BEFORE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COURTS The position of international NGOs within the system of international law or specifically their position before individual international bodies is a topic that the international law theory does not consider very much. Hence, this master's thesis aims to present what role do the international NGOs play in the international arena and particularly places the focus on the procedural roles they may take upon in the european and the inter-american human rights systems. The thesis is divided into 3 main parts and several chapters. The first part deals with the history of international NGOs and delimiting the term. Regarding the latter several definitions are presented and assessed and the differences between the international NGOs and transnational corporations are drawn. The thesis then explores the position of international NGOs as subjects of international law and their role in human rights protection which reflects the topis of the thesis. The second part is devoted to particular roles of international NGOs before the selected courts. The first chapter deconstructs the institute of amicus curiae including the way it is embeded into the systems of both courts and the way it is made use of. This...
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Grants for associations at the level of state, county and sity
ZAVADILOVÁ, Petra
The thesis deals with the processing of subsidy policies to support the activities of organizations working with children and youth. The work describes grant programs some ministries, higher territorial governments, municipalities and other donors. It also defines NGOs and their division. The work defines interest and informal education. The thesis contains tables and graphs with distributed financial amounts and numbers of people in different age categories. One of the chapters deals with the instructions for the preparation and submission of the grant application.
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Youth Participation as A Component of Stable Democracy?
Vařák, Jan ; Císař, Ondřej (advisor) ; Merklová, Kateřina (referee)
The topic of this thesis is political socialization of selected former members of the Czech-German Youth Forum towards political participation and democratic citizenship. Four former members whose terms in office were between 2007 and 2009, but are still politically active were chosen. The objective of the thesis is to learn what competencies, values and thinking the Czech-German Youth Forum passed on the respondents for their further political participation and what the contextual and organisational circumstances were like within this process. In the theoretical part, selected factors of political participation towards democracy and political socialization of the youth during generally beneficial work in civil society organizations were presented. In the empirical part, qualitatively-acquired data were analyzed as they were obtained by means of interview. In the closing part, the findings were related to the theoretical framework of the thesis.
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Factors contributing to Social Inclusion Education at Schools
Jandová, Helena ; Moree, Dana (advisor) ; Legnerová, Kateřina (referee)
ANOTATION This work deals with factors which contribute to social inclusion in education. Research is aimed at one of the basic schools, which has been selected according to the previously set criteria. In the theoretical part the most important concepts linked to social education have been discussed with respect to research question. The vital factors I focus on are school culture, which may consists of the right environment, norms and values or forms of communication and cooperation with the partners of the school, who I consider to be mainly the parents. Further on, I focus on the practices which the school sets to establish relations with the NGOs which provide assistance in order to support social inclusion at schools. With respect to the objectives of this thesis qualitative strategy has been selected. The research pattern was formed from three types of actors who have been somehow connected to school. The data collection was carried out via in-depth interviews with the actors chosen based on the snowball method. Each group has been then analysed separately with the aim to create the most important categories. In the final part the most vital discoveries from analysis are compared in order to draw inferences with connection to the research questions. Key words: social inclusion in education,...
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Expert capacity of civil sector: Focus on the NGO umbrella organization in the CR
Lejčková, Jana ; Novotný, Vilém (advisor) ; Frič, Pavol (referee)
The expert capacity of umbrella NGOs is not adequately addressed in the literature, although it is a key issue. This issue is pointing to the growing demands for accountable and transparent organizations with the expertise needed in the form of professionals who can actively promote the importance and interests of NGOs in a public policy process. Expert capacity is described in this case as the ability to perform analytical work in selected umbrella NGOs which focus on advocating interests and influencing the policy process. The aim of this work is to understand the expert capacity of the umbrella platforms of NGOs in advocating their interests and their influence on policy making and to outline the possibility of more effective cooperation with the state. For this purpose were chosen all-state national umbrella platforms, which defend the interests of organizations throughout the Czech Republic. In the theoretical part, the public policy theories: policy work, policy analytical capacity and evidence-based policy making are presented to facilitate the concept of expert capacities, complemented by the theory of interdependence, which presupposes mutual cooperation between civil society organizations and the state. Second part of the thesis analyzes the policy analytical capacity of two all-round...
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Organized Civil Society, the Municipality, and Private Landlords in Social Housing in Prague 5
Horká, Aneta ; Lux, Martin (advisor) ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (referee)
This paper considers the issue of social housing and possibilities of cooperation between organized civil society, the municipality, and private landlords regarding social housing in the 5th district of Prague. I focused on the potential hidden in the possible involvement of private landlords and non profit organizations in the system of social housing. In the qualitative research I dealt with the role individual actors play in social housing, as well as possible parallels with social entrepreneurship. I made eleven interviews and one focus group with representatives of the target group households. The paper includes also a description of foreign trends in social housing, and closely considers the German and Dutch cases. It brings forth an analysis of the housing situation in Prague 5, and a proposition of an innovative model of social housing in this particular district.
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The Action Repertoire of Czech Women's Organizations
Zvelebilová, Anna ; Navrátil, Jiří (advisor) ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (referee)
Concern of this master thesis are action repertoires of czech feminist organizations. The main goal of this paper is to find out whether there are some types of activism in terms of following characteristics in the Czech Republic: organizational age, political opportunity structure, human and financial resources, and action repertoir to be found. The thesis is devided into two parts - theoretical and empirical. The author introduces evolution of the social movement theory in the theoretical part. Greater attention is given to an advocacy function of civil society organizations and to action repertoire, which social movement organizations use to reach their goals. Subsequently is shown how the literature talks about particular forms of action and its selection. There are characteristics mentioned above used in Hierarchical Cluster Analysis on sample of twenty-nine czech feminist organization in the empirical part. Finally, findings of this paper are being discussed. Keywords: Action repertoires, social movements, social movements organization, non-governmental organizations, feminist organizations, Czech activism.
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