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Building For Culture: How Municipal Ownership Of Cultural Facilities Influences Annual Arts Funding In American Cities, Adam M. Sachs

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis explores how local government support for arts and culture varies across 24 American cities. It has proven to be challenging for researchers to accurately measure municipal arts support. Research on cultural policy has also often focused on the federal level, despite total city expenditures far exceeding national or state government support. This thesis attempts to take an accurate pulse of city expenditures in 2017 and correlates those spending levels to the variation in city ownership of arts facilities. Rooted in the historical perspectives of the ‘new institutionalism’ and path-dependency, this paper argues that past decisions about taking ownership …

Implementation Of Naptip Policy In Nigeria, Usman Usman Mika’Il

Student Works (2020-2029)

Human trafficking is a complex, clandestine and a global issue involving countries, as a source, transit or destination nations. Nigeria has been a severe source country. The exploitation of young females into sex trafficking in Nigeria is highly prevalent than other types of trafficking in the country. Fortunately, the government shows willingness and readiness to fight human trafficking. In this context, the passage of the first private bill saw the establishment of a National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and other related matters in the year 2003. The NAPTIP Act is the primary policy document dealing …

Ap Mine Ban Convention 2020 Intercessional Meeting: Statements On Matters Related To Victim Assistance Implementation, Apmbc

Global CWD Repository

Updated information submitted by States and organizations on matters related to the status of implementation of the Convention and the Oslo Action Plan. States parties that have declared significant numbers of landmines survivors: Iraq, Peru, South Sudan, Sudan, Tajikistan, Yemen.

Other States Parties and organizations: Chile and United Kingdom.

Ap Mine Ban Convention 2020 Intercessional Meeting: Statements On Matters Related To Cooperation And Assistance, Apmbc

Global CWD Repository

Matters related to the status of implementation of the Convention and the Oslo Action Plan.

Specific matters related to Cooperation and Assistance: Chile, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Netherlands, Peru, Senegal, Sudan, Switzerland, Tajikistan, United Kingdom

Ap Mine Ban Convention Intercessional 2020 Meeting: Statements On Matters Related To Stockpile Destruction And Retained Mines, Apmbc

Global CWD Repository

Written submissions from States and organisations on matters related to the status of implementation of the Convention and the Oslo Action Plan.

Matters specifically related to Stockpile Destruction and Retained Mines: Chile, Indonesia, Ireland, Netherlands

Ap Mine Ban Convention 2020 Intercessional Meeting: Full Program, Apmbc

Global CWD Repository

Full program for the 2020 APMBC Intercessional Meeting June-July 2020 including concept notes for several panels including:

• Effective Implementation for All: Gender and Diverse Needs in Practice
• Aligning Donor Coordination to Support Implementation of the Oslo Action Plan
• Victim Assistance, Safety and Protection in Situations of Risk and Humanitarian Emergencies
• Addressing Anti-Personnel mines of an Improvised Nature under the Convention’s Framework
• Cooperative Compliance and the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention

Ap Mine Ban Convention 2020 Intercessional Meeting: Committee On Victim Assistance Observations, Apmbc

Global CWD Repository

APMBC Intercessional Meeting June-July 2020 Committee on Victim Assistance preliminary observations by the following countries:

• Algeria
• Angola
• Cambodia
• Chile
• Colombia
• Croatia
• Ethiopia
• Iraq
• Jordan
• Mozambique
• Peru
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Tajikistan
• Thailand
• Turkey
• Yemen
• Zimbabwe

Ap Mine Ban Convention 2020 Intercessional Meeting: President Of The Eighteenth Meeting Of States Parties, Apmbc

Global CWD Repository

President of the Eighteenth Meeting of the States Parties:

• Preliminary Observations of the President on Stockpile Destruction
• Status of Article 7 Reporting
• Anti-Personnel Mine Reported Retained under Article 3
• Guide to reporting - updated June 2020
• 18MSP draft provisional agenda

Ap Mine Ban Convention 2020 Intercessional Meeting: Committee On Article 5 Implementation Observations, Apmbc

Global CWD Repository

Background documents and preliminary observations of the Committee on Article 5 Implementation from the following countries:

• Angola
• Argentina
• Cambodia
• Croatia
• Ethiopia
• Iraq
• Mozambique
• Oman
• Peru
• Serbia
• Sudan
• Tajikistan
• Thailand
• Turkey
• United Kingdom
• Yemen
• Zimbabwe

Geneva International Centre For International Demining Annual Report 2019, Gichd

Global CWD Repository

In 2019, GICHD staff supported 27 countries to improve mine action and ammunition management globally and locally and delivered over 30 training sessions and workshops. To carry out this work, our staff grew. As of the end of 2019, the GICHD is made up of 79 staff members representing 26 nations.

Read about the major achievements of the Centre's work in 2019, as well as highlights, financial statements and the most recent list of the members of the Council of Foundation and the Advisory Board.

Ap Mine Ban Convention 2020 Intercessional Meeting: Committee On Cooperative Compliance, Apmbc

Global CWD Repository

Preliminary observations from the Committee on Cooperative Compliance

Lessons From The Assessment For Learning Project: Strategies For Building An Authentic Learning Community, Heather Lewis-Charp, Daniela Berman, Sarah Lench, Tony Siddall

The Foundation Review

This article explores findings from an evaluation of the Assessment for Learning Project, a grantee engagement strategy led by the Center for Innovation in Education focused on creating a learning community founded in continuous reflection and safety for risk-taking. The article shares the project’s model and approach, grounded in the core design elements of a field-facing learning agenda, grantmaking that leads with learning, and collective leadership.

This article highlights the Assessment for Learning Project’s practices, such as a Request for Learning rather than traditional Request for Proposals; a requirement that grantees provide formative feedback to each other; and public demonstrations …

Coherent Assistance In Education Improvement: How Foundations Can Help, Ann Jaquith, Rosa Chavez

The Foundation Review

Philanthropic organizations are experimenting with ways to support capacity building in order to scale innovations and leverage funding for greater social impact. Increasingly, philanthropies are also attending to their own organizational needs for learning in order to inform strategy, shape future work, and measure effectiveness.

This article shares the lessons of the Aligned Partners Project, a three-year study of a foundation-funded interorganizational collaboration to align the work of three technical assistance organizations to meet the needs of one school district. It identifies challenges to providing coherent assistance as well as grantmaking practices that could address them.

A foundation seeking to …

Executive Summaries

The Foundation Review

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Turning Changemaking Inward: How One Health Philanthropy Transformed Its Grantmaking Approach To Drive Deeper Impact, Christina Ellis, Laura Pinsoneault, Sarah Deering, Jesse Ehrenfeld, Erin Fabian, Cheryl Maurana

The Foundation Review

In 2014, the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment made a significant shift in focus to supporting adaptive rather than programmatic solutions to address critical health issues, and adopted a new approach that emphasized engagement with key stakeholders, recognizing the importance of contribution over attribution and requiring a long-term perspective on outcomes.

The endowment identified three new “changemaker” roles for itself, alongside new funding mechanisms and a set of conditions where positive change could be supported to influence health. While changemaking began as a description of the endowment’s strategic direction, today this philanthropic philosophy permeates all that …

Women’S Grantmaking For Economic Security: The Work Of One Coalition, Elizabeth May Gillespie

The Foundation Review

Philanthropy has historically been an avenue for citizens to pursue positive social change, yet little is known about what foundations are doing to foster economic security for women. This article seeks to help bridge this gap between theory and practice through an examination of one type of philanthropic organization — women’s grantmaking funds.

Focusing on the work of Prosperity Together, a coalition of 30 of women’s grantmaking funds dedicated to advancing women’s economic security, this article explores what the funds are doing to support this work. It draws on data from a landscape scan of the coalition’s members as well …

Front Matter

The Foundation Review

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Full Issue

The Foundation Review

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The Experiences Of A Foundation With A Limited Life: Benefits And Challenges, Lynda Mansson

The Foundation Review

This article discusses the benefits and drawbacks of a limited-life foundation’s philanthropy practice. The strengths, including a sharpened strategic focus and sense of urgency, and the challenges, such as ensuring impact and dealing with grantee dependency, are also relevant when closing a program. Drawing on reflections from the director general of the MAVA Foundation and learnings from foundations that have recently closed, this article also discusses how to prepare for the end date of a limited-life foundation. MAVA, a Swiss-based grantmaking foundation for 25 years, has a planned end date of 2022. The article features key lessons for foundations considering …

Back Matter

The Foundation Review

No abstract provided.