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Civil Society Shifts, Challenges and Responses to COVID-19: Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Get PDFThis paper discusses to what degree did civil society organisations (CSOs) felt threatened during COVID-19 in Scotland, Wales and Ireland. The authors explore how civil society organisations handled lockdowns. The authors invited three CSOs from Scotland, Wales and Ireland to describe the variations between cultural and political contexts and the influence of social and environmental dynamics on their work during COVID-19. These three countries have been challenged to a great extent by a high level of uncertainty owing to the full lockdowns during COVID-19. Hitherto, the people of Scotland, Wales and Ireland have been living relaxed and operating smoothly. Lockdowns have created challenges for successful CSOs. This paper focuses on the political reactions and social dynamics of CSOs focused on active grassroots participatory democracy and the philosophy that comes with it as a democratic decision-making mechanism where people have the power to vote on progress in the area of public participation and social change. The central finding in our investigation is that CSOs power to influence their politicians or society and become engaged in changes within their society is minimised during the pandemic
Race and Ethnicity in the Pandemic
Get PDFThis study begins with the historical understanding of race and its modern perspectives as a social construct amid social identity and critical race theories. Next, race and ethnicity are explored within the context of COVID-19, whereby those of non-white backgrounds are seeing different disastrous health outcomes and experiencing heightened levels of racism in the pandemic. Examples and analyses from around the world are then provided, which have resulted in health disparities and increased racism against non-white people, such as the high-rise apartment building disasters, rural Indigenous communities, and the Black Lives Matter movement. Adding fuel to the fire, there have been rumours internationally of certain ethnic groups carrying and spreading COVID-19
Working with Young Children in a New World Replete with Assumptions
Get PDFWe lived in an assumptive world until COVID-19 told us that all forms of coziness and security seem to have vanished. By focusing on three basic assumptions about worldview, that the universe is compassionate, that the world is important, and that the world is worthy of itself, we explore how to cope with trauma and sophisticated emotional information. We focus on teachers and their relationship with young children as both groups try to develop strategies to handle their own trauma—teachers helping children cope and teachers managing their own trauma. We worked in a preschool that supports a large number of children that have experienced trauma. Our work focused on 10 teachers and 100 children. The Seasonal Model (2019) was implemented, and groups ran over a 10-week period. Outcomes showed positive trends toward helping teachers develop a deeper understanding of “big behaviours” and managing them, enabling them to help children build strategies to handle their trauma and emotions.
Additionally, outcomes showed that teachers were better equipped to handle their own trauma, whether personal or related to “taking in” the traumatic experiences of the children they were working with. Here is an attempt to knit together the assumptions of educators and young children through the language of art and social work. A conversation is carefully re-crafted around the concept of the assumptive world. This attempt also intends to see how else we can build a world with those who have survived and help them attain their well-being whilst dealing with and coming to terms with their losses.
The Second Chance In Life: Adversities into Opportunities, Dr Bhaskar Bora, Self Published; 1st edition (28 February 2022), Paperback : 223 pages, Printed in Great Britain by Amazon, ISBN-10:1637543670, ISBN-13:978-1637543672, Genre: Autobiographical/
Get PDFUnderstanding the Experiences of Female Members in Zila Parishad, Sylhet, Bangladesh
Get PDFTo encourage women to engage in Bangladesh politics, the local government unit introduced the requirements for reserving seats for women. For this, a district council was formed with a chairperson, and fifteen members, including five reserved seats for women. As a result, in the last four decades, it is evident that there has been an increase in women’s participation in politics and governance. This study explores the female members’ experiences of performing their roles as a member and promoting specific agendas and implementing them. Qualitative methodology was used in this research to assemble data by conducting an in-depth interview with female members looking at their experiences in four Zila Parishads in Sylhet Division, Bangladesh. The findings suggest that the Local Government of Bangladesh should not look at the existing provisions under the Constitution to increase the number of women in the public arena as an end goal but instead as a means to help accomplish gender equity. To achieve this, organisations and instruments of government must recognise a Bangladeshi woman’s identity beyond the vision of gender
Political Economy of Local Level Budgeting in Bangladesh: A Critical Analysis
Get PDFAccompanying the estimation of revenue and expenditure, the local level budget manifests a grassroots area\u27s development plan for a defined period. In Bangladesh, the Union Parishad (UP), the lowest tier of local government, is obliged to prepare its annual budget by ensuring people\u27s participation through various mechanisms and committees following the Local Government (Union Parishad) Act, 2009. With this background, the study explores the UPs\u27 budgeting procedure to identify the influential actors and effectiveness of people\u27s participation from political economy perspectives. Following the qualitative case study approach, this study was conducted on the four Union Parishads in Sylhet, Sunamganj, Cumilla and Narsingdi districts. It follows the in-depth interview and Focus Group Discussion techniques to collect primary data from the UP chairman, members, Upazila Nirbahi Officers (UNO), and other members of various UP committees. The finding shows that mechanisms like Ward Committee (WC), Ward Shava (WS), Standing Committee (SC), Planning Committee (PC) and Social Mapping for ensuring people\u27s participation are not working accordingly. In most cases, these committees are confined to the papers. In practice, the budgeting procedure is dominated by the politically and economically empowered groups, e.g. UP chairman and his allies, ruling party members, local elites and bureaucrats, which is hindering the socio-economic development at the grass-root level in Bangladesh
Managing the Pandemic in the South Asian (SAARC) Countries
Get PDFThis paper explores the coronavirus pandemic response from a South Asian perspective. When their case numbers were still relatively low, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries adopted lockdowns at the same time or before India did. On 24 March 2020, when there were just two confirmed cases, Nepal went into lockdown, and Sri Lanka locked down on 22 March, when there were 78 cases. India locked down the day after Nepal, with all countries imposing some form of restrictions on people’s movement. This paper draws its data from the first year of the pandemic that loomed in the SAARC nations. The regional cooperation provided by SAARC has allowed the sharing of resources and a strengthening of the region’s self-reliance. Notably, the commitment made by India to ensure its neighbours are supplied with vaccines, many of these donated. The eight-member SAARC states are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
This paper draws on the knowledge and perceptions of academics and social workers in the SAARC countries. It provides insight into the responses, impacts, vulnerabilities, and challenges faced by the region and in each specific country since the beginning of COVID-19. This paper also offers a discussion on vaccines, PPE, as well as the role of cooperation across the region. The relationship between India and the SAARC countries and its ‘neighbourhood first’ policy are also discussed
Future of Healthcare
Get PDFIn the current editorial, I delineate the factors that must constitute a recipient rights-based health care system, at least a future health care system. As a reflection on what transpired in the two years of the pandemic, the considerations offered are to assist in rebuilding a realistic allied health care perspective that would not only meet the demands of the future but is able to cope should some other crisis-hit humanity. The conception here calls for more dominant roles for human services professionals involved in social care from various persuasions, such as social work, psychology and several other disciplines that are sector-specific to children and the frail aged
In Search of Sustainable Alternatives: A Comparative Study of Gobindabhog and HYV Rice Cultivation in West Bengal: A Case Study of the State’s Rice Bowl
Get PDFRice plays a vital role in the socio-economic aspects of Purba Bardhaman district, West Bengal - the \u27Rice Bowl’ of the State. The glorious past of this district is associated with several indigenous rice varieties and also the direct relation with the livelihood and social status of the farmers. However, after the Green Revolution in the 1960s, High Yielding Varieties (HYV) flourished rapidly at the cost of indigenous rice varieties. Later on, such aggression resulted in less return gradually and the need for another alteration is expected in the advent of the second Green Revolution for better prospects and profitable farming practices. This study tries to analyse the socio-economic viability and associated risk hazards of both Gobindabhog indigenous and HYV’s rice cultivation. In doing so, the study attempts to search for the alternative one in the contemporary crisis of agriculture taking into account the farmers\u27 socio-economic issues of the study area. Respondents\u27 interviews with a cross-sectional; multi-layered; semi-structured questionnaire and secondary data were used with both thematic narratives and quantitative techniques using IBM SPSS version 20.0 software to reflect the comparison with ground truth. It might be suggested that the cultivation and spreading of indigenous varieties accompanied with HYV’s would be a future solution for both farmers and environmental concerns
COP26 and the Crisis of Climate Change in Bangladesh
Get PDFBangladesh, a developing country located in South Asia, is one of the most environmentally vulnerable countries in the world. Global warming and climate change affect the country’s ecological balance, imposing threats to the existence of humans and animals, especially in flood-prone areas. Natural calamities, including floods, upsurges, cyclones, droughts, and so on, frequently hit some parts of the country. Bangladesh has already encountered massive floods in 1974 and 1988; the giant cyclones in 1970 and 1991; Sidr in 2007, and Ayla in 2009. Floods occur almost every year; as a result, many places of the country are submerged, and people suffer colossal losses—often, their houses and crops are washed away. Many families turn homeless and destitute, living in extreme poverty, and die of hunger. Global warming and climate change are also responsible for heavy rain inundating several cities and for drought destroying crops. The government of Bangladesh attempts to draw international attention to the impacts of global warming and climate change in different forums. In COP26, which took place in Glasgow in November 2021, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh seriously addressed the issue and sought the attention of world leaders to take steps to redress the impacts of climate change and global warming. This study attempts to delve into the environmental issues, COP26, and the effects of climate change and global warming in Bangladesh