scholarly journals The status of nutritional knowledge, attitude and practices associated with complementary feeding in a post-conflict development phase setting: The case of Acholi sub-region of Uganda

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 2374-2385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prossy Nassanga ◽  
Ipolto Okello-Uma ◽  
Duncan Ongeng
Keyword(s):  
Complementary Feeding ◽  
Development Phase ◽  
Nutritional Knowledge ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Status ◽  
Phase Setting

The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights under the 2010 Constitutional Dispensation

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-226
Author(s):  
Bonolo Ramadi Dinokopila ◽  
Rhoda Igweta Murangiri
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
National Human ◽  
The Status ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights

This article examines the transformation of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) and discusses the implications of such transformation on the promotion and protection of human rights in Kenya. The article is an exposition of the powers of the Commission and their importance to the realisation of the Bill of Rights under the 2010 Kenyan Constitution. This is done from a normative and institutional perspective with particular emphasis on the extent to which the UN Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles, 1993) have been complied with. The article highlights the role of national human rights commissions in transformative and/or transitional justice in post-conflict Kenya. It also explores the possible complementary relationship(s) between the KNCHR and other Article 59 Commissions for the better enforcement of the bill of rights.

Development and Application of API Risk Based Inspection Planning for Petroleum and Petrochemical Facilities

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Industry ◽  
Development Phase ◽  
Inspection Planning ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
Future Direction

Abstract This paper describes the status of the API project to develop and maintain Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) methodology for application within the petroleum and chemical industry. The original project has now moved from a “development” phase into an “implement and improve” phase. This paper describes the essential features of API RBI, the most recent enhancements, software features, the future direction for the project, and some user experiences. This paper also describes the acceptance of RBI by various API codes and standards, by jurisdictional authorities, and it also describes the development of an API recommended practice on RBI (API RP 580) as well as the development of an ASME standard on RBI.

scholarly journals Reducing deforestation in Colombia while building peace and pursuing business as usual extractivism?

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Torsten Krause
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
Land Conflicts ◽  
Rural Land Use ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Building Process ◽  
The Status ◽  
Colombian Amazon

In this article, I examine the contradictions and tensions in Colombia's simultaneous embrace of REDD+ and a peace-building process premised on continued extractivism. Colombia is emerging from an internal conflict that lasted more than 50 years. In this process rural land-use is being transformed, generating new conflicts over land use and control with detrimental effects on Colombia's forests. Based on official documents, reports, existing scholarly work, interviews and observations collected during fieldwork in the Colombian Amazon, I analyze the ways in which peace-building and post-conflict transition have precipitated factors which have aggravated land conflicts and led to the escalation of deforestation in Colombia. I argue that Colombia's current REDD+ efforts mainly serve to attract international funding and legitimize the status quo since they remain disconnected from the structural processes that directly and indirectly drive deforestation. As such, REDD+ in Colombia contributes to a contradictory neoliberal approach to development, which promises to safeguard the environment, while supporting large-scale extractive industries, mining, cattle ranching and intensive agriculture, resulting in the increase in deforestation and forest degradation.Key Words: Colombia, post-conflict, peace-building, extractivism, deforestation, REDD+

Towards EU Negotiations: A Moment of Opportunity for the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian Communities in Kosovo?

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 432-452
Author(s):  
Margareta Matache ◽  
Jacqueline Bhabha ◽  
Carrie Bronsther
Keyword(s):  
Scale Up ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Minority Community ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Impact

In the context of an ongoing Kosovo Government agenda promoting European Union accession, this paper examines the impact of two transitions – the post-conflict period and the current EU dialogue and negotiations – on the country’s Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities. The paper discusses the social and political dynamics of these two transitions and how they affect the status of the minority communities. It examines the role of intergovernmental and non-profit organizations in advancing protection measures (e.g. by pressing for the elimination of school segregation) and accelerating implementation of important infrastructure projects (as a prelude to national scale up). The paper compares the standards invoked by the Kosovar Government to those used by other European countries in the prelude to accession. It considers whether the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian political leadership are effectively leveraging the political momentum attached to the protection of minority rights, given that this is a central precondition for EU accession. The paper concludes that the current moment offers a unique window of opportunity to the minority communities, but one that will be squandered if minority community divisions and sectional interests continue, as at present, to compound EU policy implementation failures and thereby impede the path towards a multicultural Kosovo. By contrast, the minority community leadership could take advantage of the Kosovar Government’s interest in demonstrating its future membership bona fides by making a determined and joint effort to press for substantive minority rights protections through a unified platform. The paper suggests examples for development of such a platform.

scholarly journals Current feeding practices and maternal nutritional knowledge on complementary feeding in Korea

2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (10) ◽  
pp. 1090 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hye Won Yom ◽  
Jeong Wan Seo ◽  
Hyesook Park ◽  
Kwang Hae Choi ◽  
Ju Young Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Complementary Feeding ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
Nutritional Knowledge

How Conditional Amnesties Can Assist Transitional Societies in Delivering on the Right to the Truth

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Julian Sarkin
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Transitional Societies ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legal Consequences ◽  
Made In

This article explores how conditional amnesties can assist post-conflict societies to recover truth. It examines how such amnesties can be used optimally to achieve the best results as part of transitional justice mechanisms. Thus, a central question is to see how amnesties can be used for truth recovery purposes. For that reason, the status and role of amnesties, and whether such amnesties can be used to learn more about the past and assist in truth recovery is explored. The article explores what amnesties are, how prevalent they are and how amnesties can be used optimally to achieve the best results. An issue that is also explored is whether amnesties are needed for perpetrators to participate in transitional justice mechanisms. The argument that is made, in this regard, is that amnesty is absolutely necessary to persuade perpetrators to testify. If they do not have such legal protection, perpetrators fear the legal consequences that may result if they admit to crimes for which they have not been charged. Another question that is examined concerns whether amnesties, and specifically conditional amnesties, pass international law muster. This article therefore investigates the continual and extensive use of amnesty to determine whether a conditional amnesty violates international law. The article suggests how a conditional amnesty process could be structured and what difficulties such a process should avoid if perpetrators are to enter such a process.

scholarly journals Effect of Complementary Feeding Practices and Nutritional status of Children (6-23 months) in Tamang Community, Ambhanjyang VDC of Makwanpur

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pratik Pokharel ◽  
Anju Adhikari ◽  
Prakash Lamsal ◽  
Ramhari Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Complementary Feeding ◽  
Feeding Practices ◽  
Nutritional Knowledge ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Development Committee ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors ◽  
Nutritional Status Of Children ◽  
And Behavior

 Background and Objectives: The aim of the paper was designed to know the relationship between complementary feeding, nutritional knowledge and behavior of mothers (IYCF practices) and nutritional status of children less than two years of age at Ambhanjyang Village Development Committee (VDC) of Makwanpur district.Material and Methods: The study was conducted in aforesaid VDC of Makwanpur districts with a total of 120 samples. The questionnaire used consisted of socio-demographic information, health profile, dietary behavior of the child such as amount of feeding, frequency of feeding, diversified food and attitude statements of mothers regarding nutritional knowledge. The nutritional status of the child was assessed on the basis of anthropometric measurements weight and height.Results: In this survey, 21.2 percent of the children were found to be moderately underweight while 5.8 percent of the children were severely underweight, 19.2 percent were moderately stunted while 15 percent were found severely stunted. Likewise, 10.8 percent of the children found moderately wasted and only 1 child was found to be severely wasted. No significant association was observed between various socio-economic factors, complementary feeding practices and nutritional status of a child.Conclusion: The prevalence of under nutrition, stunting and inadequate complementary feeding practices was observed in the study sample. Although no significant association was observed between various socio-demographic factors and nutritional status of a child, there is an immediate requirement of healthy knowledge and change in behavior of mothers of children about complementary feeding practices to prevent the deteriorating nutritional status of child.  Janaki Medical College Journal of Medical Sciences (2017) Vol. 5(1): 22-32

scholarly journals The Status of Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care in Post-Conflict Eastern DRC: A Facility-Level Cross-Sectional Study.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge-André Uwunva MIZERERO ◽  
Calistus Wilunda ◽  
Patou Masika Musumari ◽  
Masako Ono-Kihara ◽  
Gerrye Mubungu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Newborn Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The North ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Who Standards ◽  
The Status ◽  
Republic Of The Congo

Abstract Background Pregnancy-related mortality remains persistently higher in post-conflict areas. Part of the blame lies with continued disruption to vital care provision, especially emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC). In such settings, assessment of EmONC is essential for informed interventions needed to improve maternal and neonatal survival. In the North Kivu Province (NKP), the epicentre of armed conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 2006-2013, the post-conflict status of EmONC is unknown. We assessed the availability, use, and quality of EmONC in 3 health zones (HZs) of the NKP.Method A cross-sectional survey of all 42 public facilities designated to provide EmONC in 3 HZs (Goma, Karisimbi, and Rutshuru), purposively selected based on their relative proximity to previous conflicts and their respective locations encompassing the entire economic landscape of the province, was conducted in 2017. Interviews, reviews of maternity ward records, and observations were used to assess the accessibility, use, and quality of EmONC against WHO standards.Results The 3 HZs fell short of WHO standards. Only three referral facilities (two faith-based facilities in Goma and the MSF-run referral hospital of Rutshuru) met the criteria for comprehensive EmONC, i.e., 1.5 EmONC facilities per 500,000 population. None of the health centres qualified as basic EmONC, nor could offer obstetric and neonatal care services 24 hours, 7 days a week (24/7). Assisted vaginal delivery was the least performed signal function, followed by parenteral administration of anticonvulsants, mostly due to policy restrictions and lack of demand. Moreover, none of the HZs could achieve a direct-obstetric case facility rate of at most 1% and, the met need for EmONC was as low as 6.5% and 5.4% in Goma and Rutshuru, respectively. However, the proportion of births by caesarean section in EmONC facilities met the minimum standard in both HZs. Overall, the intrapartum and very early neonatal death rate was 1.5%.Conclusion This study provides grounds for the development of coordinated and evidence-based programming, involving local and external stakeholders, as part of the post-conflict effort to improve maternal and neonatal health in the NKP. Particular attention to basic EmONC is required, focusing on strengthening human resources, equipment, supply chains, and referral capacity, on the one hand, and on tackling residual insecurity that might hinder 24/7 staff availability, on the other.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF POST-CONFLICT PEACEBUILDING IN UKRAINE

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
The Public ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Status ◽  
Definition Of

The article provides analysis of the general theoretical approaches to the definition of the «post-conflict peacebuilding» concept in global political science. It contains the analysis of the formation and development of the concept by international institutions (the UN and the EU) and individual researchers, considers the features of the concept and the basic definition criteria, highlights several most relevant concepts and approaches. The material actualizes the lack of in-depth research on this topic in the world and in Ukraine. In addition to that, it states the modern problems in the identification and differentiation of concept ‘post-conflict peacebuilding” in the international science. A particular attention was paid to various formulations of the concept of “post-conflict peacebuilding” in Ukraine. The national basis for the research and for the formed concepts, highlighted the principles of creating a definition was examined. The main acquisitions and developments of both sectors on this issue are analyzed, the presence/absence of a clear definition is indicated based on the consideration of governmental documents and statutes/visions of non-governmental organizations. The work identifies the main actors who are involved in the conceptualization of the concept and the promotion of research on the topic. It highlights the documents that mention the problem of peacebuilding. Further to this, it determines the focus of the public sector and indicates the change in the status of Ukraine in the research field. Was made an attempt to determine the practical forms of implementation of the concept in Ukraine. The study determines the mechanisms and forms of testing the concept of post-conflict peacebuilding in Ukraine in practice. Additionally, was assembled a list of organizations that are actively involved in developing the modern concept of post-conflict peacebuilding in Ukraine. The study indicates that introducing an integrated approach for analyzing the problem, coordinating the state and non-state sectors on the issue of peacebuilding is essential. It provides the problems and shortcomings of the research and testing methods. Besides, the paper determined the perspectives for further research on the issue of post-conflict peacebuilding.

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