National Aid Research Articles

Veterinary Services'use of the Global Burden of Animal Diseases to prioritise interventions, monitor impact and develop critical competencies.

Attracting and sustaining investment in Veterinary Services and animal health programmes from national government budgets, development aid and grants, and philanthropic donors requires economic rationale using relevant, reliable and validated analytical approaches. The complex interwoven relationships between animal health, livestock husbandry systems, national food security, global health security and environmental sustainability emphasise the importance of improving data governance and stewardship and applying economic analysis to understand animal disease burdens. These efforts should enable prioritised investment of limited resources and effective monitoring of the impact of programmes over time. Data governance and stewardship capacities are fundamental to development, implementation and performance monitoring of evidence-based policies in animal health. There are challenges in data availability for national and subnational livestock populations in different sectors, for disease incidence and prevalence, and for animal health expenditure in support of optimised allocation of scarce resources, be they finance, land, labour, or management attention and policy focus. Animal health data systems governance and stewardship and economic analysis are core skills for Veterinary Services in developing and applying evidence-based policy, but capability probably varies among World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) Members. The WOAH Performance of Veterinary Services programme has several critical competencies that are relevant to economics of animal health and to data governance and stewardship, but these have not yet been targeted for coordinated capacity development. Implementation of publicâ€"private partnership approaches for animal health programmes creates increasing expectations of robust data and methods for prioritisation, options analysis, and assessing impacts and costs. Experience and examples from national systems in New Zealand, Australia, Ethiopia and Indonesia illustrate current challenges associated with prioritisation of animal health programmes using economic analysis. The Global Burden of Animal Diseases programme intends to support WOAH Members and partners to develop capacities for and standardise approaches to economic analysis and prioritisation in animal health programmes.

Cosmopolitan solidarity in crises: Volunteer translation as a prosocial collective action

When a crisis happens, the affected region is very often culturally and linguistically diverse, with complex linguistic maps which are further complicated by the linguistic diversity of the rescue and humanitarian responders. Lesser-used languages often have fewer resources for provision of professional translators. Thus, the speakers of these languages depend on autonomous and civic solidarity (Agustín & Jørgensen, 2019), including support in translation and interpreting. For example, during the recent earthquake in Türkiye language support was provided by volunteer translators serving many national rescue teams and relief aid workers. In addition, during the 2015 refugee crises in Europe citizen groups used cultural activities to show solidarity. This article examines the act of translation as a prosocial activity that shows solidarity with the victims in crisis situations. It raises awareness about the linguistic challenges faced by communities in crisis situations and identifies strategies to overcome these challenges using volunteer translation. By narrating individual translator motivations, it identifies solidarity as a form of advocacy and empowerment, while showing empathy towards the crisis-affected people.

중국의 법률구조제도

Legal aid refers to a social security system where legal support is provided by government-established legal aid agencies or law firm-affiliated lawyers to economically disadvantaged individuals or parties in special cases. However, China's legal aid system differs significantly from most countries. The Chinese government establishes legal aid centers, manages their operations, and bears the financial burden, including staff salaries, while encouraging private foundations to support legal aid activities. It also fosters the participation of private lawyers in legal aid by establishing various systems and mechanisms. The essence of legal aid is public service. China's legal aid system is undergoing several developmental stages to rapidly establish a comprehensive national system. The state first proposed the legal aid system, then implemented the <Legal aid regulations> followed by the enactment and promulgation of the <Legal Aid Law of the people's Republic of China>, clarifying the responsibilities and obligations of the state and individuals towards legal aid. National legal aid centers were established to employ specialized staff for legal aid work, allowing lawyers to handle legal aid cases or participate in legal aid consultations through these centers. Considering China's national policy, special legal aid systems have been established for various groups, like migrant workers and retired military personnel. To enhance efficiency and enable more citizens to access legal aid, legal service websites have been developed to provide online legal consultations. Additionally, a national public legal service hotline offers legal aid through phone consultations. Despite these developments, China's legal aid system faces numerous challenges due to its vast territory and large population, leading to imbalances in urban development and national income. This results in issues like staff and budget shortages in some legal aid centers. Therefore, a key future challenge is to make the national legal aid system more accessible to those in need and to develop solutions for issues related to manpower and budget.

Does the (socio-political) socialization context matter for paternal involvement?

Previous literature on paternal involvement emphasizes the influence of fathers’ socialization contexts, considering either welfare policies (Hipp and Leuze, 2015) or experiences with their own fathers (Brown et al., 2018; Parke, 1995). In this study, we combine those two branches of research and examine how fathers’ and their fathers’ (grandfathers’) socialization experiences (parental leave regulations in their early adulthood as an example of (de-)familization policies (Lohmann and Zagel, 2016)) predict paternal involvement today. To measure paternal involvement, we create an indicator for involvement that covers Lamb et al. (1985) three aspects of direct interaction, responsibility, and availability and the fact that a father has taken paternal leave for at least one of his children or not. We use the fact that a substantial proportion of the fathers in the German, national survey AID:A 2019 (Kuger et al., 2020) were socialized in another welfare state regime (6.3% of fathers have a direct and another 13.5% have an indirect migration background (their fathers were born in another country) covering birth cohorts from the 1970s to the 1990s; total N = 1053). We then add context-related information on their (fathers’ and grandfathers’) countries of origin from the OECD family database and estimate an SEM model to test potential direct and indirect effects. We find that more educated fathers who experienced extended parental leave regulations are more involved fathers today. Our results support, thus, that welfare state conditions influence individuals’ behaviour while education is a relevant moderator in this relationship.

Conditions of the family environment conducive to children's life success in the opinions of war refugees from Ukraine

Life success is an essential area of social sciences and humanities research. The article's main goal is to present the factors of the family environment that contribute to children's success in life, in the opinion of surveyed war refugees from Ukraine. Additionally, information was presented on how war refugees from Ukraine understand life success. The concepts of success and life success were explained. The reasons for the arrival of war refugees from Ukraine to Poland were presented. Global, international, national and local aid is described. Based on the research results, it was found that in the process of educating children to succeed in life, the most critical factors are supporting the child’s self-confidence, frequent displays of parental love and developing planning skills (setting goals). The surveyed people most often understood success in life as: having a happy family, being happy and healthy. The situation of armed conflict, which is the reason for the arrival of war refugees from Ukraine to Poland, makes family life difficult for these refugees. Conducting scientific research in such a specific situation has, in addition to its descriptive nature, also a cognitive value. It allows you to learn about parents' opinions about their children’s success in life.

“The Brains Are Frozen”: Precarious Subjectivities in the Humanitarian Aid Sector in Jordan

Under the influence of neoliberal policies and marketisation dynamics, the humanitarian sector’s labour conditions become increasingly insecure. Based on one year of fieldwork in Amman, Jordan, and interviews with 39 aid professionals, this article explores the experiences of these insecure and precarious labour conditions of national and international aid workers in Jordan. Precarity in the humanitarian field is often discussed concerning aid recipients, such as refugees. It is, however, understudied in connection to aid professionals and those providing aid and care, and there is a wider lack of research on university‐educated professionals’ experiences of precarity. In line with feminist and decolonial scholars, I understand labour as closely interconnected with other spheres of life and look at precarity through an emotional lens. I explore aid professionals’ emotions around their work conditions to come to a deeper understanding of precarious work and the difficulties of living in precarity. By taking emotions seriously, I show that they are an important yet understudied site of analysis to unravel what generates precarity for aid workers and precarity’s effects on aid workers’ lives and work. I argue that the structural conditions of their work produce precarious subjectivities, which are expressed in feelings such as frozenness, fatigue, and unsafety.

Privatization of public enterprises in the emerging market: Problems and prospects

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are known to provide service delivery to people because of their lack of profit motives. However, politicians (elected officials) who engage in corrupt practices often use SOEs as cash cows. Simultaneously, SOEs’ success drives national economic development and aid in the fight against poverty. The aim of this study was to investigate whether privatization of SOEs can turn around the losses they make and lead to viability. This study employed a desktop approach in which reports, financial statements, and various documents on numerous SOEs were reviewed. The time span used for the reviewed documents was 20 years (2002–2022). The findings of this study indicate that many SOEs in South Africa have incurred insurmountable losses due to corruption and poor fiscal management. Thus, privatization of such entities may look noble, yet it is a short-term fix to the problem.

Summary of the First Forum on Ethnic Costumes Research

Since it’s renaming in September 2022, the Ethnic Clothing Research Committee of the Chinese Anthropology and Ethnology Research Society has held two academic symposia in Lijiang and Shanghai. The events were aimed at exploring how the cultural heritage of ethnic costumes in the new era can genuinely and effectively consolidate the sense of a Chinese national community and aid rural revitalization. The committee, under the banner of “inherit tradition, innovate culture” and with the theme “Ethnic costume and the consolidation of Chinese national community consciousness”, held the first forum. The forum was a factual and practical implementation of spirit, cultural revitalization, and support for reinvigoration.

Self-Sustainability with Therapeutic Phlebotomy, a Solution to the National Blood Crisis?

CONCLUSION Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a genetic condition associated with iron overload in the human body. The mainstay of treatment remains therapeutic phlebotomy. On August 1st, 2022, the American Red Cross approved using blood obtained from therapeutic phlebotomy for transfusion. While normal individuals can donate blood only as often as once in 56 days, individuals with HH can have phlebotomy as often as once weekly. Utilizing the blood collected from these patients could be a significant resource to mitigate the shortage of blood needed for transfusion. We aimed to quantify the number of units of blood removed by therapeutic phlebotomy from individuals with HH and assess its potential contribution to total units of blood required in a community hospital for two years (2021 and 2022). We retrospectively reviewed electronic medical records of adult individuals who underwent therapeutic phlebotomy at Saint Vincent Hospital between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2022. Patients with hereditary hemochromatosis were identified based on a positive genetic test for HFE gene mutations. We collected data including gender, race, age at diagnosis, and the number of units of blood removed from patients during the study period. The total number of units transfused in the in-patient care services and operating room was obtained. A descriptive statistic was performed using R version 4.2.2 statistics software. A total of 112 patients received therapeutic phlebotomy over two years (2021 and 2022) of whom 65% (N=73) had a diagnosis of HH. A majority of the patients were males (60%, 44/73) and were non-Hispanic/Latino (85%, 62/73). The mean age at diagnosis of HH was 62 [standard deviation (SD): 17] years. The median number of units of blood removed by phlebotomy per patient with HH was 3 (2-5), the annual distribution is as displayed in Table 1. A total of 504 units of whole blood was removed through therapeutic phlebotomy from 73 patients during the study period. The total requirement for blood transfusion across all the departments in the hospital was 6065 units (2,733 units in 2021 and 3,332 units in 2022). The total number of units removed through therapeutic phlebotomy in HH patients represented 8.31% (504/6065 Units) and 82.49% (504/611 Units) of total units of blood requirement for the entire hospital and operating room respectively (Table 2). The units of blood removed through therapeutic phlebotomy of patients with HH, could potentially help sustain 8.31% of total blood requirement of the hospital. Primarily, over 82% of the demand from the operating room could be fulfilled if the entirety of the blood from therapeutic phlebotomy were to be transfused. Overcoming technical challenges in utilizing the blood from therapeutic phlebotomy for transfusion in routine clinical practice could help mitigate the national blood crisis and aid in self-sustainability of blood products at a community level. Our study highlights the need for broader efforts to create awareness and incentivizing re-utilization of blood obtained from therapeutic phlebotomy.

Integrated emergency management of ‘lifeline’ highway networks: lessons for interoperability

In 2021 the UK government published a review of lessons learned by the UK highways sector from extreme weather emergencies. As described in this paper, the review focused on the sector’s engagement with integrated emergency management and managing highways as critical ‘lifeline’ infrastructure. Focusing on robustness, reliability, redundancy, rapidity, resourcefulness and recovery, the review identified the need to develop consistent rapid impact assessment reporting, linked to regional- and national-level mutual aid contingencies. Underpinning this was the need to strengthen highway engineers’ ability to ‘prepare for their worst day, rather than their average day’.

The new Spanish far‐right movement: Crisis, national priority and ultranationalist charity

AbstractDuring the Great Recession, a group of identitarian nativist associations emerged in Spain, which, over time, gave shape to a new social movement: the Cultural Associations of National Aid (Asociaciones Culturales de Ayuda Nacional). Based on a digital ethnography and critical discursive analysis, this paper aims to examine their worldview and ‘repertoire of contention’, focusing on the latest events that have shaken the world and, more particularly, Spanish society. This research highlights two contributions to the nationalism and far‐right social movements study: ‘national priority’ as a radicalization of the ‘national preference’, and ‘national aid’ as a new discriminatory non‐state aid, which we will refer to as ‘ultranationalist charity’.

Development Goals, commercial interest and EU Aid-for-Trade

The extent to which official development assistance (ODA) conforms to internationally agreed goals and principles of aid effectiveness may be influenced by donors’ national interests. Disentangling the extent to which national ODA is motivated by development goals vs. commercial self-interest is difficult. European Union (EU) member states provide external aid through EU-level institutions and independently through national aid programs. Theory suggests pooled EU-level aid facilitates satisfying development effectiveness principles while bilateral ODA is more likely to reflect national interests. We investigate this hypothesis for a subset of ODA, aid for trade (AfT), provided by donors to recipient countries between 2002 and 2018. We find a strong, statistically significant positive relationship between AfT provided by EU donors and their exports to recipient countries. In contrast, AfT provided by EU institutions and non-European states enhances merchandise imports from recipient countries.

Towards more sustainable Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) projects in Magway Region, Myanmar

Clean water and sanitation are essential for human development. Governments, international and national aid organizations have implemented water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) projects worldwide, notably in low- and middle-income countries. However, the majority of such projects experience failure. As a result, 2.4 billion people worldwide are deprived of improved WASH services. Research revealing how WASH projects can be sustained and which factors need to be considered is crucial. Despite the gap and its importance, existing studies on the sustainability assessment of WASH projects are limited. This study attempted to assess and compare the sustainability of WASH projects in Myanmar that used the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST) approaches with the “Sustainability Check” developed by The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). This research also evaluated the extent to which WASH projects contributed to the Myanmar National WASH Strategy. The study results show that both CLTS and PHAST project operations fully met the sustainability standards regarding accessibility and intra-village equity. Other sustainability indicators, such as water quality, use of sanitation facilities, and handwashing facilities, were at or above 85% and had already met the 2025 national targets. In contrast, handwashing practices have reached the 2030 national targets. The findings revealed that technical factors, institutional factors (at the community level), social, financial, and sanitation factors contributed to WASH project sustainability. The results also highlight the need for strengthening collaboration with local government to ensure that communities receive post-implementation support from local authorities, to encourage community participation and foster sense of ownership, to empower community-based bodies for O&M and monitoring of water and sanitation facilities, to integrate appropriate behavioral change activities, and to align with the National WASH Strategy. This study would be beneficial for WASH practitioners to ensure the inclusion of factors that support sustainability in the execution of future WASH projects.Graphical abstract

Exploring the Impact of Ecuador´s Policies on the Right to Health of Venezuelan Migrants during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review.

Venezuela's ongoing economic and political crisis has forced more than 6 million people to emigrate from the country since 2014. In the Andean region, Ecuador is one of the main host countries for Venezuelan migrants and refugees. During the COVID-19 pandemic, specific measures were implemented in the country to control the spread of the disease and its associated impacts. In this context, we conducted a scoping review to understand how policies implemented by the Ecuadorian government during the pandemic impacted Venezuelan migrants' right to health. The literature search focused on scientific and grey publications between 2018 and 2022 in electronic databases and institutional websites, complemented by snowball sampling and expert advice. Our thematic analysis revealed discrepancies between the rights granted to migrants in Ecuador's legal framework and their practical implementation during the pandemic, with several instances of policy and programmatic infringement. Disruption of services further complicated migrant's options for regularization. Some measures, like border closures, negatively impacted migrants' health, including increased exposure to abuse and violence. While migrants were included in the country's COVID-19 vaccination plan, they were excluded from other national aid programmes. There are indications of an increase in xenophobia and discrimination stigmatizing migrants as "disease carriers" and "resource takers", resulting in a prioritization of services for the Ecuadorian population. We found limited research on the emergent topic of migrants' vulnerability and related health system challenges. Future research should include working in border zones, consider socioeconomic factors, and further explore the poor implementation of Ecuador's legal framework towards upholding of migrants' right to health.

국가건강보장체계에서 의약품 시장 구조와 제네릭 사용추세 분석(2007-2017)

We aimed to analyze the market structure and changes in the market share of new drugs, original drugs, and generic drugs in the pharmaceutical market over the past ten years. We utilized national health insurance claims data, including both national health insurance and medical aid, from 2007 to 2017 to establish pharmaceutical expenditure and usage data. The drugs are categorized into new drugs, original drugs (expired patents), and generic drugs. Furthermore, we classified the original drugs as single-source and multi-source original drugs based on whether generic drugs had entered the market. Market share is calculated based on the volume and value of drugs in each category. The results indicate that the total pharmaceutical expenditure increased by 1.75 times, from 10.4 trillion Korean won (KRW) in 2007 to 18.2 trillion KRW in 2017. The number of claimed ingredients and drug items also increased during the same period. In 2017, the market share of new drugs accounted for 10.3% of the total pharmaceutical expenditure, while original drugs and generic drugs accounted for 45.9% and 43.8%, respectively. The study reveals a slight decline in the market share of generics in the decade. Further sub-analyses based on formulation, medical center types, and the number of generic drugs provide additional insights into the market dynamics. These findings contribute to understanding the trends and implications of pharmaceutical expenditure and the role of generics in achieving sustainable development in national health insurance.

Helping After the 2020 Earthquake in Croatia: The Role of Men's and Women's National Identity

The goal of this study was to investigate whether the association between national identity and providing direct aid to individuals impacted by the 2020 earthquake in Croatia differs depending on the gender. A convenience sample of 374 Croatian residents (70.1% women) between 18 and 64 years old completed a cross-sectional survey on-line. Participants, using valid questionaires, self-reported their level of national identity and how much direct assistance they provided to people in earthquake-affected areas. The study employed a linear regression model to test the moderating effect of gender on the relationship between national identity and direct aid provision. The results showed that the interaction between national identity and gender significantly affected helping: higher levels of national identity predicted greater helping among men but not women. This suggests that men were more motivated than women to provide aid after the earthquake due to their sense of national identity and affiliation with the nation. These findings have significant implications for disaster relief efforts, as different motivations may be at play when providing aid during crises. Relief organizations can tailor their efforts to meet the needs and motivations of different groups, resulting in more effective relief efforts

The Impact of First Aid Training Program on School Health Staff Knowledge, Attitude and Practice at National Guard Girl Schools in Riyadh-Saudi Arabia

Aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of the first aid training program on school health staff knowledge, attitude, and practice at the National Guard girl schools, Riyadh-Saudi Arabia. Materials and Methods: Quasi-experimental design was used. A purposive sample was conducted to enroll the study participants, the total number was 103 school health staff. A structured self-administered questionnaire was designed. Results: The findings pointed out the mean age of the participants was (38.32 + 5.08). Sixty percent of the participants had less than 5 years of experience as school health staff and only 11.7% of them had received prior first aid training. There was a statistically significant difference between the total mean scores of the participants’ knowledge and practice in pre/post-test. There was a substantial shift in participants’ positive attitudes towards the training program in the post-test compared to the pretest. Conclusion: Based on the results of the present investigation, there was an improvement in school health staff (advisors) knowledge, practices, and attitude towards first aid after application of the program. Recommendation: A national initiative is highly recommended to make all schools in Saudi Arabia a safer environment through the provision of a national first aid program for school health advisors (staff).

Humanitarian Aid of the Red Cross and Other Public Organizations of the Netherlands To Soviet Russia During the Famine of 1921–1923

Historiography of the famine in Soviet Russia and Ukraine 1921-23. includes a large number of scholar papers covering foreign humanitarian aid to starving population in the context of the work of such large organizations as the American Relief Administration, the Nansen Committee, etc. At the same time, there are practically no articles and thesis which fully describe the assistance to the Soviet starving from individual states and national aid committees. The purpose of this article is to highlight and summarize the main aspects of the activities of the Dutch charitable and public organizations on the territory of Soviet Russia and the Ukrainian SSR during the famine of 1921-23 on the basis of documents from the Russian central and regional archives, as well as the National Archives of Sweden, whose data are first introduced into the scientific circulation. Despite the absence of diplomatic relations between Soviet Russia and the Netherlands, representatives of almost all sectors of Dutch society took part in that activities. The collected data allow us to identify four main channels for the receipt of Dutch humanitarian aid in the areas affected by crop failure:1) Pro-government and public charitable organizations (the Red Cross of the Netherlands, the Dutch branch of the International Union "Save the Children"), which provided aid to the population in Volga region, Crimea and in Ukraine. In addition to sending humanitarian supplies, the Dutch Red Cross equipped its own expedition to Samara province;2) Associations of trade unions of the Second International, which participated in the financing of an independent expedition of the "International Federation of Trade Unions" to the Chuvash Autonomous Region;3) communist trade unions and associations of the Netherlands, acting through the organization "International Workers' Aid", which took part in the restoration of the Soviet national economy, and also maintained numerous orphanages in Soviet Russia;4) Religious societies of Dutch Mennonite Protestants, which sent humanitarian aid to the places of settlement of their co-religionists, where, at the insistence of the Soviet government, they provided aid to all those in need, regardless of religion.All the activities of various Dutch organizations and individual citizens in Soviet Russia and the Ukraine showed the readiness of the population and political forces of the Netherlands to maintain close contacts and interaction between our peoples, regardless of the official relations of states and political differences.

Assessing the utility of the national student financial aid scheme towards skills development: A case of a rural university in South Africa

Assessing the utility of the national student financial aid scheme towards skills development: A case of a rural university in South Africa

Sustainable entrepreneurship strategies for SMME development in the fourth industrial revolution within Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

The emergence of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) poses the risk of bringing about a new wave of disparities due to changed employment patterns and a global economic environment that is experiencing rapid transformation. Automation and so-called «thinking machines» are displacing humans in a variety of professions and functions, which in turn is causing businesses to reevaluate the competencies they seek in prospective workers. The main goal of sustainable economic participation in the 4IR is to harness the localized economic potential by promoting innovation to all its growth aspects. This is accomplished via a unified approach to development rather than a «one size fits all» solution. To that aim, small, micro, and medium-sized enterprises (SMMEs) is one of the most crucial pillars that support the economy. As a result, sustainable entrepreneurship in the context of the 4IR was approached in this research as an outcome-based local initiative that that was addressed by key stakeholders. The fundamental purpose of this study was to analyze the factors that led to the successful identification and utilization of local resources, ideas, and skills by entrepreneurs in order to stimulate economic growth and development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). The aim of this study was to evaluate the problems faced by company owners and the impact that provincial and national government aid had on their ability to continue operations. In this study, qualitative research technique and an exploratory research methodology were employed. The 12 SMMEs comprising the study's population are located in the eThekwini area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The participants in the study were not selected by chance, but rather on the basis of a predetermined criterion aimed at senior management. Semi-structured interviews constituted the entirety of the data collection. The data was analyzed via NVivo and thematic analysis. This research has contributed to the subject by presenting a business sustainability strategy for SMMEs, with the aim of enhancing the performance and growth of these firms in an uncertain digital realm.