Articulation Of Policy Research Articles

Right to Food Policies, Justice and Sovereignty in Nigeria

This study assessed the right to food policies, justice and sovereignty in Nigeria. The main areas of concentration were: introduction, meaning of food policy, some food policies in Nigeria, types of policies, audit of right to food policies in Nigeria, past policy articulations (1900 – 1999), food policy articulation and policy thrust in 2003, food policy legislations, sovereignty of food and agricultural development among many others. The study indicated that food policy is a public declaration that conveys the decisions to pursue a specific course of action aimed at improving food production practices, ensuring output growth and the overall development of the food sector. Some food policies in Nigeria are; food crop production policy, livestock production policy, food commodity storage policy among others. The study identified three types of polices namely; position declaration, policy statements and discussion papers. Past policy articulations are: Timber/non timber policy 1937, food policy 1946 and food policy for the western region 1952. Some policy legislations were identified, namely: adulteration of produce ordinance No.67 of 1917; 29 of 1920, 8th November 1917, Weight and measurements Act No. 32 of 1974 to June 1975 and River Basin Development Authorities Act No.35 of 1st October, 1986. Some inventory of right to food sovereignty strategies in Nigeria includes: Sovereignty strategy formulations, commodity boards, National Accelerated Food Production Project (NAFPP), National Livestock Development Project (NLDP), Operation Feed the Nation (OFN) and Green Revolution among very many others. One major problem of food policy implementation is lack of a well-defined programme. In conclusion, Right to Food Policy, Justice and Sovereignty Implementation means money spent, laws enforced, employees hired, plan of action formulated and carried out successfully for the development of the Nigerian food sub-sector. But the problem with Nigerian food policies is the structure among which is the absence of central coordinating members. Also, the study recommended that there is the need for government to set institutions that will monitor the planning and execution of food polices projects. Key words: Agricultural Development, Food, Justice, Legislations, Nigeria, Policies, Rights, Sovereignty

The burden of non-communicable diseases in India: Why the intersectionality lens matters?

In India, structures such as caste, class and gender have been shaped by socio-historical forces such as colonialism, development, capitalism and patriarchy. Many of the forces are still at play. The intersection of such structural bases happens in a complex manner in a dynamic socio-historical environment resulting in differential power and privileges for individuals and social groups in Indian society. NCDs are chronic and social determinism shapes the lifestyle choices (e.g. diet and physical activity) that people make. Intersectional experiences result in distinct life chances, shaping exposure to risk factors (both behavioural and environmental), care seeking behaviour, and health outcomes. It is, therefore, imperative to go beyond the individual in the discourse on NCDs. It is equally necessary to understand the complexity of the dynamic and intersecting nature of inequities playing out in socio-historical contexts that shape intersectional experiences of uneven exposure to risk factors, care seeking behaviour and resultant health outcomes for social groups and population subgroups in India. The epidemiological capture of the public health discourse on NCDs in India is reflected in the research and policy articulation of it. This can be limiting, both in terms of understanding NCDs, and responding to it in policies and programmes to secure population health. The appreciation of the importance of the intersectionality lens, and its adoption in research and policy formulation on NCDs in India, will be crucial in lessening their burden and promoting the health of its people. Using the lens in the design, implementation and evaluation of programmes on NCDs can advance equity in India.

Ganjar Pranowo's Political Communication on Twitter; 2024 Presidential Victory Strategy

This research analyzes Ganjar Pranowo’s strategic focus in the 2024 Presidential election on three sub-themes of the Human Development Index, namely Health, Education, and Economy via Twitter. This research aims to understand how Ganjar Pranowo uses the Twitter platform to highlight Health, Education, and Economic issues in the context of the 2024 Presidential election. The study has academic relevance because it provides insight into how a political candidate uses social media to convey political message. Meanwhile, this research can practically offer political candidates’ and campaign teams’ preferences in designing communication strategies via social media. The methodology used in this research is qualitative with the Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) Miner approach. Content, network, and cloud analysis was performed using the Nvivo 12 Plus software. The findings were that Health was the main topic, with a discussion percentage of 47.11%, followed by Education with 34.71%, and Economics with 18.18%. This reflects Ganjar Pranowo’s emphasis on access to quality health services and commitment to education issues. This finding means that it provides insight into the focus of his political strategy. The research concludes that Ganjar Pranowo’s strategy in using Twitter in the context of the 2024 presidential election focuses on Health and Education issues as an attraction for voters. However, economic discussions and articulation of economic policies must be improved to ensure voters understand Ganjar’s plans for facing future economic challenges. The practical implication of this research is that political candidates can consider the importance of emphasizing Health and Education issues in their communication strategies via social media. In addition, this research also underscores the need for improvements in economic policy communication to increase voters’ understanding of candidates’ financial plans.
 Keywords: campaign, digital politics, general elections

ANALYZING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM

This article discusses the importance and articulation of innovation policy from the point of view of the entrepreneurial ecosystem approach. The paper takes the form of a literature review. To this end, the authors describe the analysis of industrial policy based on the entrepreneurial ecosystem approach proposed by Stam (2018). The research finds that innovation policy plays a crucial role in a competitive entrepreneurial environment to achieve creative destruction. The Policy tries to solve the problems that hinder the interaction of the factors that make up the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Different policy tools should be developed to formulate policies for the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Additionally, successful innovation policy tools in one ecosystem could be applied in another ecosystem.

ANALYZING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM

This article discusses the importance and articulation of innovation policy from the point of view of the entrepreneurial ecosystem approach. The paper takes the form of a literature review. To this end, the authors describe the analysis of industrial policy based on the entrepreneurial ecosystem approach proposed by Stam (2018). The research finds that innovation policy plays a crucial role in a competitive entrepreneurial environment to achieve creative destruction. The Policy tries to solve the problems that hinder the interaction of the factors that make up the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Different policy tools should be developed to formulate policies for the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Additionally, successful innovation policy tools in one ecosystem could be applied in another ecosystem.

Articulación de las políticas nacionales del Perú con la transformación digital por medio de la Política de Estado 35: una tarea pendiente

The objective of this research was to evaluate the articulated planning for the digital transformation, specifically of the Peruvian State Policy 35 [PE35], in the national policies (sectoral and multisectoral) of Peru. For this, the methodology was qualitative in approach, interpretive in design, and descriptive in level. The data came from the vertical alignment subchapters or annexes of the policies studied. The method was documentary analysis, instrumentalized by an analysis sheet. It was determined that only the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Defense were fully aligned with the digital transformation; that the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Economy and Finance, only half; and that the Ministry of Production, the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion, the Ministry of Health, and others, did not even have a policy aligned with the PE35. It was concluded that there is a gap in the articulation of Peruvian national policies with the digital transformation, through the PE35.

An assessment of youth’s understanding on sexual and reproductive health rights in traditional authority Malili in Lilongwe

The study was conducted with an aim of assessing youth’s understanding on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights in Traditional Authority Malili in Lilongwe in Malawi. The study has used a descriptive research design mainly to describe the characteristics of the youth awareness on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights issues. Nevertheless, the study has found existing knowledge gaps on Family Planning, Sexually Transmitted Infections and Reproductive Sexual Autonomy. Additionally, the research discovered barriers that affect the demand and access of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services among the youth. The study results strongly suggest that Malawi should not continue doing business as usual as far as Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights for youth is concerned. The study recommends addressing the disconnect between policy articulation and policy implementation; recruiting more health staff and creating more capacity building opportunities for SRH providers; creating more supportive environments in the homes for youth to dialogue with their parents on ASRH issues and creation of more safety avenues for the youth to express their sexuality such as youth groups and strengthen income generating activities for out of school youth and creating synergies among stakeholders to avoid retrogressive duplication in ASRHR programming.

Governing Mobility Through Exemptions: Cross-National Dependencies, Immigration Policy, and Migrant Labour in South African Historical Perspective

Over the last century, the South African state has periodically engaged in the practice of ‘exempting’ various migrants from their otherwise irregular immigration statuses. Always backed by official legislation, exemptions represent one way by which dominant capitalist interests have relied on the legitimacy of the state to meet their labour needs by sometimes employing undocumented migrants from the Southern African region. Through insights from sub-imperialism and bordering, this paper discusses historical case examples from policy articulations, parliamentary debates, secondary literature and archival materials. By exploring cross-national relationships of exploitation and differentiation, the paper argues that exemptions should be understood as attempts by which the contradictions of ubiquitous informal cross-border mobility and employment in a regime of unfree regional movement might be resolved. Exemptions also attest to the challenge of governing human mobility in a region invested with a historically vast infrastructure of producing, attracting as well as exploiting cheap migrant labour.

A Reflection on 10 Years of Health Behavior and Policy Review

Objective: In this historical brief about the journal, we examine the original and future intentions of Health Behavior and Policy Review as a contributor to the scholarly literature and look back at some of the challenges faced by academic journals. Methods: We review the purpose and principles upon which the journal was founded and offer some of the journal’s highlights of the past decade. Results: We report some specific benchmarks of achievement – notably major coverage of historically relevant and emerging public health issues, linkage with World Health Organization and Healthy People 2030 objectives, articulation of health behavior and policy, and recognition of the journal’s impact factor and rank among peer journals in social sciences and humanities. Conclusion: The journal has evolved into an outlet for reporting the results of scientific research and learned opinion that is international in scope

Articulation of Indonesia's Bebas-Aktif Foreign Policy in Responding Russia-Ukraine Conflict

This study is about Indonesia's foreign policy in responding to the Russian and Ukrainian conflict. The war in Ukraine has attracted wide attention and influenced many country's foreign policy, including Indonesia as one of the middle powers in Asia. The conflict has sharpened the bipolarization between Ukraine supported by Western countries and Russia itself. It presents serious challenges for Indonesia, which has long been known as a neutral and non-aligned country. Under the free-active foreign policy doctrine, Indonesia is facing serious challenges to take a firm stance on the Russian-Ukrainian war and continuing its leadership in the G20 and ASEAN. Therefore, this study seeks to analyze Indonesia's foreign policy behavior and its country's role it has built in dealing with the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. By using role theory of foreign policy analysis and qualitative research methods especially textual analysis, this study finds that Indonesia displays three faces of foreign policy toward Russia-Ukraine war. First, steadfast commitment and respect to international law and the UN Charter, especially sovereignty and territorial integrity; Second, articulate free-active foreign policy attitude that integrates two opposing blocks; Third, pursue foreign policy that is advantageous for domestic interests and economic gains.

A Proposed Approach to Allegations of Sexual Boundary Violation in Health Care.

Sexual boundary violations in the health care setting cause harm for victims, threaten an organization's culture, and create extraordinary organizational risk. The inherent complexities of health care organizations present unique challenges for the initial triage and response to reports of alleged violations. A group of experts with experience in law, leadership, human resources, medicine, and health care operations identified processes for organizations to triage and implement an early response to allegations of sexual boundary violations. The group reviewed a series of 100 reports of alleged violations described by patients and coworkers from a 200-hospital professional accountability collaborative to identify the elements of an ideal initial triage and management approach. The group identified three domains to guide early triage and response to reports of boundary violations: (1) severity and acuity of the alleged violation; (2) roles and relationship(s) of the complainant, respondent, and other affected individuals; and (3) contextual information such as prior activity or other mitigating factors. The group identified leadership engagement; coordinated responses; clear articulation of values, policies, and procedures; aligned data reporting; thoughtful reviews; and securing appropriate resources as essential elements of an organization's response. A structured systematic approach to classify and respond to allegations of sexual boundary violation is described. The initial response should be guided by assessment of the severity and timing of the reported behavior, followed by assessment of roles and responsibilities with involvement of all relevant stakeholders. Contextual issues and special circumstances of relevance should be identified and incorporated into the response. Systems to identify, store, and retrieve behavior of concern should be improved and integrated.

Generations of the Community Perspective in Today’s Inclusive Education

This paper presents an analysis of the emergence and development of the so-called community perspective of inclusive education. Our work aims to provide a conceptual framework where this community perspective is conceptualized, and the traits that characterize it from the viewpoint of researchers and academics that specialize in the subject are identified. To this end, a qualitative documentary review of an interpretative nature has been conducted through a systematic review of the relevant international literature from the last 40 years. This process has enabled us to demonstrate the existence of different generations within this community perspective. In this sense, the first generation that has been identified is supported by the organizational perspective of inclusive education, while the second generation is strongly influenced by what is nowadays known as inclusive research, which incorporates the ethics of inclusion, the voices of those involved and participation as identity hallmarks. While there is an evolution in the perspectives themselves, it is also concluded that they converge towards a common trunk that is defined by the collaboration, support and role played by the community in the articulation of inclusive cultures, policies and practices.

Place-based business support towards net zero: enabling through the place-policy-practice nexus

The prevailing approach of policymakers to the design and delivery of net zero business support remains focused on financial economic growth. This approach limits the role of businesses in leading societal transformation towards a sustainable future. Although opportunities for businesses to transform so that they remain financially viable and resilient may emerge, support and policy innovation are needed to enable businesses to navigate the net zero transition. Place-based policies are one way of ensuring localities, cities and regions respond effectively to the economic and social challenges of the transition. Despite place being identified as one of five foundations of national and local industrial strategies, business support provision across the regions remains largely ‘place-blind’. Support programmes are often generic in their design, scope and delivery mechanisms, and downplay the challenges businesses face when engaging with the net zero transition. This article critically reviews the policy articulation and the state of net zero business support from the place-based perspective. By applying place–policy–practice nexus thinking, gap analysis of net zero support is undertaken, and resolutions are offered. The article calls for a deeper reflection of place characteristics in policy discourse, local strategies and policy mixes. This requires concerted efforts from the government, support agencies, universities and businesses to develop a shared understanding of the growth opportunities and risks of the net zero transition relative to place. This includes the development of representative net zero governance mechanisms and addressing the growing demand for net zero skills.

Covid-19 and African E-Learning Systems: Structural and Institutional Strategies for Resilience and Antifragility

ABSTRACT This qualitative research examines how Nigeria, Seychelles, and South Africa applied technologies to mediate the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on their education systems. The research demonstrates that sociocultural and institutional factors, and attitudes of stakeholders, rather than technological access, significantly determined the countries’ capacity to transition tertiary institutions online at the height of the pandemic. It expands the understanding of the role of institutions and policies in the adoption of education technologies. The research findings are expected to inform the articulation of relevant policies and system-wide strategies for resilience and antifragility in case of future societal disruptions.

Issues and Trends in Contemporary Education

Innovation management; as well as organizations in general, public and private, deserve a continuous analysis and follow-up of the variables of the external context that impact them. In this sense, it should be noted that educational agents are the ones who do the innovation and hence their management and direction play a key role. Education professionals, more than ever, need to know how to come to understand and comprehend the complexity of what external variables mean and their impact on educational work. Next, a model and method for its follow-up is presented. It is an invitation to know and take possession as agents of change in the practice of creativity and innovation, without neglecting at any time, the impact of the external context of the school, as it occurs in the Dual Mode (school-company relationship). The school as a quality school organization and educational innovation represent two areas called to be properly related, carefully analyzed, strategically planned and encouraged for their joint development. The relationship between the school as a quality school organization and educational innovation has to be seen and justified both at the level of theoretical argumentation and in the functioning and institutional life of schools as educational spaces both in it and in the company when applying Dual mode. It has to be projected, in time, in the articulation of the educational policy of a country and in the school practices that occur in the classrooms. I believe that in our country this double task is yet to be accomplished. So far we have not managed to develop a solid tradition of pedagogical thought that has adequately explored the mutual implications between school quality and innovation as an educational process.

Contesting feminist power Europe: is Feminist Foreign Policy possible for the EU?

ABSTRACT Since 2014, several European Union (EU) member states have adopted their own versions of “Feminist Foreign Policy” (FFP). Increasingly, feminist bureaucrats, politicians, activists and scholars are calling for the EU to do the same. This article scrutinises claims to the feminist actorsness of the EU by introducing the analytical concept of Feminist Power Europe (FPE). In employing FPE the article examines whether the EU can adopt a FFP that upholds transformative potential of feminism. Undertaking critical content analysis of key documents, we identify three overarching feminist frames that emerge in the EU’s external policies: (1) Liberal; (2) Intersectional; (3) Postcolonial. We demonstrate that the EU’s propensity for a transformative feminist foreign policy is limited by the setup of global politics and the main drivers of European integration, which continue to be situated in a traditionally masculine environment and are defined by prevailing hierarchies. In undertaking this work, we highlight the constraints of advocating for the EU to adopt a FFP. This paper concludes by cautioning against the uncritical deployment of “feminism” in foreign policy articulation within an FPE configuration that excludes reflexivity about the EU’s external relations vision and indeed, its practice.

Evolution of Composition, Readability, and Structure of Privacy Policies over Two Decades

Privacy policies outline data collection and sharing practices followed by an organization, together with choice and control measures available to users to manage the process. However, users have often needed help reading and understanding such documents, regardless of their being written in a natural language. The fundamental problems with privacy policies persist despite advancements in privacy design, frameworks, and regulations. To identify the causes of privacy policies being persistently challenging to comprehend, it is vital to investigate historical policy patterns and understand the evolution of privacy policies concerning information packaging and presentation. To this aid, we create a sentence-level classifier to conduct a large-scale longitudinal analysis on different privacy policies from 130,604 organizations, totaling approximately one million policies from 1997 to 2019. We annotate 10,717 sentences from 115 policies in the OPP-115 corpus to implement the classifier and then use those annotations to train the XLNet and BERT classifiers. Results from our analysis reveal that specific data practice categories experience more frequent policy changes than others, making it challenging to track relevant information over time. In addition, we discover that every category has distinct composition, readability, and structural issues, which exacerbate when categories frequently co-occur in a document. Based on our observations, we provide recommendations for policy articulation and revision to make privacy policy documents conform to better coherence and structure.

Policy articulation in the institutional arrangement for implementing the pibid 2007-2013

This article is part of the debate on public educational policies in Brazil, and presents research results on the institutional arrangement for the implementation of the Institutional Program of Initiation Scholarship to Teaching, Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education, Ministry of Education. This is a program for encouraging and valuing teaching and for improving the process of teaching for Basic Education, in partnership between universities and schools, with the licensees as their target public. The main theoretical-methodological foundation of the research is from the field of Public Policies, especially the studies about the phase of implementation of policies. Based on the theoretical-analytical model of the institutional arrangements for implementation, the guiding issue of this study was: what are the public educational policies linked to the Pibid in its institutional arrangement for implementation. The results pointed to a articulation of recent public educational policies to Pibid established via LDBEN, I and II PNE, PDE and "new" Capes, regarding teacher training for Basic Education. These policies also characterized the context of the creation of the Bibid and a structure of institutional and financial incentives. Consideration of the institutional arrangement for implementing the Pibid at different scales is relevant to understand the collaborative regimes involved in its institutional-legal and institutional-academic arrangement and the respective scales of implementation in the subnational federative entities and implementation in the partnerships between HEIs, public elementary education networks and each school-field.

Issues and Trends in Contemporary Education

Innovation management; as well as organizations in general, public and private, deserve a continuous analysis and follow-up of the variables of the external context that impact them. In this sense, it should be noted that educational agents are the ones who do the innovation and hence their management and direction play a key role. Education professionals, more than ever, need to know how to come to understand and comprehend the complexity of what external variables mean and their impact on educational work. Next, a model and method for its follow-up is presented. It is an invitation to know and to take possession as agents of change in the practice of creativity and innovation, without neglecting at any time, the impact of the external context of the school, as it occurs in the Dual Modality (school-company relationship). The school as a quality school organization and educational innovation represent two areas called to be properly related, carefully analyzed, strategically planned and encouraged for their joint development. The relationship between the school as a quality school organization and educational innovation has to be seen and justified both at the level of theoretical argumentation and in the functioning and institutional life of schools as educational spaces both in it and in the company when applying Dual mode. It has to be projected, in time, in the articulation of the educational policy of a country and in the school practices that occur in the classrooms. I believe that in our country this double task is yet to be accomplished. So far, we have not managed to develop a solid tradition of pedagogical thought that has adequately explored the mutual implications between school quality and innovation as an educational process.

Issues and Trends in Contemporary Education

Innovation management; as well as organizations in general, public and private, deserve a continuous analysis and follow-up of the variables of the external context that impact them. In this sense, it should be noted that educational agents are the ones who do the innovation and hence their management and direction play a key role. Education professionals, more than ever, need to know how to come to understand and comprehend the complexity of what external variables mean and their impact on educational work. Next, a model and method for its follow-up is presented. It is an invitation to know and take possession as agents of change in the practice of creativity and innovation, without neglecting at any time, the impact of the external context of the school, as it occurs in the Dual Mode (school-company relationship).The school as a quality school organization and educational innovation represent two areas called to be properly related, carefully analyzed, strategically planned and encouraged for their joint development.The relationship between the school as a quality school organization and educational innovation has to be seen and justified both at the level of theoretical argumentation and in the functioning and institutional life of schools as educational spaces both in it and in the company when applying Dual mode. It has to be projected, in time, in the articulation of the educational policy of a country and in the school practices that occur in the classrooms.I believe that in our country this double task is yet to be accomplished. So far we have not managed to develop a solid tradition of pedagogical thought that has adequately explored the mutual implications between school quality and innovation as an educational process.