Support For Infrastructure Development Research Articles

The Sino-Nigeria Cooperation: A Commentary on the Implications on Nigerian Economic Security

This paper examines the implications of the Sino-Nigeria cooperation on Nigeria's economic security. Over the past few decades, China and Nigeria have strengthened their bilateral relations through various economic agreements and partnerships. As China's influence in Africa grows, the nature and extent of its involvement in Nigeria's economy have raised concerns about the potential impacts on Nigeria's economic security. The study explores the key areas of collaboration between China and Nigeria, such as trade, investment, and aid. It assesses the implications of these partnerships, weighing their effects on Nigeria's economic independence and economic security. By analyzing the trends in bilateral trade, foreign direct investment, and infrastructure projects, the paper aims to identify the potential risks and opportunities that the Sino-Nigeria cooperation presents. The study found that although bilateral cooperation with China increases Nigeria’s economic security through increased investment, trade, and support for infrastructure development, there are multiple risks associated with this cooperation. This includes the potential debt issues and lack of transfer of technology. The paper however recommends that there is a need for Nigeria to prioritize the development and support of local industries to increase their competitiveness against Chinese imports.

НАПРАВЛЕНИЯ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЙ ПОЛИТИКИ РАЗВИТИЯ ИНФРАСТРУКТУРЫ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНЫХ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЙ

The article deals with the issues of state regulation of the formation and development of the infrastructure of an educational organization. It is noted that one of the forms of state regulation and support for infrastructure development is the mechanism of public-private partnership. The authors analyzed the process of formation of the subject field of state policy in the field of education and systematization of legislative acts in the field of infrastructure development of educational organizations.

Bandung Cooperation with Braunschweig (Germany) in Realizing Smart City

The Bandung City has carried out various international cooperations to obtain investments in the long or short term, support for infrastructure development, youth exchanges, cooperation in culture, and receipt of fees and grant funds. One of the various cooperations is the efforts of Bandung in paradiplomacy through the sister city concept. This study is necessary because Bandung and Braunschweig have carried out the Sister City Program from 1960 to 2021. This research is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, examining why Bandung maintains cooperation with Braunschweig (Germany), running for more than 40 years. This article employed data collected from journals, news in the mass media, and information from the official websites of related parties as supporting references. In answering the research question, the author utilized the concepts of smart city and sister city. This study discovered that Bandung maintained its cooperation with Braunschweig due to its interest in building a smart city.

Recent Trends in Entrepreneurship

Intrapreneurship is the process in which big corporate encourage entrepreneurial characteristics in their own managers. Intrapreneurs are intra-corporate entrepreneurs. They have a desire to achieve. If they are not provided with freedom, autonomy, adequate resources; they leave the organization and launch their own ventures. They are creative. With their creative ideas, they enable their companies to adapt to the changing environment and achieve growth and prosperity. Rural entrepreneurship plays an important role for economic development in developing countries like India. Rural entrepreneurship helps in development of backward regions and removes poverty. Rural entrepreneurs need support for infrastructure development, investment in agriculture, promotion of non-farm rural activities, education, health services, etc. Social entrepreneurs are interested in social mission. They create and sustain social value by engaging in the process of innovation and adaptation. They tackle a social need that is unattended by others. They create new social opportunities. They bring about social changes. They strive to maximize some form of social impact. They face numerous difficulties in fulfilling their social mission. Women entrepreneurs are mainly motivated by economic incentives, desire for independence, and better social status. They get satisfaction, economic independence, and flexibility of operations, work location and working hours through entrepreneurship. In addition to the problems faced by entrepreneurs in general, they have to face additional problems related to their womanhood. They have to maintain an appropriate degree of workhome balance.

BIROKRASI BARU UNTUK NEW NORMAL: TINJAUAN MODEL PERUBAHAN BIROKRASI DALAM PELAYANAN PUBLIK DI ERA COVID-19

The pandemic Covid-19 that struck Indonesia has given a new order in bureaucracy and changes in work patterns. This kind of condition is faced with bureaucracy to make changes to new normal. This study uses qualitative descriptive methods, with the type of literature research. The results of this study found that there were two dimensions of bureaucracy change, which is the change dimensions of bureaucratic institutions and changes in work system dimensions. In the dimension of bureaucratic institution change occurs over normal disruption in this case Covid-19 requires organizations to make changes to new normal. Where the bureaucracy in organizing public services prioritizes health protocols. While in the dimension of work system there are two options, namely working at home and still working in the office but still pay attention to the health protocol. The condition of Covid-19 has resulted in many innovations in public services based on electronics, so it is necessary to strengthen quality and innovative HR ASN, as well as infrastructure development support. The implications of this research that the success of bureaucracy change are heavily influenced by leadership factors. Leaders who have personality, visionaries, and the sense of power are able to deal with changes in the organization.

Developing Stakeholder Engagement for Infrastructure Projects

The relatively high economic growth leads to an increase in infrastructure needs in Indonesia. Providing these needs for infrastructure has an irreplaceable role in improving the overall quality of life of the population, therefore its success requires support and commitment from various stakeholder groups. In the context of the support, a concept to approach the stakeholders is known as stakeholder engagement. The objective of this research is to measure the effectiveness of a program in affecting the condition of stakeholders, and in developing the stakeholder engagement which will directly determine the success of infrastructure development. This study was conducted using a qualitative descriptive method through a case study approach to observing the relationship between the use of the stakeholder-involvement program and the level of stakeholder engagement. The results show that the quality of activities (procedural quality, responsiveness quality, quality of outcomes) shows relatively good results with a middle-level involvement. It will require more activities to trigger a more intense relationship and to increase the level of stakeholder engagement in providing their support for infrastructure development.

Legal framework of border infrastructure development

The paper emphasizes that development of border infrastructure according to standards and requirements of international standards is one of the major tasks of the measures taken to increase transit capacity of border areas. Therefore, the issues of border infrastructure development should be one of the priority tasks of both central and local authorities. Nowadays, although there is a range of regulative, legal and strategic documents developed to support the functioning of border infrastructure, they need improvement oriented on new requirements and European integration course of Ukraine. The paper aims to analyze regulative, legal and program documents to develop border infrastructure, reveal problem and controversial points in them and suggest recommendations regarding their elimination. Special attention is paid to analysis of the range of legal, regulative, strategic and program documents to support the development of border infrastructure. In the first place, they are the documents that regulate the activity in cross-border cooperation, spatial development and territorial planning, transport activity and transport networks functioning as well as regulative acts regarding the activity of state border service and border crossing points, etc. Among the analyzed documents are the Laws of Ukraine “On Cross-Border Cooperation”, “On General Scheme of Planning of the Territory of Ukraine”, “On Regulation of Urban Planning Activity”, “On Automobile Roads”, “On the Sources of Funding of Road Economy of Ukraine”, “On Concessions to Build and Maintain Roads”, “On Public-Private Partnership”. Moreover, a range of documents of strategic nature, which substantiate the place of border infrastructure in implementation of long-term priorities of Ukraine’s development and defines the perspectives of its modernization, is analyzed, namely 2020 State Regional Development Strategy, Concept of Creation and Functioning of National Network of International Transport Corridors in Ukraine, State Border Service Development Strategy, 2030 National Transport Strategy of Ukraine, Concept of Reforming of Transport Sector of Economy, Concept of State Targeted Law Enforcement Program “2020 Development and Reconstruction of State Border”. Program documents of border infrastructure development support are also analyzed, namely 2016-2020 State Program of Cross-Border Cooperation Development and 2018-2022State Targeted Economic Program of Public Automobile Roads Development.

Developing Stakeholder Engagement for Infrastructure Projects

The relatively high economic growth leads to an increase in infrastructure needs in Indonesia. Providing these needs for infrastructure has an irreplaceable role in improving the overall quality of life of the population, therefore its success requires support and commitment from various stakeholder groups. In the context of the support, a concept to approach the stakeholders is known as stakeholder engagement. The objective of this research is to measure the effectiveness of a program in affecting the condition of stakeholders, and in developing the stakeholder engagement which will directly determine the success of infrastructure development. This study was conducted using a qualitative descriptive method through a case study approach to observing the relationship between the use of the stakeholder-involvement program and the level of stakeholder engagement. The results show that the quality of activities (procedural quality, responsiveness quality, quality of outcomes) shows relatively good results with a middle-level involvement. It will require more activities to trigger a more intense relationship and to increase the level of stakeholder engagement in providing their support for infrastructure development.