{"title":"Access to Inclusive Urban Public Transport System in Bangladesh: The Case of Dhaka City","authors":"D. Rahman, Md. Imran Hossain Bhuiyan, N. Khan","doi":"10.1177/25166026231167318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026231167318","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the state of people’s access to the inclusive urban transport system in Dhaka and suggests strategies for improving access to the transport system. By adopting an exploratory approach, both quantitative and qualitative tools of data collection were employed to gather primary data through questionnaires and key informant interviews (KIIs). The findings reveal the lack of passengers’ trust and satisfaction in terms of the availability, accessibility, accommodation, acceptability and affordability of public buses for the vulnerable groups in Dhaka city. To make the transport system accessible and inclusive, suitable vehicles need to be introduced with additional resource commitments along with sensitive training and public awareness to respect and support vulnerable groups to access transport systems with ease in Dhaka and similar cities.","PeriodicalId":179996,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Community and Social Development","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121986368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Culminating Crises: Reflections and Learnings for Sustainable Development","authors":"M. Pawar","doi":"10.1177/25166026231151619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026231151619","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to reflect on culminating crises by analysing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters, wars and conflicts and political-economy and discuss how these crises have affected sustainable development efforts with a view to suggesting some strategies. Drawing mainly from the secondary data and the author’s reflections, each of the four crises is analysed in terms of its negative and positive consequences. Then how these crises have affected sustainable development efforts, particularly the achievement of the sustainable development goals, is discussed. In the final section, seven strategies are suggested to culminate these crises.","PeriodicalId":179996,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Community and Social Development","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128697860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paternalistic Welfare or Co-designed Partnerships with Local Communities? Analysis of Community Group Submissions to Six Australian Parliamentary Inquiries into the Cashless Debit Card from 2015–2020","authors":"Philip Mendes, Steven Roche, T. Edwards","doi":"10.1177/25166026231151618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026231151618","url":null,"abstract":"Prior to the election of the Labor Government in May 2022, consecutive Australian Liberal–National Coalition Governments argued that local community leaders and organisations endorsed the introduction of the restrictive cashless debit card (CDC) in multiple trial sites. As a result, the CDC policy was presented as a meritorious example of a co-designed policy model based on collaboration with local communities. This article explores this assertion by examining the views presented by local community groups via written and oral submissions to six parliamentary inquiries into the CDC from 2015 to 2020. Our findings suggest major divisions across community groups within the CDC locations. In four of the six inquiries, most community group submissions opposed the introduction or expansion of the CDC. However, these views received cursory recognition in the inquiry reports, with little influence on policy. This article concludes that the CDC policy is more accurately conceptualised as a centralised policy imposed by the government on local communities without considering local views.","PeriodicalId":179996,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Community and Social Development","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117309540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transforming Post-disaster Recovery: Participatory Mechanisms for Community Feedback and Responding to Government’s Real-time Data Needs with a Focus on Persons with Disability","authors":"Janki Andharia, Anupam Puri, Arya Namboothiripad","doi":"10.1177/25166026221150159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026221150159","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses possibilities of transforming the methods of conceiving policy research with a commitment to action, making the process more participatory, accountable and helping the most affected to be part of the decision-making process. It was carried out in the Indian state of Kerala post the devastating 2018 floods caused by unexpected and abnormal precipitation that resulted in severe flooding in 11 out of 14 districts in the state. For the first time, a community feedback mechanism was introduced in the country by the government, using their community structures, resulting in India’s first and largest post-disaster primary database with 19,646 responses. A significant aspect of the study is the inclusion of a large sample (n = 521) of persons with disability. As a methodological innovation, new and dedicated pathways were created for receiving community feedback including grievances from the most marginalised and vulnerable households and individuals. Instituting these within the government itself, to guide the recovery process, was a clear innovation. It suggests that it is possible for a government to listen to the vulnerable within communities and respond while building on their feedback as well as addressing their grievances, which need immediate redressal during disaster recovery.","PeriodicalId":179996,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Community and Social Development","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115303442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Melanie Klinkner and Howard Davis, The Right to the Truth in International Law: Victims’ Rights in Human Rights and International Criminal Law (New York: Routledge, 2020), 253 pp. £39.99. ISBN: 9780367726867 (paperback).","authors":"Kushal Srivastava","doi":"10.1177/25166026221146404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026221146404","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":179996,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Community and Social Development","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114204661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Re) conceptualizing and Contextualizing ‘Community’ in Tribal/Indigenous Cultures and Development in India","authors":"Jyoti Prasad Bori","doi":"10.1177/25166026221142696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026221142696","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the need to (re)conceptualize and contextualize ‘community’ in tribal/Indigenous cultures and development practices. While the community has been a key concept in Indian village studies, it has been predominantly analyzed and applied in the caste structural framework of Indian society. Examining the concept in the spectrum of village studies, this article argues that the academic interest in enquiring about communities in India requires widening its scope beyond the caste framework to encompass tribal/Indigenous societies’ development and cultural experiences of community life. It posits to explore the possibilities of multiple meanings of community in the scope of studying tribal village communities.","PeriodicalId":179996,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Community and Social Development","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122040301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Sripathi, Jagatabandhu Mohapatra, P. Dehury, Surya Neeragatti, S. Behera, R. Dehury
{"title":"The Function of Mid-day Meal Scheme: A Critical Analysis of Existing Policies and Procedures in Rayagada District of Odisha (India)","authors":"N. Sripathi, Jagatabandhu Mohapatra, P. Dehury, Surya Neeragatti, S. Behera, R. Dehury","doi":"10.1177/25166026221138436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026221138436","url":null,"abstract":"The Government of India initiated the second-largest food security programme, named the mid-day meal (MDM) Scheme to tackle nutrition-related issues, especially for children in backward communities. The main aim of the MDM Scheme in government and government-aided schools is to improve physical and economic access to nutritious food for children. The study evaluates the challenges regarding the existing practices in implementing the MDM Scheme in two blocks of the Rayagada district (Odisha, India). Rayagada district is one of the tribal districts with a high malnutrition condition among children. Further, the two blocks have been selected based on the implementation of MDM on a unique project basis in a resource crunch area. The study shows that the MDM Scheme has challenges with critical implementation issues such as delays in delivery, low-quality food, lack of water facilities and unhygienic cooking and serving practices. The findings have implications for effective implementation of the programme in similar contexts.","PeriodicalId":179996,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Community and Social Development","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123315272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Barbara Rose Ferguson, Don’t look away: Snapshots of Congo and the Pigmies of Mubambiro. Morning Star Publication, 2019, 172 pp, $A38.00. ISBN 9780648453895.","authors":"A. Anscombe","doi":"10.1177/25166026221140184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026221140184","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":179996,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Community and Social Development","volume":"167 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113989076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Khatun Mst. Asma, Farjana Misu, Mohammad Amirul Islam
{"title":"The Impact of Social Safety Net Programs on Poverty, Food Security and Standard of Living in Bangladesh","authors":"Khatun Mst. Asma, Farjana Misu, Mohammad Amirul Islam","doi":"10.1177/25166026221135328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026221135328","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the impact of the Social safety net program (SSNP) on poverty, food security and standard of living by focusing on types and features of SSNPs along with socio-economic and demographic characteristics in one enclave (Dahagram–Angarpota) and one ex-enclave (Dasiar Chhara) areas of Bangladesh. Quantitative and survey research methods were used for the study. The results show that amount supported under SSNPs, duration of SSNPs support and payment interval are the significant factors of poverty, food insecurity and standard of living. The results also identify some significant demographic and socio-economic factors of poverty, food insecurity and standard of living. Overall, this study suggests that a higher amount SSNPs support, longer duration of SSNPs support and shorter payment interval of SSNPs should be taken into consideration when redesigning the SSNPs. Furthermore, the significant demographic and socio-economic factors should be addressed in the policy formulation for improving poverty, food security and standard of living of the poor households in Bangladesh.","PeriodicalId":179996,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Community and Social Development","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115573879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Henderson Poverty Inquiry to the Cashless Debit Card: Alternatives to the Reframing of Poverty as Welfare Dependency in Australia","authors":"Philip Mendes","doi":"10.1177/25166026221132344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026221132344","url":null,"abstract":"The recent announcement of a Senate inquiry into the ‘extent and nature of poverty in Australia’ reminds us that poverty policy in Australia has long been a contested concept in terms of identification of causes and potential solutions. The 1972–1975 Henderson Commission of Inquiry into Poverty led by Ronald Henderson arguably represented the high point of Australian poverty research and policy discourse. That inquiry established a framework for measuring poverty based on a link to the minimum wage, and incorporating housing costs which has informed all subsequent research.","PeriodicalId":179996,"journal":{"name":"The International Journal of Community and Social Development","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115614274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}