Kizito Elijah Kanyoma, Collins Duke Namakhwa, Taonga Mhango, Linda Kwilasi Sesani, Isaac Simeon
{"title":"An analysis governance challenges in Covid-19 response operations in Malawi: A wicked problems theoretical perspective","authors":"Kizito Elijah Kanyoma, Collins Duke Namakhwa, Taonga Mhango, Linda Kwilasi Sesani, Isaac Simeon","doi":"10.31580/jpvai.v5i3.2472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31580/jpvai.v5i3.2472","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the governance challenges in the management of Covid-19 response operations in Malawi. The paper contrasts inefficiencies within the Malawi Public Sector Covid-19 response system (PSCRS), against a more efficient but resource-constrained citizens’ initiative. Utilising a wicked problems theoretical perspective in the background, this qualitative study collected data from official government publications on the one hand, and from social media platforms – Facebook, and official records of the citizens’ initiative known as the Covid Response Private Citizens (CRPC), on the other hand. We undertook a comparative analysis of resources at the disposal of each initiative and their respective outputs. The findings show that the citizens’ initiative was accountable, with more efficient and transparent humanitarian response operations than the PSCRS. Further, the PSCRS demonstrated systemic deficiency and wickedness, characterised by misappropriation and other forms of abuse of public funds meant for the pandemic. Thus, the citizens’ initiative achieved more with far limited resources than the public sector initiative. This paper argues that in the fight against the pandemic, public funds could have been saved and needless loss of lives averted had the PSCRS operated with the same level of efficiency, responsiveness and accountability as the CRPC in the procurement and disbursement of essential Covid-19 supplies and other interventions. The paper concludes that the PSCRS is in itself a wicked problem that requires a solution before it can be deployed to deal with a more wicked problem, the Covid-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":388480,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Value and Administrative Insight","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122344556","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":"Meta-analysis of the administration of water services on residential consumption in the Covid-19 era","authors":"Cruz García Lirios","doi":"10.31580/jpvai.v5i3.2033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31580/jpvai.v5i3.2033","url":null,"abstract":"The retrospective studies have allowed to observe the historical differences between two public water policies. The objective of this study was to establish the proportions of probability, considering a systematic review of the literature from 2010 to 2019, as well as the reports of effects on residential consumption. A documentary, retrospective and exploratory study was carried out with an intentional selection of sources indexed to international repositories. A narrower risk margin was observed in the subsidy policy compared to the forgiveness policy. The scope and limits were discussed, noting a prospective analysis to observe the paulative substitution of sub-sites by a collection system based on the historical availability of water.","PeriodicalId":388480,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Value and Administrative Insight","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114035925","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}
Anita Ali, Mariuam Shafi, Aftab Hussain Tabasam, Anam Ashiq, M. Shabbir
{"title":"Trends and volume of successful application of Musharakah as a major mode of financing in Pakistan: A case study of Meezan bank limited","authors":"Anita Ali, Mariuam Shafi, Aftab Hussain Tabasam, Anam Ashiq, M. Shabbir","doi":"10.31580/jpvai.v5i2.2621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31580/jpvai.v5i2.2621","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study is to examine the trends and volume of successful application of musharakah as Islamic modes of financing among Islamic financial institutions (IFI) and standalones Islamic branches (SAB) of conventional banks in Pakistan. This study has taken four full Islamic banks and four SAB banks, who provide their services for musharakah financing. The data set for all eight banks has been extracted from annual reports of these banks, started from 2011 to 2018 and used univariate analysis. The findings of this study indicate that Meezan bank leads in running musharakah investment portfolio from both Islamic banks and SAB of conventional banks with four hundreds and seventy two (472.45) billions rupees in total and (86.34%) percent growth in Running Musharakah portfolio annually. Whereas, bank Al-Falah leads in running musharakah investment from SAB with twenty five (25.353) billions rupees. Furthermore, Meezan bank limited (MBL) gains success in running musharakah investment as sixty seven (67.61) billions Pakistani rupees in one year among all banks operating running musharakah investment banks in Pakistan.","PeriodicalId":388480,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Value and Administrative Insight","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129000736","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}
Salma Nawaz, Ayesha Kiran, Mouna Koser, M. Shabbir, Aysha Zamir
{"title":"The dynamic effect of education levels, marriage status and domestic life of women in Balochistan","authors":"Salma Nawaz, Ayesha Kiran, Mouna Koser, M. Shabbir, Aysha Zamir","doi":"10.31580/jpvai.v5i2.2588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31580/jpvai.v5i2.2588","url":null,"abstract":"Women had been one of the ignored servants in the countries of South Asia. Being critical a part of the society thru performing critical position in her own circle of relatives such as in their homes and different additives of lifestyles women haven’t were given the due popularity, probable due to reason of their smaller/disregarded monetary autonomy, giving preferences to son, particularly in their own circle of relatives/distinctive responsibilities and imposed cultural regulations. The objective of this study was to find out the status of women in Balochistan and highlighted the issues of parda, education, marriage and domestic life. The results showed that Balochistani women have a position that differs from that of women living in Western countries in many ways. The organization of Balochistani society is based on gender. This creates inequities in a wide range of women's lives and causes girls to suffer greatly. In most underdeveloped countries, this has disastrous implications. Due to a lack of parity in giving education to girls, Balochistan faces negative implications in terms of health, poverty, and reproduction concerns. Several factors influence women's status in Balochistani society. It was concluded that women are, in generally, a marginalized group in society, particularly in rural Baluchistan. One unmistakable fact is that her role is being undercut on so many levels that she is deeply upset and dissatisfied.","PeriodicalId":388480,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Value and Administrative Insight","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127675447","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}
Salma Nawaz, Ayesha Kiran, Mouna Koser, M. Shabbir, Aysha Zamir
{"title":"The role of safety management to analyze the current situation of honour killing in Pakistan","authors":"Salma Nawaz, Ayesha Kiran, Mouna Koser, M. Shabbir, Aysha Zamir","doi":"10.31580/jpvai.v5i2.2517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31580/jpvai.v5i2.2517","url":null,"abstract":"Killing in the name of Honor is used as an instrument to keep up or recover the honor of family by rebuffing or killing females whose activities invite bits of gossip about sexual inappropriateness or misbehavior, Honor killing in Pakistan is emerging issue, the objective of this study is to analyse the current situation of honor killing and its impact on other members of the society. A descriptive study was carried out and data was collected from Islamic books, previous research papers and different reports. Therefore exploratory review of previous literature was carried out. It is concluded that there is a number of cases regarding honor killing in Sindh and Punjab province due to strong tribal system and weak management in government system. A number of cases does not reported due to strong feudal system. On the other hand Holy Quran and Sharia don't allow to murder somebody for the sake of honor nor empowers for doing as such. It is recommended that the federal and provincial government should take firm steps against those who are involve in honor killing.","PeriodicalId":388480,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Value and Administrative Insight","volume":"1221 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127435340","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}
S. Nawaz, Ayesha Kiran, M. Shabbir, Mouna Koser, Aysha Zamir
{"title":"Does domestic violence affect the freedom of women life in Pakistan","authors":"S. Nawaz, Ayesha Kiran, M. Shabbir, Mouna Koser, Aysha Zamir","doi":"10.31580/jpvai.v5i2.2518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31580/jpvai.v5i2.2518","url":null,"abstract":"Domestic violance is an emerging issue in Pakistan, the objective of this work was to analyse the current situation in Pakistan and to find out the impact of such domestic violance on other family members.It was discriptive study and the data was gathered from existing research reports, research papers reports prepared by government and non government organizations.It was found that man has dominant role in our society and has a great power to control the domestic affair and women are considered as a weak gender. So there are number of cases reported regarding domestic violance on daily bases. In Pakistan domestic violance includes beating, killing, abduct, assault, actual attack and acid throwing. In Pakistan there is one significant reason behind this brutality is the poverty in our culture and this culture is mostly controlled by men. So it was concluded that domestic violance is still prevailing in Pakistan and it has a great negative social and pshycological impact on other members of society.It was recommended that the government should implement its law and policies regarding domestic violance against those who are involve in such types of act.","PeriodicalId":388480,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Value and Administrative Insight","volume":"348 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124292436","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":"Transport emission models: A bibliometric and content analysis","authors":"Huma Rauf, Huma Sikandar, Muhammad Umar","doi":"10.31580/jpvai.v5i2.2530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31580/jpvai.v5i2.2530","url":null,"abstract":"Environment deterioration and subsequent climate change require the accountability of each contributor. Pollutants produced from fossil fuel in the transport sector is measured using emission models and this paper offers a Bibliometric analysis of these models from 1990-2020 of previous literature supported with the content analysis done in two tiers; review of the most cited research work of last ten years and the evolving research themes from recently published articles of last five years. From Bibliometric analysis, we identified top authors, institutions and journals, co-occurrence analysis of keywords, and co-authorship countries. Content analysis revealed that emission models have evolved globally with modifications and integrations of new techniques, multi disciplinary variables combining emission, transport, air quality, dispersion, and environment models. The technological adaptations in models have also been carried out locally by some countries bringing transport emissions to inventory counting for global warming potential. Research trends for future emission reduction suggest that besides the warming potential of fossil fuel from the transport sector, parallel reductions can be achieved through efficient traffic planning, road designs, driving patterns, stop and go cycles, traffic calming techniques impacting spatial and temporal goals through reduced clustering and hot spots.","PeriodicalId":388480,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Value and Administrative Insight","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133483812","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":"Impact of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management Practices on Citizenship Behaviors of nurses with mediating role of Job Engagement: A study of Public sector hospitals in Pakistan","authors":"Binish Mughal, Mubbsher Munawar Khan","doi":"10.31580/jpvai.v5i2.2538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31580/jpvai.v5i2.2538","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the assumptions of Social Exchange Theory, this paper examines the influence of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management (SR-HRM) on two dimensions of Organization Citizenship Behavior (OCB) namely Organization Citizenship Behavior directed towards Individuals (OCB-I) and Organization Citizenship Behavior directed towards Organization (OCB-O). Structural equation modeling of data collected from 440 nurses working in tertiary care public sector hospitals of Punjab (Pakistan) revealed that job engagement fully mediates the relationship between SR-HRM and OCB-I, OCB-O. Further, SR-HRM and job engagement are also directly related to both OCB-I and OCB-O. The findings of this study highlights the importance of SR-HRM in stimulating positive work attitudes ultimately leading to extra role behaviors especially with reference to health sector and its employees who are currently facing lot of challenges worldwide due to spread of COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":388480,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Value and Administrative Insight","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115038749","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":"National and transnational non-state actors: Strategic dimensions and regional security threats to CPEC","authors":"Asif Salim, Sonia Ambreen, A. Shah","doi":"10.31580/jpvai.v5i2.2520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31580/jpvai.v5i2.2520","url":null,"abstract":"China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a ‘flagship Project’ of China’s wide-ranging and most advanced scheme of development initiated under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The project ranges from investment to infrastructure development in various sectors with an investment of $62 billion in Pakistan. However, the existential fact is that this project is not only restricted to economic growth and trade linkages. It has more strategic dimensions and arguably a strategic instrument in the hand of the Chinese to exponentially increase its influence from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea. It is, undoubtedly, rapidly changing the regional apparatus in general and South Asia in Particular. This change on one side is creating space for multiple opportunities not only for Pakistan but at the same time offering bounties to regional countries, but on the other hand security threats and asymmetrical propaganda is on the rise against the CPEC. The most significant aspect which is being neglected in this scenario is the ever-increasing activities of non-state actors which are operating surreptitiously in Pakistan as well as its neighborhood. The presence of ISIS, Baloch insurgency, and TTP are a potential threat and their close nexus and support from inside and outside the country have substantially been proofed. Thus, the current research is divided into two parts. The first part argues that the CPEC project is no doubt a security-oriented, geopolitically, and strategically driven endeavor but predominantly linked with economic growth and regional connectivity. The second part deals with the potential threats to the CPEC posed by the national and transnational non-state actors. ","PeriodicalId":388480,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Value and Administrative Insight","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116402029","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":"Evaluating mediation and moderation effects in call center employees: A correlational investigation into fatigue, general health, coping and sleep disturbances","authors":"S. Qayyum, Samia Khan, Faiz Younas","doi":"10.31580/jpvai.v5i2.2506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31580/jpvai.v5i2.2506","url":null,"abstract":"Sleep disturbance is usually present in night-shift workers. The objective of this study was to explore the relationships among fatigue, general health, coping and sleep disturbance together with mediating role of general health and moderating role of coping strategies i.e. Task, Emotion oriented &Avoidance in night-shift call center workers. Correlation research design was adopted with sample (N=200) assessed from call centers of Lahore by applying purposive sampling strategy. Data was obtained by administering Multi-dimensional Fatigue Inventory, General Health Questionnaire-28, Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations-21, and Screening Questionnaire for Sleep Disturbance in Shift Workers. Data was analyzed by using Pearson product moment correlation, Hierarchical Multiple Regression Analysis and Hayes Process Regression analysis. Results of this study state that fatigue correlated positively with general health and sleep disturbance. General health, task-oriented, emotion-oriented and avoidance coping strategies also have positive relationship with sleep disturbance. General health seems to have full mediation effect on the relationship of fatigue and sleep disturbance. Task and emotion-oriented coping strategies appear as a moderator while avoidance coping strategy does not appear as a moderator between the relationship of fatigue and sleep disturbance. This research has future implications for identifying night shift call centers workers having proneness to develop Shift work disorder due to sleep disturbance and provides them with better sleep hygiene guidelines to protect their health.","PeriodicalId":388480,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Value and Administrative Insight","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116462086","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}