Values in international development organisations: negotiating non-negotiables

Values are an important theme in discussions in international NGOs, helping to create the conditions for solidarity among staff. But at the same time they are also frequently a source of demoralisation and destructive conflict. This is because the prevailing perceptions of values as instruments of management or as elements in some inchoate mystical whole render the power relationship between staff and managers undiscussable. Values need not be thought of as an instrument of management, and they are above all idealisations. An alternative theory of values is that they are emergent and intensely social phenomena that arise daily between people engaged in a collective enterprise. They are idealisations, but they must be discussed in the everyday context. Conflict is inevitable, but the exploration of the nature of this conflict in daily practice is the only way of ensuring that the discussion about values is an enlivening process.     

Reaching the Millennium Development Goals: equality and justice as well as results

Though less than expected, resources are available for simple, cheap interventions that can accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. Results-based management has been the key to increasing access to education and health care, but it does little to change the political, social, and economic conditions that make people poor. Unless there is a better balance between the drive to achieve measurable impact, investments in long-term poverty-eradication measures, and the creation of space where poor people can discuss and develop strategies for achieving equality and social justice, it will not be as easy to make poverty history as many people think.     

Counting the costs of HIV and AIDS to civil-society organisations

HIV threatens the survival of many civil-society organisations (CSOs) in Africa. While we know the range of potential costs to such groups, we lack a detailed picture of the extent of the impact. This article highlights important findings from exploratory research in Malawi. Respondents perceived that overall performance in the four CSOs studied declined by an average 20 per cent because they were working in a context of high HIV prevalence. Yet the CSOs' workplace response to this threat was very limited, and they remain highly vulnerable to future impact. We consider why the CSOs have not been more proactive, and we recommend that donor policy should help partners to respond to the epidemic and enable them to remain effective.     

生态型政府：我国政府模式转变的新视角

城市化快速发展,环境问题已不容忽视。“十一五”规划中,中央明确提出了建设资源节约型、环境友好型社会的新概念。政府作为环境保护的代言人,其职能作用的发挥至关重要。     

构建和谐社会应以分配公平为基础

分配公平是整个社会公平的最根本内容,也是构建和谐社会的基础。我国当前收入差距悬殊的问题普遍存在;收入分配不公是构建和谐社会的最大挑战,容易诱发社会的不稳定因素;当前需要完善收入分配制度、规范收入分配秩序、落实收入公平分配措施,促进社会和谐发展。     

Who will guard the guardians? Amartya Sen's contribution to development evaluation

An Action Learning process integrated with Sen's Capability Approach can support development agencies to formulate interventions that enhance freedom. The authors show that putting this approach into practice has important implications for the manner in which ‘development’ is undertaken as an ideological project. It may help to examine and challenge those who hold power in development: the guardians. This finding is the result of an emergent Action Learning process that was initiated by applying Sen's principles to focus-group interviews with women who care for people affected by HIV and AIDS. One of the findings of these focus groups was that the participants valued the process because it opened a space for them to influence the work of the implementing NGO. Essentially, they could hold the implementing agency to account. Reflection on this outcome by the agency led to important shifts in processes that are more supportive of freedom.     

陌生自由人社会及其内卷化——关于中国社会结构现状的思考

建构成熟公民社会是当前中国社会变革的主要目标之一,也是现代民主政治发展的必然要求。但就社会结构现状而言,中国仍然处于陌生自由人社会状态,突出表现为社会自组织孱弱、公民参与缺乏、精英特征明显、社会分化严重、公民文化缺失。且由于国家与市场等外在因素制约,陌生自由人社会内部结构不断复杂化,社会流动减缓,碎片化结构简单复制,社会分化与冲突加剧,呈现出一定程度的内卷化趋势,无法朝着成熟公民社会这一高级模式顺利转化。     

国外社会建设理论对我国构建和谐社会的启示——从功能论和冲突论的视角

国外社会建设理论主要有两种理论范式一功能论范式和冲突论范式，分别以孔德、斯宾塞、涂尔干、帕森斯为代表的功能论观点以及以马克思、马克斯·韦伯、达伦道夫、科塞为代表的冲突论观点。研究我国的社会建设问题，不能单纯地用功能论或者冲突论去分析，功能论和冲突论的结合能够更好地回答有关和谐社会建设的更多问题。     

政府主导下的金融集聚与“两型社会”建设——关于武汉建设成为区域金融中心的构想

该文首先分析了金融集聚对“两型社会”建设的积极效应，通过剖析新加坡金融集聚的成功案例来说明政府主导模式的有效性，并就武汉在建设区域金融中心中政府应如何作为提出了相关对策。     

从公安管理的角度解读《第23次中国互联网络发展状况统计报告》

中国互联网络信息中心（CNNIC）一直致力于互联网发展的调查和研究,每年两次的互联网统计报告全面、系统、客观、真实地展现了互联网的发展现状、网民的行为和习惯以及互联网发展的趋势,为我们开展互联网管理工作提供了有效的依据。因此,公安机关解读这个报告,能使我们对互联网有一个清晰的了解,寻找工作结合点和着力点,对作出准确的判断和科学的决策具有深刻意义。