Delivering Community Services in a New World of Volunteering: A Case Study From Sydney,Australia

In a challenging contemporary environment of a mixed economy of welfare, volunteers are a resource much-needed for the delivery of critical community-based services. Yet the context is changing as a result of new state/non-profit sector relationships and increased government intervention. Little is known about how these changes impact on the capacity and commitment of volunteers. This article responds to this gap in understanding through a case study of existing volunteers across community services in Sydney, Australia. Findings highlight the critical importance of supportive management, and particularly coordinators who understand volunteers' escalating needs in the new volunteer world.     

Challenges to the Recruitment and Retention of Volunteers in Traditional Nonprofit Organizations: A Case Study of Australian Meals on Wheels

Australian Meals on Wheels (MoWs) is a well-known, traditional nonprofit organization operating for over 60 years in a mixed economy of welfare, where it is positioned between the increasingly complex demands of state regulation and market efficiency. These contextual challenges cause critical tensions to an organization reliant on humanitarian principles and a large volunteer workforce. Findings show that this organization is experiencing conflicting and multiple identities which are having a significant impact on volunteer recruitment and retention. Specifically, data highlight the external challenges that threaten volunteers relating to regulation and funding, and internal challenges that tend to ignore volunteer value and instead picture volunteers as ageing and resistant to change. Findings suggest that the organization needs to work with all stakeholders to develop a shared organizational identity that blends humanitarianism with managerialism. New inclusive processes can enable better recruitment and retention practices, enabling the organization to “unfreeze” its traditional ways of operating to build a sustainable future for this much-needed organization.     

Methods of sex trafficking: findings of a case study in Turkey

The underground sex industry in Turkey has increasingly become dependent on the foreign women, predominantly coming from the former Soviet Union. Some of these women became victims of sex trafficking. However, little is known about how they are recruited, transferred to, and exploited in Turkey. This article attempts to enlighten this process and makes use of police-recorded victim interviews (N?=?430), as well as key personnel interviews (N=?18) as primary data. Various methods and tactics are found to be used in sex trafficking operations in Turkey. Most victims are recruited by persons known to them proposing attractive job possibilities, especially in the entertainment business. The majority of victims enter Turkey with legal documents and with various transportation means. Traffickers obtain girls and sell them to customers in public and private settings using methods to control the victims, such as debt bondage, violence, confinement, confiscation of travel documents, and threats.     

优化广西农村公共文化产品供给的思考

广西农村公共文化服务体系建设尽管取得了一定的成效,但公共文化服务产品的供给与农民日益多样化的文化需求仍有较大差距,确保优质高效的公共文化产品供给成了当前农村文化建设亟待解决的问题。造成广西农村公共文化供给不佳的主要原因是公共文化设施不足、供给与需求不匹配以及缺乏农民组织作为文化建设的依托载体。优化农村公共文化产品供给要建立起政府供给、市场供给与社会供给优势互补的复合供给模式。     

行政法语境下的流动人口受教育权保障——一种行政给付的可期途径

当流动人口成为不断庞大的群体时,其受教育权的实现需要依赖政府的行政职能予以保障,我国制定了一系列与受教育权有关的教育管理法律法规,试图对政府行为予以规范以实现公民基本权利的维护。从现有的法律制度安排而言,与流动人口受教育权有关的行政法律制度从主体权力的划分、责任的承担到行政经费的财政支持等诸多方面均有所欠缺,不能很好地解决跨区域的人口流动教育问题。行政给付作为一种二次分配手段可以成为地域界限的突破口,在既定制度的范围内,对流动人口教育问题进行一定程度的改善。     

参附注射液辅助伽玛刀治疗恶性肿瘤41例

目的 探讨参附注射液在伽玛刀治疗恶性肿瘤中的辅助作用。方法 选取经解放军第81医院收治的82例恶性肿瘤患者,将其随机分成2组,治疗组采用参附注射液联合伽玛刀治疗,对照组采用单纯伽玛刀治疗,比较两组临床疗效、毒性和不良反应等。结果 两组实体瘤疗效分布比较,差异无统计学意义（P>0.05）。治疗组患者生活质量改善优于对照组（P<0.05）。与治疗前比较,治疗后对照组补体C3水平显著降低（P<0.05）, 治疗组补体C3和补体C4水平均显著升高（P<0.05）;治疗组治疗后补体C3水平显著高于对照组（P<0.05）。与治疗前比较,对照组治疗后CD4+ T细胞亚群百分比显著升高（P<0.05）,治疗组CD3+、CD4+ T细胞亚群百分比和CD4+/CD8+均显著升高（P<0.05）,CD8+ T细胞亚群百分比显著降低（P<0.05）。治疗组治疗前后CD3+ T细胞亚群百分比和CD4+/CD8+升高值以及CD8+ T细胞亚群百分比降低值显著大于对照组（P<0.05）。治疗组在降低白细胞介素-6和肿瘤坏死因子-α水平方面优于对照组。治疗组在防治放射治疗引起外周血白细胞、血红蛋白和血小板减少方面明显优于对照组（P<0.05）。两组不良反应发生率比较,差异具有统计学意义（χ2=9.59,P=0.002）,治疗组不良反应发生率明显低于对照组。结论 参附注射液能减轻伽玛刀对机体的毒性和不良反应,改善患者免疫功能,提高患者的生活质量。     

澳大利亚警察招募与教育训练体制的特色

作为行政执法重要力量之一的人民警察队伍,其综合素质能否与国际接轨,教育训练是关键。对国内外警察教育训练模式进行对比研究,具有重要的理论意义和时代意义。文章对澳大利亚警察招募与教育训练体制的特色进行了对比研究,力求学习和借鉴国外警察教育训练模式的成功经验和做法,以期对构建我国人民警察教育训练体制有所启示。     

Hardening corporate accountability in commodity supply chains under the European Union Deforestation Regulation

The European Union (EU) has recently introduced the Deforestation Regulation to close regulatory gaps in the sustainability and legality of global forest and agricultural commodity supply chains. We analyze this regulatory policy change by drawing on accountability scholarship and institutionalist theories of regulation. Our results show that the Regulation aims to enhance corporate accountability mechanisms through mostly state-based hard regulation of commodity supply chains, reducing the role of market incentives and private regulation. This policy change is found to be the result of strategic policy-oriented learning from perceived accountability failures of existing soft market-based instruments, voluntary trade agreements, and experience with market-correcting EU timber legality trade rules in a politically favorable context. The institutionalization of new forest-risk commodity supply chain accountability norms in new EU trade rules would, by design, harden foreign corporate accountability for negative socio-environmental externalities. However, the de-facto hardening will depend on the final regulatory design, acceptance, compliance, implementation, enforcement improvements, and avoidance of leakage effects.