The Change Agency OSF wikipedia Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. L'Open Society Foundations (OSF) est un réseau de fondations créé en 1993 par le milliardaire américain George Soros. Les objectifs de ce réseau sont de promouvoir la gouvernance démocratique, les droits de l'homme et des réformes économiques, sociales et légales. Activités[modifier | modifier le code] A l'échelon international et des continents, le réseau travaille à construire des alliances transfrontières et transcontinentales sur des questions comme la corruption[1],[2] et la lutte contre les atteintes aux droits humains. Àux échelles locales, l'OSF met en œuvre des initiatives visant à appuyer la primauté du droit, l'éducation, la santé publique (en luttant notamment contre les grandes épidémies, d'hépatite[3] ou HIV[4] par exemple) et l'indépendance des médias[5]. Exemples de fondations du réseau[modifier | modifier le code] Budget et financement[modifier | modifier le code] Critiques et controverses[modifier | modifier le code]
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NOMS graduate programme - Detailed guidance Overview The National Offender Management Service graduate programme accepts applications every year from graduates looking for a position in HM Prison Service. If you’re accepted on to the programme, you’ll start by working towards being a prison officer and progress to a managerial post within 3 years. You’ll need to: work effectively with people from all walks of life stay calm under intense pressure meet targets manage budgets You’ll have to make sure hundreds of people get their meals, can access education and are kept safe. Read more about the National Offender Management Service and HM Prison Service. The programme in detail 1. You’ll start with 6 weeks of training at our national training centre in Rugby. You’ll learn about prison service values and responsibilities and develop the skills you need for your first role on the programme, as a prison officer. These skills will include using handcuffs, basic control and restraint techniques, and how to carry out searches. 2. 3. You must: 1.
At The Forefront Of Social Innovation In Latin America – Colombia This is a community post, untouched by our editors. This article is written by Tricia Hackett and Diana Daste as part of the Social Life of Cities series It’s not all about Brazil – though the media might lead you to believe otherwise. Lesser known but not less exciting things are also happening in other Latin America countries, namely Colombia. With much fanfare, Colombia’s second city, Medellín, (also known as ‘The City of Eternal Spring’) was named the winner of the ‘City of the Year’ competition early this month. More recently the national government is also promoting innovation – economic and social – as the key to increasing the nation’s competitiveness and enabling the economic growth that will improve quality of life. Colombia is a rapidly urbanising country with the third largest economy in South America and a wide gap between the rich and the poor. Innovation drives investment and attracts foreign capital. 6 E. Tricia Hackett e-mail: tricia.hackett@youngfoundation.org Diana Daste
Publications IDS publishes in-house many freely downloadable Working Papers, Research Reports, Practice Papers, Policy Briefings and Rapid Response Briefings, covering all development themes from our Research Teams. Working with our publishers, Wiley, IDS also publishes six issues of our flagship journal, the IDS Bulletin, each year. Individually-themed issues bring together the latest thinking and research from programmes and events and present them in an accessible way for the wide range of audiences working in development. Through our online bookshop books written by IDS Researchers for external publishers are available for purchase. The Potential and Limits of the ‘Resilience Agenda’ in Peri-urban Contexts Today, it is acknowledged that peri-urban space plays a critical and increasing role role is still poorly understood and peri-urban areas are rarely recognised in the in relation to urban expansion. On a Wing and a Prayer?
History The Open Society Foundations began in 1979 when George Soros decided he had enough money. His great success as a hedge fund manager allowed him to pursue his ambition of establishing open societies in place of authoritarian forms of government. “Open society is based on the recognition that our understanding of the world is inherently imperfect,” Soros said. “What is imperfect can be improved.” He started by supporting scholarships for black students at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and for Eastern European dissidents to study abroad. Soros set up his first non-U.S. foundation in Hungary in 1984. To help train a new generation of political and economic leaders, Soros founded the Central European University in 1991 as a center of research and policy analysis that promotes the principles of open, democratic societies. Aryeh Neier joined the Open Society Foundations in 1993 as president after leading Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Civil Service Fast Stream The Civil Service Fast Stream helps graduates to make an impact on people’s lives in the UK and the world. You could work in areas including education, the economy, foreign affairs, defence policy, health, the environment and many more. You’ll need to meet the following conditions to apply: meet nationality and immigration requirements have a second-class degree in any subject for most Fast Stream schemes You can find out more on the Civil Service Fast Stream blog. How to apply All Fast Stream schemes will open for applications in September 2015. Read about how to apply for a Civil Service Fast Stream scheme. You can also practice for the Fast Stream tests. Pay and benefits You’ll get a starting salary between £25,000 and £27,000 a year. Pay increases are based on performance. Your benefits will include: Connect with us
2016 Olympics: Brazil’s vision comes with mass evictions Preparations for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro are in full swing. Development plans include a futuristic waterside park, and like in past host countries, the razing of low income communities. The announcement of the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympics is still celebrated by many as solidifying Brazil as an international player - pointing to the countries economic maturity and political stability. The favela dwellers faced with eviction tell a different story. Romero points out that the very cultural and economic developments that made Brazil a successful contender in the 2016 Olympic bid also created conditions for disenfranchised citizens to challenge labor conditions and land development plans. During preparations for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing authorities removed hundreds of thousands of families without mass resistance. Reports of favela residents' attitudes towards development projects have been varied. [via The New York Times; ArchDaily]