جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "سازمان مردم نهاد" در نشریات گروه "علوم اجتماعی"

This paper explores the relationship between institutional interactions and social capital indicators “Case Study: Charities and Relief Institutions in 2020”.

The paper tries to answer the question of the relationship between the interaction between relief foundation and charities and social capital indicators by using a qualitative approach based on the thematic analysis method, which aims to find out the basic, organizing and comprehensive themes related to the research problem. The statistical population of the study consisted of managers, planners, experts and professors of the College of Aid and Charities, with whom semi-structured interviews were conducted, and finally 23 people were selected using the snowball method. Brown and Clark's (2006) thematic analysis method was used to analyze the data, and finally, three main themes emerged: social trust, social participation, and social cohesion.

After conducting the survey, the main results and findings of the research showed that charities specializing in specific issues have more efficient management with high supervision, which can better win people's trust. Imam Relief Foundation can successfully apply its implementation methods in the form of new organizational policies in the field of coordination with charities. The results have shown that the interaction and relationship between the Relief Foundation and charities is a function of criteria and indicators such as: the ability of charities to help the needy, accuracy in common matters, coordination of charities with relief policies, use of common capacities for synergy, avoidance of parallel work, and providing more help to the truly needy while maintaining the dignity of the needy. In this case, not only is the target community helped, but institutional interactions become more coordinated.

Through recognizing the perceptions and attitudes of the participants, the researcher realized that proper communication and interaction between the relief foundation and the charities can increase social capital (trust, participation, cohesion). The relief  foundation and charities as social networks are a platform for participation, which leads to social cohesion and integration and social trust.

The presence of social trust in charities and Imam Khomeini Relief Committee (RA) causes the cohesion of the organizations, increases social participation and improves the effectiveness of the services provided.

Today many individual’s lives have been affected by social media in all aspects. Official statistics prove that a significant number of people spend a huge amount of time in social media. NGOs, like other organizations, use social media to stay competitive and attract and manage their stakeholders, such as donors, volunteers, managers, and employees. Developing more effective stakeholder relationships in NGOs requires a more suitable and relevant strategy for using social media. This research has been done in terms of applied-developmental purpose, in terms of descriptive method and qualitative content analysis method. The statistical population includes experts and stakeholders in the two fields of social media and non-governmental organizations. 13 people were interviewed in-depth by the theoretical saturation method. In Iran, due to various barriers and limitations of using many social media platforms, Instagram has been the main used social media platform by NGOs, yet other social media platforms are used as complementary tools with less engagement rates than Instagram. This study research emphasizes the need and the importance to reform the strategy and structure in non-governmental organizations, to the increase the comprehensive knowledge of social media communication, to identify and differentiate the characteristics of different stakeholders and build a network of them for charity purposes. In this study, we found that there is no general public communication strategy due to infrastructural differences including technology, geographical constraints, differences in knowledge, and cultural and individual preparations and to use a contingency and targeted interaction strategy with the stakeholders is suggested.

In recent decades, Non Governmental Organizations have become increasingly important as the third pillar of democracy and civil society representative , and governments have tried to use the capacity of these organizations in public decision making and policy making. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of NGOs in the process of public policy making in Iran and the five European countries and their degree of participation in this process

This research has been conducted with a qualitative strategy, descriptive by purpose and library by method, based on document analysis and with the development research approach. The countries of England, Hungary, Estonia, Croatia and Romania were selected to conduct a comparative study according to the history of the presence and activities of NGOs, and detailed studies of these countries, according to the criteria of the context of activity of these organizations ,supportive documents and policies, institutional mechanisms, and the fields of their participation in the public policy making were carried out

Some countries have adopted comprehensive laws in the parliament or the government to support the activities of NGOs, and have provided formal structures and committees for consultation with civil institutions. In addition, by using physical and virtual tools and formal processes, capacities for the participation of NGOs in the process of policy making from problem analysis to the formulation of the agenda and the formulation and approval of the policy have been provided..

NGOs play role as independent entities which do not rely on government; and they are voluntarily established for non-profit and non-political purposes. Nowadays, they have been so effective in combating drugs and diminishing demand for drugs. Hence, the major objective of this research is manner of improvement of NGOs performance in combating with drugs (Case study: Holy city of Mashad).

The present research, in terms of the objective, is of applied type; and in terms of nature and approach is of descriptive-survey type. including the antidrug experts and managers of NGOs active in Mashad. In order to enhance the internal credit of research, statistical sample is equal statistical population (head count).

The research findings indicated that the constituent of treatment and damage reduction, safeguarding, empowerment, and prevention as constituents of demand reduction are at a desirable level, and cooperation of NGOs with organizations and entities which are active in treatment activities, and social prevention could be very useful.

The results indicated that the most important factor contributing to the performance of NGOs are prevention, treatment, damage reduction, safeguarding and empowerment. Police forces could use this process in combating drugs.