Community involvement in land regularization for informal settlements in Tanzania: A strategy for enhancing security of tenure in residential neighborhoods

This paper documents and analyzes how landholders managed to uplift status of their neighborhood from hazard land as designated by the 1978 master plan to a regularized residential settlement through land regularization in Dar es Salaam city. Specifically, explores policy framework governing land regularization and how the local community explored the opportunities it offers. Documents the local community planning and land regularization processes undertaken focusing on land use planning, drainage construction, and cadastral survey and discuses how financial resources were raised, trust was built as well as factors which sustained community involvement towards meeting their interests of securing tenure. The paper also, draws challenges facing land regularization policy and recommends areas for further interventions commensurate with the human dimension challenges in securing tenure.Underlying community involvement, those aspects of community, which have been connected to the idea of social capital namely existence of committed leadership in land development matters, embracing mechanism for participatory decision making process and educational background to local leaders were particularly important in determining success for the case. Others include economic ability to contribute, high proportion of landholder settlers, land conflict task force formulation, local consensus to solve commonly felt problems, existence of strong community organization, and unwritten norms put in place to regulate individual behavior in building construction. Weak legal recognition of informal settlement, lengthy and bureaucratic procedures in planning and approval of regularization plans, weak knowledge on land management matters, short-term title deeds with low financial betterments, political popularity are identified critical challenges.Some of recommendations put forward include formalization of the grass-roots role in decision-making, decentralizing some of land development control functions to sub-ward leaders and training the same in basic land management matters. Others include definition of norms; by-laws and government facilitation of informal land parceling. Besides community support should be sought so as to create partnership in the promotion of security of tenure in informal areas. The study concludes that, unless land development activities ongoing in informal settlements are closely monitored and regulated as the settlement grow, it will be too costly socially and economically to retrofit once the settlement have identified.     

The Impact of Items and Anchors on Parent–Child Reports of Problem Behavior

Research has repeatedly demonstrated that parent and child reports of child behavior and emotional functioning often do not agree in terms of symptom severity or even symptom presence. Given the potential clinical impact that discrepant reports may have on the therapeutic process, a significant amount of research has addressed the factors influencing this observed discrepancy. Traditionally, this research has evaluated the impact of demographic factors on mean differences and obtained correlation coefficients between parent and child reports. The current research improves upon previous research in this area in two ways. First, the current research uses parent and child measures with identical rather than similar items as is commonly found in previous research. Second, the current research moves beyond identifying demographic influences on discrepant reports by explaining observed discrepancies in terms of differences in parent and child perceptions of typical child behavior.David Carlston and Benjamin Ogles are affiliated with Department of Psychology, Ohio University, Athens, USA.Funding for this project was provided by the Ohio Department of Mental Health.     

小说化:民族志书写的一种可能性

传统民族志的文化书写在小说与民族志之间人为划定了严格的界限,它重视概括性事实而回避故事讲述和故事中的单个人物,更谈不上中心人物的深度塑造。实验民族志这种书写范式的出现为借用小说叙事和人物塑造来集中地、戏剧性地展示对象的人文事实、心理事实及其内在意义提供了可能性。     

融贯中西与古今文化诗学的意象体系——鲁迅诗歌意象的类型分析

意象是诗歌的生命。鲁迅诗歌使用了大量的审美意象,融贯中西与古今文化诗学,形成了自己独立的体系。鲁迅诗歌意象为六种类型,以三组对立的形态出现,即:历史性意象/现实性意象;东方意象/西方意象;社会性意象/人化自然的意象。这些意象的使用,昭示了鲁迅忧国忧民的伟大人格,并形成鲁迅自己独特的诗风。同时,他的诗歌与我国传统诗歌相比较,具有鲜明的现代性,与后起的新诗相比,又具有深厚的传统文化诗学的底蕴。     

我国企业购并法律规范问题的思考

:随着我国市场经济的完善 ,我国加入WTO ,作为市场经济产物的企业购并行为 ,急需法律来规范。针对我国企业购并立法的现状 ,存在的问题 ,并提出相关的建议 ,具有重要的理论和现实意义     

人的自由活动与实践美学的意义

实践美学从历史唯物主义出发 ,指出了美感和美是社会历史实践的产物。它是一种凸现了人、人的活动、人的自由活动的美学。在理论上 ,实践美学顺应历史的潮流 ,宣告了形而上学的终结 ,走出了古典主义的二元对立思维模式 ;在现实上 ,实践美学针对时代的虚无 ,高扬人的旗帜 ,为美学研究开辟了一片新的天地。     

创新意识和思维方法论

美国著名经济学家熊彼特曾说,经济增长并不是由于资本、劳力等生产要素的增加所引起的植物性增长,而是创新所引起的增长。20世纪以来的100年,不仅在科学技术方面是一个创新的时代,同时也是社会变革最为迅速的时代。科学技术创新是社会发展的促进剂,社会创新同样对社会、经济发展产生深刻的影响。为此必须研究创新和创新思维方法的诸多方面,不断地用智慧去提出问题和解决问题,从而不断地产生新的思维方式和框架。在自由的思考之中,我们才最有可能产生创新。     

初级群体文化对企业领导行为的影响研究

以儒家家族主义和伦理道德规范为核心内容的中国初级群体文化作为一种潜规则对企业领导行为既有正面影响又有负面影响。正面影响体现为它能促进群体内部成员之间特殊的信任与合作。而负面影响则使企业领导行为表现出关系至上的价值取向,具体体现在任人唯亲、维护小团体利益、营私舞弊等。这些行为又导致企业组织在结构和运行上呈现初级群体的特征,使正式的制度难以贯彻执行,整个企业按照初级群体文化的潜规则运行,这是导致企业管理混乱、效率低下、腐败盛行的文化根源。     

高校实验室建设与管理

高校在实验室建设中,应该优化资源配置,深化管理体制改革,加强实验队伍建设,实现规范化管理,把实验室建设成为支撑学科建设、科学研究和培养高素质人才的重要基地。     

International guidelines and the inclusion of disabled people. The Ugandan story

Uganda has made much progress towards including disabled people in its mainstream development, particularly in the political agenda. The exact process by which this has been achieved and the relationship between this and international guidelines and legislation are not known. This study undertakes to examine this from two specific perspectives: (1) How do international documents relevant to disabled people relate to national legislation in Uganda? (2) What can this comparison, together with the perceptions of stakeholders, tell us about how the legislation and services could improve? International legislation and Ugandan legislation is reviewed and compared. Data from 5 semi‐structured key informant interviews and 6 focus group discussions involving a total of 38 people are collected and analysed. The themes arising from the data are related to the documents, legislation, policies and other relevant literature. The results examine the barriers to service provision; the role of change; the importance of representation; policy and legislation issues; and the effects of devolution. Five specific findings relate to how legislation and services can improve: more resources to increase access for disabled people; strong leadership and collaboration between Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) funding bodies and governments; awareness raising and training; representation from all impairment groups; and raising the profile of disabled people through further legislation.