Strategies to Improve the World Food Programme's Revenue Mobilisation and Procurement Practices

Currently, a vast majority of WFP food procurement is executed through spot markets, which exposes it to substantial commodity and transport price risk as well as significant delays in delivery. The WFP also has limited flexibility owing to unpredictable revenue mobilisation, partly driven by restricted donor contributions. However, a significant portion of its operations are fairly predictable – both in terms of countries and delivery volumes. There are several types of derivatives contracts available at commodities exchanges that can facilitate strategic hedging. Greater commitments of untied cash donations from the US and other major donors can give the WFP significant operational flexibility to execute prudent financial management operations without damaging local food markets.     

Groups-on-the-Go: Spontaneously Formed Mutual Aid Groups for Adolescents in Distress

SUMMARY

This paper presents groups-on-the-go, spontaneously formed groups for adolescents in distress. Groups-on-the-go is an extension of Fritz Redl's concept of life-space interviewing, which is used to address adolescents' direct, here-and-now life experiences. The two major tasks of life-space interviewing are: (1) clinical exploitation of life events and (2) emotional first aid on the spot. This article goes one step further, adding a third feature, (3) mutual aid in the moment. This article will describe and illustrate groups-on-the-go, discuss the challenges of this spontaneous approach, and offer guidelines for its effective use.     

社会转型期如何让法律援助服务于社会管理创新

中国当前正处于社会转型期和改革创新的关键期,政治、经济、文化等方面发生了诸多变化,也面临着诸多风险,急需借助法律援助制度创新社会管理.法律援助制度在社会管理创新中能起重要作用.基于此,要促进社会管理创新,就必须创新理念,坚持法律援助“服务至上”和“群众利益至上”,完善“两个体系”建设,积极推进“五化”、“四机制”建设.     

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高校贫困生非正式社会支持网络探析

高校贫困生问题是伴随经济体制改革和高等教育收费制度的建立而出现的。文章分析了非正式社会支持网络在解决高校贫困生问题中的作用，针对目前高校贫困生资助工作还不是十分完善的现状，提出构建科学有效的高校贫困生非正式支持体系应从参与主体、资助方式和配套政策等方面进行拓展。     

高校法律援助机构教育功能实现的障碍及消解

高校法律援助机构具有操作性教育功能、道德人文教育功能、激励教育功能，对法科学生能力的培养起着重要的作用。但高校法律援助机构在实现教育功能的过程中遇到了资金缺失、人才缺乏、管理缺位、激励缺漏等障碍，我们应当通过多元化筹集资金模式的拓展、人才培训交流互动机制的建立、管理职责的厘定及管理制度的健全、激励机制的创建等路径对以上障碍予以消解。     

Group work is … powerful! This stuff changes … lives: training on group processes for facilitators of curriculum-based groups

ABSTRACT

This article describes a four-year group work training project conducted with facilitators of curriculum-based parenting groups who had not been trained in group work or group processes. A total 14 group facilitators and 144 group members from 34 groups were involved in the training and the mixed method evaluation. Participants described how the training modified their group facilitation, helping them understand that the groups themselves as well as the curricula were informative and transformative, and that group members as well as group facilitators had roles. Further, facilitators indicated that the training resulted in fundamental change in their self-perceptions from being simply purveyors of a parenting curriculum to empathic agents of change as well.     

重庆市高校教学设备配置与使用现状调查

本研究基于对重庆市 2 4所不同类型高校的教学设备配置与使用现状的调查 ,对三千多份有效问卷进行了定性与定量分析 ,讨论了三类能较全面地反映高校教学设备配置、使用现状与教学科研水平的情况 ;教学设备的现状、学生对使用现代教学设备的态度倾向、教师使用现代教学技术的水平状况。指出应加大对高校硬件设备的投入改造 ,改善办学条件 ;应积极倡导教师使用电教手段进行教学 ,努力提高教师使用电教手段的水平     

咏花诗在“园林树木学”教学中的运用

园林树木学是园林专业的一门重要专业基础课,引用咏花诗可以作为该课程的辅助教学手段之一.论文认为那些侧重于表现客观自然的咏花诗是授课过程中引用的主体,并通过实例阐述了描述园林树木观赏特性和景观营造两个方面的咏花诗的引用在帮助学生理解课程内容和活跃课堂气氛中的作用.同时,指出了咏花诗引用应注意贴切、通俗、精炼三要点.