Esta convocatoria busca profundizar el conocimiento sobre las estrategias que desarrollan las élites económicas y políticas para diseñar y utilizar políticas públicas en su propio beneficio, profundizando la desigualdad socio económica y afectando la calidad democrática. La Convocatoria tiene por objetivo construir un marco analítico que permita comprender el fenómeno, determinar sus consecuencias y elaborar propuestas específicas y factibles para frenar esta captura del Estado que afecta las democracias en la región.
- Effective management of the GEF-SGP (Global Environment Facility – Small Grants Programme) local team, the SGP programme and its portfolio -- from programme strategy to individual project concept and design to technical support to SGP grantees, monitoring and evaluation -- to ensure compliance with the overall approved global SGP Strategic Framework, the SGP Operational Guidelines, the SGP annual work programme, the national environmental priorities, as well as the annual delivery of the national SGP targets.
- Building strategic partnerships with development partners, such as donors, foundations, private sector and civil society, to promote SGP and mobilize resources.
- Contribution to GEF-SGP’s efforts to develop effective national, regional and global networks for technical support and knowledge management, within the GEF SGP and with external institution, including academia.
- Prepare and participate in OLSP member nations, NSPA, and NATO exercise and training events.
- Assist with integrating required contractual support solutions in operational logistics planning activities and contribute to the operations logistics planning process.
- Assist with planning and developing technical aspects of logistics-related contracts in support of Crisis Response Operations (CRO).
- Contribute to the provision of consultation and/or advice to OLSP nations in developing technical aspects of contracted logistics support solutions for CRO for OLSP member nation’s responses to activities such as NRF, RAP, or operational deployments.
- Managing, both from a technical and administrative point of view, the personnel assigned to the Branch.
- Continually improving and supporting the integration of all weapon system management functionalities within Heavy Airlift Wing (HAW), NATO Airlift Management (NAM) Programme Office (PO) and affiliated on-site contractors.
- Advising, developing, establishing and updating the weapon system management manual and related Operating Instructions (OIs).
- Managing as the secondary Post-holder Engineer, Airworthiness Directives, Engineering Dispositions and Technical bulletins sent by Boeing/ USAF concerning the C-17 Weapon System.
External evaluation of the safer cities for girls programme
Abstract
The purpose of the external evaluation is to inform decision-making on the progress and achievements of the intervention in its specific urban contexts and to develop recommendations for changes, if necessary, resulting in programme improvement. For Plan International and partner organization staff, it is crucial to know whether the policies and practices are successful or should be revised based on an understanding of the underlying reasons
Desarrollo del Nivel Nacional de Referencia de Emisiones Forestales (NREF/NRF)
Abstract
Trabajar en la planificación, coordinación, desarrollo de metodología y construcción del Nivel de referencia de emisiones forestales y/o un Nivel de referencia forestal (NREF/NRF) para Panamá, en el contexto REDD+ y ámbito de la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (CMNUCC), tomando de base todos los insumos técnicos relacionados a este tópico generados en el país. Usará de base para sus labores dicha información y completará los productos en base a criterios de: consolidar el desarrollo de capacidades nacionales para el NREF/NR, incorporar la información e instituciones relacionadas, y buscar el costo-eficiencia y sostenibilidad a largo plazo del NREF.
Formulación de Anteproyecto de Ley Marco de Cambio Climático
Abstract
Elaborar Anteproyecto de Ley Marco de Cambio Climático, que establezca el marco normativo, institucional y de gestión del cambio climático en El Salvador, promoviendo una legislación que propicie y genere, las condiciones y requerimientos necesarios para asumir efectivamente los desafíos para enfrentar dicho fenómeno y cumplir los compromisos asumidos ante la CMNUCC.
Acta Politica is one of the few truly international political science journals with a broad scope across the discipline. In the past we have published theoretical and empirical articles, comparative and single-country studies and even some methodological notes. In times of an ever-increasing specialisation in political science, we however strongly believe a broad-ranging political science journal is as important as ever for the international scientific community. As Editors, we have a strong preference for articles that will attract a wide audience within the broader field of political science, no matter what the precise topic of the article might be.
Su principal objetivo es recoger destacadas investigaciones en el ámbito de la comunicación desde variadas perspectivas tanto teóricas como empíricas o aplicadas, en campos como periodismo, publicidad, relaciones públicas, radio, cine y televisión, comunicación política, deontología, historia, políticas de comunicación, economía política y nuevos medios, entre otros. El rigor metodológico y la obtención de resultados de investigación son requisitos para la revisión y publicación de originales.
El propósito de dicha publicación es contribuir a la difusión y discusión crítica de los avances científicos, tecnológicos y de desarrollo técnico en el campo de la economía agroalimentaria y de los recursos naturales. Las contribuciones a la Revista pueden estar en áreas disciplinares como: Análisis de la demanda, Comercio internacional, Desarrollo rural, Economía ambiental, Economía del agua, Economía de la empresa, Marketing, Métodos y técnicas de investigación, Política agraria, Producción, Recursos forestales, Recursos pesqueros, Sistema agro-alimentario, Uso del suelo
La Revista Española de Ciencia Política (RECP) es la publicación oficial de la Asociación Española de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA). La RECP tiene como fines los de promover el desarrollo de la Ciencia Política y de la Administración en España, perfeccionar sus métodos y técnicas, fomentar sus investigaciones e impulsar la cooperación científica entre los investigadores, profesores, estudiosos y especialistas de la materia, desde el compromiso con la democracia y los derechos humanos. Desde su fundación en 1998, la Revista ha publicado los más recientes estudios de ciencia política, administración pública, teoría política y otros campos afines dentro de las Ciencias Sociales interesados en algún aspecto de las instituciones de gobierno, los actores y procesos políticos y las políticas públicas, realizados en instituciones académicas españolas y de otras partes del mundo.
Es una revista de periodicidad cuatrimestral, fundada en 1988, que tiene naturaleza interdisciplinar y que abarca el conjunto de las Ciencias Sociales. Selecciona sus artículos con estrictos criterios de calidad, novedad y relevancia. Contiene una parte monográfica y otra miscelánea.
Una aproximación cuantitativa a la gentrificación en Quito Gubernamentalidad, biopolítica y dispositivos en relaciones internacionales
David Cortez y Gabriel Orozco
Este artículo representa un esfuerzo por pensar problemáticas recurrentes de relaciones internacionales y, específicamente, en el contexto de la Globalización, desde la perspectiva de los conceptos que Foucault desarrolló en sus textos como son la gubernamentalidad, la biopolítica y los dispositivos. Se presentan las categorías centrales del análisis foucaultiano y los desarrollos generados para las relaciones internacionales buscando comprender su especificidad y la relevancia que revisten para el análisis discursivo en torno a los Estados fallidos. Este trabajo representa un avance conceptual e interpretativo para la comprensión de problemáticas que muestran la vigencia del análisis foucaultiano
Commercial and biophysical deficits in South America, 1990–2013
Pablo Samaniego, María Cristina Vallejo y Joan Martínez Alier
This article analyses the Physical Trade Balances (PTB) of five South American economies since 1990. Both exports and imports (measured in tonnes) increased but exports were consistently much larger than imports. Such large Physical Trade Deficits (PTD) persisted throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Export prices of primary goods increased but by 2013, export prices had declined and the exports could no longer pay for imports. Countries started to show commercial trade deficits (in money terms). These findings hold for all the South American countries analysed and they show that the optimism generated by the improving terms of trade in South America at the beginning of the 21st century was premature. First, there were PTDs even in the boom years; second, the deterioration in the terms of trade after 2012 was accompanied by a counterproductive deficit in the monetary trade balance. It is counterproductive because, in principle, it leads to greater external debts or to outflows of currency reserves. It can also create pressure to increase physical exports. We argue that deficits in the monetary trade balances tend to be compensated by increasing the deficit in the PTB, which can lead to enhanced environmental pressures and therefore to local protests.
Impact of two policy interventions on dietary diversity in Ecuador
Juan Ponce y Jesús Ramos Martín
Objective: To differentiate the effects of food vouchers and training in health and nutrition on consumption and dietary diversity in Ecuador by using an experimental design.
Design: Interventions enrolled three groups of approximately 200 randomly created households in three provinces in Ecuador. Power estimates and sample size were computed using the Optimal Design software, with a power of 80%, at 5% of significance, and with a minimum detectable effect of 0.25 (standard deviations). The first group was assigned to receive a monthly food voucher of $40. The second group was assigned to receive the same $40 voucher, plus training on health and nutrition issues. The third group was served as the control. Weekly household values of food consumption were converted into caloric intake per person per day. A simple proxy indicator was constructed for dietary diversity, based on the Food Consumption Score. Finally, an econometric model with three specifications was used for analysing the differential effect of the interventions.
Setting: Three provinces in Ecuador, two from the Sierra region (Carchi and Chimborazo) and one from the Coastal region (Santa Elena).
Subjects: Members of 773 households randomly created (n 4343).
Results: No significant impacts on consumption in any of the interventions was found. However, there is evidence that voucher systems have a positive impact on dietary diversity. No differentiated effects were found for training intervention.
How resource nationalism hinders development: the institutional roots of the economic recession in Venezuela
Guillaume Fontaine y Cecilia Medrano Caviedes
How do institutions allow governments to manage dramatic variations of oil rents, and how do these variations impact public institutions is the twofold problem addressed here. We contend that high dependence on oil combined with low political accountability increases the economic vulnerability to external shocks. We sustain our argument with the analysis of the fiscal policies implemented in Venezuela under the administration of Hugo Chávez (1999-2012). A process tracing methodology focuses on the policy design of fiscal policies through the selection of instruments embedded in the Public Finance Management system (PFM), using a typology of the state´s resources of information, authority, treasure and organization. During this period, the constitutionalization of the resource nationalism acted as a trigger to change fiscal policies through four major reforms including the creation of a highly centralized PFM, the takeover of the Central Bank, the reform of oil legal framework and the takeover of the national oil company, PDVSA. All of these reforms converged towards the elimination and/or manipulation of the instruments of political accountability, allowing discretional management of oil rents and hampering the government´s capacity to react to the oil price plunge, which ultimately led to the current economic recession.