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International cooperation as policy transfer: the case of a violence prevention project between Swedish and Ukrainian NGOs.
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Health, Social Work and Behavioural Sciences, School of Social Work.
2011 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 80 credits / 120 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Background

International cooperation became a wide-spread way of exchanging experience and ideas between organizations of the non-profit sector all over the world. The exchange of new ideas and experience on the international level can very often contain cases of policy transfer, which beyond all doubts can influence the participants of international cooperation.

Aim

The aim of the presented Master's thesis consists of the investigation and analysis of international project on violence prevention between Swedish and Ukrainian NGOs, assessing and verifying the representation in the project the particular case of policy transfer.

Method

In order to collect the empirical data, mixed qualitative methods were used in this thesis, which included the concept of triangulation used for the data collection.

Result

The conduction of the presented qualitative research gave an opportunity to uncover and examine the different roles played by Ukrainian and Swedish NGOs in the welfare systems of their respective countries. It also became possible to observe an occurrence of a particular form of cooperation between the two NGOs in the international cooperation project, which can be related to a particular type of policy transfer.

Conclusions

Due to the fact that the project analysed in this study is still ongoing, it is still too early to derive any final conclusion about its achievements and formulate an evaluation concerning the nature of the policy transfer process. So far the author of the presented thesis can see that the project on its current stage has an occurrence of lesson-drawing policy transfer.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2011. , p. 81
Keywords [en]
Civil society, international cooperation, international project, natonal context, non-governmental organisation, policy transfer process, violence prevention, welfare state.
National Category
Social Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-13211OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-13211DiVA, id: diva2:427853
Subject / course
Social Work
Educational program
Masterprogram i socialt arbete, 120 hp
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, Building N, Lückligs plats 3, 351 95 Växjö, Sweden (English)
Uppsok
Social and Behavioural Science, Law
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Available from: 2011-06-29 Created: 2011-06-28 Last updated: 2013-03-18Bibliographically approved

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