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Final Project – Global Issue Paper

The Final Project integrates concepts of service in the global community and related governance issues. For your final project topic, you should review the Application Assignments for Weeks 2–5 and select one type of global issue on which to focus (democratization, human rights, environmental issues, or health issues). The global issue you select for your Final Project should be a specific issue falling under one of the larger categories of global issues. For example, disaster relief or water pollution would fall under environmental issues.

Main Global Issue-Environmental Issues

Specific Environmental Issue-Water Pollution

Your Global Issue Paper must be presented as a 6–8 page paper (not including title page or reference page), double-spaced and APA formatted with references.

Final Project Guidelines:

  • Provide a rationale for the global issue you selected and explain why the issue is important. Identify five international organizations that might address the issue you selected.
  • Select one IGO and one NGO from the five international organizations that you identified. Your selection should reflect one IGO and one NGO that you think effectively address the issue you selected.
  • Research the IGO and the NGO you selected and provide a detailed description of the services they provide. Explain strategies the IGO and the NGO might use to address the global issue you selected.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of strategies used by the IGO and NGO you selected to address the global issue.
  • Explain factors (e.g., political, environmental) that might impact the way in which the IGO and NGO operate to address the selected global issue.
  • Explain how the global issue interrelates with at least two other global issues covered in the course.
  • Based on your research and the information provided to you throughout the course, assess overall effectiveness of IGOs and NGOs in addressing and diminishing issues in the global community.

Resources

https://water.org/

International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance – 3RD 15
by: Karns, Margaret P.