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  Promoting higher education mobility in the CPLP: An analysis of policy implementation in Portugal

  (2026-09-17) Ribeiro, Ana Cristina Morais Rico Farto; Carvalho, Clara

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  This research analyzes the strategies and actions adopted by the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) to promote the mobility of higher education students among its member states. Based on academic mobility as a fundamental pillar of educational and cultural cooperation, the study seeks to understand how these initiatives contribute to strengthening Lusophone integration and projecting soft power within the CPLP. The research adopts a qualitative approach, based on the analysis of institutional documents and semi-structured interviews with representatives of Ministry of Science, Technology, and Higher Education (MTECS) and students of higher education system from the CPLP countries. The objective is to identify advances, limitations, and challenges in implementing mobility policies, and to assess their real impact on cultural diplomacy and on the promotion of a more integrated, inclusive, and sustainable Lusophone academic community.

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  Policy inconsistencies and the social politics of gender-based violence in Nigeria: A critical study toward achieving gender equality (SDG 5)

  (2026-09-17) Mina, Catherine Isaac; Carvalho, Clara

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  Gender based violence (GBV) is the most prevalent and pervasive human rights violation in Nigeria which disproportionately affects women and girls in all sectors of the society. One out of three women aged 15-49 years has experienced physical or sexual violence at least once in her lifetime across Nigeria (FMoHSW, NPC, & ICF, 2024; UN Women, 2024). Most of this violence has occurred in personal relationships. Despite the presence of robust legislative instruments such as the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act of 2015 (VAPP Act) and Nigeria's formal commitment to international agreements such as the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) on Gender Equality, the rate of gender-based violence (GBV) has not gone down but has gone up. Gender-based violence (GBV) serves in this study as the primary empirical lens through which the dynamics of policy incoherence are observed: it is the concrete indicator of governance failure and the landscape in which the contradictions of Nigeria's gender policy architecture are most visibly enacted. This dissertation interrogates the policy formulation-implementation gap in Nigeria's gender governance architecture, arriving at the conclusion of systemic policy incoherence. It argues that the socio-political underpinnings that sustain gender-based violence at epidemic levels also undergird the structural policy incoherence of the uneven implementation of the VAPP Act, the continued rejection of significant gender legislation by the National Assembly and the incongruence between secular laws and customary and religious legal norms. Using feminist theoretical perspectives and critical policy analysis, including postcolonial feminist theory, feminist institutionalism and Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity, the study examines the interaction of institutional fragility, cultural resistance, lack of political will and patriarchal norms in weakening the efficacy of gender policy. The method used in this research is qualitative analysis. This research draws on Bacchi's (2009) 'What's the Problem Represented to Be?' paradigm and thematic analysis of selected legislative, institutional, civil society and international texts (Braun and Clarke, 2006). The results are intended to demonstrate the linkage between policy fragmentation and socio-political processes, as well as to provide analytically driven recommendations for policy coherence in Nigeria's gender governance. This research contributes to wider scholarly debates surrounding postcolonial gender relations in the Global South and the challenges of translating global gender norms into local legal and social transformation.

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  Fragmentation, visibility, and recognition in humanitarian and state registration systems in Ethiopia

  (2026-09-08) Reis, Daniela Pimenta Pugsley dos; Ramos, Manuel João; Paio, Alexandra

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  Esta dissertação examina a razão pela qual visibilidade humanitária não se traduz em reconhecimento jurídico na Etiópia, onde populações podem ser extensivamente registadas para fins de assistência, permanecendo excluídas de um estatuto legalmente reconhecido. A dissertação desenvolve o conceito de lacuna entre visibilidade e reconhecimento para explicar por que razão a inclusão em sistemas de assistência não confere automaticamente identidade legal. Com base em análise documental e entrevistas semiestruturadas, argumenta que a fragmentação é um resultado de governação, moldado pela separação institucional das funções de registo entre sistemas humanitários e estatais. Os resultados indicam que estes sistemas operam em paralelo, e não de forma sequencial, gerando formas de identificação sobrepostas, mas não transferíveis. O acesso ao reconhecimento depende não apenas da recolha de dados, mas da aceitação das reivindicações de identidade nos enquadramentos institucionais e jurídicos que conferem autoridade. O Human-Centred Design é utilizado como lente analítica para examinar como esta separação é experienciada nas interfaces entre sistemas, revelando onde a verificação é repetida e onde o reconhecimento não atravessa fronteiras institucionais. A dissertação contribui ao reconceptualizar a fragmentação como resultado de governação, ao desenvolver a lacuna entre visibilidade e reconhecimento como enquadramento analítico, e ao demonstrar o valor da análise ao nível das interfaces para identificar onde o reconhecimento se rompe. Assim, melhorar o acesso ao reconhecimento jurídico exige atenção às fronteiras institucionais através das quais o reconhecimento é validado, em vez de uma atenção exclusiva à expansão dos sistemas de identificação.

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