Social Policy For Shared Societies

One priority framework related to health inequalities is Equally Well, Equally Well was launched in June 2008. The report produced in company with Cosla was followed by a complete action plan in December 2008. Equally Well has actions for all and delivering on these will require strong joint working between NHS, local government, the Third Sector and other with community planning companies. The Equally Well Review confirms that the three social policy frameworks, Equally Well, the Early Years Framework and Achieving Our Potential remain the best approach to deliver long-term developments in outcomes for people. The Ministerial Task Force therefore recommends that action on all of the frameworks´ recommendations should continue at Scottish Government

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is an international organization present in 190 countries (Unicef, n.d.). It is an agency focused on the area of maternal and child health. Recently, the organization is providing fresh water and food for mothers and children, education for mothers and girls, and immunization programs for children (Unicef, n.d.). The advantages for this program are the benefits to the education and health of the women and children, but the disadvantages are ability to retrieve funds all the time, and providing care to everyone. They have to have a focused topic, like they do, in order to start to care for the population. There are many issues in the third world countries that go beyond the abilities of one organization,

INTRODUCTION The chapter By the People: Becoming a Practitioner of Democracy by Kenneth Winston discusses the quest of staying true to personal beliefs while establishing a career and achieving goals. Winston addresses the story of Aruna Roy’s career path and quest for equality in India. Roy has a strong passion for human rights in India, and she sought to raise the voices of the rural poor. Roy stopped at nothing to ensure that her morals, ethics and beliefs were not sacrificed in the name of a job security or the safety of an organization’s reputation. As a result, we see in this chapter, Roy’s ‘non-linear’ career path that includes changes in organizations and living situations.

The government of El Salvador has also created a similar program to Mexico’s Tres por Uno called Unidos por la Solidaridad (Unity for Solidarity) (Orozco and Rouse, 2007). This program was launched in 2001 is managed by El Fondo de Inversión Social para el Desarrollo Local de El Salvador (FISDL), a national agency whose goal is to promote local development and reduce poverty in El Salvador (Orozco and Rouse, 2007). Unidos por la Solidaridad collaborates alongside Salvadoran hometown associations, NGO’s, and other private organizations that help fund local projects to develop social infrastructure in poor communities (Orozco and Rouse, 2007; Terry, 2005 ). Although this is a smaller and fairly new program when compared to Mexico’s Tres por Uno it has created over 500 projects in El Salvador, involving infrastructure, recreation, and health (Orozco and Rouse, 2007; Terry, 2005 ).. The total contribution of hometown associations (through remittances) has been over $2.1 million and continues to grow (Programa Unidos Por La Solidaridad; Terry, 2005 ). This program has too seen positive results in the community such as strengthening of the social capital at a local level, greater human and economic development along with more successful redirections of remittances. However, like other governmental projects it has some flaws such as government transparency, and limited resources (Programa Unidos Por La Solidaridad. Nonetheless the program continues to move

Courses have been carefully designed to ensure that students have practical hands on knowledge with “Partnerships between business and government, project management, writing business plans and project proposals, and communication skills” (SAIT, 2017). On account of, students will cultivate the proper skills that are required in rural and urban communities for economic development. In addition to receiving a certificate from SAIT, the classes taken can be a bridge into the SAIT Business Administration diploma and other economic agencies such as Economic Development Alberta, Canadian Economic Developers Association, and Council for the Development of Native Development Officers (SAIT, 2017). In conclusion, students who graduate will be able to launch into careers that contain positions such as an economic development officer, liaison officer, community development officer, planning officer and the ability to work within a wide spectrum of organizations in both the private and public sector (SAIT, 2017). The designers of this certification and program are asked to be responsible for building a presentation that generates awareness of the career and the importance of the certification for an economic development professional.

Instead, a focus shift needs to occur in which NNGOS think about development in terms of “what they themselves or their member constituencies can learn from the South” in order to create a mutual partnership involving “exchanges, listening and learning from each other” (Hoksbergen 11). Partnerships themselves must be created under mutuality especially so that SNGOs are able to take ownership out of the work being done. If not, decisions will be made by the NNGO because they hold the resources and funds. This in turn represents a decision-making structure that will “contain a limited number of view-points, experiences, and skills to draw on for analysis and problem solving” (Jantzi and Jantzi 308). Jantzi and Jantzi also note that when power differentials in development relationships occur, there can be negative effects on social dynamics and social capital which is essential to the empowerment of local communities. However, when SNGOs are able to take ownership and play an active role in decision-making, an energetic civil society will be fostered to ensure long-term successes and

This is one of the leading NGOs that raise homeless and displaced children from all over Pakistan and has centers in all the big cities. Their main office is in Lahore where I worked as a volunteer. They take complete responsibility of shelter, food, clothing and education of these children. Being part of a team of volunteers, I assisted in fundraising for children by organizing various carnivals and music festivals. The overwhelming response from all classes of the society, in terms of funds, physical or moral assistance, especially after hearing about the plight of these children, was more than anything I could have ever asked for. Nothing else has ever given me such pleasure as working for these children, playing with them on some weekends

Recently, I attended a seminar at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals designed by the United Nations to limit poverty and inequality. The panel included representatives from various organizations who dedicated their careers to promoting global welfare, developing vaccinations and providing health services for people whom they may never meet personally. These professionals and activists experienced levels of discomfort and self-sacrifice much greater than my own, dedicating their livelihoods to provide basic human rights and resources for the underprivileged.

Although armed with global perspective and critical lens of seeing the world, you flourish as a change agent in a local community, wherever that may be. Your role, as a budding manager or consultant of program innovation, allows you to work between two realms – private and government – coordinating partnerships between sectors and originating policy that promotes sustainable, holistic community economic development.

The development of the Welfare State and Social Policies have been based on assumptions about gender, race, ability/disability and age. Discuss this statement with reference to one of the highlighted issues and illustrate your discussion with at least one area of Social Policy

Many people have viewed the ads about hungry children in Africa and have felt the sadness upon seeing these malnourished children. Many organizations put up ads like these and they are known most commonly as Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs); they are the ones who are most involved in giving traditional humanitarian aid: providing food, water, and shelter to refugees. People admire NGOs for the difference that they strive to improve the lives of others. However, many donors and benefactors of non-governmental organizations really know what is being accomplished by them. NGOs are cloudy in portraying their actual doings, and as researchers dig and evaluate , they discover unpleasant truths about NGOs. The truth is that NGOs are actually ineffective in many areas of their organization, and their inefficiency is what inhibits them from alleviating people´s suffering the best that they can.

CARE is a leading nongovernmental organization (NGO) that combats global poverty by reinforcing local communities with the equipment and resources required to do so. When Dr. Helene Gayle took control of CARE a decade ago, she inherited an organization that was highly decentralized. According to Dr. Gayle, this decentralization undermined CARE’s effectiveness as individual offices “were used to being on their own” and were “not thinking about the greater whole.” Dr. Gayle was therefore tasked with the organizational redesign of CARE.1

One specific case of this is in Guatemala, where poverty rates and malnutrition numbers are high. Here, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Mercy Corps, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc., and Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS), are joining forces together to improve the lives of small-scale farmers and their families. This alliance, also called, Inclusive Market Alliance for Rural Entrepreneurs (IMARE), is in favor of the “Zero Hunger Pact”, which is to lower the high rates of poverty and malnutrition. The alliance not only supports the small-scale farmers, but advocates on their behalf. IMARE believes they should receive better chances in the market-economy. There have been changes made because of this demand and an increase in the farmers’ household food security has come forth. This shows that this is the right route and that Mercy Corps wants to continue being a part of this alliance and support the farmers in Guatemala. With that being said, there is still a lot to be done in the health area. However, without the public health help given by Mercy Corps, there may be no people to offer aid to. (Regional Business News, audio, 2012)

It was important for the group to have a question that the research related to. The question that was central to this report was: How can the non-profit organization, Opportunity Village, maximize its funding? With this question in mind, the group sought out resources that were able to help develop numerous solutions that were not only credible, but efficient in solving the problem as well.

Critically review the strengths, weaknesses and challenges of the National Rural Health Mission drawing on secondary data and your own experiences during block field work. The analysis must be contextualized to the state that you were placed in.