SW 34 C

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SW 34 C

• Social Planning and Project Design

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What is Social Planning?

• The application of knowledge to effectively
  manage social problems

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An examination of the terms Planning Social

• Planning involves
• Making decisions
• Deciding how to best use available resources
• A continuous process
• A complex and continuous process of decision
  making to achieve social, economic, environmental
  and political change

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An examination of the terms Planning Social

• Social
• Social associated with social life or leisure
  activities
• Social associated with a group of people
• Social as in social capital
• Social as in social development

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Social Planning

• Social Planning is concerned with
• The planning of social services
• Giving consideration to social priorities in
  development planning
• Promoting people participation

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Social Capital

• Norms relationships
• Components of social capital
• Development social capital
• The relationship between the state social
  capital
• The erosion of social capital

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Development

• Emphasis of Development in the past
• NeoLiberals - a look at economic development
  theories
• Clasical Neo classical
• Marxist Neo Marxist
• Neo-Liberals
• Modernization, Structural, Basic Needs,
  Technocratic Development theories

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Effects on development

• Structural Adjustment Policies of the IMF
• Globalisation

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Development

• Development in the present re-conceptualised
• Development changes in scope and content - hence
  the development of the field of social planning
• Development planning includes today the use of
  rational planning approaches and the use of
  popular participation

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Development Planning

• Indicators of development
• Per capita growth GNP
• Standard of living poverty, education,
  longevity, income, employment
• People participation people empowerment

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Participation

• Development and Research
• A look into the past
• Development seen as a process of social learning
• Influenced by the Humanistic school of thought
• The shift to the concept of sustainable human
  development

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The Participatory Approach

• Goals of the participatory approach
• Modes of participation
• Origins of the participatory approach
• Principal modes of participation PRA, PUA, PAR,
  PLA
• Typology of Participation
• Participatory Research Methods

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Participation

• Benefits
• Challenges

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Gender

• Rationale for gender planning
• Gender Needs
• Social Policies
• Third World Policy Approaches to Women the
  contributions of the International Womens
  Movement and WID

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Sustainability

• Sustainable Development
• United Nations World Commission on Development
  Environment (1987) Report
• Gender, Social Capital and sustainable development

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The Rational Comprehensive Planning Approach

• The rational approach emphasizes a five-stage
  process involving
• clarity of goals, objectives and values
• explicit evaluation/comprehensive overview/survey
  of all possible policies to obtain objectives
• investigation of outcomes of each option
• comparative evaluation of each policy and goal
• selection of most cost effective policy closest
  to achieving goal

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The Rational Planning Approach

• Bureau-IncrementalismVS Rational Planning
• General Critique of the approaches
• Feminists critique of the approach
• A look at gender planning can ideas offered in
  this approach benefit the field of social
  planning?
• The structural approach to planning

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• End of Module 1