Training Human Development Professionals in Public Policy and Community Collaboration: A View of the Issues

This concluding chapter summarises key messages and reflects on what has been learned from running the Young Lives study. There are six key reflections from the Young Lives study. First is the value of talking to children themselves in both qualitative and survey research. Second is the value of multidisciplinary perspectives for public policy research. Third is the centrality of maintaining respectful and effective engagement with research participants. Fourth is the importance of long-term partnerships for effective research and policy engagement. Fifth is the usefulness of international comparison and the balance between this and national specificity. Finally, it is important to value the type of knowledge a study like Young Lives generates. Young Lives is a resource that can be used by future researchers to extend the boundaries of what is known about children, poverty, and human development.

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What is to be done about capability-promoting policies?

Capability-Promoting Policies ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447334316.003.0016 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Hans-Uwe Otto ◽

Melanie Walker ◽

Holger Ziegler

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Social Justice ◽

Social Science ◽

Human Development ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Capabilities Approach ◽

Social Structures ◽

Human Flourishing ◽

Policy Interventions ◽

Critical Social Science

This book has examined how the capability approach provides a politically normative metric for the critical analysis of policies and public policy structures, as well as policy interventions driven by human development or human security concerns. It has demonstrated that existing social structures and institutions play a key role in the realisation of capabilities or the feasibility of human flourishing. This chapter summarises the book's main arguments and considers new principles and aspirations towards capability-promoting policy. It argues that an alliance with the tradition of critical social science may ‘secure’ the capabilities approach, with its analytic focus on real-world conditions and requirements for renegotiating social justice and creating more capabilities-promoting policies, and vice versa. Capability-promoting policies include emancipatory and democratic strategies that transform unjust structures in order to enhance the agency of individual subjects in terms of human flourishing.

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Social Inclusion and Social Leverage Foundations: A Theoretical Review

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences ◽

10.2478/mjss-2018-0158 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (6) ◽

pp. 19-28

Author(s):

Giovanni E. Reyes ◽

Mark Govers ◽

Dirk Ruwaard

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Policy Analysis ◽

Human Development ◽

Social Inclusion ◽

Legitimacy Theory ◽

Jürgen Habermas ◽

Current Process ◽

Jurgen Habermas ◽

Public Policy Analysis ◽

Political Conditions

Abstract The main aim of this research is to present a theoretical review regarding the theory of social inclusion and social leverage. In this research, four fundamental and complementary approaches are taken into account: (i) the theory of growing capacities and increasing opportunities as essential aspects of Amartya Sen's theory of human development; (ii) the perspective and factors of the current process of globalization; (iii) Douglass North's neoinstitutionalist approach to social and political conditions; and (iv) foundations of the legitimacy theory from Jürgen Habermas. These considerations made possible a more comprehensive consideration that goes beyond the strictly economic elements, to complement the standpoint with other elements, including those of public policy analysis.

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PROGRAM DANA HIBAH DALAM PERSPEKTIF POLITIK DISTRIBUTIF: STUDI KASUS PRODAMAS KOTA KEDIRI Studi Kasus Prodamas Kota Kediri.

Paradigma POLISTAAT Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik ◽

10.23969/paradigmapolistaat.v2i1.1358 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Human Development ◽

Participatory Development ◽

City Government ◽

The People ◽

Grant Program ◽

Political Perspective ◽

Political Interests ◽

Implementation Problems ◽

The City

The concept of public policy is present and develops as an instrument for the state that aims to prosper the people. In Kediri, there was a public policy called Prodamas. Prodamas is a grant program that is actually presented by the Kediri City government to increase community participation in infrastructure and human development in the City of Kediri. But with a distributive political perspective, Prodamas is seen as a political tool for incumbents, Abdullah Abu Bakar. The indicator, the incumbent campaign program for the Kediri City elections in 2018 is to increase the number of Prodamas funds up to twice (Prodamas Plus), although in practice Prodamas still has many implementation problems. Secondly, the Socialization of Prodamas Plus has been socialized long before the momentum of the Kediri 2018 regional election. Third, Prodamas social assistance which is only given to a number of Kelurahan without clear indicators. Fourth, Prodamas have similarities with other participatory development mechanisms, namely 'Planning and Development Consultation' (Musrenbang). From these indicators, the authors conclude that Prodamas is not only a public policy that is only present for the welfare of the community, but incumbents political tool for political interests in the Kediri City elections 2018.

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