Home-Based Food Provision and Social Capital in Japan

Home-based care (HBC) plays a vital role in the care of people living with AIDS. Most carers perform their arduous role in adverse conditions. Yet little is known about how to facilitate contexts that maximise the effectiveness of carers. This paper reviews existing research into home-based care in sub-Saharan Africa to highlight gaps in understanding and to outline new conceptual frameworks for future research. Current research identifies multi-level factors that undermine carers in performing their role. These include e.g. lack of knowledge, skills and support - both at the individual and organisational levels; physical and psychological burnout; the destruction of household economies in the face of the demands of care; community stigma and rejection. Research and policy documents repeatedly advocate ‘partnerships’ or ‘linkages’ between carers/ patients and more powerful groupings (locally, nationally and/or internationally) as a solution to these problems. Yet they give no indication as how best to mobilise already over-burdened carers and their terminally ill charges. Furthermore, partnerships between poor communities and more influential groupings and agencies are notoriously difficult to promote and sustain. If partnerships are indeed to play such a key role in supporting carers and their patients, there is an urgent need for systematic research into the effectiveness of various partnership styles and strategies. The concepts of bonding, bridging and linking social capital - within a framework sensitive to the interaction between social capital and poverty - are put forward as a valuable starting point for the development of better understandings of the types of networks and partnerships most likely to support carers and their local communities.

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SOCIAL CAPITAL MOBILIZATION STRATEGY TO SUSTAIN COMMUNITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD

Jurnal Tataloka ◽

10.14710/tataloka.17.2.113-123 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 113

Author(s):

Prihadi Nugroho

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Urban Growth ◽

Strategic Alliance ◽

Profit Maximization ◽

Business Network ◽

Market Change ◽

Study Approach ◽

Home Based ◽

Firm Cooperation ◽

The Individual

Entrepreneurs in cities are prone to direct market change and urban growth in a country. Those who do not possess strong business network and strategic alliance are likely out of the game immediately. Building community entrepreneurship thus becomes critical to provide collective business network and learning, particularly for smaller entrepreneurs and new entrants, through the mobilization of social capital. This paper aims to examine how urban community institutionalizes the embedded stock of social capital in the neighborhood to cultivate sound entrepreneurial ambience parallel with the individual pursuit of profit maximization. The multiple strategies of incorporating traditional and informal inherited values into the contemporary dynamics of market and urban growth are quite successful to sustain the continuation of home-based industry in the neighborhood. The case study approach was undertaken to observe the re-emergence of local batik industry in Kampung Laweyan of Surakarta Municipality, Indonesia. The result demonstrates that social cohesion safeguarding is the key to encourage collective entrepreneurial skills development in the community albeit it does not affect much the building of stronger inter-firm cooperation.

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ANALISIS KEBERLANJUTAN HOME BASED ENTERPRISE PENGOLAHAN SINGKONG DI KOTA SALATIGA

Jurnal Pengembangan Kota ◽

10.14710/jpk.5.2.166-180 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 166

Author(s):

Dwi Laras Lukitaningrum ◽

Wido Prananing Tyas ◽

Mohammad Muktiali

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Natural Capital ◽

External Factors ◽

Policy Support ◽

Financial Capital ◽

Social Aspect ◽

Sustainable Livelihood ◽

Sustainability Index ◽

Home Based ◽

The Government

Home Based Enterprise (HBE) develepment of cassava processing in Salatiga City, especially in RW 2 and RW 11, Ledok Sub-district must be optimized and developed in a sustainable manner considering the contribution on social aspect, economic aspect, and region development. This study aims to determine the level of sustainability in HBE of cassava processing in internal factors based on assets analysis in sustainable livelihood approach which includes natural asset, physical asset, human asset, financial capital and social capital and also from external factors such as the availability of policy support in the development of cassava processing HBE at local government level. The method used is mix method with Rapid Appraisal Analysisi called RAP-HBE and kualitative descriptive. The study findings were obtained four (4) of the five (5) of assets in the category of sustainable enough to the value sustainability index consecutive financial capital (72.04), natural capital (67.97), human capital (66.86) and physical capital (53.97). While the social capital obtain the value of sustainability index low of 44.05 and in the category of less sustainable. While external factors such as support by government of Salatiga on the sustainability of HBE in general as well as business training, business assistance, the discussion of business, and others are already there, but HBE processing of cassava that is not a target of the implementation of the policy, so far the sustainability of HBE has not received direct support from the Government of Salatiga.

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