The third sector and capability-promoting policies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Acconcia ◽  
Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti ◽  
Paolo R. Graziano
Keyword(s):  
Capability Approach ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Policy Integration ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Third

This chapter focuses on third sector associations and the development of capability-promoting policy in Italy. It employs the capability approach as a basic framework to analyse social phenomena in order to elucidate the role of third sector associations at the local level in promoting socially innovative processes to enable the integration of groups formerly excluded from the labour market (such as disadvantaged youths). It considers the extent to which third sector stakeholders enhance policy integration and social innovation by drawing on the results of fieldwork research involving the Libera network, a grassroots association supporting community empowerment projects engaged in managing confiscated lands owned by mafias in Milan and Naples. The chapter highlights the factors driving the differential impact of a capability approach to social innovation and the limits of third sector participation both at the meso and micro levels with respect to policies aimed at contrasting youth unemployment.

Socioeconomic Development in India

2020 ◽  
pp. 219-240
Author(s):  
Meera Bhat ◽  
Swapnil Barai
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
The Third

This chapter on “Socioeconomic Development in India: Lessons from the Third Sector” is a broad overview of India’s economic growth and human development since independence in 1947. It traces the evolving role of government, market, and civil society in navigating the global political economy and the creative tension in which they have coexisted. The chapter dives deeply into the civil society sector which once inspired the founding of Ashoka and is now referred to as a hotbed of social enterprises. The sector which once had firm foundations in pluralist social movements and a focus on social innovation now struggles to distinguish social business from social entrepreneurship. The current ecosystem, while extensive, lacks focus, disregards questions of power, and lacks accountability mechanisms. The goals of improving lives and affecting social change would be better served by focusing on social innovation, treating people as stakeholders rather than clients, and protecting and promoting citizen participation in a democratic economy, society, and polity.

Sublocal Decentralisation—The Case of Slovak Big Cities

10.1068/c9872 ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ján Buček
Keyword(s):  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
The Third ◽  
Local Functions ◽  
Wide Range

By means of case studies of Slovak cities, the author focuses on decentralisation processes at the local level, paying special attention to the role of local self-government during the transformation period in Central and Eastern Europe. Four main directions of sublocal decentralisation are considered: political decentralisation, managerial decentralisation, decentralisation to the so-called ‘third sector’, and decentralisation to the private or mixed sector. Cities have constituted ‘Councils in City Quarters’ as a tool for the improvement of local democracy and as an aid to more flexible local self-government. The previously state-controlled municipal sector has also been changed to a group of municipal, public – private, and private companies involved in delivery of local services, resulting in enhanced efficiency. A wide range of local functions took over the third sector—from delivery of particular services to the reconciling of many local interests. Sublocal decentralisation processes, although not yet complete, appear very promising and confirm the ability to cope with the transitional situation at the local level. An important feature is that the initial top-down control of the local level transformation has been replaced with an active and more autonomous role of local self-governments following the consolidation period. Slovak transition at the local level also documents the role of local self-government as hard to replace in the facilitation of local civil society building and highlights a need for a local democracy which is more complex in nature.

Children's Charities in Crisis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Body
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Early Intervention Services ◽  
The Third ◽  
Intervention Services ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Voluntary Organisations

Following a decade of radical change in policy and funding in children’s early intervention services and with the role of the third sector under increased scrutiny, this timely book assesses the shifting interplay between state provision and voluntary organisations delivering interventions for children, young people and their families. Using one-hundred voices from charities and their partners on the frontline, this book provides vivid accounts of the lived experiences of charitable groups, offering key insights into the impact of recent social policy decisions on their work. Telling the story of how the landscape of children’s early intervention services has changed over the last decade, it provides crucial lessons for future policy whilst demonstrating the immeasurable value of voluntary organisations working in this challenging terrain.

scholarly journals A Capability Approach to Entrepreneurship Education: The Sprouting Entrepreneurs Programme in Rural South African Schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-133
Author(s):  
Matthias Forcher-Mayr ◽  
Sabine Mahlknecht
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Capability Approach ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Life Challenges ◽  
Development Goals

AbstractSprouting Entrepreneurs is a three-year teaching programme for rural primary and secondary schools that focuses on entrepreneurship in agriculture. It addresses the South African real-life challenges of food insecurity, youth unemployment and rural poverty from a classroom perspective, by linking agriculture, food and entrepreneurship as main learning areas. This paper outlines the programme in its local social and economic context. It argues for the need for a concept of entrepreneurship education that views opportunities in the context of young people’s positive freedoms. Its didactical model combines the EntreComp framework with the capability approach developed by Amartya Sen and others. It emphasises the role of capabilities or freedoms in developing and implementing ideas that create value for others. The Sustainable Development Goals form a medium of learning.

The Third Sector Reform in Italy: an Opportunity for Matching Social Innovation and Youth Policies?

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-161
Author(s):  
Luca Raffini ◽  
Anna Reggiardo ◽  
Andrea Pirni
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
The Third ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
The Third Sector ◽  
The One ◽  
Professional Fulfillment

Abstract Social innovation should represent a step forward activation policies, promoting a new balance between economic development and social cohesion, reducing inequalities and vulnerability. The Third sector is a privileged sphere of social innovation: there are many expectations on its ability to provide innovative answers to unaddressed social needs; one area of its intervention are youth policies. In Italy, the Third sector reform established new provisions on volunteering, civil service and social entrepreneurship, which should primarily benefit the youth. It allows to explore the double face of the Third sector transformation and of the European rhetoric on social innovation. On the one side institutions are trying to recognize emerging grass-root practices which combine social involvement, professional fulfillment and political action in order to respond new societal challenges. On the other side, the market is still fundamental in practices and discourses around social innovation, that maintain many contradictions of the activation policies.

Telework as a Driver of the Third Sector and its Networks

2013 ◽  
pp. 83-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angel Belzunegui-Eraso ◽  
Amaya Erro-Garcés ◽  
Inmaculada Pastor-Gosálbez
Keyword(s):  
Social Economy ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Considerable Change ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Transmission Of Information ◽  
Traditional Organization ◽  
The Third Sector ◽  
Social Economy Organizations

This chapter examines the role of telework as a driving force behind third sector activities and in the creation of networks and links between organizations in that sector. Telework as a tool has generated considerable change in the traditional organization of work. Its effectiveness lies in its ability to respond more quickly to customer requirements and to users and beneficiaries of third sector and social economy organizations. Online connections and services provided by telework have also led to a greater density of contacts between organizations in the third sector, which promotes the transmission of information and collaborative practices in providing services to the public.

The Telework as an Organizational Innovation in the Entities of the Third Sector

2017 ◽  
pp. 570-584
Author(s):  
Ángel Belzunegui ◽  
Amaya Erro-Garcés ◽  
Inma Pastor
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Response Capacity ◽  
Traditional Organization ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Third Sector

This article discusses the role of the telework as an organizational innovation incorporated to the activities of the third sector as well as in the creation of networks and links between these entities. The telework has become a tool that has produced important changes in the traditional organization of the work, and has improved the inter- and intra-organizational communication, in addition to promoting the creation of extensive networks of collaboration in the third sector. The online connection and the provision made in telework mode have also served for the creation of a higher density of contacts between the entities that are grouped in the third sector, done so that it benefits the transmission of information and collaborative practices in providing services to the citizens. Its effectiveness consists in the speed that prints the response capacity of the social economy entities.

The role of the third sector working with the hard and soft structures of public–private partnerships to promote individual health and reinvigorated, healthier communities

2020 ◽  
pp. 301-318
Author(s):  
Tony Chasteauneuf ◽  
Tony Thornton ◽  
Dean Pallant
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
The Third ◽  
Individual Health ◽  
The Third Sector

This chapter discusses the role of the third sector working with the hard and soft structures of public–private partnerships to promote healthier individuals and communities. It considers how a recommitment to the 'local authority' of citizens and beneficiaries offers the possibility of revitalised and healthier individuals and reinvigorated and healthier communities, which are unachievable through the hard and soft structures of the commissioner/provider statutory approach. The chapter then identifies the pivotal dynamic of one-to-one relationships in these processes and their association with health outcomes (emotional, physical, and spiritual) alongside the opportunities and challenges in agencies engaging/re-engaging with the agency of citizens and beneficiaries. It explores the tension between the 'agency' of citizens and beneficiaries that constitutes bottom-up power and 'agencies' with top-down power. The chapter also looks at the benefits of embracing the expertise and investment of individuals and their communities in their personal and shared lives, how this can be supported and how it can be undermined.

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