scholarly journals Inter-District Inequalities in Social Service Delivery: A Rationalised Approach towards Funds Disbursement

2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (4II) ◽  
pp. 881-899 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Usman Sikander ◽  
Syed Ahsan Ahmad Shah
Keyword(s):  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Adult Literacy ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Living Condition ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Social Service Delivery

For a less developed country, Pakistan has experienced a relatively high average per capita growth rate of 2.2 percent, for the period 1950-99 [Easterly (2003)]. Unfortunately, high growth rates have not trickled down sufficiently and the living condition of the general populace leaves a lot to be desired. The UNDP’s Human Development Index (HDI) report released in 2010, ranked Pakistan at 144th on the HDI, out of 178 countries [Wasif (2010)]. The HDI conceptualises poverty to be a multi-dimensional construct and considers adult literacy and life expectancy to be key indicators of the quality of life. Given, that Pakistan has experienced high growth rates but ranks so poorly on the HDI, clearly indicates that despite economic growth, the country faces serious challenges in social service delivery. The coverage of social services is limited and varies across different regions of the country. Easterly (2003) points out that in terms of adult literacy there is a huge variation across provinces and female literacy is only 3 percent in rural Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa whereas it is 41 percent in urban Sindh. Zaidi (2005) shows that the situation is not much different in case of health outcomes. The study shows that across the country, nearly half of pregnant women suffer from anaemia and 35 percent of children under age five are malnourished. Moreover, the numbers for infant mortality vary across provinces considerably with urban Punjab having an infant mortality of 70.6 per 1,000 live births compared to the 120.6 of urban Balochistan.1

Government profiles as perceived by governments’ NPO partners in Chinese social service delivery

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
YANWEI LI ◽  
XIANLIN NI ◽  
HAN WEI
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Q Methodology ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
The Government

Abstract Social services in China nowadays are increasingly coproduced by both government and non-profit organizations (NPOs). However, we still know little about how NPOs perceive their government partners in social service delivery. Using a Q methodology, this study remedies this gap and identifies three profiles – namely, government as a distant facilitator, government as a hands-off collaborator, and government as a prudent principal. Also, it has been found that two conditions – namely, NPOs’ development stage and funding resources – influence their perceptions on government in social service delivery. These three profiles provide new insights into NPOs’ perceptions of their government partners in social service delivery, and they add new building blocks to existing literature, specifically on the government–NPO relationship in China.

scholarly journals Reconstructing the Present through the Past: Remedying Social Services Delivery Failure among the Yorubas of Nigeria

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Adeleke Adegbami ◽  
Oluwasesan Nofiu
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Service ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
British Occupation ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Effective Delivery ◽  
Administrative Structures

The pre-colonial Yoruba nation had well organised political and administrative structures which were truncated by the 19thc British occupation of the territory. By 1960, Nigeriagot her independence with full expectations that the new government will usher in developments especially in the area of social service delivery and contrary to the expectations, the hopes were dashed. The paper examines the collective action approach which the Yoruba nation adopted to tackle the problems of social services delivery failure. The paper concludes that for efficient and effective delivery of services, it is necessary to establish an effective mutual link between the leaders and the led.

scholarly journals Pakiwaitara - social work sense for supervision

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-31
Author(s):  
Jacquelyn Elkington
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Social Service Delivery ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Definition Of

Pakiwaitara (Elkington, 2001) came about as a gap identified in social service delivery between western, middle class, dominant culture and the healing of Māori whānau in crisis. While education has responded to this gap by offering bicultural training, ensuring more Māori components within degree programmes, etc, social services statistics are still high for Māori and indigenous peoples. It has helped to shift the definition of cultural supervision to inside the definition of specialised professional supervision (Elkington, 2014), but now continued invisibility of values and beliefs, particularly that of Tauiwi, exacerbate the problem. The challenge must still be asserted so that same-culture practitioners are strengthened in same-culture social work practice (eg, by Māori, for Māori), and to avoid when possible, or otherwise by choice, white dominant-culture practice, for all-and-every-culture social work practice (eg, by Pākehā, for everyone).

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