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
• 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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Effects on development

• Structural Adjustment Policies of the IMF
• Globalisation

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Social Development

• Social development - an approach for promoting
  social well-being or social welfare or peoples
  welfare or improvements in social conditions
• A condition of social well-being or social
  welfare constitutes three elements
  
• the degree to which social problems are managed
• the extent to which needs are met
• the degree to which opportunities for
  advancement are provided (Midgely 1995)
• Many times comparisons are made between the
  impact or benefits of both economic and social
  development two concepts which are both
  interrelated
• Social development cannot take place with out
  economic development and economic development is
  meaningless unless accompanied by improvements in
  social welfare

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