It is clear when social innovation gives step to novel idea, it can be transformed to goal, plan, program and project but what about this idea (Where, Who, When). Social innovation is one of the main and most promising way to rebuild community bonds, the poorest and marginalized people can benefit it when it is designed by an outsider (government, NGO, private enterprise, social entrepreneur), but the probability of success increase when the beneficiaries participate in the design of social innovation.
My question is related to remote rural area in developing countries, where live the poorest people. Probably they never had seen or heard about what is good living conditions or accepted as good. Many researchers (Mulgan, 2006; Von Jacobi et al, 2017) argue that the poor know about how to solve their problems; can we expect to this kind of poor to part of the process of social innovation? Or it is possible to talk about level of participation as the top-down approach does?
Following the logic of participation, it looks like a failure from the donors, NGO, government who make the plan and project and ask the poor to join them. Barlett (2007) is on the side to let the people plan for themselves. How could this happen when they lack skills,
The government needs to involve in formulating- changing policies and regulations that can affect the SE space. Most recently, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the country’s financial market regulator, floated a policy paper suggesting the need to separately recognize and regulate “Social Venture Funds”, that is a good idea.
http://adb.org/sites/default/files/pub/2012/india-social-enterprise-landscape-report.pdf
Very old saying '' Poverty is a crime'' .It is strange that a new born child have taken birth in the poor family by certifying in the said titles as this is due to disparity among our social environment where poor becomes poorer ,rich become richer in between a certain educated group come in the higher middle class family .
This disparity given rise to the social revolt & various government of countries have started looking in this direction by giving certain social program which may help the poor community the need of necessities of life .
With this starting face in certain countries the revolt of the people have kept the eyes open for the world organisation .With the result we free health services,free education program ,& in certain case for the people to provide food ,clothing & shelter .
With this it ultimate responsibility social workers ,leaders, & government of the nation to study the economic situation of the respective countries find out the ways & means after studying the economic condition of the poor people to find out the problem of their welfare life .
This is my personal opinion
A very interesting perspective put forward here by: however I would simply say that once you experience a situation and then you are into it only then you know what caused it and next time you can better tackle it also. So as per my logic, only the poor villagers know what their real problem is and they would also be able to contribute towards the solution. They don't know the solution but the problem and the cause so the way to get rid of it would be following to it.
Very good point Hanif, the social innovation is largely applied by social entrepreneurs, so the SE needs to apply methods to define the problem with the poor as do many NGO.
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