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Social development design & local development

Social development design & local development. BHC – B uilding H ealthy C ommunities Use of Structural Funds in developing "Health Gains” Bac ă u, September 29 – October 1, 2010 The Quality of Life Research Institute Romanian Academy Mihnea Preotesi Iulian Stănescu.

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Social development design & local development

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  1. Social development design & local development BHC – Building Healthy Communities Use of Structural Funds in developing "Health Gains” Bacău, September 29 – October 1, 2010 The Quality of Life Research Institute Romanian Academy Mihnea Preotesi Iulian Stănescu

  2. The concept of social development • the origin: Mise en valeur (Wallerstein, 2004) • 1960s: the development decade (Huntington, 1968) • 1970s: sustainable development (Club of Rome Report, 1972) • 1980s: human development • 1990s: social development World Summit for Social Development - Copenhagen 1995 The ultimate goal of social development is to improve and enhance the quality of life of all people • poverty eradication • employment • social integration

  3. The need of social development in Romania • transition – first 10 years • 18% decline in GDP • 3.3 million jobs lots out of 8.1 million in 1990 • 35.9% absolute poverty • lack of social & development policies • institutional and social policy development • CASPIS: EU, World Bank, UK Government

  4. Social development design • development design “by crisis”, under the pressure of negative factors (Zamfir, 2007) • more than crisis solving, a process of medium or long term planning • structural components • desirable status, defined as goal by the community • set of actions framed in time – strategies, plans, programmes

  5. Phases of social development Part I – Social problems analysis 1. Social problems identification & diagnostics 2. Priorities and objectives 3. Solutions and strategic variable Part II – Project cycle management 4. Action plan 5. Implementation 6. Monitoring 7. Evaluation 8. Feed-back & correction

  6. Social problem categories • types of issues/problems • central • manifest • latent • potential • systemic view: status and causal problems

  7. Social problem dynamics Theorem: emptiness beckons filling (Zamfir, 2005)

  8. Local and urban development • 2000s: the new localism • understanding of the limitations of centrally-driven policy implementation • Urban development (Vîrdol, 2007) • associated with industrialization • growth process through qualitative changes • Policies, strategies, programs • challenges: complex, interactive, time-consuming

  9. Urban development trends in Romania • Overgrowth in Bucharest • Relative decline of large cities (including Bacău) • Medium-sized cities maintained level of inhabitants (100,000) • Decline of small cities and towns

  10. Financial empowerment for local government in Romania

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