SW Policies, Programs, and Services

Question 1

Is the organized systems of social services and institutions designed to aid individuals and groups to attain satisfying standards of life and health, and personal and social relationships which permit them to develop their full capacities and to promote their well-being in harmony

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Social Welfare

Question 2

A process and a product; Process of social decision-making in which a course of social action is determined and formulated and promoted; A set of guiding principles

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Policy

Question 3

It is shaped by a number of political institutions that give policy measures legitimacy.

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Public Policy

Question 4

The policies which governments use for welfare and social protection; how welfare is developed in society; and the academic subject of the study

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Social Policy

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A set of related measures or activities with a particular long-term aim. In a logical framework, it is an intervention to produce intended outcomes.

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Programs

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They address short-term outputs and outcomes; Activities that are usually within a social welfare program; They are specific, short-term, and are based on “as the need arises” or “one demand”

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Services

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Social Welfare is seen as charity. Stigma is often attached to social welfare. It is reactive, not proactive.

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Residual Social Welfare

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Social Welfare is a normal and “legitimate function of modern society”

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Institutional Perspective

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Is a theory of political economic practices that proposes that human well-being can be best advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterised by strong private property rights, free markets and free trade.

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Neoliberal Perspective

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Policies and programs that seek to reduce poverty and vulnerability to risks; enhance the social status and rights of the marginalized by promoting and protecting the livelihood and employment; protecting against hazards and sudden loss of income; and improving people’s capacity to manage risks.

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Social Protection

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It aims to enhance employment opportunities, and protect worker’s rights and welfare

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Labor Market intervention

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Preventive and developmental interventions seeking to support the poor’s minimum basic requirements

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Social Assistance

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Mitigate income risks thru resource pooling and spreading risks across time and classes

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Social Insurance

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Stop-gap mechanisms, urgent responses to effects of shocks of vulnerable groups

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Social Safety-nets

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A pro poor strategy which strives to promote a welfare system that facilitates the development of human capacity and self reliance

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Development Perspective

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A process of planned change designed to promote the well-being of the population as a whole in conjunction within the context of a dynamic and multi-faceted development process

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Social Development

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They are what people require in order to live in accordance to a set of standards as human beings; food, shelter, clothing, education, jobs, security, meaningful relationships

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Needs

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All human beings are equal and have the same fundamental rights

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Equality

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Recognizing that we all do not start from the same place and must acknowledge and make adjustments to imbalances

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Equity

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Reducing or eliminating harmful social events that may be linked to labor force (e.g unemployment, labor contractualization), life cycle (e.g ageing), or socioeconomic condition (e.g hunger, dropping out of school)

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Protective

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Social policy addresses causes of social problems/issues to eliminate them. Or it may proactively provide for action (e.g social programs, services) to prevent the emergence of a social problem/issue (e.g teenage pregnancy, bullying in schools)

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Preventive

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Social Policy determines the way income, entitlements, opportunities, and services are distributed; and if the models of distribution and effects are unfair/unjust, redistribution is undertaken as a corrective response

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Distributive and Redistributive

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Is a response to a specific issue and may affect only a select group of people; involves the provision of new resources to a select group, usually a disadvantaged group

Examples: Social pension for the indigent senior citizens, 4Ps

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Distributive Function

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People who receive goods or services from a measure are not the same as the people who pay. All welfare provision is, by definition, redistributive in some way.

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Redistributive Function

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A condition or situation that involves non-recognition and/or violation of human rights experienced by sectors of the population, resulting in unmet needs, social problems, or mass dissatisfaction which require government action through policy reinforcement

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Problem Identification

Question 26

A policy agenda is the output of the process of policy makers a) relating/negotiating with different interest groups and stakeholders on what they consider to be policy issues and their proposals, and b) selecting and prioritizing what said policy makers important for policy formulation, review, and amendment or repeal.

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Agenda Setting

Question 27

The stage when divergent interest groups vigorously lobby with the two chambers of congress or LGU sanggunians

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Policy Formulation

Question 28

Final crafting of the bill -> approved by the two chambers of the congress -> veto or approval (the bill automatically becomes a law when the President does not act on it for 30 days upon the receipt of the document

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Policy adoption/legitimation

Question 29

a. Through appropriate government offices
b. Crafting of Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR)

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Policy Implementation

Question 30

Uses a range of research methods to systematically investigate the effectiveness of policy interventions, implementation and processes,… and to determine their merit, worth, or value in terms of improving the social and economic conditions of different stakeholders

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Policy Evaluation