Ebook: Building Sustainable Communities: Civil Society Response in South Asia
- Tags: Economics, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice, Non-Profit Organizations and Public Enterprises, Politics of the Welfare State, Sustainable Development, Social/Human Development Studies
- Year: 2020
- Publisher: Springer Singapore
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Language: English
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The book aims to explore South Asian third sector – the nonprofit organizations as provider of social services. The book defines social welfare and describe its relationship to social service programmes and individual well-being; understands the social policy development from the problem identification to policy implementation; describes the range of organization of social service agencies that are responsible for providing social welfare programmes; explores the various roles that professional and non- professional helpers provide in the delivery of social welfare and their influence in promoting change in policy development; and understands the umbrella concept of Child welfare, welfare of people with disability and elderly welfare in welfare policy.