Role in the Society

• Social Responsibility


  An ethical framework that suggests any entity, whether individual or organizational, must manage its essential resources so that they may benefit the welfare and interests of the society in which it operates
• Social Responsibility


  • It defines not just how companies earn their money, but also on how they spend it
  • It follows the basic tenet that anyone with the ability to affect change must have an imperative to use it
• Methods of Social Responsibility

  • Energy conservation (i.e., renewable energy, recycling)
  • Volunteering
  • Empowerment of other socially responsible entities
• Volunteerism


  The principle that a person can become a volunteer, involving someone who does a task, job, or service freely without asking for anything in return
• Social Mobilization


  The long-term goal is to create community will and commitment, helping generate immediacy and a call for action from the community level around a policy-related advocacy objective or developmental goal
• Features of Social Mobilization

  • It is a broad-scale movement engaging and mobilizing a large number of people in action to achieve development goals
  • It is a planned process seeking to facilitate change and development
  • It entails accountability taking into account the felt needs of the people, embracing the critical principle of community involvement, and seeking to empower individuals to action
  • It begins with a conscious recognition of problems then seeks the probable solutions to these problems
  • It involves building consensus between those affected and those who have the solution to the problems to arrive at a decision, including the allocation of adequate resources
  • It includes initiations, discussion, and deciding political will, action, and resource commitment
  • It generates acceptance of new ideas, attitudes, and technologies
  • It uses all available and potential communication resources for effective networking and active mobilization of information
  • It sustains awareness, cooperation, commitment, and action to achieve the common goal leading to the attainment of the community's vision, mission, and goal for the development of self-sufficiency
• Elements of Social Mobilization

  • Advocacies - They identify the prospective actors involved in initiating, planning, and implementing a community program or service delivery
  • Information Dissemination, Education, and Communication - They allow the introduction of important facts about the project or program; they may come in many forms, such as brochures, infographics, videos, commercials, etc.
• Processes of Social Mobilization

  • Community Organization - The building of a network of like-minded people (coalitions, individuals, organizations, community) that have the same advocacy
  • Capacity Building - The process of enabling people to do something significant for themselves that the rest of the community can sustain
• Benefits of Social Mobilization

  • Poverty Alleviation - It enables communities to help themselves engage in activities that will solve their problems and track poverty in its multi-dimensional form
  • Promoting Democratic Governance - It must be institutionalized within the government to encourage community participation in decision-making, to build capacity for participatory planning, to form a common vision of development, and to ensure transparency
  • Conflict Prevention - It helps organize people to address common problems and to collectively improve the socioeconomic conditions in an equitable, democratic and transparent manner
  • Sustainable Environment - It organizes people to manage their natural resources better, fight illegal practices, and establish organizations that promote sustainable environmental management programs through appropriate legal, regulatory, and institutional frameworks and policy dialogue