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Social Responsibility
• It is an ethical framework that suggests that 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.
• It is a framework that is mostly associated with corporate entities, namely businesses and industries;
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.
• It has many methods in which it can be undertaken, including but not limited to the following:
o Energy conservation (i.e., renewable energy, recycling)
o Volunteering
o Empowerment of other socially responsible entities
Volunteerism
• It is the principle that a person can become a volunteer.
• It involves someone who does a task, job, or service freely without asking for anything in return.
• Most of these tasks usually have a goal that contributes to the welfare of the native community.
Social Mobilization
• The long-term goal of social mobilization is to create community will and commitment.
• With the context of a project, it helps generate immediacy and a call for action from the
community level around a policy-related advocacy objective.
• It also helps create an impetus and a call for action around a developmental goal.
It also contains important elements that allow it to achieve its set objectives:
o Advocacies – They identify the prospective actors involved in initiating, planning, and
implementing a community program or service delivery.
Undertaking any form of social mobilization can allow people to reap the benefits, such as the following:
o Poverty Alleviation – Social mobilization is an important tool in the poverty alleviation
process. It enables communities to help themselves engage in activities that will solve their
problems and track poverty in its multi-dimensional form.
o Promoting Democratic Governance – Poverty and bad governance mutually reinforce each
other. Social mobilization 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.
o Conflict Prevention – Social mobilization helps organize people to address common problems
and to collectively improve the socioeconomic conditions in an equitable, democratic and
transparent manner. The possibility of conflict can be significantly reduced.
o Sustainable Environment – Social mobilization 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.
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