Folks,
A social entrepreneur recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles and skills available within that social environment to address Social Objectives through an organized Establishment, in order to create and manage a venture to achieve desirable social change required, while at the same time, engaging in Business Entrepreneur principles of the available skills, profession or resource within the Community to manage and measure profit and build social capital to improve or expand innovation and institutional research for diversity and expansion.
While a business entrepreneurship typically measures performance in profit and return, a social entrepreneur focuses on creating social capital to accommodate all players and remove poverty. Thus, the main aim of social entrepreneurship is to further social and environmental goals. However, social entrepreneurs are most commonly associated with the voluntary and not-for-profit sectors.
Non-Profits, Governments, Foundations and a growing number of colleges and universities are establishing programs focused on educating and training social entrepreneurs on Change Makers Platform to solving social problems amicably and to build a collaborative competition towards meeting challenges and competition of Development issues.
Social entrepreneurship is an increasingly common approach to engaging Civil Society voices to solving social problems. These efforts provide access to variety of incentives to a community in addressing and impacting problems solutions to a success story.
Social business Set-up is a cause-driven business. In a social business, the investors/partnership can gradually team-up to add funding for improved performance through investing money to share in profit and expansion. But cannot take any dividend beyond the point of balanced profit. Purpose of the investment is purely to achieve one or more social objectives and expansion to meet Global challenges through the operation of the cooperative investment program. The Community Cooperative Society Establishment must provide a balance for Give and Take for the business to flourish and collect and distribute Revenue to cover all costs and expenditure, at the same time achieve the social objective, such as, healthcare for the poor, housing for the poor, financial services for the poor, nutrition for malnourished children, providing safe drinking water, introducing renewable energy, etc. in a business planning manner.
The impact of the business on people or environment, rather than the amount of profit made in a given period measures the success of social business activities. Sustainability of the company will indicates that the business is doing well. The objective of the Cooperative is to achieve social goals.
The Social Entrepreneurship is often owned by the Social Groups or Class of Professionals, including skilled and talented Artists or Cultural programs for diversity groups for entertainment or a communicative lyrics for informative purposes or to improve lifestyle of the poor or disadvantaged (through dividends and financial growth return to the poor where their fiscal situations are able to achieve poverty eradication): e.g. women, young people or long-term unemployed……and to bring them to a path of utilizing their skills for competitiveness.
In other words, social business’s aim is to achieve certain social and environmental goals.
In addition, a social business would operate much like a profit-maximizing business in that the company as a whole grows financially and gains profits.
Key ingredients to the success of the approach are education, institutions to make social businesses visible in the market place (a social stock market), rating agencies, appropriate impact assessment tools, indices to understand which social business is doing more and/or better than other social businesses so that social investors are correctly guided. The industry will need its Social Wall Street Journal and Social Financial Times.
The Court As Part of the Government Institution
This Institution is part of the 3 Arm of Governance. The other two are the Legislative and the Executive. The Legislative and the Elected members of Parliament, the Executive are the nominated Ministers who are responsible in managing Government Institutional Offices to effectively deliver the required services to the general public.
The Institution of courts have a duty to interpret and apply the Law, and are collectively known as the Judiciary.
A judicial tribunal established is mandated to administer justice, and being an entity within the government, it provides administration of justice as is delegated.
Judicial courts are created by the government through the enactment of statutes or by constitutional provisions for the purpose of enforcing the law for the public good. They are independent and impartial forums where resolution of controversies between parties who seek redress from a violation of a legal right are resolved. Both civil and criminal matters may be heard in the same court, with different court rules and procedures for each.
The public has a right to attend judicial proceedings. This right ensures that the proceedings will be conducted in a fair and unbiased manner. Anyone who wants may attend trials as a spectator unless otherwise stated.
The Government
The Government is a Governing Administrative group of people who have been authorized by the public through voting rights and who are then empower to make and enforce laws for a country through a political system, to deliver goods and services according to the public need and demand.
Each time after a term of election is over, i.e. the two term of a total of 8 years, new people are elected to form an Administrative groups to legally govern the Country to a desired required level through a Democratic process of good governance under a justified rule of law.
Government encompasses authority, accountability, stewardship, leadership, direction and control exercised in the organization of Governance. It is required to perform:
· a high degree of integrity of performance in providing the goods and services to the community
· demonstrated honesty, accountability and transparency
· exercise tolerance and diversely collaborate in exchange of accommodating different views
· Vetting and background checks of those employed in the service of Governance
· Placing experts and professionals in line with the respective Ministerial appointments
· business and strategic thinking, planning and leadership skills must incorporate Popular Participation of the Civil Society in the Ways and Means Committees
· experience and skill in dealing with stakeholders
· an understanding of the broader policy context of undertaking business of the public entity
· ability to read and understand financial statements and maximize for prosperity on behalf of Citizen
Non-Governmental Organizations
NGO are Public Organizations that are Non-Governmental. These Public organizations therefore are able to measure indicators and challenge activities of good governance and take action appropriately on behalf of the Public. In many cases they exercise Social Enterprises engaging in Social, Political and Economic activities that which provides balance of activities between Demands Vs. Supply to both the Consumers and the Business Community. In other cases, they command Authority over Checks and Balances, Accountability and Transparency on behalf of the Public and be a watch dog on the use of institutional resources to manage society’s problems and affairs.
A Representative Collaboration of NGO’s provide a unify ground at which Government Officials are selected, monitored and replaced, to effectively be able to perform and deliver services to the Public as Mandated. They help the Legislative body to formulate and implement sound policies that are popularly inclusive according to public needs and demands. They oversee that respect of Citizens are catered for and the institutions that govern the social, political and economic interacts frequently through public information forum and Media within a stipulated acceptable time.
NGOs also addresses matters of diverse needs of Health, Environmental, Sports, Cultural and Social Diversity, municipalities, Greener Energy for example Solar and Wind energy, Communities Competitions, special districts Development programs including but not limited to water, sewer and housing authorities and property for schools within the Constituencies.
The Role of Youth, Civil Society, the Community and Women
Significance of Collaborative & consultative Platform is for sharing and comparing notes for Popular Participation in Governance. Citizen participation provides a wider knowledge capacity for development on key elements and also it provides an effect of effective monitoring on anti-corruption control, whereby it the need to hold Government Officials accountable for their actions, as well as helping in mobilizing others to push for good governance.
The Youth’s efforts are likely to be more effective under Human Rights, freedom and Civil Liberty, such as the freedom of speech, the right to form activity groups for innovation for competition, provide important channels for citizens to voice their concerns, needs, values, expectations and problems.
Women groups, scholars, research institutions and other skilled and professional groups also provide Building professionalism Coalitions to participate in Public Hearings, Task Forces, Commissions and Action Planning Workshops that are able to participate in the Development Programs in the Committee of Government Budget and Revenues, Ways and Means Policy Law adjustments and procedures as well as chart ways to access information on e-government for procurements and other transparency mechanisms that allow citizens to oversee what the government is doing.
Building an Open Participatory Forum between the Civil Society and the Government can strengthen efforts to fight corruption and making sure stakeholders from government and the public is coordinated within the popular participation process through which Citizen are able to influence and share in the control over the decisions and resources that affect them.
Within these networking collaborative forums, people are able to pull their efforts jointly and access resources faster and easily minimizing public expenditure resource that can be utilized for other immediate needs and demands. It also helps in establishing priorities speaking with a more authoritative voice for Reform while strengthening each other’s commitment to work towards a common goal for common Development purposes.
Working in close collaborative diverse Popular Participation improves work ethics of the Government employees, it provides for excellent channel for information and transparency, improves Civil Society knowledge and understanding in areas where public taxes are fully put to better use in business, research and innovation. This is because, Public have their obligatory rights towards their government fanctionability to deliver the desired goods and services – thereby offering effective, responsive and efficient governance.
This outlook will provide an opportunity for public tax money to be spent according to their wishes where their needs are met in a timely manner. This also gives the public Civil Society the right to express need for Legislatures attending to matters of preference that require urgency as need demands.
In the fight of Corruption which is chronic in Africa when better placed under the charge of Stakeholders will take a short-space-of time to realize a success story. The Stakeholders being the:
v Public Citizens
v Civil Society Groups
v Government Institutions
v Professionals and Consultants
v Private Sector & Public including Cooperatives & Social
Entrepreneurs
v International and Donor Organizations
Conflict of Interest in a Public Office
Public Officials must always put the public interest above their own personal or private interest when carrying out their official duties.
More generally, conflicts of interest can be defined as any situation in which an individual or corporation (either private or governmental) is in a position to exploit a professional or official capacity of public appointment in some way for their private and personal benefit using their entrusted position in public office. A conflict of interest is therefore a situation arising from conflicting performance engaged while in public duty, but performing personal and private interests services in the utilization profiting from public resources in the position of employment in the Public Office. The presence of a conflict of interest is therefore independent from the execution of public, but are seen to be serving interests which someone has not been hired for in the public office. This has been commonly practiced in African Governments the reason there are too many corruption and impunity. Therefore, a conflict of interest can be discovered earlier and suppressed and defused when Popular Participatory of Civil Society is engaged in the Ways and Means Committee within the Governance as stakeholders.
Compliance Performance
Conflicts of interest can have a chilling effect on corrupt dealings and the public’s perception of Government. Established policies on compliance performance for both individual and institutional conflicts of interest must be put under policy guidance. An Administrative Office of Compliance Assistance, must incorporate Civil Society as Ombudsman or Watchdog under the Popular Participation program. This will help address and manage Conflict of Interest effectively and freely without intimidation where:
Ø the community may feel aggrieved concerning potential conflicts of interest
Ø Reporting of conflicts and potential conflicts by employees and the institution
Ø Management of identified conflicts
Ø Transparency of the conflict management process
Partnership with Confederation Council Foundation for Africa
In Partnership, Confederation Council Foundation for Africa will provide outstanding collaboration and Advocacy in sensitizing extension exchange programme to help facilitate and implement effective sustainability programs through:
Concept of Social Enterprise Success
Gender Sensitization for effective prosperity
Supporting Projects for Success
Measuring Social Enterprise Success
Boost Ethnic Minority Social Enterprises for Sustainability
Bringing Stakeholders to Value, competition and challenges
Educational Exchange Programs and Innovation
Finance and Resources
Pursuing Short and Longer-term Prospects growth and expansion through Innovation For Cooperative undertakings and Social Enterprising
Online Thematic communication usage networking has proved to be the most effective social outreach tool, twiter, blogging and facebook for effective information sharing and consultations.
IT technology has become the most powerful tool to mobilize and perform the desired change we all want to achieve development agenda. More jobs can be created on these lines of modern technology.
God Bless,
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
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