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Social innovation participatory action research for empowerment of marginalized people
Author(s) -
Sadabadi Ali Asghar,
Rahimi Rad Zohreh
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
asian social work and policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.286
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1753-1411
pISSN - 1753-1403
DOI - 10.1111/aswp.12228
Subject(s) - empowerment , social innovation , poverty , participatory action research , sociology , action research , government (linguistics) , public relations , action (physics) , economic growth , citizen journalism , political science , economics , pedagogy , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , law
Marginalization of poor and uneducated residents has led to fundamental social damage in Iran's large cities, which is manifest in a persistent culture of poverty and lack of access to opportunities and services. Empowering these people is not possible with government resources, and it requires the use of empowerment methods, such as social innovation‐based solutions. The purpose of the present study was to propose a social innovation cycle for the marginalized individuals in parts of Tehran, Iran (Farahzad and Khavarshahr) as a sustainable solution to empower them by creating jobs for them. The present study was conducted using the participatory action research methodology to analyze key activities undertaken during the “poultry self‐sufficiency” social innovation cycles in four phases: 1. generating ideas by understanding the needs and identifying potential solutions; 2. developing, prototyping, and piloting the ideas; 3. assessing, scaling up, and diffusing the good ideas; and 4. learning and evolving. The results showed that social innovation has the most significant effect when actors in different parts of society contribute and cooperate. According to the results obtained in this study, “poultry self‐sufficiency” social innovation lifts the marginalized out of poverty, and the empowerment process helps them to participate in the community.