TABLE 2.

Ten actions needed to build social capital as part of a social development/social justice process

Actions
1. Assessing the context and asking the right questions: The choice of questions is influenced by the expected size and direction of health impacts, the prominence of the issue in the government’s policy agenda, and the timing and urgency of the underlying health policy or strategy.
2. Identifying stakeholders: Stakeholder analysis identifies the people, groups, and organizations that are important to consider when looking at the health impacts.
3. Developing the capacity of stakeholders to take action and build social capital and cohesion: The expected policy change can only take place if sufficient knowledge, skills and resources are in place.
4. Assessing institutions and creating opportunity to ensure intersectoral collaboration: Institutions determine the framework in which policy reforms may affect stakeholders in government, private sector, and civil society, and are the main arenas in which stakeholders interact with one another.
5. Strengthening the demand side of governance: Assessing and ensuring people’s participation from the organizational and legal aspect, including a concern with ensuring access to data.
6. Strengthening institutions role, function, and structure: Involves organizing and creating critical links between the policy objectives, policy actions, and their impacts on key stakeholder groups within the health and other sectors at various levels.
7. Mobilizing resources: To the extent that they are necessary for social change. This may require better redistribution of resources.
8. Advocate for up-scaling and change: Policy and advocacy to relevant stakeholders at different levels
9. Monitoring and evaluating impacts: Provides an opportunity to set up at an early stage systems for monitoring,
10. Identifying the appropriate level and type of intervention: Individual, neighborhood, city, etc.