Shoeb Ahmed Center For Economic and Social Studies (CESS)

Begumpet Hyderabad

Unraveling Evidence Based Practices and Social Capital: Role of Social Workers in Mission Kakatiya in Telangana, India

Mission KakatiyaMission Kakatiya” will be a prestigious flagship programme

of Government of Telangana as part of “Mana Vooru- Mana Cheruvu “ for restoration of Tanks.

The Government plans to restore 45,000 tanks in the next five years.

Role of Social workers play important role in Sustainability of Mission Kakatiya programme.

Empowering Social workers with Social capital and Evidence based practice will help them to establish new relationship between tanks and tank communities.

Review of literature on tank degeneration, tank use and management:

Fading of village institutions.

Lack of community involvement and will to mobilize resource and labour to undertake regular maintenance activity of tanks to enforce norms and obligations.

Social Capital and its Implications on Mission KakatiyaSocial capital is the process of building trusting

relationships, mutual understanding and shared actions that bring together individuals, communities, and institutions.

Social workers are currently engaged in multiple levels of building social capital.

Social Capital enables cooperative action that generates opportunities and/or resources realized through networks, shared norms, and social agency.

Three Subsets of Social Capital

Bonding Micro Level of PracticeBonding is defined as individual’s capacity to generate

other forms of capital (physical, financial, human, and cultural capital).

Examples: Early intervention programs, Community Education, Family therapy

Three Subsets of Social CapitalBridging

Social capital that an individual or family can access in his or her community.

Connection to formal and informal support networks within the community.

Resources (human, financial, physical, and cultural) are realized when these relationships are developed and maintained.

Example: Relations with neighbors, social service agencies, work place ..etc.

Three Subsets of Social Capital

LinkingLinking social capital connects individuals and families with

external institutions enhancing their “capacity to gain access to resources, ideas and information from formal institutions beyond the community.” (Source: Allen, Kilvington, Harmsworth & Horn, 2003)

An integration of individuals and communities with public policy development, enabling inclusion of recipients in decision making. (Source: Woolcock, 2002).

Examples: Communities working with government and NGOs for Sustainability of Kakatiya Mission.

Deliberate efforts to build this type of social capital require public institutions to work together and form relationships with local role players in an attempt to address problems in implementation of Mission Kakatiya.

Social Capital and Mission Kakatiya

Social Capital success in Mission Kakatiya is measured by its capacity to generate and sustain other forms of capital like Physical, financial, Human and Cultural.

Social Capital enhances efforts of social workers in Mission Kakatiya program in following areas:

Community participation in planning, decision making and implementation of Mission Kakatiya;

In formation of groups, groupings and networks; Enhancing learning, training and the acquiring of knowledge by

the community and relevant stake holders. Encouraging the flow of information and building trust and

bonds between community members, thus strengthening the social capital in the community.

Adoption of Evidence Based Practice by Social Workers in Mission Evidence based social interventions implementation by

social workers play a more purposeful role in Mission Kakatiya as follows:

value creation for all stakeholders in water acquisition, water allocation and distribution,

Resource mobilization, operation and maintenance, Decision making, enforcement of decisions and conflict

resolution in sustainability of Mission Kakatiya program.

Evidence Based Social Interventions

Evidence based Practice ProcessEBP process involves 5 steps:1. Converting the need for information into an answerable question.2. Locating the best available evidence with which to answer that question.3. Critically appraising that evidence for its validity, impact, and applicability.4. Integrating the critical appraisal with professional expertise,

and with the client’s values and preferences.5. Evaluating effectiveness and efficiency in executing Steps 1

to 4 (Schlonsky & Gibbs, 2004).

Evidence Based PracticeFormulation of questions in the context of social

practice decision and its implementation begins with a well-formed PICO question and “indirectness” of evidence is assessed against the originating PICO question.

The PICO question specifies the population of interest, the intervention of interest, the comparison intervention, and the critical and important outcomes of interest, and may also specify time and setting.

Summary of findings tables are prepared for each important outcome across studies.

Checklists will appraise the quality of different kinds of research. example: CONSORT Statement, Quality Study Rating Form (QSRF), Client Assessment and Risk (CARE) Form and Multiple Evaluations for Treatment Assessment Form (META).

Integrating research with PracticeIdentify implementation information about the

intervention.Assess the fit between intervention and the client system(values, preferences, expectations, and challenges)Assess the fit between intervention and the professional’sexperience and skill (practice experience)Communicate with the client system and key stakeholdersCollaboratively choose a pathPlan how to address key implementation factorsEvaluate the process and outcomes(Danya International, 2008)

ConclusionEvidence based research improves social

intervention outcomes in Mission Kakatiya by using conceptual models that view intervention effects as contingent on sets of interacting domains including environmental, organizational, intervener, client-system, technology, and technique variables.

social service providers could utilise Social Capital in Mission Kakatiya by harnessing the relationships of trust, mutual caring and support that exist for the sake of social and economic change for social development purposes.