Partnering with Civil Society Organizations. The contribute of volunteers and not for profit organizations in the provision of welfare services.

EasyChair Preprint no. 1033

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to investigate the new forms of partnership between municipalities and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in order to better fit the local needs. These collaborations are articulated at the border between the public sector and the society as well as between the formal and the informal economy. Revisiting the Esping-Andersen paradigm about the three main welfare regimes (Esping-Andersen 1999), innovative social partnerships create an interface between the state and the citizens and represent an attempt to overcome the "marketisation of welfare provision" by co-designing the key objectives of welfare policies at municipal level. More specifically, they incorporate and combine a component of grassroot welfare production (the activism of CSOs) with the public intervention of the municipalities. The municipalities, in fact, are more capable of satisfying the real needs of families and citizens in terms of specific services, compared to the regional subsidiary intervention. Another relevant aspect that we would like to include in this framework is the volunteering phenomenon. Volunteering in more than ad additional source of labour, and, in the perspective of the Third Sector Reform, which is actually underway in Italy, the hybridization of different forms of non-profit organizations could bring innovative solutions to tackle the new real social risks of the communities.

Keyphrases: Civil Society Organisations, Participatory Policy Making, Solidarity Economy

@Booklet{EasyChair:1033,
  author = {Federica Viganò and Andrea Salustri},
  title = {Partnering with Civil Society Organizations. The contribute of volunteers and not for profit organizations in the provision of welfare services.},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 1033},

  year = {EasyChair, 2019}}