Social Policy From The Grassroots

Charles Downs, Giorgio Solimano

• Foreword -- Preface -- The New Context of Social Policy in Chile and the Space for Non-Governmental Organizations -- Experiments in Community Education and Some Thoughts on How to Extend It on a Mass Scale -- Early Education: Children’s Needs, a Shared Responsibility -- Primary Health Care in a Local Community -- Experiences in Community Education and Health in Latin America -- Appropriate Technologies: A Way of Meeting Human Needs -- Socially Appropriate Technologies and Their Contribution to the Design and Implementation of Social Policies in Chile -- Organic Agriculture: Questions and Challenges -- Support for Income Generation in an Economy of Poverty -- Experiences in Social Action and the Design of Social Policies: Replica or Reproduction? The Case of the Learning Workshops -- Self-Sufficiency and Ways to Strengthen Institutional Aspects of Social Projects in the Non-Governmental Sector -- Toward an Evaluation of the NGO Experience in Chile: Implications for Social Policy and Future Investigation -- About the Organizations