Social Innovation and Community Engagement Theory: Challenges and Implementation of Fair Trade

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Executive summary
Social innovation is the act of developing ideas and deploying them to
solve problems often environmental and social issues in aid of social development
(Bryman, 2016, pp 0). The non-profit sector that plays a vital part in the development and
executing social innovation and adopting an entrepreneur approach to follow its social
objectives further. To achieve social innovation, the community engagement is a key
factor which is the act of including the general public in decision making on matters
affecting them. The categories of community engagement theory are as follows: Planning
and Decision Making, Community Development, and Engaging Community in Service
Delivery. (Denhardt, J.V. and Denhardt, R.B.,2015, pp 0). When implementing social
innovation, challenges arise such as lack of enough capital being part of the primary
challenge. To solve this problem, the firm can borrow from financial institutions,
government grants, and a donation from non-profit sectors.

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Social Innovation and Community Engagement Theory
Community and its citizens require protection from exploitation from a business person.
The social innovation is one of the approaches to deal with this problem. It is the act of coming
up with concepts and deploying them to resolve problems in aid to social development (Krpan
and O’connor,2017, pp 0). The non-profit sector plays an essential role in fostering and
implementing social innovation. These non-profit sectors involve themselves in policymakers,
academics, practitioners and general community engagement. The sector emphases on changing
the power structure to benefit defenceless groups in the society. In other words, it helps the
community to have bargaining power in the economic or social life. The community engagement
is the act of involving the general public in decision making on matters affecting their life
(Schaltegger and Wagner ,2017, pp 0). The following are categories of community engagement
theory: Planning and Decision Making, Community Development, and Engaging People in
Service Delivery. In Planning and Decision Making, this is where you involve the members of
the public in making the decision of which it is open for their opinion. By doing so, they provide
a room for better co-hosting between the organization and its citizen. For the Community
development, this where a non-profit firm initiates developing strategies to improve the lives of
the citizens. The developing mechanism are through the construction of public institutions,
giving of aids and also supporting the economic activities such as providing soft loans to
business persons, fertilizer to farmers. In Service Delivery, this where the members of the public
are engaged or employed to give out services to their fellow members rather than a third party
(Krpan and O’connor,2017, pp 0). It Enables the community to receive these services in a better
manner rather than if they received it from a third party. For those assigned those duties to serve
to their best having in mind that they're helping their own. It also eliminates the instance where

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an individual of the public would shy off getting services from a third party. Social innovation is
a better method of making the lives of general lives better and free from discernments from the
third parties who concentrate much on profit making which could lead to the violations of the
rights of the customers and members of the public in large (Acharya, Maru, Schwarzet ed al.
2017, pp. 2).