Advocacy by nonprofit organizations in the social welfare field in Sweden: Backgrounds and strategies to be effective

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24730500
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Shoei Junior College
• Principal Investigator: YOSHIOKA Yoko 頌栄短期大学, その他部局等, 准教授 (80462018)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: アドボカシー / NPO / スウェーデン / 社会福祉 / 児童家庭福祉

Outline of Final Research Achievements

NPOs play a critical role in advocating in the field of social welfare in Sweden and have significant influence in the society. This study tries to explore and clarify the reasons why Swedish NPOs can be so powerful and effective in advocacy from the two perspectives: 1)Social policies and institutions (macro), 2) Actual strategies taken by NPOs especially in the field of individual and family welfare(micro). As a result, it is found that there was no special public policy to promote social welfare organizations to advocate. Instead the reason was found in the history of the civil society and the development of Swedish social welfare state. There is what we can call “legitimacy” of NPOs in Swedish society which enables them to exist firmly and to be heard.

Free Research Field

社会福祉