Empirical Research of System and Evaluation for Municipal Social Welfare Planning with Collaboration and Participation of Citizen.

本研究项目为期三年。本研究的主要目的是提出城市社会福利规划的意义和未来的任务。第一年，我们进行了问卷调查，研究了城市社会福利规划设计和开发的实际情况。第二年，我们在日本约10个直辖市和美国、韩国的30个城市进行了实地调研，试图为市级社会福利规划的研究奠定理论基础。作为中期总结，我们在2005年6月公布了一份关于迄今为止成员讨论的中期报告，并在6月的日本社区发展研究会会议和10月的日本社会福利研究学会会议上举行了研讨会。在第二年，我们启动了一个新的项目，研究主要城市横滨、名古屋和大阪，特别是大城市的成就和问题。在这个项目的最后一年，我们总结了这两年的研究结果。本研究项目的研究结果如下：1)市政社会福利规划与卫生和社会福利服务的提供系统以及社会福利的民事活动密切相关。2)市政社会福利规划可以促进社会资本的发展。3)规划评估、需求评估、信息公开和公民参与技术是未来城市社会福利规划的重要问题。

This research project duration is three years. Our main research purpose is to bring out the meanings and future tasks of the municipal social welfare planning.In the first year, we carried out a questionnaire survey to study the actual situation of the design and development for the planning. We also asked prefectures about support plans and guide lines for municipal governments.In the second year, we conducted field researches in about 10 municipals in Japan and 3cities in the United States and South Korea, and tried to build up the theoretical flame work for the research of the municipal social welfare planning. As a midterm summary, we publicized an interim report on the discussion thus far among members in June 2005, and held symposiums at the conference of Japanese Research Association for Community Development in June and Japanese Society for Study of Social Welfare in October. In the second year, we started a new project to study on major cities ; Yokohama, Nagoya, and Osaka, especially focusing on achievements and problems in large cities.In the last year of this project, we rounded up the results of researches for these 2 years. Findings of this research project as follows ;1)Municipal social welfare planning is intimately linked to the delivery system of health and social welfare services and civil activities for social welfare.2)Municipal social welfare planning can contribute to develop social capital. Thus, quality and quantity of social care system are improved.3)Evaluation of planning, needs assessment, disclosure of information, and techniques for citizen participation are important issues for municipal social welfare planning in future.