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- Review of: Dede Esi Amanor-Wilks and contributors. In search of hope for Zimbabwe's farm workers. London: Panos; Harare: DateLine Southern Africa, 1995
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- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Ibbo Mandaza (ed.). Zimbabwe: the political economy of transition, 1980-1986. Dakar: Codesria, 1986
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- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Sheila Stace. Vocational rehabilitation for women with disabilities. Geneva: ILO, 1986
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- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Reviews of: S. Kindervatter (ed). Doing a feasibility study. Washington DC: OEF, 1987, and S. Kindervatter with M. Range (eds.). Marketing strategy. Washington DC: OEF, 1986
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- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Tanzania's social policy is characterised by three dominant regimes, although with some overlapping elements of selectivism and universalism. It is shown that the process of social policy formulation can be initiated by technocrats, or task forces at ministerial level. However, the process is long and cumbersome. The country lacks a comprehensive national social policy but has instead sectoral social policies. Implementing agents are communities, NGOs, and government institutions while the implementation process is top-down. The main funders of social policy include government, donors, NGOs, individuals and religious institutions. Tanzania's social policy research capacity is very weak. There is no institutionalised social policy research and consequently there is a need to strengthen social policy research capacity.
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- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: John W. Warnock. The politics of hunger. London: Methuen, 1987
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- The IMF-WorldBank economic policy packages embodied in President Babangida's Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) provide overt encouragement to the fostering of an unregulated, dependent capitalist development model, while allowing only a supportive role for the government in a refurbished economic environment of highly reduced government ownership and control of enterprises. Inflation has assumed a doomsday scenario since the inception of the SAP in July 1986 (from 5,4% in 1986 to 40,9% in 1989), and is threatening to destroy the very fabric of Nigerian society. It is the principle price of Babangida's SAP measures, which include external debt management strategies, SFEM/FEM/IEEM, removal of subsidies on petroleum products and fertiliser, privatisation and commercialisation, trade liberalisation, and interest rate deregulation. This SAP-induced inflation has resulted in adverse income redistribution, leading to increased personal insecurity and lessened personal satisfaction, while heightening interpersonal and institutional tensions and deterring investment and inhibiting consumer spending. Other costs include the depletion of external reserves; a worsening balance of payments position; the diversion of managerial talent from managing production, maintaining efficiency and innovating, in favour of manoeuvring and speculation for protection against (or benefit from) inflation. This paper recommends abandoning the "old-timereligion'of orthodox policies in favour of" shock treatment' embodied in herterodox policies, including monetary reform, exchange rate reform, tax-based prices policy (TPP), fiscal policy reform, etc.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Frank Jarle Bruun, Mbulawa Mugabe, Yolande Coombes (eds.). The situation of the elderly in Botswana. Gaborone: University of Botswana, National Institute of Development Research and Documentation; Oslo: University of Oslo, Centre for Development and the Environment, 1994
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- 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement of Sociological abstracts (SA) and the Social planning/policy & development abstracts (SOPODA) databases
- Date Issued:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- This paper is based on a study that showed that most institutions and homes for the elderly in Zimbabwe are found in urban areas, and that there are more homes for Europeans than Africans. Most respondents were born outside Zimbabwe, but had lived in the country for a considerable period. Most respondents were widows. European respondents in homes were much older than their African and Coloured counterparts, and were also more educated and had better jobs than the other respondents. They tended to live near their previous place of residence and therefore had more contact with relatives and friends. They were more satisfied with their lives in institutions than their African and Coloured counterparts.
- Date Issued:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Emma Mashinini. Strikes have followed me all my life. London: Women's Press, 1989
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Robert K. White and Deborah George Wright (eds.). Addiction intervention. New York: Haworth Press, 1998
- Date Issued:
- 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Stephen Chan. Social development in Africa. London: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991
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- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Arega Yimam. Social development in Africa 1950-1985. London: Avebury, 1990
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- In the /950s and 1960s Tanzania had the third largest co-operative movement in the world. These co-operatives provided economic and social protection to members so that poor peasants could sell their crops even in years of bad world market prices. The services provided by co-operatives, like education and trusteeship for peasants who took out loans, collapsed when the government abolished cooperatives in 1976. They were re-introduced.in 1982 but, due to their abolition, they had lost capital, personnel and members. The current co-operatives are much weaker than the pre-1976 ones and cannot provide the same kind of protection they once did. Cooperatives have still a great potential for social and economic protection but much change in the government policy on cooperatives is needed.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Advertisement for the International social science journal
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement for Sociological abstracts (SA) and Social planning/policy & development abstracts (SOPODA)
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- This article puts a case for the indigenisation of social work in Africa. The need for indeginisation is based upon the realisation that social work in Africa has failed to respond appropriately to the major social problems confronting the region. The social work profession is heavily influenced by Western theory and no meaningful attempts have been made to ensure that the profession fits into the social, economic and practical environment in which it operates. The article therefore emphasises the need for the social work profession to redefine itself and assume a new character. It is suggested that social work should adopt a development approach which in essence requires social workers to play a variety of roles within the framework of social development In order to fulfil this function, to a reorientation in the training of social workers is necessary including a reappraisal of the knowledge, values and skills necessary for meaningful and appropriate social work intervention.
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- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement for the Zimbabwe Connect conference 1995
- Date Issued:
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Social forestry has failed in may countries in Africabecause the projects have been conceived, designed and implemented by agencies with a commercial forestry orientation. Social forestry must address the needs of farmers and be incorporated in the peasant farm system, using and expanding the existing institutions which service rural development The lack of appropriate technologies is a major constraint to the success of social forestry. Foresters should play a major role in developing appropriate species and technologies and in the management of indigenous woodlands. Existing agricultural extension agencies are better placed to implement social forestry programmes. An integrated approach to development and land use is essential to maximise growth and ensure the sustainable utilisation of natural resources. Agriculturalists should consider trees, and other indigenous flora and fauna, essential components of the fanning systems they are developing.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- In Phase ll of this study the Zimbabwean team selected the Zunde raMambo and burial societies for an in-depth study. Four provinces were selected and key informants were interviewed from senior officials to members of these organizations at the grassroots. Zunde raMambo, which provide for the contingency of famine and chronic poverty, was useful in alleviating the plight of rural people but the scheme was not being implemented in all communities because of problems such as lack of fertile land, inputs and poor community mobilization. Communities need more land, seed and fertilizers and community members should be encouraged to participate in the Zunde. Burial societies were quite common in urban areas although not in rural areas. Their effectiveness is compromised by the low monthly contributions at a time when the cost of funerals has risen. Most of these societies operate without constitutions, resulting in suspicions of mismanagement or misappropriation of funds. The study recommends that burial societies develop constitutions to guide their operations. They should also increase their contributions in order to get maximum benefits and engage in income-generating projects to enhance the viability of their clubs. The non-governmental sector could be very useful in building the capacity of burial society committee members to discharge their duties effectively.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement for the Third world quarterly
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- This paper discusses the results of the Poverty Assessment Study Survey (PASS) adopted by the Government of Zimbabwe as a first step in its Poverty Alleviation Action Plan (PAAP). The analysis shows that those aged 60 years and above are generally poor, with the majority of the very poor residing in rural areas, and are mostly female. The paper also discusses the elderly perceptions of the main causes of poverty which include among other things, unemployment and retrenchment, recurrent droughts, low-paid jobs and high prices on basic necessities. The final section of the paper dwells on possible strategies towards poverty alleviation in Zimbabwe and some recommendations for planners. These include employment creation, increased access to affordable agricultural loans and financing of self-help projects, cooperatives and income-generating projects.
- Date Issued:
- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- This essay argues that globalization, as it is currently being orchestrated by America, is essentially aimed at the promotion of the imperialistic interests of Western society. This hegemony is sustained by propagating the philosophy of liberalism. Liberalism and its defense of individual autonomy necessarily promotes self-interest, whether at the level of the individual or the state. To avoid the injustice and possible anarchy that may arise as a result of this the philosophy of liberalism must be reviewed, based on criticisms by communitarians. The only way that globalization can attain a just integration and global peace is by jettisoning the individualism of liberalism for the altruism and sense of community of communitarianism.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-07-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement for the Journal of social development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Thomas Sankara. Women's liberation and the African freedom struggle. London: Pathfinder Press, 1990
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- This article focuses on the need for supervision in social work agencies and examines some of the functional components of supervision. Secondly, the article also examines social work supervision in Botswana and it is observed that effective supervision is hampered by a variety of constraints which include heavy work loads and lack of facilities and qualified supervisors. While supervision is not unique to social work, it has however, special importance in social work because of the nature of the problems the profession addresses. This article therefore sees supervision as a useful mechanisam for safeguarding the rights of clients, social workers and social work agencies.
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- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Teachers and other human service professionals have crucial roles to play in the provision of social programmes to support and protect children from violence and abuse. The objective of this study, therefore, was to find out the extent of the knowledge and understanding of emotional abuse held by teachers; their ability to identify children showing symptoms of such abuse, their personal feelings about, and experience with, emotional abuse and their awareness of support and other available services in the community. Thirty five teachers from three government community junior secondary schools participated. Overall, it was found that most teachers knew of emotional abuse and its aspects. However, about a third of them had no knowledge of emotional abuse or how to identify signs of abuse in children. It was also found that teachers do not consider their jobs entail providing support for abused children. From the data, it is evident that teacher training and in-service programmes must equip teachers with the skills to enable them contribute effectively to the prevention and management of emotional abuse of children.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Richard J. Estes. Trends in world social development. New York: Praeger, 1988
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement for the journal Social development issues
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- This paper describes the intensifying AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, and identifies a range of emergent needs in this connection. It examines existing social work involvement in AIDS and finds that social workers in Africa are currently considerably under utilised in this field. The paper explores potential social work roles and argues for the inclusion of AIDS issues in all social work training, and for closer coordination between medical and social aspects of care, to engage social workers and others in meeting growing needs more effectively. The author argues for the mobilisation of widespread community resourcesfor the prevention of HIV, to provide support for people with HIV or AIDS and their families, and to recognise AIDS as a critical development issue demanding an urgent response.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: D.G. Fisher (ed). AIDS and alcohol/drug abuse. London: Haworth Press, 1991
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Poverty alleviation has become a dominant strategy of much of the aid of international donors to countries in sub-Saharan Africa Such strategies are seen I as the principal weapon of attacking the endemic poverty which plagues the lives of many of the region's people. However many of these donors are using their support for poverty alleviation as a means of "democratising" supposedly undemocratic states and of promoting a more widespread and genuine participation of the region's poor!n development initiatives and activities. This article explores the experiences to date of poverty alleviation strategies in several sub-Saharan countries which have been built on participatory principles and which seek to get to the root cause of people's poverty. The article reviews the concept of participation in both an economic and a political sense and draws up a balance sheet of the current state of play.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement for the worksop to be held during the International Association for Community Development Conference
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- It is now accepted that past and current development strategies among Basarwa communities in Botswana have been unable to satisfactorily achieve the objectives of improving incomes, employment and general quality of life. While these objectives remain of critical importance, there is an urgent need to determine more effective ways that can make them realisable. Basing its argument on the original objectives of the Remote Area Development Programme (RADP), this paper suggests the need for modification and application of new alternative strategies to suit the prevailing circumstances of the Basarwa. From its inception, RADP has been criticised, mainly on the grounds that it has been undertaken by the government with only limited community involvement This has contributed to a dependency on government support rather than to a momentum of self-standing, sustainable improvements (Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, 1997). Community Economic Development (CED) proposed in this paper draws lessons from general failures of RADP and bUilds on its itrengths. Its main argument is that it is necessary to continually review approaches to development of Basarwa communities with a view to overcoming past short-comings and establishing more effective strategies for the future.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Since dying and bereavement are basic to the human condition, all societies have developed ways of providing support for those undergoing these experiences of loss. However, the emergence of the hospice movement marks the beginning of the provision of organisational support beyond that traditionally supplied within the family and friendship network Zimbabwe presents an interesting situation whereby traditional support systems function side by side with newer voluntary organisations providing services for the dying and bereaved, mainly within the white community but also, increasingly, to those black Zimbabweans in a state of transition between rural and urban life. Both traditional and organisational support systems are analysed with particular emphasis on the 'holistic' approach being practised by two voluntary organisations in Zimbabwe. Holistic care manifests several new features, which distinguish it from that provided in more orthodox western medical settings, and which, actually, converge with traditional African approaches. A brief review of problems being experienced by bereaved and dying people receiving assistance reveals that in the changing social conditions in present day Zimbabwe there is potential for useful crosscultural fertilisation in approaches to die care of those experiencing loss and some suggestions are made to this end.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement for book: Socialism, education and development
- Date Issued:
- 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Advertisement for Sociological abstracts (SA) and Social planning/policy & development abstracts (SOPODA) databases
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Historically the development of social work in most African countries has been strongly influenced by and modelled after Western countries. This has often meant the development of social service programmes and systems that have had a traditional focus of social work (clinical, socialising, custodial, therapeutic and care-taking functions). Increasingly today, this traditional model of social work is being superseded by a model built upon human-focused or social development concepts (Osei-Hwedie, 1990). This model is based upon egalitarian principles which assume that all members of a society should have access to information, goods, services, opportunities and the decision-making process; and the assumption that there will be a special focus on the needs of disadvantaged groups. Thus, the structuring of social work activities in this model requires a corresponding reconceptualisation of education and practice. What is needed is a conceptualisation of practice that will focus on both the immediate needs of people and the larger social and economic changes necessary to prevent future individual disruption and to improve the quality of life for all (Galper, 1980). This means linking together and integrating the knowledge and skills of the micro, mezzo, and macro levels of practice. The conceptual base of education and practice that serves to best accomplish the above is that of empowerment. Empowerment is conceptualised as the discovery of individual health and strengths and the attainment of participatory competence (Kieffer, 1984). Utilising concepts taken from motivation and action theory (White, 1959; Locke, et al, 1981), the authors develop an empowerment model for social work practice. This model encompasses five dimensions of practice: personal empowerment (competency required for taking self-direction); social empowerment (comprising society's capacity for self-direction and control of community processes and resources); educational empowerment (the development of an educational system that prepares people for both their social and work life); economic empowerment (the development of the means to earn a sufficient income to live a life of dignity and to provide for the adequate fulfillment of the requisite needs of shelter, food and clothing); and political empowerment (involvement in democratic decision-making). Social work roles inherent in this model are ones that focus on that of colleague, political ally, facilitator, advocate, and mediator.
- Date Issued:
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- The present study attempts to assess the quality of reported age-sex distributions of Lesothos 1986 and 1996 censuses using conventional demographic techniques. First, the data presented in single years are examined to identify patterns of digit preference and then Whipples, Myers' and Rachis indexes are computed in order to furnish a clear picture of the magnitude of deficiencies that might have occurred. The findings show that there is a tendency to prefer even numbers and avoid odd numbers in census enumeration in Lesotho. Also, the Whipple's index declined from 115 in 1986 to 106 in 1996, while the Myers' and Rachi's indexes respectively declined from 11 and 7 in 1986 to 9 and 6. These results suggest that there are deficiencies in the Lesotho data. A closer assessment of the data is undertaken by curtailing part of the erratic fluctuations in single year age distribution via grouping the data in quinary ages and applying the age-sex accuracy index. The index yields a value of 35 for the 1986 census and 32 for the 1996 census. The findings show that, though there are some distortions in the reported age-sex distributions of Lesotho, the data are fairly accurate and point to a modest improvement in quality over the decade.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement for Hans Zell Publishers
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Yochanan Wozner. People care in institutions. New York: Haworth Press, 1990
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Judy Chew. Women survivors of childhood sexual abuse. New York: Haworth Press, 1997
- Date Issued:
- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- This paper explores the relevance of psychology and the social and human sciences in a changing South Africa. The new South Africa embraces a liberal democratic approach to government. The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) is a policy document that articulates the goals of this liberal democratic society and the transformative approach to be followed to achieve it. The RDP policy document advocates massive social change and the steps that have been taken to implement the goals of the policy need to be assessed. In this paper, this has been analysed at the level of employment practices. Employment advertisements for social and human science graduates, in three national weekly newspapers, from 1976 to 1996, were investigated. The results are interpreted within a framework based on the ideas of Nickolas Rose about the role played by the discipline of psychology in a liberal democratic society.
- Date Issued:
- 2000-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- This article examines the effects of structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) on Kenyan society. A series of economic and political reforms initiated by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Kenya since 1988 and especially after 1991 have transformed many aspects of the daily life of Kenyan people. These programmes have been linked to the high rate of income inequality. inflation, unemployment, retrenchment, and so on, which have lowered living standards, especially, those relating to the material resources in the family. Furthermore, the SAPs in Kenya have been linked to the increasing deviant and crime rates, ethnic hatred and discrimination and welfare problems, especially in the areas of education and health.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Issa G. Shivji (ed). The state and the working people of Tanzania. Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA, 1986
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- The paper focuses on social work education and practice into the next millennium with particular reference to Africa. It argues that as the year 2000 draws near, the most insurmountable challenges for social work education and practice in Africa are likely to emanate from issues that traditionally have not been regarded as falling within the domain of the social work profession. Issues falling in this category are identified as including the refugee problem, the AIDS issue, unemployment, the ecology and structural adjustment programmes. Iturges the social work profession to become aggressive and more adventurous if it is to be taken seriously and indeed as it hopes to sufficiently address the problems in a meaningful way. Social work training therefore must be made more appropriate if it is to sufficiently equip practitioners with the relevant skills and knowledge that will enable diem to meaningfully tackle these and other social challenges.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- The majority of Zimbabwe's population (70%) resides in harsh subsistence economic conditions in the communal rural areas. Their main preoccupation is basic survival and their efforts are concentrated at producing food for consumption. All the determinant factors: access to land, water, credit and energy are largely absent, yet they are critical for one to meet the basic needs of survival. In the immediate post-independence period, the government assumed wrongly that its local government institutions would deliver development to the rural areas, but due to a lack of strategic planning and foresight, development has not taken place. The task to cater for the welfare of the rural poor was thus shifted to the Non-Governmental Organisations. The government's neglect of the rural poor can be attributed to its failure to perceive poverty as a national problem as evidenced by the absence of poverty eradication strategies in the national development plans.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Ann Cotton & Richard Synge (eds.). Cutting the gordian knot. Cambridge: CamFed in association with African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge, 1998
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- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- A contrast is made between economic types of rural development projects, which tend to be quantitative, and social development projects, which are qualitative. A number of evaluation models were studied on particular social development projects. A before-and-after analysis of particular social development group projects generated five indicators by which such development could be quantified: activities, action, changes in group behaviour, nature of intervention, and relationship with other groups. Continual monitoring of these aspects is suggested through a number of methods. The importance of relevance in evaluation procedures for small scale projects is emphasised.
- Date Issued:
- 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Traditional approaches to rehabilitation of disabled people have emphasised segregated institutional care, and have largely neglected the need both to integrate people with disabilities into their wider community, and for community attitudes themselves to be rehabilitated or changed to facilitate this integration. This paper reviews institutional and community based strategies for rehabilitation, arguing the case for a community orientation but recognising some of the difficulties of implementing this effectively in developing countries.
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- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Robert L. Barker and Douglas M. Branson. Forensic social work. New York: Haworth Press, 1993
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- 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Roger C. Riddell. Foreign aid reconsidered. London: James Currey in association with ODI, 1987
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- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: David Anderson and Richard Grove (eds.). Conservation in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Rachel Calam and Christiana Franchi. Child abuse and its consequences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987
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- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Two halves make a whole. Ottawa: CCIC, 1991
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- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- This paper reviews the contribution that social work has for improving the quality of life of people living in rural Uganda. In so doing it is necessary to utilise models of social work that may contribute to the social development needs of the country. Consequently the paper evaluates the adaptability of various social work models, highlighting their strengths and shortcomings. The author suggests the creation of the role of Social Development Specialist to provide social workers with more respect and recognition and as a more appropriate way of responding to peoples' needs. The integrated development model of practice is presented as the best option for addressing problems and needs and for facilitating development in rural Uganda.
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- 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Maurice Chimfwembe Lundu (ed). Political economy of information on development, democracy and security in Southern Africa. Harare: SAPES Books, 1996
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- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- This case study attempts to account for the persistence of the economy of affection in Cameroon in light of the persistence of the family farm debate. The study demonstrates, like previous studies, that the economy of affection persists because of subjective values such as the farmers' desire to be independent; the farmers' view of agriculture as a way of life; and farmers' purpose and satisfaction in life derived from bonds and relations formed in the production process. In addition, the study clearly documents the importance of: 1) a sacred component to agriculture; 2) agricultural rituals which provide for social bonding and cooperation; and 3) a process of self-definition, self-determination, and selfactualization associated with food production.
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- 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Discusses measures of development
- Date Issued:
- 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Jackryn Cock. Maids and madams. London: Womoi's Press, 1989
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Valerie Møller. Quality of life in unemployment. Pretoria: HSRC Publishers, 1993
- Date Issued:
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: From strategies to action. Nairobi: Association of African Women in Research and Development, 1995
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- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Globalization has caused anxiety and uncertainty among the less developed countries; the reason being that it is still unclear as what this new political economy portends for these countries. Also at the heart of this unease is what seems to be globalization’s profound political and social consequences for the Third World countries, especially those in poverty-stricken Africa. Would they be able to cushion themselves against globalization’s painful effects? One of the key demands of this new political economy is that there should be no political interference in economic activity and investment decisions. Thus globalization presents the less developed countries with what seems to be an intractable conundrum. While touting democracy as a condition for economic success, the neo-liberal ideology which underpins globalization removes the economy from the political agenda through its advocacy of laissez-faire economic policies that preclude government involvement in investment decisions, hence shielding private capital and the bourgeoisie from social and political scrutiny. With reference to eastern and southern Africa, this paper examines the broad political implications of globalization and reflects on the possible strategies that might cushion the regional states against its vicissitudes.
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- 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- This paper describes the development of a training programme for people with no formal training in community work. A programme which would equip them for work in troubled townships and 'homelands' in South Africa. An attempt was made to develop a programme particularly relevant to the needs of South Africa, with emphasis on personal growth and participation, and on a problem posing and problem management approach. Details of some of the actual techniques and strategies used are given, with explanations of the underlying assumptions made by the training designers. The paper ends with a summary of the learning gained from the experience of developing the training programme.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Margaret McCallin (ed). The psychological well-being of refugee children. Geneva: International Catholic Child Bureau, 1992
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- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- In the current debate cm the future of South African youth, opposing viewpoints advocate "positive" programmes to remedy the problem of youth alienation. This paper addresses the youth question from the viewpoint of pro-social youth clubs in the development process. The authors contend that pro-social youth clubs fulfil a bridging function by providing positive reference groups for young people as they mature. At the individual level of analysis, the paper explores the motivations to participate in youth club activities, the process of forming new clubs or joining existing ones, and how participation is sustained. A sample survey of motivations to participate in club life was conducted among 600 black youth in the Durban Functional Region in 1993. Club life was observed among 42 informal clubs participating in a youth development initiative over a five-year period. A tracer study of the 42 youth clubs, involved mainly in the performing arts, sports, church related and community service activities, examined the turnover of membership in clubs. The study found that young people are particularly attracted to clubs which further their skills and talents and personal development Group cohesion acted as an attractive force to join informal clubs. Non-participants in youth clubs wished to remain "uninvolved". The tracer study indicated that youth gravitate to strong and cohesive groups. Strong groups were characterised by public recognition of success in their chosen field of activity; cohesive groups by a spirit of respect and tolerance toward peers. The paper discusses a youth initiative, the Youth Centre Project (YCP), to build strong youth clubs in the Durban region. It is concluded that informal clubs, owing to their capacity to adapt to the changing needs of youth, make an important contribution to the integration of young people into democratic society in South Africa.
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- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Helen Jackson. AIDS, action now. Harare: AIDS Counselling Trust and School of Social Work, 1992
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- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Paul W. Beamish. Multinational joint ventures in developing countries. London: Routledge, 1988
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement about new titles in 1991 from Hans Zell Publishers
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- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Fidel Castro. In defence of socialism. London: Pathfinder Press, 1989
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- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement for the international contents journal Periodica Islamica
- Date Issued:
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Gillian Bottomley. From another place. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992
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- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- As a result of its recent disturbed history, Uganda has the most undeveloped formal social security: systems and the least documented non-formal social security systems of the countries participating in this study. Through the use of qualitative research methods, it was observed that communities are providing the most useful response to the rising risks and vulnerabilities posed by poverty, unemployment, emergencies and inevitable life-cycle factors while the State has not provided social security at the community level. The following social security systems exist in Uganda: formal social security schemes targeting the employed, community groups that serve only group members, kinship-based solidarity groups that serve the extended family and village residents’ mutual assistance groups, which are compulsory for all adults in the villages where they operate. These groups are currently the most widespread and effective of all, though they are plagued with poor management and a low capital base. The village-wide mutual assistance groups offer the potential for reaching most community members but operate in only one of the four districts visited. District Development Programmes offer a feasible entry point for beginning to address the lack of policy-led social security at community level.
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- 2002-07-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement for the Journal of international & comparative social welfare
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Reviews of: Africa's adjustment and growth in the 1980s. Washington DC: World Bank/UNDP, 1989, and The challenge of hunger in Africa. Washington DC: World Bank/IBRD, 1988
- Date Issued:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Editorial
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Development practitioners and analysts have become deeply committed to the concept of beneficiary 'participation'. The notion has become synonymous with 'good' development and has become a minimal requisite for donors, but it is increasingly being confused with the notion of beneficiary 'ownership' of a project. Unfortunately much of what passes for 'participation' tends to be perfunctory attendance at inconvenient meetings or physical labour, often sustained only by coaxing or cajoling, or a vague hint of extortion: the 'taxation' of the beneficiary. The article argues that participation must be distinguished from 'ownership' and that there is need for a truer 'partnership' between development specialists and beneficiaries. The benefits of genuine participation are, in fact, the true 'ownership' of a project by the beneficiaries, which can be achieved by a more perceptive choice of projects coupled with an honest 'selling' of some of the development worker's intentions.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement for the Africa Network on Economic Policy, Equity and Health
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Fay Chung and Emmanuel Ngara. Socialism, education and development. Harare: Zimbabwe Publishing House, 1985
- Date Issued:
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Michael Bourdillon (ed). Earning a life. Harare: Weaver Press, 2000
- Date Issued:
- 2001-07-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 2003-07-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement for the journal Social policy and administration
- Date Issued:
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Local self-help programmes (activities) have a significant role to play in promoting local and regional development, and in improving the living conditions of the people. Self-help activities can be instrumental in mobilising availablecommunity resources such as talents and skills, leadership, human energy, and capital and material resources. In addition to this, local participation in such activities will facilitate the process of need identification and sound decision-making regarding the goals to be pursued, and feasible programme design and implementation. The process will foster effective ways of tackling local problems, and as a result may enable the community to gain some degree of self-reliance. Furthermore, the local community may also acquire practical leadership and organisational skills from the process. Over time, both improvement in their living conditions and overall development in community capability may ensue. The two case studies presented here and others which are cited in the text clearly demonstrate that through proper guidance and encouragement local self-help organisations can accomplish such results.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa