社会工作的国际定义.ppt

* * SASSA – South African Social Assistance Agency – Care Dependency Gran, Child Support Grnt, Disability Grant, Foster Child Grant, Grants in Aid, Older Persons, Social Relief of Distress, War Veteran’s Grant * According to Kaseke: “to avert deprivation or to mitigate the impact of an adverse shock” (UNICEF, 2008) – community development approaches to create informal insurance and ‘shock absorbing’ systems that can gradually be formalised Social workers work with communities to promote their ability to support poor households to establish sustainable livelihoods (e.g BRAC programs) and access education for children (break the cycle of poverty) Transformative – pro-active social inclusion, addressing social injustice e.g people with disabilities and from minotiry communities… Presentation at the 1st Namibian Social Protection Conference-2015: Towards Comprehensive Social Protection for All. 7-9 July 2015, Windhoek By Professor Edwell Kaseke, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg * More expertise vs. better linkages to more holistic family/community approaches Social work requires documentation and social administration – how to ensure that social workers who have special knowledge and skills eg for working with children or with people with disaiblities, community programs, etc can use these skills rather than spend their time on administration? How to regulate /license/ accredit practitioners and services if it is difficult to define – compared for example to medicine or education – a common set of professional competencies/values/ethics etc.? * * * Different types of social protection interventions: protective, preventive, promotive and transformative Devereux and Sabates-Wheeler, 2004 Conceptual definition is as follows: SOCIAL PROTECTION describes all public and private initiatives that provide income or consumption transfers to the poor, protect the vulnerable against livelihood risks, and enhance the social status and rights of the margin