Answer sheet harambe assessment

Answer sheet

Question 1: C
Harambee translates fundamentally to pull together, or pooling resources for a common objective, and functions as a collective rallying cry across East Africa. It is an indigenous term rooted in Shona and Swahili, not Arabic, and the Hindu origin theory has been discredited.

Question 2: B
Uharambee is the internalised value of prizing society. In this course, it is equated with social development, since social development is the sustained pursuit of collective wellbeing that this value drives.

Question 3: A
The African social development approach, informed by ASWEA and later scholars, highlights that African social work has historically prioritised the micro and meso levels, treating symptoms of poverty rather than the structural, macro level causes.

Question 4: A
Society is the whole of all members, operating at the macro level, and a continental body such as the African Union illustrates organisation at this scale. Community is a specific part of society, such as villages, suburbs or wards, operating at the meso level.

Question 5: A
The disqualifier states that an action benefiting only an individual, family or specific group does not meet the harambee threshold, however worthy it is. A single village does not constitute the whole of society.

Question 6: B
DSW treats public assistance as a strategic pathway, such as start-up capital, rather than an end in itself, aiming to make vulnerable people both socially and economically active.

Question 7: D
Harambee supplies the societal value framework, the collective will, that allows developmental workers to build infrastructure, secure social justice, and connect local action to national plans.

Question 8: A
The African social development approach, drawing on documentation associated with ASWEA, shifts practice away from a residual, welfarist model toward a structural approach that secures basic needs, safeguards self-esteem, and advances social justice through policy and institutions.

Question 9: B
A borderless and passportless regional or continental arrangement, such as coordination through the African Union, contributes at, is carried out at, and develops the societal level as a whole, meeting all three parts of the harambee test. The other options each stop short of society, benefiting only an individual, a family or a single community.

Question 10: B
Orature has long served as a means of carrying societal values, including harambee and uharambee, across generations, embedding them in cultural memory well before they were documented in formal social development literature.

Question 15: False
Design under the harambee model reverses this order. It begins with a societal purpose, stating what benefit or development the intervention is meant to bring to society as a whole, and only then works out which activities, at whichever level, will serve that purpose.

Question 16: False
Midgley’s integration principle requires that social and economic policy be planned together, in the same process, by the same team, at the same time. An intervention where a social component and an economic component were designed separately and then joined together afterwards has not met this principle, even if both components are individually well designed.