Developmental Work Database

African Union (AU)

African Union (AU). The AU (2002) African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) – Africa’s Self-Assessment for Good Governance. Retrieved from https://au.int/en/organs/aprm

African Union (AU). The AU (2022) About African Peer Review Mechanism. Retrieved from https://www.aprm-au.org/page-about/

African Union (AU). The AU (2023) Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want. Retrieved from https://au.int/en/agenda2063/overview

Association of Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA)

Association of Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA) (1972c). The Use of Films in Social Development Education, Doc. 4. Addis Ababa: ASWEA publication.

Association of Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA) (1973a). Case Studies of Social Development in Africa, Vol. 1. Addis Ababa: ASWEA publication.

Association of Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA) (1974a). Relationship between Social Work Education and National Social Development Planning, Doc. 6. Addis Ababa: ASWEA publication.

Association of Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA) (1974b). Curricula of Schools of Social Work and Community Development Training Centres in Africa, Doc. 7. Addis Ababa: ASWEA publication.

Association of Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA) (1974c). Case Studies of Social Development in Africa, vol. 2. Addis Ababa: ASWEA publication.

Association of Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA) (1976b). Realities and aspirations of social work education in Africa, Doc. 11. Addis Ababa: ASWEA publication.

Association of Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA) (1977). The Role of Social Development Education in Africa’s Struggle for Political and Economic Independence, Doc. 12. Addis Ababa: ASWEA publication.

Association of Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA) (1978a). The Development of a Training Curriculum in Family Welfare, Doc. 13. Addis Ababa: ASWEA publication.

Association of Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA) (1978b). L’Elaboration d’ un programme de formation en benêtre familial, Doc. 14. Addis Ababa: ASWEA publication.

Association of Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA) (1979a).Guidelines for the Development of a Training Curriculum in Family Welfare, Doc. 15.Addis Ababa: ASWEA publication.

Association of Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA) (1979b). Principes directeurs pour l’establissement d’un programme d’etude destine a la formation aux disciplines de la protection de la famille, Doc. 16. Addis Ababa: ASWEA publication.

Association of Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA) (1981). Social Development Training in Africa: Experiences of the 1970s and Emerging Trends of the 1980s, Doc. 17. Addis Ababa: ASWEA publication.

Association of Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA) (1982a). Survey of Curricula of Social Development Training Institutions in Africa, Doc. 18. Addis Ababa: ASWEA publication.

Association of Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA) (1982b). Seminar on the organization and delivery of social services to rural areas in Africa, Doc. 19. Addis Ababa: ASWEA publication.

Association of Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA) (1985). Training for Social Development: Methods of Intervention to Improve People’s Participation in Rural Transformation in Africa with Special Emphasis on Women, Doc. 20. Addis Ababa: ASWEA publication.

Association of Social Work Education in Africa (ASWEA) (n.d.). An Effort in Community Development in the Lakota Sub-prefecture, Doc. 1. Addis Ababa: ASWEA publication.

Books and journal articles

Ajulu, R. (2001). Thabo Mbeki’s African renaissance in a globalising world economy: the struggle for the soul of the continent. Review of African Political Economy, 28(87), 27–42. 

Asante, M. K. (1998). The African American as African. Diogenes, 46(184), 39–50. https://doi.org/10.1177/039219219804618405 

Baguma, P., & Aheisibwe, I. (2011). Issues in African Education. In B. A. Nsamenang & T. M. S. Tchombe (Eds.), Handbook of African Educational Theories and Practices A Generative Teacher Education Curriculum (pp. 21-34). Cameroon: Human Development Resource Centre (HDRC).

Bangura, A. K. (2005). ‘Ubuntugogy’: An African educational paradigm that transcends pedagogy, andragogy, ergonagy and heutagogy. Journal of Third World Studies, XXII (2), 13-53.

Bangura, A., K. (2012). From Diop to Asante: Conceptualizing and Contextualizing the Afrocentric Paradigm: The Journal of Pan African Studies, 5(1), 103-125. http://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol5no1/5.1FromDiop.pdf

Butterfield A.K., Abye T. (eds) (2013) Social Development and Social Work: Learning from Africa. London: Routledge.

Bongmba, E. K. (2006). Reflections on Thabo Mbeki’s African Renaissance. Journal of Southern African Studies, Volume 30(2), 291-316

Chilisa, B. (2014). Indigenous research is a journey. The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, 2(4), 41-44.

Chilisa, B. (2020). Indigenous Research Methodologies. (2nd ed.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Chilisa, B. (2020). Indigenous research methodologies. Los Angeles: Sage.

Chilisa, B. (2020). Indigenous research methodologies. Los Angeles: Sage.

Chitereka, C. 2009. Social Work Practice in a Developing Continent: The Case of Africa. Advances in Social Work,10(2),144-156. https://doi.org/10.18060/223

Dhemba, J. (2012). Fieldwork in Social Work Education and Training: Issues and Challenges in the Case of Eastern and Southern Africa. Social Work and Society, (10) 1, online.

Gray M. (ed.) (2017) The Handbook of Social Work and Social Development in Africa. London: Routledge.

Gray, M., Agllias, K., Mupedziswa, R., & Mugumbate, J. 2018. The expansion of developmental social work in Southern and East Africa: Opportunities and challenges for social work field programmes. International Social Work, 61(6), 974-987. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872817695399

Kalinganire C., Rutikanga C. (2014) ‘The Status of Social Work Education and Practice in Rwanda’, in Spitzer H., Twikirize J.M., Wairire G.G. (eds) Professional Social Work in East Africa: Towards Social Development, Poverty Reduction and Gender Equality, pp. 108–20. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain.

Kalinganire C., Rutikanga C. (2015) The Role of Social Work in Poverty Reduction and the Realisation of Millennium Development Goals in Rwanda. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain.

Kaseke, E. (2001). Social development as a model of social work practice: the experience of Zimbabwe. School of Social Work Staff Papers. Harare, School of Social Work.

Kaseke, E. (2017). Repositioning social workers in South Africa for a developmental state. International Social Work, 60(2), 470–478. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872815594216

Katanekwa, M. N. (2021). Bantu People of Africa: Language Groups, Origins and Migrations, 3000 before present time to 1840. Independently published.

Kaunda, K. (1966). A Humanist in Africa. London: Longman Greens

Kissi, E. (2018). Sankofa: The Critical Nkrumahist Theory. The Journal of Pan African Studies, 12(7), 154–174.

Kurevakwesu, W. 2017. The social work profession in Zimbabwe: a critical approach on the position of social work on Zimbabwe’s development. Afro Asian Journal of Social Sciences, 8(1):1-12.

Kurevakwesu, W., Dzoma, F., Mundau, M., Magocha, J.C., Chizasa, S., & Takangovada, M. (2022). Towards the creation of a developmental welfare state in Zimbabwe: an inside perspective on the Department of Social Development. Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 58(2), 115-130. https://dx.doi.org/10.15270/58-2-1037

Lombard A. (2014) ‘A Developmental Perspective in Social Work Theory and Practice’, in Spitzer H., Twikirize J.M., Wairire G.G. (eds) Professional Social Work in East Africa: Towards Social Development, Poverty Reduction and Gender Equality, pp. 43–56. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain.

Longwe, H. S. (1995). Women’s Empowerment Tool. Lusaka, Zambia.

Maathai W. (2009) The Challenge for Africa. London: Arrow Books.

Maathai, W. M. (1995). Bottlenecks to Development in Africa. Speech.

Mabeyo Z.M. (2014) ‘The Development of Social Work Education and Practice in Tanzania’, in Spitzer H., Twikirize J.M., Wairire G.G. (eds) Professional Social Work in East Africa: Towards Social Development, Poverty Reduction and Gender Equality, pp. 121–35. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain.

Mabeyo Z.M., Ndung’u E.M., Riedl S. (2014) The Role of Social Work in Poverty Reduction and the Realisation of Millennium Development Goals in Tanzania. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain.

Mabvurira, V. (2018). Making sense of African thought in social work practice in Zimbabwe: Towards professional decolonisation. International Social Work, 63, 419 – 430.

Mararike, C. G. (1998). African Philosophy and Human Factor Development. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications.

Mhiribidi, S.T.W. 2010. Promoting the developmental social welfare approach in Zimbabwe: challenges and prospects. Journal of Social Development in Africa, 25(2), 121–146. https://doi.org/10.4314/jsda.v25i2.65059

Midgley J. (1981) Professional Imperialism: Social Work in the Third World. London: Heinemann.

Midgley J. (2010) ‘The Theory and Practice of Developmental Social Work’, in Midgley J., Conley A. (eds) Social Work and Social Development: Theories and Skills for Developmental Social Work, pp. 3–28. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Molefe, M. (2019). Ubuntu and Development: An African Conception of Development. Africa Today, 66(1), 96–115. https://doi.org/10.2979/africatoday.66.1.05

Moyo, D. (2009). Dead aid : why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Mugumbate, R. (2024). Ubuntu-inspired tools and models to decolonise social work practice. Ubuntu Philosophy and Decolonising Social Work Fields of Practice in Africa. Routledge.

Mugumbate, R. (2024). Ubuntu. Ubuntu Philosophy and Decolonising Social Work Fields of Practice in Africa. Routledge.

Mugumbate, R., Tarusikirwa, M. C., Nyoni, C., Mtetwa, E., Nyikahadzoyi, K., Dhemba and Nyaruwata, L. T. (2022). People-centred development (PCD): philosophies, key concepts and approaches to teaching, learning and practice. People centred – The Journal of Development Administration (JDA), 7(1), 1-12.    

Muleya, E. 2020. Developmental Social Work and the Sustainable Development Goals in South Africa: Opportunities and Challenges. The International Journal of Community and Social Development, 2(4), 470-486. https://doi.org/10.1177/2516602620975226

Mupedziswa, R. 1998. Social Work Education for Social Development: Zimbabwe’s Experience. Paper presented at IASSW Congress, Jerusalem, 5-9 July

Mupedziswa, R. 2001. The quest for relevance: towards a conceptual model of developmental social work education and training in Africa. International Social Work, 44(3), 285-300. https://doi.org/10.1177/002087280104400302

Mupedziswa, R., & Kubanga, K. (2016). Developing social work education in Africa: Challenges and prospects. In I. Taylor, M. Bogo, M. Lefevre, & B. Teater (Eds.), Routledge international handbook of social work education (pp. 119-130). London: Routledge.

Mupedziswa, R., & Sinkamba, R. (2014). Social work education and training in Southern and East Africa: Yesterday, today and tomorrow. In H. S. C. Noble, & B. Littlechild (Ed.), Global social work: Crossing borders, blurring boundaries (pp. 141-154). Sydney: Sydney University Press.

Mupedziswa, R., Rankopo, M. and Mwansa, L. (2019). Ubuntu as a Pan-African Philosophical Framework for Social Work in Africa. In Social Work Practice in Africa Indigenous and Innovative Approaches. Eds J. M.  Twikirize and H. Spitzer. Kampala: Fountain.

Mwansa L.-K.J. (2012) ‘Social Work in Africa’, in Healy L.M., Link R.J. (eds) Handbook of International Social Work: Human Rights, Development, and the Global Profession, pp. 365–71. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J. (2020). Decolonization, Development and Knowledge in Africa : Turning over a New Leaf. London Taylor & Francis.

Nziramasanga, C. T. (1999). Report into the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Education and Training. . Harare: Government of Zimbabwe

Nziramasanga, C. T. (1999). The Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Education and Training. Nziramasanga commission, Zimbabwe.

Patel, L. & Hochfeld, T. 2008. Indicators, barriers and strategies to accelerate the pace of change to developmental welfare in South Africa. The Social Work Practitioner-Researcher, 20(2): 192-211.

Rankopo M.J., Osei-Hwedie K. (2011) ‘Globalization and Culturally Relevant Social Work: African Perspectives on Indigenization’, International Social Work 54(1): 137–147.

Society for International Development (SID) (2016) State of East Africa Report: Consolidating Misery? The Political Economy of Inequalities in East Africa. Nairobi, Kenya: SID.

Spitzer H., Twikirize J.M., Wairire G.G. (eds) (2014a) Professional Social Work in East Africa: Towards Social Development, Poverty Reduction and Gender Equality. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain.

Tikwirize, J. Mugumbate, R. and Tusasiirwe, S. (2024). Decolonising social work fields of practice. An introduction. Ubuntu Philosophy and Decolonising Social Work Fields of Practice in Africa. Routledge.

Tusasiirwe, S. (2022). Is it indigenisation or decolonisation of social work in Africa? A focus on Uganda. African Journal of Social Work, 12(1), 1-11.

Twikirize J.M. (2014a) ‘Indigenisation of Social Work in Africa: Debates, Prospects and Challenges’, in Spitzer H., Twikirize J.M., Wairire G.G. (eds) Professional Social Work in East Africa: Towards Social Development, Poverty Reduction and Gender Equality, pp. 75–90. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain.

Twikirize J.M. (2014b) ‘Social Work Education and Practice in Uganda: A Historical Perspective’, in Spitzer H., Twikirize J.M., Wairire G.G. (eds) Professional Social Work in East Africa: Towards Social Development, Poverty Reduction and Gender Equality, pp. 136–48. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain.

Twikirize J.M., Asingwire N., Omona J., Lubanga R., Kafuko A. (2013) The Role of Social Work in Poverty Reduction and the Realisation of Millennium Development Goals in Uganda. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain.

Twikirize J.M., Spitzer H., Wairire G.G., Mabeyo Z.M., Rutikanga C. (2014) ‘Professional Social Work in East Africa: Empirical Evidence’, in Spitzer H., Twikirize J.M., Wairire G.G. (eds) Professional Social Work in East Africa: Towards Social Development, Poverty Reduction and Gender Equality, pp. 189–216. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain.

Twikirize, J. M. (2017). Social work practice in the NGO sector in Uganda and Kenya – opportunities and challenges. In M. Gray (Ed.), The Handbook of Social Work and Social Development in Africa. London: Routledge. 

Wairire G.G. (2014) ‘The State of Social Work Education and Practice in Kenya’, in Spitzer H., Twikirize J.M., Wairire G.G. (eds) Professional Social Work in East Africa: Towards Social Development, Poverty Reduction and Gender Equality, pp. 93–107. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain.

Wairire G.G., Zani A., Machera M., Mutie P.M. (2014) The Role of Social Work in Poverty Reduction and Realization of Millennium Development Goals in Kenya. Nairobi, Kenya: University of Nairobi Press.

van Breda, A. 2018. Developmental social case work: A process model. International Social Work, 61(1), 66-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872815603786

Videos

Mthethwa, E. (2021). Developmental Social Work. Africa Social Work and Development Network. Available at https://youtu.be/wDFrMRjsYmk?si=gkc4hBuSdd9C4n2t

Muridzo, N. G. (2021). Mupedziswa’s Developmental Social Work Model. Africa Social Work and Development Network. Available at https://youtu.be/zt9d4KGPMuE?si=ZZ6oSbaDBMUneW_x

Web pages

ASWDNet

Africa Social Work Network (ASWNet) (2022). African Theories of Social Work https://africasocialwork.net/african-theories-of-social-work/

Africa Social Work Network (ASWNET). (2022). Research methods. Retrieved from https://africasocialwork.net/research/

Africa Social Work Network, ASWNet, 2022). African philosophy. https://africasocialwork.net/african-philosophy/

African Social Work Network (ASWNET) (2022). Decolonisation Calculator. Retrieved from https://africasocialwork.net/decolonisation-calculator/

South Africa Government

South Africa Government (2023). Social development. Accessed on 10 November 2023 from https://www.gov.za/about-sa/social-development

United Nations (UN)

United Nations (UN) (2015). Sustainable Development Goals. Retrieved from https://sdgs.un.org/goals

United Nations (UN) (2000). Millenium Development Goals. Retrieved from https://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

Muridzo, N. G. (2023). Social work’s contribution to socio-economic development: why, how & who? Presentation at Africa Day Indaba 2023. Africa Social Work and Development Network. Available at https://youtu.be/RDpAogL5UJ4?si=vgAGgp0Vud–uoXY