IFSW Africa

Name: SWSD 2020: The Global Social Work Agenda – The Next Ten Years
Start: 2020-07-15T08:00:00+00:00
End: 2020-07-18T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Calgary

Social Work has a long history in Africa stemming back to pre-colonial times. The region now comprises 25 IFSW members who are working toward the establishment of a recognised social work profession association in all the region’s countries, and the visibility of the profession’s contributions in addressing the complex factors of poverty, HIV eradication, gender equality and self-led community empowerment.

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'Closing orphanages isn’t enough': the centres supporting children and families in Uganda
October 9, 2019
Leading up to the 2019 IFSW African Regional Conference in Uganda, IFSW Secretary-General, Dr Rory Truell made a pre-conference visit to Kampala and has published his account on some of the social challenges and how Ugandan social workers are meeting them: “Working children are visible everywhere in Kampala.
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Exchanging Practices, Knowledge and Cooperation between Europe and Africa
June 25, 2019
Last May, the III Macaronesia Congress of Social Workers, (SW) was held in Cidade da Praia ( Santiago Island ) and it was organized by the “young” Cape Verde National Association of Social Workers.
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Twinning contract between AMAS Morocco and BPSW The Netherlands
May 20, 2019
The Moroccan association AMAS is still young, just like social work education in Morocco.
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World Social Work Day Poster for 2019
November 22, 2018
The World Social Work Day poster for 2019 is now available.
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