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100 1 _aAllen, Garth.
245 1 0 _aVoices of Zimbabwean orphans :
_ba new vision for project management in Southern Africa /
_cby Manasa Dzirikure and Garth Allen.
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c[2014]
300 _a1 online resource (xi, 201 pages) :
_billustrations, maps.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aAfrika-studiecentrum series,
_x1570-9310 ;
_vv. 33
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267- 287) and indexes.
505 0 0 _aPreliminary Material -- The Social Situation of Orphans in Southern Africa, and in Zimbabwe in Particular -- Zimbabwe and its Orphans -- Theory and Practice in Understanding and Improving the Social Situation of ovcs in Southern Africa -- Systems, Social Development, and the Needs of ovcs -- Key Conceptual Frameworks for Understanding the Social Situation of ovcs -- The Zimbabwe Study of ovcs -- What Orphans Want?: Voices from the Field -- The Role of Theory in Social Planning for ovcs -- ovcs: Policy and Practice in a Holistic Tradition -- Project Management for ovcs in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa -- Moving Policy and Action Forward for the Benefit of ovcs in Zimbabwe Southern Africa -- References -- Names Index -- Subject Index.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aThe voices of orphans and other vulnerable children and young people and of their carers and professional development workers are documented and analysed to both criticise the inadequacies of current social development work and to create a new, alternative theory and practice of project management in Zimbabwe and southern Africa. This is the first extensive and intensive empirical study of Zimbabwean orphans and other vulnerable children and young people. Chronically poor children and their carers can be corrupted or silenced by management systems which fail to recognise their basic human needs. Resilience in the face of such adversity is celebrated by the dominant project management ideology and practice but is a major barrier to achieve genuine sustainable improvements in the lives of vulnerable children. We propose a new person-centred project management approach aimed at delivering comprehensive services for orphans, which explicitly recognises the needs of orphans and other poor children to be fully socially, politically and economically included within their communities and which avoids the reinforcement of power based inequalities and their unacceptable consequences. The moral bankruptcy of much social development work in Zimbabwe and elsewhere in Southern Africa is described and we delineate an alternative project management policy and practice.
650 0 _aOrphans
_zAfrica, Southern
_xSocial conditions.
650 7 _aChildren
_xServices for.
_2fast
650 7 _aOrphans
_xSocial conditions.
_2fast
650 7 _aProject management.
_2fast
650 7 _aSocial planning.
_2fast
650 7 _aSocial policy.
_2fast
651 0 _aAfrica, Southern
_xSocial policy.
651 7 _aAfrica, Southern.
_2fast
651 7 _aZimbabwe.
_2fast
700 1 _aDzirikure, Manasa.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tVoices of Zimbabwean Orphans: A New Vision for Project Management in Southern Africa
_dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, 2015,
_z9789004282476
830 0 _aAfrika-Studiecentrum Series
_v33.
830 0 _aSocial Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287488.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004283282
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_d36058