Voices of Zimbabwean orphans : a new vision for project management in Southern Africa / by Manasa Dzirikure and Garth Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dzirikure, Manasa, author.

Allen, Garth, author.

Series:

Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; Volume 33.

Afrika-Studiecentrum Series, 1570-9310 ; Volume 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orphans--Africa, Southern--Social conditions.

Orphans.

Orphans--Zimbabwe--Social conditions.

Children--Services for--Africa, Southern.

Children.

Social planning--Africa, Southern.

Social planning.

Project management--Africa, Southern.

Project management.

Africa, Southern--Social policy.

Africa, Southern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 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.

Contents:

Preliminary 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28328-5

OCLC:

889167583

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004283282 DOI