Voices of Zimbabwean Orphans : A New Vision for Project Management in Southern Africa.

Intro -- Voices of Zimbabwean Orphans: A New Vision for Project Management in Southern Africa -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- 1 The Social Situation of Orphans in Southern Africa, and in Zimbabwe in Particular -- 2 Zimbabwe and its Orphans -- 3 Theory and Practice in Understanding and Improving the Social Situation of ovcs in Southern Africa -- 4 Systems, Social Development, and the Needs of ovcs -- 5 Key Conceptual Frameworks for Understanding the Social Situation of ovcs -- 6 The Zimbabwe Study of ovcs -- 7 What Orphans Want?: Voices from the Field -- 8 The Role of Theory in Social Planning for ovcs -- 9 ovcs: Policy and Practice in a Holistic Tradition -- 10 Project Management for ovcs in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa -- 11 Moving Policy and Action Forward for the Benefit of ovcs in Zimbabwe Southern Africa -- References -- Names Index -- Subject Index.

The voices of orphans and other vulnerable children and young people and of their carers and the professional development workers are documented and used 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.

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