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by Miriam Chadzingwa and Lispoh Rugaro, FACT Zimbabwe Case conferencing is a modern way of unifying multi-disciplinary professionals known to or working with a child in order to develop interventions…

How Ghana’s Integrated Social Services (ISS) provide comprehensive assistance to child survivors of sexual violence by Young Joo Lee, Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF Ghana Thirteen-year-old Efua* went to live with…

by Pilar O. Bonilla, MSW, and Elana Metz, MSW/MPH Not unlike other countries, the United States is experiencing a cost-of-living crisis with the price of higher education steadily rising along…

by Beth Bradford, Senior Associate, Maestral International and Marie Blum, Program Manager of Influence, Learning and Communications, Changing the Way We Care. In June 2023, Chisinau, Moldova played host to…

Written by Wossen Aman, Tesfaye Deksisa and Wendwesen Endale from the Mekdim Ethiopia National Association (MENA) Tarikwa Tibebe, a 17-year-old girl living in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was diagnosed with HIV…

Written by Dr Poppy Masinga, President of the Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions (ASASWEI) South Africa continues to experience unprecedented weather patterns that place members of society…

From 30th June to 7th July, Alliance director, Hugh Salmon, was privileged to be able to join other national and international colleagues in London in supporting a side event, titled…

Submitted by: Michael Byamukama Ntanda and John Mary Ssekate, National Association of Social Workers of Uganda (NASWU) From May 8th to May 15th, a team of 26 Israeli social work…

Submitted by: Michael Byamukama Ntanda and John Mary Ssekate, National Association of Social Workers of Uganda (NASWU). Over the last two decades, demand for higher education in East Africa…

by Rebecca Smith, Head of Child Protection Programmes, Save the Children International In honour of World Mental Health Day on the 10th of October, I attended a Global Ministerial Mental…

by Tomoo Okubo, Social Protection Specialist, UNICEF and Aniruddha Kulkarni, Global Technical Lead, Child Protection Systems, UNICEF (originally developed as a discussion paper by UNICEF and Global Social Service Workforce…

By Rory Truell, IFSW Secretary-General Elina showed me how they seal the plastic bags. Just before placing the open ends in the heat machine, she places a small piece of…