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Community development : hope for Uganda
(Unitec ePress, 2018-08-11)In January 2018 I was privileged to visit Uganda, hosted by Tony Ssembatya who is a board member for the International Association for Community Development (IACD). Tony is from Uganda, but currently works for UN Women in ... -
Unfinished business / New Zealand-born dreams / Whakapapa / Some modern poetry from Western Samoa
(Unitec ePress, 2018-08-11)Poetry from Mua Strickson-Pua, an Aotearoa-born Samoan Chinese poet, short story writer, artist, story-teller, comedian, freestyle rapper, social commentator and ordained Presbyterian PIC minister. Aiga Pua from Papa Sataua ... -
Achieving gender equality in diasaster management : a case study of integrating women into community groups in Indonesia
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-13)The recent international commitment to the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) continues to recognise the need for the international development community to focus on achieving gender equality on a ... -
Perceptions of community safety in West Auckland and White fragility
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-13)Unitec and Community Waitakere have recently completed a project supported by the Lottery Community Sector Research fund, looking at the contemporary issues affecting perceptions of safety in West Auckland communities. A ... -
Partnering with educational leaders to advance social work education in Vietnam
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-13)This case study describes the leadership component of the Social Work Education Enhancement Project (SWEEP), an international collaboration designed to strengthen the capacity of Vietnam’s undergraduate social work programmes ... -
Community development in local food solutions
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-13)Food security and food provenance are becoming topical issues in a globalised food market and a climate-insecure world. New forms of accessing food are emerging and forgotten forms being rediscovered, disrupting increasingly ... -
State housing in Aotearoa New Zealand : what future after National?
(Unitec ePress, 2017-12-13)New Zealand’s National-led government (2008 to 2017) made no secret of its plans to downsize the state’s housing stock. This downsizing is being achieved through demolitions, transfers and sales. It all started quietly in ... -
Change and development in Glen Eden, 2017. Report commissioned by Waitakere Ranges Local Board.
(Unitec ePress, 2017-11-13)This report is stage one of a report on change and development issues in Glen Eden. The Waitakere Ranges Local Board commissioned staff of the Social Practice Department of Unitec ... -
Global warming and climate change in India : a social work perspective
(Unitec ePress, 2017-09-11)Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed. (Mahatma Gandhi) India has ratified the Paris agreement in terms of its scope and impact, and it is probably the most far-reaching ... -
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) : a framework for intersectoral collaboration
(Unitec ePress, 2017-09-11)After several years of negotiation and collaboration, the United Nations Goals for Sustainable Development (SDGs) came into effect in January 2016. The 17 goals, which include issues such as ending poverty and hunger, ... -
Stood loyal right through
(Unitec ePress, 2017-09-11)Taken from Johnny Mitchell’s recorded reflections (1974) – 179 pages of transcripts. A friend of Johnny’s, Rev. Dr Bruce Hucker interviewed him. A group of deregistered waterside workers met the costs of tapes and ... -
Carbon trading, oil extraction and ‘different’ forms of community development in Uganda
(Unitec ePress, 2017-09-11)Originally presented at the ACDA–IACD Conference, February 2017. In reflecting upon the work my colleague Dr Kristen Lyons and I have been doing in Uganda for a number of years, there are two case studies that, when ... -
Transnational Samoan chiefs: views of the Faamatai (Chiefly System)
(Centre for Samoan Studies, National University of Samoa, 2017-03-22)Sāmoans make up the largest Pacific population in New Zealand, the United States and Australia. Family networks remain strong between diasporic Sāmoans and their homeland, and through these networks social, political and ... -
Practice report : when life gives you apricots
(Unitec ePress, 2016-11-16)The International Association for Community Development (IACD) practice exchange in India this March gave me a whole new take on the saying “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade”, and a good lesson in the ways of an ... -
Reflections on forty years of community development
(Unitec ePress, 2016-11-16)My involvement in community development in Auckland spans forty years. It began with community work for Manukau City when the state housing suburbs of Ōtara and Māngere were being created. There was little accommodation ... -
Conference update : IACD at the United Nations high level political forum
(Unitec ePress, 2016-11-14)July was an action packed month for the International Association for Community Development (IACD), which hosted its first ever joint conference with the American Community Development Society in Minneapolis St Paul. The ... -
Community development in Aotearoa New Zealand: a historical journey
(Unitec ePress, 2016-10-27)In this article we seek to describe the key periods and influences of community development practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our historical journey gives particular consideration to the specific impacts the government’s ... -
Positive women : a community development response to supporting women and families living with HIV/AIDS in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Unitec ePress, 2016-10-26)This paper reflects on Positive Women’s twenty five years as a successful community development response to supporting women and families living with HIV or AIDS. The paper focuses on the community development philosophical ... -
In the context of mobility, social identity and belonging, where is ‘community’ – and why does it matter?
(Unitec ePress, 2016-05-02)The word ‘community’ is used in many diverse situations. It may be that we move into a geographical community, buy into a product community, are part of a shared interest community, participate in a work or student community, ... -
IACD Practice Exchange India 2016. Conference report
(Unitec ePress, 2016-05-02)Put 18 Community Development specialists on a train together in India and you have much more than a mobile party. You have the international professional development experience of a lifetime. The International Association ...
