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Critics have argued that for social work education and training in Africa to realize relevance, it has to shed its remedial character and assume a developmental outlook. However, what has not been clearly articulated is how to implement the developmental social work approach among the various institutions in the continent. This article suggests benchmarks, or a checklist (or model), to enable institutions to work out the extent to which they may be in the process of implementing this strategy.

Es werden die Ergebnisse einer empirischen Langzeituntersuchung präsentiert, die die Wirkungen des wirtschaftlichen Reformprogrammes (ESAP) auf verschiedene Gruppen von Frauen im informellen Handelssektor in Harare (Simbabwe) zum Gegenstand hatte. Die Autoren zeigen, daß sich die Lebens- und Überlebenbedingungen im informellen Sektor während der Zeit der Strukturanpassung differenziert haben, aber allgemein schwieriger geworden sind: die Einkommen der Frauen haben ab-, die Arbeitszeiten zugenommen. (DÜI-Sbd)

This article reports on a study that examined how fieldwork education in Southern and East Africa was responding to the developmental social work agenda. The study used semi-structured qualitative interviews with key informants from 15 social work programmes in 11 different Southern and East African countries. It investigated whether the social work fieldwork placements on offer provided practical experience of a developmental approach to social work practice. The study showed the creativity and enthusiasm with which social work educators were embracing the goals of developmental social work education, despite the pitfalls and limitations of doing this within fieldwork resource constraints.