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Govender, Badroonesa. "The development of guidelines for social workers involved in early childhood development within the Department of Social Development." University of the Western Cape, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4972.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD<br>Social workers employed by the Department of Social Development in South Africa are tasked with the provision of a broad spectrum of social services and may specialise in fields, such as welfare planning, which involves the capacity building, support and monitoring of welfare organisations. Early childhood development services fall in this category, as these services are monitored by social workers. Social workers employed by the Department of Social Development are the only group tasked with the mandate to capacitate, register partial care facilities and programme

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Mtshali, Rosemary Makhosazane. "Evaluation of employee performance management development systems policy as implemented amongst social service professionals within department of Social Development." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1358.

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Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of Master of Arts in the Department of Social Work in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2013.<br>The study investigates the implementation process of the Employee performance management development systems policy within the Department of Social Development, attitude of staff and policy makers towards whether or not it is achieving its goals, the strengths and constraints in its implementation as a way to improve it. This study is conducted with an aim of coming up with solution to the problem or to identify drawbacks

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Rakgoale, Eva Kgomotso. "Improving the performance management and development systems in the Department of Health and Social Development Limpopo Province." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/768.

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Thesis (MPA) --University of Limpopo, 2011<br>The proposed study intends to establish how procedural the reward system is being implemented in the Limpopo Department of Health and Social Development and whether claims of bias are founded. The study is intended to determine the system’s influence on the organization’s ability to track poor performance and manage it. Also providing a refreshed view of the current pitfalls in the implementation of the program therefore providing indications of remedial action to recover the purpose of the PMDS. To assess the impact of Performance Management

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Baloyi, Thembhani. "Experiences of social work supervisors on supervising inexperienced social workers in the Department of Social Development Malamulele Area Office." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2383.

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Thesis (M. A. (Social Work)) -- University of Limpopo, 2017<br>Social Work supervisors experience a lot of challenges when supervising inexperienced social workers. The overall aim of the study was to explore and describe experiences of social work supervisors in supervising inexperienced social workers in the Department of Social Development Malamulele Area Office. The study objectives were to identify supervisors’ training needs that enable them to manage inexperienced social workers; to appraise how supervisors manage poor confidence among inexperienced social workers; to assess how superv

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Tabane, Sinah Mamiki. "The experiences of employees regarding workplace violence in the National Department of Social Development." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62659.

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Workplace violence is a phenomenon which is growing and it has the potential to affect individual performance and organizational productivity. The aim of the study was to explore the experiences of employees regarding workplace violence in the National Department of Social Development. The researcher was motivated to choose this subject as a result of her observation working as Employee Health and Wellness Manager in the same Department whereby there were cases reported were related to workplace violence such as poor working relationships, conflict , work related stress and high level of menta

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Rantjie, Khuselwa. "Corporate identity and identification: the case of the Eastern Cape Department of Social Development." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/8638.

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One of the key recommendations of the Communication Task Team Report which analysed the communication programme of government post 1994 was that of the introduction of a single corporate identity programme for government. It is against this background that various South African government departments (national and provincial) including the Eastern Cape Department of Social Development introduced their corporate identity programmes. Based on the Rotterdam Organisation Identification Test (ROIT) (van Riel et al., 1994), the paper analyses the levels to which employees identify with the corporate

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Veveza, Nonkosazana Sandra. "A poverty alleviation project of the Department of Social Development in Nelson Mandela Bay." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020401.

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Income-generating projects represent one strategy adopted by the Eastern Cape Department of Social Development (DoSD) to alleviate poverty. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of an income-generating, or poverty alleviation, project funded by the DoSD in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. A sample of ten respondents was drawn from the project. The sampling method of this study was purposive sampling. Data was gathered through semi-structured questionnaires. Related literature focusing on income-generating projects for poverty alleviatio

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Chavalala, Khayizeni Isaac. "Perspectives of social workers in implementing the developmental social welfare approach in the Department of Social Development in Mopani District Limpopo." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60427.

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In 1997 the democratic government of South Africa adopted the White Paper for Social Welfare (Republic of South Africa [RSA], 1997) which committed the country to a developmental approach to social welfare. The implementation of the developmental approach to social services is a shared responsibility of the state, non-governmental organisations and the private sector (Patel, 2015:93). Despite the ongoing studies relating to developmental social welfare service delivery, there is insufficient evidence of the shift made towards a developmental approach by government social workers employed by th

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Jönsson, Maria. "If the choice was mine, what would I want? Continued management development within Social Services." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24503.

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Svenskt abstract: Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka och belysa vad enhetschefer på en socialförvaltning efterfrågar för kompetensutveckling avseende sin personal, samt deras förhållningssätt gentemot kompetensutvecklingars innehåll och utförare. Jag vill med denna uppsats belysa enhetschefernas attityder till, och kunskap om, olika typer av kompetensutveckling för sin personal. Detta görs med hjälp av intervjuer med enhetschefer och förklaras utifrån organisationsteori med inriktning på ett instrumentellt perspektiv. Resultat i denna uppsats visar att det enhetscheferna efterfrågar är be

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Dlangamandla, Vathiswa Portia. "The experiences of social workers regarding the implementation of a developmental social welfare approach within the Department of Social Development Gauteng Province." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27338.

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In South Africa, commitment to switch to the developmental approach with the aim of alleviating poverty and integrating social and economic development is evident in the White Paper for Social Welfare (RSA, Ministry for Social Welfare and Population Development, 1997), the Reconstruction and Development Programme (1994), the Growth Employment and Redistribution strategy (1996), the Policy on Financial Awards to Service Providers (2005) and the Integrated Service Delivery Model (ISDM) (2005). These policy documents attempt to integrate social development goals and economic development within a

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Makas, Siphiwo Seymour. "Perspectives on the implementation of the performance management and development system in the department of social development in Eastern Cape." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_2856_1367480540.

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<p>This research report, explores the challenges contributing to a non-effective implementation of performance and development management system at the Department of Social Development in Eastern Cape. My argument is that although the system has been fully implemented throughout the province and in all the layers of the department, there are still challenges that contribute to its ineffective implementation of this system. This research report debates a range of issues such as: challenges that revolve around the lack of proper&nbsp<br>knowledge and training in staff, non-alignment of performan

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Manthosi, Frans Lesetja. "Evaluation of social work supervision on job performance in the department of social development, Polokwane Sub-District : implications for practice." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1762.

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Thesis (M.A. (Social Work)) --University of Limpopo, 2016<br>The overall aim of the study was to evaluate how Social Work Supervision affects job performance in the Department of Social Development, Polokwane Sub-District. The objectives of the study were to explore how supervision is rendered in the Department of Social Development in the Polokwane sub-district; to investigate the impact of supervision on Social Workers’ job performance and to make recommendations from the findings to the Department of Social Development in the Polokwane sub-district regarding how supervision can be imp

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Case, Jennifer M., Hilton Heydenrych, Linda Kotta, Delia Marshall, Sioux McKenna, and Kevin Willliams. "From contradictions to complementarities: a social realist analysis of the evolution of academic development within a department." Routledge, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66752.

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Publisher version<br>Academic development is a recent project in the university, intended to enable the university to respond to the needs of a more diverse student body. In South Africa, such work arose during late apartheid, and has now moved to a more central institutional position advocating responsiveness in the light of the educational disparities that are the legacy of apartheid. The present study uses a social realist perspective to analyse the 25-year evolution of an academic development project within an engineering department at a South African university. The findings show that whi

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Ngqungqu, Siphokazi. "An evaluation of management information systems in the Department of Social Development, province of the Eastern Cape." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020889.

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The alignment of information systems with organisational objectives and strategies is crucial to the efficient performance of any organisation. There is a growing focus on the effectiveness of management and evidence-based decision making in public institutions in South Africa. The Eastern Cape Department of Social Development and Special Programmes (ECDSD) implemented a Social Development Information Management System (SDIMS), which is an information system that supports various functions performed by the Department. While SDMIS provides large amounts of valuable information, it still has muc

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Makena, Ntombozuko Lecardia Zukie. "An exploration into the experiences and challenges of emerging organizations with regards to the financing of their services by the department of Social Development in the Western Cape." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11604.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-85).<br>The primary purpose of this study is to explore the experiences and challenges of emerging organizations with regards to the financing of their services by the Department of Social Development in the Western Cape. This dissertation also provides the reader with an overview account of the research design as well as the research techniques, which were utilized in the fieldwork to gather information. The study is mainly qualitative and exploratory in nature. Interviews were held with the Directors of the non-profit organizations.

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Dliwayo, Mziwodumo Archibald. "A survey of youth development projects in the Department of Social Development in the province of the Eastern Cape: a management perspective." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/4429.

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The objective of this research is to establish how non-adherence of Amathole District development projects to the Department of Social Development’s Community Development Systems and Operational Manual has contributed to failure of these projects. The background to this research lies in the deliberate policy efforts of the post 1994 democratic dispensation in South Africa to drive development through community-based development approaches. Explicitly pro-poor public policies, development plans and fiscal frameworks were anchored on the concept of community empowerment. The Reconstruction and D

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Mnyanda, Yoliswa Ntuku. "Managing HIV and AIDS stigma in the workplace : case study of the Eastern Cape Department of Social Development /." Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/99.

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Vorster, Jo-Anne. "A social realist analysis of collaborative curriculum development processes in an academic department at a South African university." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004314.

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This study reports on a social-realist analysis of collaborative curriculum development in a journalism and media studies (JMS) department at a South African university. Archer's social-realist meta-theoretical framework is used to theorise about mechanisms that influence collaborative curriculum development within the context of the JMS Department. The thesis examines the cultural, structural and agential conditions that influenced the process of developing a JMS curriculum that aimed to integrate theory and practice. Bernstein's theories of knowledge recontextualisation and disciplinary know

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Diamond, Dieketseng Harry. "HIV and AIDS Practice Needs of Peer Educators in the Department of Social Development in the Free State." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46169.

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The Cognitive theory was utilised in an attempt to understand the HIV and AIDS practice needs of peer educators in the Department of Social Development in the Free State province. The absence of guidelines affects the utilisation of peer educators and thus leads to the under-utilisation of programmes. The practice needs were therefore identified and recommendations were submitted with a view to address existing gaps Applied research was utilised as findings were used to make suggestions on the development of practice guidelines for programmes used by peer educators. As the researcher was inte

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Masemola, Matlale Johannah. "The impact of financial problems on productivity of employees of the department of Social Services, Population and Development, Ermelo district." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08172004-124726.

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Mokomane, Kgonthe Melisa. "The significance of transformational leadership in pursuing gender parity in the Department of Social Development, Sekhukhune District in Limpopo Province." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2525.

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Thesis (MBA.) --University of Limpopo, 2017<br>This study drew attention to the influential role the transformational leadership constructs can play in increasing women representation in decision making structures of the Department of Social Development (DSD). The DSD’s Sekhukhune District in Limpopo Province was used as an area of study. The aim of the study was to investigate the significance of transformational leadership in pursuing gender parity in the DSD’s Sekhukhune District. The study followed an exploratory research design and implemented a qualitative methodology. A total of 1

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Tjale, Malose Moses. "The impact of local economic development projects funded by the Department of Health and Social Development on poverty alleviation in Bakenberg area of Mogalakwena Municipality, Limpopo Province." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop campus), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/625.

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Thesis (M.Dev.) --University of Limpopo, 2011<br>The study investigates the impact of LED projects funded by the DHSD on poverty alleviation in the Bakenberg area of the Mogalakwena Municipality. The DHSD established more than ten different types of projects in the area to alleviate poverty in the local area. The Bakenberg area is part of the Mogalakwena Municipality and is characterized by high poverty rate and unemployment. It is also regarded as one of the rural areas of the Municipality. The study used a case study methodology and a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research designs

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Maswana, Gcobani. "Assessing the effect of Public Participation and development communications on service delivery: the case of the department of Social Development in the Eastern Cape (2004-2010)." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1006979.

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Public Participation is a critical facet of development communication. The Republic of South Africa (RSA) Constitution 1996 promotes a set of values of good governance setting a framework for the public participation, and democratization of the public sector through instruments such as developmental communication in order to impact better service delivery. Public participation is an effective communication platform of a new democratic South Africa, as such, public participation forms part of the Constitution of the RSA Act (108 of 1996). To necessitate good governance, it is very imperative th

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Petrus, Henry George. "An investigation into causes of success and failure in small businesses within the Department of Social Development in the Eastern Cape." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003942.

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The failure rate of small business initiatives in South Africa is phenomenal, and much is needed to unravel the causes contributing to such failures. Yet small businesses are playing a vital part in our global economy and in particular in terms of job creation and poverty eradication. There are internal as well as external factors that play a significant role in determining the success of these small businesses. In South Africa much emphasis is placed by national, provincial and local governments on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to drive wealth creation and black economic empowerment. Th

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O'Connor, Christopher Joseph. "A review of the developmental vision and work of the City of Cape Town's Community Development Department (February 1997 to December 2000) and its successor the Department of Community Services (January 2001 to June 2003) which was aimed at transforming socially dysfunctional communities such as Manenberg." University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&amp.

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This study considered the work of the Department of Community Development in the City of Cape Town, through the manner in which it implemented its developmental vision, its institutional consequences and the obstacles to its realisation.

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Lo, Ka Pou. "Effects of a signing intervention on language and social development : a case study conducted in Macao." Thesis, University of Macau, 2010. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2456363.

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Motshedi, Tshepiso Sinah. "The intake procedures of child sexual abuse cases at Mafikeng Service Point of the Department of Health and Social Development / Motshedi T." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/7289.

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Due to the legal obligation to report actual or suspected cases of child sexual abuse and neglect, parents, concerned community members and friends, as well as various professionals like teachers, doctors and psychologists, refer children on a daily basis to social workers in order to initiate an investigation of the allegations. The intake interview is therefore a critical step in the process of child protection and care. In the context of this study, intake interview refers to the initial contact between the social worker and the child in the case of child sexual abuse, where a social worker

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Filita, Unathi Samora. "Exploring the challenges of income generating projects funded by the Department of Social Development at Kwa-Nobuhle, Uitenhage, in the Eastern Cape." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020323.

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Income generating projects represent one strategy adopted by the Department of Social Development to alleviate poverty. The purpose of this study is to explore challenges of an income generating project funded by the Department of Social Development in Kwa-Nobuhle, Uitenhage of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa., A sample of thirty respondents was drawn from ten income generating projects funded by the Department of Social Development. The sampling method of this study was purposive sampling. Data was gathered through semi-structured questionnaires. Related literature has been reviewed

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Khatle, Tryphina Zanele. "Skills development for the social reintegration of offenders : a case-study of Johannesburg management area / Tryphina Zanele Khatle." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/10285.

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The Department of Correctional Services (Johannesburg Management Area) is established in the South of Johannesburg in Gauteng Province. It was founded in 1982. According to the Annual Report of the Department of Correctional Services 2009, the institution was initially developed to house 2630 offenders. Presently it accommodates 10130 offenders. These offenders are dependent on the number of facilities and officials for rehabilitation purpose. The discrepancy in the number of officials to that of offenders is a challenge within the Department of Correctional Services with regard to skills deve

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Mpambani, Lukhanyo. "An evaluation of the child support grant policy as administered by the Western Cape provincial Department of Social Development in its Gugulethu office." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1673.

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Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of Technology: Public Management in the Faculty of Business at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology<br>This research study sought to find out about the efficacy of the Child Support Grant Policy [CSGP] to the intended beneficiaries – namely, children at the Gugulethu Office in the Provincial Government of the Western Cape (PGWC). An attempt was made to establish whether there is any correlation between the administration of the CSG and poverty alleviation, which the latter seeks to address to a cer

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Mpinda, Siyavuya. "Grassroots participation in policy processes and service delivery: A case study of the Western Cape provincial department of social services." University of the Western Cape, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7864.

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Masters in Public Administration - MPA<br>Grassroots participation in the domain of public policy is assuming global significance particularly in the fields of welfare and development. Revived by the United Nations' resolution in the 1970s, many governments both in developed and underdeveloped countries have endorsed the grassroots participation ideals as contained in the United Nations' policy statements and resolutions. Accordingly, many governments have declared their support for grassroots participation and in number of cases, grassroots participation has featured conspicuously in their na

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Thacker, Emma Sowards. "Smooth Sailing Through Stormy Seas? High School Social Studies Teachers Navigating Their Informal Professional Learning." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/edsc_etds/1.

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The present study used Nardi and O’Day’s (1999) information ecology theory, along with activity theory (Wertsch, 1998), social learning theory (Wenger, 1998), and situated learning theory (Lave, 2009; Lave & Wenger, 1991) to examine the informal professional learning of a high school social studies department. Existing literature is just beginning to attend to the potential of informal professional learning, so this exploratory study used a single-case study of a high school social studies department made up of 12 teachers. Data included observations of scheduled and spontaneous collaborative

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Zibengwa, Enock. "The perceptions of social auxiliary workers in their role and competencies in addressing biopsychosocial needs of children living with HIV at drop-in-centres." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60445.

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South Africa bears the largest burden of children living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, with 450 000 of the continent's over 3 million children living with HIV estimated to be in the country (UNAIDS, 2013:87). Children living with HIV have various intrinsic biopsychosocial needs, and the meeting of these needs within drop-in-centres is primarily the responsibility of Social Auxiliary Workers, a ?frontline? category of social welfare workforce whose roles are viewed as critical in enabling the identification and facilitation of provision of health and other services. The study was informed by

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Maqubela, Nolufefe T. "The administration of social welfare in South Africa: a study of its origins, development and rationalisation." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 1997. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&amp.

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Xalisa, Qaqamba Yvonne. "An evaluation of the Masupa-Tsela Youth Pioneers Program implemented by the Eastern Cape Department of Social Development and Special Programs within Mhlontlo Local Municipality." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86608.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since the advent of democracy in South Africa, the government has prioritized youth development in the country. The strides made by government include setting up institutional arrangements, developing policies and implementing programmes targeting young people in the country. However, despite the efforts made to develop young people, the youth transition to adulthood is still extremely difficult, more especially for unemployed black females who reside in rural areas. Youth unemployment is the biggest problem affecting the

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Committee, Local RDP. "Application for RDP funds in terms of the “extension of municipal services presidential lead programme’’ as programme managed by the Department of Constitutional Affairs." Department of Constitutional Affairs, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66131.

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The majority of the residents of Khutsong are employed at mines in the area south of Carletonville (stretching form East Driefontein in the east to Deelkraal in the west), as well as in Carletonville itself. The large majority of these people are dependant on public transport for commuting to work, for undertaking trips for shopping purposes and for going to school. The condition of the road network in Khutsong is of such a nature that large areas are totally inaccessible to public transport (especially in the rainy season) resulting in a situation where large numbers of people have to walk un

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Thorogood, Camilla Renée. "Food provision challenges facing early childhood development centres in two Cape Town townships." University of Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8238.

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Magister Philosophiae (Land and Agrarian Studies) - MPhil(LAS)<br>Early childhood has been identified as a critical period for providing nutritional intervention, with nutritional adequacy during the first 1000 days having long term implications for human development. South Africa’s policy environment accordingly aims to support the development of all children through providing services supporting care and nutrition of children so that ‘no one is left behind’. However, the reality is that for the economically marginalised who live in poverty, these services are inaccessible and the whereabouts

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Osman, Imraan Idhris. "The sustainability of corporate social responsibility spend by the South African mining industry." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/22816.

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One of the means South Africa has adopted to redress the social ills of the past is corporate social responsibility. This essentially places the onus on the business community within the country to take accountability of the social ills within the country and implement practices within their organizations to address these ills in a structured and sustainable manner. The extent to which and the manner in which this social obligation is discharged within the mining industry which represents one of the larger industries in the country formed the basis of this research.To this extent, secondary ec

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Tshitake, Ramokone Sylvia. "Knowledge and experiences of child care workers regarding care and management of children with special needs in four institutions of the department of social development in Tshwane Metro, South Africa." Thesis, University of Limpopo ( Medunsa Campus ), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/648.

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Barkley, Elethea. "The relationship between emotional intelligence and burnout amongst social workers in the north and south regions of the Western Cape." University of Western Cape, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3932.

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Magister Commercii (Industrial Psychology) - MCom(IPS)<br>The social work profession is strongly client based with workers being involved in complex social situations (Lloyd, King & Chenoweth, 2002). Social workers judgement and decision making are influenced by their emotions and the emotional context of the situation. Thus emotional intelligence is a core skill for every social worker. Morrison (2007) purported that in order to be a good practitioner one had to be able to comprehend and mange one‟s emotions and be completely aware of the power of these emotions. Social work thus requir

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Vieira, Maria Sharlene dos Santos. "Os estágios em um serviço de urgência : o olhar dos gestores." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2013. http://www.repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/1356.

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Emergency services 24 hours non-hospital of the Secretary of State of Alagoas are public institutions that features field training in different training areas. But in the last two years in the studied unit stages are restricted to one sector and an interest in expanding this type of activity has been evidenced for unit managers. Thus, questions arose that culminated in the preparation of this academic work. The research sought to identify aspects that guide the development stage in an emergency service through the speeches of the managers in order to understand what they think and know about t

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Moreno, Carlos G. "An evaluation of the Inland Empire Regional Opportunity Counseling housing mobility program." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1832.

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Alba, Valorie Albertina, and Gloriana Parral. "Youths' perceptions of an independent living program." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2650.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the County of San Bernardino's Independent Living Program's (ILP's) efforts to prepare ILP participants for self-sufficiency. These efforts were evaluated from the perspective of foster youth who are currently participating in an Indepent Living Program. The study utilized quantitative and qualitative research methods to assess the ILP participants' preparedness for independence.

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Haake, Ulrika. "Ledarskapande i akademin : Om prefekters diskursiva identitetsutveckling." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Pedagogiska institutionen, Umeå universitet, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-344.

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Chamodot, Mathilde. "Pour un habitat écoresponsable de qualité et financièrement accessible en Saône-et-Loire." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00967898.

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Ce travail de recherche doctorale interroge l'accessibilité sociale et économique au logement. Il est centré sur une recherche prospective de nouvelles formes et de nouveaux modes de production d'habitat écoresponsable qui privilégient un développement local. La question de l'habitat est centrale dans une société où l'accès de tous à un logement de qualité devient de plus en plus difficile et où le secteur de la construction doit évoluer pour réduire son empreinte écologique. À l'instar de la France, la Saône-et-Loire est confrontée à des enjeux sociaux, économiques, culturels et environnement

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Phungwayo, Msizi. "The perceived impact of the performance management system utilised in the Department of Social Development in enhancing service delivery : a case study of the Johannesburg Metro Region." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/14932.

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The mandate of the Department of Social Development (DSD) is to provide welfare services. These services are targeted at every citizen in South Africa and most importantly the vulnerable and poor people of South Africa. In order to ensure that it fulfills its mandate, the Department of Social Development (DSD) has put in place a Performance Management System which seeks to ensure that the deliverables are achieved effectively and efficiently. It is often argued that services for the poor are sometimes poor services, yet government devotes ample resources to improve these services. Thus the imp

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Makhetha, Maureen Tsebeletso. "A policy-making framework for social assistance in South Africa : the case of the Department of Social Development and the South African Social Security Agency / Maureen Tsebeletso Makhetha." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/15384.

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After coming into government in 1994, the African National Congress (ANC) committed and became a signatory to some of the international, regional and national instruments for human rights and social security such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (Section 27(1) (c)), makes specific provision for the promotion and recognition of human rights such as social and economic rights, provision of health, water, shelter and social security. This includes provision for appropriate social assistance to pe

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Twantwa, Zikho. "Data management in the Gauteng Department of Social Development." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/23693.

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Thesis presented in partial fulfilment for the degree of Master of Management (in the field of Public Sector Monitoring and Evaluation) to the Faculty of Commerce, Law, and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, 2016<br>Data management in the public sector has become a primary driver for decision-making and planning, however, there is a limited research on data management within South African public sectors with the exception of the health sector, which has widely studied the existing data management systems as case studies of health management information systems (HMIS). Using Theory of

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Mohamed, Zaheera. "Perceptions of social development by senior officials in the National Department of Social Development, South Africa." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/10148.

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The primary purpose of this study was to ascertain how senior government officials employed within the Department of Social Development in South Africa perceived the social development approach to social welfare. The study was confined to the national Department of Social Development and nine senior government officials were interviewed, all of them employed in different work streams but related to social development policy development. A semi-structured interview schedule comprising of open-ended questions was utilised to collect information. A deductive thematic analysis was used to an

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Mboniswa, Motlogelwa Bertha. "Perspectives of social workers regarding supervision in the department of Social Development, Johannesburg." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24673.

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Supervision is the process in which the supervisor helps supervisees to use their skills and knowledge to deliver effective services to the clients, thus achieving organisational objectives. For the organisation to render effective and efficient services to their clientele, supervision is necessary to all employees to ensure that they receive the relevant education and support for effective job performance. This study was conducted to explore the perspectives of social workers regarding supervision in the Department of Social Development in Johannesburg. The study was conducted amongst social

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