The State of Social Work Education and Practice in Kenya
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...PROSOWO: Promotion of professional social work in East Africa In 2010, a group of social work educators from Austria, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda met in Nairobi in order to brainstorm on a joint project which should be powerful enough to uplift the social work profession in East African countries.3 The outcome of the workshop was a concept for the ‘Promotion of Professional Social Work in East Africa’ under the acronym PROSOWO....
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...In Kenya, formal social work education was introduced in 1962 at diploma level at the Kenya-Israel School of Social Work, and training at degree level was started in 1976 at the University of Nairobi (Wairire, 2014)....
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...Many who are employed as social workers or social work educators do not have a background in the profession (Wairire, 2014)....
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...Kenya is also well-represented in international social work associations by the renowned Kenyan social worker and scholar Gidraph Wairire (2014)....
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...Practice typically remains generic with little specialization options (Wairire, 2014)....
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...Social workers also struggle to work effectively with groups that they fear or do not like, such as Somalis or people with ethnicities different from their own (Wairire, 2014)....
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...However, despite the need for social workers across Kenya, there are not enough fully-fledged social work departments in the country nor are there sufficient trained social workers on the ground (Mungai, Wairire, & Rush, 2014; Wairire, 2014)....
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...These findings correspond with Wairire and Kiboro’s (2014) view that despite the existence of a robust network of poverty reduction strategies, progress towards poverty reduction in Kenya remains dismal especially when measured against international development targets....
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...These reasons correspond to Wairire and Muiruri (2017) analysis of vyama in Kenya....
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...Resources to assist in this effort are available (Csikai & Jones, 2007; Walsh-Burke & Csikai, 2005a; 2005b), and more are needed....
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...There are not enough education programs and not enough trained social workers on the ground (Wairire, 2014)....
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