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Submission Number: 160
Submission ID: 256
Submission UUID: a69b3c89-1ff6-492b-a2ef-5ddf58d389c1
Submission URI: /2023/abstracts
Created: Wed, 07/26/2023 - 15:52
Completed: Wed, 07/26/2023 - 16:00
Changed: Tue, 08/08/2023 - 15:11
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Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English
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Presenters
Mr.
Shabalala
Nkosiyakhe Joseph
Department of Social Development and UKZN
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Nkosiyakhe Shabalala is a social worker in the KZN-DSD Pietermaritzburg Service Office's social services component. He has ten years of higher education experience dealing with services such as child care and protection, elder care, victim empowerment, substance addiction, disability, HIV/AIDS, and crime prevention. He began his career at DSD Durban in 2013, then relocated to the Lamontville Office in 2015 before being transferred to Pietermaritzburg in 2016.He studied at UKZN, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Social Work in 2012 and a Master's degree in Development Studies in 2022. He conducted research on the following topic: Investigation of Foster Care Grants as a Poverty Reduction Strategy.
Nkosiyakhe Shabalala is a social worker in the KZN-DSD Pietermaritzburg Service Office's social services component. He has ten years of higher education experience dealing with services such as child care and protection, elder care, victim empowerment, substance addiction, disability, HIV/AIDS, and crime prevention. He began his career at DSD Durban in 2013, then relocated to the Lamontville Office in 2015 before being transferred to Pietermaritzburg in 2016.He studied at UKZN, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Social Work in 2012 and a Master's degree in Development Studies in 2022. He conducted research on the following topic: Investigation of Foster Care Grants as a Poverty Reduction Strategy.
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Abstract
Title: Sustainable Livelihood Approaches and the foster care grant as preservative approaches :Social Security
THEME 2: Building sustainable, resilient, and self-reliant communities through indigenous modalities, inter-sectoral collaborations, and partnerships
SUB 2.1 Supporting families in mitigating vulnerabilities
Oral Presentation
ABSTRACT
Title: Sustainable Livelihood Approaches and the foster care grant as preservative approaches social security
Foster Care Grants (FCGs) are a poverty alleviation strategy for millions of South Africans and this is also the case in KwaZulu-Natal, Msunduzi Municipality. This qualitative study investigated the role of the FCG on poverty alleviation by interviewing 14 foster parents who had been fostering children for more than five years. The participants' testimonials suggested that the grant helped them realize some of the Sustainable Livelihood Approaches (SLA's) major capital assets and provided beneficiaries with financial resources such as future savings, the ability to budget as well as a reliable monthly income. The researchers Robert Chambers and Gordon Conway developed the sustainable livelihood approach (SLA) in the mid-1980s to examine diverse settings of vulnerability and to improve the effectiveness of development cooperation (Kollmair & Gamper, 2002). The study also highlighted (a) emotional challenges as a result of death of biological parents of the children, (b) fostering child being difficult due to child’s behaviour, (c) the grant application process being too long, and (d) the grant amount being not good enough. It can thus be concluded that FCG play a huge role in poverty alleviation.
Title: Sustainable Livelihood Approaches and the foster care grant as preservative approaches social security
Foster Care Grants (FCGs) are a poverty alleviation strategy for millions of South Africans and this is also the case in KwaZulu-Natal, Msunduzi Municipality. This qualitative study investigated the role of the FCG on poverty alleviation by interviewing 14 foster parents who had been fostering children for more than five years. The participants' testimonials suggested that the grant helped them realize some of the Sustainable Livelihood Approaches (SLA's) major capital assets and provided beneficiaries with financial resources such as future savings, the ability to budget as well as a reliable monthly income. The researchers Robert Chambers and Gordon Conway developed the sustainable livelihood approach (SLA) in the mid-1980s to examine diverse settings of vulnerability and to improve the effectiveness of development cooperation (Kollmair & Gamper, 2002). The study also highlighted (a) emotional challenges as a result of death of biological parents of the children, (b) fostering child being difficult due to child’s behaviour, (c) the grant application process being too long, and (d) the grant amount being not good enough. It can thus be concluded that FCG play a huge role in poverty alleviation.
Reviewer ONE Feedback
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Yes
Empirical Research
Accepted
Reviewer TWO Feedback
Dr
Nkosiyazi
Dube
Yes
Empirical Research
Accepted
