Op 30 september 2009 vond in Maastricht de slotconferentie plaats van het tweejarige onderzoeksproject “Procivi”. De slotconferentie van het Procivi project was georganiseerd teneinde de doelen van RAAK te dissemineren. Procivi is een RAAK project, dat zich richt op de professionalisering van het welzijnswerk. …

Van september 2007 tot september 2009 zijn welzijnswerkers, onderzoekers en studenten uit verschillende instellingen samen bezig geweest om de doelen te realiseren van het Regionaal Innovatieprogramma Maatschappelijke Ondersteuning. Dit is een RAAK-publiek project dat bij de projectaanvang “Procivi” …

Essay based on a Presentation to International Stakeholder Forum, Convened by the Board of Directors of the Fair Labor Association, Washington D.C. June 26, 2009. There is much concern about the current crisis. Indeed the fall in consumption in developed countries is steep, anything between 15 to 25% …

Prospective adoptive parents who take part in a Dutch adoption assessment procedure are asked to write down their life stories. In this article we examine how information from the life stories is deleted, selected and transformed into a topic to talk about in an assessment interview and/or to write about …

Whilst until the late 1980s most migration issues developed in a parallel manner but with national specifics, important differences showed up during the 1990s and at the beginning of this decade. Since the middle of the 1990s, there has been an obvious change in policy towards migrants and foreigners …

Contemporary social work is subjected to ongoing questions in terms of its effectiveness and accountability. It appears to be problematic for social workers to defend themselves in a proper manner. When they do so, they often seem to rely primarily on a rhetoric of good intentions and are thus unable …

This article presents the results of a pilot of a cross-national learning process within the context of social work education. The pilot was carried out in the electronic environment by students from four European universities (Hogeschool Utrecht, Sheffield, Tartu and Vilnius). The analysis of the social …

Tot voor kort was het in Nederland taboe om hulp te verlenen aan mensen die daar niet zelf om gevraagd hadden. Maar sinds is vastgesteld dat outreachend werk bijzondere resultaten kan opleveren voor de cliënt en zijn omgeving, zijn de belangstelling en het enthousiasme voor deze vorm van hulpverlening …

A study was undertaken on the sunflower value chain in Lira district of Uganda. The objective of the study was twofold: First to catalogue innovations that have been developed or introduced in the value chain over a 10 year trajectory (1998-2007). The second objective was to map the knowledge management …

Small scale producers face many opportunities and also huge challenges in today’s markets. Market liberalization since the 1980s has cut back the support services provided by the state and forced producer to face the risks of often weak and volatile markets. Further more those who are able to access …