Development, Social Policy and Community Action: Lessons From Below

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Prof Leila Patel is the South African Research Chair in Welfare and Social Development and the Director of the Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA) at the University of Johannesburg. She has published widely on issues of social development in South Africa and internationally. Her research interests include social welfare policy social protection gender care the social services and children and youth. Her work experience spans academia government non-profit organisations and private sector social involvement initiatives. She was the former Director General of Welfare in the Mandela government and played a leading role in the development of South Africas welfare policy after apartheid. Among her mostrecent books are Social Protection in Southern Africa Routledge 2014 (editor with James Midgley and Marianne Ulriksen); and Social Welfare and Social Development Oxford University Press 2015. She received the Distinguished Woman Scientist Award in the Humanities and the Social Sciences in 2014. Dr Marianne S. Ulriksen is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA) University of Johannesburg South Africa. Mariannes research areas include comparative politics political economy of welfare policy development social protection social justice poverty and inequality mineral wealth and resource mobilisation and state-citizens relations. Her research work focus primarily on Southern and Eastern Africa. She has published widely including in top journals like World Development and Comparative Political Studies.