Voices of Zimbabwean Orphans ─ A New Vision for Project Management in Southern Africa

The voices of orphans and other vulnerable children and young people and of their carers and the professional development workers are documented and used to both criticise the inadequacies of current social development work and to create a new, alternative theory and practice of project management in Zimbabwe and southern Africa.

Manasa Dzirikure, Ph.D. (2011), is a social development /project leader and systems thinker at the South African Development Community in Botswana. He is an expert in social policy, consensus building, strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, capacity building and grants management on social development for the poor and vulnerable, children and youth. Garth Allen is Adjunct Professor at Durban University of Technology and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa and visiting Professor at the Universidade de Lurio, Mozambique. He is the founder and director of Really Useful Knowledge Consultants and an economist, educationalist and strategic management specialist. He is the author of 11 books and 22 peer reviewed journal articles. One of his most recent books is Tourism in the New South Africa: Social Responsibility and the Tourist Experience (I.B. Tauris).