Latin America and Caribbean Region

MARTÍNEZ, SILVANA NOEMÍ Y AGUERO, JUAN OMAR

Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development: Second Report: Promoting the Dignity and Worth of Peoples

International Federation of Social Work

Lugar: Berna; Año: 2016; p. 101 - 136

To make this report were selected professional experiences and practices of Social Work, about the promotion of the dignity and worth of persons, as defined in the Global Agenda. We use a qualitative methodology and a guide of questions with open answers. It includes the following dimensions: a) social problem on professionals involved; b) linking professional practices promotion of dignity and worth of persons / peoples; c) organizations involved; d) place occupied by the subjects in the intervention process; e) methods, techniques and procedures used; f) frameworks in which professional practices and g) results of professional practice are partThe professional practice aimed at promoting the worth and dignity are distinguished by the centrality of the subject in professional intervention in the intervention process: the subjects (people) who work with social workers, play a leading role in the process of professional intervention. the foundation for the professional approach is the concept of man as a "subject of law", starting from their human and cultural diversity, taking as a basis the historical, cultural and political contexts in which these individuals build networks of social relationsThis defines a horizon of professional practice where the construction of subjectivity is prioritized, the autonomy of the subjects and their active participation in the process of empowerment. This view is opposed to aid or clientelism, these practices where replaces delivering things and neglects the centrality of subjects.Think of social subjects as major players in the process of professional intervention is a concept based on the paradigm of rightsThe presentation of this selection of good professional practices implies a major challenge for our region: how to continue to promote the professional social work on the path of social commitment and from a human rights perspective, situated in specific historical contexts in which people live and survive daily?The answer to this question can only occur in so far that our region continues to work steadily and expanding the number of countries who join the Federation; Latin American and Caribbean Social Work still has much to say in international contexts and have assumed that our active participation is essential to achieve the necessary changes in the FederationThe Global Agenda and the achievement of to have concluded this first work of our Observatory mark a path of possible impact of social workers to mechanisms that decide and discuss social and economic policies, and show the contributions that social workers in our region constantly they are doing to promote the dignity and worth of persons