International Association of Schools of Social Work
President's Report ( July to December 2019)
ForKuala Lumpur Board Meeting- January 2020
Dear Colleagues,New Year Greetings!!
It’s a pleasure for me to present my seventh President report for the period of June
December, 2019.
As discussed, and approved by the Board in Nairobi- January 2017, IASSW will have 3
meetings in 2 years. For this reason, there was NO board meeting in June/July 2019 but
Treasurer, Secretary, Chairs of the committees and myself have sent reports for the period
January-June, to Rashmi Pandey
Rashmi circulated all reports to Board Members that have received and accepted themvirtually.
We will review and accept Tokyo Board Meeting minutes during Kuala Lumpur Board
Meeting in January 2020.
The last six months were marked by several significant activities of IASSW. The committee
Chairs will be submitting their reports but I will include some in my report as well.
Tripartite Committee
As always working with IFSW was difficult initially but everything is streamlined afterSilvana Martinez became President of IFSW.
I am putting some important points between IA, IC and IF as follows: IASSW, ICSW and IFSW had meetings on February 4-5, 2019 in London. The meetings
had various items in the agenda: The Global Agenda, 2022 conference and futurecooperation among three organizations. President and Secretary attended also the ISWJ
owners meeting with SAGE in London.
 After this meeting an important survey was circulated between the Board members toevaluate different propositions presented by IFSW for the organization of the 2022
conference. The same survey was circulated in ICSW. The results of both theconsultations were discussed in a skype meeting between the three Presidents and anagreement was reached and the statement published on our media. This has been agreat result obtained thanks to the loyal and strong cooperation between the threePresidents.
 IASSW and IFSW used also the opportunity to be together, to meet Vassilios Iokaimidis
and discuss the about the education committee and the task force on reviewing theglobal standards. It has been an important occasion to clarify the respective roles and todevelop a positive cooperation in this sector.
 In May we have had a discussion on how to prepare the bid for the 2022. There was anagreement in changing some previous requirement and add some new. The bid has

been publicized in all the media and website of three organizations. The last date toreceive the bid was 1st September, 2019.
We have had a skype meeting the 24th of June and we agreed to have as a coordinator
for the organization of the 2022 conference Vishanthie Sewpaul.
During the meeting was also discussed which important aspects can be on the new
Tripartite Agreement document. This is still pending.
Vishanthie Sewpaul with the help of Rashmi Pandey organized a Skype meeting
between IA, IC, IF President and other representatives and discussed all the bids
thoroughly on October 7, 2019. All agreed to have 2022 conference in Panama.

Global Agenda Committee
I am glad to inform you all that Abye Tasse will be coordinator for 2020/2030 GlobalAgenda. Angie and Antoinette representative of the group. We are thankful to all three ofthem and look forward to fruitful contribution in future.
We agreed on creating a common flyer between the three organisations to launch aconsultation on the future Global Agenda. The flyer containing proposal from IASSW-ICSWand IFSW has been published with the premises of David Jones and Abye Tasse., on ourwebsite and social media.

World Social Work Day 2020
IASSW has shared information with IASSW members to participate in the poster making for
WSWD 2020 that this year will be on Tuesday, March 17, 2020
A. WSWD 2020 in Geneva
World Social Work Day will be held on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at Centre internationalde conférences de Genève (CICG). The event is open to the public, with registration startingin early 2020. For further information, visit the HETS-Geneva website.
B. WSWD 2020 in UN NY
World Social Work Day will be held on day to defined.
Website Committee
We had several skype meetings and in person meetings with Deorukhkar- IASSW website
manager, who is working on revamp of website. We are thankful to Susan Cadel who ischairing the committee although she has completed her term at IASSW board.
Task force on Global Standard
The task force is working in preparing a draft of the document that will be circulated in thenext months for comments and suggestions.
The final version will be presented in the Rimini and Calgary conferences to be held in2020.

IASSW Financial Management
A new firm has been contracted to manage our accounts and a new bank has been chosen,
this will allow to spare a huge amount of money. Tiong will be including details in hisreport.
A call for a person that can help on public communication and marketing has beenlaunched. The person will be selected for a temporary contract in the board meeting in
Kuala Lumpur in January.
I would like to highlight the participation to different conferences during these months.
July
University Saint Joseph Beirut Lebanon
I have been invited as a keynote speaker andparticipated at the 8th international
conference de L'AIFRIS "Sociétés plurielles,
travail social et vivre ensemble" at the Ecolelibanaise de formation Sociale - University
Saint Joseph Beirut Lebanon. It was animportant occasion to present IASSW,
Census initiative and invite participants fromthe French speaking countries to the Rimini
conference.

JulyICSD Conference
The International Consortium for Social
Development’s 21st Biennial International
Conference, which first began in 1980, was held atUniversitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The International Conference was themedon Strengthening Social Development to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs).
I was invited as a Keynote speaker to present “The contribution of social work education tothe sustainable developments goals”. Tiong was also attended and presented in theconference.
It has been an important occasion to strengthen the links with the ICSD and enhance ourcooperation.

August- South Africa
ASASWEI Conference-2019
The Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions (ASASWEI),
Conference 2019 on Promoting healthy human relationship during 27-29 August, 2019held in Cape Town , South Africa.
I was an invited keynote speaker. I met several of present and past board members ofIASSW.
I am thankful to John Rautenbach for arranging all the meetings during my stay in SouthAfrica. I met several head of departments of various Universities, promoted IASSW,
advertise Rimini 2020 conference and took lectures for students.

It will be difficult to include all the meetings I’ve had in the different universities in thisreport, but everything has been posted on IASSW Facebook and Twitter pages.
September: India ( Mumbai and Bangalore)
In the month of September, I was in India. On 16th September, I was in Tata Institute ofSocial Science and took a public lecture, participated in roundtable consultation, met TISS
director, colleagues, SSW dean. I also met Vimla Nadkarni, Immediate Past President andRashmi Pandey, Executive Officer. I am thankful to Shajahan to organize all this.

We also had a meeting with Preshit Deorukhkar- IASSW website manager, who is working
on revamp of website. This meeting was attended by me, Shajanan, Vimla, Rashmi andPreshit. Preshit showed the work done and we gave some of our comments to work onfurther.

September : Asian Pacific Association for Social Work Education (APASWE) 2019
Conference
I participated in different activities during this conference, comprise the workshop wherewe presented the process for the new Global Agenda. Also, Zulkarnain A Hatta andShajahan were speakers. I had the opportunity to meet several head of departments ofvarious Universities, students and colleagues promoting IASSW, advertising Rimini 2020
conference.

I formally launched the Pacific Social Work book at the Asia Pacific Social Work Conferencein India.
I unveiled the book to the world after brief presentation of Social Work Regional Resource
Centre of Oceania. This is the second RRC supported by IASSW.

October : Brasilia and Denver, USA
University of Brasilia
I have been invited by the University of Brasilia for one week to develop a partnership withthe Milano Bicocca University. During my stay I met the dean of the social Workdepartment Prof.Valdenizia Bento Peixoto; Esther Luíza de Souza Lemos profesora de la
Universidade Estadual do Oestedo Paranà President of ABEPSS-Associação Brasileira deEnsino e Pesquisa em Serviço Social and Tânia Maria Ramos Godoi Diniz, professor atUniversidade Federal de São Paulo and secretary of the CFESS-Conselho Federal de Serviço
Social. It was an important occasion to discuss about the critical situation that Brazil isliving with the new government and the importance for the Brazilian schools to participate
in IASSW. I also gave a lecture on Social work in the world at the seminar on "Social work:training and organization of the professional category in the Brazilian and International
context" organised by Brasilia University with the participation of representatives of CFESS/ CRESS and ABEP about International social work.
October: CSWE- APM 2019
I have been awarded for Hokenstad International Lecture-2019 and my lecture topic was
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION: Building Capacity and Representing Social Work
Education Globally.

IASSW had a booth at CSWE-APM and it was managed by Lynne Healy , Tiong Tan, Barbara
Shank, and myself. The booth had all the posters prepared during Dublin conference-2018.
I had collected it from Rashmi during Mumbai visit and took them to the USA.
Together with Barbara we run a workshop on the future of the Global Agenda.
I met several faculty and colleagues, students and promoted IASSW, advertise Rimini 2020
conference.

November- China
IASSW Regional Resource Centre- PKU-HKPolyU China Social Work Research Centre, China
Women’s University, China Association of Social Work Education organized Capacity Building on
Social Work Education –Curriculum Development on November 10-12, 2019. I was invited forfiving opening speech at the conference and different presentations at the capacity building
workshop . Along with me Angie Yuen-Past President, Lena Dominelli-Past President and othercolleagues from IASSW participated in that.

I look forward for your feedback on my report and fruitful board meeting in January, 2020.
Respectfully submittedProf. Annamaria CampaniniPresident, International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW)