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International Association of Schools of Social Work
President's Report (January – June 2020)
Dear Colleagues,This is the first report of my second term as President and although there is an improvementin pandemic conditions in some countries, COVID19 continues to circulate and claim a large
number of victims in some parts of the world.
As long as there is no mass vaccination at the global level, there will be no escape from thistragic situation. That is why our association has joined the petition of Dr. Muhammad Yunus,
Nobel Laureate for Peace (2006) to governments and business leaders to Make COVID 19
vaccines a common good. “We call on you to urgently ensure access to lifesaving Covid-19
vaccines, treatments and equipment for everyone in the world. Patents should be lifted,
technological knowledge shared freely and openly, and no profiteering allowed during thispandemic. Governments, scientists and pharmaceutical companies must cooperate andcombine resources to ensure no one is left behind. The pandemic will not be over, until it’sover everywhere. “During the past six months, we have had many activities on line, including our virtual Board
meeting in January. Thank you for your active participation!
World Social Work Day
The 2021 World Social Work Day was organized this year online, at the United Nations sites inNew York, Geneva and Bangkok. A strong participation characterized all these initiatives andthe IASSW presence was guaranteed by the President and other Board members. The
different contributions centered around the main theme: Ubuntu-I’m because we are, chosen
as a first pillar of the Global Agenda 2020/2030. We are now working to involve colleagues
from Nairobi to develop a good connection with this UN Agency.

Figure 1: WSWD 2021 poster

Global Agenda
We are currently determining the next four pillars of the Agenda, with support in the task
force from Abye Tasse (chair) and our representatives Antoinette Lombard and Angelina
Yuen. I think it will be very important to activate at regional and local levels initiatives toincrease the awareness of the topic involving academic, students and practitioners, but also
initiating research on the realization of interventions around this topic. One specific focus of2President Reportthe 2020-2030 agenda could be to measure the impact of the agenda in different area of theworld. To have evidence from IASSW could enhance the visibility of our organization.
Global Standards
We are in the processes to translate Global Standard in different languages and we call forcooperation because this should really reach in original language every country. This is a very
important document that is strictly connected with our mission and every vice-President andBoard member should activate initiatives at regional and local level to discuss it and to bring
IASSW visible also in the activities of capacity building and program consultations.
As of now we have updated Global Standards in English, Italian and Spanish on IASSW
website: https://tinyurl.com/xdfsfdkh
Tripartite Committee
IASSW, ICSW and IFSW have had different meetings and email exchanges during thesemonths on different topics such as the: 2022 and 2024 International Conferences and futurecooperation among the three organizations.
• After the decision to plan an online conference for 2022, there was a request fromIFSW to add new partners on equal basis to the organization of the conference. IASSW
requested information about the new partners (who they are, what will be theirinvolvement and contributions) but very general answers were given by IFSW. We
decided to send an email on 29th of April, with specific proposals. We propose that wedevelop a small committee (one representative from each organization of theTripartite) to identify and engage additional partners. (We could consider calling thisthe Committee on Partnership Development.) Each partner would be asked tocomplete a Memorandum of Agreement that would articulate the following: visibility,conference contents, costs.
No answer until now. ICSW also sent a similar request for additional information.
• The Tripartite Memorandum of Agreement, although approved in our meeting inLondon in January 2020, was refused by the IFSW Executive Committee as they felt it
was not needed.
• We continue to have a supportive and effective working relationship with ICSW with
their new officers.
ISWESD
Together with ICSW we organized the online conference, a substitute of the Rimini
conference, canceled due to the pandemic. It was an important initiative to present important
contributions from different part of the world. During the conference, articulated in threedifferent months (January, March, April), we were able accommodate different key note
speeches, symposiums, workshops, oral contributions and posters.
On the YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOzCD6b1p9WOwaQhCGf3g
you can view the: The Eileen Younghusband Award lecture by Angelina Yuen, “Education For
Hope And Transformation: Reflections On A Journey In Co-Constructing Local Social Work
Education With Implications For International Social Work”; the Keynote speech by WalterLorenz, “Social Workers Practicing Social Rights Against The Erosion Of Social Solidarity –Lessons From The Corona Crisis” ; The Katherine Kendall Memorial Award Lecture by Leila
Patel, “Social Work and Social Development Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Lessons
from the Global South” and the Keynote speech by Sahar Al Makhamreh, “Shaping andReshaping Social Work Education and Research in Bridging Human Relationships andSustainable Development: A Perspective of Middle Eastern Social Work”.

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As the conference was very good quality, as a next step we intend to publish significant
papers, organized under the various Axes along the conference theme: "Remaking Social
Work for the Future". Prof Tan Ngoh Tiong and P.K. Shahjahan, conference co-chairs will
coordinate this activity.
Please visit IASSW website for all information : https://www.iassw-aiets.org/iswed-2021-onlineconference/
A big thank you to Prof Tan Ngoh Tiong and P.K. Shajahan for the organization of theprogram, and also to Agnes Yuen, communications manager for all her work to make theconference possible, and Rashmi Pandey Executive Officer for her support.

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Communication manager position
Agnes Yuen was appointed at February 2020 and she worked in developing communication
strategies, in suggesting student’s involvement in our association and also, she tried to reachsome foundation and presents application to raise funds. She was asked to work on website
together with Rashmi and Preshit but it could not achieve as she got busy with ISWED work
this year. She developed ISWED page on IASSW website.
Her main task has been the organization of the ISWESD conference that took a lot of time andenergies in a very short time. At the end of this period, in April, she asked to finish this parttime job, due to the increasing demand of her full-time activities.
She was very good in communication and I think we have learned that it is impossible to giveto the same person, in a part time job, both the task of fund raising and communication. These
two activities required two different expertise and the fund raising one need to be done bypeople with a specific knowledge and international contact on this field.
So, we would like to have a call for a new person, with a more limited tasks, also if as it wasstated in the two strategic reviews of the past, we should need a full-time person (as the IFSW
secretary general) to be able to cover all the issues that are important in developing an activeand “more assertive” communication and presence to make visible IASSW.
Statement for Palestine
There is ongoing discussion on issuing a statement regarding the Israel - Palestinian situation.
I reminded the Board that in 2015 there was a decision not to respond to the individual
situations but to create a general statement because we are not able to follow all that ishappening in the world as violations of human rights and social justice. Additionally, it can bedifficult to take a position without having significant information from inside. I support ourcurrent position, however reframing our “Message For Peaceful Engagement With Social
Justice, Opposing And Condemning Racism, Discrimination And Violence” and emphasizing
the position that we are committed to work for enhancing and defending human rights, toreinforce any pace keeping process, to support a dialogue between different positions,
towards reciprocal respect, peace, social justice and sustainable development.
As officers we appointed a committee, with Barbara Shank chairing, to review our current
statement. Members of the committee decided to draft a statement specific to Palestine,
revise our current statement and develop a process for drafting and issuing statements in thefuture. The committee is collaborating with Janet Walker, chair of the Human Rights andSocial Justice Committee. The committee with bring the statements and suggestion for aprocess to the Board meeting in June for discussion and approval.
At the end, I would also like to highlight my participation to many different initiatives during
the past six months:

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January
15th/16th January Kick off ISWESD and Board meeting

Figure 3: IASSW Board Meeting

18th Presentation Document on Principles of ethic in social work for Sicilia Regional Councilof Social Work
20th Welcome Bangladesh 3rd Funding Anniversary of Community social work practice andDevelopment Foundation and Community Talks International Newsletter Launching
Ceremony
February
8th Meeting with Sage about international journal
9th Tripartite partnership meeting
18th Welcome for ARIISW conference
19th Presentation Document on Global Standard Liguria Regional Council of Social Work
22nd Meeting with Capacity Building Committee
We met online and discussed progress and updates. Chair of Committee- Dr Darla Spence Coffey
from USA informed upcoming events. IASSW President- Annamaria Campanini welcomes
Members of committee : Ute Straub from Germany, Zulkarnain A. Hatta from Malaysia, Felicia
Tuggle from USA, Vimla Nadkarni from India, Karene Nathaniel-DeCaires from Trinidad andTobago, In Young Han from Republic of Korea, Angie Yuen from Hong Kong, Janestic Twikirize
from Uganda. Few members could not attend due to other meetings were Raymond Kloppenburg
from Netherlands, Kathy Hogarth from Canada and Wassie Kebede from Ethiopia and Kgomotso
Jongman from Botswana IASSW EO- Rashmi Pandey organized the meeting.

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Figure 4: Meeting with Capacity Building Committee

March
9thKey note at conference of Iran “Social work, social observation social solidarity”
gave speech on the "Social work, social observation, social solidarity : a contribution of policy
practice" during the 3rd International conference and 35th National social work day congress on"Social work, social observation, social solidarity" held online on March 9th, 2021

Figure 5: Annamaria Campanini as keynote speaker at conference of Iran “Social work, social observation social solidarity”

11th Arab social work conference- The case of Iraq

Figure 6: Annamaria Campanini as keynote speaker for Arab Social Work Conference7

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16th WSWD for Emilia Romagna Regional Council of Social Work
16th WSWD Forum in ISWESD
16th Welcome for WSWD UNAM- Mexico
16th Conclusion of the WSWD UN/ New York

Figure 7: Annamaria Campanini presented symmary of WSWD NY event held online

17th Welcome to the Silk Road workshop during the ISWED17th Global Agenda workshop ISWESD
17th Global Standards workshop ISWESD
18th Speech at WSWD GinevraApril
19th Presentation Document on Global Standard Lazio Regional Council of Social WorkMay
11th Meeting with ABEPSS (Brazil)
Thanks to the important commitment of Alexandra Mustafà, IASSW member at large, has beenpossible the 11 of May, to meet the new president of ABEPSS -Associação Brasileira de Ensino e
Pesquisa de Serviço Social (Brasilian association of education and research in social work)
Rodrigo José Teixeira and the coordinator of the international relations Ramiro Marcos Dulcich
Piccolo. The meeting was fruitful and opened a new opportunity of cooperation between the twoorganisations

Figure 8: Annamaria Campanini meeting online with Colleagues from ABEPSS (Brazil)

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22th Speech for conference on Women Violence in Azerbaijan
25th Meeting with Christian Breuil to discuss our participation in UNESCO committee
25th Speech on Social work education China between internationalisation and indigenisation
for ISTISS Rome
June 1 - TRABAJO SOCIAL INTERNACIONAL
I was invited to participate in a round table discussion on the role of internationalorganisations, which was held on June 1st in the University of La Rioja Spain. It was attended
by ICSW Executive Director ANTONIO LÓPEZ PELÁEZ- Prof. UNED and BELÉN LORENTE
MOLINA Prof. Universidad de Málaga

Figure 9: At University of La Rioja Spain

To conclude, I feel strongly that we need to discuss our future path, our strategies to commit
ourselves in some specific goals, to be more attractive for schools to increase ourmembership. To achieve these incomes, I think we must develop a more active participationof the Vice Presidents, the members at large and all board members , involve more membersin our committees. I would also like to encourage members who have served IASSW in thepast to contribute to our work. For this reason, as officers, we decided to organize our second
day of the Board meeting for this purpose.
I look forward to your feedback on my report and I hope that next time we can have a face toface meeting
Respectfully submitted

Prof. Annamaria Campanini
President, International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW)