| dc.description.abstract | In practice all over the world, development practitioners’ concern about poverty has been increasing because of
their long history in working with the marginalized groups amidst inadequate resources and unfavourable
scenarios that push them to poverty situations. At the micro level, development practitioners engage different
strategies to deal with poverty, including poverty risk assessment, programme design, liaison with state agents
and different resource providers to generate innovative ways to help individuals and communities to understand
their wanting situation and improve their livelihoods for the better. This paper seeks to analyze the diverse
collateral strategies engaged by different development practitioners in their efforts to eradicate poverty in Kenya.
The role of the county and national governments, development agencies, civil society and international
organizations and their collaboration with other actors such as the private sector, community based
organizations, faith based organizations and self-help groups are analyzed in this paper. Special emphasis is
placed on how such efforts can complement those of professional social workers for holistic and sustainable
poverty reduction in Kenya. | en_US |
