World Social Work Day 2021 UN Geneva

Promoting peaceful and inclusive societies (SDG 16) is integral to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Communities, in their diverse forms, sizes and locations, play a crucial role in the social, economic and political transformations necessary to achieve peaceful, inclusive and healthy societies. Social work and social workers seek to empower individuals, fam-ilies and communities. In particular, they assist vulnerable or discriminated groups and individ-uals to overcome their everyday challenges, ac-cessing services and programmes they are en-titled to, making their voices heard and holding politicians to account. They are not only imple-menters of social policy, but also agents and en-ablers of change in a world that has committed to finding alternatives to business as usual on a new pathway to sustainability for people and planet. Most importantly, they support vulnera-ble groups and contribute to the provision of es-sential services in times of crisis, as the current Covid-19 pandemic has shown. Read more…

Read the Concept-Note-WSWD-2021