The Organization and Administration of Social Welfare Services in African Countries

Abstract

This paper is an analysis of information on the organization and administration of social welfare services in countries of Africa. It is based on the replies of governments to a questionnaire sent out by the ECA Secretariat in December, 1961, and on other reliable written, information from the Secretariat files. The organization and administration of Social Welfare Services was one of the- subjects discussed at the first session of the Standing Committee held in Addis Ababa, February, 1962. The discussion laid the groundwork for a meeting of African country experts on the subject in Abidjan in April, 1962. The report of that group in a part of the documentation for the second session of the Standing Committee and for the fifth session of the Commission.