Witness Chikoko
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Witness Chikoko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Witness |
| FAMILY NAME | Chikoko |
| SIGNATURE | CHIKOKO W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zimbabwe |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9459-3972 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Socio-economic circumstances of children with disabilities in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic in Rujeko High Density, Masvingo, Zimbabwe
This study investigates the socio-economic challenges encountered by children with disabilities in Rujeko High-Density suburb, Masvingo, Zimbabwe, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a qualitative approach guided by the social model of disability, the research aimed to examine how the pandemic affected access to education, analyse the economic challenges faced by families, and assess changes in social support networks. We employed an illustrative…
The role of social protection in the informal sector in Zimbabwe during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study examines the role of social protection systems in Zimbabwe’s informal sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. It fills a critical research gap by providing an in-depth examination of the effectiveness and limitations of social protection measures in the informal sector, an area that has received limited attention in existing literature. The research aims to evaluate whether the existing social protection measures provided adequate support…
Resilience Strategies of Street Children of Harare Central Business District, Zimbabwe, in the Face of Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic
The article interrogates the resilience of street children of Harare Central Business District in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The resilience theory was adopted to understand and interpret how these children managed to cope with the debilitating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to have a deeper understanding of the resilience of the street children of the Harare Central Business District in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, a qua…
The Food Aid Programmes in Zimbabwe from the Year 2005 to 2020
The article interrogates food aid governance in Zimbabwe by focusing on the achievements, challenges and opportunities encountered during the periods 2005 and 2020. The study is anchored from a point of departure that food aid has been and is still being utilised to ameliorate food insecurity particularly in food security–vulnerable regions of the world. The study deployed a qualitative documentary analysis in which evaluation of secondary data g…
Determinants of private practice in social work
In developing countries like Zimbabwe, the issue of private practice in social work is at a formative stage. This paper explored the opinion of social workers regarding the issue of private practice in social work in the country. Using quantitative research design, data was collected from randomly sampled social workers (n = 462) from various fields of practices. The study findings revealed that the majority (47%) of social workers (n = 218) stro…
Resilience of unaccompanied refugee children in foster care at Tongogara Refugee Camp Zimbabwe
This article explores and discusses the resilience of refugee children under foster care in Zimbabwe. It advances the argument that there are resilience factors associated with unaccompanied refugee children under the foster care programme at the Tongogara Refugee Camp. Data were gathered using an exploratory qualitative research design using document analyses, 10 refugee children under foster care and 10 key informant interviews, which were cond…
Asylum seekers, Refugees and Social Safety Nets
Role of Social Cash Transfers Among Children in Child-Headed Households
Cash transfers are some of the social protection systems for reducing risks and vulnerabilities among children in child-headed families. There are limited academic studies that interrogate the role of social cash transfers among children in child-headed households (CHHs) in the Jacha area of Epworth, Harare, Zimbabwe, in the face of austerity era. A qualitative case study design was adopted to have an in-depth and detailed understanding of the li…
Realising Capabilities for Street Young People in Harare, Zimbabwe
Living in social contexts characterised by poverty and inequality, street young people have limited access to healthcare, water sanitation and hygiene services; exacerbating effects of ill health, infections, lack of nutrition and substance abuse that undermine their wellbeing. In Harare, Zimbabwe, they are also excluded from Social Protection Programmes (SPPs) which potentially assist other impoverished Zimbabweans, two-thirds of whom live below…
Exiting Commercial Sex Work
The paper interrogates narratives of adolescent street girls of the Harare Central Business District, Zimbabwe, exiting commercial sex work. A qualitative research methodology punctuated by street ethnography was adopted to gather data for the paper. A feminist social work approach and empowerment theory were used to have a deeper understanding of the lives of these children. Research findings suggest that there were very few cases where adolesce…
Provision of child protection services in Zimbabwe
The article reviews child protection services in Zimbabwe and its interface with the changing social and economic environment. Within the qualitative research design, the study deployed the documentary analysis and the interview of six key informants only, which created an epistemological front for knowledge production. The study was guided by the Human Rights Perspective and established that the Child Protection Services in Zimbabwe have been ma…
Non-governmental organizations’ enablers of asset accumulation and poverty reduction in Zimbabwe
This Voices from Practice note delineates institutional and non-institutional enablers of asset accumulation in Zimbabwe. It argues that in promoting asset accumulation and poverty reduction, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) rely on the support of government ministries, partner NGOs, community volunteers, and community leaders. That perspective shifts and moves away from placing NGOs at the center of asset accumulation and poverty reduction …
The Resilience of Female Sex Workers in the Wake of Covid-19 in Zimbabwe
The paper interrogates the resilience of female sex workers in the wake of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe. The paper draws literature from global, regional and national perspectives using the resilience theory. Major findings reveal that the COVID-19 lockdown measures have disrupted the livelihoods of female sex workers. Hence, female sex workers have resorted to online sex work and some entrepreneurship. There has also been consistent breaching of the loc…
Sex for Drugs
Very few academic studies have been conducted that interrogate narratives around sex for drugs among the street children of the Harare Central Business District in the face of socio-economic challenges. Some of the challenges have been partly induced by the austerity era. The paper adopted the Ubuntu or unhu, child rights and child agency theories to under the realities of these children. Research findings ostensibly suggest that the street child…
Adolescent Street Boys’ Car Washing and Parking of Vehicles in the Harare Central Business District as Urban Resilience Under Austerity Era (Asbcwpvhcbdurae)
Street children are the most physically visible and vulnerable groups present in the society who live under extreme conditions of the street without care or guidance of parents or any adult.They are portrayed as socially unacceptable with least concerns from the policymakers.This paper explores the concept of street children in Indian context and also evaluates various policies and planning developed in India after its Independence.Further, the p…
Reasons for the Street Girl’s Entry into Commercial Sex Work
Despite being a country of various blue stockings, Indian daughters particularly from the countryside and lower socio-economic hierarchy have remained the victims of unfairness in learning opportunities from ancient to modern time.The present research work tries to examine the regional progress and inequality in education and determinants of lower educational prospects of girls in India on the basis of secondary data.Here, the disparity index and…
The Resilience of Female Sex Workers in the Wake of Covid-19 in Zimbabwe
The paper interrogates the resilience of female sex workers in the wake of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe. The paper draws literature from global, regional and national perspectives using the resilience theory. Major findings reveal that the COVID-19 lockdown measures have disrupted the livelihoods of female sex workers. Hence, female sex workers have resorted to online sex work and some entrepreneurship. There has also been consistent breaching of the loc…
Non-governmental organizations’ enablers of asset accumulation and poverty reduction in Zimbabwe
This Voices from Practice note delineates institutional and non-institutional enablers of asset accumulation in Zimbabwe. It argues that in promoting asset accumulation and poverty reduction, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) rely on the support of government ministries, partner NGOs, community volunteers, and community leaders. That perspective shifts and moves away from placing NGOs at the center of asset accumulation and poverty reduction …
Reasons for the Street Girl’s Entry into Commercial Sex Work
Despite being a country of various blue stockings, Indian daughters particularly from the countryside and lower socio-economic hierarchy have remained the victims of unfairness in learning opportunities from ancient to modern time.The present research work tries to examine the regional progress and inequality in education and determinants of lower educational prospects of girls in India on the basis of secondary data.Here, the disparity index and…
Sex for Drugs
Very few academic studies have been conducted that interrogate narratives around sex for drugs among the street children of the Harare Central Business District in the face of socio-economic challenges. Some of the challenges have been partly induced by the austerity era. The paper adopted the Ubuntu or unhu, child rights and child agency theories to under the realities of these children. Research findings ostensibly suggest that the street child…
Adolescent Street Boys’ Car Washing and Parking of Vehicles in the Harare Central Business District as Urban Resilience Under Austerity Era (Asbcwpvhcbdurae)
Street children are the most physically visible and vulnerable groups present in the society who live under extreme conditions of the street without care or guidance of parents or any adult.They are portrayed as socially unacceptable with least concerns from the policymakers.This paper explores the concept of street children in Indian context and also evaluates various policies and planning developed in India after its Independence.Further, the p…
Provision of child protection services in Zimbabwe
The article reviews child protection services in Zimbabwe and its interface with the changing social and economic environment. Within the qualitative research design, the study deployed the documentary analysis and the interview of six key informants only, which created an epistemological front for knowledge production. The study was guided by the Human Rights Perspective and established that the Child Protection Services in Zimbabwe have been ma…
Non-governmental organizations’ enablers of asset accumulation and poverty reduction in Zimbabwe
This Voices from Practice note delineates institutional and non-institutional enablers of asset accumulation in Zimbabwe. It argues that in promoting asset accumulation and poverty reduction, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) rely on the support of government ministries, partner NGOs, community volunteers, and community leaders. That perspective shifts and moves away from placing NGOs at the center of asset accumulation and poverty reduction …
The Resilience of Female Sex Workers in the Wake of Covid-19 in Zimbabwe
The paper interrogates the resilience of female sex workers in the wake of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe. The paper draws literature from global, regional and national perspectives using the resilience theory. Major findings reveal that the COVID-19 lockdown measures have disrupted the livelihoods of female sex workers. Hence, female sex workers have resorted to online sex work and some entrepreneurship. There has also been consistent breaching of the loc…
Realising Capabilities for Street Young People in Harare, Zimbabwe
Living in social contexts characterised by poverty and inequality, street young people have limited access to healthcare, water sanitation and hygiene services; exacerbating effects of ill health, infections, lack of nutrition and substance abuse that undermine their wellbeing. In Harare, Zimbabwe, they are also excluded from Social Protection Programmes (SPPs) which potentially assist other impoverished Zimbabweans, two-thirds of whom live below…
Exiting Commercial Sex Work
The paper interrogates narratives of adolescent street girls of the Harare Central Business District, Zimbabwe, exiting commercial sex work. A qualitative research methodology punctuated by street ethnography was adopted to gather data for the paper. A feminist social work approach and empowerment theory were used to have a deeper understanding of the lives of these children. Research findings suggest that there were very few cases where adolesce…
Determinants of private practice in social work
In developing countries like Zimbabwe, the issue of private practice in social work is at a formative stage. This paper explored the opinion of social workers regarding the issue of private practice in social work in the country. Using quantitative research design, data was collected from randomly sampled social workers (n = 462) from various fields of practices. The study findings revealed that the majority (47%) of social workers (n = 218) stro…
Resilience of unaccompanied refugee children in foster care at Tongogara Refugee Camp Zimbabwe
This article explores and discusses the resilience of refugee children under foster care in Zimbabwe. It advances the argument that there are resilience factors associated with unaccompanied refugee children under the foster care programme at the Tongogara Refugee Camp. Data were gathered using an exploratory qualitative research design using document analyses, 10 refugee children under foster care and 10 key informant interviews, which were cond…
Asylum seekers, Refugees and Social Safety Nets
Role of Social Cash Transfers Among Children in Child-Headed Households
Cash transfers are some of the social protection systems for reducing risks and vulnerabilities among children in child-headed families. There are limited academic studies that interrogate the role of social cash transfers among children in child-headed households (CHHs) in the Jacha area of Epworth, Harare, Zimbabwe, in the face of austerity era. A qualitative case study design was adopted to have an in-depth and detailed understanding of the li…
The role of social protection in the informal sector in Zimbabwe during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study examines the role of social protection systems in Zimbabwe’s informal sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. It fills a critical research gap by providing an in-depth examination of the effectiveness and limitations of social protection measures in the informal sector, an area that has received limited attention in existing literature. The research aims to evaluate whether the existing social protection measures provided adequate support…
Resilience Strategies of Street Children of Harare Central Business District, Zimbabwe, in the Face of Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic
The article interrogates the resilience of street children of Harare Central Business District in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The resilience theory was adopted to understand and interpret how these children managed to cope with the debilitating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to have a deeper understanding of the resilience of the street children of the Harare Central Business District in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, a qua…
The Food Aid Programmes in Zimbabwe from the Year 2005 to 2020
The article interrogates food aid governance in Zimbabwe by focusing on the achievements, challenges and opportunities encountered during the periods 2005 and 2020. The study is anchored from a point of departure that food aid has been and is still being utilised to ameliorate food insecurity particularly in food security–vulnerable regions of the world. The study deployed a qualitative documentary analysis in which evaluation of secondary data g…
Socio-economic circumstances of children with disabilities in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic in Rujeko High Density, Masvingo, Zimbabwe
This study investigates the socio-economic challenges encountered by children with disabilities in Rujeko High-Density suburb, Masvingo, Zimbabwe, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a qualitative approach guided by the social model of disability, the research aimed to examine how the pandemic affected access to education, analyse the economic challenges faced by families, and assess changes in social support networks. We employed an illustrative…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (6 works) · Central business district (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Geography (5 works)