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Editorial ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK AND DEVELOPMENT 2023, VOL. 33, NO. 2, 83–85 https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2023.2203961 In recent years, practitioners in social work and social development have been called to address various global challenges in regional or local contexts through seeking a better synergy between research, policy, and practice to respond to a range of universal social and environmental problems (Williams, 2016). One of the clear examples is that the American Academy of Social Work & Social Welfare officially announced the 12 Grand Challenges for Social Work (GCSW) at the SSWR 20th Anniversary Annual Conference (American Academy of Social Work & Social Welfare, 2015). Whereas these grand challenges were proposed in consideration of the context specificity of the United States, they can be applied to Asia-Pacific regions given the similarity of such challenges faced by countries or societies of these regions. The articles included in this issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development can be interpreted as addressing the two important components of GCSW, namely the social policy responses and social service responses (Williams, 2016). Social policy responses encompass social welfare and social protection, and social service responses refer to social services led by governmen- tal- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development Taylor & Francis

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ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK AND DEVELOPMENT 2023, VOL. 33, NO. 2, 83–85 https://doi.org/10.1080/02185385.2023.2203961 In recent years, practitioners in social work and social development have been called to address various global challenges in regional or local contexts through seeking a better synergy between research, policy, and practice to respond to a range of universal social and environmental problems (Williams, 2016). One of the clear examples is that the American Academy of Social Work & Social Welfare officially announced the 12 Grand Challenges for Social Work (GCSW) at the SSWR 20th Anniversary Annual Conference (American Academy of Social Work & Social Welfare, 2015). Whereas these grand challenges were proposed in consideration of the context specificity of the United States, they can be applied to Asia-Pacific regions given the similarity of such challenges faced by countries or societies of these regions. The articles included in this issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development can be interpreted as addressing the two important components of GCSW, namely the social policy responses and social service responses (Williams, 2016). Social policy responses encompass social welfare and social protection, and social service responses refer to social services led by governmen- tal-

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