9th-11th June 2014 Glasgow, UK Registration for the IACD conference Community is the answer is now open. This major international gathering will showcase community-based solutions to issues of Health, Wealth and Power. It will allow community members, activists, practitioners, researchers and... read more »
11th February 2015 London Metropolitan University, UK Re-asserting the right to be heard: Manifesto for Organising Community Development for Social and Political Change - Post May 2015 This event is open to anyone with an interest in community development. It is a forum for workers and practitioners. This... read more »
18th - 20th February 2015 Unitech Institute of Technology, New Zealand Bringing together practitioners, academics and students to share their knowledge, research and stories about community development. Major themes include placemaking, community economic development, diverse communities and re-claiming democracy, with quality assured papers, poster presentations and... read more »
We're delighted to announce that articles from the Community Development Journal Special Supplement on "the commons" are freely available for anyone to read on a permanent... read more »
At its October 2014 meeting, the international Board of the IACD agreed to set up a task group, chaired by Vice President, Stewart Murdoch, to map, country by country community development training... read more »
We are pleased to announce that Participation in Community Development: Problems and Possibilities is now available in digital form for the first time. First published in 2006, this volume reflects both shifts in policy and community development over a significant period of time, reflecting... read more »
In this blog post, Gloria Sikustahili, Julie Adkins, Japhet Makongo & Simon Milligan discuss seven key lessons about effective monitoring and evaluation from their experiences of implementing a 'iterative programming and adaptive management' approach in the Institutions for Inclusive Development programme in Tanzania. read more »
I am very excited to see the publication of the most recent issue of the Community Development Journal (CDJ), which focuses on queer and trans lives and collectivity in India. The issue, titled Queer... read more »
This is for a proposed book, to be edited by Gary Craig and others, on ‘race’, ethnicity and community development for the series Rethinking Community Development, to be published by The Policy Press, a leading UK social and public policy publisher. At this stage, the... read more »
We were delighted to welcome delegates to Edinburgh at the beginning of July for the CDJ 50th Anniversary Conference: Why Community Development? Continuity and Innovation. In the spirit of widening participation, we will be gradually uploading resources from this... read more »