Wangui Karanja is the guest editor of this quarter’s newsletter. Kenyan-born, she lives in Tanzania and has worked in East Africa’s social development sector for the last ten years. In this issue, Wangui highlights how East Africa stands to benefit from a vibrant community development network.
Understand the global financial crisis from a perspective that is
far removed from the daily bombardment of sterile media coverage. Gain
an understanding of our holistic connection to the economy in a way
that puts people, community and the environment at its heart and how
community economic development approaches are integral to community
work. Register online now for this exciting conference at www.CDconference.com.au.
From Projects
The Centre for Stewardship in Falkland, Scotland will host a GVR focused on the One Planet Food project. The Centre will be joined by several visitors, who are also working on regional sustainable food systems, to engage in dialogue and learn from one another. If you feel you could be that international visitor (or could be involved in some other way) then please download, complete and return this form to ben.williams@iacdglobal.org. Expressions of interest are being sought from IACD members only. If you would like to become a member then please get in touch to request an application form.
Blogged on April 08th 2009
At previous IACD conferences we have often developed, collaboratively, a Declaration, or positive statement explaining the theme of the conference which can be used to frame our work, to lobby our governmental bodies, or to celebrate community development in a region. At the 2009 IACD conference to be held in Brisbane, Australia, we will develop a Declaration centred on the theme of the conference: Building Community Centred Economies. We'd like to start the dialogue about the Declaration before the conference and throughout the conference. To begin with we have developed a basic fr
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