In recent years the Training and Professional Development Committee has been considering what role would be appropriate for IACD, as the international professional association for community development practitioners, in relation to the endorsement and quality assurance of community development training and professional development courses.
We are keen to support wider access opportunities to good quality professional community development training programmes, especially where they do not currently exist either geographically or thematically. With the adoption of the International Standards for Community Development Practice, we will now be exploring how best to use the Standards to support, promote and encourage the development and delivery of training and learning provision that can be internationally quality assured.
We are currently exploring two ideas in relation to this. The first is an internationally accessible Open Learning Programme in Community Development and the Committee has invited John Stansfield and Huston Gibson to take this further. The second is a Community Development and Disability Course, a theme where there is little provision. The Committee has invited Anastasia Matvievskaya to bring an outline proposal to it for consideration.
The Committee invites practitioner and training colleagues in other countries to share their thoughts and ideas about this.
- Would you like to see IACD endorsing and quality assuring training provision?
- Would you like to see IACD designing and offering training and professional development courses/programmes?
- Would you like to see IACD designing programmes that you can offer/deliver?
- Would you like to see IACD quality assuring programmes that you have designed and deliver?
- What would support you in developing good quality community development training provision?
Thoughts, comments and suggestions can be sent to Committee chair, Anna Clarke anna.clarke@iacdglobal.
We will be engaging further around these ideas as we take these discussions forward in coming months.
