We are thrilled to announce that the website for the 2020 World Community Development Conference is now live! Check it out — http://wcdc2020.acdpk.org/
HISTORY
Every year, IACD holds an international conference in association with other partners within the respective global region, or at international level. These conferences bring together practitioners and academics from every part of the globe in a multi-day exploration of a chosen theme in community development.
This year, IACD is proud to work in partnership with Association of Community Development Practitioners-Kenya, ACDP-K on this year’s World Community Development Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference will take place 29 June – 1 July 2020.
THIS YEAR’S THEME
Our Connectedness, Resilience and Empowerment is the theme in Nairobi this year.
WCDC2020 will be a celebration of community development – a discipline and practice that seeks to nurture the enduring community spirit that holds communities together.
It is a fact that community life occurs within contexts that are promotive of healthy communities but equally that also have shocks and uncertainties which pose a challenge to meeting even the basics of live including hope. Yet communities through their enduring connectedness are constantly engaged in efforts to bounce back, and indeed, often do bounce back in spite of the adversities within vulnerable contexts– largely because of drawing from the wide range of resources and assets from within and without the community.
Community development ethos and processes also enable communities to be resilient! Lastly, community development seeks to actualise communities’ goal of enhancing their staying power through sustainable empowerment interventions from within and without. It helps if community development is undertaken within a context that is predictable – where standards – ethical, legal and value driven – underpin the process.
REGISTRATION
Registration will open on 1 September, 2019.
PRACTICE EXCHANGES
Following the conference, there will be a Practice Exchange from 2-3 July 2020. More information will be released soon, watch this space!
