The World Community Development Conference 2018 provides a unique opportunity for practitioners, participants, academics, policy makers, funders and other stakeholders to share perspectives on current contexts and challenges for community work. The conference will encompass cutting edge inputs, papers, creative installations and poster presentations on rights-based community development, addressing and engaging locally, nationally and internationally with key current issues including:
- Change and transformation
- Impact and outcomes: Measuring and monitoring
- The role of state agencies, regional and local authorities
- Current rural and/or urban challenges
- International development
- Community economic development
- Environmental justice and sustainable development
- Women’s rights
- Gender
- Poverty
- Migration
- Racism
- Indigenous peoples and minority rights
- Disability
- Health
- Community development standards, education and training
- Community development and other disciplines
- Civil and political rights
- Economic, social, and cultural rights
- Other suggestions welcome
Followed by an optional Practice Exchange



