International Community Development Practice

International Community Development Practice provides readers with practice-based examples of good community development, demonstrating its value for strengthening people power and improving the effectiveness of development agencies, whether these be governmental, non-governmental or private sector. The chapters focus upon the making of the community development profession and the eight core competences required of the professional practitioner, as outlined by the International Association for Community Development (IACD), whatever their job title or host agency, in order to be able to undertake community development. These are concerned with the ability of the practitioner to:

• Put ethics and values into practice
• Engage with communities
• Ensure participatory planning
• Organize for change
• Support learning for change
• Promote diversity and inclusion
• Build leadership and infrastructure
• Develop and improve policy a