International Consortium for Social Development
Building Knowledge for Social Development Worldwide
For Social Change
Social development processes aim to bring about social, economic and environmental improvement in the lives of people and their communities through capacity building. The ICSD is an organisation of interdisciplinary practitioners, scholars and students from social work/welfare/development studies.
Upcoming ICSD conferences
11th ICSD Asia Pacific Conference,
Date: TBD 2026
Hosted by the Christ University Bengaluru, India
25th ICSD CONFERENCE,
Date: TBD 2027
Hosted by School of Social Work University of Georgia
News and Updates
Media Report
Our Institutional Members and Partners
ICSD's Journal
Social Development Issues: Volume 43
Social Development Issues is published three times a year in February, July, and November. It serves as a scholarly forum linking multiple disciplines, nations, and cultures. The journal’s purpose is to promote consideration of issues that affect social justice as well as the development and well veing of individuals and their communities.
Become a ICSD member
An ICSD Membership offers a wide range of benefits to our members, and also let’s you support the organization. Some of the benefits included in the ICSD Membership are reduced fees for biennial world conferences/congresses, access to the SDI journals, access to a worldwide network of social work educators, eligibility to post job announcements, conference flyers, etc. on the ICSD website as well as Facebook and Twitter accounts, and more..
