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.
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News and Updates
ICSD special General Body Meeting Online, 21 November 2021
In the ICSD special general Body meeting, members unanimously approved the amended ICSD constitution
22nd ICSD Biennial International Conference
As already announced, the 22nd ICSD Biennial international conference on ‘Poverty, Inequality and Social Development Innovation Around the World’ was hosted by the Centre for Social Development in Africa
21st ICSD Biennial International Conference
In collaboration with University of Gadjah Mada, under the leadership of Prof. Nurgadi, S. Sos., the ICSD successfully organised the 21st biennial conference in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on 16-19 July 2019.
ICSD's Journal
Social Development Issues: Volume 43
Consortium for Social Development (ICSD). It 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.
The International Journal of Community and Social Development
The peer reviewed journal aims to focus on community and social development theory and practice at the grassroots/local level with a view to research and document local level community and social development theories and practices mainly from, but not limited to the Asia-Pacific region, and disseminate the same throughout the world.
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..
