Building on ICSD’s growing engagement with UN-related civil society spaces, Li Zou also presented ICSD at the April monthly meeting of the NGO Committee for Social Development. In her Member Showcase presentation, she highlighted ICSD’s role as a membership-based knowledge hub that brings together scholars, practitioners, institutions, and students across social work, social policy, and social development.
The presentation featured the work of ICSD President Leila Patel and James Midgley as examples of scholarship that has shaped the field, alongside the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis as an institutional member of ICSD. Zou also pointed to ICSD’s collaboration with international social work organisations at the Doha Second World Summit for Social Development and to the special issue, forthcoming in the journal Social Development Issues, on the outcomes of the Doha summit.
The showcase offered another opportunity to make ICSD’s work more visible within international civil-society networks.