The Conference

The 2nd Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Community Development will be the second gathering of community development practitioners and academicians after the May 2009 first conference which was well attended by CD academe, alumni and professionals from non-government organizations (both international and local), and students (undergraduate and graduate alike). The second conference, with the theme “Enriching CD Education amidst the Global Economic and Environmental Crises”, will take a look at the CD curricula and community – based education programs and how these address current economic and environmental global crises, specifically in the region of Asia and the Pacific. Moreover, it is hoped that through this conference, efforts towards enriching the CD curricula and community education programs will emerge. Specifically, it is the intention of this conference to emphasize realities of developing nations, open areas for dialogue among academics and practitioners and identify areas for collaborative projects among and between academic institutions, non-government organizations and people’s organizations in the fields of research, extension, teaching materials development and field instruction supervision.