An international conference in community development gathered experts from Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia

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Community Development International Conference was held last week in Sofia.
During the conference researchers, practitioners and experts in the field of community development together made an overview of different community development practices and approaches implemented in the context Central Europe. There were discussions about the concepts and approaches leading to social development. Representatives of NGOs and local authorities searched common understanding about community development and different approaches and regional specifics.
The conference is part of the Workshop for Civic Initiatives Foundation project “Dialogue on Community Development: Discourse and Practice in Central and Eastern Europe” in partnership Romanian Association for Community Development (Romania), Partners for Democratic Change Slovakia (Slovakia) and Allavida (Great Britain). Funded by EC – Networking – CSC 2005.
The third volume of Community Development Journal, dedicated to “Art and Community Development” was published for the conference. Anyone interested in the journal can take it from the office of WCIF or download it here: http://www.wcif-bg.org/data/fckeditor/File/CD_journal_3.pdf . We want to thank to all participants in the conference who shared their experience and ideas!

Materials from the conference:
 Allocation of the Community Resources - Marcel Iordache
Community Development in Bulgaria from the Perspective of HR Theory and Practice - Rumen Petrov and Haralan Alexandrov
Community Development - prof. Mircea Alexiu
CBOs - Agents for Rural Development - Roxana Mirciu
Building of Public Spaces in Slovakia - Karolina Mikova
Micro Lending - Elena Triffonova

03 December 2007