Tuesday 23 February, 10-11am GMT – facilitated by Martin Gilbraith of ICA:UK, President of ICA International

In this session today we explored what is meant by Human Development, taking a definition from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as our starting point:

“Human development… is about expanding the richness of human life, rather than simply the richness of the economy in which human beings live. It is an approach that is focused on people and their opportunities and choices” – http://hdr.undp.org/en/humandev

What questions or concerns does the UN description raise for us? How does it relate to our own experience of development, and development practice? What do we find helpful in this description, or lacking? What are some key challenges and opportunties for human development in the world today, in our own understanding and from our own experience and perspectives? What sort of responses are called for, from those who care to make a positive contribution?

Approaches that work in Human Development

Tuesday 1 March, 10-11am GMT – facilitated by Larry Philbrook of ICA Taiwan, past President of ICA International

In our next session next week we will begin with a brief review of the first conversion. We will then explore the groups experience and reflections on distinctions of this approach to development and change. We will explore actions involved and context or values that sustain that action?

What are projects or actions you would call Human Development? How does a human development approach impact formulation and implementation in a development context? What are approaches or applications that have worked

What are the values and beliefs we or others try to live out of to support Human Development? What does it look like to live into these values or beliefs in our organizational as well as developmental work? How might we individually or collectively use this in our own work?

Thank you to ICA International Europe MENA Vice President Svetlana Salamatova and Media IC (Poland) for hosting our dialogues, and to all who participated today!

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