Message-ID: <199604221523.IAA08247@cdp.igc.apc.org> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 11:15:52 +0100 From: Michael Nehrbass <mailto:michael.nehrbass@VOCA.ORG> Subject: New Directions To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
---------------------------------- Forwarded ---------------------------------- From: MIME:mailto:reaproy@cais.cais.com at UUCP Date: 4/19/96 10:39AM To: Michael Nehrbass Subject: New Directions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------Michael,
Thanks for your help in spreading the word!!! Cheers, Phil fff=Workshop on New Directions in Grassroots Development Assistance
The Social Change and Development Program of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is planning an intensive, practioner-oriented workshop entitled "New Directions in Grassroots Development Assistance", which will take place in Washington, D.C. in March 1997.
Shrinking government budgets and the resulting contraction of bilateral development assistance will present a new challenge for community development practitioners. Finding alternative methods for making development programs financially sustainable will increasingly be the challenge that NGOs and development institutions must meet.
The SAIS Social Change & Development (SC&D) Program views this new imperative as an opportunity for innovating development practices, and devising creative financing strategies to make them sustainable. The workshop will explore the gamut of new developments and directions in the field.
The approaches to, and application of, "New Directions" strategies will likely be as varied as the demands of local development challenges, the histories of community organizations, and the management cultures of implementing agencies. The Social Change & Development Program is now conducting a comprehensive search across a wide variety of issue areas for the most successful and creative strategies for securing non-governmental support for development. We seek the assistance and input of practitioners and strategists in both the public and private sector.
Once we have narrowed down the most promising sectors of "New Directions", SC&D plans to commission papers from innovative thinker/practioners who are making these strategies work in the real world. The papers will form the basis of discussion by the invitees at the workshop. The goal is to make concrete contributions to the debate on ways international development practioners and their organizations must re-tool for the near future.
Established in 1985, the SC&D program expounds the belief that international and domestic development works best when these efforts are based on the initiative of local people, using their own energy and creativity, to participate in and take responsibility for their own development. SC&D is in a unique position to explore the New Directions for development because it has been advocating greater independence from government-directed development since the program was founded.
We welcome and appreciate your interest and participation in our efforts. For further information, please call (202) 663-5692, fax (202) 663-5656 or write to: New Directions Workshop, Department on Social Change & Development, Johns Hopkins SAIS, 1740 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006.
Dr. Grace Goodell Director, Department on Social Change & Development Fax: (202) 663-5656
Mr. Philip S. Robertson Jr. New Directions Workshop Co-Coordinator e-mail: mailto:MFrondorf@mail.jhuwash.jhu.edu (w) 202/663-5692 (h) 301/270-1009
Mr. Jose L. Ravano New Directions Co-Coordinator; e-mail: mailto:JRavano@aol.com; (h) 301/588-0428 Fax: (301) 587-3058