All the conference materials are available to download below.
The Conference Summary provides brief overviews of all plenary and working group sessions with hyperlinks to participants' papers and presentations. The Conference Analysis Report contains discussion of key issues on community development and civil society that emerged during the conference, and an analysis of the final day's 'cascade' session.
Conference Summary.doc (132Kb)
Conference Analysis Report.doc (59Kb)
CS & CD Background paper.doc (208Kb)
CS & CD Final PROGRAMME.doc (168Kb)
Brian Pratt Introduction Speech final.doc (29Kb)
HRH Princess Basma Speech.doc (48Kb)
1st Plenary: Panel Session
2nd Plenary: Dr Rajesh Tandon
Thematic Working Groups
3rd Plenary: Prof Alan Fowler
Four Wise People Session
HRH Princess Basma bint Talal opened the international conference hosted by JOHUD (Jordan Hashemite Fund for Human Development) in Amman, Jordan.
The aim of the conference was to open up the debate on the issue of community development and the recent resurgence of interest, on the part of international bi-lateral and multi-lateral agencies, in involvement in grassroots development initiatives.
Over 70 development practitioners, policy makers, donors and academics attended and over 34 countries were represented at the event.