18th Biennial ICSD Symposium
Co-Sponsored by:
Simmons College (Boston, MA, USA)
and Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda)
Facing New Frontiers in Social Development:
Opportunities and Challenges
July 15 - 19, 2013
Kampala, Uganda
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- Official Call for Proposals
- Registration and Travel Information
International Consortium for Social Development (ICSD):
Building on the importance of good governance that the Dhaka symposium underscored, the 2013 ICSD conference, to be held in Kampala Uganda, will examine new and emerging issues in social development. While the symposium will attempt to examine new emerging issues of social development, long standing concerns including the Millennium Development Goals; policy limits; institutional autonomy; poverty and hunger; global climate change; continuous marginalization and social exclusion; social justice and human rights issues; mobilization of governmental, non-governmental, and civil society institutions that address the widening gap between rich and poor will be explored by leading scholars from all over the world. With Africa, and Uganda, as the location for this conference, attention will be drawn to the importance of the developing world and its contribution to these issues. They all present challenges and opportunities into the future.
- To identify emerging issues in social development
- To identify region-specific issues and challenges in social development
- To discuss and analyze the roles, responsibilities and opportunities for social development
- To explore regional, national and global opportunities through collaborations and sustainability toward social development
The planning committee will involve various stakeholders to build a program that will be designed to attend to the specific branches of the ICSD in the next few months. Simmons College School of Social Work and Makerere University are proud to be co-hosting this conference.
Kampala is the capital and largest city of Uganda. Kampala has gone through major changes from the time of the first explorers who traveled to Uganda. As a small city it was overshadowed by Entebbe which was the seat of government but over the years it stature has grown and is now booming with artists, writers, political activists and strong economists.. Kampala is located in the southern geographic center of the country on the outskirts of Lake Victoria. The city enjoys a great climate, with an annual average temperature of 32 degrees C and monthly means varying between 27 degrees C in January and 34 degrees C in August. Uganda has two rainy seasons and two dry seasons. July is generally a hot and wet month.
- UNICEF
- World Food Programme
- The AIDS Support Organization (TASO)
- AIDS Widows Orphans Family Support (AWOFS)
- Straight Talk Foundation
- Nsambya Babies Home
- Music for Life
- Namugongo Fund for Special Children
- Bead for Life
- Makula Fund for Children
- African Network for the Prevention and Protection of Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN)
- Foundation for Human Rights Initiative
- Center for Domestic Violence
- Save the Children
- Uganda Women's Efforts to Save Orphans (UWESO)
Accommodations
Speke Resort Munyonyo will provide accommodation at very affordable rates. Fine dining is available in the hotel. Speke Resort is located less than five miles away from the heart of the vibrant city of Kampala.
Makerere University, Uganda's largest university, was first established as a technical school in 1922, and in 1963 it became the University of East Africa, offering courses leading to general degrees of the University of London. It became an independent national university in 1970 when the University of East Africa was split into three independent universities: University of Nairobi (Kenya), University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Makerere University. Today, Makerere University has 22 faculties, institutes and schools offering programs for about 30,000 undergraduates and 3,000 postgraduates.
