IACD Global Ambassador and Lifetime Achievement Awards
IACD presents awards to members deemed by the Board to have made a significant contribution towards the work of the association and to the field of community development. These awards are presented at our international conferences. To date we have had four Lifetime Achievement Awards and fifteen Global Ambassador Awards.
The IACD Global Ambassador Award is presented to an individual or individuals who have provided an outstanding contribution to international community development.
The IACD Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to an individual who has provided an outstanding contribution to international community development throughout a significant portion of their career.
2021 Award Recipients
Marjorie Mayo — Lifetime Achievement Award
Marjorie Mayo is Emeritus Professor of Community Development, Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research has included learning for active citizenship, and access to justice in disadvantaged communities.
She has made a longstanding and hugely influential contribution as an academic and author and as board member of the Oxford University Press Community Development Journal.
Active for many years working in the field of community development, in the UK and internationally, and in particular pioneering the role of women in CD.
Jody Kretzmann and John L McKnight — Lifetime Achievement Award
John is formerly the director of community studies at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research.
Jody is a former faculty member at the School of Education and Social Policy and IPR Faculty Associate at Northwestern.
John and Jody are the co-founders of the ABCD Institute which they established in the mid 1990-s at Northwestern University (which later moved to DePaul University), building on years of community organising practice and urban neighbourhoods’ research.
They have published extensively on their work and produced widely used resources supporting the ABCD approach.
The Institute continues to share and grow their teachings around the world.
Asnarulkhadi Abu Samah, Colette McGarva, and Daniel Muia — IACD Global Ambassador Award
At our 2021 AGM, we were honored to award the IACD Global Ambassador Award to three IACD Regional Directors who have made a huge impact on IACD and the field of community development. Congratulations to Asnarulkhadi Abu Samah (Regional Director for Southeast Asia), Colette McGarva (Regional Director for Europe), and Daniel Muia (Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa)!
Past Award Recipients
You can read all about the past recipients of IACD Awards here: https://www.iacdglobal.org/about-us/iacd-global-community-development-ambassador-awards/
some of the past recipients of IACD Awards
