What Works in International Development?
CSDi provides proof-tested solutions to challenges faced by development professionals: donors, executive directors, project designers, grant writers, project managers, field staff—and project beneficiaries.
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For Development Professionals Worldwide. Create your own personal field course by interweaving online assignments with your work. Develop projects from the ground up, learn management, attract donors. Development Professionals from 146 countries have developed projects that are impacting over 300,000 people. |
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| Join Today! Be sure to visit CSDi’s Development Community. Join 600 colleagues in sharing resources & collaborating online. The CSDi Development Community encourages professionals in development & those interested in learning, to share resources & collaborate online developing sustainable, impact-oriented tools & solutions for worldwide development challenges. | |
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| We offer a system for Donors & NGOs to use in developing projects, and package best practices in manuals, training guides, and handouts for increasing impact in the field. | |
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| Routledge CBA Book: | Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation |
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Tim Magee's how-to field course in a book is arranged in a step-by-step progression that leads readers through problem assessment, project design, implementation, and community take over. Chapters have the tools needed by field staff and their community partners to complete sequential, concrete steps in developing a real project from the ground up. |












