The ICA Global Conference on Human Development

 
Learn more about our upcoming “9th Global Conference” on Linking Sustainable Development to Key Issues of Our Time which will take place during 27-31 October, 2025, at Rainbow Hotel, in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe simply by clicking here.
 
For further details about the conference, please review the below given materials:
7. To book a room at the Rainbow Hotel please send an email to Gerald Gomani at: geraldgomani@yahoo.com 
For budget accommodation please visit booking.com and book directly for options available at lodges, camping sites and other hotels in Victoria Falls.
 
To register now for the conference, please click here. 
 
To register for our Virtual Conference 2025, please click here. 
 
You can also watch our Global Conference video on YouTube by clicking on this link. 
 
Virtual Conference Update
 
We cannot provide a fully Virtual Conference. Instead, we will provide virtual access to the following:
  • A live feed for the Opening and Closing Plenaries on October 27 and October 31
  • Recordings from speakers in each Conference Theme will be available after the sessions
  • Pre-conference meetings for some themes
A special link will be provided to this virtual access to all conference participants and virtual registrants. 
 
The virtual registration fee is now $50 USD (not $150 as stated previously).
 
Please register for these virtual aspects on the registration link provided above.
 
 
 
 

Since 1984, ICA International has hosted eight international conferences concerned with the human factor in development and re-emergence of civil society. These conferences have been highly participatory and focused on practical sharing of approaches that work. Interchange, dialogue and designing creative responses to particular areas of concern in society are the aims of ICA conferences.

  • 2012: Unleashing and Promoting Human Capacity for Sustainable Development – Kathmandu, Nepal
  • 2008: Unlocking the Potential to Create a New World Together – Atami, Japan
  • 2004: Weaving a New Society – Antigua, Guatemala
  • 2000: Millennium Connection – Denver CO, USA
  • 1996: The Rise of Civil Society in 21st Century – Cairo, Egypt
  • 1992: Exploring the Great Transition – Prague, Czech Republic
  • 1988: Our Common Future – Oaxtapec, Mexico
  • 1984: International Exposition of Rural Development – New Delhi, India

Since 2015 we have been exploring prospects for partnership with Initiatives of Change (IofC) for our next global conference, perhaps at IofC Caux in Switzerland in 2017 or 2018.  In the meantime we will continue to develop our programme of regional gatherings and conferences in 2016 – to expand and deepen relationships among ICAs, and between ICA and IofC, in the regions.

The six themes of the 8th Global Conference on Human Development in Kathmandu in 2012 were:

  1. Growing a New Sense of Leadership
  2. Reshaping Education forthe 21st Century
  3. Promoting Peace Building and Good Governance
  4. Building a Viable Future for Planet Earth
  5. Building Strategies for Comprehensive Development
  6. Resourcing Human Development

Conference reports may be found in Winds & Waves, December 2012, and at TechNetNepal.

The book Changing Lives Changing Societies: ICA’s experience in Nepal and in the world was published in conjunction with the 2012 conference.