Community-Based Inclusive Development: An Introduction

This edited book responds to the theoretical vacuum on Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID) and accommodates the learning needs of students, researchers and practitioners looking to understand the conceptual underpinnings and practice dimensions of CBID, while developing new theoretical ground on CBID. Bringing together established and emerging scholars and practitioners, this edited volume seeks to:

- Offer a theoretical, critical and interdisciplinary introduction for students, academics and practitioners working in CBID in the Global South.

- Build new theory and knowledge that can inform research and practice.

- Explore in-depth a range of issues through a critical lens and connect these with CBID.

- Contribute evidence-based material for CBID programming and advocacy and inform the work of mainstream community development practitioners.

​ Shaun Grech (Phd) is Honorary Associate Professor in Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction at the University of Cape Town, founder and director of The Critical Institute (Malta) and Affiliate Associate Professor in International Relationsat the University of Malta. He is also editor-in-chief of the international journal, Disability and the Global South (DGS) and co-editor of the book series, Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development. Grech is an established international academic and has published extensively in academic journals, is author of the book Disability and Poverty in the Global South: Renegotiating Development in Guatemala (Palgrave Macmillan), and co-editor of Inclusive Communities: A Critical Reader (Sense Publishers), Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook (Springer) and Disability and Colonialism: (Dis)encounters and Anxious Intersectionalities (Routledge). He serves on the board of numerous international journals including Social Inclusion, and the Annual Review of Critical Psychology among others.

Jörg Weber (PhD) is Senior Global Advisor Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID) for CBM International and Honorary Research Affiliate at the University of Cape Town. He has over 20 years of experience advising community programmes as well as UN bodies, professional organizations and government agencies in inclusive community development, rehabilitation, education and inclusive livelihoods. He has designed grassroots tools and training for organisations, community mobilizers and primary school teachers. Joerg has conducted programme evaluations in more than 40 countries worldwide, for governments, INGOs and multilaterals, including WHO and PAHO. He is executive Editor of the WHO online Training ＂INCLUDE＂.