Development International is a nonprofit that works to make global development more successful and sustainable for local communities by helping them take control of their own development initiatives.


Development International focuses on all areas of development, including women's empowerment, cultural enhancement and diversity, community sustainability, and social justice. 


Each community determines for itself what constitutes development in its own context, as well as the terms on which that development transpires. 


Development International helps host country project partners develop their project concepts, connect to technical experts, and present projects to funding agencies while meeting all funder guidelines.

Development International facilitates projects that are commercially viable and offer humanitarian value in all development sectors and in all parts of the world; based on locally determined development need priorities  that promote resilience,  sustainability, and social justice.    

Community Partnership Centers promote community empowerment by integrating all development assistance activities with community-determined social, cultural, health, and economic program priorities by bringing together local stakeholders in the public agency, civil society, commercial, and academic sectors to ensure community sustainability and resilience.    

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they love. With the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say, ‘We have done this ourselves!’”
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  —Lao Tsu, 700 BCE
 
“…development is a comprehensive economic, social, cultural and political process, which aims at the constant improvement of the well-being of the entire population and of all individuals on the basis of their active, free and meaningful participation in development and in the fair distribution of benefits resulting there from…”
                                                                                                                                                      —UN Declaration On The Right To Development