SDIA acts a the secretariat to our international network. The SDI Office works to strengthen the capacity of our members, local organizations, development professionals and volunteers to:
- Assist and mobilise the communities they serve
- Develop and support practical and sustainable development initiatives
- Build and manage effective community organizations
- Lobby and advocate for change
- Make and sustain alliances with others who share their goals.
- Maintaining SDIA website as resource for the Network.
- Publishing our monthly Network e-News featuring news from Network members in English, French and Spanish.
- Publishing Notes from the Field, featuring lessons drawn by SD project leaders.
- Organizing training, education and networking events, and sharing knowledge gained through our published reports.
- Carrying out research that highlights good practices and improved performance towards our common development and social justice objectives and publishing that research for our members.
- Maintaining the SD Network Grants Matrix showing funds raised for SD projects by the network.
- Sharing information about current project needs and grant requests.
- Giving technical support and site visits by skilled professionals.
- SDIA maintains a Project Support Fund intended to help members invest in strengthening project management.
- Promoting volunteering as a means of getting people with skills to assist social, health and educational projects that need those skills.