Progressive Research Journal of Arts and Humanities (PRJAH) Vol. 3, No. 1, 2021 ISSN: 2707-7314 Teaching and Practice of Community Organization and Development in South Asia: Evidence from Pakistan and Nepal Jamshed Baloch 1 *, Bala Raju Nikku 2 and Fasiha Shah 3 Abstract Community Organization and Development (COD) is one of the core methods of social work and is taught in schools of social work across South Asia. This study is based on the semi structured interviews with social work educators in Nepal and Pakistan, and the personnel narratives of the authors. It provides a background of teaching Community Organization and Development, with its practices and methods in South Asian region (particularly in Pakistan and Nepal). The study discusses the nature and challenges for community work and its relationship to social work teaching and practice. Its main theme is to find out the answer that, how to teach and nurture students of social work to gain perspectives and skills of community organizing? The study concludes that social work educators specializing in teaching and practice will have to (un)learn and refocus. The teaching strategies to engage students need to be revised and re-interpret with the new social work curriculum teaching methodologies. Keywords: Social Work; Community Intervention; Teaching Innovation, Pakistan; Nepal. 1. Introduction Community Organization and Development (COD) is one of the primary methods of social work which taught and practiced to some extent at the macro level by the departments/schools of social work across South Asia. Working with communities is an art in itself that requires a high level of skills, motivation and background knowledge (science) about the culture, traditions and norms. Teaching and practicing of COD in South Asian region especially countries like Pakistan and Nepal offers challenges to social work practitioners and educators, due to their diverse nature in terms of language, cultures, economic, political and social values and practices. The educators can recognize and define culture, which is actually a complex activity. Culture is the sum total of a people‟s thoughts, beliefs and behaviors; as such, c ulture serves as a schema for living and interpreting reality. It is important to point out that every individual, family and community has a culture (Lum, 2007). Culture shapes the ways in which all people, families and communities define problems and conceptualize strategies for problem resolution (McGoldrick, Giordano, & Garcia-Preto, 2005; Laing, 2009). Thus, culture and norms does 1 Department of Social Work, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan. 2 Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada. 3 Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. *)Corresponding Author. Email: jamshed.baloch@usindh.edu.pk