Mobilizing Knowledge for Sustainable Development

Summary

Learning Resource Center gathers, documents, and disseminates all types of international development information, promoting excellence in this specialty around the world.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $620 was raised for this project.

Received $620 from 1 donation from people like:

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Past experiences of what works best can get development projects off on the right track, offering innovation for replication & accelerating results while maximizing initiatives, opportunity, accountability. Information cuts thru obstacles like geography, bureaucracy, high turnover, fragmentation. NGOs, universities, institutions; thousands of practitioners, researchers, students, and donors using these resource will benefit and will be able to serve millions of people.

Activities

-Repository of information & comprehensive database for customized reference purposes. -Promotion of centers of excellence and organizations with best practices & special expertise. -Advocacy campaigns, on-line courses, technical assistance.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $620

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $620.  The original project funding goal was $37,500.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

Resources

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

To become the hub for international development information/resources in the entire Middle East. To advance learning in a professional field impacting the entire developing world.

Project Message

From my frequent visits to the LRC, I found this center an outstanding source of information in various fields...I have introduced LRC to my colleagues, they have started to benefit from the center.
- Mofida Adly, Student at Cairo University- Social Science Dept

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Roger Hardister,
Regional Director, Near East Foundation
Near East Foundation
4, Ahmed Pasha St, Citibank Building, 11th Floor
Garden City, Cairo,
Egypt
(20) 20-2-7944726
Email:

Project Sponsor

Near East Foundation

Organization

Near East Foundation (NEF)
90 Broad Street
15th Floor
New York, NY 10004
United States
+1 (212) 425-2205
http://www.neareast.org

Learn more about Near East Foundation (NEF) and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Egypt and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Egypt, read the Human Development Report on Egypt or the Wikipedia entry for Egypt.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on June 27, 2006.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 14, 2006.