SEKEM Development Foundation – Cairo, Egypt
The Sekem Development Foundation’s (SDF) mission is to elevate the total welfare of the Egyptian people by enabling them to determine and realise their own socially unique and culturally appropriate development path. The foundation is established on the principles of the SEKEM initiative and seeks similarly to bring about a greater integration of the facets of human life.
Over the last two decades, the Foundation has expanded its program activities from initial basic educational initiatives. It now implements a variety of projects and programme in the fields of social development, research, health care, education and vocational training. This holistic approach to development emphasizes participation, integration and the need to foster long-term independence and self-determination of community members. SDF acknowledges this principle through a program of cultural and economic empowerment that integrates the arts and sciences and fosters moral and ethical awareness.
SDF is a working example of how to organise and channel the immense resources of Egypt’s talented and committed people into addressing priority problems and needs and thus contribute to the nation’s development and progress. SDF therefore represents an important model of sustainable development that is applicable both within the Egyptian and global development contexts.
Together with the SEKEM Development Foundation, the NGO Management School Switzerland has conducted a first 5-day course in January 2011 in Cairo, Egypt to the topic of Project Cycle Management Compact.
A certificate course cycle will be launched later in 2011. This cycle will cover all essential topics of non-profit management and consist of nine 5-day courses, leading to the Executive Certificate in Non-Profit Management.
More information to follow.
Geneva Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action - Geneva, Switzerland
The causes of humanitarian crises are numerous, complex and usually specific. Political, social and ethnic tension may lead to conflict. Natural risks, environmental degradation and climate change, social and economic collapse, food crises, the plunder of natural resources, growing intolerance, and human rights abuse are some of the main factors, usually linked to each other, that precipitate humanitarian catastrophes. Over one quarter of the world’s population is excluded from growing global wealth, scientific and technological advance, improved health and nutrition, education and the information and communications revolution. The lives of these people are extremely precarious and the slightest event can precipitate absolute misery and total insecurity, irrespective of their country of residence.
The complexity of crises means that they can no longer be addressed by “turnkey” projects; each situation calls for a specific humanitarian response. The Geneva Centre for education and research in humanitarian action (CERAH) meets this professional challenge by offering multi-disciplinary, bilingual (English-French) post-graduate training in the multicultural environment of Geneva’s international community.
Together with CERAH, the NGO Management School Switzerland will conduct a 5-day course in January/February 2011 in Geneva to the topic of Project Cycle Management Compact. This course is part of the Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action curriculum (3 ECTS credits).
