The Global Development Research Center is a virtual non-profit think-tank that carries out initiatives in education, research and practice, in the spheres of environment, urban, community, economy and information, and at scales that are effective.
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The city of Tripoli moves too fast - and consequently has a mountain of a problem - that of used tyres! Like most urban cities anywhere in the world, the volume of tyres in the city has been increasing at a rapid rate...
Global Development Research Center (GDRC) Follow GDRC on Twitter - twitter.com/gdrcdotorg A number of critical questions that drive its 15 programmes are listed regularly as tweets
You can now follow GDRC on Facebook and Twitter to keep yourself updated on what GDRC is doing, or questions that are driving its programmes, or activities that it is carrying out.Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Development-Research-Center-GDRC/66976630019Twitter:...
GDRC is now working on an initiative to assist the city government of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to develop an urban heritage conservation strategy.For a city in a developing country, heritage conservation is a public strategy that has considerable and serendipitous externalities...
While '3Rs' stand for reduce, reuse and recycle of resources and wastes, the concept itself goes beyond just better waste management and calls for the building of an economy based on the life-cycle approach, covering both sustainable production and sustainable consumption.The 3R approach, focusing...
According to the estimates from the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), over 500 million people - a staggering more than a quarter of the world's working population - are working in the informal economy worldwide...
Think about it - from 60 to 90 percent or more of economies of most countries are actually run by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Single owner enterprises, with single sources of income, a single line of products or a combination of these features characterize SMEs...
Providing microfinance, and creating necessary conditions for microfiance to be used for environmental management, is an important aspect for poverty alleviation. This is particularly true in developing countries and in post-disaster situations...
What kind of lifestyles, particularly urban, needs to be adopted? How can economic growth goals be reconciled with environmental ones? Who plays the key roles in this case - the manufacturers? The national government? The local government? Or the citizens...
You probably have heard of the REDD Initiative - Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation initiative...
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The GDRC Programme on Information Design and Management covers the practice of collating, packaging and displaying information in such a way as to communicate and meet the needs of the user, and for the intended purposes.
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The GDRC Programme on Knowledge Management looks at the systematic leveraging of information and expertise to improve innovation, responsiveness, productivity and competency.
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GDRC's Internet and ICTs programme focusses on the technologies that enable broader communication and knowledge transfer. The uptake of internet and ICTs also involve skills and capacity in information management, particularly in developing countries
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Being the third leg supporting civil society at the local level (along with local governments and communities), business and industry is the focus of this webtheme - particularly on how it can contribute to long-term sustainability
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