www.pds-mena.org
30 Nazeih Khalifa Street
11757, Cairo
Egypt

Description

Participatory Development Solutions (ElMahrousa PDS) an Egyptian organization was founded in 2011 to promote and enhance sustainable development, sustainable stability, and prosperity of the target communities, striving for a better quality of life for all. PDS’s methodology consists of facilitating the learning and adaptation processes of various communities and organizations. Beneficiaries of ElMahrousa PDS are both public and private organizations and individuals. Our mission is to build their institutional and individual capacities and fostering multi-stakeholders’ consultation for effectively designing, implementing and measuring the progress of development strategies, so that they would be able to address key social and economic challenges.

Programs led by ElMahrousa PDS addressing wide range of development gaps in the following three thematic domains:

(1) Civil Society Development (CSD): covers stabilization of at-risk communities, peace-building, the freedom of association, peace-building, civic engagement, good governance, human rights, and the role and the effectiveness of civil society organizations in development.

(2) Socioeconomic Inclusion and Development (SID): covers entrepreneurship, job-creation, business and SMEs development services, incubation of projects’ ideas, innovation and outreach, technology transfer, commercialization of research results, job-creation through behavioral change for blue caller work to accessing the labour market, migration and development, and decent work agenda; and

(3) Sustainable Development Outreach (SDO): covers renewable energy, agribusiness development, water management, food security, climate change and protection of environment.

ElMahrousa PDS have strong expertise the field of community development, Research, Training & Education, and Project Management & Evaluation. We have accumulated experience in socioeconomic developments, impacts and evaluation; project dissemination, capacity building, entrepreneurship trainings, we are experts in the development of policy solutions to environmental and societal challenges through arranging meeting with Civil society organization, experts and policy makers to come up with joint policy recommendations.