About the GDRC:
Introduction
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GDRC
The Global Development Research Center is an independent nonprofit think tank that carries out initiatives in education, research and practices, in the spheres of environment, urban, community and information, and at scales that are effective. |
The GDRC is an attempt to consolidate disparate issues, themes and topics into one umbrella to highlight their interconnectedness and interdisciplinary nature. With the focus being more on knowledge transfer and information dissemination, GDRC focuses on the micro scale - at the level of the man-on-the-street, where most of the everyday decisions are taken.
GDRC aims at bringing together the disparate resources on a three pronged approach:
- Research and development at the global level
- Education and Training at the regional level
- Policy and programme development at the local level
 It functions as an information repository (in terms of gathering, collating, packaging and disseminating information); as a research and training center (in terms of organizing training sessions, and seminars and conferences) and as a educational center (knowledge developed from the activities of the center will be fed back into academic programmes and capacity building exercises.
In developing the programmes of GDRC, the interlinkages of knowledge needs and uses are highlighted, where practitioners can draw lessons from the research being done or educationists can tailor their courses with the work that practitioners carry out.
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