MDF Training & Consultancy and consortium have been awarded a grant worth EUR 1.5 million! With the grant, the consortium will go the extra mile by not only establishing two E-waste refurbishing plants in Kenya, but also creating a circular economy ecosystem around them with the aim to establish a self-reliant and sustainable social business model.
How to make sense of extreme complexity? How do you evaluate the impact of an humanitarian action on someone's life? Paola wrote a blog about Most Significant Change: a method that helps to assess and analyse complex interventions using stories.
Businesses, researchers and knowledge institutes working on applied research have much to gain from connecting their research to the outside world, but might prefer working in the comfort of their lab. Meanwhile, lots of research ends up on shelves and may never find their way to those who can benefit from it: the companies.
On 30 May 2019, twenty-five diplomats and staff of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Hanoi and Consulate-General in Ho Chi Minh City came together in coastal Ha Long Bay to kick-start the development of a Multiannual Country Strategy 2020-2023 for Vietnam. This document would also serve as a framework for the upcoming Annual Plans.
Helping young people to reintegrate into society and fighting poverty is not something every 24-year old will opt for. Maksym Mishalov states “Volunteering is a way of living and you need to be serious about it.” What motivates him to spend 6 months in Cambodia?