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The Weitz Center for Development Studies is a non profit NGO engaged in planning, consulting, training and research of regional development issues in less developed regions.
Over the years, the Center, established 40 years ago in Rehovot, Israel became renowned for what has come to be known as the “Rehovot Approach” to Integrated Regional Planning.

If you are a graduate of the Weitz Center for Development Studies, If you are a professional active and interested in Rural Development, If you are a government official, NGO executive or just interested in development issues, please register and join our network of friends

International Course on

On November 11th, took place the closing ceremony of the course on "Local Development and strategies for Poverty reduction in Africa" for African Countries.

24 professionals from 10 countries participated in the course of 25 days: Cameroon, Gambia, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

The course took place within the framework of MASHAV – Center of International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with UN-HABITAT.

Diplomatic representatives of 5 countries participated in the Ceremony and according to our tradition the choir of participants sang Hebrew songs.

THE REHOVOT CONFERENCE ON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2008

“Decentralized Cooperation in Africa”

Abuja Nigeria

December 9-11, 2008

Announcement

This is to inform you that due to technical problems we have decided to postpone the Rehovot Conference 2008 to next year.

THE Raanan Weitz Integrated Projects Competition

This is the 3^rd competition of development projects in developing countries to be conducted toward the Memorial Day of Prof. Raanan Weitz.

20 projects from Africa, Asia and Latin America were submitted to the competition.

6 projects were chosen to compete in the second stage.

The winner of the competition is Ms. Miriam W. Siekavizza from Guatemala for her project on the Integral Development of the Municipality of Santiago Atitlan solola.


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