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Our graduates: A hidden capital
The Weitz Center for Development Studies is happy to introduce you to its graduates.
If you also wish to participate in training, please consult our training activities.
The Weitz Center for Development Studies is happy to introduce you to its graduates.
If you also wish to participate in training, please consult our training activities.
Our impact in the field
To learn more about our graduates' activities back home and to show the impact of our training on your work, the Weitz Center for Development Studies publishes each month selected projects on various thematic.
To learn more about our graduates' activities back home and to show the impact of our training on your work, the Weitz Center for Development Studies publishes each month selected projects on various thematic.
Kwalitex Art and Craft Cooperative, Ghana
Our graduate in action: Mr. Victor Adigler, from Ghana, is a graduate of the Weitz Center. He attended a training on Local Economic Development in 1998.
Impact of his experience in the Weitz Center: After his studies in Israel he established a charitable community based organization and a cooperative (C.5 Foundation, Helper Aid Foundation and Kwalitex Art and Craft Co-operative). The aim among others is to reduce unemployment and support livelihood. To know more about Kwalitex, please click here!
Impact of his experience in the Weitz Center: After his studies in Israel he established a charitable community based organization and a cooperative (C.5 Foundation, Helper Aid Foundation and Kwalitex Art and Craft Co-operative). The aim among others is to reduce unemployment and support livelihood. To know more about Kwalitex, please click here!
Save the last boulevard of Mangalore, India
Our graduate in action: Manoj Saldana attended the training on "Leveraging Urban Nature & Biodiversity for Local Development", 2011
To contact him: manoj.ag30@gmail.com
Save the last Boulevard of Mangalore:
Short description: Mangalore is a coastal city in Karnataka state, India. This story is about an innovative community campaign `Vraksha Bandhan’ to save 45 trees, which were planned to be cut for road widening by the Municipal authorities on a 2 km stretch of road in Kankanady-Valencia-Jeppu area. This campaign started in 2009 & is still continuing.
Duration: 3 years
Actual stage: The fight is in the court now. The court has granted orders not to cut the trees until the case is settled
Target population: Local community, students in the educational institutions in the area and shopkeepers
Manoj's role in the project: I have been actively involved in the campaign mobilizing, motivating, educating, creating awareness, networking with organizations in this project. I’m one of the appellant in the court case.
Impact of his experience in the Weitz Center on the project's success: I learnt how to promote the urban nature and biodiversity values in Mangalore city. I was not aware of `Justifying our strategy'. The Rehovot approach taught me how to inculcate positioning the project to potential stakeholders.
If you want more information, please visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-the-last-boulevard-of-Mangalore
To contact him: manoj.ag30@gmail.com
Save the last Boulevard of Mangalore:
Short description: Mangalore is a coastal city in Karnataka state, India. This story is about an innovative community campaign `Vraksha Bandhan’ to save 45 trees, which were planned to be cut for road widening by the Municipal authorities on a 2 km stretch of road in Kankanady-Valencia-Jeppu area. This campaign started in 2009 & is still continuing.
Duration: 3 years
Actual stage: The fight is in the court now. The court has granted orders not to cut the trees until the case is settled
Target population: Local community, students in the educational institutions in the area and shopkeepers
Manoj's role in the project: I have been actively involved in the campaign mobilizing, motivating, educating, creating awareness, networking with organizations in this project. I’m one of the appellant in the court case.
Impact of his experience in the Weitz Center on the project's success: I learnt how to promote the urban nature and biodiversity values in Mangalore city. I was not aware of `Justifying our strategy'. The Rehovot approach taught me how to inculcate positioning the project to potential stakeholders.
If you want more information, please visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-the-last-boulevard-of-Mangalore
If you are a graduate from the Weitz Center, you can submit a project: Please fill in the following form, respecting instructions, and load a picture.
Your project will be published online in the coming months. If you need more information, please contact us dsc3@netvision.net.il
Your project will be published online in the coming months. If you need more information, please contact us dsc3@netvision.net.il
