Research for Sustainable Development-RSD

Developing countries face huge challenges in accessing up-to-date information about aid, development and humanitarian flows – information that they need to plan and manage those resources effectively. Similarly, citizens in developing countries and in donor countries lack the information they need to hold their governments to account for the use of those resources. RSD aims to address these challenges by making information about aid spending easier to access, use and understand.

RSD envisions building Young researchers as Youth in Development & leadership through Research base activities in field of Developmental Education; a process of building self-awareness and inspiring young people to understand/ engage with social issues so that they can initiate and lead citizenship action and bring about social change. As part of a burgeoning interest around the globe in the role of young researchers as leaders of social change, our youth work currently encompasses 120 of our school communities. This is a research group that studies the challenges of sustainable development and evaluate vulnerability and adaptation to societal and environmental changes. In our research projects we study the sensitivity and vulnerability of peoples, livelihoods and institutions to societal, economic and environmental changes and to see developments needs for aid harmonization and effectiveness. Main components of our youth programs are trainings, research on social action projects and building international linkages. So far, 2,000 youth have been given training.