The establishment of the
Resource Center goes back to the establishment of the Association itself.
The Association initially served as a center of information exchange for
relief activities during the great famine of Ethiopia in 1973/74. The
Resource Center, which started its service in a crude form with limited
number of reading materials and users, has now evolved into a Center where
diversified information on NGOs is available. The Resource Center serves
more than 200 CRDA members as well as researchers, college and university
students, people from the media, private and other organizations.
Objective
The prime objective of the Resource Center is to support the work of member
agencies and other development partners through information provision. By
doing so, it contributes to:
Increasing the knowledge base of users;
Enhancing understanding and collective learning among members and
other partners;
Facilitating information exchange; and
Building the capacity of member and partner agencies through
information.
Reference materials and books/publications with single copy which are used
as reference and have high demand will not be checked out.
Services
There are a number of resources available in the Resource Center ranging
from printed materials and CDs to audio/video cassettes.
Books and Periodicals
There are more than 2600 books available falling under categories of
Agriculture, Advocacy, Children, Development, Education, Gender, Health,
HIV/AIDS, Information Technology, PRSP, Water, Environment, Food Security
and other NGO and government policy papers. The Resource Center also has a
collection of more than 600 training manuals and workshop proceedings of
CRDA and other organizations, including research documents and reports.
Furthermore, the Resource Center acquires various periodical publications
of the country. The Center has a Reference Section that contains Amharic
as well as foreign language dictionaries, encyclopedias, various
directories and yellow pages.
Educational Video Tapes and CDs
More than 35 CDs on different development issues and over 200 video
cassettes on various sectors, mainly, agriculture, health, HIV/AIDS,
gender, children, environment, management, etc. are also available.
For more information about the CRDA Resource Center and the Cyber
Café, please call us on 251-(0)11-4390313 / 4390322 and we will be
delighted to serve you.
