Angela Chen directs EDC’s work in Asia Pacific that gives farmers, factory workers, craftspeople, merchants, and others the training and tools to become successful entrepreneurs.
When she was young, Angela Chen wanted to do something to help the stray dogs in her native Taiwan.
A technology training session changed the life of a farmer in India—and with her new mobile texting business she has also transformed the way other farmers make a living.
Growing up in a family of agricultural laborers in the rural village of Kalol, India, Varshaben Luva hated the long, hot truck rides at harvest time.
Hewlett-Packard funds the Learning Initiative for Entrepreneurs (HP LIFE). For more information about this project please contact Emily Veysey at eveysey@edc.org
Hewlett-Packard (HP) turned to EDC’s Health and Human Development office in Asia to provide support to small owner-run businesses, the backbone of the economy in the region.
Peer support groups in Vietnam can effectively help reduce both heroin relapse and HIV/AIDS infections among recovering heroin users.
Thirty support group leaders from across Vietnam sat in a circle of chairs at the beginning of the final day of a five-day training, honing their skills to facilitate groups for recovering heroin addi
This project is funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, USAID, and SAMHSA. EDC is a sub-grantee of Family Health International, EDC’s partner for this project. For more information, please contact Jim Vetter at jvetter@edc.org
Education Development Center, Inc. (2009). Feasibility of Various Responses and Interventions to Build Capacity of Local Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the Lao PDR. Prepared for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Swiss Cooperation Office, Vientiane, Lao PDR.
This report provides an overview of the civil society sector in Lao PDR, including the current legislative framework for civil society organizations (CSOs), a description of past and current intervent
HHD manages Hewlett Packard’s Entrepreneurship Learning Program (HELP) in Asia Pacific which provides business management training to small companies—the backbone of the economy in the region.
Ms. Suwanna Onwantha struggled to start her own business in Thailand. She tried several times without success; her most recent venture was a children’s clothing business.
This project is funded by Hewlett Packard. For more information contact Yupaporn Boontid, Project Coordinator at yboontid@edc.org and coe@edc.org.
For migrant workers, change proves difficult. A pilot project in China is connecting public training schools in rural provinces and factories in the city to facilitate the transition.
China’s economy has accelerated at a double-digit rate over the past decade. Today, 220 million migrant workers—the backbone of the country’s growth—live and work in China’s cities.
This project is funded by adidas, GTZ, and Oxfam. For more information, contact wcchang@edc.org.
In Cambodia, poverty-stricken parents receive training and support to start their own income-generating businesses.
Lida and her young children live in one of the many poor areas in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. Her husband died of an AIDS-related illness and she is HIV positive.
For more information, please contact Amy Jersild at ajersild@edc.org. Funding for this project came from Deutsche Bank Asia Foundation.
Zhang, X.W., Liu, L.Q., Zhang, X.H., Guo, J.X., Pan, X.D., Aldinger, C., Sen-Hai, Y.U., & Jones, J. (2008). Health promoting school development in Zhejiang Province, China. Health Promotion International, 23(3), 220-230.
In 2003, after three pilot projects successfully implemented WHO’s Health-Promoting Schools (HPS) concept, officials in Zhejiang Province, China, expanded to additional 51 schools (93,000 students and
Aldinger, C., Vince Whitman, C., Zhang XW, & Jones, J. (2009). Between knowledge, theory and practice: How Health-Promoting Schools “happened” in China. In T. Gokah (Ed.), Contemporary Discourses on IE&C Theory and Practice. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
In this chapter, we examine the extent to which processes and factors we think are important are consistent with the processes and factors expressed in a successful effort to scale up the development
