On March 12th 2024, in partnership with the United Nations, EDF made a public presentation and held a panel in New York focused on “Participatory community-based development through women's collective businesses in peri-urban Iran”; which was widely attended by other…
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is one of the first functional commissions of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), which itself is one of the main UN organs within the United Nations created in 1946.…
Local Community Development: From Khorramshahr to Zahedan Through the efforts of local NGO Bahar -e- Khorramshahr, EDF, and trained local facilitators, a group of women in Sarhanieh, peripheral settlements of Khoramshahr city, managed to initiate a collective business. These hardworking…
Local Community Development: facilitation and institutionalization Training Local Facilitators – a new project Training Local Facilitators is a newly defined project that targets South Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchistan, and South Khouzestan provinces of Iran. This online program is a collective…
As the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic, societies have to endure overwhelming social and economic challenges in addition to dealing with the worse public health crisis of the century. The coronavirus crisis in multiple and overlapping dimensions and levels affects…