Almishkat Centre for Research
Founded: 1992
Head: Dr. Nader Fergany, Director
Address:
Telephone: 202-3375656
Facsimile: 202-2375656, 3444420
E-mail: webmaster@almishkat.org
Web site: www.almishkat.org
Institutional framework:
Non-governmental, National
Working language(s):
Arabic, English
Areas of activity:
Humanities and social sciences: Social sciences and human development
Almishkat is a non-commercial institution devoted to
advancing knowledge on contemporary
countries, through research in the social sciences, with
emphasis on human development. Almishkat recognizes the
critical need for basing social science research on high-
quality data sets and gives priority to producing such data
sets through rigorous (held surveys in areas on which
information are generally lacking.
R and D activities/schemes:
Fields of research emphasis include: knowledge acquisition
(ejucaticn/learning and research/development),
employment, governance and welfare (poverty).
Public services:
Technical reports on research projects, normally produced in
limited numbers, are generally made available to interested
professionals free of charge. For the general public, however,
abridged versions of these reports are published through
reputed publishers having solid distribution networks.
Almishkat bears the entire cost of publication to enable the
publisher to sell the resulting booklets at a subsidized price
calculated to just cover the distribution cost
Publications:
son-recurrent.. Almishkat publishes books, technical reports
and research notes. Recent reports include:
- Science and Research for Development in the Arab Region, February 1999;
- Governance and Social Development: The Case of African Arab Countries, August 1999.
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An Assessment of the Unemployment Situation in
Links to other organizations:
Almishkat conducts collaborative research with other
organizations including:
Centre for Educational Research and Development,
Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific
Organization (ALECSO);
Centre for Arab Unity Studies,
Economic Research Forum (ERF),
Future development plans and programmes:
Almishkat is conducting for the State of Bahrain, in
collaboration with the Centre for Educational Research and
Development, Ministry of Education, an ''Assessment of
Educational Outcomes at the End of the First Cycle of Basic
Education'' The study instruments include tests for
competency in Arabic and mathematics as well as
questionnaires for the pupil and household, teachers and
school directors.
Almishkat is providing facilities for the incorporation phase of
the ''Arab Society for the Advancement of Learning'' as a
non-governmental, non-profit, voluntary institution based on
selective membership and interdisciplinary and devoted to
the advancement of learning, with emphasis on continuous
learning throughout life, in Arab countries.
Almishkat is to publish, in collaboration with the Centre for
Arab Unity Studies in
Development under Capitalist Restructuring in Arab
Countries in the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century''
summing-up the Center's research activity in this field in the
last five years. Volume l investigates human capital
accumulation, with emphasis on basic education in
while Volume 11 deals with employment and poverty. The
Centre is negotiating to publish an abridged version in
English.
The director of the Centre has teen invited to serve on the
steering committee of the ''Strategy for Higher Education in
Arab Countries'' established by the Arab League Educational,
Cultural and Scientific Organization.
Funding:
Source(s). A number of research projects, mostly with Arab
and international organizations, have provided necessary
financial support to the Centre.
Information sources: