Founded:
1963
Head:
Prof. Dr. Hisham Makhlouf,
Director
Address:
Mokattam Hill
Telephone 202-5080950535/745
Facsimile: 202-5082707
E-mail: ctc@frcu.eun.eg
Web site: www.cdc.eun.eg
Institutional framework:
Governmental
Working Languages:
English
Areas of activity:
Humanities and
social sciences: Population, social
sciences
Number of staff:
Research professionals: 3
Support professionals: 2
Library holdings:
Dumber of
library volumes: 36,000
Number of
library periodicals: 1 10
Other
holdings: 4
CDC is an interregional Centre serving the developing countries
of
Its main objectives include the following:
- Providing educational opportunities to persons
working in the field of population;
- Undertaking research in population and related felts;
- Providing technical assistance and consultants
services in population and related felts to interested governments and organizations;
- Organizing national ant regional conferences ant
seminars on population ant related issues;
- Planning and conducting training programmes
in population and related gelds.
Organizational structure:
CDC is an independent institution sponsored and
financed by the Arab Republic of Egypt; It is headed
by an administrative board and has an advisory committee and seven technical committees.
R and D activities/schemes:
The Research and Survey Unit carries out demographic research
ant surveys, in addition to field studies in areas such as: Population and
demography, population dynamics, population ant development, population
policies and programmes, use of computers, demographic
surveys, economics and sociology, demographic analysis and migration.
Research projects in progress include:
- Use of Composite Indicators in Measuring Health
Levels (A Study of Health Surveys in
- Labor Force ant Unemployment in
- Contraceptive Use ant Infant and Child Survival;
- Women's Status, Fertility and Contraceptive Use in
- Extended Use-Effectiveness of Contraceptives.
Training activities:
CDC offers academic educational programmes
at four levels:
- General diploma in
demography;
- Special diploma in
population and development;
- Master of Philosophy (M, PhiI.) in Demography;
- Post Graduate diploma in
population and sustainable development in collaboration with the United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA)(1994 - 2000).
In addition, CDC organizes the following training programmes: Demographic surveys; population projections; statistical
analyses, reproductive health; environment and sustainable development issues;
population/crime and security; personal computer; population policies,
strategies and programmes; gender issues and women's empowerment;
population information and communication; ant English language for demography.
Meetings, conferences and seminars:
CDC conducts an annual conference in which the students
and faculty actively participate. Distinguished demographers and graduates Of
the Centre are invited to participate. The 30th Annual Conference on
Population, Sustainable
Development ant Globalization Challenges in Developing Countries
was held in November 2000.
Public services:
CDC offers advisory services in population and related
gelds.
Library facilities, including Demographic Health
Surveys (DHS) data, are available to visiting scholars and students of
demography outside the Centre.
Publications:
Non-recurrent: CDC Occasional Papers and Working Papers.
Recurrent: CDC Annual Research Monographs and the CDC
Newsletter (biannually).
Links to other organizations:
CDC cooperates with:
- The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA);
- The United States Agency for International
Development
(USAID);
-
- The League of Arab States, PAPCHILD;
- ESCWA;
- The
(NIDI);
- International
(IUSSP);
-
Main research
facilities/equipment available:
The Computer Lab has more than 100 modern personal computers
including Pentium 11 and 111 PC's, Power Macintosh and Apple Macintosh.
Moreover, there are laser printers, data show, scanners, paper-ports and
Criticizers. The lab is equipped with the most recent demographic, statistical,
programmeming languages, databases, geographic Information system and word processing packages.
The Centre is connected to the Internet through the Egyptian Universities
Network.
Major achievements, scientific results and patents:
UNFPA in
CDC as an executing agency for UNFPA.
Information sources:
- International Research Centers Directory 1994-1995