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About Us
Education, Language and Development Training Programmes provides practical training and consultancy services to development organisations in South and South-East Asia. Registered as a charity in the United Kingdom, but based in Kathmandu, Nepal and Bangkok, Thailand, ELD conducts regular open training workshops in areas such as Reporting Skills, Project Management and PM&E, as well as a range of in-house assignments which include training, planning, proposal development, teambuilding, project close-out and outplacement.
ELD was founded in 2000 'to enhance the skills of people working in education, sustainable development and human rights using the most appropriate technologies and methodologies'. ELD's objectives are based on extensive research. Between 1997 and 1999 we explored the communication and project management challenges faced by projects and development organisations. Since then we have continued to develop our programmes and responses based on our extensive experience delivering services in South Asia (since 2000) and South-East Asia (since 2003).
Initiatives undertaken by ELD have so far included:
Future directions in 2007 include extensive TOT assignments and e-publishing of 'How to' guides for project workers.
Although a not-for-profit organisation, ELD does not seek grant funding for its work. We generate all our own costs through our activities. This enables us to seek to provide excellent service and continually improve. While this means ELD ultimately has to be financially sustainable in terms of the value of services provided, we still put the charity's objectives - and service - first. For example, around 25% of all training places have been subsidised or provided as scholarship to allow greater participation from smaller NGOs, and our Shared Learning on-line resource centre continues to be free of charge.
The overall operations are still directed by founder Mr Neil Kendrick, who travels widely throughout the South / South-East Asia regions. In countries where ELD is active, highly experienced international facilitators contribute to delivery of the training. The charity is overseen by a board of trustees in the United Kingdom, and is accountable to the Charities Commission in the UK as well as local advisors in project countries.
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