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The Expertise Database: manual

The inventory relies on a list of ‘actors’, who implement projects, carry out business, conduct studies in Central Africa and, most particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Rwanda and in Burundi (Cf. Hint 1). The approach is thus pluri sectoral: under the label of ‘umbrella’, the inventory addresses actors issuing from the different sectors that are committed with the region: private sector, universities and research units, NGOs, funding agencies, but also individuals, such as expert consultants, key informants or retired people.

Information on actors is twofold: it provides the web navigator with the actor’s basic coordinates ‘contacts’ but, mainly, with a detailed view of each actor’s specific expertise. Expertise is grasped through present and past realizations that, in accordance with specificities of each umbrella, are grouped under the label ‘projects/clients/contracts’. The item projects/clients/contracts, refer in its turn, to different fields of application, labeled under the category ‘theme’.

Visitors are encouraged to conduct their navigation within the base, by sorting actors or projects with the main filters ‘by umbrella’ and ‘by theme’ and, in a second step, with the help of filters such as: country or timing of implementation.

Visitors may also conduct their research with the help of key words that appear in an actor’s name or project…

Hints

  • Research through location of projects/clients/contracts..
    If the base focuses on project and actors linked to DRC, Rwanda and Burundi, it also mentions those implemented or situated in all the neighboring countries: Central African Republic; Republic of the Congo; Angola; Zambia; Tanzania; Uganda and Sudan. The database also displays information on expertise implemented outside this ring, but in contexts that are similar to those encountered in the three target countries: in this case, they are grouped under broader unities such as Central or East Africa, or South East Asia or South America.
  • Contact us
    Visitors that are part of the expertise units that appear in the base are encouraged to contact Creac’s administrators in case they notice mistakes in information or elements that should be updated.