FLAGSHIP PROGRAMMES
National Network
Israel
Address
12 David Pinsky HaifaIsraelCountry
City
HaifaStreet address 2
12 David PinskyTelephone
074-7932301Website
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1961Contact Person1
Shachar Re'emJob Title 1
DirectorOrganisation Type
Public InstitutionFields of Activity
GenderGeneral Information
The Golda Meir MASHAV Mount Carmel International Training Center (MCTC) is one of the three MASHAV's center, MASHAV Israel's Agency for International Development Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. MCTC was founded in 1961 by two visionary women: Former Prime Minister Golda Meir, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Mina Ben-Zvi, MCTC’s founding director, through MASHAV – Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to assist in the training of women engaged in community work in the newly emerging states in Africa and Asia.
Mission and Objectives
The Center's underlying tenet stresses the importance of bottom-up development and the recognition of women’s contribution to their countries’ development. MCTC methodology incorporates a strongly hands-on approach, based wherever possible on observation visits, case studies presented by participants from their own work experience, and problem solving through simulation exercises. We view our participants as professionals who are here to learn from each other and network with one another, creating long-prevailing professional bonds and friendships.
In keeping with the UN’s commitment to attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), MASHAV/MCTC continues to be directed and driven by these aims. Poverty eradication and advancement of the socio-economic status of women remain at the forefront of its agenda.
Main Projects / Activities
MCTC has carried out hundreds of training activities to date, for the benefit of women from around the globe, for nearly 58 years. The Center’s three areas of study are Sustainable Community Development, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Early Childhood Education, all with gender as a cross-cutting issue. To date, some 30,000 professional women and men from developing countries and transitional societies have been provided with tools for women’s empowerment and development through our training activities in Israel. In addition, through on the spot courses and long-term projects, MCTC reaching out to thousands of professionals and hundreds of organizations around the world. The courses are conducted by Israeli expert teams, at the request of government agencies or non-governmental organizations in the trainees' countries of origin. Furthermore, MCTC has continued collaboration with Palestinian, Jordanian, and other regional NGOs and civil society organizations providing training activities and seminars on women leadership, economic empowerment, and managing of health care services.