About CDCS® Knowledge Institute

CDCS® Knowledge Institute strives to create, apply and share a home-grown knowledge base especially in the field of development, technology and business management. It develops contextualized (e.g. local) knowledge contents, pursues cutting-edge research agenda, disseminates knowledge, builds human competence, and promotes entrepreneurial leadership.

CDCS® Knowledge Institute pursues the following programs–

Research for Home Grown Knowledge (RHK)

celebrating home-grown knowledge

CDCS® Knowledge Institute endeavors to become the regional hub of home-grown knowledge, leading the way with cutting-edge fundamental and action research agenda. The research outputs are expected to play an instrumental role in influencing government’s policy agenda, corporate strategies, academic pursuit, and/or social debates. In other words, our accumulated home-grown knowledge will not only be the primary vehicle for addressing the home-grown problems, but also set the course for future knowledge endeavors.

Professional Development Program (PDP)

learn, lead, live

CDCS® Knowledge Institute helps organizations build human capital through cutting-edge capacity-enhancing professional development programs, including training and coaching. CDCS® PDP revolves around its unique ‘(n+1) model’, with relevance and participation at the core. Through PDP, CDCS® Knowledge Institute offers the following:

		Professional Certificate: (extremely busy professionals will have exposure to cutting-edge field of knowledge).
		Advanced Certificate (for specialization in an advanced field of knowledge).
		Custom-designed Certificate: (for organizations with specific needs and unique circumstances).
		Base of the Pyramid Certificate : A flagship program, for people at the base of the pyramid (BoP), regardless of their educational qualification.

Knowledge Content Development Program (KCD)

global perspective, local wisdom

CDCS® Knowledge Institute helps the institutions of knowledge prepare tomorrow’s professionals capable of solving problems in given social and organizational settings by combining global bench- mark with local wisdom. To achieve this goal, CDCS® Knowledge Institute endeavors to develop ‘contextualized' and local learning materials and research-driven knowledge contents. Independent HRD professionals and in-house training units of business and development organizations too find CDCS® knowledge contents unique, relevant and useful. CDCS® home-grown knowledge contents include, but not limited to, the following:

		Teaching Cases & Case Studies
		Training Modules & Handbooks
		Working Papers & Publications
		Video and E-content Repository

Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP):

innovation, incubation, and beyond

The Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP) at CDCS® Knowledge Institute helps enterprises create competitive advantages and craft strategies to achieve sustainable growth. It supports business innovation and incubation in developing and marketizing economies. EDP deals with:

		Entrepreneurial capacity building
		Business advisory and support services
		Access to market, finance and information
		Technology transfer and adoption
		Business enabling environment
		Policy analysis and program evaluation

Global Value Chains & Enterprise Competitiveness Program (GVEC)

CDCS® Knowledge Institute pursues this cutting-edge research program on Global Value Chains & Enterprise Competitiveness (GVEC) with an aim to support emerging economies and businesses in crafting winning strategies based on well-analyzed global industry dynamics. GVEC strives to explore and identify opportunities for local businesses to get successfully integrated into global value chains. Through this process, CDCS® Knowledge Institute contributes creation of sustainable markets in developing and marketizing economies.

Career Activation Program (CAP):

from classroom to workplace

CDCS® Knowledge Institute runs an innovative program for fresh graduates and graduating students of different universities and colleges. The program, named Career Activation Program (CAP), is designed to support educated youths’ smooth transition from classroom to workplace (C2W). The program participants are called CDCS® CAP associates.

To best serve the unique circumstances of the CAP associates and the needs and vacancies at CDCS® Knowledge Institute (or its partners), the program is kept flexible both in terms of duration and design.

Core Team
President : Prof.Dr.Rahim.B.Talukdar, Ex-President,AMDIB
Vice President Dev.Cooperation: N.Morita,Ex-Director General , ADB
Vice President, Research : Prof.Dr.Abdur Rab,Ex-President , AMDISA
Chief Executive : Syeda Farzana Morshed,Managing Director,CDCS®
Mission Leader : Assoc.Prof.Sheikh Morshed Jahan