Introduction about the Center
Regional Center for Sustainable Development & Foresight Studies (SDFS) as an independent think tank is concerned with the public policy and support of State's decision-makers (government sector - private sector - civil society - regional bodies and institutions of Egypt, the Arab world, and the African continent). This comes with the ability to provide alternatives to decision-makers to find suitable solutions to a particular problem or vision within the framework of a future outlook that helps predict the future of all raised issues.
SDFS intends to take part with the government in building new generations, by developing the capacity of individual entity's for future planning, making use of future studies, strategic research, and initiatives, also by consolidating the efforts of government institutions, the private sector, and civil society to provide a clear and correct understanding of the various issues of sustainable development and the future transformations, based on scientific and systematic methods, and by providing professional support to researchers as per community needs, along with raising a generation of consultants able to support the institutions' future studies.
Preserving the Egyptian, Arab and African cultural identity will be one of our commitments in raising and building a modern person, who belongs to his homeland, through a set of positive values to achieve a social consensus based on real sustainable development. The Center performs its role through the support of its Board of Directors, consisting from members with long-standing scientific and practical experiences in various fields of business who were leaders of a lot of major international institutions. We are proud of our esteemed Board of Directors, made up from members with many years of practical and long-standing experience that will contribute to effective governance that helps achieve the set goals and accomplish our mission towards the communities in which we operate. It also supports the efforts of the different generations of the Center, represented by the executive management and a generation of consultants and trainers whom we struggle to build.
Despite this, the Center has been keen to recruit long-experienced members in the consultative body, not inferior to Board of Directors members, otherwise higher in academic experiences in addition to practical experiences. The Center's consultative body is composed of members with prominent positions, scientifically and morally, nationally and internationally.
The Regional Center for Sustainable Development & Foresight Studies is looking forward to implementing some of the activities that achieve the Board of Directors' vision, mission, and strategic objectives, without departing from sustaining the highest professional and practical standards in carrying out those activities, namely:
• Studying Public Policy.
• Sustainable Development Consultancy.
• Develop studies and implement projects with government institutions, private sector and civil society.
• Provide initiatives in our field of business.
• Provide technical Support Services.
• Innovation and institutional excellence are our top priorities.
• Launching an awareness program.
• Establish a center for training and preparation of human resources.
We will always be keen to create partnerships with consulting firms, distinguished Arab and foreign universities, and similar centers. We will be very careful that these partnerships are for cooperation and exchange of knowledge, and never to deviate from our goals and values and our Egyptian, Arab and African personalities.
We pray for this work to be sustainable, beneficial for our countries, and a positive influence on the present and future generations. We seek to build the future. We will witness the future and the future is coming to us.
May Allah protect our homelands, guide us to what pleases Him, and to the good of our peoples.
Managing Director
Mahmoud El-Ganainy
Vision
Leadership in future foresight to achieve sustainable development
Mission
SDFS, as an independent think tank, is committed to contribute in supporting decision-makers, in all the issues related to sustainable development and future foresight at all government institutions, private sector, and civil society of Egypt, the Arab region, and the African continent by providing the community with studies, initiatives, and raising awareness, while building qualified teams of consultants and researchers, also through partnerships with concerned national and international think tanks, till the achievement of the required societal impact on policy and decision making, besides providing a better working environment for our partners.
Strategic Objectives
1. Provide decision-makers with alternatives and solutions for the various current issues in Egypt, Arab countries and the African continent through future studies.
2. Identify and evaluate the foreseeable risks of issues related to the Center's field of business by examining the strategic plans of the targeted institutions, to help develop a strategy to manage those risks, whether opportunities or threats.
3. Building awareness and providing the community with real understanding of Egypt's Vision 2030 through training courses and conferences for different groups within Egypt, to help maximize the results of achieving that vision.
4. Contribute to supporting decision-makers, through preparing reports on urgent issues that affect development plans and ideological, social, economic and political mindset, and through introducing different scenarios, and providing the best solutions and alternatives.
5. Contribute to improving public policy making, by examining government priorities, and raising awareness of the public, policy-makers and mass media on the pressing problems affecting sustainable development goals.
6. Supporting foresight mindset in a scientific manner, through the development and training of researchers and consultants to help build a professional Egyptian-Arab African plan.
7. Learning about community mindset regarding various issues and subjects that have an influence on achieving the SDGs, by conducting surveys to help provide an observation on priorities to decision-makers.
8. Engagement and cooperation with Arab and foreign universities and similar regional think tanks to support the Center's mission to truly benefit the society.
9. Establishing an academy, by the end of 2021, to build a decision-maker capable of future foresight.
10. Launching initiatives and creating partnerships aiming at linking SDGs to future studies to help achieve the optimal benefit for the region in which we work.
