Network collecting documents (primarily grey literature) on the Great lakes region (Burundi, Rwanda and the northern and southern regions of Kivu in Zaire. The subject coverage is recent events and about economic, social and political perspectives for the region. Document sources include: "public reports from international organisations and NGOs; governments; political parties; confessional organisations; letters, studies and reports from personalities and researchers; communications for civil society."
Hosted in Geneva from 1995 to 2009 by the former “Graduate Institute for Development Studies”, the Programme opened local offices in the field, i.e. in Burundi, Rwanda, DRC and Tanzania. It was offering a double opportunity: to collect more documents from the concerned countries, and to train local staff to document processing with the highest efficiency. The Programme stopped its activities in March 2009, but the CCDP website now hosts the database that still offers the full content of the Programme’s production.
Working languages (depending from the original documents) : English, French, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi (including English & French abstracts for the documents in local languages).