It was on 25 May 2001 that GDRC, the Global Development Research Center, went online.
GDRC began in a very humble small way in early 1995, when the predessesor of the current Virtual Library on Microcredit - the Informal Credit Homepage - was launched. The NGO Cafe came soon after, and with the launch of the Urban Environmental Management Research Initiative (UEMRI) in 1997, the beginnings of a comprehensive set of programmes were underway.
Eventually, the many overlapping and intersecting themes, in different web servers, were consolidated into five spheres - Environment, Urban Community, Economy, and Information - within which the 15 programmes were laid out. And GDRC was born as [www.gdrc.org] on 25 May 2001.
In the three short years, GDRC has come a long way, attracting more than 3,750 visitors a day on average. More importantly, GDRC has developed an extensive range of themes and issues within its 15 programmes, helping its users contextualize their professional boundaries within larger developmental frameworks.
The whole team - Virtual Fellows and Institutional Partners - would like to thank all those who have made GDRC a success over the last couple of years!
Thank you!
Hari Srinivas
Coordinator, GDRC
