CHRISTIAN ENGINEERS IN DEVELOPMENT
A group for Service in Developing Countries

Who Are We?

CED formally came into being and began to operate on 20th January 1986 in response to a conviction that there was a need for professional engineers, and others, who were committed Christians with experience in developing countries to:

• Use their skills and resources in overseas development work within the framework of a professional association.
• Assist the poor in the developing nations to help themselves to overcome their poverty.
• Act as an agent for the Church in Britain to reach out to overseas neighbours in need by being associated both in prayer and financially with specific development opportunities.

What Do We Do?

CED offers a quality professional engineering service at minimum cost to overseas communities and development agencies to enable them to address some of the underlying causes of poverty and ill-health. Beneficiaries are certainly not restricted to Christian communities, even though in practice much work comes through Dioceses and Christian development agencies. Improved water supply is the most frequent, but by no means the only, requirement.

CED policy is to establish partnerships with local communities and promote self-help with the maximum use of local resources of manpower and materials.

CED does not have projects of its own; it always helps local communities or organisations with their own projects, provided they are considered viable.

CED Provides:

Technical Services to Projects

• Consultation
• Site Visits
• Professional Advice
• Troubleshooting
• Field Reconnaissance
• Data Collection
• Feasibility Studies
• Project Definition
• Cost Estimates
• Engineering design
• Procurement and Tender Evaluation
• Supervision of Suppliers, Contractors, Direct Labour and Self-Help work.
• Training of Project Users, Operators, Maintenance Staff and Managers
• Project Management
• Project Monitoring and Evaluation

Other Services to Partner and Beneficiary Organisations

• Preparation of Proposal Documents for submission to Funding Agencies
• Assistance in Fund-raising from Agencies, Trusts and Individuals
• Transfer and Disbursement of Funds

Please Note:

CED is not a funding agency in its own right and therefore cannot directly fund projects, but CED can, and often does, assist with fund-raising documentation and offer fund-raising advice.

CED News

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