About MENGOS
The Middle East NGOs Gateway Project [MENGOS] is an Internet gateway containing information about non-governmental organizations, funding agencies, events, projects, success stories of individuals as well as organizations, and other topics relevant to nongovernmental organizations across the Arab Middle East. It hopes to establish an electronic forum linking nonprofits to facilitate exchange of experiences, best-practices, material resources, and other valuable information regarding the usage of IT primarily in Arabic. MENGOS is a project of Virtual Activism and its branch Center for Knowledge Society in Cairo, Egypt.
MENGOS aims at disseminating information and promoting human rights and development initiatives in the Arab Middle East. In particular, MENGOS focuses on progressive, under represented and marginalized NGOs to give them voice and presence on the Internet. The Gateway therefore is essentially a database of NGOs who are both online and offline, in countries that are members of the Arab League, and who work on progressive human rights and development issues.
The database is a multi-lingual database [Arabic/English/French] that allows internet users to identify NGOs by name, region, area of focus, or primary contact person in three languages. It opens channels for donors to identify potential grantees, and opens channels of communication and networking among nonprofit organizations throughout the Middle East and beyond.
Comments and suggestions as well as additions to our database. To add an organization, please click here. To make suggestions or comments, please click here.
Mission:
MENGOS is a gateway that encourages networking among civil society organizations in the Arab Middle East, and is committed to harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for sustainable and equitable development and for the promotion of human rights and democracy. MENGOS enables the sharing of information, experiences and resources to help highlight initiatives that reduce poverty, empower people, and promote democracy and human rights.
Objectives:
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Form an evolving network of Arab public, private and not for profit organizations.
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Promote broad access to - and effective use of - knowledge and information as tools of equitable sustainable development and promotion of democracy and human rights.
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Increase knowledge sharing, experiences and resources to realize the potential of information and communication technologies to improve lives, reduce poverty, promote democracy, and empower people.
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Build local IT capacity to enable civil society in the Arab World to recognize and use the IT tools available to enhance their work.
