IECD - Institut Européen de Coopération et de Développement (Egypt)

The IECD is a development aid organization that operates in fifteen countries in sub-Saharan Africa, in the Near East & North Africa region, in the Indian Ocean and in South-East Asia.

Since its creation in 1988, the IECD and its teams have pursued their mission of “Sowers of the future” in the field. Entrepreneurs in human and economic development, they build, with local partners, environments favorable to the revelation of each person's talents. The ambition of the IECD is to provide beneficiaries with the essential know-how to improve their living conditions, become responsible actors in their country and contribute to making society fairer.

The IECD has developed recognized expertise in 3 areas of intervention: Education, Training & professional integration, and Entrepreneurship . At the same time, since 2006 the IECD has been fighting a fight close to its heart: sickle cell disease .