El-Mahrousa center was established in 2011 as a think tank and research in the areas of: economic and social development;

the rights and freedoms of association and unions;
creative solutions to the problem of unemployment;
non-traditional ideas in both the formal and informal sectors;
and, building cooperative relations between employers and trade unions and
governments.

The vision of the center is to achieve economic and social development which is based on the economic and social justice, according to the rights and freedoms of all citizens in national and international conventions. The center aims to enhance respect for socioeconomic rights through training programs, human rights education, civic education, developmental interventions, and service delivery. The center employs both conventional tools, such as direct trainings, along with the newly available technological innovations, i.e., e-learning and new social media, to support its programming.