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SOCIO-ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
OF RURAL WOMEN IN FAYOUM
PROJECT
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Project Description |
The
“Socio-economic empowerment of
rural women in Fayoum” project
responds to the urgent need to
reduce poverty among rural women
by helping them to improve the
processing and marketing of
locally cultivated Medicinal and
Aromatic Plants MAPs and
therefore bridging the gap
between marginalized rural women
and the market place through
increasing the share of rural
women from the overall trading
cycle.
The main
objective of the project is to
empower rural women by
supporting an improved
management of processing and
marketing of medicinal and
aromatic plants. The
project results are as follows:
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Rural women in the two
communities have a good
understanding of the
production, processing and
marketing cycles of MAPS and
of the key stakeholders
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A minimum 50 women in each
community have the skills
and knowledge to process the
sorting, drying and
packaging of MAPS according
to international standards
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A minimum of 10 educate
women have the skills and
knowledge to supervise and
provide counseling to rural
women in the areas of
processing and marketing
MAPS
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Adequate packaging for
wholesale and retail market
has been designed and
produced
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A group lending is in
place and finance rural
women activities in
processing and marketing
MAPS
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A minimum of 50 of the
trained women have succeeded
in processing and
successfully marketing MAPs
products
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Period |
Mar.06 - Feb. 07 |
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Donor |
No Woman No Life Foundation |
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Country |
EGYPT
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PREPARATION OF WOMEN’S
ORGANIZATIONS FOR NATIONAL
ELECTIONS
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Project Description |
The
Iraqi Transitional National
Assembly elections provided a
unique opportunity for women to
act politically. Yet a
multitude of factors rendered
women both as voters and
candidates unprepared and
therefore, under-represented. In
addition, women’s networks and
organizations lacked the
necessary skills to support
women’s participation. The
objective of this project was to
provide these organizations with
skills that will help promote
women’s participation in the
elections, including lobbying,
awareness raising and
campaigning.
NSCE participated jointly with
SDD on a program design mission
in Iraq, where the team
networked with women’s NGOs and
international organizations,
researched their needs and held
a one day project planning
workshop. In the second
mission, the NSCE team delivered
a strategic planning and
advocacy, and a communication
and media skills workshop. These
were held in Amman, Jordan with
a total of 22 participants from
a dozen women’s organizations
attending. Through the
participatory exercises the need
for continuity and follow-up,
and that further training,
capacity building, networking
and basic skills were important.
Therefore, while this workshop’s
target was a limited, albeit
significant, event, NSCE plans
to help advance women’s
political rights by making use
of the information and contacts
it has established through this
project and submit a proposal
for a more comprehensive
mission.
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Period |
July 2004 – January 2005
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Donor |
DFID: UK Department for
International Development
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Country |
IRAQ
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TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OF THE
SUPPORT TO THE PROMOTION OF
WOMEN ADB PROJECT
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Project Description |
NSCE was selected by the
Djiboutian Ministry of Women
Promotion (MPF) to provide the
technical assistance of the
Support to the Promotion of
Women Project, financed by the
 African
Development Bank (1,065,000 US$
grant), which aims at
implementing the National
Strategy for the Integration of
Women into Development
(elaborated to reduce the causes
of Djiboutian women
powerlessness in 4 priority
areas: decision, health,
education, economy).
NSCE’s main task consists in
empowering the Ministry and
making its Project Management
Unit able to assume efficiently
its role of supervision of the
planned activities and its role
of coordination of the planned
partnerships (with technical
Ministries, with media, with
civil society).
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Period |
July 2004 – December 2005
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Donor |
African Development Bank |
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Country |
DJIBOUTI
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STUDY ON GENDER AND
CULTURAL/SOCIAL DIVERSITY IN
EGYPT
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Project Description |
Women's rights are still a
particularly sensitive topic in
Egypt. Traditions have often
served as justification of a
broad range of restricting rules
and customs being applied
towards women and governed by
these traditions, Egypt remains
a deeply conservative society.
JICA contracted NSCE to conduct
a study that would aim at
revealing the diversity of the
cultural and social composition
from gender perspectives in
Egypt. This comes within the
JICA’s frame to promote
mainstreaming gender into all
the projects following the
JICA’s “Guideline on Gender
Mainstreaming/WID” in all over
the world.
In this study, NSCE combined
both the existing gender
statistics and data as well as
the result of the field survey
on the gender roles and
activities and the people’s
views on the issues such as
marriage and divorce, domestic
violence against women,
disability and labor
discrimination according to
gender, region, age, ethnicity,
and social, economic and
educational levels.
The study was implemented by
conducting: A literature
review, including a review of
existing gender statistics and
data and a review of a number of
gender sensitive projects that
were implemented by different
governmental and
non-governmental organization. A
quantitative survey consisting
of a questionnaire with closed
and open-ended questions, and A
qualitative survey, implemented
through gender segregated,
semi-structured focus group
discussions.
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Period |
September 2004 - December 2004
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Donor |
Japan International Cooperation
Agency (JICA)
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Country |
EGYPT
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MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL PLANT
RESOURCES TO BENEFIT RURAL
WOMEN THE NEAR EAST REGION
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Project Description |
Rural men and women play an
important role in the management
of natural resources in the Near
East and North Africa Region. In
fact, this region is home to a
wide diversity of plant genetic
resources. The semi-arid and
arid areas of the region also
have an abundant richness of
wild plant genetic resources,
including especially aromatic,
medicinal, herbal, and food
species.
Rural women are especially
involved in the management and
conservation of biodiversity,
and they own indigenous
knowledge and practices.
However, those skills are
neither recognized nor
valorized.
FAO gives special attention to
rural women and works on
developing gender-sensitive
methodologies and guidelines for
improving their economic status.
Thus, it has commissioned a
study on Gender and management
of natural plant resources with
a focus on making more visible
the role of rural women in the
natural resources management and
provide advice on how to help
rural men and women to best
manage natural resources and to
improve their livelihoods
through income generating
activities. The study outputs
should also contribute to the
inputs for the regional expert
meeting in the same subject, to
be held in May 2005
NSCE, in
cooperation with the Desert
Development Center (DDC),
delivered:
A sub regional assessment, in
the three countries, of gender
roles in natural resources
management, local practices,
recent innovations, constraints
and potential.
Guidelines to enhance the
sustainable management of
natural resources and increase
benefits for rural men and
women. |
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Period |
April 2004- Dec. 2004
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Donor |
Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO)
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Country |
EGYPT, SUDAN, MOROCCO
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GENDER INSTITUTIONALIZATION
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Project Description |
The
Gender Institutionalization
training l helped various
Egyptian NGOs to understand the
concept of gender and different
analytical concepts and
frameworks. The spe cific
objectives of the training
course were the following:
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To understand the concept of
gender and different
analytical concepts and
frameworks
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To improve participants
capabilities to analyze
different types of data and
to formulate gender
sensitive indicators,
elaborate strategies to
advocate for core gender
equity issues
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In addition to take over
advocacy approach and
dialogue with decision –
makers
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Period |
Dec. 2002 - August 2003
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Donor |
IIE- DT2 – USAID
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Country |
EGYPT
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP &
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FOR
ILLITERATE WOMEN
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Project Description |
The
objective of the project was to
contribute to women economic
empowerment in Egypt through
improving the access of
illiterate women to tailored
leadership and entrepreneurship
development training and to
credit facilities. Standard
training packages were tailored
to implement TOT for a core of
trainers in the field of
training techniques,
facilitation and use of the
entrepreneurship-training
package. Furthermore, the Start
Your Business (SYB) training
package was developed and
adapted to train illiterate
women.
The training program focused
also on enhancing the managerial
and technical skills of the
participating women to
efficiently manage their
business.
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Period |
1998 - 1999 |
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Donor |
Royal Netherlands Embassy |
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Country |
EGYPT
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Project Description |
The
objective of the project was to
provide, through a training of
trainers (TOT) approach, a
selected group of executive and
middle level female and male
managers with the analytical and
facilitating tools to mainstream
the gender concern in their work
site and environment. The
activities included conducting
need assessment, design of
training, preparation of
training manual, and delivery of
courses in cooperation with
local co-moderators, evaluation
and documentation of the
training process and lessons
learnt. |
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Period |
Mar. 1998 – Apr. 1998
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Donor |
Friedrich Ebert Foundation
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Country |
EGYPT
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THE INVISIBLE WOMEN
ENTREPRENEURS
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Project Description |
Under the GEMINI program, NSCE
designed and implemented a study
to assess the position of women
and to identify institutional,
technical and financial
bottlenecks in micro enterprises
and the informal sector. The
scope of the NSCE study included
a literature review, an
assessment of the women
participation in a number of
on-going micro finance programs.
The company contributed to
building up a
database/Management Information
System (MIS) on 6000 borrowers
of USAID funded SME projects,
and carried out a formal survey
and in-depth case studies among
360 entrepreneurs. |
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Period |
January 1992 - December 1991
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Donor |
USAID |
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Country |
EGYPT
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DEVELOPMENT OF A
PROFESSIONAL WOMEN NETWORK
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Project Description |
Planned, managed development and
implementation of a training
program in French, Arabic and
English addressed to NGOs women
leaders and local consultants of
the Maghreb. Training covered
participatory needs assessment,
strategic planning, logical
framework, gender analysis,
rapid rural appraisal and
proposal writing; established
procedures to operate a network
of focal point local NGOs for
national coordination and
carrying out evaluation of
training impact. |
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Period |
April 1993 - Jan 1994
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Donor |
EU
funded |
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Country |
EGYPT
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EMPLOYMENT IN HERITAGE
PROTECTION
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Project Description |
ILO
and UNDP jointly commissioned
NSCE to identify the team for
the project aiming to upgrade
Historical Islamic Cairo through
employment strategies.
NSCE was also responsible for
the identification of target
areas and planned and carried
out computer mapping and
digitizing of target areas with
subsequent extraction of
quantities. NSCE was in addition
in charge for the design, layout
and production of the final
report.
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Period |
May-September 1992
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Donor |
ILO
/ UNDP |
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Country |
EGYPT
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GENDER AT WORK
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Project Description |
The
objective of the project was to provide, through a training
of trainers (TOT) approach, a selected group of executive
and middle level female and male managers with the
analytical and facilitating tools to mainstream the gender
concern in their work site and environment. The activities
included conducting need assessment, design of training,
preparation of training manual, and delivery of courses in
cooperation with local co-moderators, evaluation and
documentation of the training process and lessons learnt.
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Period |
Mar. 1998 – Apr. 1998
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Donor |
Friedrich Ebert Foundation
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Country |
EGYPT |
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