Activities:
• Programs for capacity building of youth cadres from both sexes, to raise their capabilities of working in their local communities.
• Researches and studies needed to identify priority issues.
• Produce training manuals and advocacy material needed by civil society organizations, in order to mobilize the society towards active participation.
• Organize workshops, seminars, meetings, and conferences, covering the issue of activating community participation.
• Implement with partner NGOs local community development projects targeting youth, children and women.
• Member of the Euro-Mediterranean Civil Platform.
• Founding member of the Egyptian Civil Platform.
• Founding member of Egyptian coalition working on HIV- AIDS.
• Member of the CEDAW coalition, and its steering committee.
• Coordinator of Egptian Euro-Med civil Platform.
Implemented & Present Activities:
• Designed and implementing an ongoing program for “Activating transformative community Participation” and started its activities through a seminar and a workshop under the title of ‘ Towards a National Strategy for Community Participation Enhancement’, this program is based on the outputs of the mentiond two activities and is targeting different stakeholders, NGOs, media, political parties, syndicates, universities staff, specific groups of peopole eg. Women, youth …….etc. Also through this program, EACPE has initiated a project aiming to activating role of Egyptian citizens in Monitoring the upcoming elections, either presidential or parliamentarian.
• Implementing a program for ‘ Promoting Human Rights Culture among School Children’ in Cairo governorate, through the Human rights program. EACPE work in coordination with the Ministry of Education. This program has suceeded in improving not only the school invironment but also relations in the family context. Human Rights Clubs in the target schools are organized and managed by students, who actively participate in the process of decision making not only in the mentioned clubs, but also in all other issues in their schools. This program shall be extended to other governorates from upper and lower Egypt.
• Coordinated three workshops in collaboration with another two NGOs ( AHED and NewWomen Foundation) covering the issues of: Networking, Partnership, and Fundraising, EACPE was the facilitating agency for those workshops, and had organized the first one on “ Fundraising, opportunities and constraints” on December 6th 2004 .
• Coordinator of CEDAW coalition group of NGOs, responsible for preparing the women’s health section of the second shadow report to be presented to CEDAW Committee.
• Building our resource center, EACPE has about 800 books in different areas. Also there is an audio-visual library to be used in advocacy, training and raising awareness.
• Participated in monitoring the voting process of El-Ghad newly founded political party, and prepared a report around.
• Developing and submitting Proposals that meet our objectives, to donors. Some of the titles of those proposals are ( Building Alliance for Acivating Community Participation)- ( Activating Political Participation of Women at Ezbet El- Haggana)-( Legal Assistance to families of the Seventh District Nasr City)- ( Activating Community Participation in the Arab Countries)- ( Monitoring Parlimentarian Elections 2005 in Egypt) – ( Extracting 1000 Voting Cards for citizens in Nasr City)- ( Social-Democratic groups and the reform proposals in the Arab Region) …etc.
• Implementing a Program for capacity building of EACPE members.
• EACPE Youth Forum, where youth meet to discuss different issues, and plan for their activities independently.
• Preparing and conducting training workshops for different civil society cadres, through a number of Capacity Building Programs on national and regional levels :
1.Workshop on Enhancing Iraqi women political participation to win the quota, held in Beirut Lebanon 11- 13 July 2004, with the support of ESCWA and Woodrow Wilson Center.
2.Workshop on ‘Building A New Iraq: Women’s role in Political Process on the Eve of January 2005 Elections’ 13 – 16 December 2004, Beirut, Lebanon.
3.Workshop on ‘Assessing Iraqi Women Status’ using The CEDAW tool, 20th – 22nd February 2005, with the support of ABA.
4.Strategic Planning Workshop for Iraqi Leaders, to address women’s rights in the constitutional process 25th – 27th April 2005, with the support of ABA.
5.Program of capacity building of Egyptian NGOs according to the identified needs: Networking and Building Alliances, Advocacy and Negotiation Skills, Strategic Planning..........etc.
• Played an important role in establishing The Egyptian Euro Med Civil Platform as a preparation for EM Forum in Luxembourg 1-3 April 2005.
• Participate in different conferences and workshops organized on local or regional levels:
1. Preparatory meeting for Euro- Mediterranean Civil Forum on 26th July 2004, in Morocco.
2. Morocco 2nd Social Forum, 27th – 29th July 2004.
3. The Arab International Forum on Rehabilitation and Development in the Occupied Palestinian territory ‘Towards an Independent State’ 11th – 14th October 2004 in Beirut.
4. Second Regional Preparatory Conference for WSIS ‘ Partnership for Building the Arab Information Society’ 21st – 23rd November 2004, organized by ESCWA and held in Syria, Damascus( paper)
5. Arab Women in Science and Technology organized by NCW in Cairo 8th -10th January 2005.
6. Egypt’s Consultative meeting for the Euro Med forum in Luxembourg held on 2-3 Feb 2005( organizer)
7. Annual Conference of the NCW 16th March 2005.
8. Euro Med Civil Forum, Luxembourg 1-3 April 2005 ( organizer)
9. Golden Jubilee for the National Center for Social and Criminal Research.
10. Consultative meeting with EMHRN on the current reform initiatives in the Arab world in general and in Egypt in particular, and the possible ways ahead of such reform processes and how the international human rights community as well as regional organisation could respond to these developments.
11. EACPE Consultative Meetings with representatives of civil society to promote the developed strategy for activating community participation on 27th April – 24th August 2005.