The center conducts various activities that are part of the proposed project:

The Hot Line Project   This project is financed by the Canadian Agency for Development (CIDA) and which seeks to provide legal counseling to women through the phone. The project functioned for two years and proved very successful, as incoming calls were numerous and helped provide women with legal counseling on various issues ranging from personal problems to problems they encountered with the government authorities and legal structures. The cases unit adopted nearly 17 judicial hot –line cases. The unit managed documented the hot line calls and released a report that provided a critical and objective reading of these cases, and categorized the cases according to their content (violence, legal illiteracy and other legal problems prevalent among women)
Training &Legal Awareness Project This project is financed by Danish Agency for Development (DANIDA). The project goal is to organize legal awareness and training workshops through training units in 14 govern orates. The workshops targeted two main categories of women: the illiterate women who are beneficiaries of other associations and NGOs, and women in the field
 The training workshop contributed to the dissemination of the experiences related the legal awareness and services provided to many associations and to encouraging them on putting women’s issues and rights on the work agenda of their various units It is important to note here the cooperation taken place between UNICEF in Egypt CEWLA was asked to hold three training workshops within the framework of the institutional support project to help the associations participating to establish legal support centers that would render the legal awareness services in the various govern rates. So far training workshops have been held in Sohag, Alexandria and Quena
CEWKA will be implementing a project that strengthens the political participation of women, following the syndicates and parliamentary election taken place recently though a series of workshops that will raise awareness regarding the necessity of women ‘s participation and exercising her political rights.
The project also aims at building awareness among illiterate women & literacy beneficiaries in no. Of associations. In this regard, a project is currently underway to develop training material, financed by Norway agency in order to train trainers on the legal awareness and rights of women, and the related national legal provisions and the international agreement.
The Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Violence against women’ project.The project financed by ‘RAINBO' seeks to hold 18 workshops for the legal awareness regarding FGM and the legal rights concerned with woman and child rights. It is also planned to devise a manual to train trainers, which is to be presented to a committee for evaluation and then tried in workshop until it is finalized and distributed to the associations, The center cooperates with the American Agency for Development (USAID) in organizing a limited no of workshops to raise awareness regarding the health hazards related to FGM and how to eliminate it
The project looks at many associations surrounding Boulak El -Dakrour area as its target It is worth nothing here that many of the women who are being trained as trainers, have already received training from the same agency on “the positive model” and use it to raise awareness against FGM. CEWLA’s pilot women were among those who did best in using the positive model idea and disseminate such experience along with associations concerned with health rights and FGM
In terms of the positive changes witnessed during the intervening period:There has been a marked increase in the awareness of targeted women of health related rights and topics. This the center achieved by addressing sensitive issues such as Female Genital Mutilation, through a series of lectures, awareness raising and learning activities, and provided a forum for debate among participants. 
There has been an increase in demand on the literacy classes provided by the center and other NGOs who have begun offering these classes upon the initiative and in collaboration with CEWLA.
 Identifying the needs of the area, encouraged donor and developmental agencies to devise plans to find means to address these needs and devise possible solutions. 

New Activities on the Agenda:
The Center will be addressing the honor crime project by researching and on of the forms of violence against women, which are civil associations never touched on a form yet particularly since the center has developed some form of expertise from attending a previous conference in Jordan that debated the crimes of honor in the Arab region.
Amongst the various activities planned in this regard is to identify key issues around which to start raising awareness and formulating media campaigns. These issues include violence against women, the requirement of prior travel authorization for women from their spouses. The center will seek to coordinate its efforts with many other civil associations for this purpose.
The project of training lawyers and activists of NGO's on spreading human rights education and using international conventions to defend women in national courts:
The center for Egyptian women’s legal assistance is one of the organizations that aim to spread human rights and legal awareness. Principally it is also interested in correcting erroneous legal concepts especially those connected to women's and children's rights and in spreading international mechanisms and conventions and how to utilize them in front of the national courts.
In light of this CEWLA had conducted training courses and legal awareness raising in the period from 1997 until 2001. The target of training courses were the cadres of NGOs and the illiterate women who frequently visited the NGO's.
 As the service provision of CEWLA to the target groups was at the beginning, CEWLA was shocked of the absence of cadres of trainer of lawyers who have a critical view of the laws and who are capable of defending their view.
 These conditions motivated CEWLA to prepare a number of active lawyers who can work in the field of human and women rights.
CEWLA conducted a number of training courses for lawyers to reform their methodology of thinking and their view to laws through including the international conventions in the training materials, which create a shock to the lawyers, as their view to laws was superficial and limited and as  they lacked the gender concepts and basic techniques as trainers.. So CEWLA trained lawyers on the techniques of training and prepared  them to be trainers.
 Besides Cewla's outstanding experience in this field, it contributed in setting up six centers for legal assistance in the governorates of Alexandria, Sohag, Qena, Minia, Assuit, Aswan . This has been achieved through Cewla's Beijing implementation program in cooperation with UNICEF. This program was funded by the Netherlands Embassy.
Since these legal assistance centers, which have been opened, needed a lot of furtherance and development, cewla tried to create a group of active trainers in this field to carry out the training program for cadres of NGOs and women, who mainly came from the governorates. Moreover some of the international organizations such as the UNICEF have resorted to the lawyers of CEWLA to carry out their project training lawyers in Alexandria, Sohag and Quena on establishing legal assistance centers and spreading legal awareness among cadres and women. Besides this, many organizations have requested Cewla to train lawyers and cadres from the various groups on legal concepts. This type of legal training has spread very widely in all governorates since there was a serious lack of skilled, trained lawyers, which are capable to conduct these trainings.
The training program, which Cewla conducted in 14 governorates, concentrated on the most common laws used in women affairs like: personal status laws, social insurance, and the discriminative laws.
But after visiting different places particularly in Upper Egypt and after two years of training, CEWLA discovered that new laws must be included in the training materials they never think about, such as the agriculture laws, levy in army of (the husband, brother and son), inheritance and Christian personal status, and that because of the interrelation of all these laws and women status  since she is in charge of the family after the absence of the father or the son, or because of the deprivation of the women in  inheritance in  some areas in the south. Etc
Unfortunately no significant change was perceivable. Still no international conventions were used effectively in front of the national court. Apart from that, Cewla felt that lawyers have a strong need to deepen their knowledge and to be trained on international conventions and documents that deal with women's and child's issues especially that Cewla now inserted the child's program. All this was noticed through the 5 year application of the training program.

Taking all the above into account and in light of
1)Cewla efforts to change policies through advocacy
2) Dr. Moufid Shehabs ( minister of higher Education) attempt to design a program that offers a wider education of human rights concepts to raise the awareness of it
3) Dr. Botros Ghalis ( head of the national human rights council)launching of  international conference on human rights education in the Arab world
4)Judges increasing interest on issues related to rights in general and development.
5) The experience of Assuit and Zakazik university in inserting human rights education in the law school curriculum.
the path was set for Cewla to design this program to spread human rights concepts.
Training Needs:
Cewla identified the need for this project based on the following facts:
1)The International situation and how the issue of human rights is strongly emphasized now.
2)The need of the civil society to have lawyers trained on utilizing  international documents and conventions  inside the national courts.
3) Human rights concepts are not only subject to lawyers but to the whole society, that is why it is of high importance to spread human rights concepts and
4) Regarding the general environment, we feel that it will help in guaranteeing the success of this project and its continuance in the future.
5) The serious need to insert human rights curricula in the law schools of the various Egyptian universities, referring to the successful experiences of the Assuit and Zakazik University.   6)Many individuals in society have adopted  concepts of human rights and offered services in society related to human rights.
General Goals:
Create a general knowledge of human rights especially women’s human rights.
Insert human rights concepts in the law school curricula
Specific Goals:
Create a group of 1400 Lawyer who are trained on women’s and child’s rights cases.
To train lawyers on using the international conventions and agreements of women and child with the national courts.
To create local cadres that can provide legal awareness in the target governorates.
To produce a training manual that contains all the training materials that have been used in the training.
Insert human rights concepts in the law school curricula and develop the institute for legal profession in the bar association and work on the addition of international conventions to them.
Get the judicial system indirectly acquainted with the international documents and conventions that deal with women’s and children’s rights with the help of the lawyer cadres which will be prepared
Having Cadres of lawyers which are trained on spreading legal awareness and the awareness of rights in other NGO’s. Consequently  the issue will be put on the Agenda of these other NGO’s
Enforce the Cedaw convention.
Target Group:
The project aim to train lawyers of the governorates from:
1) Lawyers of the governorates who consist of Lawyers in NGOs, free lance lawyers, lawyers of the syndicates, the associations of young lawyers and lawyers of the women's committees of the syndicates.
2) Law school deans and decision makers inside universities.
Implementation area:
Cewla seeks to implement the project in 9 governorates chosen on the following criteria:
Governorates that have a successful experience in implementing  human rights curricula  in its universities
        (higher education)
Having good relations with officials in this governorates through previous projects conducted by Cewla in this governorate.
Having active parliament and shura council member in this governorate will support Cewla in its mission.
Governorates that a cover a wide area of the country and which represent as many different people as possible.
Governorates which have legal support centers for women so that we can get start from a supportive ground.