Main Projects :
 
 
       
  1   The rights of women in water resource management
  
     
Start Date: June 2009
End Date June 2010

Project Sites:

Fayoum

Goal of this project:
The project aims to raise awareness about the gender approach in the participation and management of water resources.
   
       
  2  Working with women, Time for change
  
     
Start Date: March 2009
End Date October 2009

Project Sites:

Egypt

Goal of this project:
AAW has started a plan to hold several round tables with selected individuals interested in women''s issues  This will assist in the exchange of ideas when taken in consideration the history and culture of the Arab world as well as the impelmentation of international conventions.
 
       
  3 Preventing Youth Radicalisation in Sinai Region
  
     
Start Date: December 2008
End Date November 2011

Project Sites:

Rafah, Beir El Abd in North Sinai,
 and Dahab and Wadi Feiran in South Sinai.

        
  4 Framework for Beijing +15
  
     
Start Date: May 2009
End Date November 2009

Project Sites:

Arab regions

Goal of this project:
The goal of the Arab Shadow report for Beijing +15 is to express the Arab NGOs vision on the achievements and the gaps in the implementation of the BPFA during the last five years and generate renewed commitment to fill such gaps. 
   
 
  5  Freedom from Violence " Salama and Aman"
  
     
Start Date: July 2007
End Date April 2010

Project Sites:

Natioanl Level

Goal of this project:
Target group(s):

-Marginalized women (& children) affected by domestic violence in targeted governorates and men.
-  Intermediary organizations on the governorate level and CSO’s on village level .
-State Agents,  religious & community leaders, policy makers (local and national),  the media & press.
 
   
  6 The Ombudsman Office In Monshaat Nasr
  
     
Start Date: March 2009
End Date March 2010

Project Sites:

Monshaat Nasser - Cairo Governerate

Goal of this project:
The overall goal of this project:

The objective is to reduce poverty by empowering women and making them self-critical of gender relations in their community.
Furthermore, the project will target improving the quality of the of lcoal women, notably those filing for "Khul," as well as their children, through social and legal support.
       
  7  Institutional&human development in Bishet Amer
  
     
Start Date: December 2008
End Date December 2009

Project Sites:

Sharkya Governorate

Goal of this project:
The direct target groups:

1 - young people of both sexes
2 - poor families
3 - non-local government
4 - the natural leaders in the community

Indirect target groups:

1 - the decision-making bodies
2 - the community as a whole
 
        
  8 Sawiris Foundation for Social Development''s Loans 
  
     
Start Date: January 2010
End Date June 2011

Project Sites:

Khanka area - Qalyubia Governorate

Goal of this project:
  The Project aims at creating job opportunities and improving the economic condition of the most marginalized and impoverished (Single mothers, young graduates and low-income earners)
       
  9 Community Participation to prevent violence 
  
     
Start Date: July 2009
End Date June 2011

Project Sites:
North and South Sinai

Goal of this project:
1.Extend information on human rights to larger groups in the localities, upgrade the participation skills gained by the citizens, particularly the youth, during the first phase of the project and sustain their ability to influence public decisions. 2.Strengthen and sustain the mothers'' ability to interrupt the process of joining terrorist groups among their youth, and consolidate a group of mothers who can become trainers in this respect. 3.Integrate the formal and informal tribal leadership systems to harmonize the messages influencing youth behavior. 4.Strengthen the NGOs unions in North and South Sinai to become the principal structures for planning, seeking funds, monitoring, coordinating and sustaining NGOs work in the governorate. 5.Further and sustain the upgrading of the community services delivery systems to meet more effectively the changing needs of the citizens particularly the women and youth. 6.Empower the population, particularly women and youth to participate in the 2010 election for the parliament. 
 
  10 Women''s Political Empowerment Project
  
     
Start Date: September 2009
End Date March 2010

Project Sites:

Egypt

Goal of this project:
The Alliance for Arab Women (hereinafter, AAW) is managing a project to train and support 20 women candidates who will run for the 2010 People''s Assembly''s elections and 10 campaign managers, who will manage the campaigns of the female candidates. The campaign managers'' training is taking place on two phases. The first phase took place in Cairo on 7-8 November, 2009; and the second phase took place in London in 7-9 December, 2009. The training is done in cooperation with the Labour Party and the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom.

This project aims to further structure the profession of campaign management in Egypt and of elections to be a process based on the science of management, politics and public policy. Participants to theses trainings are expected to be able to work on elections'' campaigns structuring, political awareness and women''s political participation.
 
  11 Training and employment of women heads of families
  
     
Start Date: February 2009
End Date May 2010

Project Sites:

Qalubiya governorate

Goal of this project:
The project aims to improve the economic situation of families headed by women in Qaliubiya governorate

This will be done by training a number of women involved in supporting their families on skills needed in employment in the labor market in the Qaliubiya governorate.

Also, the project wil target providing employment opportunities for women that have been rehabilitated for the labor market.