Egyptian Association for Community Participation Enhancement

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Cairo
e-mail: 
cpe_eg@yahoo.com
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The Egyptian Association for Community Participation Enhancement
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EACPE Organizational Profile

“The Egyptian Association for Community Participation Enhancement” is a non governmental, non profit organization, founded in May 2001, and registered with MOSA under the number (5481) on February 2004. Many of the founding members had actively participated throughout the past decade, until present in the capacity building of a number of organizations, networks and coalitions that are the most active in implementing CRC, CEDAW, Beijing Platform of Action, and also in different activities of the civil society on the national, regional and international levels.
1. Address of Headquarters office: 13 Farid st. Heliopolis, Cairo.
2. Telephone, Fax: 02- 4150546
3. Cell phone: 0020121769732
4.Coverage: All governorates of Egypt.
5.Branches: El-Minia and El-Fayoum governorates’ branches.

6. Networking:
oMember of the Euro-Mediterranean Civil Platform.
oMember of the CEDAW coalition, and its steering committee.
oFounding member and Coordinator of Egyptian Euro-Med civil Platform.
oMember of NGO coalition on violence against women: “Karama Egypt”
oFoundind and coordinator of the “Egyptian Coalition on workers” rights.
oMember of AWID.
oMember of CIVICUS.
oFounding member of the “Arab Initiative for Monitoring Electoral processes”
oMember and Focal point of the Middle East& North Africa, with IACD.

Our Vision:

The Egyptian Association for Community Participation Enhancement EACPE is concerned with activating community participation which can be seen as a process of empowerment of the deprived and the excluded people, within a context that integrates human rights with sustainable human development, achieved and benefited by all citizens through an active process of democratic reform of the Egyptian Society.

Participation is an instrument of change and it can help to break that exclusion and to provide people with the basis for their more direct involvement in decision making, and control over resources.

EACPE believes in partnership and mutual work with other stakeholders. It welcomes working with national and international NGOs, governmental and intergovernmental bodies, media agencies, business sectors and civil society organizations.

Our Mission:

We believe in the empowering of people in terms of their acquiring the skills, knowledge and experience to take greater responsibility for their lives, and also by influencing other factors which affect the whole society participation.

EACPE is dedicated to community empowerment, advocating human rights, advancing democracy by spreading human rights culture, raise awareness on legal and constitutional rights, build the capacity of Civil society cadres on mechanisms of human rights protection among all the Egyptian citizens.

Objectives:
1.To enhance community participation, through different civil society organizations, with special emphasis on youth from both sexes.
2.To disseminate human rights culture in the society and to activate the implementation of “International Conventions on Human Rights”, with special emphasis on CEDAW and CRC, and the international program on Human Rights Education.
3.To develop policies with other partners, that helps in creating suitable environment for community participation and political reform.
4.To build the capacity of NGOs cadres, on local, national and regional levels and facilitate their networking.
5.To persuade the Egyptian private sector, in the participation of social responsibility.

Strategies:
•Strengthening and activating partnership and close cooperation with differeent partners.
•Networking and building alliances with different civil society organizations, in order to activate community participation, on local and regional levels.
•Technical and institutional support to civil society to help them address their local communities’ needs.
•Integrating human rights with sustainable human development..

Programme: 

Programs:

•Program for “Activating transformative societal Participation” This program aims to develop a National Strategy for Community Participation Enhancement’, with other different stakeholders, NGOs, media, political parties, syndicates, academicians, women Trade Unionists and youth, through studies, advocacy, interaction and exchanging views on the issue of societal participation.

• Democracy Development Program, aiming to activate the role of Egyptian citizens in democratization and political reform. EACPE has monitored the presidential, parliamentarian, syndicate of engineers, Trade Chambers elections, through its “Democracy Watch for Elections” This program has a very strong connection with the media, which covered all monitoring reports. A yearly report is issued through this program on “Democracy Development in Egypt”

•Human Rights education program to School Children: aiming to promoting Human Rights culture in schools, the program was initiated in Cairo governorate, through which EACPE work in coordination with the Ministry of Education. This program is being implemented in 50 schools; it has succeeded in improving not only the school environment 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.

•Training Unit: As all above mentioned programs need empowered civil society, this program aims to build the capacity of different civil society cadres, through consultations and training programs on the national and regional levels:

1.Program of capacity building of Egyptian NGOs according to the identified needs: Networking and Building Alliances, Advocacy and Negotiation Skills, Monitoring & Evaluation, Strategic Planning, Women’s rights, Fund raising & Proposal Writing..........etc.

2.Training of 100 Egyptian public school teachers on Human Rights Education to school children 2004- 2005.
3.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.

4.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.

5.Workshop on ‘Assessing Iraqi Women Status’ using The CEDAW tool, 20th – 22nd February 2005, with the support of ABA.

6.Strategic Planning Workshop for Iraqi Leaders, to address women’s rights in the constitutional process 25th – 27th April 2005, with the support of ABA.

7.Training of 100 school children ( 50 girls & 50 Boys) from 20 schools on Human Rights through a summer camp August 2005.

8.Training of 100 Egyptian cadres on “Monitoring Parliamentarian Elections” through workshops in September 2005.

9.“Strategizing Women's Role in Influencing Legislation” Workshop for Women Leaders in the Arab region, 2-5 December 2005 Jordan, Amman, supported by Woodrow Willson center.

10.Training of 20 cadres of Egyptian Trade Unions on “International Labor Laws” with the support of The American Center for International Labor Soilidarity” February 2006.

11.TOT workshop for 20 cadres of Egyptian Trade Unions with the support of The American Center for International Labor Soilidarity” 3-6 May 2006.

12.Training of 20 cadres of Egyptian Trade Unions on “Monitoring Violations of Labor Rights” with the support of The American Center for International Labor Soilidarity” 8-11 May 2006.

13.Technical consultation and training of Iraqi civil society cadres on “ Monitoring and Evaluation of projects, with the support of USIP, 31 May- June 2006.

14.Training of Iraqi NGOs cadres on “Monitoring & Evaluation of Projects” August 2006, with the support of USIP.

15. Strategic Planning for Egyptian Trade Unions leaders, September 2006.

•EACPE resource center, has about 1500 books in different areas. Also there is an audio-visual library to be used in advocacy, training and raising awareness activities.

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 Conferences of the NCW.
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 organization 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.
12. Workshop organized by the British council, on Transformative Leadership & Civil Society, Glasgow, Edinburgh 25th – 30th September 2005.
13. Malaga Euro med meeting on Barcelona + 10, 30th Oct. – 2nd Nov. 2005.
14. The 10th AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights and Development: How does change happen? Bangkok, Thailand, 27th - 30th Oct. 2005.
15. Consultative meeting of the Advisory Board on Darfur issue, Sudan – Khartoum “January 2006.
16. The 2nd Civil Forum parallel to the Arab Summit “Outcome of Two Years of Reform in the Arab Region” Rabat, Morocco, February 17-19, 2006.
17. E.C. consultaion on implementation of European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights in Egypt, Cairo April 7th 2006.
18. Preparatory meeting for “Civil Society Forum for New Democracies” Qatar 17-18th June 2006.
19. CIVICUS Assembly, Glasgow 12-25th June 2006.
20. The Euromed Civil Forum, 2006, 3-8 November, Marrakesh. Morocco.
21. EACPE regional conference on “Human Rights Education, between the World program and the National Efforts” 28-30 November 2006.

Activities:
1.To raise awareness of the society on the constitutional and legal rights.
2.To facilitate founding of new NGOs that work in the field of advocacy, community development, women issues……etc.
3.Programs for capacity building of youth cadres from both sexes, to raise their capabilities of working in their local communities.
4.Researches and studies needed to identify priority issues.
5.Produce training manuals and advocacy material needed by civil society organizations, in order to mobilize the society towards active participation.
6.Organize workshops, seminars, meetings, and conferences, covering the issue of activating community participation.
7.Implement with partner NGOs local community development projects targeting youth, children and women.

•EACPE Partners :
1.CIDA.
2.The Swiss Embassy.
3.The Finnish Embassy.
4.The European Commision.
5.Ford Foundation.
6.Konrad Adenauer.
7.The American Solidarity Center for Labor Rights.

•Organizations and Institutions we worked with:
1.The Ministry of Education.
2.The Ministry of Forign Affairs.
3.The Ministry of International Relations.
4.The Arab League.
5.The Euro Med Civil Platform.
6.ESCWA.
7.British Council
8.NCHRs.
9.Woodrow Willson Center.
10.UNICEF.
11.ABA.
12.USIP.

•EACPE Publications:
1.Moskarka periodic magazine.
2.Analytical study on presidential election monirtoring. ( Book)
3.Activating transformative societal particpation. (Book)
4.Report on Monitoring parliamentarean elections 2005.
5.Report on findings and recommendations of focus group discussions on activating societal participation.
6.Analytical study on monitoring parlimentarean elections. ( Book)

Structure and staff: 

. Board President: Dr. Magdy Abdel Hamid.
. Contact Person: Dr. Afaf Marei, Director. (cellular: 012-2305584)