Egyptian Association for Community Participation Enhancement

“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.

4.Coverage: All governorates of Egypt.

5.Branches: El-Minia and El-Fayoum governorates’ branches.

6. Networking: oMember of the Euro-Mediterranean Civil Platform.

• Member of the CEDAW coalition, and its steering committee. oFounding member and Coordinator of Egyptian Euro-Med civil Platform.
• Member 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.
• Founding 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.