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| Building on the three years success of
the project supported by NOVIB for Capacity Building for NGO’s
in Egypt and the expansion of DSC activities and reputation
in the Arab Region, the previous project was renewed for three
years on the Arab NGO’s level 2007-2009. |
| Training Workshops, manuals, platform
of cooperation, and documentation for experiences and new
initiatives are the component of this project. That is based
on the needs of Ngo’s in the Arab region and targeting
beneficiaries more than institutions. |
| The first objective of this project is
to support civil society in Egypt and the Arab region, to
develop tools, skills and knowledge based on interaction with
communities and target groups, through a rights based approach.
Another objective is to develop a common social agenda between
different and diverse civil society organizations. The final
objective is to contribute to the strengthening of communities,
through raising their own capacities, knowledge and interaction
with other actors in society. |
| This project can be considered a response
to the growth of civil society sector in Egypt, and its increasing
need to address community development and institutional capacity
building of organizations. This project targets community
based NGO's as well as the local government aiming at developing
democratic mechanisms from below, as well as increasing viable
community access to services and benefits. |
| This project aims at supporting and strengthening
community based/target group initiatives, which are based
on mobilizing and organizing communities and developing their
own independent agendas. |
| This project concentrates on three community
based organizations (one in each community) as a key partner
with the community. Thus, support is given to both the organization
and its target community for the period of two years - July
2006 until July 2008. |
| As part of the process of institutional
capacity building of NGO's, DSC has been able to monitor the
institutional progress and growing impact of different NGO's
in their diverse fields of influence. One of the main weaknesses
that still remains as a problem is the differential capacity
of organizations to document and make visible their different
experiences and share them with other civil society organizations.
DSC discussed its interest in developing its own capacity
and focus in this area, in order to benefit NGO's to build
this experience. Through discussions with Oxfam Novib, it
was agreed to make the development of the experience of documentation
one of the priority areas which DSC would work on within its
institutional capacity building support during 2007. (we can
say throughout the period of this project implementation from
---- until ----) |
| In collaboration with six CSO's this project
aims at improving the skill of learning among participant
NGO's through capturing their experiences, building experiences
internally to ensure sustainability and enhancing exchange
of knowledge and experience among participant NGO's and sharing
it with other initiatives. |
| The practice of Advocacy & lobbying
has taken on more importance in recent years for all non-profit
sector organizations. Rapid changes in government policies
and their impact on different sectors of the population have
made of advocacy and lobbying increasingly important tools
that need to be properly analyzed and utilized in the process
of creating change. This applies particularly in countries
which do not have a long history of democratic practices.
Organizations from three countries Morocco, Egypt and Palestine
in addition to a foreign partner, Oxfam Novib, agreed on the
need to work together to develop campaign strategies and the
competencies of civil society concerning the privatization
of essential services in the region. |
| During the period of the project (2007
- 2009),this project will aim at developing the knowledge
and skills of NGO activists in the area of advocacy and lobbying
and collective practices. It will also aim at promoting the
involvement of participants in campaigning in the field of
privatization of essential services in the Arab region, in
the context of the broader aim of promoting NGO's as actors
of change, with the underlying principle of community and
target group participation and empowerment. |
| DSC is the technical and consultancy office
for the project of Promoting the democratic process supported
by the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights.
This project has three overall objectives. The first of which
is to improve the livelihoods in Egypt as local and national
power structures meet the needs and uphold the rights of the
communities they are responsible for. Another objective is
to strengthen and promote participatory democratic governance
in Egypt through empowerment of communities, organized in
and represented by community-based civil society organizations.
The third and final objective is to influence decision makers
in order to enlarge the space for civil society in Egypt and
bring national legislation and policies related to civil society
in line with international standards. |
| Develop training manual, conducting several
training workshops to participant CSO's and local council
members, raising the awareness of community groups, conducting
several trainings for local council members among other activities
are the main components of this project which will be implemented
during the period from 2008 – 2010. |
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