Egyptian NGO Support Center
Category: Local Organization
Target groups: Women and youth
Main field: Social and economic empowerment; health and environmental awareness; education
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 2004
Target groups: Women and youth
Main field: Social and economic empowerment; health and environmental awareness; education
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 2004
Main Activity:
Workshops, theatre, drawing classes, and capacity-building for NGOs
Ongoing projects
Community development programs in collaboration with Save the Children in Egypt, as well as 114 organization from Assiut, Sohag, Alexandria and BeheiraPast projects
- Health awareness campaigns for youth and for the prevention of early marriage in Assiut and Sohag
- Provide support in: legal consultancy, filing lawsuits, gaining public support in Alexandria, Aswan, the Red Sea, North Sinai
- Provide excellence grants for successful companies
- Worked on the Nile Initiative which built synergies between the private and community sectors to benefit local communities
- Provided capacity building programs for organizations and associations in Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Bahrain and Yemen
- Worked on building a network for small businesses
- Worked on anti-corruption projects by raising awareness about e-government services
- Supporting youth and encouraging them to work in community development (financed by the Japanese embassy)
- Let's Work Together Project that worked on developing 50 primary schools in Cairo
- Supporting and economically empowering 100 women through a collaborative entity in Assiut
- Economic empowerment project that targeted 100 women with disabilities in Marsa Matruh
- Improving the standards of governance and environmental management in Egypt
Future projects
- Improving the health of Upper Egyptian youth
- Establishing training and education centers to empower and enhance youth capabilities in volunteer work