Women and Society for Comprehensive Development in El-Tiba
Category: Local Organization
Target groups: women and children
Main field: Economic and legal empowerment
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 2014
Brief Description: A group of women who formed an alliance comprising 600 members from 13 communities, including Al-Zuheir al-Sahrawi in Minya. The alliance is divided into small groups—each according to the type of activities it carries out. Groups are run by elected female committees, which are represented by one large steering committee—the main representative of all of the micro-committees. Our alliance aims to raise living standards for disadvantaged women in the communities they are represented by, through providing them with support in the following areas: filing inheritance claims and equality in the workplace lawsuits, fighting for fair wages, and preventing early marriages and FGM.
Target groups: women and children
Main field: Economic and legal empowerment
Setting: Urban and rural
Year founded: 2014
Brief Description: A group of women who formed an alliance comprising 600 members from 13 communities, including Al-Zuheir al-Sahrawi in Minya. The alliance is divided into small groups—each according to the type of activities it carries out. Groups are run by elected female committees, which are represented by one large steering committee—the main representative of all of the micro-committees. Our alliance aims to raise living standards for disadvantaged women in the communities they are represented by, through providing them with support in the following areas: filing inheritance claims and equality in the workplace lawsuits, fighting for fair wages, and preventing early marriages and FGM.
Main Activity:
Assisting female breadwinners to find employment and enrolling them in micro-credit programs for small and medium-sized businessesOngoing projects
- A project that works on raising the living standards of disadvantaged women working in non-governmental sectors in rural and urban areas, funded by the European Union and the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services
- Developing the marketing skills of women entrepreneurs who own micro, small, and medium-sized projects
Past projects
- Economic empowerment projects for rural women
- The "Work from Home" project, funded by the Small Projects Sector at the Ministry of Trade and Industry
- The Civil Education and Female Political Participation Initiative, funded by the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services
- The Good Governance and Gender Equality Initiative, in collaboration with the New Woman Foundation in Cairo
- Women's Right to Inheritance Initiative, in collaboration with CARE Egypt Organization