“CARE Egypt Foundation for Development, registered under No. 833 of 2018
Project Summary
Building the Capacity of Civil Society Organizations Working on Women’s Rights
Project Description:
CARE Egypt Foundation for Development will coordinate the exchange of experience, knowledge, and ideas across country contexts to build solidarity and deepen learning, thereby strengthening global networks on women, peace, and security. The project will be implemented by women’s rights organizations in Iraq (Better World, Women Empowerment Organization), South Sudan (Women for Change, Women Empowerment Center, Organization for the Advancement and Progress of Women), and, in Egypt, with support from CARE Egypt, together with two implementing partner organizations (Appropriate Communication Techniques for Development, and the Egyptian Center for Women’s Issues Foundation).
Overall Project Objective:
The project will work to build the institutional capacity of women-led bodies, provide accessible grant funding, and increase the effectiveness of platforms, networks, and alliances, so that women’s rights actors can lead peacebuilding and security efforts, social inclusion, and the strengthening of women’s voice and participation in decision-making.
Overview of Project Activities:
1. Developing capacity-building plans for organizations working on women’s rights, based on a needs assessment that identifies development priorities and designs clear interventions to address the organizations’ gaps and priority needs, whether through training or peer-to-peer exchange of experience.
2. Developing plans to increase engagement with decision-makers, and improving the networks working on women’s rights throughout the project’s implementation period.
3. Establishing and updating a resource mobilization strategy, developing tools to monitor progress on that strategy, and holding sessions to build organizations’ capacity in resource mobilization and support access to funding opportunities, including donor mapping, proposal writing, and connections with broader networks.
4. Supporting partner women’s rights organizations in conducting participatory sessions with marginalized groups of women and girls, to build an in-depth understanding of their priorities and expectations, and to gather ideas, needs, and experiences on the rights of women and girls in relation to the Women, Peace and Security agenda and UNSCR 1325, while building a sense of participation and ownership around these ideas, needs, and experiences.
5. Strengthening the capacity of partner women’s rights organizations and participants to implement impactful, advocacy-oriented initiatives that engage decision-makers on the Women, Peace and Security (1325) agenda, along with follow-up and evaluation.
6. Training the women and girls targeted by the project on participation and social accountability in decisions related to women’s and girls’ priorities on peace and security.
Project Implementation Areas: Cairo and Upper Egypt governorates (Cairo, Giza, Assiut, Sohag, Qalyubia)
Funding Amount: EUR 1,250,000
Implementation Duration: 3 years
Funding Body: CARE Germany
Target Group:
Decision-makers
The project will work with two partner associations and 10 grassroots associations working on women’s rights in Cairo, Giza, Qalyubia, Assiut, and Sohag, engaging directly with 52 staff members and representatives of associations working in the field of women’s rights.
Direct Beneficiaries
The selected women’s rights associations in Egypt will work with 500 women and girls in the most marginalized areas of the Delta and Upper Egypt, particularly women and girls in peri-urban and slum areas, as well as rural areas of Upper Egypt governorates. The project will primarily target illiterate women, women from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds, female heads of households, women working in the informal sector, and women and girls with disabilities.
Total: 500
Indirect Beneficiaries
The project will reach 5,000 people as indirect targets, including decision-makers from donor institutions and government bodies at the local and national levels, broader engagement with women’s rights associations and stakeholders, and wider communities of women and girls from marginalized groups who often do not take part in such projects.
Total: 5,000”
