| Project Title | Start Year | Description | Name | Granting_Agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Study of the Experience of CARE's Multi-grade School | 2010 | The long term of this work is to examine the changes in knowledge and the educational transitions of girls in multi-grade schools over a five years period. SRC will carry out an initial survey that will provide the background data necessary that would allow to measure future change | Ray Langsten | CARE |
| Safe Cities Free of Violence against Women and Girls. Phases 1 & 2. |
2009 2010 |
The previous review of the sexual harassment against women and girls in urban setting in Egypt called for the need for evidence based research to guide policies aiming at making cities safe for women & girls. The grant will support SRC to perform the safety audit in the selected areas in collaboration with NGOs working on the ground areas, and design instrument that was used for the baseline assessment as well as the post-intervention assessment, pretest the instruments and prepared the data base programs which were used for data entry. | Sahar El-Sheneity | UNIFEM |
| Research to Inform Policies and Programs Enhancing Choice and Opportunity for Women and Young People in Arab Countries | 2005 |
SRC is undertaking two programs of research and activities which address
current knowledge and capacity gaps in the field of youth and gender: 1. Pathways for Empowerment: Engaging with the Practical Lives of Arab Women 2. Youth, Civil Society and Empowerment. Networking with other research centers and NGO's active in the field of gender and research to engage in a participatory process of review, research Design, implementation and create a critical mass of researchers working on women's daily lives. |
Sohair Mehanna | Ford Foundation |
| Research to Inform Policies and Programs Enhancing Choice and Opportunity for Women and Young People in Arab Countries | 2005 |
SRC is undertaking two programs of research and activities which address
current knowledge and capacity gaps in the field of youth and gender: 1. Pathways for Empowerment: Engaging with the Practical Lives of Arab Women 2. Youth, Civil Society and Empowerment. Networking with other research centers and NGO's active in the field of gender and research to engage in a participatory process of review, research Design, implementation and create a critical mass of researchers working on women's daily lives. |
Sahar El-Sheneity | Ford Foundation |
| Towards Policies for Child Protection: A Field Study to Assess Child Abuse in Deprived Communities in Egypt | 2005 |
Child
protection is a key dimension in the Convention on the Rights of the
Child
(CRC). Addressing
child
abuse, however, is one of the hardest tasks that face those implementing
the articles of CRC. The need for empirical research is big and since
2001 CRC requested an in-depth international study on violence, which is
currently, carried out in collaboration between the Office of United
Nations High Commissioner for Humans Rights, United Nations’ Fund for
Children
and World Health Organization. SRC is carrying out a study with support from UNICEF Egypt Country Office which is addressing the issue of child abuse in Egypt. The study aims at providing much needed information to guide local and national policy for child protection. The study is carried out under the umbrella of the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM), which is the national body responsible for coordinating and monitoring child protection efforts. The study has two broad sets of objectives: 1. It attempts to build a comprehensive knowledge base of child abuse in Egypt 2. It makes an in-depth investigation of child abuse practices in a number of selected poor localities |
Laila El Zeini | UNICEF |
| Participatory Assessment Tools to Research Violence against Children | 2005 | The proposed study aims at providing a case study to be incorporated in the UNCEF draft handbook on participatory assessment in researching violence against children. The study focuses on street children and addresses all types of violence directed towards them, using different approaches. The participation of children is a basic feature of the study. |
Sohair Mehanna & Mulki Al-Sharmani |
UNICEF |
| The Situation Analyses of Children of the GAO Countries | 2002 |
1. Under this projects, SRC conducted in Cairo a
joint workshop with the authors of the Situation Analyses of the GAO
Countries aimed at analyzing data, discussing priorities and writing the
individual "Situation Analyses of Children" for Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,
Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirate. 2. Following the workshop, the SRC undertakes assistance visits as needed to support the final writing of these reports. |
Hoda Rashad | UNICEF |
| Determinants of Educational Attainment | 2002 | Substantial gender disparities in educational attainment remain in Egypt and many other poor countries. However, some researchers have suggested that wealth is a more important determinant of educational attainment than gender. This research used improved measures of educational attainment and an innovative household level analysis to investigate hypotheses about the respective roles of gender and wealth in household decisions about schooling. The objective of the study was to clarify policy options that could increase educational opportunities for disadvantaged children in Egypt and other developing countries. | Ray Langsten | The Spencer Foundation |
| Collaboration with the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics | 2000 | Under this grant, SRC collaborated with the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) in the production of a camera-ready copy of three substantive reports: Dynamics and Determinants of Reproductive Patterns in Palestine, Family Formation Patterns in Palestine, the Underlying Dynamics of Child Health in Palestine. This Project builds on past collaboration between the two institution in the research and training areas. | Hoda Rashad | Ford Foundation |
| Working Children in Egypt | 1999 | The website, Working children in Egypt, was an outgrowth of the research project: Child health in Egypt: A multiple indicator survey. This survey had revealed the large number of working children in Egypt, and the need to document this phenomenon in greater detail. | Sahar El Tawila | UNICEF |
| Health Mother Healthy Child Results Package | 1998 | This project was designed to support and evaluate the Healthy Mother Healthy Child Results Package. It analyzed the diagnosis, treatment and medical outcomes among neonates admitted to Neonatal Units of Luxor and Aswan Hospitals. This involved the analysis of: 1) Data for infants that came to the unit, those admitted and those not admitted; 2) Questionnaires administered to the person that brought the infant to the center; 3) The daily follow-up forms for infants admitted; 3) The discharge questionnaire for all infants; 4) The analysis of data about the units, including the monitoring of admissions to the unit. | Ray Langsten | USAID/John Snow |
| Prenatal, Infant and Child Mortality and Maternal Health in Two Egyptian Governorates. | 1997 | This study examined the achievements of the USAID-supported Healthy Mother and Healthy Child Project, focusing on perinatal and neonatal mortality rates in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minia, and in Qaliubia Governorate in Lower Egypt. The study followed about six hundred women from the last trimester of pregnancy through the first month of the life of their newborn child. The women were monitored until their pregnancy ends. The new mothers were interviewed about their newborns two weeks and four weeks after birth. The work included interviews with women who experienced stillbirths, and verbal autopsies for between one and two hundred children who died during the neonatal period. In addition, observations were made at neonatal units in Luxor and Aswan. |
Ray Langsten & Kathryn M. Yount |
UNICEF USAID/Johns Hopkins University USAID/John Snow, Inc./MotherCare |
| Survey of Palestinian Health | 1997 |
The Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and SRC collaborated
in the production of a series of health policy reports based on analysis
of a 1996 demographic and health survey of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The objectives of the project were to support the PCBS capacity to
produce and disseminate health statistics. PCBS staff and SRC
researchers provided a series of reports based on the 1996 survey,
including a summary report, and policy reports on maternal health care,
child health, insurance coverage and the utilization of health services.
The reports were designed to assist in transforming interests in health
issues and problems in the West Bank and Gaza Strip into a viable
discourse based on accurate information and analysis. Collaboration with the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics continued with the production of three substantive reports; 1) Dynamics and determinants of reproductive patterns; 2) Family formation patterns; 3) The underlying dynamics of child health |
El Tigani El Tigani | Ford Foundation |
| Workshop on Social Security and Income Generating Policies | 1997 | This workshop on Social Security and Income Generation Policies focused on working children and female headed households. It was an outcome of the research project: Enhancing the socio-economic status of women in Egypt | Heba Nassar | UNICEF |
| Enhancing the Socio-Economic Status of Women in Egypt | 1996 |
This project sought to increase our knowledge of the status of Egyptian
women, and to identify some ways in which their status can be enhanced.
In Phase I a profile of the status of women in Egypt was prepared, focusing on the economic, health, employment and educational status of women. A survey was also made of current interventions concerning women undertaken by local and international organizations. Phase II linked action-oriented programs with a labor market survey focusing on topics such as gender differentials and the socioeconomic conditions of work; these studies are being carried out at the national and household level. The objective of this phase was to identify specific problems of work by gender and strategies to relieve these problems, and to provide information to government employees and workers’ organizations about socio-economic conditions of work. One output of this project was a Workshop on Social Security and Income Generation Policies, with special focus on working children and female headed households, December 13-15, 1997.] Another outcome was the development of an SRC Resource Site on Women’s Economic Participation in Egypt |
Heba Nassar | Friedrich Ebert Foundation |
| Adolescence and Social Change in Egypt | 1996 | In Egypt, recent demographic literature has documented the rising trend in school enrollment and age at marriage over the last two decades. However, except for limited and fragmented research on early marriage and child labor, adolescence has been almost completely excluded from research. The SRC component of this collaborative project examined a set of interrelated dimensions of adolescence and factors hypothesized to have an impact on these dimensions, especially: 1) The socioeconomic context at the household level where adolescents live and acquire much of their life experience; 2) Family allocation strategies and transition to marriage and/or the labor market; 3) Education; (4) Health; 5) Preparation for reproductive roles. The project hosted a National Seminar on Transitions to Adulthood: a National Survey o Egyptian Adolescents, April 21, 1999, in Cairo | Hind Wassif, Cynthia Lloyd & Barbara Mensch | Population Council |
| Unwanted Births: Unmet Need for Family Planning in Egypt | 1996 | The concept of unmet need has been used since the late 1970s to indicate the existence of a gap between the desire to stop or to delay childbearing and the adoption of family planning. The concept of unmet need has received attention because of its bearing on reproductive rights. This research project attempted to provide new insights into the underlying causes of unmet need, using quantitative as well as qualitative analysis of secondary data. One of the main findings of the research that has special policy implications was that the exclusion of men and male methods from the Egyptian family planning program had contributed to the prevalence of unmet need. Failure of women in perceiving rightly their risk of pregnancy, especially the postpartum risk, was also identified as a main cause of unmet need | Laila El Zeini | Mellon Foundation/MEAwards through Population Council |
| Adolescence and Social Change in Egypt | 1996 | In Egypt, recent demographic literature has documented the rising trend in school enrollment and age at marriage over the last two decades. However, except for limited and fragmented research on early marriage and child labor, adolescence has been almost completely excluded from research. The SRC component of this collaborative project examined a set of interrelated dimensions of adolescence and factors hypothesized to have an impact on these dimensions, especially: 1) The socioeconomic context at the household level where adolescents live and acquire much of their life experience; 2) Family allocation strategies and transition to marriage and/or the labor market; 3) Education; (4) Health; 5) Preparation for reproductive roles. The project hosted a National Seminar on Transitions to Adulthood: a National Survey o Egyptian Adolescents, April 21, 1999, in Cairo |
Sahar El Tawila, Barbara Ibrahim Sunny Allam, Ahmed Mandel, Fekrat El-Sahn, Omayma El-Gibali, Zeinab Gamal |
Population Council |
| Child Health in Egypt: a Multiple Indicator Survey | 1995 |
The Egypt multiple indicator survey was designed to identify progress
towards Egypt’s mid-decade goals for child well-being in Egypt. It
provided estimates of priority indicators of the situation of children
in Egypt,. The sample design provided a listing of housing units that
could be used periodically to monitor changes in the levels of these
indicators. Information was provided on household characteristics, such
as access to safe water and sanitation; immunization status, diarrheal
diseases, breast feeding and anthropometry for children under 5; and for
older children, educational attendance and child labor. A related activity was the development of an SRC website on working children in Egypt. A second activity was a training workshop for three principal investigators from the region, from Yemen, Jordan and Palestine, on the implementation and analysis of multiple indicator sample surveys. This took place in December 1995, and was financed by UNICEF |
Sahar El Tawila | UNICEF |
| Assessing the Achievements of the Egyptian Child Survival Project | 1994 | The study provided detailed information on rates and causes of infant and child deaths, and on care of pregnant and post-partum women in two governorates: El Minia and Qualiubia. It also included assessments of health facilities, and interviews with doctors, nurses, dayas (traditional birth attendants), and other health care practitioners who serve pregnant women and young children. The results should be helpful in formulating policies to reduce infant and child mortality, and to improve the health of women of reproductive age |
Ray Langsten, Kenneth Hill |
USAID/Johns Hopkins University USAID/Clark Atlanta University |
| A Collaborative Country Study of Child Survival and Maternal Health: Egypt Case Study | 1993 |
Beginning in the early 1980s, UNICEF, WHO, and USAID collaborated with
the Egyptian government in developing a donor strategy for child
survival. The objective of this policy was to reduce mortality rates
among infants and children under the age of five. The main focus of this policy was oral rehydration therapy to control the severe consequences of diarrheal diseases, and an expanded program of vaccination against childhood diseases. Five years later USAID and GOE/MOH agreed to undertake a fully fledged Child Survival Project in Egypt which included support for immunization and three other areas: acute respiratory infections, child nutrition and child spacing. The objective of this study was to analyze processes of the Child Survival policy in Egypt: initiation, formulation, and implementation. The study also assessed how much conformity existed between Egypt’s Child Survival policy and the international child survival approach. Finally, it attempted to evaluate how beneficial Egypt’s child survival policy had been for local recipients |
Salwa Sharawi Gomaa | Ford Foundation |
| Schistosomiasis in Menoufia | 1991 |
This project studied the epidemiology of Schistosoma mansoni (intestinal
schistosomiasis) and the human behavior involved in its transmission in
two villages in Menoufiya governorate, in the Nile delta. Both villages
had a piped water supply (although not all households were connected),
but only one had a sewerage system (to which only one third of all
households were connected). Researchers studied local peoples’ knowledge
of schistosomiasis, and their rationale for their contact with canal
water during agricultural, domestic and recreational activities,
behaviors that persisted even though villagers were aware of the risk of
schistosomiasis. They also explored the services offered by the local
health units, as part of the National Schistosomiasis Control Program,
and designed alternative strategies to upgrade the services, especially
the provision of diagnosis and treatment for school children. The
recommendations to MOHP in February 1997 covered three areas: a strategy
to improve the performance of health workers; health education; and a
school-based screening strategy. A no-cost extension was provided for the cost of preparing a book based on the project Researchers at SRC: Awatif Younis (sociologist), Hanan Sabei (anthropology), Esmat Keir (sociology – research support). Researchers at the High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria: Amal Khairy (epidemiologist), Olfat Sebei (environmental chemist) & Osama Awad (malacologist). |
Samiha EL Katsha, Susan Watts |
USAID to MOH/Medical Service Corporation International (MSCI)/ Schistosomiasis Research Project |
| Child Survival in Rural Egypt | 1989 | The major objective of the study is to evaluate the impact of the Egyptian MOH National Control of Diarrheal Disease Project (NCDDP), and to obtain information on prevalence and treatment of diarrhea for surviving children as well as for children who die. The study will also collect data relating to the prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases, vaccination coverage, feeding behaviors, and birth spacing. The study will take place in 12 villages in the Menoufia Governorate and will follow closely the study which took place there in 1979-80. By following this earlier study, it will be possible to compare infant and child mortality rates, specific by cause, over time, and quantify any overall decline in dairrheal mortality and any change in the proportion of all child deaths associated with diarrhea. |
Ray Langsten, Kenneth Hill |
USAID/Johns Hopkins University |
| Dehydration, Diarrhea and Diarrhea Treatment | 1988 | Since 1983, the Egyptian National Control of Diarrheal Diseases Project (NCDDP) has sought to reduce the level of diarrhea related mortality to children by providing Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS), and encouraging its effective use. A case-control study was conducted among children and their mothers attending the Bab-El-Sha’reya Diarrhea Disease Research and Rehydration Center, located in a densely populated, lower income neighborhood in central Cairo. The study evaluated the ORS training, the status of the attending children, and interviewed mothers, focusing on the prior treatment of the current episode of diarrhea and the mother’s impression of the value (or lack thereof) of treatments used |
Ray Langsten Mahmoud El-Mouqi and Ahmed El-Abhar |
World Health Organization (WHO) Ford Foundation/Al Azhar |
| Women, Water and Sanitation | 1983 |
A series of task force meetings helped the researchers to become
familiar with the various aspects of water and sanitation and provided
ideas entry point for research. The two phase action research project had the ultimate objective of changing rural hygiene behavior, associated with water and sanitation, that may result in health hazards. Phase I identified the existing management of water supply and sanitation facilities, and studied women’s hygiene behavior in two villages in Menoufia governorate, in the Nile delta. Topics covered included women’s use of the various water sources (wells, handpumps, public standpipes and household connections), water and sanitation practices (water storage, water use for domestic activities, use and condition of latrines, personal hygiene), food preparation, utensil washing and storage procedures, and health care for infants and children. Phase II explored ways of improving water and sanitation conditions in the two study villages. The main objective was to test various innovative participatory approaches to improving health and sanitation at the village level. These involved local people in planning and implementing improvements in water, sanitation and drainage, and testing various models of environmental health education. A summer school for village children, incorporating environmental education activities, was supported by a grant from Dr Gilbert White. The project also identified the government bodies responsible for the promotion of issues related to health and sanitation, so that proposed interventions could be channeled through existing administrative structures and villagers could be familiarized with the steps necessary to achieve the needed changes. This study of administrative structures revealed problems that were tackled in the subsequent project entitled “Communication Processes: An Avenue for Sustaining Improved Health and Sanitation Practices” carried out by the core SRC team, 1992-1994. hyperlink A no-cost extension, to April 1993, was made available for the preparation of publications. |
Samiha EL Katsha |
Ford Foundation IDRC Anne White Summer project for School Children (Dr Gilbert White) Catholic Relief Services |
| Clinical Classification of Diarrheal Diseases in Menoufiya | 1983 | The study involves periodic surveys of children three years and under in a rural community in Menoufia Governorate to determine incidence and severity of diarrhea, mothers’ responses and feeding patters during the diarrhea episode | Nazek Nosseir | USAID/MOH (National Control of Diarrheal Diseases Project) |
| Villagers’ Participation in Formal and Informal Health Services in Two Villages | 1979 | This project examines the various types of formal and informal health care provided in one Egyptian delta village. The study gauges the villagers’ understanding of the causes of health and sickness and how health is promoted and sickness prevented. General conditions of this village of 6,500 people are described. Formal health care is examined through brief descriptions of the following staff, facilities and services: 1) the health unit, 2) maternal and child health services, 3) family planning services, 4) outpatient clinic, 5) health unit pharmacy, 6) vital statistics bureau, 7) health inspectors, 8) health education, 9) health visitor, 10) private doctors, 11) commercial pharmacy. The roles of informal health care providers (the megabaratz or bone-setter, the barber, the daya or midwife, and the zar troop) are explored. Health care for women and children is described in more detail. Also explained are the custom of female circumcision, the Sebou’ celebration and the wedding night. Researchers studied villagers’ diet, their perception of the relationship between nutrition and health, their management of sickness at home, and to whom they went if home remedies failed. Researchers found that villagers take an active role in monitoring and evaluating the care provided and do not hesitate to seek second opinions. Recommendations call for the formal health system to recognize and work with the traditional practitioners, and to reticence the dayas and use them to promote family planning. |
Samiha EL Katsha Marie Assad |
Population Council, MEAward |