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Developing the activities of rural women through training agriculture guides in the village

Developing the nutritional pattern for women of the village by using a new technology for food production

Economic role of rural women in agriculture

Employment of women and children in rural areas

Empowering Women in Egypt

Fayoum Rural Health and Family Planning Project

Funding Rural Women's Development Projects from the Development and Agriculture Credit Bank Project

Impact of the Fayoum Dairy Processing Project on Women (Assessment Study)

Integrated Women’s Health Project

Market Survey Credit Demand among Women in Selected Areas of Qena for Women's Initiative Fund

Multiple credit and nutrition improvement project

Production activities of women benefiting from New Lands projects

Raising the efficiency of women in food production

Rural cottage industry development

Rural women's development projects

Rural women's integrated development in Upper Egypt

The Economic Role of Rural Women in Agriculture

Projects (Detailed Description)

Implementing Agency

Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation

Title of Project

Developing the Activities of Rural Women Through Training Agriculture Guides in the Village

Objectives of Project

  1. Determining the training needs of agriculture guides in eight governorates

  2. Training the guides in the fields of technology of milk products production, silk worm breeding and methods of fighting rats

  3. Providing the guides with rations and benefiting from all agriculture remainders

Type of Project

Research and action oriented

Activities of the Project/

Method of Implementation

The past activities of the project included data collection and analysis, health education, training and technology transfer

Duration

1991-1993

Target Beneficiaries

Agriculture guides (women) and rural families

Area of Implementation

1. Governorate: El Gharbia, El Kalyoubia and Menoufia governorates and five others

2. Region: Rural

   
 

Implementing Agency

Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation and Faculty of Agriculture, Menoufia University

Title of Project

Developing the Nutritional Pattern for Women of the Village by Using a New Technology for Food Production

Objectives of Project

  1. Increasing the income of families.

  2. Gaining new skills in daily life.  Establishing foundations for new nutrition systems

  3. Providing new methods in food consumption

  4. Changing traditional nutritional pattern to raise its protein content

Type of Project

Action oriented

Activities of the Project/

Method of Implementation

The past and current activities of the project include health education, services, training, and using production surpluses and soybeans in food

Duration

1992/93-ongoing

Target Beneficiaries

Guides, rural leaders and rural women

Area of Implementation

1. Governorate: Menoufia governorate

2. Region: Rural

   
 

Donor

Partnership in Development Research: an International Programme funded by the Dutch Ministry of foreign Affairs administered by the Social Research Center, AUC

Implementing Agency

 

Title of Project

Economic Role of Rural Women in Agriculture

Objectives of Project

Eliminating all impediments for improving the role of women in economic development

Type of Project

Action Oriented and research oriented

Activities of the Project/ Method of Implementation

Data collection, Case study and Focus group

Duration

May 2000 - October 2001

Target Beneficiaries

Women in general

Area of Implementation

1.Governorates: Menoufia and Sharkia

2.Region: Urban and Rural

   
 

Donor

The National Center for Criminological and Social Studies

Implementing Agency

will be added

Title of Project

Employment of Women and Children in Rural Areas

Objectives of Project

To carry out a field study for studying the social and economic status of women and children in rural areas, in addition to an anthropological methodology and participant-observation of the social and legal status of women and children in work

Type of Project

Research oriented

Activities of the Project/

Method of Implementation

The planned activities of the project include data collection and analysis

Duration

1996-2000

Target Beneficiaries

Women in rural areas

Area of Implementation

1.Governorate: All Governorates (National)

2. Region: Rural

   
 

Donor

World bank

Implementing Agency

The Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights (ECWR)

Title of Project

Empowering Women in Egypt

 

Objectives of Project

 

To support Women’s access to IDs and BCs to be able to receive inheritance, obtain passports, to have access to the micro-credit receive their deceased husband’s pensions ,register for literacy classes and find employment in the informal sector

Duration

It started in June 2001 and it  is still going on

Target Beneficiaries

The General Public, the Media, NGO’s and government officials

Area of Implementation

The project is currently piloted in Cairo and five surrounding governorates .Next steps will include training NGOs in other parts of the country to help women obtain IDs

   
 

Donor

 

SPAAC, Netherlands Economic Corporation, Subcontracting KIT Royal Tropical Institute

Implementing Agency

 

 

Title of Project

Fayoum Rural Health and Family Planning Project

Objectives of Project

Promoting the well-being of families

Type of Project

Action Oriented

Activities of the Project/ Method of Implementation

The past and current activities of the project include credits and loans, training, community based system of health promoters and small enterprises

Duration

The starting date of the first phase of the project was 1991 while its ending date was 1994/95 while the starting date for the second phase of the project was 1996 and its ending date is 1999/2000

Target Beneficiaries

Children, women and families

Area of Implementation

 

1. Governorate: El Fayoum Governorate

2. Region: rural

   
 

Donor

Ministry of of Agriculture and Land Reclamation

Implementing Agency

 

 

Title of Project

Funding Rural Women's Development Projects from the Development and Agriculture Credit Bank Project

Objectives of the Project

Facilitating new ways to extend credit to this group of society

Type of Project

Action Oriented

Activities of the Project/ Method of Implementation

The past, current and planned activities of the project include credits and loans

Duration

The starting date of the project was 15/12/1991 and it is still going on

Target Beneficiaries

Low-income women and unemployed new graduates

Area of Implementation

 

1. Governorate: El Kalyoubia governorate (1st phase), Damietta, El Kalyoubia, El Sharkia, El Dakahlia and El Fayoum governorates (2nd phase) and all governorates (3rd phase)

2. Region:  Rural

   
 

Donor

SPAAC

Implementing Agency

 

Title of Project

Impact of the Fayoum Dairy Processing Project on Women (Assessment Study)

Objectives of the Project

Assessment of the Fayoum Dairy Processing Project on Women

Type of Project

Research Oriented

Activities of the Project/ Method of Implementation

The past activities of the project include data collection and analysis

Duration

The starting date of the project was  1990 while its ending date was also 1990

Target Beneficiaries

Women in the project area

Area of Implementation

 

1. Governorate: El Fayoum governorate.

2. Region:  rural

 
 

Implementing Agency

Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation

Title of Project

Multiple Credit and Nutrition Improvement Project

Objectives of Project

  1. Developing the abilities and skills of rural women and increasing their knowledge to raise food production

  2. Improving the use of available equipment for food production with healthy and clean methods

Type of Project

Action oriented

Activities of the Project/

Method of Implementation

The past, current and planned activities of the project include health education, training, an educational program for rural women on preparing healthy food with high nutritional value, and training agricultural guides on methods of collecting data from chosen foods with high nutritional values

Duratio

1991 (phase one)-ongoing

1994 (phase two) - ongoing

Target Beneficiaries

Rural women

Area of Implementation

1. Governorate: Menoufia and El Fayoum governorates.

2. Region: Rural.

   

Implementing Agency

Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation

Title of Project

Production Activities of Women Benefiting from New Lands Projects

Objectives of Project

  1. Carrying out profitable production activities, to be carried out by women benefiting from new lands projects according to their priorities and need

  2. Increasing the number of women benefiting and enhancing support to the women's organizations under their supervision, enabling them to increase the role of women and enhance their participation in planning and implementing activities in the new societies

Type of Project

Research and action oriented

Activities of the Project/

Method of Implementation

The past, current and planned activities of the project include data collection and analysis, health education, services, training, classes, provision of material supplies and administrative training

Duration

1988 -2007

Target Beneficiaries

Children and women

Area of Implementation

1.Governorate: Aswan governorate

2.Region: Rural

   

Implementing Agency

Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation

Title of Project

Raising the Efficiency of Women in Food Production

Objectives of the Project

Training women in the production of vegetables and fruits, dairy and animal products, and animal health care disease protection

Type of Project

Action oriented

Activities of the Project/

Method of Implementation

The past activities of the project included training

Duration

1986-1987

Target Beneficiaries

Professional women (agriculture engineers) and rural women

Area of Implementation

1. Governorate: El Gharbia, El Kalyoubia, El Beheira, El Giza and El Fayoum governorates

2. Region: Rural

   
 

Donor

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES)

Implementing Agency

Alexandria Association of Home Economics

Title of Project

Rural Cottage Industry Development 

Objectives of the Project

  1. Strengthening NGOs in strategic planning and capacity building

  2. Broadening the areas of interests of  NGOs to lobby within the existing political systems

Type of Project

Action oriented

Activities of the Project/ Method of Implementation

The past and current activities of the project include workshops, publications and evaluation

Duration

1995-ongoing

Target Beneficiaries

Wives, mothers, widows, divorced women and young new graduates of institutions and universities

Area of Implementation

1.Governorate: Alexandria governorate.

2. Region: Rural

   
 

Donor

The Development and Agriculture Credit Bank Project

Implementing Agency

Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation

Title of Project

Rural Women's Development Projects

Objectives of the Project

Facilitating new ways to extend credit to this group of society

Type of Project

Action oriented

Activities of the Project/

Method of Implementation

The past and current activities of the project include credits and loans

Duration

1991-ongoing

Target Beneficiaries

Low-income women and unemployed new graduates

Area of Implementation

1. Governorate: El Kalyoubia governorate (1st phase), Damietta, El Kalyoubia, El Sharkia, El Dakahlia and El Fayoum governorates (2nd phase) and all governorates (3rd phase)

2. Region: Rural

   

Donor

Social Fund for Development

Implementing Agency

Social Fund for Development

Title of Project

Rural Women’s Integrated Development (Upper Egypt)

Objectives of Project

Literacy programs for approximately 2,235 women, improving their standard of living through income generating loans and promoting their social and health awareness

Type of Project

Action oriented

Activities of the Project/

Method of Implementation

The past, current and planned activities of the project include credits and loans, health education and classes

Duration

1995-1998

Target Beneficiaries

Women in rural areas

Area of Implementation

1.Governorate: Damietta, Kafr el Sheikh, El Gharbia, El Kalyoubia, El Menoufia, El Sharkia, El Dakahlia and El Beheira Governorates. 2. Region: Rural.

   
 

Donor

Partnership in Development Research: an International Programme funded by the Dutch Ministry of foreign Affairs administered by the Social Research Center, AUC

Implementing Agency

 

Title of Project

The Economic Role of Rural Women in Agriculture

Objectives of the Project

Eliminating all impediments for improving the role of women in economic development

Type of Project

Action Oriented and research oriented

Activities of the Project/ Method of Implementation

Data collection, Case study and Focus group

Duration

May 2000 - October 2001

Target Beneficiaries

Women in general

Area of Implementation

1. Governorates: Menoufia and Sharkia

2. Region: Urban and Rural.

   

Donor

Japan WID Fund

Implementing Agency

Partners                   

Ministry of Health

Title of Project

Integrated Women’s Health Project

Objectives of Project

The project will

  1. Promote women’s development using an integrated health approach, providing appropriate information and communication technologies, reproductive health services

  2. Create two women clubs to function as  NGO’s linked to the two women health centers

  3. Build capacity for women health administrators in the Ismailia  and Sharkia governorate,  contribute to the institutional  development of the women’s health program at the local level

  4. Activate an outreach program in the two villages

Duration

1999 –2002

Target Beneficiaries

  1. Rural women and children

  2. The staff of the women health administration

  3. Ministry of Health will benefit from the introduction of the information and technology component

Area of Implementation

Shershema and Serabioum villages in the Governorates of Sharkia and Ismailia respectively

   

Donor

SPAAC carried out for CIDA

Implementing Agency

 

Title of Project

Market Survey Credit Demand among Women in Selected Areas of Qena for Women's Initiative Fund

Objectives of the Project

To perform market survey for credit demand among women in selected areas of Qena for Women's Initiative Fund (WIF)

Type of Project

Research Oriented

Activities of the Project/ Method of Implementation

The past activities of the project include data collection and analysis

Duration

The starting date of the project was June 1992 while its ending date was August 1992

Target Beneficiaries

Women

Area of Implementation 

 1. Governorate: Qena  governorate.

 2. Region: Urban and rural

   

 Donor 

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

Implementing Agency

Social Research Center at American University in Cairo

Title of Project

Socio Economic Conditions of Work in Greater Cairo

Objectives of Project

Formal /informal comparison and gender differentials  in labor market

Type of Project

Research oriented

Activities of the Project/Method of Implementation

Data Collection, Training and Workshops

Duration

1997-1999

Target Beneficiaries

 

Area of Implementation

Governators: Cairo- Giza- Qualyubia

Region: Urban

   
 
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