Sadat Association for Social Development held a number of
exercises in the governorate of Menofia on the topic of local governance and
administration. This comes within the framework of the activities of the
project of “Promoting youth civic & political engagement in Egypt”, which
is implemented by the Sadat Association for Social Development, Supported with
German Federal Foreign Office’s funds by ifa (Institut für
Auslandsbeziehungen), Funding programme zivik.
The actors discussed the goals that called for the
establishment of local administrations and governments and the regulatory and
environmental factors affecting them. A representation of a review of multiple
and different models for local administrative bodies, the partnership of local
government and civil society, strategies for developing local government institutions,
the future view on the systems of administration & local government as well
as the possible ways to support and make them succeed.
EL-Sadat Association also held a package of
activities/trainings/workshops in several governorates at the level of the
Republic, including Behaira, Qena, Luxor and the most notably the governorates
of Menoufia and Gharbia. Where the activities agenda includes several other
axes that include the concepts of citizenship, the role of youth and civil
society in the electoral process and civil participation within the framework
of Egyptian law. The activities includes the concepts of the constitution,
local government, government systems and other topics in the same context
regarding civil society and its urgent needs.