“Problems of supervision and control of the work of civil society organizations“

A new policy paper issued by the Public Policy Analysis Unit of the Maat Foundation

Abolishing the Disputes and Pre-Control Committee, joining or affiliation with international or regional institutions with dangers and rehabilitating workers at the Ministry of Solidarity.

Issued Policy Analysis Unit Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights, a new paper entitled “Problems of supervision and control of the work of civil society organizations- Towards corrective actions for the relationship between the administrative body and organizations “, And that under The project "The Universal Periodic Review as a Tool to Improve Public Policies during the Transition",Which is implemented by the Foundation with funding from the European Union during 2016-2017.

The paper discussed a number of axes related to the problems of prior censorship by the Ministry of Social Solidarity, where in the first part the paper dealt with the problems of dependency and supervision in accordance with the framework of Law 84 of 2002 and its executive regulations No. 178 of 2002, and then the paper was presented in the second part of it supervision and control in some European countries And Arabic through registration methods and oversight bodies, then the paper in its third part was based on clear constitutional and human rights standards. In the last part, some recommendations are raised that may contribute to solving these problems.

 The paper came out with a set of important recommendations on two axes, one of which is legislative and the other is related to qualifying and training the administrative body’s cadres. The most prominent amendments at the legislative level are the amendment of some articles of the Civil Associations Law, especially articles that violate Article 75 and Article 97 of the new Egyptian constitution, such as the introduction of an article that provides for a guarantee. The freedom to establish civil organizations by notification and their independence without obstruction or obstruction by the public authorities, and to make subsequent control over the work of organizations, and the paper also requested the amendment of Article 7 of the law, which prohibits the right to litigation except after it is presented to the Dispute Settlement Committee, in order to comply with the correct constitutional articles that were given Everyone has the right to resort to justice. The paper also called for controlling Article 11 of the law by fully clarifying the concept of rubbery terms such as the term threatening national unity, violating public order or morals, or calling for discrimination between citizens on the basis of sex, origin, color, language, religion or belief. The paper also called for amending the law to make affiliation or participation in international associations or institutions an inherent right for all organizations upon notification, while retaining the administrative body the right to resort to litigation to stop what it deems contrary. The paper called for working to strengthen the role of regional and specific federations, with the necessity that the formation of all members of their councils be by election.

The paper also came out with recommendations calling for raising the level and capabilities of workers in administrative bodies, and the departments of the Ministry of Social Solidarity entrusted with the work of civil organizations in order to eliminate the excessive bureaucracy that most of the employees working in these departments suffer from.

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