On Wednesday, February 20th, 2013, Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights concluded the 2nd training workshop for running small projects and how to manage the families of prisoners and detainees in EL Basateen and Dar El Salam districts to get loans. The workshop entitled "Small Projects as one of Integration and Rehabilitation Mechanisms" was conducted for 2 days during the 19th and 20th of February 2013, it came in the framework of the project (Integrated Protection for the Families of Prisoners and Detainees – Integration and Rehabilitation) funded by the Swiss foundation DROSOS and seeks to improve economic, social and legal conditions of the families of prisoners and detainees in six districts in Cairo and Giza. The training workshop series throughout the project would provide 90 training opportunities for the families of prisoners and detainees on how to get loans and manage small projects in the context of other services to benefit over 2200 members of those families. The workshop tackled related issues to projects management as follows: · Social and economic significance of small projects, project life cycle, small project properties, models for earlier small projects, how does the project idea come up, how to evaluate the project idea, the steps for establishing small projects, market study definition, market study steps, efficient and effective time management, project revenues and expenses. · Project funding sources, how to get a loan, lending institutions' systems, in order to support those individuals along with providing them with the needed skills to negotiate with the lenders, and how to run these projects to contribute in improving their economic situations. The workshop adopted the following ideas for practical training on project planning and management via working groups, when every working group worked on project idea including; (raising rabbits, baby shower decorations, opening a restaurant, hardware repair shop, and carpentry workshop). Each working group put forward the next: Project objectives, identifying needs, specifying budget, distributing roles on the project participants, identifying the period to launch the project, and the challenges facing the project's and how to overcome them. Every group presented its implementation plan as a practical model to projects' management in line with the core objective of the practical training, which was to consolidate the project good planning concept as a guarantee to limit the risks and the fact that good management is the first step for success.