Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights concluded the activities of the 1st training camp for local community female activists on Saturday, February 2nd, 2013. The camp was organized between January 30th and February 2nd, 2013.
The training camp comes in the framework of the activities of the program "Responsive Decentralization for human Rights" implemented by Maat in cooperation with Hanns Seidel Foundation. It seeks to improve the conditions of local administration in Egypt via developing capacity of community actors and advocating decentralization, along with enabling women in the target governorates to develop community initiatives under decentralization.
35 young female actors from non-governmental organizations, government agencies, media institutions, and student unions in Greater Cairo, Beni Suef, El Gharbia, Alexandria, participated in the training camp, when the participation of the Port Said candidates was postponed to the next camp due to the recent events in the governorate.
The training camp aimed at raising the participants' capacities on related topics to producing community initiatives and decentralization, the training programme included three key components including; decentralization, good local governance, and local system in Egypt; tools and methods to monitor the needs of local communities and problem tree analysis; and drafting, marketing, following-up, and evaluating logical community initiatives.
The first component; decentralization, good governance, and local system in Egypt,
Over the course of four days, the participants in the training camp were able to develop four important initiatives, the first of which was developed by the Cairo Governorate Group related to reducing unemployment in the Al-Darb Al-Ahmar region through the revival of heritage industries, and the second was developed by the Beni Suef Governorate Group and related to the eradication of technological illiteracy of girls In a village in the province, by overcoming some of the causes of this illiteracy.
As for the Alexandria governorate group, it developed an initiative to get rid of garbage in the Mansheya neighborhood by holding awareness-raising activities for citizens based on the idea of marches, while the Gharbia Governorate group developed an initiative to get rid of garbage in the governorate “Ibyar” village by changing the image of the garbage collector among citizens In the village
It is worth noting that the initiatives that were developed went through several stages, where the groups made a map of resources and services for each community and then made a detailed gradation of the problems that each community suffers from giving a weight to each problem according to a systematic mechanism on which they were trained, after which the group analyzed the problem The most important thing is according to the results of the detailed gradient by drawing the problem tree, then going around the problem tree to the objectives tree, choosing the appropriate intervention, proposing appropriate activities, setting a timeframe, a marketing plan, and then a follow-up plan.
The aforementioned training camp is one of four camps that will be implemented during the next phase, which will end by selecting a number of distinguished initiatives and presenting them in a large forum in which donors, companies, government agencies and NGOs that can adopt and support these initiatives will participate.

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