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The national development plan for the advancement of women 2007-2012 was
carried through a holistic approach, using a scientific methodology, that
included participatory planning, decentralization, in addition to on-the-job
capacity building of partners from the national agencies responsible for
planning at all levels.
The planning process was based on a situation assessment of the status of
Egyptian women and identification of their real needs, starting at the level
of districts and villages, to the level of governorates in order to obtain a
database that reflects women's actual needs.
The plan was based on the following:
- Egypt's Human Development Reports and indices and the respective
governorate reports
- The results of the gender needs assessment survey, which was part of a
general survey on Egyptian households prepared by the Cabinet Information
and Decision Support Center, carried out through a cooperation protocol
signed with NCW.
The following steps and procedures describe the process of the preparation
of this plan, which took 3 years to finalize. It was conducted over three
phases.
First phase: the districts' program
38 workshops were held during the period from February-March 2005, covering
179 districts and 45 neighborhood. Participants included heads of local
popular councils, heads of districts and towns, NGOs members, planning
managers in the governorates, coordinators of NCW branch offices and
Ministry of Planning experts.
During this phase, the following was achieved:
- Acquainting the participants with new planning methodologies.
- Reinforcing the concept of gender planning, monitoring and evaluation from
a gender sensitive perspective.
- Preparing 233 plans for districts based on the actual needs of women.
Second phase: governorates' program
- The plans of districts and neighborhoods were reviewed and amended as
needed. 9 workshops were held for this purpose at the level of governorates
nationwide, each workshop covering 3 governorates. These workshops were held
from December 2005 through April 2006 to integrate these plans into the
plans of governorates.
- The participants in these workshops included secretaries general of
governorates, planning directors, heads of women's committees in the
regional federations of NGOs, directors of the departments of health,
education and social affairs in the governorate and Ministry of Planning
experts.
- 27 plans were prepared for all the governorates, each containing programs
and projects and specifying the financial allocations needed for their
implementation.
Third phase: the Sixth Five-year Socio-Economic Development plan (2007-
2012)
Intensive meetings were held between the project team, directors of planning
in the governorates and the ministry of planning experts. During these
meetings the draft plans were discussed, finalized and adopted by the
governorates.
- A unified framework was agreed upon and adopted through which each
governorate plan would contain an outline of: the programs and projects/ a
project description/ project objectives/principal and ancillary activities
of projects/ the allocations required/ sources of financing/ the
implementing body/ the time frame for implementation
The governorates' plans covered the following programs:
Education and training Health program Environment conservation Poverty
combating and economic empowerment- Awareness-raising tourism promotion
IT program
Plans also included forms for following up on the implementation of projects
according to the set time as well as a set of indicators to identify the
outputs, results and impact of projects versus resources and inputs.
The governorates' plans were submitted to the ministries of Economic
Development and Local Development as well as the concerned ministries to
integrate them into the Sixth Five-year National Socio-Economic Development
plan 2007/2012.
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