Geographic Area: Governorates of Aswan, Cairo, Matrouh, Sohag and Fayoum

Area of Development: Support to the economic and productive system

Sector: Handicraft

Executive body: DGCS – NGO: COSPE

Institutional counterpart: Ministry of Social Affairs

Other funding parties: -

Beneficiaries: Women employed in handicraft activities and in the agricultural sector

Period of implementation: 2003 - 2004

Amount and nature of the funds: 194,000 € grant through the debt swap

Type of intervention: Technical assistance, capacity building, training and public awareness

Objective: Contributing to poverty alleviation of disadvantaged productive families

Description of the project:

The project proposes the continuation of the experience of the program undertaken by the NGO COSPE in the framework of the development of profitable activities in the sectors of handicraft and transformation of agricultural products, while extending the activities to new areas.

The project promotes the improvement of the status of women favouring their integration in the economic and social sphere and stimulating the development of the culture of associationism and pluralism.