Egypt Network for Integrated Development (ENID/El Nidaa) Achievements 2012-2016

2016 ENID Project Board | 15 November 2016

ENID/El Nidaa Key Facts • Applies an area-based integrated development approach

targeting Upper Egypt promoting job creation, skills development, sustainable agriculture and improved basic services especially for vulnerable women & youth.

• Works mainly in Egypt’s second poorest governorate of Qena where the poverty rate reaches 58%.

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Main Areas of Work: 1. Promotes Jobs & Skills 2. Boosts Agriculture 3. Improves Public Services

ENID/El Nidaa Key Achievements 2012-2016

Partners with 11 Ministries, 3 Governorates & 50 local CDAs/NGOs in Upper Egypt

Over 40 interventions are being piloted and scaled up in the 42 villages reaching directly & indirectly over 20 thousand people

Annual Conference to link with national level. Some briefs & studies (e.g. FFS, agri-recycling) have been already adopted by local Gov & started upscaling

Linking the national ministries and local governorates with the local CDAs/NGOs and communities and building local capacities.

Qena City – El Ghabah Integrated Fish Farm Farmer Field School

Roof Gardening

Qena City Roof Gardening

Bir Anbar Household Milk

Processing

El Olaykat Milk

Processing

Dandara Integrated Fish Farm

El Sheikh Eissa Integrated Fish

Farm Roof Gardening

Ezab –Nag El Hafyan

Household Milk Processing

Naga’ Mahmoud Recycling

El Rezqa Roof Gardening Household Milk

Processing

Qosseir Bakhaness Household Milk

Processing

Refa’a Recycling

El Ossayrat Household Milk

Processing El Helfaia Bahary Milk Processing

Kalamina Household

Milk Processing

Towayrat Household

Milk Processing

Keryateya Household

Milk Processing

Geziret Moteira Poultry

Roof Gardening Household Milk Processing

El Awsat Kamola Household Milk Processing

Poultry

Kom Belal Roof Gardening

El Makhzan Education +

SewingTraining for Girls

Abbasa Sewing Training

for Girls Preschool

Kom Belal Youth Center

El Awsat Kamola Preschool

Geziret Moteira Education + Sewing Training for Girls

El Qara Youth Center

El Ramla Education + Preschool

Geziret El Hamoudy Education

El Marashda Education + youth center

Qena City Advanced Painting and French Loom

Kalahin Mother of Pearl

Marquetrie

Naga’a Awary Glass

Pottery El Gamaleia

Wood Cluster

El Shaarany Papier Mache

El Khatara Brass

El Kerateya Camel Bone Sculpturing

El Towairat Islamic Pottery

El Taramsa Novice Painting

& Mosaic Art

El Shawareya Brass Lanterns

Qosseir Bakhanes

Serma Embroidery

El Ossayrat Khayameia

Dandara Jewellery

Glass

El Qobeiba Kilim

El Shaaneya Leather

Accessories

El Rezqa Education +

Sewing Training for Girls

ENID Projects Map 2016

A. Promoting MSMEs and Entrepreneurship B. Sustainable Agricultural Development C. Upgrading Basic Services

Strengths: • Labor intensive activities are easy to

introduce and have great employment potential because the wages are much lower in the South.

• The climate in Qena makes it a perfect host of many agricultural interventions as well as several handicrafts.

• Gender education and employment reduces the fertility rate and improves children’s nutrition and well being.

Weaknesses: • Entrepreneurship: Challenges faced by youth in

general and women in particular are limited skills, difficult access to financial resources, lack of business and marketing information and bureaucracy/complication of procedures.

• Markets are biased against self-employed women and women entrepreneurs on account of widespread illiteracy, and low skills.

• Space has a very high cost in rural Egypt (building on agricultural land is forbidden by law)

Opportunities: • Huge potential in the RMG industry for local

and export markets given the female advantage in this industry. Other sectors include wood and leather.

• The growth in Development NGOs in the South provides a stepping stone to women empowerment via women representation and access to management skills and leadership.

• Unexploited potential of Desert Fringe (Zaheer Sahrawy)

Threats: • The fear of harassment affects the decision of many

women to accept jobs that are far from home, have late hours and are dominated by male co-workers which is the case for most private sector jobs.

• Convincing community that work of girls is acceptable

• Identifying Community leaders with good track records

ENID/El Nidaa SWOT Analysis

ENID/ El Nidaa Solutions: The Three I’s

Innovation through the introduction of: – New products, New technology, New markets

Integration through: – Sectoral interventions in basic services, MSMEs, agriculture – Partnerships with Community Leaders and NGOs, representatives

of grass roots groups, local government, central government

Inclusion of the community through: – Needs assessment surveys (Identifying options and priorities) – Participation (in cash or in kind with partial asset transfer) – Ownership (Community NGO or Households)

Achievements in Improving Basic Services in Upper Egypt

Achievements – Basic Services Early Childhood Education Facilities & Classes: • ENID has achieved its target with regard to preschool classes. • To date, ENID has opened 14 preschool classes in five of the poorest

villages in Qena educating a total of 453 children.

Combined Literacy Classes and Vocational Training Workshops: The Project combine literacy classes with vocational training in order to encourage the beneficiaries to join the literacy classes. • Literacy classes: ENID has empowered marginalized women aged 18-35.

To date, a total of 433 women joined literacy classes in eight villages in Qena. A total of 19 literacy course were completed since 2014.

• Vocational Workshops: Following their literacy education, a total of 257 women were registered in vocational training workshops. All in all, 14 batches have been graduated since the program has become operational.

Achievements – Basic Services Community Awareness Building: ENID has dedicated a special focus to awareness-raising. The Project has organized 34 community awareness building workshops on issues of health and nutrition, citizenship and identity documents, local governments and municipalities, and the preparation of a small business feasibility study.

NGOs Capacity-building: ENID supported local NGOs through capacity-building workshops. To date, two capacity-building workshops were conducted with the participation of 98 members of local NGOs. Training of Trainers (ToT): To date, 67 preschool teachers completed TOT workshops. Furthermore, ENID organized 56 literacy and 12 vocation TOT workshops and has also supported the local youth through ToTs.

Achievements in Promoting MSMEs & Entrepreneurship in Upper Egypt

Planned & Achieved Figures – MSMEs

One Village One Product

TVET

400 beneficiaries in 20 villages

Planned

956 beneficiaries in 26 villages

Achieved

415 trained

Planned

215 trained

Achieved

Achievements – MSME OVOP/Apprenticeship: • ENID/El Nidaa promotes the

One-Village-One-Product (OVOP) best practice model.

• Out of 25 OVOP villages, more than half are producing quality handicrafts and are now earning a regular income and many are training new apprentices.

• To date 956 beneficiaries have been trained in ENID’s various workshops with 888 women and 68 men.

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Achievements – MSMEs Technical Vocational Education & Training (TVET)

• ENID/El Nidaa implemented

extensive ToT trainings in Readymade Garments, Electrical Work, Cooling and Conditioning, Automotive Maintenance, Metal Welding, Metal Processing, and Electronics and IT

• To date 215 trainers trained from Qena’s 23 TVET industrial schools via the Industrial Training Center (ITC).

Entrepreneurship and Soft Skills Training • ENID has provided training in

entrepreneurship & financial literacy in its One-Village-One-Product (OVOP) workshops.

• El Nidaa trained 30 university students on entrepreneurship and soft-skills with curriculum tailored to their needs and they has started teaching the beneficiaries.

Design and Marketing – MSMEs Design & Marketing has been the most challenging obstacle for promoting MSMEs and entrepreneurship in Upper Egypt: • ENID/El Nidaa’s marketing strategy is based on product differentiation that

focuses on creating a marketable and competitive product. Products are sold at local and international exhibitions & Cairo-based artisanal stores.

• We have considered a number of best practice options from India and Thailand to promote the sales of crafts. The key feature is to identify sales venues and to rent space on behalf of crafts and small enterprises.

• ENID/El Nidaa explored the potential to export handicrafts to Europe and the Gulf countries early on. Early success has been made with the export of jewelry products to the British Museum.

• The need for continuous revision of design has been another hurdle in production.

Design and Marketing – MSMEs Stores El Nidaa has secured several sales outlets for its products in • El Fustat historical and touristic area

in old Cairo, • El Sharjah, UAE to cater to the Gulf

customers • “Creative Egypt”. • El Nidaa also has a sales outlet in

Luxor, the urban center, and has a whole floor to display our products in town.

• In Qena itself, the NCW has offered El Nidaa Foundation its entire ground floor to use on a permanent basis to exhibit and sell the output of all El Nidaa women beneficiaries and is situated in the commercial center of Qena city.

Exhibitions, El Nidaa participates in two major furniture exhibitions each year, FURNEX Cairo and INDEX Dubai as well as other sales in bazaars and El Nidaa showroom in Cairo. In FURNEX and INDEX, El Nidaa showcased its first range of wood furniture including benches, side tables, stools and bedrooms. Throughout both exhibitions, El Nidaa was able to produce high quality for each of the products displayed in its catalogue

Achievements in Promoting Sustainable Agriculture

in Upper Egypt

Summary Achievements – Agriculture Project/Output Units Training Employment

Planned Achieved Planned Achieved Planned Achieved

Crop Recycling 2 Units 2 Units 60 1,803 50 598

Integrated Fish Farms 2 Units 2 Units 100 100 50 7

Milk Processing 2 Units + 10 Units

2 Units + 10 Units 80 192 70 70

Poultry Raising 3,000 chicks 3,210 100 132 100 100

Farmer Field Schools 20 Sessions 27 Sessions 280 426 0 0

Roof Gardening 100 Units 100 Units 100 321 100 81

Comp. Advantage, Briefs, Reports 3 Reports 3 Reports 170 80 0 0

TOTAL 890 2991 370 856

Achievements – Agriculture Recycling Agri Residues 9 2 field crop recycling units established. 9 1,863 people have been trained (1770

farmers and 93 Extension Staff). 9 8,353 tons of Residues recycled to 3,076

tons of compost, 6,155 non traditional feed, and 633 tone of silage.

MALR included Recycling within Extension Services Experimental Farms _____________________________

9 In addition to Banana Recycling (supported by UNDP):

9 991 tons of banana residues were recycled to 1666 tons of compost

9 Trained 517 farmers

Integrated Fish Farms 2 Models in Al Ghab and Shiekh Essa are operational. Include: 9 Fish Ponds 9 Irrigation Pond 9 Animal Barn (75 heads – Sheep) 9 40 units of Roof Gardening 9 Solar Energy for water pumping 9 Bio Gas Unit 9 Management buildings, 9 Operational October 2016 (100 to be trained by Dec 2016).

Achievements – Agriculture Safe Milk Processing (Women’s Empowerment - Income Generation – Food Security and Nutrition)

192 people have been trained (160 women) exceeding Target (80 individuals).

Safe Poultry Raising - 5 units have been established 9 132 people have been trained

(89% females – 11% males) – 100 targeted.

9 209,575 eggs produced 9 17,685 Hatched eggs 9 3,210 eggs/household 9 80% reported eating more

eggs for children (3 villages) 9 80% higher income (3 villages)

Achievements – Agriculture Farmer Field Schools 9 27 field schools have been held so far

(wheat, fennel, hibiscus, sesame, lima beans).

9 2 specialized courses were organized to discuss post-harvest activities and medicinal and aromatic plants.

9 2 veterinary convoys have been organized in Nag’ Hamadi and Farshout Districts.

9 426 Trained (280 Targeted) 9 MALR Adopted ENID Model (2015-16)

Roof Gardens (Income Generation - Women‘s Empowerment – Food Security and Nutrition) 9 100 units have been established 9 319 people have been trained

(100 Targeted). 9 More than 100 new units were

established by private sector 9 40 Units in Fish Farms

established by Private sector in Qena

Enhancing Policies and Communication for Development of Upper Egypt

Achievements – Policy & Comm

ENID Annual Conferences ENID has organized annual conferences to engage national & local policy makers with their best practices and policy recommendations based on the field-level interventions.

The Conference is a unique opportunity to network and influence national and local policies based on ENID’s lessons learned.

Annual Themes: Dec 2013 El Nidaa (ENID): A Call for Developing the South Feb 2015 El Nidaa: A Story of Development from Upper Egypt Feb 2016 The Role of Women in Sustainable Rural Development

Achievements – Policy & Comm Policy & Case Studies ENID has produced over 39 policy briefs and 19 case studies to document or assess its field level experience and engage with the local and national policies and programmes. For instance, policy studies based on the Farmer Field Schools (FFS) and agricultural recycling have been adopted by Qena Directorate of Agriculture as one of their priority interventions. Current studies have focused on empowerment of women and youth.

Achievements – Policy & Comm MEDIA • An ENID/El Nidaa website

(www.enid.org.eg) was established and is main pillar of ENID’s outreach.

• ENID/El Nidaa has produced various documentaries one with UN Women and one with UNDP on women empowerment.

• Two Ramadan Radio programs (15 minutes) featuring handicrafts on national radio were created

• Lately, social media outlets (Facebook, Instagram, Jumia, and Souk.com) have been used to highlight and illustrated a range of ENID/El Nidaa “artizana” brand name products.

• Finally, 39 arabic press articles in Egypt’s mass circulation dailies featuring ENID/El Nidaa have appeared (to date) for 2015-2016.

Achievements – Policy & Comm Publications and Brochures • The design and production of manuals,

leaflets, in Arabic for distribution in the field;

• Books, and a variety of promotional material in support of its handicrafts component, including a 2016 illustrated 60 page Catalogue of products, supported by ALEXBANK, the design and publication of two books, one of which was published in English by the American University in Cairo Press, and the second self published with support from the Sawiris Foundation.

• Smaller items such as labels, stickers, price tags, signature packaging and wrapping material for sales purposes

• All material for the ENID/El Nidaa Annual Conference (banners, posters, annual report, give-aways, press release, invite letters, simultaneous translation, interview facilities, etc).

ENID Income 2012-2016

Agency 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016* Total UNDP $ 597 $ 390,942 $ 10,026 $ 325,552 $ 207,486 $ 934,603 Sawiris Fd. $ 62,488 $ 325,792 $ 337,746 $ 255,486 $ 84,538 $ 1,066,050 RBF $ 100,000 $ 100,000 $ 50,000 $ 50,000 $ 300,000 UK DFID $ 629,940 $ 455,927 $ 1,085,867 SIDA $ 528,574 $ 352,566 $ 881,140 Italy $ 499,136 $ 499,136 UN women $ 50,000 $ 50,000 $ 50,000 $ 150,000 Coca-Cola $ 100,000 $ 100,000 $ 200,000 OUDA $ 689,009 $ 689,009 Big Heart* $ 336,621 $ 336,621 Total $ 843,025 $ 1,322,661 $ 926,346 $ 2,271,749 $ 778,645 $ 6,142,426

* Income in 2016 is as of 10 November 2016. Additional instalments are expected from SIDA that will increase the total income in 2016 to around or near $1m. * The Big Heart Foundation has transferred their first instalment for a 1 year project focused on promoting health and literacy/vocational education in Upper Egypt. However, the funds is pending approval of the budget revision including in the Project Cost Extension.

ENID Expenditure 2012-2016

$2,020,731

$1,431,478

$1,443,826

$984,508

MSME Agri Service Policy

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* 2016 Expenditures are as of 5 November and will be updated.

ENID’s Donor Partners

ENID/El Nidaa Lessons Learnt • Women’s participation in the job market depends on opportunities and not on

conservative gender norms. Absence of knowledge of viable projects is also a key problem.

• The key to introducing efficient interventions for women employment is to work on the ground directly with those in need.

• ENID/El Nidaa’s experience working closely with TVET schools show that the system can be reformed within a short time.

• The state budget is a statement of priorities set by the state. It is normally neutral towards gender needs and yet does not achieve equal opportunity for women.

• The inherited culture of civil society organizations (CSOs) is charity work. The positive trend towards capacity building for skills and employment of beneficiaries.

• Importance of local NGOs capacity to secure sustainability • Importance of partnership building with the concerned governmental bodies • Importance of securing local participation in planning, implementing and

evaluating the intervention.