Management Seminar Final Project

Management Seminar Final Project

“Alashanek Ya Balady” Non-Governmental Organization in Egypt

Presented By: Yomna Hani 2009/0380

Salma Shady 2009/0275

Mennatullah Essam 2009/3938

Reem Ashraf 2009/2459

Supervised By: Dr. Mona El-Sholkamy

The Research is divided as follow:

1. Yomna’s Part: What is the NGO, how does it work, the problems it faces, and its benefits. Pages 2-4

2. Salma’s Part: Types of NGO’s by Orientation. Page 5

3. Menna’s Part: Types of NGO’s by level of operation. Page 6

4. Reem’s Part: Organization Background: Description of the NGO, vision, mission, main beneficiaries, recipients and fund management techniques. Pages 7-9

Non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) are generally nonprofit institutions which are independent from the government even though they might receive funds from the governments; the NGO’s were announced firstly by the United Nations in 1945. Egypt’s first NGO was the Greek Association of Alexandria, which was established in Alexandria in 1821.The Egyptian Ministry of Insurance and Social Affairs has confirmed that the NGO’s are now 16,660 with about 3 million employees. The NGO’s has too many fields worldwide which differ from a country to another depending on the needs of each, these fields are mainly to help deliver the help which they received from donors to the poor. These fields are particularly the public’s concerns as education, health care, agriculture, and income generation. Other fields care more about the women rights, natural resources. When it comes to health, people don’t deserve to die every day because the proper healthcare doesn’t reach them, and because of lack of awareness in the developing countries so some NGO’s provide the appropriate health services for people, improves the primary health care centers, giving attention for elder people, and increase the health awareness like the negative effect of smoking and others among villages which has high level of illiteracy. In Egypt, Women Health Improvement Association in Qena is one of the NGO’s which has too many fields and one of them is the health care. Another activity that the NGO’s carry out is Education, the level of illiteracy is increasing day after another which leads to people stealing, killing, and doing drugs for not having a job and it all adds up to not being educated. The education NGO’s like etijah and other more aim to develop sustainable education for youth, train teachers to adopt with new educational methods which are mainly advanced, implement educational programs for people with special needs. The Sanitation is another public issue that the NGO’s try to fix which is mainly found in small villages around Egypt. The Better Life Association For Comprehensive Development (BLACD) is an Egyptian NGO which won a World Habitat Award by the United Nations for their projects on improving the access to clean water and sanitation, the project was to provide every house in Mina Governorate (one of the poorest villages in Egypt) connections to water and latrines, and they did so for 5,900 families. People in these country had to go daily trips which distant from their houses to get clean water and to use a clean toilet. And the list of the projects carried out by the non-governmental organizations is infinite, and so are the issues that Egypt and other countries face every day and the NGO’s plan to fix and provide something better for each situation.

Raghada El Ebrashy mentioned in her article, “Empowering NGOs in Egypt: the need for a new legal framework” she’s the founder and Chairperson of Alashanek ya Balady Association for Sustainable Development (AYB-SD) in Egypt. The heart of the article was about the problems that the non-governmental organizations face in Egypt since there are more than 30,000 NGO’s most of them aren’t active and are unknown and others face legal and funding challenges, but with this huge number of NGO’s Egypt shouldn’t face either poverty or illiteracy. But the problem is that the government doesn’t provide any funding neither administrative support to these NGO’s so they end up not being known. Ever since the revolution in 2011, a new law was released regarding the NGO’s, the document mentioned that the government has the right to interfere in the field and the activities of the NGO’s, it also mentioned that each NGO is to deal with a certain activity not a variety of activities, if it works for employment services it can’t deal also with educational services. How come these organizations are named as non-governmental organizations and they aren’t free or independent to provide whatever they need without the government controls their actions, this law also stands in the way of the services that were to be delivered to the poor. The main issues which need to be solved are totally neglected like the funding problems for new organizations. This article focused on that the new law has given the full authority for the Minister of Social Affair to close any NGO or change the BOD in case of any law is broken, even though in these case when the law is broken the incident should be filed to the judiciary that should be dealt by certain courts but when a case is filed the criminal courts deals with the issue. The donations the NGO’s mainly aim to collect inside Egypt or fund from the international foundations is always a problem. As for the donations, that should be collected inside Egypt the process is the NGO’s must get permission from the ministry to be allowed to collect donations for every 3 months then the permission has to be renewed, its takes a lot of work and effort to get the paper work done and sometimes the requests are declined. When the NGO gets the permission only one mean of marketing is to be used like SMS, Point of sales, Banks. This decreases the NGO’s ability organize any public funds for social good. As for the international funding, the law might make an NGO wait for almost a year to get one approval for an international grant.

As for The benefits of non-governmental organizations, it can be cheaper to implement since they are non-profit organizations, so most of the projects can be provided without the assistance of the government’s money, they mainly depend on private donors who support the NGO’s which decreases the lack of resources. Better communication, is another benefit in which NGO’s can easily communicate will all peoples and deliver

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