84 D Gesr El-Suez St, Cairo, Egypt
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Cairo
Egypt
- Arts
- Democracy and community development
- Gender
- Human rights
- Others
Social Development: Contributing to the reduction of poverty by improving provided services, raising awareness and building capacities. More specifically, Supportive Homeland Association works within this area on three components:
1) Education and Literacy; 2) Health; 3) Support for civil society organizations and capacity building. This area of work is mandated to ensure the availability of educated, skilled, healthy and productive human resources that contribute efficiently to the local and regional development.
Peace building and citizenship: Working towards peaceful coexistence, creating community-based peace- builders with the capacities to address and transform conflict in a non-violent way. This is done by building the capacities of youth, social, and political activists on peace, conflict transformation, diversity, human rights, intercultural dialogue, gender and democratic development
Economic Development: Promoting demand for labor and labor absorption in the local and national economy through employment, social protection, developing professional attitudes, technical vocational skills of community structures and individuals, and improving the economic security of vulnerable households with special focus on women
All the three areas of intervention are interrelated and directly linked to each other as well as to other areas such as culture, heritage and media. With this understanding, Supportive Homeland Association always adapts a holistic approach during the designing and the implementation of its activities and services on the ground, not only to achieve the expected result, but also to contribute in promoting a comprehensive understanding of sustainable development on local and regional levels
Youth Empowerment Project: With the support of Relief International, IDSC worked together with local partners to provide 6000 youth in 6 governorates in Egypt with the necessary skills to effectively communicate and contribute to their communities, as well as the ability to assume leadership at a local level. In addition, the YEP program provided youth with problem solving, critical thinking, and leadership skills necessary to take the lead in addressing challenges hindering the democratic process in their specific localities. Finally, the project also established six youth centers in six different governorates to serve as political awareness academies and created an on-line portal in which interactive training curricula pertaining to issues tackled during the project are shared
Loamet Aish - Source of Living: After the success of the first phase, this project continued in 2015 with additional approaches. Its aim was to promoting peaceful coexistence among Syrian refugees and hosting communities in Damietta, through involving community structure and stakeholders in strengthen the economic security of vulnerable households (Egyptians and Syrians) with focus on women. The project relied on the resources of the Local Community Development Organization in Damietta, the support of Terres des Hommes, UNCHR and IDSC's six years of experience in providing career guidance, job counselling and capacity building of organizations and individuals. A quality restaurant was established to provide catering services in response to the neighboring factories' demands as well as to serve a wide range of customers
United we stand, divided we fall is a long term project that aims at promoting peaceful coexistence by bringing together three community structures (civil society organizations, church and mosque). This expanded their capacity to build a culture of tolerance to address their communities’ challenges together. Funded by MEPI and implemented in three governorates namely: Cairo, Behira and Sohag.
Supportive Homeland Association will act as an open source of information for the network members especially in the areas of Supportive Homeland Association experience (including. labor market, employment, civic education, youth political participation).
Through joining ALF network, Supportive Homeland Associationis seeking to increase its access to national and international NGOs with similar mission and objectives , in order to exchange experience and to cultivate multicultural partnerships. Also IDSC would like to share best practices in Egypt and specifically with Supportive Homeland Association implemented projects.