Citizen Participation in Historic Cairo (CPHC)
9. Management Structure Management responsibility for al-Khalifa neighbourhood resides with Cairo Governorate (alKhalifa District) and the Ministry of Antiquities (Historic Cairo Directorate). Management responsibilities and strategic issues are in conflict as there is no official document that clearly assigns responsibilities within the WH Property of Historic Cairo. In principle, there should be a single management structure that organizes all activities and monitors its implementation in Historic Cairo. Al-Khalifa should be managed as part of Historic Cairo with its management as a sub-structure. The UNESCO/ URHC Project (2014) proposed a management system of Historic Cairo illustrated in the following chart (Figure 5). Al-Khalifa management entity should be part of this hierarchy with a small workgroup consisting of members from the WH Property technical office, local government (on the district level) and local elected councils that are in constant communication with the local community. This workgroup should act as a channel that ensures the local community’s needs, recommendations and complaints are taken into considerations.
Figure 43 The proposed management structure of Historic Cairo by URHC.
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