Akhbar El Mahrousa About Nahdet El Mahrousa Nahdet El Mahrousa (NM), in Arabic meaning the Renaissance of Egypt, is an Egyptian youth-led non-governmental organization (NGO), established in November 2003 and registered with the Ministry of Social Solidarity. NM seeks to make a positive and lasting impact on Egypt’s cultural, economic and social development through activating and engaging Egyptian youth in the country’s development, public work and decision-making arenas. NM achieves those goals through building a strong sustainable organization whose core program “Incubator of Innovative Social Enterprises” would act as a vehicle for social innovation. NM currently incubates several active projects in the areas of youth development, arts and culture development, health services, the environment, linking education to employment, promoting the culture of research and development and preparing emerging young leaders and development practitioners. The NM incubator addresses a wide community of youth, students, and other beneficiaries throughout the country. NM targets resourceful and educated young Egyptian professionals and empowers them through its Incubator of Innovative Social Enterprises. NM members also engage in a lively intellectual forum, both on-line as well as through a lecture series (Salon El Mahrousa), where they can share resources, ideas, information, and opinions about development practices. Akhbar El Mahrousa is a non-periodic newsletter issued by Nahdet El Mahrousa NGO.
1st April 2012, Issue No. 4 Inside Akhbar El Mahrousa
The Career Entrepreneurship & Development Office organizes its first Employment Fair in Cairo University. More on CEDO on Page 2
Nahdet El Mahrousa announces its new partnerships helping it on the path of Egypt’s social and economic development. More on NM’s Partnerships on Page 3
Three new social enterprises have joined Nahdet El Mahrousa’s incubator! More on the newly incubated social enterprises on Page 4
The Young Innovators’ Awards Program changes the lives of more young Egyptian scientists and celebrates their success. More on the YIA program on Page 5
The Misriyati team held their Misriyatina workshop to explore the identities and values of Egyptians. More on Misriyati on page 5
Namaa’s Initiative for Sustainable Devleopment launched ‘Namaa Knowledge Sharing Campaign’. More on Namaa on Page 5
Nahdet El Mahrousa and YAHOO! follow the success stories of their nine winning projects and raising the bar for young entrepreneurs everywhere.
More on the Social Innovation Starts With YOU Program on Pages 6 &7
NM’s Green Arm pulls up its sleeves with a big BANG! More on NM’s Green Arm on Page 8
Salon El Mahrousa’s interactove sessions have been very active lately! More on Salon El Mahrousa on Page 9
Nahdet El Mahrousa bids farewell to those who left the office and welcomes the new staff on board! More on the team’s updates on Pages 10 & 11
The Career Entrepreneurship & Development Office (CEDO) The Career & Entrepreneurship Development Office seeks to bridge the gap between education & employment by equipping students with key essential skills necessary to compete in the job market. In 2006, Nahdet El Mahrousa, in collaboration with the International Youth Foundation, USAID and other Egyptian corporate sponsors, established the first comprehensive Career Entrepreneurship and Development Office in Egypt’s largest university--Cairo University. During this short period, the CEDO was able to empower more than 10,000 students; to facilitate the employment of more than 800 graduates and provide career advising and entrepreneurship services to a broad base of students; and to provide a positive recruitment pipeline that meets the talent and needs of Egyptian companies. After realizing the growing success of CEDO initiatives, Cairo University requested NM to replicate CEDO in the main campus to serve an even larger number of beneficiaries.
CEDO organizes the Cairo University Employment Fair
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Students and alumni from 25 faculties participated in the 16th Career Development and Employment Fair. 30 companies working in different fields, including industry, finance, customer service, development, communication, and training joined the fair. The fair provided a forum for cultivating and developing productive relationships between quality graduates and the corporate world. The Employment Fair took place on July 6th – 7th, 2011. The fair was opened by Dr. Heba Nassar, Vice President of Cairo University and Dr. Wael El Degwey, the Dean of Faculty of Engineering. The CEDO team has received positive feedback about the Employment Fair. The way the fair was organized impressed many sectors starting with the sponsors and university administration, down to the students and alumni. The CEDO team also received excellent feedback on their Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/cedoegypt) about the registration system used in the fair as well as the quality of CEDO volunteers and how professional and presentable they were.
Collaboration with the Sawiris Foundation to provide new scholarships for Cairo University Students and graduates. The Sawiris Foundation for Social Development was founded in April 2001 with an endowment from the Sawiris family. The Foundation's mission is to contribute to Egypt’s human development efforts by providing funds to projects geared towards job creation, improved access to training and education, as well as establishing small and micro scale enterprises. The Foundation envisions a society where real opportunities are created and people are empowered to delve into a more productive life that would realize their full potential. Nahdet El Mahrousa and Sawiris Foundation have partnered to implement the Sawiris Scholarship for Job Creation. The partnership aims to qualify 400 graduates to be able to join the job market and excel in it. The CEDO is implementing the program with its two main components: a) qualifying graduates and providing them with an array of training courses and b) matching them with appropriate job opportunities. The program targets 400 beneficiaries divided into two batches. Beneficiaries will receive training in basic skills such as communication and presentation. They will also build their professional skills in project management, leadership, decision making, problem solving, and other areas. In addition to this, recipients will be trained in CV writing, interviewing skills, and job hunting techniques. To make the graduates even more attractive candidates, they will be provided with 150 hours of English language training. Lastly, participants will refine their computer skills to ensure they can successfully utilize tools like databases, PowerPoint presentations, and electronic communication. Trainers at the CEDO employ interactive training techniques and innovative facilitating methodologies. Interactive training methods help get the participants involved and make the educational process more active.
Contact Person: Wafaa Bekhit Email: wafaa.bekhit@cedoegypt.org Website: www.cedoegypt.org
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Introducing the Newest Partnerships
Egypt@Work, is a four-year program that aims to prepare 10,000 disadvantaged male and female youth for the job market and provide them with the skills they need to find employment or to start their own enterprises. Under this program, disadvantaged youth are defined as youth who are out-of-school, unemployed and/or at risk of dropping out of school. The Egypt@Work program addresses the need for youth employment by building alliances between the private, public and civil society sectors that foster employment training programs and services highly responsive to private sector needs and that are coordinated with Egyptian government policy and services.
Updates Egypt@Work are still in the first phase of their granting process and are on their way to finalizing contracting 3 NGOs including: -Alashanek ya Balady (AYB) -Nahdet El Mahrousa (NM) -New Horizon (NH) They are also initiating a labour market assessment in parallel to the granting process in order to be able to make more sound decisions about which sectors and governorates to target in their future grants Egypt@Work have issued a new Request for Applications for NGOs and informal groups to apply.
CEDO NATIONAL OFFICE CEDO National Office is the umbrella which the Cairo Entrepreneurship and Development Office works (CEDO) under. Within the 11.9% unemployment rate in Egypt, 29% of those have unviersity degrees. Therefore, there is a dire need to bridge the gap between education and employment. This program is enforced through the following services: -Career advising and counseling -Skills enhancement -Knowledge dissemination -Placement services Updates Youth Invest is currently in the process of signing an agreement with the University of Assuit to replicate the CEDO program. It is planned to implement this program in all 17 national Egyptian universities within the next five years.
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N M ’s P a r t n e r s h i p s
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Newly Incubated Social Enterprises We are happy to introduce to you the three newest additions to our NM family!
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But we still have room for expansion. NM is calling on all social enterprises with the aim of development to apply to our incubator. If you are interested in joining the NM incubator, send an email to Ahmed Hussein (ahmed.hussein@nahdetmasr.org) and Irene Boghdadi (irene.boghdadi@nahdetmasr.org).
Masr Tania Masr Tania, previously named “Live Egyptian�, is a movement to bring about another Egypt, a better Egypt, through delivering positive and inspirational stories from all around our beloved country. Masr Tania is currently developing their website and focusing their efforts on fundraising.
Monologues Monologues is an independent art movement that promotes cultural, political and societal understanding of Egypt through story telling as well as other forms of alternative documentation. Their current project is called Tahrir Monologues (TM) which aims to provide a platform for self expression revolving around true stories and testimonies from the 18 days of the Egyptian Revolution. TM has held several performances around Cairo and Minya since May 2011 and has been growing at an unprecedented rate. TM is also working on producing audio and video recordings of the performances to be broadcasted on Radio, TV stations and online channels.
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The Incubator of Social Enterprises Updates The Young Innovators’ Awards
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On the 27th of September, YIA celebrated its program’s closing for the academic year in the Civic Center for Education in Zamalek where winners received their certificates. The best 3 projects and the top 2 ambassadors won net books donated by Mobinil. Ahmed El Guindy was chosen as the best ambassador and has attended the Youth Forum Conference held by UNESCO in France, from the 17th to the 20th of October. Four focus groups have been conducted to obtain the winners’, ambassadors’, evaluators’ and supervisors’ feedback of the 2010/2011 program in order to improve the 2011/2012 program which will launch on the 1st of December.
Misriyati The Misriyati program focuses on promoting the values of tolerance, peace and diversity amoung young Egyptians through an innovative curriculum. The project has an established curriculum and teaching methodology. At the end of each cycle of workshops, participants are requested to brainstorm on means of contributing to their communities.
Updates -ed two peace salons at the Goethe Institute. The first salon was the screening of the "Imam and Pastor" documentary which was then discussed. The second was a dialogue session titled ‘Egyptian Citizens, Between Fear and Hope’ where the participants discussed the tribulations and aspirations of Egyptian citizens today, regardless On the 1st & 2nd of September 2011, in partnership with "Camp for of their ideological backgrounds. Change", Misriyati conducted the "Citizenship Hiking" workshop at St. Catherine. They addressed the issue of citizenship, reflected upon the The Misriyati team is planning on conducting several workshops in core values which we would like to build our new society, and to the upcoming quarter, with more focus on political concepts, political manage our public space. Then they took on the challenge of climb- participation, and active citizenship. In addition, they are trying to ing Mt. Moses! explore public spaces in order to conduct open dialogue sessions tackling some of the issues that are debatable nowadays within the In partnership with Masterpeace, the Misriyati team helped organize Egyptian society. the Peace Village Week from the 16th-22nd of September. They hostSeven new facilitators have started their integration plan within the Misriyati community. Ranwa Abdel Nabi, Khalil El-Masry, Dalia Said, Hanan Mosallam, Marwa Ghobashi, Mayssa Ezzat, Menna Issa, Menna Reda, and Moemen Zaki, welcome to the Misriyati team!
Namaa’s Summer School For Sustainable Development Namaa' aims at creating Social Entrepreneur for a good society. They believe that a Social Entrepreneur is a proactive person who is able to work with others towards having a good social impact on the society. They do this through equipping 30 social entrepreneurs every year with the adequate knowledge, skills and values that they need to be empowered as social change agents.
Updates Namaa’s Summer School for Sustainable Development has launched its 5th year from the period of July 1st till July 24th, at the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences. Namaa’s Initiative for Sustainable Devleopment has launched a new program entitled "Namaa Knowledge Sharing Campaign". This program seeks to raise awareness of political, social, and developmental issues all over Egypt. The team of volunteers organizes field visits to different Egyptian Governorates where they exchange knowledge with the community and enrich their personal experience by being exposed to different areas of Egypt.
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NM Incubator
The Young Innovators’ Awards (YIA) Program has been an incubated social enterprise at NM since 2004. Its main objective is to stimulate the culture of research and development in Egypt. To date, more than 1,000 students in all 67 faculties of Engineering, Agriculture and Sceince all over Egyptian universities have received a YIA award or scholarshop to support their graduate education.
Social Innovation Starts With YOU! Nahdet El Mahrousa and Yahoo!Maktoob partnered together to encourage social entrepreneurship through the online campaign ‘Social Innovation Starts With YOU!’. Individuals with social entrepreneurship ideas applied to the competition. The following are the nine winners who are now incubated social enterprises at NM.
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NM incubated Green Arm with the aim to increase environmental awareness and support initiatives to improve our environment and increase environmental activism. Latest in the Green Series of Salon The Green Arm Pulls Up its Sleeves! ‘Egypt Green Days’ at the Global Entrepreneurship El-Mahrousa: Week “I build Egypt”, as many of the celebrative signs Urban Permaculture Workshop by read, was the topic of the Green Arm’s first annual The Global Entrepreneurship Week is an event Dominic De Bruin retreat on April 2nd. It was held in El-Khan Green which aims to promote innovative thought within Building of the Oasis Ecolodge Initiative. The day a wide range of people working in companies, An introduction to Permaculture started with a stimulating discussion about the NGOs, students, etc. 104 countries participated and it's application in Egypt. role of youth in rebuilding Egypt’s sustainability. worldwide with a total of 40,000 events and 10 Permaculture is the conscious Invited experts started the day with an inspiring million participants. Green arm hosted two design and maintenance of panel discussion. They reminded environmental workshops at the AUC Campus. The first, called agriculturally productive ecosysactivists about the importance of respecting their ‘Green Entrepreneurship and Eco-Design’ had a tems in rural and urban national identity number of speakers which included: Francesca landscapes, which have the by recognizing our Culcasi, Ali Abo Sena, Jesus Iglesis Saugar and diversity, stability, and the inherited environNicola Cerantola. This workshop aimed to inform, strength of natural eco-systems. It mental know-how, prepare and empower Egyptian entrepreneurs to is harmonious combination of understanding our use a green approach in their work. A variety of land and people, supplying their local resources, tools and applied technical methodologies from food, energy, shelter and other conditions, and the Green Economy initiatives and program, material and non-material needs history, and Eco-design, Ethical Financial Institutions and by in a sustainable way. learning from our rich past while using the power- success stories of existing green entrepreneurs in The Global Gardener" Film Screenful tools of the future. Green Arm Meets the Tribes of Egypt ing and discussion lead by Ashraf Al Shafaki Among the innovative ideas presented through- The Characters of Egypt festival is held annually to out the day included the presentation of “Our Local promote tolerance within Egypt’s diverse cultural Part 2 of the permaculture series Green Transport Agenda; A socially just & sustain- differences. It’s a platform which joins a large with a screening of "The Global able strategy” by NM Green Arm member Yahia number of Egypt’s tribal ethnic groups, enabling Gardner" by Bill Mollison, Shawkat of the Tarek Waly Center for Architecture them to showcase their culture and traditions as well co-founder of Permaculture. This is & Heritage, and “Cycling for Change – A Model for as interacting with the other participants who are a a collection of four half hour Environmental Action” by the Green Arm Outreach variety of Cairenes, tourists and journalists. This time, videos explaining Permaculture in team, as well as a series of presentations and an the festival was held on the island of Heisa in Aswan. the context of four different exhibition of youth-led environmental initiatives Raising awareness about sustainability is a big factor climates. including 350 Egypt, EcoOptions, MTB Egypt, Keep of the festival and this is where Green Arm comes in. Egypt Clean, Keep Giza Clean, Green Hands, Egypt GA members presented a workshop to discuss and Carpoolers, One Movement, and others. compare the environmental challenges of Cairenes versus the tribes. Biomimcry - An Approach for Moving Planet Sustainability in Egypt - Presentation and Workshop by Sara El Moving Planet is an event which took place Sayed globally on the 23rd and 24th of September. To be a part of this, Greem Arm hosted a cycling rally in Introduction to biomimcry and Heliopolis to promote sustainable transportation exploring how it can be applied in in Egypt and to decrease traffic. Over 500 partici- What’s Next? Egypt. Biomimicry is the conscious pants joined this event on foot or on bicycles, In the networking emulation of nature’s complicated carrying banners and wearing blue, representing workshop, the plans yet beautiful systems and models the Nile. NM’s Mashrou3 Al Mareekh, along with for 2011 were to create human design. This ever other civil society organizations were a large part discussed and a expanding field inspires us to of the organization and participation of this event. b r a i n s t o r m i n g After the march, everyone gathered in a park Green Arm Coral Reef Resilience exercise generated where they were greeted by the Heliopolis district Workshop by Dr. Moshira Hassan many ideas for president followed by opening speeches from the collaboration organizers. A concert ensued with performances Coral reefs are a vital natural and from the Zabaleen band who play with instru- among environmentalists and various emerging cultural heritage that many ments made from scrap materialsn, followed by initiatives. The plans for 2011 included venturing depend on. This workshop was traditional songs played by a member from the into producing Green Arm publications addressing held in order to raise awareness on transportation issues in Egypt and challenges in Bashayra tribe from Marsa Allam. the importance of their conservapublic spaces, and developing a multidisciplinary tion and the threats they are research network for such sustainability issues. under. Four sessions were held Plans also include upcoming awareness and along with a field trip to the reefs campaigning activities that aim to harmonize the of the southern Ain Sokhna area. efforts of the various green initiatives.
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‘Appropriate Building Patterns for Saint Catherine, Egypt’- A Book Review After living with the Jebaleyah tribe in South Sinai for 33 months, Nashwa Ibrahim published the book ‘Appropriate Building Patterns for Saint Catherine, Egypt’. In this Salon on the 20th of July, brought by NM’s Green Arm, Nashwa Ibrahim further explored the unique architectural idiom of Saint Catherine and the environmental, cultural and economical values it presents through its rapidly changing architectural structures.
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How to Build an Innovative Organization Osama Ghanim, the founder and CEO of Innovabia- Innovation Arabia, a company which aims to spread the culture of innovation among organizations, held this Salon on the 26th of July. Osama Ghanim explained that building an innovative organization can be achieved through two stages. The first is by embedding the culture of innovation within the organization and its workforce. The second is by introducing the systematic innovation management techniques into the organization and applying them. These points were enthusiastically discussed in depth.
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Salon El Mahrousa
Salon El Mahrousa is a series of lively, interactive sessions lead by leading public intellectuals and NM members. They examine different fields across development issues in Egypt. Different themes include promoting tolerance and diversity in Egyptian society; exploring Egypt’s identity and its values; the economic, social and political trends shaping Egypt; dialogues based on free thinking and freedom of opinion on current topics; highlights of successful civil society initiatives. Workshops are also given on various entrepreneurship, cultural and civil society topics.