The Executive Agency for Comprehensive Development Projects (EACDP) has implemented several vocational training programs to strengthen the role of women in rural communities. These programs provided training in sewing, knitting, dairy production, and handicrafts to women in the governorates of Assiut, Sohag, Aswan, and Red Sea. The training empowered women by teaching skills to start small businesses producing and marketing clothes, dairy products, and handicrafts. EACDP collaborated with local organizations and cooperatives to manage the training centers and help market the products. The goal was to enhance economic opportunities for rural women through vocational skills development and asset creation projects.

1. Towards strengthening the role of
women in the rural community after
the thirtieth of June
‫االراضى‬ ‫واستصالح‬ ‫الزراعه‬ ‫وزارة‬
‫الشامله‬ ‫التنميه‬ ‫لمشروعات‬ ‫التنفيذى‬ ‫الجهاز‬
Ministry of Agriculture & Land Reclamation
The Executive Agency for the Comprehensive
Development Projects (EACDP)
Dr . Sayed Khalefa
EACDP general supervisor

2.  Using natural resources more sustainably by
enhancing water-use efficiency in irrigated
agriculture
 Increasing the productivity of both land and
water units
 Raising the degree of food security with regard
to strategic commodities
 Increasing the competitiveness of agriculture
products
 Improving the economic climate for agriculture
investments
 Enhancing creation of job opportunities,
particularly for rural youth and women .

3.  executive agency for comprehensive
development one of the specialized units
working under the umbrella of the Ministry of
Agriculture and Land Reclamation.
 700 staff of the Unit has been responsible for
the implementation of the Egyptian Government
agreements with WFP since 1970 until now.
 These agreements were implemented in Lands
that have been targeted of reclamation
operations in some Governorates such as Kafr El-
Sheikh, Behaira, Marsa Matrouh, Beni Suef,
Fayoum, Assiut, Sohag and Aswan.

4.  From 2006 to 2008 the EACDP prepared and
implemented a vocational training center in
the Governorate of Assiut. Based on the
results of a market survey, training courses in
sewing and knitting were organized.
 Specialists were hired from nearby villages,
to train women trainers (TOT), in the local
communities. From 2008 to 2010 about 150
women were trained. Now this training
center is producing clothes for the market

5.  During the period mentioned above, EACDP
implemented vocational training courses on dairy
products in the Sedeek El-Menshawy village, Dar
El-Salaam center in Sohag Governorate.
 The center is managed by the local Agricultural
Cooperative Association. At the beginning of the
implementation,
 EACDP hired a specialist in dairy production from
the Institute of Agricultural Cooperation; using
the Trainer of Trainers (TOT) methodology,
trained ten members of cooperative who, in
turn, have trained members of the local
community. Since 2010, products are sold to
cover the administrative costs.

6.  Since 2005 EACDP provided hand crafts
training for the pioneers of rural women in
the villages of the High Dam Lake (Bshaier El-
Khair, Kalbsha) in Aswan Governatorate;
 EACDP depend on them to train women from
the Nubian and some residents of nearby
villages of the High Dam Lake.
 Furthermore, EACDP contracted with some
tourist hotels to set up an annual exhibition
for marketing of products.

7.  From 2007 until now, and through its project
in Red Sea Governorate which is
implemented in Shalatin, Marsa Alam, Al-
kosair and targeted Bedouins communities of
the eastern desert,
 EACDP carried out training programs to
develop the handmade carpets production
skills, through a contract with specialists. It
also trained them on embroidery home
furnishings, opened a marketing outlet in
Marsa Alam for this purpose, and participated
in the marketing exhibitions in Cairo and
Aswan.

11.  Enabling livehood and asset creation in
Matrouh vulnerable community
 Enabling livehood and asset creation in Red
Sea vulnerable community
 Building Resilient Food Security Systems
to Benefit the Southern Egypt Region
( climate change )
 Taking into account all previous projects in
the effective role of women in all activities.

12.  National Council for Women
 Ministry of health
 Local NGOs