The document outlines Egypt's National Strategy for the Empowerment of Egyptian Women 2030. The strategy was endorsed by the Egyptian President in 2017 to align with Egypt's Sustainable Development Strategy 2030 and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. It aims to empower women politically, economically, socially, and protect their rights by 2030. The strategy was developed through extensive research, consultation, and community participation to address women's needs and demands. It identifies indicators to measure progress across four pillars: political empowerment, economic empowerment, social empowerment, and protection of women's rights.

2. National Strategy for the
Empowerment of Egyptian
Women 2030
Vision and Pillars

3. • In March 2017, The Egyptian President announced and
endorsed the National strategy for the Empowerment of
Egyptian Women to be the national policy and guiding
document for the Government.
• Egypt is the first country globally to align and launch its
strategy 2030 to both the SDG Agenda and Egypt’s SDS 2030
National Strategy for the Empowerment of Egyptian Women 2030

4.  Egyptian Constitution 2014
The Strategy is aligned with the principles and
values embodied in the Constitution:
- Enrich equal rights and opportunities
- Prohibit discrimination
- Ensure the protection of all women and girls
- Guarantee fundamental rights
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5.  Why do we need a new strategy for women
• Responding to the needs of Egyptian women
• Adopting a rights based approach
• Ensuring Participatory approach
• Applying Process documentation
• Endorsing a mechanism for monitoring and Evaluation
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6.  Adopting a definition of women’s empowerment
Five main Components:
1) Women’s self-appreciation and confidence in their capabilities;
2) Offering women various options and granting them the right to make
choices;
3) Granting women the right to access opportunities and resources;
4) Women’s ability to control their destiny;
5) Women’s ability to positively affect social change.
National Strategy for the Empowerment of Egyptian Women 2030
Life Cycle Approach
Road Map for the
Society

7.  Methodology of Strategy Preparation
• Evidence-based
• Scientific approach
• Consultation with the key stakeholders
• Expanding the space for participation of target groups.
Phase One:
Reference
Survey’s and
studies
Phase Two:
Consultative
meetings
Phase Three:
Community
participation
and public
outreach
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8. Phase 1: Reference surveys and studies
1. Review of international commitment
2. Review of international strategies
3. Evidence based research surveys and studies
• Study and survey of Egyptian women’s needs and demands
• Economic Cost of Violence against Women
• Women economic empowerment study
• Legislative reform and legal empowerment study
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9. Phase 2: Consultative meetings
• Interviews with Ministers, Governors , Deputy ministers, Deputy
Governors and Women Parliamentarians
• 500 volunteer members of the National Council for Women branches
• 180 NGO and syndicates representatives
• 30 NGO through Civil society organization forum.
• Round table discussions in 13 Governorate on economic empowerment
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10. Phase 3: Community participation and public outreach
1. Door-to-door campaign
72,000 women in 393 underprivileged villages in 27
governorates.
2. Ideational Change
- Taa Marboota Campaign - more than 40 million views on
social media,
- 498,000 on ground outreach
- 16 Days of Activism campaign, reached 19,000 women at the
national level.
3. Educational institutions
10,000 students, awareness-raising seminars, and sports and arts
activities at universities
4. Public outreach by NCW branches and committees
NCW branches - over 56,000 women and girls.
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11.  The Strategy’s Vision:
By 2030, the Egyptian woman will be a key player in the process of
sustainable development in a nation that:
 Guarantees her all the rights set forth in the Constitution,
 Grants her full protection
 Provides opportunities with no discrimination–economic, social and political
 Enable her to develop her potential
 Achieve self-fulfillment, and accordingly
 Contribute to Egypt’s development.
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12.  The Strategy’s Pillars:
Achieving the vision of the National Strategy for the Empowerment of
Egyptian Women 2030 requires working through 4 pillars as follows:
• First Pillar: Political empowerment and leadership promotion;
• Second Pillar: Economic empowerment;
• Third Pillar: Social empowerment;
• Forth Pillar: Protection.
2 Mainstreamed Pillars:
• Legislation
• Culture
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13. First Pillar: Political empowerment and leadership promotion
 Increasing voter’s participation
 Reaching a balanced parliamentary representation
 Enhancing Performance in legislative oversight
 Non Discrimination in the appointment and promotion within judicial bodies
 Women leadership in politics at local and national level
 Gender responsive governance in public and private sector
 Citizenship and Identity Cards
 Leading posts in state executive authorities
 Completion of the institutional framework of women’s empowerment (Equal
opportunity units in ministries, public bodies, business sector, local councils,
parliament and judiciary)
 Challenging the governing community culture and ideas opposed to women
appointments to senior positions
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14. Impact indicators
Current
value
Target value
by 2030
Female voter turnout 44% 50%
Percentage of women parliamentarians 15% 35%
Percentage of women on local councils 25% 35%
Percentage of women represented in
judicial bodies
0.5% 25%
Percentage of women in public posts() 5% 17%
Percentage of women in senior
management posts
19% 27%
Current Situation & Impact indicators
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15. Second Pillar: Economic empowerment
 Decent Support services - safe environment for working women – labor laws
responsive to women and family needs
 Women in private and public sector governance
 Eliminate discrimination against women in access to employment
 Encouraging new female labor-intensive projects
 Disseminating a culture of entrepreneurship among women (WEP)
 Access to financial and non financial services
 Developing investment polices management, systems and financing (one stop
shops)
 Expanding literacy and numeracy program for women and creating digital
technology
 Promoting women’s engagement in the agricultural sector
 Decent work for women in formal and informal sectors (Employability)
 Women’s Financial inclusion in urban and rural areas
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16. Impact indicators Current value
Target value
by 2030
Percentage of breadwinning women below
poverty line
26.3% 9%
Percentage of women in the workforce 24.2% 35%
Unemployment rate among women 24% 16%
Percentage of women in administrative jobs 6% 12%
Percentage of women in professional jobs 38% 48%
Estimated pay gap between men and women 29% 58%
Percentage of small enterprises run/owned by
women
22.5% 50%
Percentage of microfinance targeting women 45% 53%
Percentage of women with bank accounts 9% 18%
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Current Situation & Impact indicators

17. Third Pillar: Social empowerment;
 Informed choices in private and public domain
 Access to Justice
 Reproductive health services (Life cycle Approach)
 Care for elderly women
 Women with disabilities - Mothers of children with disabilities
 Illiteracy
 Equal access to basic services in public sector (Education & health)
 Legislative Reform
 Expansion of legal systems & support offices
 National Complaints offices
 Private and public spaces free of Violence
 Social Protection – Takaful and Karama
 Promoting care for talented and outstanding young women
 Promoting services for female prisoners
 Awareness raising
 Provision of family planning services
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18. Impact indicators Current value
Target value by
2030
Female illiteracy rate (over 10 years old) 27% 12%
Female illiteracy rate (20-29 years old) 12% 0
Percentage of married women who use contraception
methods
59% 72%
Total reproduction rate (child/woman) 3.5 children 2.4 children
Percentage of pregnant women who received care
during pregnancy
83% 92%
Percentage of pregnant women who delivered via
caesarian section
52% 34%
Maternal mortality rate (per 100,000 living babies) 52 26
Life expectancy at birth 71.3 years 76 years
Average no. of years women live in good health 63 years 71.4 (94%)
Ratio of disabled women with regular jobs in the
governmental sector
<1% 3%
No. of retirement homes 171 1400
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Current Situation & Impact indicators

19. Forth Pillar: Protection
 Eradicating harmful traditional practices
 Ending all forms of violence against women
 Reforming personal status law
 Obtaining inheritance
 Ensuring a social minimum decent life for marginalized women
 Protecting women from the impact of climate changes
 Legal framework to end discrimination against women’s rights
 Women and girls survivors of violence and access to justice
 Access of essential services for survivors of violence
 Ideational change - Awareness raising campaigns
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20. Impact indicators Current value
Target value by
2030
Percentage of women aged 20-29 who married before the
age of 18
18% 1%
Percentage of married women/women who have been
married before, aged 20-29, who had children before the
age of 20
24% 0%
Percentage of women who were subjected to harassment
during the previous year
13% 0%
Percentage of ever married women aged 15-49 who have
undergone circumcision
92% 55%
Percentage of girls under 19 years old who are expected to
undergo circumcision
56% 10%
Percentage of women who have been subject to physical
violence from their husbands
25.2% 0%
Percentage of women who have been subject to
psychological violence from their husbands
18.8% 0%
Percentage of women who have been subject to sexual
violence from their husbands
4.1% 0%
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Current Situation & Impact indicators

21. Strategic Enablers
National Strategy for the Empowerment of Egyptian Women 2030
• Public Awareness on Women’s rights and Citizenship participation
• Transformative social norms that promote women’s rights as
collective responsibility
• Gender statistic and sex disaggregated data
• Renew the religious discourse regarding women’s role in the public
and private spheres
• Women’s ability to prevent and respond to gender inequality of risk in
a changing climate

22. Drivers for Change
National Strategy for the Empowerment of Egyptian Women 2030
• Partnerships
• Youth active participation
• Knowledge and Innovation
• Accountability
• Financing for Gender Equality
• Women’s rights advocates
• Communication and Media avoid Stereotyping
• Formal and Informal Education

23. National Strategy for the Empowerment of Egyptian Women 2030
Political
Will
Institutional
Framework
Role of
Civil
Society
Budgets
responsive
to women
needs
Monitoring
and
evaluation
Participation
Information
and
Research
Media
Critical Success Factors

24.  Partners
National Strategy for the Empowerment of Egyptian Women 2030
Legislative authorities Judicial authorities
Executive authorities Civil society parties
Partners

25. Thank you
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