Criteria for selecting the NGOs
implementing the project
A candidate NGO should :
•B
e registered at the Ministry of Insurance
and Social Affairs.
•T
arget all members of the community.
•P
ossess the capability to implement an
income generating project.
•B
e active in the area of local community
development.
•B
e one of the associations which
offer a package of services to its local
community.
Priority is to be given to:
•N
GOs which have not obtained a
grant from NCW to implement incomegenerating projects.
Facts and
Figures on Women
Heads of Households Project
•T
he project is implemented on a revolving
fund-basis.
•T
he number of governorates in which the
project is implemented is 21.
•T
he number of villages in which the
project is implemented is 73.
•T
he Number of NGOs implementing the
project is 74
•T
he total number of beneficiaries in the
villages is 8243.
•T
he total number of beneficiaries in Lower
Egypt is 2189.
•T
he total number of beneficiaries in Upper
Egypt is 4754.
•T
he total number of beneficiaries in
border governorates is 713.
•N
GOs which can partially contribute to
the cost of the project.
•T
he number of beneficiaries in informal
areas in urban governorates is 587.
•N
GOs which offer literacy classes.
•T
he percentage of repaying installments
is approximately 98%.
•N
GOs with women on their boards of
directors.
Selected villages:
•T
he project was expanded to include the
largest representation of governorates
from Upper and Lower Egypt and border
governorates.
•T
he project enabled candidates for
master and doctoral degrees to conduct
comparative studies on beneficiary
families in different governorates.
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Women Heads
of Households
Project
w w w. n c w e g y p t . c o m
Introduction:
Project Partners:
In view of the deep concern of the National
Council for Women (NCW) for the conditions
of the neediest women, particularly those
heading households, NCW designed
and implemented the Women Heads of
Household Project. The aim is to examine
the conditions of this category of women,
identify their needs, offer them micro-credits
and raise their skills in order to help them
solve their economic problems and improve
their social conditions.
This project was implemented through
grants provided by:
•T
he Arab Fund for Social and Economic
Development (AFESD).
•B
arclays International Bank.
•T
he Ministry of Awkafs (religious
endowments) in Egypt.
Information on women heads of
households:
•T
he percentage of households supported
by women in Egypt ranges between 1925% of the total number of households.
•A
ccording to the 2006 demographic
census, the number of households in
Egypt reached 17.2 million, therefore
the number of households supported
by women represents a third of the total
number of all Egyptian households.
• In 2012, the Prime Minister declared
that, according to a study prepared the
Council of Ministers in this respect, the
number of households supported by
women was 5 million.
Who is the woman head of
Objectives of the project:
The project aims to:
•S
tudy the conditions of women heads of
household and identify their needs.
•D
etermine
the
income-generating
projects best suited to the women heads
of households applicants from within
each community based on its specific
conditions.
household?
• Implement a number of projects as a first
stage in the governorates to be selected.
The woman head of household can be a
widow, a divorcee, the wife of a chronically or
incurably ill person, the wife of a partially or
totally disabled person, the wife of a prisoner,
an abandoned wife with children, and women
in similar conditions.
•E
nhance the capabilities of the board
of directors of the NGOs selected for
implementing the project so that they can
be able to provide economic advice and
support to the recipients of the financial
support.
The criteria for selection of women
heads of households for the project:
Candidates for the project should:
•C
arry national identity number cards.
•B
e able to read and write or enrolled in
literacy classes.
•A
cquire vocational experience or willing
and able to be trained thereon.
•H
ave enough knowledge and capability
to work in the project.
•E
nsure that the part allocated for setting
up an income generating project can
serve as a basis for expanding the project
through the refund of the installments to
be collected from the beneficiaries.
•E
nsure that the woman head of household
can change her perception of herself so
that she can feel capable of supporting
her family, become self-dependent and
able to change the way she is perceived
by society.
•A
chieve additional goals such as assisting
in combating illiteracy and issue women
with national IDs.