The Organisation
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances childrenโs rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.
Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support childrenโs rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.
For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.
We wonโt stop until we are all equal.
Plan started working in Egypt in 1981 and has a presence in ten of the 27 governorates in which the country including Cairo, Alexandria, Giza, Beheira, Kalyoubia, Damietta, Qena, Assuit and Sohag. Plan international Egypt implements programmes designed to enable communities to improve the lives of the most marginalised children and their families. Plan Egyptโs Country Strategy focuses on five strategic objectives.
Through a five-interconnected, gender transformative and context-fit country objectives, PIE intends along with the various stakeholders at all levels to continue delivering positive and transformative changes so that โChildren, especially girls, and young people grow up in an enabling environment, realizing their rights and contributing in both development and humanitarian settings as active agents of changeโ.
About the Project
Strengthening Womenโs Entrepreneurship in Egypt (SWEEt) is a six year (April 2020 โ 31 December 2025) project funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC) with the goal to improve the realization of rights to economic participation of women and girls in Giza.
The project targets women in the carpet and handicrafts industry in Dahshour and Manial Shiha communities. Using a three-pronged, rights-based, gender transformative approach, SWEEt seeks to;
(1) Address unequal power relations between genders and improve the social status of women and adolescent girls by expanding their knowledge of the carpet and handicrafts sectors,
(2) Providing them with business and market-specific technical skills that enhance their economic empowerment
(3) Strengthening governance systems and the entrepreneurship environment to foster gender-responsive change.
The project will directly benefit 3,100 women over 19 years of age and 1,900 adolescent girls (ages 15-18). The project also targets 945 men and 1,500 boys through male engagement interventions to address gender-specific barriers to womenโs entrepreneurship and create an enabling environment for womenโs economic empowerment. The project is being implemented in partnership with two local Community Development Associations (CDAs) in Dahshour and Manial Shiha.