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The Association for the Development

and Enhancement of Women
ADEW
-Egyptian NGO registered in 1987
under number 3528
- Works in the marginalized areas in number
of governorates such as Manshiet Nasser,
Misr El Qadima and Helwan in Cairo,
Qalubiya and El Fayoum governorates.
- Has previously worked in Gharbiya and
South Sinai governorates.

ADEW aims to:

-Empower female heads of households and

their families economically, socially, culturally
and legally.

-Through the set of integrated programs

provided by ADEW
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 Whats unique about ADEW?

ADEW was the

The first NGO to
first feminist NGO
The first NGO in present the
to address the
the Arab world to problem of the
needs of Female
provide micro legal existence of
Heads of
credit to FHHs these FHHs due
Household(FHHs)
without guarantee to lack of official
and to identify
or guarantor documents and
them as a distinct
IDs
target group

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 Whats unique about ADEW?

Thats As a result,
when it ADEW
ADEW started to started to
The found that search for provide a
integration economic the best set of
in the empowerm way to programs
services ent is not provide and
Whats sufficient, projects as
and integrated
unique programs on its own, services to presented
about that it to achieve women so in the
ADEW? provides womens as to upcoming
development achieve its slides
objective

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 Whats unique about ADEW?
ADEW is a prominent NGO on two
levels:

Grass-root Decision
level makers level

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 ADEWs Objectives:
The overall objective of ADEW is to empower women on
many level:

Economically Through providing group loans and individual loans to women and their families, along
with providing training opportunities and creating job opportunities.

Socially Through training women on negotiation skills and basic life skills such as: literacy,
health awareness and social awareness.

Through offering legal assistance and raising womens awareness on their legal
Legally
rights, and issuing legal documents for them and their families.

Socially & Through offering life skills and political awareness for women, and training them on the
politically needed skills to participate as full citizens in the public life.

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 ADEWs Objectives
Moreover, ADEW has other
objectives:
1. Developing new programs to cope with the
needs of the society, such as the Training and
Employment Program that helps in combating
unemployment, and the Vocational Training
Program that helps people get the needed life
skills for finding job opportunities.

2. Conveying the rights of FHHs and marginalized

groups to decision makers, and alerting
decision makers to any policies or laws that
discriminate against women.

3. Mobilizing the community through creating

Natural Leaders to be the key contacts between
the society and the governmental bodies.

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 ADEWs Objectives:
4. Building the capacity of local CDAs through
providing them with capacity building
trainings.

5. Expanding in new governorates and

societies while working in ADEWs current
work areas: Cairo, Qalubiya, El-Fayoum and
Helwan.

6. Developing ADEWs organizational

structure and management system to cope
with the institutional thought through which
it deals with other organizations.

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 Programs offered by ADEW

Educatio
n
program
That
includes:
Eliminatin Girls
Micro- g Health Dreams
Employm communit Media
Credit violence awarenes program
Legal ent y
against s Program
program Program program mobilizati Literacy
women program
on program
program
Arab
Women
Speak Out
program
Scholarship
s program

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ADEWs achievements in its different programs
(with numbers): Number of group-lending and individual lending
First: Micro-Credits beneficiaries

Achievements:
400000
350000
350000

- The number of group-

300000

lending beneficiaries is
250000

350,000 female 200000

beneficiaries 150000

100000

- The number of individual

9000
50000

lending beneficiaries is
9,000 female and male
0

Micro credit
beneficiaries. Individual lending

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ADEWs achievements in its different programs
(in numbers):
Second: The Education
Programs Achievements:
Number of beneficiaries of the
Education Program
Number of beneficiaries of the 18000
literacy program is 8,400 women. 16000
18000

Number of beneficiaries of the

16000

Arab Women Speak Out Program

14000

11000
is 18,000 women.
12000
8400
10000

Number of beneficiaries of the

8000

Girls Dreams program is 16,000 6000

girls. 4000

2000

Number of beneficiaries of the 0

scholarship Arab women Girls dreams Literacy
Scholarships program is 11,000 speak out
female and male students.
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ADEWs achievements in its different programs
(in numbers):
Third: The Legal
Programs Achievements:
270000
300000
250000
Number of beneficiaries of the
200000
Legal Programs services is
270,000 women, these services 150000
include: legal awareness, legal 100000 20000
consultancy, ID issuance, birth 50000
certificates issuance and filing 0
court cases. women beneficiaries numbers

In addition 20,000 children Numbers of children beneficiaries

benefited from the birth (Birth certificates)
certificates issuance service.

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ADEWs achievements in its different programs
(in numbers):
Third: The Health Awareness Program and the
Eliminating Violence Against Women Program
Number of beneficiaries of the Health Program is 35,000
female and male beneficiaries.

Number of beneficiaries of the VAW Program is more

than 4800 women

7300 women whose awareness has been raised and

benefited from the psychological counseling services

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ADEWs achievements in its different
programs, house of eve (in numbers):

-Since 2005 till now, The

shelter hosted 200 women
and their children with
permanent residence for 6
months
-And 150 women and their
children were hosted for
periods less than 3 months
- and 75 women and their
children were hosted for
periods less than one month
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ADEW reached these achievements over 28 years
due to the existence of supporting departments
that work on the implementation of these
programs to ensure delivery of the best services to
FHHs and their families in the targeted areas.

These Departments are:

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 Supporting
Departments

Internal
Donor and Training Human Auditing and
Finance and IT Resources
Administrative
Affairs Risk
M&E Management

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Micro-credit Program

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Micro-credit Program

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Micro-credit Program

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Community Mobilization Program

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The outputs of CMP program cleaning
campaign

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 Another output of CMP program:
Create Gardens

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Organizing medical convoys in response to
the requests of the natural leaders and
residents

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Planting campaign

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Lightening streets campaign

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Girls inside the classes discussing topics
like FGM and Personal hygiene

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I am a Volunteer .. I exist .. One of the Values
the girls learned from the program

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Girls Dreams class

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Participation and Interaction of the girls
inside the classes

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Girls Expressing themselves through
Drawing

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Girls expressing their dreams and hopes
through Drawing

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Thank you

Questions?

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