Public Participation in a Decentralized Administration System

5-14/11/2012, Fayed, Ismailia
Summer School

Active citizens are the basis of any democratic state. Moreover a functioning state administration is needed to offer good public services to the citizens.
Hanns Seidel Foundation and the Association of Advancement for Education and Development jointly organized a ten-day summer camp for active Egyptian youths and local administration executives to bring both sides together and to encourage them to initiate activities to solve a problem of their local community.
In a preceding workshop the participants were trained on decentralization and the Egyptian local administration system as well as on local problem solving methods. During the summer school their knowledge was deepened by further theoretical sessions by Egyptian and German trainers. Furthermore the daily activities included group work to implement the newly acquired information and skills.
As a result of the workshops and the summer school, 11 local initiatives have been started in five different governorates working on a wide range of problems from helping street children, improving the local waste collection system, supporting the local disabled community to modernizing school yards.
The training will continue in 2013 with a new workshop series and a summer school in Germany.

The program is available here.