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The Association for the Development

and Enhancement of Women
ADEW
-Egyptian
NGO
registered
under number 3528

in

1987

- 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

first feminist NGO
to address the
needs of Female
Heads of
Household(FHHs)
and to identify
them as a distinct
target group

The first NGO in

the Arab world to
provide micro
credit to FHHs
without guarantee
or guarantor

The first NGO to

present the
problem of the
legal existence of
these FHHs due
to lack of official
documents and
IDs

Whats unique about ADEW?

Whats
unique
about
ADEW?

The
integration
in the
services
and
programs
that it
provides

ADEW
found that
economic
empowerm
ent is not
sufficient,
on its own,
to achieve
womens
development

Thats
when it
started to
search for
the best
way to
provide
integrated
services to
women so
as to
achieve its
objective

As a
result, ADE
W started
to provide
a set of
programs
and
projects as
presented
in the
upcoming
slides

Whats unique about ADEW?

ADEW is a prominent NGO on two
levels:

Grass-root
level

Decision
makers level

ADEWs Objectives:

The overall objective of ADEW is to empower women on

many level:

Through providing group loans and individual loans to women and

Economically their families, along with providing training opportunities and
creating job opportunities.

Through training women on negotiation skills and basic life

skills such as: literacy, health awareness and social awareness.
Socially
Through offering legal assistance and raising womens
awareness on their legal rights, and issuing legal documents for
them and their families.

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

ADEWs Objectives
Moreover,
objectives:

ADEW

has

other

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.

Programs offered by ADEW

Education
program
That includes:

MicroCredit
program

Legal
Program

Employment
program

community
mobilization

Eliminating
violence
against women
program

Health
awareness
program

Girls Dreams
program
Literacy
program
Arab Women
Speak Out
program
Scholarships
program

ADEWs achievements in its different programs

(with numbers):
Number of group-lending and individual lending
First: Micro-Credits
Achievements:

- The number of grouplending beneficiaries is

350,000
female
beneficiaries
- The number of individual
lending beneficiaries is
9,000 female and male
beneficiaries.

beneficiaries
400000

350000

350000
300000
250000
200000
150000
100000

9000

50000
0

Micro credit
Individual lending

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ADEWs achievements in its different programs

(in numbers):
Second: The Education
Programs Achievements:
Number of beneficiaries of the
literacy program is 8,400 women.
Number of beneficiaries of the
Arab Women Speak Out Program
is 18,000 women.

Number of beneficiaries of the

Education Program
18000
18000

16000

16000
14000

11000

8400

Number of beneficiaries of the

Girls Dreams program is 16,000
girls.
Number of beneficiaries of the
Scholarships program is 11,000
female and male students.

12000
10000
8000
6000
4000
2000
0

scholarship Arab women Girls dreams Literacy

speak out

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ADEWs achievements in its different programs

(in numbers):
Third: The Legal
Programs Achievements:

Number of beneficiaries of the

Legal Programs services is
270,000 women, these services
include: legal awareness, legal
consultancy, ID issuance, birth
certificates issuance and filing
court cases.
In addition 20,000 children
benefited
from
the
birth
certificates issuance service.

300000

270000

200000
100000

20000

0
women beneficiaries numbers
Numbers of children beneficiaries
(Birth certificates (

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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

Finance

Donor and
M&E

Media,
Training
and IT

Human
Resources

Administrative
Affairs

Internal
Auditing and
Risk
Management

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Based on our experience, we figured out that women in

squatter areas face multiple forms of
physical, psychological, political and social violence

We figured out that the main causes behind the

prevalence of gender-based violence is the patriarchal
mentalities that perceive women as inferiors on one
hand and religious misinterpretation on the other hand

ADEW conducted a study that targeted 444 women

from 7 different squatters in Cairo and Alexandria
governorates. The study shows that 96% from women
faced domestic violence practiced by their husbands.
Thus, ADEW found the necessity to launch its CVP
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Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

ADEW offers listening sessions to the abused women and their children through
our offices in Cairo, Qualybia, Fayoum and Helwan area

ADEW hosts the abused women in its shelter (House of Eve) where they are
.rehabilitated

Raising awareness on domestic violence of the local level and national levels
through the media and advocacy campaigns.

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Medical care

Training for
Employment.

Psychological
Aid to women
and their
children

Listening
sessions to
women and
their children

Awareness
sessions.

Trips.

Renewal and
reconciliation
sessions with
their families

Legal
assistance

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Other Programs

ADEW offers its set of integrated

services & programs (MCP & AWSO) to
the abused women to promote their
recovery and help them start a new life.

Discussion session

The conducted discussion sessions

help women to express their feelings
and feel relived
They make them feel cared for to get
over the trauma
Moreover, these sessions help us find
out the reasons behind violence so we
can develop strategies for combating it

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 ADEW not only hosts

abused women but their
children as well.

Services
for the ADEW offers literacy
to the children
abused sessions
of the abused women
provides them with
womens Itagealsosuitable
training
children ADEW also offers an
entertainment space for
children

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Admission to the shelter

Abused women who urgently need a place to stay
in are referred to ADEW either by our field
personnel or by other NGOs

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House of Eve
Hosting Criteria
The Woman is expected not to be below 21 year-old;
(because woman below 21 year-old will need to provide a
written approval by any of her direct guardians (mother or
father) and most of the time these guardians are the ones
who assault her), and to prove that shes been exposed to
violence by a family member.
The Woman is expected to have official documents; ID, birth
certificate or to have the documents needed to help us
issue these documents for her.

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House of Eve
House of Eve consists of 5 floors with 10
different apartments.
House of Eve hosts up to 20 abused women with an average of 3
children each. Each 2 women live together in one apartment; each
one of them in a separate room with a bathroom and a kitchen
attached.

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House of Eve
House of Eve has a play yard for residents
children.

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House of Eve
out side the house:

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House of Eve
out side the house:

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Inside the house

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Inside the house

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Inside the house

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House of Eve
Balcony

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Partners in Development-CSRs/Egyptian
donors

Alcatel
Citi Foundation
Drosos
Ford Foundation
Helwan Cement Company
La Farge
Mansour Foundation
Mercedes-Star Care
Sawiris Foundation
UBS
Vodafone
Misr EL kheir
Federation of Egyptian Banks
Social Fund for Development
Misr bank
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International Funding Organizations

European Commission
Global Fund for Children
Global Fund for Women
GTZ
Italian Egyptian Debt Swap
UNIFEM
AGFUND
Australian Embassy
British Council
Embassy of Finland

Japanese Embassy
Mothers at Risk
OSI
Reunite International
Swiss Fund
WHO
Women Win
UNHCR
USAID
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Thank you

Questions?
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