Etijah- Youth and Development Consultancy Institute

Etijah has consistently developed and led projects that promote youth empowerment and leadership. These projects require developing special educational curriculum, a wide variety of training workshops and skills enhancement of youth coordinators, seminars and conferences, onsite trainings of participants and/or beneficiaries of the services, promoting national and international accredited standards for development, capacity building for youth clubs and organizations and finally, widely accessible mentorship programs. Some of these projects are:
1. Pioneers of Egypt/ Mobaderoon Masr- A current project
The project serves as a vehicle for the disbursement of financial and capacity building grants to high-impact grassroots initiatives where the overall objective is to contribute to a successful transition to democracy and economic prosperity in Egypt by expanding employment and self-employment opportunities, particularly for youth, and supporting the new generation of civil society and business leaders.
2.  Ezbet Khair Allah Community Study Project
With main objective to conduct a community study in EzbetKhairAllah area where the institute selected 35 young people from both genders and trained them on how to conduct a community study of the available resources and skills on all different levels within the community. Moreover it provided them with the necessary tool to finish the study under the supervision of Etijah’s team.
3. Activating the Role of Youth in the Egyptian Society
The goal of this project was to involve Egyptian youth in public life to spread, support and improve the sense of social responsibility among youth from eight Egyptian governorates: Cairo, Assiut, South Sinai, Qaliobeya, Gharbeya, Monofeya, Alexandria and Menya. The project was designed to help 4,500 young males and females whose age ranges between 18 and 24 years old directly and 20,000 young males and females indirectly, to become the leaders and the driving force of the process of social change to provide them with a bright future.

4. Strategic planning for 40 schools in El-Marg District in Cairo

The strategic planning workshops aim at raising the planning skills of the participants from fourty schools. The participants from each school are as follows: the school principle, the training unit director, and representatives of the Board of Trustees of the school. The design of the workshop is based on an initial "needs assessment" study conducted with the participants from all schools. This unique strategic planning program is considered the first of its kind to be implemented in the educational institutions in Egypt.

5. Enhancing the well-being of the Al-Badraman community through implementing a comprehensive asset-based development project

The project aimed to tackle the problems of unemployment, education and health in the Al-Badrman village, one of the villages located in Menia Governorate. The main activities included designing a comprehensive program with different components. The program concentrated on the aforementioned developmental concerns.  The direct beneficiaries included young people and children, and all families and populations in Al–Badraman. The project was based upon utilizing the community assets and resources in Al-Badraman and building on them to realize full participation and development of the village. Expected results included: reducing rates of school drop outs and illiteracy among community members and conducting health awareness campaigns on a specific health topic in the community.  Cadres of young people also have received a comprehensive training on studying community assets and needs, mapping local assets, and utilizing assets to fulfill the community needs.