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Active Citizens is a global network of community leaders that is being developed by the British Council and local civil society partners in participating countries. The goal is to build understanding and trust between communities by establishing an enduring global network of community leaders, who can work together to address the global issues of the 21st century.
It has three main phases – local training, social action and international networking.
Active Citizens implemented in Egypt in partnerships with local NGOs and National Governmental Bodies as the National Youth Council, it exists in 13 countries.
Our focus this year is to impact more than 4000 youth community leaders; who will deliver social action projects affecting thousands of people in marginalized communities.
The Minister of State for Youth.
The Youth Council literary owns the largest network facilities of youth in all the governorates, which extends to 4343 Youth Centres, Centres of Civic Education and Leadership Development of Youth (nine centres), and youth forums (seven Forums), and urban youth (seven youth cities).
The Association for the Development and Enhancement of Women (ADEW)
In addition to credit programmes, the ADEW offers literacy programmes, health services, and legal awareness seminars and operates from 15 offices in five different areas. From the beginning, the ADEW has recognized the importance of empowering female heads of households.
Etijah (Youth and Development Consultancy Institute
Through the years, Etijah managed to create youth leaders in different communities across the country by empowering young citizens to get their hands-on community development and leadership. Community Asset-Mapping study is one important approach that should be adopted by many active leaders and citizens to help discover the community assets to fill the gaps through youth-adult partnership.
The Egyptian Cognitive Development Center.
Cognitive Centre in Alexandria worked on building capacity for other NGOs who are working with disabled communities or directly working with disabled communities as visually impaired participants.
1.Facilitators training
One of our main objectives this year was to build local capacity for the Egyptian participants to ensure local capability for sustainability of the programme and the maximum reach of the marginalised community we ensured this through building a core local team capable of cascading and training Egyptian participants
a.International Facilitators training.
b.Local Facilitators training.
2.Community Mapping and needs assessment
To ensure that we are working in harmony with the local needs and specifically local community expectations; all our partner organizations conducted local community assessment to ensure that the trainings and outcomes are tailored to meet the local communities needs.
3.Participants Training
Targeting this year more than 4000 participants. Our partner organizations focusing on Youth this year targeted different youth categories and in different geographic areas to ensure diversity
4.Social Action Projects:
More than 15 Social Action Projects are being implemented this year. The British Council aims to ensure that all participants are in direct touch with their communities’ stakeholders and that the Social Action Projects are all sustainable and based on the community needs.
5.International Exchanges:
Networking opportunity in the UK to experience international professional networking and learn from other countries.
Exchanges are bilateral between UK partner organizations and British Council Egypt local partners.
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