Customized Programs

Working to enhance the capacities of the NCW leaders is in effect working toward promoting women’s rights and advancing the status of women in Egypt. EWNCW works on capacity building for NCW general secretariat and the council members.

After the success of Phase I, which was launched in 2021 and graduated 900 participants, GAPP Executive Education is implementing the extension of the Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) - Training for Employment (TFE) Phase II: Rabeha. Launched in 2024, this iteration of the program aims to train 1,083 participants, including 158 persons with disabilities (PWDs). 

GAPP is leading the implementation of WEE under the Women’s Economic Empowerment for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Egypt joint program between UN Women and UNIDO. The initiative is a partnership with the National Council for Women (NCW), the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI) and the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Agency (MSMEDA), with support from Global Affairs Canada (GAC).

The extension delivers hybrid employability training and job placement opportunities, focusing on participants from the seven target governorates: Cairo, Giza, Alexandria, Beheira, Fayoum, Minya and Bani Suef. To enhance long-term sustainability, the program is also launching an intensive Training of Trainers (STOT) program, which aims to certify 30 trainers who will support knowledge transfer within the respective communities.

Through this extension, GAPP Executive Education continues to empower women, enhance economic opportunities and promote sustainable development across Egypt.

The program is mainly to raise the capacities of researchers to improve their skills and competencies through a five-day course and will work on enhancing participants’ basic knowledge of how to conduct, develop and present research, in addition to learning new techniques to improve data management and analytical methods and tools. Qualitative research and analysis methods will be the main focus. The course aims to assist participants improve their research skills needed for policy briefs and studies; with a focus on qualitative research.

The program is mainly to raise capacities of researchers to improve their skills and competencies through five-day course and will be offered to the leading researchers, with the aim of empowering them with the different methods for observational (analytic and descriptive) studies. This will help in supporting the decision-making process in alignment with Egypt Vision 2030, with a quantitative research focus. The course aims to assist participants improve their research skills needed for policy briefs and studies; with a quantitative research focus.

This program is offered in collaboration with AUC's School of Continuing Education and the University of New Mexico for students of UNM.

GAPP Executive Education in collaboration with United Nations Department of Political Affairs, worked with the Institute for Diplomatic Studies of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to offer the Multilateral Diplomacy, Negotiations and Mediation program. The program offers new Egyptian diplomatic attaches the basic understanding of the United Nations and how the Department of Political Affairs approaches mediation and conflict prevention, which would be useful in their future careers given how closely Egypt works with the United Nations. Dina Wafa, Director GAPP Executive Education, explained that this fourth year of continuous service with the Institute in our belief in the importance of working to reinforce and reinvigorate leadership capacities in Egypt and the region.

The program was interactive with simulations on mediation. The young attaches met with several experts in the field including Richard Dictus, UN Resident Coordinator; Ihab Moustafa Awad former Deputy Permanent Representative of Egypt to the UN in New York; Mr. Emmanuel Habuka Bombande former Ghana Deputy Foreign Minister; Mr. Dmitry Shlapachenko Team Leader for the Horn of Africa in the UN Department of Political Affairs. Over the course of the program, several pertinent issues were deliberated building on the expertise of the speakers, including the UN Peace Architecture, Functioning of the security council, conflict analysis, mediation partnership and process design. Additionally, Ambassadors Karim Haggag and Aly Erfan shared case studies and essential critical analytical skills.

GAPP Executive Education, in cooperation with the International Programs Office, is hosting 20 students from Tsinghua University from January 22 to February 4, 2018. The visit is part of the Tsinghua University undergraduate overseas study program, the Global South Culture Immersion Series. Tsinghua University students will receive 2 credit hours for the program, which is positioned as an exposure course to Egypt, aiming to give students an overall understanding of Egypt’s economy, society, religions and cultures.

GAPP Executive Education will be hosting a group of 21 students from Peking University (PKU) January 16 - 23, 2018.  In return, PKU will host GAPP Jameel fellows during their study tour.
The PKU students' visit is considered part of the China-Arabia Multicultural Exchange Link (CAMEL) project. CAMEL is a Sino-Arab cultural exchange program affiliated to Peking University Students’ International Communication Association. The delegation consists of top students from Peking University, as well as visiting students from Stanford/UC Berkeley.

GAPP Executive Education delivers the Supporting Parliamentary Performance program (SPP) to members of the Egyptian Parliament. The one-year program works in coordination with committee heads. SPP aims to support some of the Economic Parliamentary Committees in effectively engaging in planning, parliamentary oversight and assessment of economic policies and programs. SPP will be targeting members of the following standing committees:

Committee on Economic Affairs
Committee on Budget and Planning
Committee on Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises
Committee on Industry
The program falls within the capacity building of the decision makers’ framework that GAPP Executive Education, coupled with the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute (DEDI) and the Global Partners Governance (GPG) has been working on. 

Empowerment of Women through Parliament is a program designed to empower women in the Egyptian parliament to advocate and influence policy and decision making processes to advance the status of Egyptian women. The program is composed of three modules focused on capacity building for public speaking and gender mainstreaming for members of parliament and staff members.

Module I: Public Speaking

This module is dedicated to capacity building on the art of communication in the parliament and the media.

Module II: Fostering Gender Mainstreaming in Legislation

This module is dedicated to capacity building on mainstreaming gender in public policies and legislation.

Module III: Networking and Coalition Building

This module is dedicated to capacity building on networking and coalition building and creating dialogue.

A customized program for the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Information Technology Industry Development Agency and National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority.

A customized program for the Information and Decision Support Center

A customized program for the Ministry of Justice

A customized program offered for entry-level Egyptian diplomatic attachés at the Institute for Diplomatic Studies

A customized program offered for the Information and Decision Support Center

A customized program offered for the League of Arab States

A series of customized workshops for the AUC Office of Training and Development 

Leadership for Government Excellence is a tripartite program between the Ministry of Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform, the American University in Cairo, and King's College. It provides personal awareness, organizational impact, and system alignment to enable select government leaders to transform their organizations of public service.

The program aims at increasing the efficiency of government work through investment in human resources, competence-building and talent development in the public sector under the umbrella of Egypt's Sustainable Development Strategy 2030 (SDS) and the Administrative Reform Plan.

The program is modeled so that each cohort receives 3 months of training: two months at AUC, and one month at King's College. Each cohort will have a total of 30 participants.

GAPP Executive Education in cooperation with The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) delivers the Media Management Certificate for future women leaders in the Arab world. This certificate is delivered in Arabic and addresses the basic management principles, marketing, and promotion, financial management, human resource management, and strategic planning; including gender perspectives throughout the program.

The Future Generations in Economic Development in Egypt and the Arab Region (FGE-DEAR)  aims at strengthening economic advocacy in Egypt and the Arab region, focusing on access to information, creating a participatory approach, and public policy reform.

FGE-DEAR works on capacity building for 3 groups:

Members of civil society, media professionals, and business association members. Each cohort receives 30 hours of training. Sessions in each training day were given by different Lead Trainers and featured Guest Speakers for each topic. Participants were introduced to a wide

Range of topics as follows:

• Freedom of Information: Legal and Regulatory Reforms

• Social Accountability

• Governance and Stakeholder Negotiations

• Financial and Economic Reporting

• Role of Government in a Market-Oriented Economy

Within the framework of the Transforming Public Service program, the Leadership in a Challenging Environment module is dedicated to developing emerging leaders for change during Egypt’s period. 

The main objective of the Transforming Public Service program is to contribute to creating a citizen-responsive government that encourages communication, accountability, and transparency by opening channels of communication with government officials, civil society and the media.
The program is composed of three modules focused on leadership for change, public policy reform, and youth. The content of each module may vary slightly according to current challenges and needs.
Each module is delivered to its direct beneficiaries - emerging leaders in Egypt between the ages of 25 to 45 years old.

The SRIP supports the government reform initiatives which aim at improving efficiency and citizen friendliness. Through supporting administrative reform, the program works to transform personnel departments to human resource departments in the public sector.
 

GAPP Executive Education builds on its mission to provide capacity-building that serves to reinforce and reinvigorate leadership capacities in Egypt and continues to offer the Strengthening Reform Initiatives in Public Administration Program (SRIP) for the second year. With the Administrative Reform Strategy, Egypt Vision 2030 and the new civil service law, the Egyptian government has initiated several reform initiatives. The SRIP supports government reform initiatives which aim to improve efficiency and citizen-friendly services. Through supporting administrative reform, the program works to transform personnel departments to human resource departments in the public sector. 

Dina Wafa, program PI and GAPP Executive Education Director have planned with GIZ the 2018 SRIP to continue its transformative process through both human and institutional capacities. SRIP 2018 will:

• Provide training programs for senior-level employees with the aim of enabling them to better implement and roll-out the new reform measures of the Civil Service Law and its bylaws. Fourteen workshops will be offered on topics including civil service law and its bylaws, innovation in the public sector, local governance, human resource management, organizational development and excellence, research and writing skills. The first workshop was offered March 7 - 8 on organizational development and excellence  
• Support institutional development through local expertise in strategic planning, human resources management, public policy, organizational development and governance. 

The Legal Communication Certificate is mainly to raise capacities to improve legal English of lawyers through a 90-hour course.

The objective of the Social Economic and Legal Empowerment of Egyptian Women Program is to strengthen and foster a coordinated women’s rights movement that is better able to advocate and influence the policy and decision-making processes. The program aims at developing a strengthened cadre of qualified advocates and providing them with the means and tools for effective advocacy, networking and coalition building. The workshops will present the following topics:
•    Strategic planning and management for the public sector
•    Results based management
•    Resource mobilization
•    Communications for leadership
•    Effective networking and lobbying to promote policy agenda

The program aims to contribute to mainstreaming gender issues in the public policymaking process. The Empowerment of Women in Public Affairs Program targets women's advocacy that contributes to the mainstreaming of gender issues in the public policymaking process through the following main topics: 
•    Mainstreaming gender in public policy
•    Gender-responsive budgeting
•    Gender stratification
•    Gender and democracy
•    Mainstreaming gender in legislation
•    Capacity building to integrate international conventions on women in the political agenda

The program aims at contributing to knowledge and capacity building in the areas of media policy and media reform in the region.

The program aims at strengthening the legal and regulatory framework conducive to freedom of expression, press freedom and freedom of information in Egypt. 

Leaders recognize the need to strengthen leadership capacities within their organizations. The Advanced Public Policy Management Program is focused on leadership and governance in the 21st century.

The program is designed to deliver key skills in setting, deploying and monitoring organizational vision and strategy.

This interactive, technology-advanced program is modeled on the highly reputed methodologies of the Harvard Law School negotiation program. The Harvard-Modeled International Negotiation program provides an opportunity to negotiate with students in other parts of the world via video conferencing.

The ACIPLP Program was launched in April 2007 to provide the Arab world with professional executives in the fields of licensing, technology transfer and intellectual asset management. This program is designed to provide a solid foundation for a successful career in licensing and intellectual asset management, as well as to connect principles to pract

This program is designed to help journalists in Africa strengthen their reporting skills on financial and economic topics. It includes practical exercises and lives reporting. The Financial and Economic Reporting Program also focuses on improving coverage of national and international financial issues. It tackles subjects such as resource exploitation, economic governance and capital flight from developing countries.

The revolutionary wave in the Middle East has increased the awareness of people, urging them to take part of the process of change. Within the framework of the building a better Egypt initiative, GAPP Executive Education offers programs that tackle current challenges by increasing awareness and enabling contributions to the country’s development in the post-revolutionary phase of its history, including:
•    Campaigning for Elections

•    Effective Journalism for the Election Process
•    Electoral Monitoring for Civil Society
•    Empowering Women for Electoral Participation

This seminar aims at deepening the academic contacts between German and Egyptian universities including the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, The American University in Cairo and Cairo University.