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1.
International partners:
● Midwest Universities
Consortium for International Activities, Inc
Is a non-profit association established in 1964
with support from the Ford Foundation, the five largest
Midwestern universities (University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota and
Ohio State University, Purdue University).
MUCIA has a continuous record of partnerships
with other institutions which as not members of higher
education, as well as non-profit organizations to design and
implement technical assistance projects and tutorials.
Through active partnership with Assembly, MUCIA
got five members of the Assembly (Mohammed El-Madani, Mo'men
Kamal, Mohamed Al- Albermlgi, Omar Talat. Ezzat Bakry) to
attend training on cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants
and on the area of institution building, and also there are five
members of the Assembly got a foreign opportunities in the areas
of rehabilitation exercises drying plants, aromatic and
marketing of agricultural products and the extraction of
essential oils in
(Germany-Netherlands-Italy-Poland-Romania-Morocco).
● Cooperazione per lo
Sviluppo dei Paesi Emergenti
It is a non-profit organization founded in Italy
in 1983, working in the field of international cooperation and
solidarity and promoting intercultural dialogue and sustainable
development, human rights, partnership with COSPE focused in
training in organic farming and organic farm registration at the
registry offices and certification of organic farms and organic
products through sustainable development project in Wadi El-Rayan.
● U.S. Agency for
international development (USAID)
Cooperation with USAID was through
multiple sectors:
- Development of rural income: through the fund
77,000 Egyptian pounds to implement micro-
lending project, done through providing rural families with a pregnant
female goat to each
family, paying for nine months.
- Environmental education in schools: through
direct partnership with the Egyptian
environmental education program.
- Community development: through a grant from the
NGO Support Service Center for the
maintenance of natural resources and control wastewater pollution.
● Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Signed a tripartite cooperation protocol
between the Assembly and all of the Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA), and creativity and fostering talented
Assembly to which a training program for the ladies on
handicrafts portraits aloregon for three months, during which
train number of 15 girls and women in the village centre
albsionih. As well as train number of 28 girls and women in the
village of shakshouk – abshway district in Fayoum governorate to
the handicraft aloregon portraits.
● World Bank
-Through
a grant for a project on environmental education in schools.
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By participating in workshops and conferences focusing on the
study of development priorities.
● Italian University of Palermo (Palermo
University)
As the Assembly an essential partner in the joint
programme for masters between Helwan University in Egypt and
Palermo Italy in eco-tourism, Mr./Omar Mohammed Al-Masri got a
tourism grant to study the integrationist interfaces in
University of Palermo, in October 2009.
● Slow
Food international Italian Association
Slow Food is environmental testing society, a
non-profit organization, financed by its members.
Founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast
life, and to stop the extinction of local gastronomic tradition
due to the lack of significant interest to the people of food
and its parent and tastes and the consequences of our choices of
food for the rest of the world.
At present we have more than 100,000 members
worldwide, allowing us to promote a new approach to food
production, development of education programmes on nutrition and
work to protect biodiversity.
And partner with Slow Food through nomination of
manager COSPE in Egypt the director to participate in the
exhibition and conference Terra Madera at its second session in
2006, organized by Slow Food every two years, and was one of the
most important result of this first official collaboration, is
publicity in Egypt a first Slow Food group in Fayoum (Slow Food
Convivium Fayoum)
● Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud (CISS)
Is an Italian non-governmental non-profit
organization, established in 1985 and officially recognized by
the Italian Ministry from Foreign Affairs and working for the
promotion and implementation of cooperation projects in
developing countries in the areas of environmental crafts and
tourism areas in cooperation with the Assembly.
● Italian Cooperation in Egypt
It's mutually supportive and partnership in the areas of organic
agriculture –handicrafts – ecotourism.
● German Agency for technical cooperation (gtz)
Founded as a private company in Eschborn near Frankfurt in 1975
to work in the area of sustainable development, gtz funded
Association to implement project to reduce ground water level
and water leakage in a village of Fayoum governorate.
● German Agency for technical cooperation (gtz)
in Saudi Arabia
Where the Assembly held training session for two months for
number 2 agricultural engineers which works in agency in Saudi
Arabia.
●
Aid to Artisans
(ATA)
an
international nonprofit organization, is a recognized leader in
economic development for the craft sector. By linking artisans
to new markets and buyers to culturally meaningful and
innovative products, ATA provides needed economic opportunities
to artisans to build profitable craft businesses.
● North South Consultants Exchange
The Association main partner on the areas of eco-tourism and
handicrafts training.
●
Saudi society of organic agriculture (SOFA)
German Agency Nominated the Association to
receive a delegation from the Saudi Association for technical
cooperation in organic agriculture (SOFA), which get training
course on a private associations in organic agriculture.
2. Local
partners:
■ Research and scientific contacts:
● Central
Laboratory for organic agriculture (CLOA)
Founded at 2002 in agricultural research,
Giza, it's a key partner in the area of training and
rehabilitation for organic agriculture, who nominated
Association to train 1,800 farmers in Fayoum villages under his
supervision on organic farming practices, this done according
the framework of the OA training national campaign which funded
by the EU, through the Industrial Training Council (ITC).
● Faculty of Agriculture – Fayoum University.
● Faculty of tourism and hotels – Fayoum
University
● Faculty of social work at – Fayoum University
■ Actors/supportive in development field:
● Fair Trade Egypt (FTE)
The main partner of the Association in the
marketing environmental handicrafts of groups of handicrafts and
natural organic herbs, which produced by Fayoum community
members' farms, as well as it’s a key partner in the field of
eco-tourism.
● The Egyptian Centre for supporting community
organizations (ENGO)
Through the nomination Association for the
first fund to the center in 2006, with funding from Vodafone for
reduce pesticide use in agriculture unsafe project to.
● Vodafone Telecom (Vodafone)
Vodafone funded the reduce pesticide use
unsafe in agriculture project to through the Egyptian Centre for
supporting organizations.
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