FLC: Women's Network: Empowering Women in Local Councils Capitalizing on Constitutional Article no. 180 granting women 25% of the Local Councils' seats and believing in the important role women can play in the development of their communities the proposed project aims at empowering women both as elections candid
ates and members in the upcoming local councils. Through its two-stage strategy and to insure the sustainability of its impact the project will provide direct technical support for young female activists running for the Local Councils' elections as well as
 women elected as local councils members later on. Through its activities the project will introduce a participatory decision-making process to the local councils mechanism in 6 targeted governorates namely Qalioubia Sharkia Kafr El Sheikh Assuit Sohag Ben
ui Seuf. This participatory nature of decision-making will be guaranteed through a dialogue launched and reinforced between local councils members and local development NGOs in these 6 governorates. To insure this the project will rely on an online platfor
m as an unconventional and creative communication tool. The project is a partnership project between the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights (ECWR) Gender and Legal Expert House (GELEH) and the National Council for Women (NCW) serving 6 Egyptian governorate
s through providing technical capacity trainings and online and offline raising awareness events. The project will also capitalize on its online platform to reach out a minimum of one million active citizens raising their awareness about the role of Local 
Councils in contributing to the development of their local communities. Capitalizing on Constitutional Article no. 180 granting women 25% of the Local Councils' seats and believing in the important role women can play in the development of their communities the proposed project aims at empowering women both as elections candid
ates and members in the upcoming local councils. Through its two-stage strategy and to insure the sustainability of its impact the project will provide direct technical support for young female activists running for the Local Councils' elections as well as
 women elected as local councils members later on. Through its activities the project will introduce a participatory decision-making process to the local councils mechanism in 6 targeted governorates namely Qalioubia Sharkia Kafr El Sheikh Assuit Sohag Ben
ui Seuf. This participatory nature of decision-making will be guaranteed through a dialogue launched and reinforced between local councils? members and local development NGOs in these 6 governorates. To insure this the project will rely on an online platfo
rm as an unconventional and creative communication tool. The project is a partnership project between the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights (ECWR) Gender and Legal Expert House (GELEH) and the National Council for Women (NCW) serving 6 Egyptian governorat
es through providing technical capacity trainings and online and offline raising awareness events. The project will also capitalize on its online platform to reach out a minimum of one million active citizens raising their awareness about the role of Local
 Councils in contributing to the development of their local communities.