FLC: ECESR - Battling Inequality through the Empowerment of the Marginalized This project will focus on the Delta Region and the activities will be carried out in the governorates of Monofeya and Daqahliyya. A. egal Empowerment of the Margnizalized: Litigating against InequalityLitigation is key to the empowerment of the marginzali
zed in Egypt in different ways. Access to direct pro-bono legal aid provides local populations with the necessary defense once needed. It supports workers in their strikes knowing that they have recourse to legal aid when needed. It provides support to far
mers and local populations who contantly are uncertain about their relationship to the sate and their access to the justice system but also their abilitiy to organize in legal structures (unions associations etc). Finally strategic litigation can be one of
 the key channels for the local populations and local actors to achieve change. Being able to challenge public policy in courts challenge unfair legislation or demand legal provisions for access to water and roads and others gives more power to the local p
opulations in demanding better conditions and demanding equitable distribution of state resources. Therefore ECESR will undertake two approaches towards the strengthening of litigation on the local level. B. apacity Building to Local Actors: Information an
d AdvocacyLocal populations are the main actors for change. They are both the active agents for achieving equality and the beneficiaries in this proposal. In order to strengthen local groups? ability to do their village specific and context-specific advoca
cies more information and skills are needed to equip local activists and semi-organized groups (farmers workers ngos and students) to seek accountability and organize for demanding their entitlements and their participation in policy-making. C. Enrolling t
he Local to the National Level: Telling local storiesECESR will take the information gathered a step further back to the central national level where both decision making and advocacy campaigns are still strongest. The information gathered will be the seed
 of a local governance map which brings together macro-level information (such as data from the Central Agencey for Public Mobilization and Statistics or from the state general budget or investment plans form the Ministry of Investment) with local realitie
s/ scenes on water quality access to sanitation roads schools. This project will focus on the Delta Region and the activities will be carried out in the governorates of Monofeya and Daqahliyya. A. egal Empowerment of the Margnizalized: Litigating against InequalityLitigation is key to the empowerment of the marginzali
zed in Egypt in different ways. Access to direct pro-bono legal aid provides local populations with the necessary defense once needed. It supports workers in their strikes knowing that they have recourse to legal aid when needed. It provides support to far
mers and local populations who contantly are uncertain about their relationship to the sate and their access to the justice system but also their abilitiy to organize in legal structures (unions associations etc). Finally strategic litigation can be one of
 the key channels for the local populations and local actors to achieve change. Being able to challenge public policy in courts challenge unfair legislation or demand legal provisions for access to water and roads and others gives more power to the local p
opulations in demanding better conditions and demanding equitable distribution of state resources. Therefore ECESR will undertake two approaches towards the strengthening of litigation on the local level. B. apacity Building to Local Actors: Information an
d AdvocacyLocal populations are the main actors for change. They are both the active agents for achieving equality and the beneficiaries in this proposal. In order to strengthen local groups? ability to do their village specific and context-specific advoca
cies more information and skills are needed to equip local activists and semi-organized groups (farmers workers ngos and students) to seek accountability and organize for demanding their entitlements and their participation in policy-making. C. Enrolling t
he Local to the National Level: Telling local storiesECESR will take the information gathered a step further back to the central national level where both decision making and advocacy campaigns are still strongest. The information gathered  will be the see
d of a local governance map which brings together macro-level information (such as data from the Central Agencey for Public Mobilization and Statistics or from the state general budget or investment plans form the Ministry of Investment) with local realiti
es/ scenes on water quality access to sanitation roads schools.