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Regulating the private sector providing Health care in Egypt “Policy recommendation”


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Ahmed El MetwallyEgyptThe problems of the private sector in the healthcare field: There is a substantial lack of information about the status of the private healthcare sector. According to the Ministry of Health in 2013, Egypt is home to 1,422 private healthcare units with a total of 32.6 thousand beds, 25% of hospital beds in Egypt. This is in addition to more than 82,000 private clinics across the different governorates. The private sector takes a relatively major part in offering health services to Egyptians, yet is rife with problems, related especially to regulating its activities and prices and evaluating the…

Reformation of public services The housing sector in Egypt: The Egyptian Rental Law Experiences and recommendations


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Shimaa ElSharkawyEgyptIntroduction: A large number of Egyptians suffer from housing problems with the number of people living in unofficial housing units ranging between 12 and 20 million[1] while a large number of housing units in Egypt remain unoccupied. On the other hand, a study conducted about Cairo by UN Habitat[2] revealed that a sizable portion of Egyptians live in units that are either unsafe or not fit for living. Added to this is the fact that housing prices are generally high and this applies to both purchase and rent. The law regulating the relationship between owner and tenant is one…

Development of school curricula


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Nayera Abdel RahmanEgyptThe education system in Egypt is facing numerous challenges on a variety of levels, which obstructs the materialization of the right to education with its different components as stated in Comment 13 on of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)[1]. Among those components are the quality of education and the way curricula are tailored to the students’ needs whether in terms of knowledge or skills. The 2011-2030 education strategic plan underlined the absence of a broad vision as far as developing curricula is concerned and relying in upgrading curricula on a fragmented approach that…

Medical negligence: Between the escalation of the problem, media exploitation of officials, and lack of a clear implementation mechanism


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Norhan SheirefEgyptThe deterioration of medical services and the misadministration of the medical sector in Egypt have always been linked to the absence of monitoring and accountability. The problem has also been lately escalating with the rise in the number of patients who died as a result of medical negligence and made the phenomenon impossible to overlook. According to a statement by the Administrative Prosecution, the cases of medical negligence in public hospitals alone reached 594 in 2014. Constant demands for countering the problem of medical negligence only resulted in surprise visits to hospitals by officials, governors, or representatives from the…

Amendment of state and municipal public budget law in accordance with the economic and social rights of the 2014 Egyptian constitution


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Reem Abdel HalimEgyptExecutive summary: The fair provision of public services has been quite problematic in a way that cannot be tackled just through adding a few articles to the constitution. These problems, instead, require legislative and administrative solutions that raise the citizens’ living standards through an equal distribution of services offered by the state. A major part of the problem lies in the way the state public budget is planned and administered. Several laws need to be amended through the intervention of members of parliament such as the State Public Budget Law number 53 for the year 1973 and its…

Liberating the Egyptian Media


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Mavie MaherEgyptThis paper is a result of a closed round table discussion; it expresses the personal opinion of its writers and does not necessarily express the opinion of the Arab Forum for Alternatives or Global Partners Governance The Egyptian revolution has raised of the expectations of Egyptians regarding the various state and societal institutions. The Egyptian media had been previously referred to as biased and misleading, therefore this paper aims to suggest the various ways it could reform and liberate itself in order to deliver on its mission in such a pivotal moment in history. The general political instability as…

The Egyptian Shura council and the international experiences


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Anthony Mughan ,Anyim Ude ,James Selfe ,Mac Harb ,Mani Shankar Aiyar ,Mohamed ElAgati ,Natasha Stott Despoja ,Nico Schrijver ,Nouran AhmedEgyptThe Egyptian Shura Council is one of the most controversial political bodies in Egypt, caught between those who support its continuation and those who believe it should be abolished. This is an old debate in Egyptian politics that dates back to the Council’s founding under President Sadat. However, this debate was given a boost in the wake of the revolution of January 25, 2011 in the context of attempts to revisit the past political legacy and build a new political system…

Electoral Campaigns (Strategies and challenges)


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Habiba Mohsen ,Mohamed ElAgati ,Nick Harvey ,Nick Sigler ,Rania ZadaEgyptThe book aims to discuss different strategies used in managing election campaigns, focusing on the case of parliamentary elections in 2011 and the way various political and party blocs stood for election amid the difficult circumstances during the transitional period that followed the January 25 Revolution. At the end of every chapter, an international expert in the field of election campaign management will set out a number of recommendations and summarize international experience in this field

Toward A New Parliamentary Elections Law


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Amr ElShobakiEgyptIntroduction Laws should not be made especially for a specific political movement or power, except in systems that are authoritarian and oppressive. These laws are supposed to be written for the sake of the public good and the advancement of society. This is how we should address any ideas related to the new parliamentary elections law. Discussing a law benefitting the interests of either the secular current or the Islamist current must not control the process of forming the new electoral law.Such talk comes close to the old saying of “The lazy student’s pretext [for not doing his homework]…

Transparency , international standards & Egyptian context


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Andrew Puddephatt ,Kholoud Khaled ,Mohamed ElAgati ,Omar Samir Khalaf ,Rebecca ZausmerEgyptOpenness and transparency have become defining features of democracies around the world. Governments that are open and transparent are more accountable to their citizens and less corrupt. What is more, openness generates trust in government and also paves the way for meaningful participation by citizens and more informed and better policies.

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