A healthy civil society – successful state (strengthening the capacities of Egyptian civil society)

Project Manager: Lucia Najšlová

Timeframe:  completed (May 2011)

Executive Summary: 

The project aimed to help Egypt build partnerships and effective relationships between the state and civil society. The means to fulfill the plan was to share the Czech experience which should serve Egyptian actors to promote a healthy relationship between civil society and the state, a relationship based on rights and obligations of both parties and their affiliate status.

Outputs: 

  • seminar “Strengthening Egyptian civil society: lessons from the Czech Transition”, Cairo, June 14-15

Partners: 

Arab Forum for Alternatives (Egypt)

Donors:

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic (Department of Human Rights & Transition Promotion Policy)



Publications

  • Democracy Delayed: Obstacles in Political Transition

    This collection of articles, compiled by Democracy Reporting International (DRI) and Institute for European Policy EUROPEUM, responds to requests made by some Arab reformers to deepen their knowledge of how political change in Eastern Europe unfolded. Rather than focussing on the successful transitions, it presents case studies which recall the difficulties, pitfalls and political missteps which jeopardised these countries’ transitions and even caused some of them to fail.

    The publication is available to download here.