Decentralization and effective professional practices

Maat continues training program on “decentralization and effective professional practices” Training workshop in Qena and Luxor reveals, building-capacities and training are necessary for success of decentralization"

Good local governance is based on four Pillars, First of them is local citizen as a final beneficiary, second is elected local councils, third is initiator and Participant civil society, and forth is governmental executive authority. And there will be no real decentralization without integration between these four pillars.

In second training workshop on "Decentralization and effective professional practices" program: Weakness of local executives' powers is one of political corruption causes in Egypt

Due to belief that political reform will not be achieved unless there is a genuine decentralization give local authority more powers, which qualifies it to provide basic services to community citizens , Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights has implemented a training program in cooperation with Hanns Seidel Foundation includes a series of training workshop to train government departments' executives on local decentralization and effective professional practices in a number of governorates : Giza , Sharkya, Luxor and Qaliubiya , as Maat began implementing this program in July, 2011.

At training for executives "Decentralization and administrative authorization are two important demands in the new law"

"We are not aware of current local administration law and we have no sufficient knowledge on decentralization and have no authorization in law ". This is a summary of trainees speech at beginning of training course held by Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights in cooperation with Hanns Seidel Foundation entitled " Decentralization and effective professional practices "for executives of local departments such as general managers , department heads and senior researchers at some ministries from 12-14 / 7 / 2011.