Within the framework of the community dialogue project for an active civil society

The Mahrousa Center and the Partners for Transparency Association organize a meeting for organizations concerned with fighting corruption

The "Partners for Transparency" Foundation, in cooperation with the "Al-Mahrousa Center for Economic and Social Development", held a seminar for leaders of a small group of civil society organizations under the title "The New Associations Law and its Impact on Organizations Interested in Issues of Accountability, Transparency and Social Development" within the framework of the Community Dialogue Project for Active Civil Society ”implemented by Al-Mahrousa, on Saturday 7 October 2017.

The meeting, in which the leaders of 12 NGOs participated, aimed at getting acquainted with the views of the organizations participating in the new NGO Law 70 of 2017, and their evaluation of its impact on the ability of these organizations to continue their work in the context of the basic issues in which they are active, and their recommendations related to the executive regulations of the law and the articles that can be To be subject to modification in the coming period.

There was general agreement that the law needs important amendments in order to provide a sufficient guarantee for the liberalization of civil work in accordance with the text of Article 75 of the Egyptian Constitution, but the participants said that it is necessary to work under the umbrella of the law with the continuation of the call and dialogue in order to amend it, as well as agreement on The need to provide visions for drafting the executive regulations of the law.

Participants called for civil society organizations to hold meetings with parliamentarians to explain the importance of making amendments to the law in the medium and long terms. They also agreed to make recommendations in the stage of drafting the executive regulations focusing on developing easy rules and organizing procedures for articles that are likely to be interpreted and implemented in a strict way, towards a better adoption. Procedures that respond to the requests of civil societies, and this applies in particular to articles 13, 14, 27, 29, and 31, as well as the articles organizing meetings of the agency and the method of decision-making within it, and they indicated the need to highlight the role of civil society organizations in the sustainable development and anti-corruption strategy.