May 10, 2022

Yasser Badry Tuesday 10-5-2022 The NGO Development Program at the Misr El Kheir Foundation launched a campaign to educate local and Arab civil society workers about the dangers of climate change, and their role in confronting those changes, under the title of the “Sustainable Climate” campaign. This comes in light of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s declaration of 2022 as the Year of Civil Society, in appreciation of the major role played by civil society in achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, and in preparation for Egypt’s reception of the Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 27), which is scheduled to be held in the city. Sharm El Sheikh at the end of this year. Mohamed Abdel Rahman, CEO of the Misr El Kheir Foundation, said that this campaign comes from the belief of the Misr El Kheir Foundation that the private sector is one of the sides of the triangle of the development process in partnership with the government sector and the private sector. Abdel Rahman explained that the campaign is a regional development campaign about raising awareness of the issue of climate change and the role of civil society workers in reducing these changes, noting that it was launched by the Development 2030 platform affiliated with the NGO Development Program of the Misr El Kheir Foundation. This campaign also comes in conjunction with... The interest of the Egyptian state and civil society organizations concerned with environmental issues in preparing for the international conference “COP 27”, the Conference of the Parties Concerned with Climate Change, scheduled to be held in November of this year 2022. For his part, Mohamed Mamdouh, Head of the NGO Sector at the Misr El Kheir Foundation, said that the “Sustainable Climate” campaign will carry the slogan “Active NGOs in Climate Issues,” through implementing several activities with NGOs and civil society workers, represented in: The first activity related to launching the Misr Al-Khair Award for Leadership in Charitable Giving and Sustainable Development - the fourth session, The second activity: organizing a number of round tables for experts and representatives of civil society organizations on the role of civil society organizations in achieving the thirteenth goal of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030, which is concerned with climate action. The third activity is organizing sessions for the Egypt Vision 2030 corridor, which aims to raise awareness of the risks of climate change and how to mitigate and adapt to these risks. The fourth activity is to raise awareness of the climate issue to representatives of 5,000 civil society organizations on how to confront climate change. The fifth activity focuses on monitoring the practices of civil society organizations in the field of confronting climate change at the level of the Egyptian country. Mamdouh added that the campaign will start this month of May and will continue until the end of 2022, until the Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 27), which is scheduled to be held in Sharm El-Sheikh at the end of this year. It is worth noting that the campaign was launched under the auspices of (the Ministry of Social Solidarity - the Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs and the Presidential Go Green Initiative - the National Planning Institute - the National Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development - the General Union of Associations and Non-Governmental Institutions - the United Nations Development Program UNDP - the Arab Network for Non-Governmental Organizations) .