Egypt Human Development Report 2010
This report deals with youth and development in Egypt, aiming at drawing young Egyptian people into mainstream society. The report believes that to complement the enabling conditions for the new Egyptian generation a number of prerequisite must be addressed.
The authors notice that the modest participation and little civic engagement of young Egyptians is being addressed through the creation of clubs, sports and leisure centers. Accordingly, there is a need to adopt a coherent framework for a youth-inclusive strategy in Egypt. Furthermore, the report underlines the unemployment problem as a source of great concern to the government of Egypt. In this respect, the authors suggest that there is a need to improve access to the foundations of education, by targeting poor and rural areas specifically, with special attention given to girls. Additionally, the paper recommends the following:
- there should be a strive to achieve a better match between the outputs of educational institutions at all levels and the demands of the labour market
- the cycle of poverty should be broken through the geographic targeting of poor households with a battery of cross-sectoral interventions including on-the-job training, literacy and income generation
- regarding job creation, the state has to provide a contribution to social security payments for new jobs for youth
- to generate creative thinking and inventiveness, more emphasis on liberal educational material, and on music, theatre and the arts in general are highly recommended
- a mix of legislative and programmatic interventions is needed to fight culturally rooted sources of gender discrimination
- the state should support migration under a holistic and institutionalised approach that is dictated by the current structure of Egypt’s human resources.
Moreover, the report proposes the distribution of parcels of land to youth in Egypt‘s new regions for settlement.
