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Recent weeks have witnessed the start of a new stage for the Climate Change Adaptation Component of the Participatory Development Programme in Urban Areas (PDP) – Egypt’s first intervention to focus specifically on the effects of climate change on urban areas. Plan+Risk Consult from Dortmund visited Cairo to kick off their study on the effects […]

A major development plan for informal urban areas in Greater Cairo Region was agreed on 20 March 2013, bringing together Egypt’s main actors in the urban development field. The meeting at the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MoPIC) on Wednesday 20 March marked the beginning of the next stage of a large-scale EU-funded development […]

The Participatory Development Programme in Urban Areas (PDP) has been allocated 8 fedans of land in the area of Khanka (Qalyubeya Governorate) to build an Integrated Resource Recovery Centre (IRRC) for the area. The land was awarded to the programme through an official decree by the Prime Minister of Egypt. The allocation of land comes […]

Two cooperation agreements were signed by the Participatory Development Programme in Urban Areas (PDP) with the Egyptian Ministry of State for Youth (MoY) and Cairo Governorate in early January 2013. The agreement with the MoY which was signed by the Minister of State for Youth Dr. Osama Yassin and PDP Programme Coordinator Dr. Günther Wehenpohl […]

For more information on the Youth Fast Track Measure “Promotion of Youth Participation in Informal Areas in Greater Cairo”, please download the new fact sheet available in English and Arabic. Download: “Promotion of Youth Participation in Informal Areas in Greater Cairo” (Arabic) Download: “Promotion of Youth Participation in Informal Areas in Greater Cairo” (English)

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