​Central

Central Government is responsible for:

• Executor of social Protection
• Social Development Policy
• Social Welfare services
• Citizens Complaints
• Social Surveys, evaulations and policy making.
• Regulations of social policies.
• Gender Violence awareness.
• Employment opportunities for persons with disabilities in partnership with the MAF.
• Coordination of NGOs in Egypt.

Regional

No competencies identified at regional level.

Local

Villages and local units hold limited competences in developing villages’ economic and social development plan[1].

Social welfare and inclusions measures can be devised and implemented but only within an authority’s autonomous budget.


[1] UCLG, Global Observatory on Local Democracy and Decentralization, Local Government Finance: The Challenges of the 21st Century. Second Global Report on Decentralization and Local Democracy (GOLD), 2010, available at: www.cities-localgovernments.org/gold/Upload/gold_report/gold_report_en.pdf , p. 6 (EN).