By bringing together international institutions, local reformers and private partners, the development sector in Egypt is set to finally see some results
Most people know the Chinese proverb about the value of teaching a man to fish rather than giving him one, but there is a similar proverb in Arabic that originates in Egypt: “The noblest charity is to preclude a man from accepting charity, and the best alms are to show and enable a man to dispense with alms.”
It appears these old proverbs are finally coming into fruition: In the past three decades, foreign governments and aid agencies have poured money into development projects in Egypt — only to complain that after the donor stops sending money, the project falls apart.
“The international experience shows that probably the greatest weakness of aid has been the fact that when the program or the project has been concluded and the donor has withdrawn, everything has collapsed,” says Georgios Tsitsopoulos, first counselor and head of operations at the Delegation of the European Commission in Egypt.
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