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See also:
- New Initiative for Leadership in Egypt (NILE)

New Initiative for Leadership in Egypt II (NILE II)
Funding source: USAID

The New Initiative for Leadership in Egypt (NILE II) is the continuation of
a prior US Department of State-supported community leadership project
designed to enable community groups and business to collaborate on building
an effective civil society that can mobilize local resources to address social and
economic challenges. The project will help widen the social and political space
through which civil society can partner with business leaders and government
on the basis of mutual understanding and benefit, build leaders across sectors,
facilitate civic engagement, cross-sector collaboration, and community-building,
with the aim of developing citizens who are informed, willing to interact, and
carry out their civic roles and responsibilities. The project also aims to strengthen
the role of civil society in Egypt by building local support, mobilizing broad-based
coalitions to confront local problems, and to tackle civil society’s own sustainability
and governance challenges.

The project components are:

• Community Outreach and Mapping for Business-Community Engagement 
• Community Leadership Skills and Tools Training
• Develop Corporate Volunteerism and Mobilization

Specific activities include: designing and implementing cross-sector initiatives that
increase dialogue, develops shared goals, and increases collaboration on mutually
beneficial community projects; building a leadership network across sectors and
beyond international boundaries such as through the development of the Council
of 20; and Establishing the NILE Institute for Community Leadership.