Youth Innovation Camp to promote social justice in Egypt

The United Nations Development Programme in Egypt (UNDP), in partnership with Misr El Kheir Foundation, organized a two- day ‘Youth Social Justice Innovation Camp’ at the GrEEK Campus on 7th and 8th of November 2014.

UNDP is currently in the process of developing the 2015 Egypt Human Development Report (EHDR). Similar to the Global Human Development Report, the EHDR is prepared by national teams to measure and pinpoint human development in the host country. The theme of the upcoming 2015 Egypt Human Development Report is Social Justice.

Since social justice is a broad term and cannot be defined by solely one person, UNDP Egypt believes that the inclusion of citizen voices, especially Egyptian youth, in defining social justice and highlighting perceptions of the subject matter is essential.

Rather than the traditional focus groups and survey-approach, UNDP is keen on utilizing inclusive and innovative methods of crowd-sourcing data for the report. For example, UNDP has launched a nation-wide competition for papers on successful local experiments and initiatives tackling social injustice.

“Through the next EHDR, We would like to highlight how Social Justice can act as a gateway to achieve better socio-economic development for all Egyptians,” explained Mr. Ignacio Artaza Zuriarrain, UNDP Egypt Country Director.