Acknowledgements

AFWG would like to thank the following for their funding and support:

The Ford Foundation (Cairo): By supporting citizen groups and promoting increased government effectiveness, accountability and transparency, we believe that people in the region can overcome social, economic and cultural marginalization.

International Development Research Center (Ottawa and Cairo): IDRC is a Canadian Crown corporation that works in close collaboration with researchers from the developing world in their search for the means to build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies.

The Population Council (Cairo): The Population Council is an international, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources.

The Social Research Center (American University in Cairo): The Social Research Center conducts and encourages multidisciplinary social science research in Egypt and the Arab region, trains researchers, and guides and assists graduate students, scholars and organizations engaged in social science research in the region.

UNICEF (Cairo): UNICEF addresses the implications of national development policies & strategies, with the broad aim of changing Egypt’s political, economic and social environment to the benefit of children.

The AFWG is hosted at:

The University of California, Davis: As one of 10 campuses of the world’s pre-eminent public university system, the University of California, UC Davis is one of the nation’s top public research universities.

The American University in Cairo: The American University in Cairo was founded in 1919 by Americans devoted to education and community service in the Middle East. Today, AUC is the region’s premier English-language university — an essential contributor to the social, political and cultural life of the Arab world.