The Neighbourhood Civil Society Facility: assessing the new instrument in Egypt

Bassant Hassib () and Christian Kaunert ()

Chapter 6 in EU, Egypt and Democracy Promotion, 2025, pp 105-116 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter critically evaluates the EU's Neighbourhood Civil Society Facility (CSF) in Egypt, launched after the 2011 revolution to support civil society organisations as pivotal actors in the democratic process. The chapter assesses the CSF regarding objectives, structure, degree of complementarity with existing EU instruments, and funding levels. The chapter identifies a gap between the CSF's stated goals and its implementation in Egypt; it faced significant challenges and did not bring its promised added value. These challenges included the volatile political environment, restrictive legislation, weak capacities of civil society organisations, the EU's conflicting foreign policy dynamics and bureaucracy, and the CSF's limited funding levels and lack of complementarity with other EU instruments.

Keywords: European Neighbourhood Policy; Civil Society Facility; Egypt; Foreign funding; Political dialogue (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035350520
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