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Fifteen business mentors and over 30 entrepreneurs engaged in a one-on-one mentoring event sponsored by the U.S. Government’s Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) and the Association for Women’s Total Advancement and Development, in cooperation with the Women Business Development Centre.

 “Supporting women business owners is crucial to promoting increased prosperity for Egypt’s families,” said Mary Ott, Mission Director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) which is funding the GEP program.  “Mentoring helps new entrepreneurs to address barriers they face in growing their businesses in realistic and powerful ways.  It provides them with valuable networks to build their businesses and create jobs.”

Mentoring brings experienced women business owners together with new entrepreneurs to provide a deeper understanding of the business world.  It helps them address challenges such as lack of business skills and lack of access to modern technologies, market linkages, and financing.  It can help women across Egypt who have entrepreneurial ideas and inspiration turn those ideas into successful businesses.

Through USAID’s Global Entrepreneurship Program, the United States supports Egypt’s economic growth by providing training, mentoring, and links to financing for entrepreneurs – men and women. Since 2011, this program has helped launch 46 start-up companies in Egypt, 18 of which are owned by women, and has supported those businesses to create 166 new jobs.

This text is from: Amwal el-Ghad

US and Egyptian officials celebrated on Wednesday the graduation of 234 educators from the Greater Cairo region from The Technology for Improved Learning Outcomes (TILO) programme

The programme is funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and a number of private sector companies.

“The TILO programme has helped to improve schools throughout Egypt, integrating new technologies that help increase student learning,” said Sohair Salem, head of the TILO project, during her welcoming note.

John Beed, deputy mission director for USAID, said that the contributions of educational establishments throughout the country “had been instrumental to the success of these schools and to the expansion of the programme to others in their provinces”.'(...)

The TILO programme has equipped the schools with technology and digital resources, and delivered hands-on training to teachers, supervisors, and local administration. Throughout Egypt 400 schools participated in the project, and 18 schools Greater Cairo.

“To date over 255,000 students and 21,000 teachers from nine provinces have participated in the project,” according to Salem

More on: http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/03/24/usaid-and-egyptian-officials-celebrate-tilo-programme-graduates/

Dr. Mary C. Ott was sworn in today as the new Mission Director for Egypt for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). (...)

As Director of the Mission, Dr. Ott will have the primary responsibility for overseeing programs that work with Egyptians to increase educational opportunities for all Egyptians, assist Egypt in overcoming health challenges, support agricultural development, help to strengthen their democratic institutions and governance structures, and continue to advance the country's economic growth and private sector development.

"Mary is uniquely qualified to oversee our programs in Egypt. Her deep experience in Agency leadership positions working on issues of economic growth and education combined with her personal familiarity with Egypt will be critical. Mary's experience will be an asset in supporting Egypt's efforts to capture this opportunity," said Assistant Administrator Rudman.

Dr. Ott most recently served as the Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and Environment (E3) for USAID. Previously, she was Director of E3's Office of Economic Growth.