Partner: International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Year of Implementation: 2005-2012
Since its foundation, Etijah has been supporting and building capacities of youth-led initiatives stemming from the belief that they are the most passionate and the most striving to develop their own community and overcome the societal challenges that the community faces. That being said, Etijah has incubated the back then recently founded initiative Harass Map that was born in 2005 as a response to the persistent problem of sexual harassment on the streets of Egypt, to which society has become increasingly tolerant. According to a study conducted by UN Women, 99.3% of Egyptian women have experienced some form of sexual harassment. The study indicates that 96.5% of women in their survey said that sexual harassment came in the form of touching, which was the most common manifestation of sexual harassment. Verbal sexual harassment had the second highest rate experienced by women with 95.5% of women reporting cases.