| SE strategy / action plan 1.2.1 S10S20S30S40S50 Criteria and evidence- S1 · Status: 0 (none)
No national SE strategy was adopted or in preparation: a November 2023 policy paper finds 'no specific law relating to social business' and names no strategy, and the 2020-21 MedUp! review found 'no specific policies or regulations concerning the SE ecosystem': 'none'. · source 1 - S2 · Dedication: 0 (SE absent from adopted national strategies)
The National Agenda for Sustainable Development, Egypt's Updated Vision 2030 (Ministry of Planning, 2023), read in full, contains none of 'social enterprise', 'social entrepreneurship', 'social economy', 'solidarity economy', 'social business' or 'cooperative'; its entrepreneurship content is limited to support and incubators for female entrepreneurs and micro-projects (Goal 2); government entrepreneurship policy targets MSMEs (Startup Charter only in Feb 2026): 'SE absent from adopted national strategies'. · source 1 - S3 · Operational content: 0 (no adopted instrument)
No SE instrument: 'no adopted instrument'. · source 1 - S4 · Monitoring: 0 (none)
No SE instrument to monitor: 'none'. · source 1 - S5 · Participation of SE organisations: 0 (no evidence)
No SE instrument, hence 'no evidence' of SE participation. · source 1
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| Institutional structure & dialogue 1.2.2 I10I20I30I40 Criteria and evidence- I1 · Lead responsibility: 0 (none identified)
No government body holds an SE mandate; the 2023 policy paper cites only ENID, an integrated-development initiative founded in 2012 by the Ministry of Investment and International Cooperation with UNDP, while MSMEDA (MSMEs) and the Ministry of Social Solidarity (NGOs) work by legal form: 'none identified'. · source 1 - I2 · Breadth of mandate: 0 (none)
No body has an SE mandate: 'none'. · source 1 - I3 · Consultative body with SE organisations: 0 (none, or only in a draft)
No consultative body with SE organisations was found: 'none'. · source 1 - I4 · Inter-ministerial coordination: 0 (none)
No inter-ministerial coordination on SE was found: 'none'. · source 1
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| Social clauses in public procurement 2.3.2 P133P20P30P40 Criteria and evidence- P1 · Legal basis: 33 (social considerations allowed in general (criteria, conditions))
Law 182/2018 lets local tenders up to EGP 2 million be restricted to MSMEs (Art. 59), with no preference for cooperatives, NGOs or SE, and requires entities to take into account the social and environmental policies adopted by the Cabinet (Art. 8); no Article 77-type reservation in Arts 1-71: 'social considerations allowed in general (criteria, conditions)'. · source 1 - P2 · National policy push: 0 (none)
No national socially responsible procurement guidance, plan or SE target was found: sustainable public procurement appears as a priority of the Sustainable Consumption and Production National Action Plan (UNEP SwitchMed factsheet, 2020) without social criteria, and recent Ministry of Finance work (unified tender documents) favours local manufacturers and SMEs: 'none'. · source 1 - P3 · Evidence of use: 0 (none)
No data or reported cases of social clauses or reserved contracts used for SEs were found: 'none'. · source 1 · low confidence - P4 · Capacity support: 0 (none)
No procurement training or helpdesk covering social clauses was found; the 2023 INVESTMED policy paper only recommends 'preferential treatment in public procurement' for social enterprises: 'none'. · source 1 · low confidence
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| Official SE definition 3.1 D10D20 Criteria and evidence- D1 · Where defined: 0 (nowhere (a lapsed draft counts as nowhere))
No legal, strategic or official definition of social enterprise or the social economy ('no specific law relating to social business'): 'nowhere'. · source 1 - D2 · Content (social aim; participatory governance; limits on profit distribution): 0 (none of the three, or no definition)
No definition counted in D1: 'none of the three, or no definition'. · source 1
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Legal recognition of SEs 3.2.1 · level 0 of 3None; social enterprises use company, NGO (Law 149/2019) or cooperative forms · sources 1 2L10L20L30L40L50 Criteria and evidence- L1 · Adoption stage: 0 (none, announced, or consultation draft)
- L2 · Scope: 0 (none)
- L3 · Implementing rules: 0 (none adopted, or law not in force)
- L4 · Status or register: 0 (foreseen with no entity recognised, or law not in force)
- L5 · Bodies foreseen by the law: 0 (foreseen, not set up, or law not in force)
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| SE support ecosystem 4.3.6 E133E233E333E467E5100 Criteria and evidence- E1 · National programme: 33 (project-based only (donor, EU or NGO projects without government lead))
SE support comes from donor and NGO projects: the EU-funded MedUp! fund for social enterprises, implemented in Egypt by Sekem (Mar 2018-Feb 2022), and NGO or private incubators named in 2023 (Nahdet El Mahrousa, Innoventures, RiseUp, Flat6Labs); no government SE programme was found: 'project-based only (donor, EU or NGO projects without government lead)'. · source 1 - E2 · Territorial coverage: 33 (capital or one region)
The project-based SE support documented as operating in 2023-2025, enpact's doroob incubator for socially driven youth (with DROSOS Foundation, 1 May 2023-31 Jan 2026), works from a hub in Zamalek, Cairo, with no governorate network; Gemini Africa's Upper Egypt Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator (six governorates) has an undated first round: 'capital or one region'. · source 1 - E3 · Public funding of support: 33 (mainly donor or EU funded)
Funded by the EU (MedUp!, EuropeAid/155554/DH/ACT/Multi) and private or donor sources; no public funding of SE support found: 'mainly donor or EU funded'. · source 1 - E4 · Continuity: 67 (two to four years)
Doroob ran from 1 May 2023 to 31 Jan 2026 in successive sector editions (dated programme page), so SE support was operating without interruption for about two years and eight months to 31 Dec 2025; MedUp! (to Feb 2022) had ended: 'two to four years'. · source 1 - E5 · Range of services: 100 (three or more)
Doroob offers pre-incubation and a six-month incubator (incubation), investor pitching and direct financial support of EUR 600 a month per member (finance or investment readiness) and a Berlin landing pad and industry events (market access): 'three or more'. · source 1
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| EU funds mobilised for SE 5.1.1 F10F233F333F433 Criteria and evidence- F1 · Programming: 0 (SE not mentioned)
The EU's MIP 2021-2027 for Egypt has three priority areas (green and sustainable development; human development, economic resilience and prosperity through green and digital transition; social cohesion and a modern and democratic state), and the EC country page does not mention social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, the social economy or cooperatives; MedUp! and INVESTMED were regional projects. The EU-German Social Entrepreneurship Fund (KfW) covers Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan, not Egypt: 'SE not mentioned'. MIP text not opened. · source 1 - F2 · Calls and instruments: 33 (general calls whose themes name social economy or social entrepreneurship, or documented SE grantees in general calls)
MedUp! (EuropeAid/155554/DH/ACT/Multi; Sekem in Egypt, 1 Mar 2018-28 Feb 2022) supported Egyptian SE grantees into 2021-22 after a sub-granting call that closed in September 2019, before the period; no EU call dedicated to SE in Egypt in 2021-2025 was found, and the 2026 regional Social Entrepreneurship Fund does not cover Egypt: 'documented SE grantees in general calls'. · source 1 - F3 · Channel: 33 (civil-society grants only)
EU money reached SEs through civil-society partners (Oxfam Italia, Sekem), with no government partner: 'via civil-society grants only'. · source 1 - F4 · Evidence of take-up: 33 (anecdotal)
Only featured stories of Egyptian SEs (five of 29 stories; about 64 SEs supported across six countries) were found: 'anecdotal'. · source 1
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| Dedicated national funding 5.2.2 N133N20N30N40 Criteria and evidence- N1 · Dedicated line: 33 (only general SME/employment programmes open to SE)
No SE-specific public funding line was found; public finance targets MSMEs (MSMEDA) and household microfinance, and Vision 2030 has no SE measure: 'only general SME/employment programmes open to SE'. · source 1 - N2 · Instrument types: 0 (none)
N1 is 33 or lower: 'none, or N1 ≤ 33'. · source 1 - N3 · Continuity: 0 (none)
N1 is 33 or lower: 'none, or N1 ≤ 33'. · source 1 - N4 · Execution: 0 (no evidence)
N1 is 33 or lower: 'no evidence, or N1 ≤ 33'. · source 1
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