Participatory Spaces

Civil society actors were present in the drafting of the 2014 Constitution. 

The Working Group on Right to Food and Food Sovereignty in Egypt, a civil society based initiative headed by the Right to Food subunit at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) and consisting of experts drafted for the inclusion of the right to food and food sovereignty in the constitution and organized a hearing before the Subcommittee on the Rights and Freedoms for this purpose.  This was included in Art 79 of the Constitution.