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Susanna Myllylä (D.Sc.Admin., D.Sc.Econ.) is a Researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She has carried out fieldwork on environmental governance and NGOs in Cairo and Delhi. Currently she is conducting a research project on youth livelihoods and spaces in the slum-type kebele settlements of Addis Ababa.
Egyptian Civil Society in Transition—Reflections on Cairo’s Governance
This essay discusses the various barriers that inhibit local communities in densely populated, poor quarters in Cairo from taking action in order to improve the provision of basic services and the overall conditions in these neighborhoods.
