EBDA in August 2025

October 13, 2025

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EBDA achievements

Women’s Empowerment Project in rural Egypt

As part of the Women’s Empowerment Project in rural Egypt in cooperation with Organic Egypt, the August monthly meeting with the field facilitators was held to strengthen monitoring, accountability, and professional capacity within the project. During the session, the facilitators received training on how to effectively fill in the surveys that will accompany the women’s gatherings for awareness sessions. These surveys will also serve as a tool to track the outcomes of the loan box initiative, ensuring that financial activities remain transparent and measurable.

Another key focus of the meeting was discussing the profiling of women participants to better match them with the professions for which they will undergo training. This profiling process is essential for aligning women’s skills, interests, and local opportunities with practical livelihood options such as sewing, cooking, soap-making, poultry farming, and childcare.

The introduction of the surveys represents a practical mechanism for collecting consistent data, maintaining records of progress, and building a reliable database to support the generation of accurate and informative reports. To reinforce the standards of practice, the facilitators were also provided with a newly developed policy document. This policy outlines clear measures of accountability, ensuring that the work of the facilitators is transparent, consistent, and meets the expected level of professional quality.

FAIRTRADE

Documents were prepared for 19 points of the corrective measure to renew the fairtrade certificate and add orange to the certificate.
– Conduct training for the certifications holders on:

Integrated pest management, safe handling and storage of pesticides and natural fertilizers
Composting and natural fertilizers
Safe handling of irrigation tools and machinery, agricultural wastewater, and sewage

For orange farms in Sharqia and Beheira
– The Budget for the year 2024 – 2025 of the FairTrade collections has been finalized

EBDA headquarter’s new farms registrations activities

– A new farm has been registered as a member of the association under the name of Athmar Al Rayyan, 40 fd. in Matay Center, Minya, owned by Mr. Amro Rifai.

Dopay Progress For Cards’ Issuance

EBDA and Dopay Teams Contributions

A meeting was held between the ُEBDA and Dopay teams to discuss the distribution plan and work to resolve any problems we encountered. It was agreed to send 1,000 farmers each week from neighboring governorates to expedite the distribution process.

DoPay Cards’ Issued Update:

To date, the EBDA team together with the DoPay team has issued a total of 2676 cards , Work is ongoing on the DoPay co-branding initiative, which is scheduled to launch in early October 2025.

The team has worked on farmers’ data for this month and successfully finished 5538 registered farmers on the system from 1st May till 5th August 2025.

EBDA Internship For Data Entry

In order to create smooth work due to a sufficient timeline, the EBDA administration team hired two interns for data entry and extraction, in particular the archived data. Interns are mainly working on collecting farmers’ data from the archive. Total data entered on our system was 1875 farmers from 13 governorates.

EBDA PARTICIPATING IN AAAT 2025

All African Anthroposophy 2025

The All African Anthroposophic Training (AAAT) 2025 event took place from August 23 to August 30, 2025, in Namibia. The gathering focused on applied anthroposophy through workshops and networking opportunities for participants from across the continent. . Purpose: To learn about and deepen understanding of applied anthroposophy in various life areas, including biodynamic agriculture,Sustainable buildings ,leadership Waldorf education, and therapeutic education.

Activities: Included various workshops and networking events.

The Egyptian biodynamic association took place in the AAAT 2025 Namibia where the team had the opportunity to teach and expand the information about the agriculture science in the biodynamic agriculture Workshop.

Additionally, the team had the chance to share more about the Economy of Love standard and its scheme for application in the Egyptian biodynamic rural areas.

EBDA Communications

1- Organic Egypt Events Coverage

This month, the communication team provided full media coverage for two Organic Egypt events:

Women’s Event
Focused on women’s role in agriculture and community empowerment. The team documented the key sessions, interactions, and highlights of the event through photo and video coverage.
Celebration Event
A gathering that highlighted the achievements of Organic Egypt’s programs and celebrated milestones with partners and participants. Coverage included capturing the atmosphere, speeches, and networking moments.

Outputs from the two events included reels and edited photos that are now being used across Organic Egypt’s communication channels.

2- Social Media Content Production

A total of 15 new reels were produced and finalized this month.
These reels highlighted project updates, farmer stories, event moments, and awareness content, tailored for Instagram and Facebook audiences.

3-Learning Videos

The team completed editing 5 new learning videos.
These videos are part of the ongoing effort to provide farmers with practical, accessible knowledge on sustainable and biodynamic practices.

4-New Filming Activities

In addition to editing, the team carried out new shooting sessions to expand the visual library of learning content.

Crops filmed this month:
- Corn
- Agroforestry systems

These sessions were shot in the field to capture authentic farmer practices and will be developed into future learning videos and social media materials. For Summary please check the table:

Category	Output
Events Covered	2 (Organic Egypt: Women’s Event + Celebration)
Social Media Reels Edited	15
Learning Videos Edited	5
New Crops Filmed	2 (Corn, Agroforestry)