Livelihood Reports Al Amrikeya Area - Final Assessment | Page 20

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The primary role of the Consultant is to provide
a detailed assessment and preliminary propos-
al for the participatory upgrading and devel-
opment of the AAA in 6th of October City. The
project was completed in cooperation with the
area’s stakeholders (from the host and refugee
communities) and the CA.
The main role of the Consultant in this mission
is to:
• Develop an in-depth understanding of the
AAA’s physical and non-physical context: its
evolution as a mixed-use vital hub, its main
features and characteristics, its success fac-
tors, its institutional setting and stakehold-
ers’ power dynamics, and its role and use
value as a node and a gathering point for
the host and refugee communities in the
6th of October City.
• Assess the area’s physical, socio-cultural
and economic upgrading needs through
PNA, physical audits and other assessment
tools from the perspectives of the its dif-
ferent stakeholders (host and refugee com-
munity users an shopkeepers/owners, the
CA, etc.)
DESCRIPTION OF THE
CONSULTANT’S ROLE
potential negative impacts of the area’s
upgrading process (such as gentrification,
speculation and real-estate pressures);
• Extract lessons learned from the AAA ex-
perience (especially on levels of urban and
economic inclusion, socio-cultural integra-
tion, and the different dynamics refugees
bring about) to inform the area’s develop-
ment as well as to help expand this success
to other urban areas.
In order to achieve the above, a team of multi-
disciplinary consultants worked together
throughout this mission in order the assess that
AAA from different angles and perspectives,
and strive to develop an integrated approach
towards understanding and solving the area’s
problems. The team consisted of:
• Development Economist (Reem Abdel-
haliem )
• Urban Economist (Nour el-Nawawi)
• Solid Waste Management Consultant
(Mounir Bushra; ENTRUST DMC)
• MSME Consultant (Akila Rifaat; ENTRUST
DMC)
• Develop in close collaboration with the
AAA’s stakeholders: • Social Development and Gender Consult-
ant (Caroline Nassif)
i) an overall shared vision for the area’s
development aiming at relieving the ar-
ea’s existing physical and nonphysical
pressures; and improving its levels of
economic inclusion, socio-cultural inte-
gration, and urban management; • Institutional Organization Consultant (Hany
Sharkawy)
ii) a set of short-term and long-term in-
tegrated (physical, socio-cultural, eco-
nomic and institutional) project propos-
als;
• Devise -in collaboration with the AAA’s
stakeholders- scenarios to anticipate the
area’s potential development avenues;
requirement to develop a future man-
agement plan; and measures to mitigate
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• Community
Mobilization
(Shaimaa Soliman)
Consultant
• In addition to a team of architects and ur-
ban planners led by the Project Manager
(Heba Shoaib) who has been responsible
for managing the different project tasks
and coordinating the work of different con-
sultants.